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The number of tutors within a school, how they were deployed, the size of tutoring groups and scheduling are also among the many variables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor is the uneven support of teachers and principals, Jochim said. Among tutors responding to a survey, only half reported daily communication with classroom teachers, and fewer said they were in regular communication with school staff leading the literacy work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are gaps; this is where greater attention to quality and fidelity in tutoring is important,” Jochim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lakisha Young, founder and CEO of The Oakland REACH, noted that her group has helped the district increase the number of tutors available. “But if we don’t work on these other conditions to bring everything into alignment, then it’s going to make the work harder,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jochim said that the center will spend the last year of a two-year grant collecting more data to determine how school differences affect outcomes. She said the most instructive lesson from the pilot is that having more adults in the classroom allows for differentiation of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For so long in this country, we have assumed that a single teacher working alone in their classroom could sufficiently differentiate instruction for kids in literacy and math,” she said. But that’s difficult, she added, in a kindergarten class where some students are reading for comprehension while others struggle to decode one-syllable words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jochim said there is “no question that this project is the right approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Differentiation of instructions is the ticket to better outcomes — if we can figure out the specifics,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susanna Loeb, a Stanford education researcher and authority on tutoring, is also bullish about the approach. The Oakland REACH’s partnership with the district and FluentSeeds matters, she said, because it treats tutoring as “part of a broader and coherent approach to improving literacy, not simply an ‘add-on’ program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited,” Loeb added, about “what this systemic approach can offer for communities across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The level of pay may also determine if the tutoring initiative succeeds. The district pays tutors $16 to $18 per hour, plus benefits, which Young had to lobby the district for. Tutors who responded to the survey cited low pay as the biggest disincentive to the job, and it is likely a factor in why only five of the 11 tutors placed last spring returned to the job this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young acknowledged that pay appears to be the biggest obstacle to sustainability, and she is exploring other options to fill the income gap, such as a retention bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland REACH incubated the concept of community-trained tutors in the COVID-19 summer of 2020. Parents frustrated by the failures of remote learning had cited reading instruction as their top need, so Young hired the first group of tutors. Buoyed by their success, she began working closely with the district to prioritize early-grade reading tutoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young’s group recruited the first cadre of 16 “literacy liberators” by handing out fliers on school grounds and going door-to-door in the fall of 2022 and partnered with FluentSeeds to train them in early 2023. Many recruits had to be convinced they could do the job; the minimum requirement was a high-school degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, the first recruits included a young man who had seen family members struggle with reading comprehension and a retired teacher who “expressed alarm” that he had mistaught young readers and wanted to make amends through the science of reading — instruction grounded in structured literacy and evidence-based practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified hired 11 of them to fill tutoring vacancies and placed them in the classrooms last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Six months into the school year, Oakland had still not filled tutor positions in schools that served the most marginalized students. Oakland REACH was really critical to filling the gaps and ensuring the kids who most need this help are able to get it,” Jochim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second cohort of 20 tutors began work in the fall of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FluentSeeds gives all of Oakland’s K–2 literacy tutors a four-day course in SIPPS — Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words — the district’s early-stage intervention program. The subset of tutors that The Oakland REACH recruited for “literacy liberator fellowships” took an additional set of eight two-hour sessions that provided background in the science of reading and focused on building student mindsets and tutors’ roles as leaders and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bring in a social-emotional component of what it means to be a teacher in Oakland teaching students that are behind, and how does that make them feel?” said Emily Grunt, program director for FluentSeeds, who has led the Oakland training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tutor characterized the fellowship as “life-changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interest in the program appears to be spreading: The Oakland Reach’s recent conference on the tutoring model attracted representatives from 14 nonprofits nationwide, and another conference is planned for the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also created a readiness assessment to determine if other organizations have the leadership capacity and organizational strength to take on the work effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We only can work with people who have a certain level of readiness to be able to push this forward because it’s going to be really tricky,” Young said. “If you’re not used to working with your district at all, your head’s going to explode starting this out.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A recent study examined a partnership between the district and a parent-led nonprofit that trains tutors — who are usually students' family members and community members — in phonics instruction for K–2 classrooms.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1703793660,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1489},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Unified Literacy Tutoring Program Shows Promising Early Results, Despite Challenges | KQED","description":"A recent study examined a partnership between the district and a parent-led nonprofit that trains tutors — who are usually students' family members and community members — in phonics instruction for K–2 classrooms.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"EdSource","sourceUrl":"https://edsource.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/jfensterwald\">John Fensterwald\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11970992/oakland-unified-literacy-tutor-program-shows-promising-early-results-despite-challenges","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Initial findings from a study of a closely watched Oakland Unified School District program that recruits parents and neighbors as tutors show intriguing potential for other lower-income school districts struggling to teach kids to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland provides a key example of how tutors can complement and make more manageable broader efforts to dramatically improve literacy outcomes,” concluded \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://crpe.org/teachers-and-tutors-together-reimagining-literacy-instruction-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a research report by the Center for Reinventing Public Education \u003c/a>based at Arizona State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a partnership with The \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://oaklandreach.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland REACH\u003c/a>, an innovative nonprofit serving primarily lower-income Black and Hispanic families, the district has been able to mine what the study calls a “pool of untapped talent” — parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles who are trained in phonics and structured literacy and assigned to assist in K-2 classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irene Segura, a literacy coach with Oakland Unified, said students look forward to meeting with their tutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When their students have those light-bulb moments of putting those decodable sounds together and putting that into words, it makes them happy and more determined to continue their work,” she said.\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 research by the Center for Reinventing Public Education also documented significant obstacles the program faces, particularly noting that paying the tutors a competitive wage to retain them in high-cost Oakland will be difficult. The report also found that gains in reading scores in the first year were uneven among schools and between kindergarten and first and second grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a literacy training nonprofit, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.fluentseeds.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FluentSeeds\u003c/a>, the district trained the tutors in its phonics-based curriculum and gave them a specific goal: work in small groups with every child struggling with the elemental skill of decoding — the process of translating printed words into speech \u003cb>— \u003c/b>for a half-hour each day, at least three times each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, which assessed the impact of 84 literacy tutors employed by Oakland Unified, found considerable variability in student improvement in a district where only 33% of students overall — and only 23% of Hispanic students and 18% of Black students — scored at a standard level in English language arts on the 2023 state Smarter Balanced test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who received tutoring from an early literacy tutor made statistically significant gains on the iReady reading assessment compared with students who did not receive any instruction from the tutoring curriculum. The difference was nearly a year’s worth of reading growth; students without the training made less than half of a year’s standard reading achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the large gains in kindergarten between tutored and non-tutored students were not matched in first and second grades on the iReady reading assessments\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their average growth is lower than we would expect or hope for. But growth doesn’t just reflect the impact of tutors,” said Ashley Jochim, a co-author of the study. “Tutors are only one part of the literacy instruction puzzle.”\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>Factors in and outside the school affect results, she said, including students’ chronic absences, which were among the highest in California since the pandemic. The number of tutors within a school, how they were deployed, the size of tutoring groups and scheduling are also among the many variables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor is the uneven support of teachers and principals, Jochim said. Among tutors responding to a survey, only half reported daily communication with classroom teachers, and fewer said they were in regular communication with school staff leading the literacy work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are gaps; this is where greater attention to quality and fidelity in tutoring is important,” Jochim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lakisha Young, founder and CEO of The Oakland REACH, noted that her group has helped the district increase the number of tutors available. “But if we don’t work on these other conditions to bring everything into alignment, then it’s going to make the work harder,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jochim said that the center will spend the last year of a two-year grant collecting more data to determine how school differences affect outcomes. She said the most instructive lesson from the pilot is that having more adults in the classroom allows for differentiation of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For so long in this country, we have assumed that a single teacher working alone in their classroom could sufficiently differentiate instruction for kids in literacy and math,” she said. But that’s difficult, she added, in a kindergarten class where some students are reading for comprehension while others struggle to decode one-syllable words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jochim said there is “no question that this project is the right approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Differentiation of instructions is the ticket to better outcomes — if we can figure out the specifics,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susanna Loeb, a Stanford education researcher and authority on tutoring, is also bullish about the approach. The Oakland REACH’s partnership with the district and FluentSeeds matters, she said, because it treats tutoring as “part of a broader and coherent approach to improving literacy, not simply an ‘add-on’ program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited,” Loeb added, about “what this systemic approach can offer for communities across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The level of pay may also determine if the tutoring initiative succeeds. The district pays tutors $16 to $18 per hour, plus benefits, which Young had to lobby the district for. Tutors who responded to the survey cited low pay as the biggest disincentive to the job, and it is likely a factor in why only five of the 11 tutors placed last spring returned to the job this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young acknowledged that pay appears to be the biggest obstacle to sustainability, and she is exploring other options to fill the income gap, such as a retention bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland REACH incubated the concept of community-trained tutors in the COVID-19 summer of 2020. Parents frustrated by the failures of remote learning had cited reading instruction as their top need, so Young hired the first group of tutors. Buoyed by their success, she began working closely with the district to prioritize early-grade reading tutoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young’s group recruited the first cadre of 16 “literacy liberators” by handing out fliers on school grounds and going door-to-door in the fall of 2022 and partnered with FluentSeeds to train them in early 2023. Many recruits had to be convinced they could do the job; the minimum requirement was a high-school degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, the first recruits included a young man who had seen family members struggle with reading comprehension and a retired teacher who “expressed alarm” that he had mistaught young readers and wanted to make amends through the science of reading — instruction grounded in structured literacy and evidence-based practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified hired 11 of them to fill tutoring vacancies and placed them in the classrooms last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Six months into the school year, Oakland had still not filled tutor positions in schools that served the most marginalized students. Oakland REACH was really critical to filling the gaps and ensuring the kids who most need this help are able to get it,” Jochim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second cohort of 20 tutors began work in the fall of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FluentSeeds gives all of Oakland’s K–2 literacy tutors a four-day course in SIPPS — Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words — the district’s early-stage intervention program. The subset of tutors that The Oakland REACH recruited for “literacy liberator fellowships” took an additional set of eight two-hour sessions that provided background in the science of reading and focused on building student mindsets and tutors’ roles as leaders and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bring in a social-emotional component of what it means to be a teacher in Oakland teaching students that are behind, and how does that make them feel?” said Emily Grunt, program director for FluentSeeds, who has led the Oakland training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tutor characterized the fellowship as “life-changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interest in the program appears to be spreading: The Oakland Reach’s recent conference on the tutoring model attracted representatives from 14 nonprofits nationwide, and another conference is planned for the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also created a readiness assessment to determine if other organizations have the leadership capacity and organizational strength to take on the work effectively.\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 only can work with people who have a certain level of readiness to be able to push this forward because it’s going to be really tricky,” Young said. “If you’re not used to working with your district at all, your head’s going to explode starting this out.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11970992/oakland-unified-literacy-tutor-program-shows-promising-early-results-despite-challenges","authors":["byline_news_11970992"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_20013","news_33695","news_27626","news_29925","news_24471","news_1826","news_29504"],"featImg":"news_11971030","label":"source_news_11970992"},"news_11962211":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11962211","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11962211","score":null,"sort":[1695419019000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oaklands-chabot-elementary-receives-another-bomb-threat","title":"Oakland's Chabot Elementary Receives Another Bomb Threat","publishDate":1695419019,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland’s Chabot Elementary Receives Another Bomb Threat | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a month after \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/08/29/chabot-elementary-evacuated-school-canceled-due-to-bomb-threat/\">a bomb threat shut down Chabot Elementary School\u003c/a> in Oakland and led to evacuations, another threat has come into the school. Both are believed to be prompted by an ongoing internet firestorm over a playdate social event for students from “Black, brown and API families” at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a message sent to parents on ParentSquare just after 2 p.m. on Thursday, Chabot Principal Jessica Cannon wrote: “This morning another threatening email was sent to me, the office, and the equity & inclusion email. The email threatened that bombs could be activated at Chabot on Monday morning if I did not apologize for being racist before then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted that the school had notified Oakland Police Department and the FBI. While security will remain in place, including the addition of a bomb squad on the campus, and non-employees are being asked to limit their time on campus, the school told parents they plan to remain open at present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chabot Elementary, which is part of Oakland Unified School District and serves the neighborhood around the Rockridge BART station, has been dealing with ongoing hate mail and threats that started in late August, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/major-police-activity-at-chabot-elementary-school-in-oakland/\">according to KRON4\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is believed to have all been triggered by a “playdate” event for students of Black, brown and Asian and Pacific Islander heritage organized by the school’s equity and inclusion committee in August. The school district, at the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-chabot-elementary-bomb-threat-social-media-18336483.php\">told \u003cem>the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> in a statement\u003c/a>: “This playdate aimed to create an affinity space where Black, Brown, and API families can build and sustain connection and belonging at the school.” While the event was designed to create community and a safe space for families of color, the school said at the time that no one was turned away from attending the event regardless of background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar social was held last year without prompting threats. However, this year’s event was posted on Reddit by a parent at the school (in a post that has since been deleted) and was then shared by a high-profile conservative Twitter account, Libs of TikTok, which has 2.4 million followers and called the playdate “racist against white people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the elementary school has been inundated with hate mail and calls. Parents say a town hall meeting was held a few weeks ago to discuss the threats to their kids and they were told the original poster had been given a 14-day stay away order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A bright yellow sign on a fence.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chabot Elementary in Oakland on Sept. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The sad irony about especially these racially motivated bomb threats is that the person who is making these bomb threats is also probably, ironically, the person who was screaming about how COVID restrictions and COVID shutdowns of schools were harming children. But in fact, actually, it’s pretty safe to say bomb threats are far more harmful to a kid,” said Jerusha Johnson, who is a parent at the school. She said that she never expected to have to deal with this or explain to her kid why they had to evacuate the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, we’re not getting into the nitty gritty details of what a bomb threat can mean or anything like that. But we are definitely telling her: There is someone who is very angry at kids, who has decided to scare everybody and make an entire community victims of fear and someone else’s childish rage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, she said, she believed the school had been handling the situation as well as they could and have been transparent with information and changing safety protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This newest bomb threat comes as Chabot Elementary was set to begin parent-teacher conferences next week — but have now been asked to move them to Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the principal, the teachers, the parents ever thought that first grade or any elementary grade is going to be the time that you have to worry about a bomb threat. That was the absolute last thing on my mind,” said Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an evolving situation and this story will be updated as more information becomes available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The threat comes in the wake of internet outrage over a 'playdate event' for students from 'Black, brown and API families' at the school.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1695860474,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":733},"headData":{"title":"Oakland's Chabot Elementary Receives Another Bomb Threat | KQED","description":"The threat comes in the wake of internet outrage over a 'playdate event' for students from 'Black, brown and API families' at the school.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11962211/oaklands-chabot-elementary-receives-another-bomb-threat","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a month after \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/08/29/chabot-elementary-evacuated-school-canceled-due-to-bomb-threat/\">a bomb threat shut down Chabot Elementary School\u003c/a> in Oakland and led to evacuations, another threat has come into the school. Both are believed to be prompted by an ongoing internet firestorm over a playdate social event for students from “Black, brown and API families” at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a message sent to parents on ParentSquare just after 2 p.m. on Thursday, Chabot Principal Jessica Cannon wrote: “This morning another threatening email was sent to me, the office, and the equity & inclusion email. The email threatened that bombs could be activated at Chabot on Monday morning if I did not apologize for being racist before then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted that the school had notified Oakland Police Department and the FBI. While security will remain in place, including the addition of a bomb squad on the campus, and non-employees are being asked to limit their time on campus, the school told parents they plan to remain open at present.\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>Chabot Elementary, which is part of Oakland Unified School District and serves the neighborhood around the Rockridge BART station, has been dealing with ongoing hate mail and threats that started in late August, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/major-police-activity-at-chabot-elementary-school-in-oakland/\">according to KRON4\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is believed to have all been triggered by a “playdate” event for students of Black, brown and Asian and Pacific Islander heritage organized by the school’s equity and inclusion committee in August. The school district, at the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-chabot-elementary-bomb-threat-social-media-18336483.php\">told \u003cem>the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> in a statement\u003c/a>: “This playdate aimed to create an affinity space where Black, Brown, and API families can build and sustain connection and belonging at the school.” While the event was designed to create community and a safe space for families of color, the school said at the time that no one was turned away from attending the event regardless of background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar social was held last year without prompting threats. However, this year’s event was posted on Reddit by a parent at the school (in a post that has since been deleted) and was then shared by a high-profile conservative Twitter account, Libs of TikTok, which has 2.4 million followers and called the playdate “racist against white people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the elementary school has been inundated with hate mail and calls. Parents say a town hall meeting was held a few weeks ago to discuss the threats to their kids and they were told the original poster had been given a 14-day stay away order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A bright yellow sign on a fence.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230922-CHABOT-ELEMENTARY-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chabot Elementary in Oakland on Sept. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The sad irony about especially these racially motivated bomb threats is that the person who is making these bomb threats is also probably, ironically, the person who was screaming about how COVID restrictions and COVID shutdowns of schools were harming children. But in fact, actually, it’s pretty safe to say bomb threats are far more harmful to a kid,” said Jerusha Johnson, who is a parent at the school. She said that she never expected to have to deal with this or explain to her kid why they had to evacuate the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, we’re not getting into the nitty gritty details of what a bomb threat can mean or anything like that. But we are definitely telling her: There is someone who is very angry at kids, who has decided to scare everybody and make an entire community victims of fear and someone else’s childish rage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, she said, she believed the school had been handling the situation as well as they could and have been transparent with information and changing safety protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This newest bomb threat comes as Chabot Elementary was set to begin parent-teacher conferences next week — but have now been asked to move them to Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the principal, the teachers, the parents ever thought that first grade or any elementary grade is going to be the time that you have to worry about a bomb threat. That was the absolute last thing on my mind,” said Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an evolving situation and this story will be updated as more information becomes available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11962211/oaklands-chabot-elementary-receives-another-bomb-threat","authors":["1459"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_33236","news_1826"],"featImg":"news_11962243","label":"news"},"news_11949458":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11949458","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11949458","score":null,"sort":[1684153559000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district","title":"Oakland Teachers' Strike Ends as Union Reaches Tentative Agreement With School District","publishDate":1684153559,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland Teachers’ Strike Ends as Union Reaches Tentative Agreement With School District | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:30 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland teachers union and school district reached a tentative agreement early Monday morning to end a teachers’ strike that lasted seven days and effectively closed down schools for tens of thousands of students, with just weeks left in the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal for a new two-and-a-half-year contract includes major pay raises for teachers in addition to commitments from the district to significantly increase investments in school and student resources and to give teachers and parents more decision-making power in certain schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools were open Monday and some classes were in session, but Oakland Unified School District officials noted that it was a “transition day,” with attendance optional, and with full-class instruction resuming Tuesday, May 16 — leaving just eight days left in the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit confirmed it would resume normal operations of all supplementary bus-line services to schools starting Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandEA/status/1658058431574712322\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T8fP1eYlFXfBx0hWdKtNRSdEaP30iPU2/view\">The new tentative contract\u003c/a> includes a 15.5% pay raise for most teachers, and more for newer educators at the bottom of the pay scale. Under the deal, a first-year teacher, who currently earns $52,905, would now start out at $62,696, and a top-tier educator could earn as much as nearly $110,000 — in addition to full paid benefits and district pension contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, if approved, all union members would receive the equivalent of a 10% raise in back pay, retroactive to Nov. 1, 2022, as well as a $5,000 one-time bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the new contract amounts to a $70 million investment, the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are expected to vote this week on the tentative agreement, which the school board also must approve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal has always been to stabilize the foundation of our district through fiscal stewardship so that eventually we could position ourselves to pay our teachers and educators what they deserve,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said during a press conference Monday, calling the raise “historic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I want to underscore, we realize we’re not there yet,” she said. “This is one crucial step towards getting there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials on Monday said they do not expect to extend the school year to make up for the days teachers were striking, and that most graduation ceremonies will proceed as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 3,000 educators, counselors and other school staffers represented by the Oakland Education Association first walked out on May 4 amid stalled negotiations with the district. Along with traditional asks, like higher salaries, the union demanded a set of “common good” changes to better support students and families inside and outside the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has never only been about teacher salary. This isn’t just about us trying to get a living wage, or to be able to afford the housing here in Oakland. It’s also been about making sure that our students have the ability to be housed as well,” Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, OEA’s vice president, said during a press conference on Monday. “This strike has never simply been about us being able to put food on our own tables but making sure we are able to provide student services and shifting the way we provide instruction to feed the minds of these students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oakland-teachers-strike-schools-42eba9bb923fb71432117c8ac38caca5\">Common good proposals\u003c/a> that address community issues have become an increasingly standard part of the bargaining process for teachers unions over the last decade, a precedent set by \u003ca href=\"https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2022/08/15/the-chicago-teachers-strike-ten-years-on-organizing-for-the-common-good-then-and-now/\">striking Chicago teachers in 2012\u003c/a> who demanded, and ultimately achieved, greater influence in how schools are managed.[aside postID=\"news_11949281,news_11948465,news_11912597\" label=\"Related Posts\"]In the hard-fought deal struck in Oakland on Monday, the two sides agreed to a shared-governance model for the district’s set of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">community schools\u003c/a>, with steering-committee members appointed by both the school board and the union, according to OEA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides also agreed to identify district-owned locations that could be used to house students and to help secure housing vouchers and other financial support from government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, a new reparations task force — with co-chairs appointed by both the union and district — would identify schools with student populations that are at least 40% Black, and implement plans to help those students thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms of the new agreement, guidance counselors would, for the first time, begin working at elementary schools, and teachers at those schools would receive additional preparation time. More resources would also be devoted to special education programs in the district. And the sizes of physical education and transitional kindergarten classes would be slightly reduced, with teachers paid extra for overages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district would also slightly increase the overall number of librarians and nurses and boost investments in visual and performing arts programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our common goal is to create an environment in which our children, families, educators and district staff are able to thrive,” Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said in a statement emailed to KQED on Monday. “I look forward to working with OUSD and OEA as my Administration continues to invest in community and school safety, affordable housing, and improved infrastructure, not only to attract teachers and families to Oakland, but to keep them here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations throughout the strike were contentious, with the union accusing district officials of bargaining “in bad faith,” and the district calling teachers’ demands unreasonable and naive and claiming their actions would jeopardize students’ grades and graduation prospects. Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, and other government officials stepped in to help break the impasse at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/03/22/whats-happening-with-ousd-union-negotiations-it-depends-who-you-ask/\">began the bargaining process last October\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since their previous one expired in March. The district, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-school-board-financial-crisis-cuts-17813237.php\">facing major budgetary challenges\u003c/a> amid years of declining enrollment, initially refused to bargain with teachers over the “common good” proposals, insisting on only considering more conventional issues, like wages and working conditions. But after union negotiators held firm, seven days into the walkout, the district over the weekend acceded to some of their additional demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimi Lee, a parent of two OUSD students, said her family went to sleep on Sunday night assuming school would be called off yet again on Monday. After receiving the early morning announcement about the tentative deal, both of her kids decided to wait until Tuesday to return to their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The length of the strike “was a bit of a shock,” said Lee, who initially expected it wouldn’t last more than a few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But overall, we supported the teachers. The teachers were fighting for the bigger picture,” she said. “The fact that homelessness, climate and all these other issues were folded in, we agreed with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rob Daves, an OUSD parent who used to be a teacher in the district, news of the agreement came as very welcome relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Glad [the] strike is over. [It] was a huge impact on our family and especially our daughter,” Daves said in a text message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he noted he was disappointed that neither side adequately underscored the need for the state to dramatically increase funding for Oakland’s underresourced schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we actually value education, we must show it in material support,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Vanessa Rancaño and Spencer Whitney, and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oakland teachers and students are heading back to school — with regular classroom instruction resuming Tuesday — after the teachers union reached a tentative agreement with the district early Monday morning, ending the seven-day strike.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1684442611,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1273},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Teachers' Strike Ends as Union Reaches Tentative Agreement With School District | KQED","description":"Oakland teachers and students are heading back to school — with regular classroom instruction resuming Tuesday — after the teachers union reached a tentative agreement with the district early Monday morning, ending the seven-day strike.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11949458/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:30 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland teachers union and school district reached a tentative agreement early Monday morning to end a teachers’ strike that lasted seven days and effectively closed down schools for tens of thousands of students, with just weeks left in the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal for a new two-and-a-half-year contract includes major pay raises for teachers in addition to commitments from the district to significantly increase investments in school and student resources and to give teachers and parents more decision-making power in certain schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools were open Monday and some classes were in session, but Oakland Unified School District officials noted that it was a “transition day,” with attendance optional, and with full-class instruction resuming Tuesday, May 16 — leaving just eight days left in the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit confirmed it would resume normal operations of all supplementary bus-line services to schools starting Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1658058431574712322"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T8fP1eYlFXfBx0hWdKtNRSdEaP30iPU2/view\">The new tentative contract\u003c/a> includes a 15.5% pay raise for most teachers, and more for newer educators at the bottom of the pay scale. Under the deal, a first-year teacher, who currently earns $52,905, would now start out at $62,696, and a top-tier educator could earn as much as nearly $110,000 — in addition to full paid benefits and district pension contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, if approved, all union members would receive the equivalent of a 10% raise in back pay, retroactive to Nov. 1, 2022, as well as a $5,000 one-time bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the new contract amounts to a $70 million investment, the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are expected to vote this week on the tentative agreement, which the school board also must approve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal has always been to stabilize the foundation of our district through fiscal stewardship so that eventually we could position ourselves to pay our teachers and educators what they deserve,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said during a press conference Monday, calling the raise “historic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I want to underscore, we realize we’re not there yet,” she said. “This is one crucial step towards getting there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials on Monday said they do not expect to extend the school year to make up for the days teachers were striking, and that most graduation ceremonies will proceed as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 3,000 educators, counselors and other school staffers represented by the Oakland Education Association first walked out on May 4 amid stalled negotiations with the district. Along with traditional asks, like higher salaries, the union demanded a set of “common good” changes to better support students and families inside and outside the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has never only been about teacher salary. This isn’t just about us trying to get a living wage, or to be able to afford the housing here in Oakland. 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More resources would also be devoted to special education programs in the district. And the sizes of physical education and transitional kindergarten classes would be slightly reduced, with teachers paid extra for overages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district would also slightly increase the overall number of librarians and nurses and boost investments in visual and performing arts programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our common goal is to create an environment in which our children, families, educators and district staff are able to thrive,” Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said in a statement emailed to KQED on Monday. “I look forward to working with OUSD and OEA as my Administration continues to invest in community and school safety, affordable housing, and improved infrastructure, not only to attract teachers and families to Oakland, but to keep them here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations throughout the strike were contentious, with the union accusing district officials of bargaining “in bad faith,” and the district calling teachers’ demands unreasonable and naive and claiming their actions would jeopardize students’ grades and graduation prospects. Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, and other government officials stepped in to help break the impasse at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/03/22/whats-happening-with-ousd-union-negotiations-it-depends-who-you-ask/\">began the bargaining process last October\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since their previous one expired in March. The district, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-school-board-financial-crisis-cuts-17813237.php\">facing major budgetary challenges\u003c/a> amid years of declining enrollment, initially refused to bargain with teachers over the “common good” proposals, insisting on only considering more conventional issues, like wages and working conditions. But after union negotiators held firm, seven days into the walkout, the district over the weekend acceded to some of their additional demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimi Lee, a parent of two OUSD students, said her family went to sleep on Sunday night assuming school would be called off yet again on Monday. After receiving the early morning announcement about the tentative deal, both of her kids decided to wait until Tuesday to return to their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The length of the strike “was a bit of a shock,” said Lee, who initially expected it wouldn’t last more than a few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But overall, we supported the teachers. The teachers were fighting for the bigger picture,” she said. “The fact that homelessness, climate and all these other issues were folded in, we agreed with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rob Daves, an OUSD parent who used to be a teacher in the district, news of the agreement came as very welcome relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Glad [the] strike is over. 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I don’t have experience with kids,” said the Oakland Tech senior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What else do I have to do?” she added. “I could go to the picket line or I can come and change these kids’ lives because, ultimately, we make a huge difference for these kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1455px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9.jpg\" alt='A black sign with pink and blue writing sits on a table at a park. The sign reads, \"OEA Strike Solidarity School.\" It also reads, \"Free meals, arts and crafts, and a safe place to stand in solidarity with our teachers and staff!\" There is a single apple on the table, along with blue and white, three-ring binders. A white pastry box and a bottle of hand sanitizer are also on the table. Parents and children are blurry in the background.' width=\"1455\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9.jpg 1455w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1455px) 100vw, 1455px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the OEA strike solidarity school sits on a picnic table in Dimond Park on May 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pop-up child care program, known as a “solidarity school,” offers parents who don’t want to cross the picket line a safe place to drop off their kids for the day. The teachers union and parent volunteers have operated a handful of these across the city since schools emptied out last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Beliel, whose daughter is a kindergartner at Manzanita Seed Elementary in East Oakland, is running the temporary child care center at Dimond Park.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Anna Beliel, parent and solidarity school volunteer\"]‘[T]he hardest part is that I didn’t expect nearly as many kids as we ended up getting. This is all just parent-run, so one of the hardest parts … is financially trying to fund it. But, we’re making that work, too.’[/pullquote]“I think the hardest part is that I didn’t expect nearly as many kids as we ended up getting,” she said. “This is all just parent-run, so one of the hardest parts I think is financially trying to fund it. But, we’re making that work, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it opened last Thursday, on the first day of the Oakland teachers’ strike, only two students showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ever since, it’s evolved,” said Grascouer, who has come every day to volunteer. “Like now, we have over 50 kids and we just spend our days playing with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the students drop their backpacks on a wooden bench and sprint for the grass, Ruby Mechanic, a fellow Oakland Tech senior, heads to the line of picnic tables that are overflowing with backpacks, snacks and art supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8.jpg\" alt=\"A blonde, teenage girl looks over students at a park. A pop-up canopy is seen in the background, along with many parents and little kids.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified high school student Ruby Mechanic helps hand out lunch to OUSD students at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think we spend most of our time running around, getting energy out, because with this many kids and these few volunteers, it’s definitely a high ratio of energy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mechanic found out about this opportunity from her old elementary school teacher, whom she’s kept in touch with over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important that there’s a place for these kids, and that we’re here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with just over two weeks left in their high school careers, both Mechanic and Grascouer are struggling with the uncertainty of this moment, and don’t know whether they’ll actually get a chance to return to their school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1375px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB.jpg\" alt=\"A boy in an orange T-shirt and short, dark hair does a handshake with a teenage girl who is watching him at the park. The two sit at a wooden picnic table talking. Green grass and large trees are in the background, along with parents and children playing.\" width=\"1375\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB.jpg 1375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1375px) 100vw, 1375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school student Noemi Grascoeur hangs with students at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t finish my graduation project,” Grascouer said. “I feel kind of weird because I didn’t say bye to any teacher. I didn’t say bye to any friends. Like, I’m done with high school more or less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “I just think we’re kind of stuck. We don’t know if our high school experience is over or if we have to go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Mechanic was able to finish her final senior project, she’s disappointed her classmates won’t be able to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up shot of a grown-up's hand, handing a wrapped snack to a child's hand. A box of red apples and a box of tangerines, along with pallets of water bottles and juice boxes are pictured in the background placed on a park picnic table.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified students pick up lunch at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a goal of our entire high school experience that would be nice to complete and present before we go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advanced placement testing, which was scheduled for this week, has also been a challenge — it’s forced students to cross picket lines to enter their schools where the exams are administered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had to cross the picket line twice,” Grascouer said. “The teachers have been really nice about it. They’ve been supporting us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For seniors, the strike has also complicated many quintessential end-of-high school events. Senior prom, for instance, is on Friday, and students have to pick up their tickets at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4.jpg\" alt='A man wears a black jacket with a white patch with red and black print that reads,\"Strike for a fair contract.\" He stands next to a boy wearing a green T-shirt. The two are in front of a green picnic table that has many snacks and juice boxes on top of it. Many children and parents are seen in the background, along with a blue playground structure shaded by lush trees.' width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, teachers and high school students hand out lunch to Oakland Unified students. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mechanic said that her striking teachers are sympathetic and have tried to make it as easy as possible for their students.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label='More on Education' tag='education']\u003c/span>“I think the teachers are doing their best to make it possible for us to get those prom tickets and to finish our few tests without feeling ashamed for crossing the picket line,” she said. “They opened the entrance on the side of the school so we didn’t have to go through the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With many unknowns between now and their graduation on May 24, Grascouer and Mechanic both said working at the solidarity school is a good way to stay busy and fill an important need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the two spent the morning playing basketball with fifth graders at the park and tricking children into capturing dummy squirrels made out of wood chips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I’m talking about how I’m done with high school and I’m going on to college next year, I’m acting like a little kid today and this past week,” Grascouer said, “and I’ve absolutely loved it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oakland's Dimond Park has doubled as a solidarity school run by parent and student volunteers to care for OUSD students during the ongoing teachers' strike.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1695761930,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1072},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Students, Parents Keep Kids Learning at 'Solidarity Schools' During Teachers' Strike | KQED","description":"Oakland's Dimond Park has doubled as a solidarity school run by parent and student volunteers to care for OUSD students during the ongoing teachers' strike.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/e58a9b5e-7264-43df-834c-b00001510527/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11949281/oakland-students-parents-keep-kids-learning-at-solidarity-schools-during-teachers-strike","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, as her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948465/oakland-teachers-to-go-on-strike-thursday-amid-deadlock-with-district\">teachers hit the picket lines\u003c/a> for the fifth day of a district-wide strike, 17-year-old Noemi Grascoeur arrived at the picnic area of Dimond Park to help look after a group of Oakland elementary school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re playing frisbee with them, drawing with them, teaching them how to share, which is odd because I’ve never had to do that before. I don’t have experience with kids,” said the Oakland Tech senior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What else do I have to do?” she added. “I could go to the picket line or I can come and change these kids’ lives because, ultimately, we make a huge difference for these kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1455px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9.jpg\" alt='A black sign with pink and blue writing sits on a table at a park. The sign reads, \"OEA Strike Solidarity School.\" It also reads, \"Free meals, arts and crafts, and a safe place to stand in solidarity with our teachers and staff!\" There is a single apple on the table, along with blue and white, three-ring binders. A white pastry box and a bottle of hand sanitizer are also on the table. Parents and children are blurry in the background.' width=\"1455\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9.jpg 1455w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1455px) 100vw, 1455px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the OEA strike solidarity school sits on a picnic table in Dimond Park on May 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pop-up child care program, known as a “solidarity school,” offers parents who don’t want to cross the picket line a safe place to drop off their kids for the day. The teachers union and parent volunteers have operated a handful of these across the city since schools emptied out last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Beliel, whose daughter is a kindergartner at Manzanita Seed Elementary in East Oakland, is running the temporary child care center at Dimond Park.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘[T]he hardest part is that I didn’t expect nearly as many kids as we ended up getting. This is all just parent-run, so one of the hardest parts … is financially trying to fund it. But, we’re making that work, too.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Anna Beliel, parent and solidarity school volunteer","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think the hardest part is that I didn’t expect nearly as many kids as we ended up getting,” she said. “This is all just parent-run, so one of the hardest parts I think is financially trying to fund it. But, we’re making that work, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it opened last Thursday, on the first day of the Oakland teachers’ strike, only two students showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ever since, it’s evolved,” said Grascouer, who has come every day to volunteer. “Like now, we have over 50 kids and we just spend our days playing with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the students drop their backpacks on a wooden bench and sprint for the grass, Ruby Mechanic, a fellow Oakland Tech senior, heads to the line of picnic tables that are overflowing with backpacks, snacks and art supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8.jpg\" alt=\"A blonde, teenage girl looks over students at a park. A pop-up canopy is seen in the background, along with many parents and little kids.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified high school student Ruby Mechanic helps hand out lunch to OUSD students at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think we spend most of our time running around, getting energy out, because with this many kids and these few volunteers, it’s definitely a high ratio of energy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mechanic found out about this opportunity from her old elementary school teacher, whom she’s kept in touch with over the years.\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>“I think it’s important that there’s a place for these kids, and that we’re here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with just over two weeks left in their high school careers, both Mechanic and Grascouer are struggling with the uncertainty of this moment, and don’t know whether they’ll actually get a chance to return to their school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1375px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB.jpg\" alt=\"A boy in an orange T-shirt and short, dark hair does a handshake with a teenage girl who is watching him at the park. The two sit at a wooden picnic table talking. Green grass and large trees are in the background, along with parents and children playing.\" width=\"1375\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB.jpg 1375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1375px) 100vw, 1375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school student Noemi Grascoeur hangs with students at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t finish my graduation project,” Grascouer said. “I feel kind of weird because I didn’t say bye to any teacher. I didn’t say bye to any friends. Like, I’m done with high school more or less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “I just think we’re kind of stuck. We don’t know if our high school experience is over or if we have to go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Mechanic was able to finish her final senior project, she’s disappointed her classmates won’t be able to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up shot of a grown-up's hand, handing a wrapped snack to a child's hand. A box of red apples and a box of tangerines, along with pallets of water bottles and juice boxes are pictured in the background placed on a park picnic table.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified students pick up lunch at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a goal of our entire high school experience that would be nice to complete and present before we go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advanced placement testing, which was scheduled for this week, has also been a challenge — it’s forced students to cross picket lines to enter their schools where the exams are administered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had to cross the picket line twice,” Grascouer said. “The teachers have been really nice about it. They’ve been supporting us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For seniors, the strike has also complicated many quintessential end-of-high school events. Senior prom, for instance, is on Friday, and students have to pick up their tickets at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4.jpg\" alt='A man wears a black jacket with a white patch with red and black print that reads,\"Strike for a fair contract.\" He stands next to a boy wearing a green T-shirt. The two are in front of a green picnic table that has many snacks and juice boxes on top of it. Many children and parents are seen in the background, along with a blue playground structure shaded by lush trees.' width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, teachers and high school students hand out lunch to Oakland Unified students. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mechanic said that her striking teachers are sympathetic and have tried to make it as easy as possible for their students.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Education ","tag":"education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>“I think the teachers are doing their best to make it possible for us to get those prom tickets and to finish our few tests without feeling ashamed for crossing the picket line,” she said. “They opened the entrance on the side of the school so we didn’t have to go through the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With many unknowns between now and their graduation on May 24, Grascouer and Mechanic both said working at the solidarity school is a good way to stay busy and fill an important need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the two spent the morning playing basketball with fifth graders at the park and tricking children into capturing dummy squirrels made out of wood chips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I’m talking about how I’m done with high school and I’m going on to college next year, I’m acting like a little kid today and this past week,” Grascouer said, “and I’ve absolutely loved it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11949281/oakland-students-parents-keep-kids-learning-at-solidarity-schools-during-teachers-strike","authors":["11880"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_29926","news_27626","news_22782","news_24590","news_18","news_2432","news_32639","news_24851","news_31016","news_27061","news_1826","news_32729","news_21221"],"featImg":"news_11949300","label":"news"},"news_11948465":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11948465","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11948465","score":null,"sort":[1683921861000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-teachers-to-go-on-strike-thursday-amid-deadlock-with-district","title":"Oakland Teachers' Strike Continues Despite Incremental Gains at Bargaining Table","publishDate":1683921861,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland Teachers’ Strike Continues Despite Incremental Gains at Bargaining Table | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This article will no longer be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> As the standoff between striking educators and the Oakland Unified School District continues into its seventh school day, a major sticking point remains the “common good” demands from the union, with both sides citing wildly varying figures on the costs of implementing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement Thursday evening, OUSD Director of Communications John Sasaki told KQED that the Oakland Education Association’s proposal is “cost prohibitive” and that the overall price tag could run upwards of $1 billion. Sasaki said many of the “common good” demands would fall under \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=39353&dataid=36993&FileName=2020%20Facilities%20Master%20Plan.pdf\">OUSD’s Facilities Master Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, which “shows the District has a total of $3.4 billion in upgrades and other changes that must happen to get all schools upgraded and modernized,” adding that OEA’s proposal is “far too costly for the District to handle” and that it should not be included in any collective bargaining agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rachel Warino of the California Teachers Association — which has expressed its solidarity with the OEA — said OUSD’s numbers are “months old” and “ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goals we are committed to winning would cost an estimated $500,000 annually — this would be to pay for staffing increases including counselors,” Warino said, in a statement emailed to KQED on Thursday evening. “It’s unfortunate that the district is spending time sending out outlandish claims about proposals that are months old when we are 6 days into a strike. It’s unfair and unhelpful for our Oakland community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warino did not provide cost estimates for the rest of the “common good” proposals, which include housing unhoused students in vacant school buildings and replacing HVAC systems in aging school buildings. On Wednesday, OEA Interim President Ismael Armendariz argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and that several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg\" alt=\"a group of people which appears to be multi-ethnic in composition walks down a street carrying a large banner reading 'ready to strike for a fair contract' in both English and Spanish\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD educators and their supporters rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who has been mediating the negotiations since last Thursday, praised both parties for “working incredibly hard” and said the talks had been “productive,” but added that it’s ultimately up to the two sides to come to an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is providing right now historic levels of funding that can be used to provide these services for students: $4 billion for community schools, $8 billion for the Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant, $3.5 billion dollars for arts, financial literacy and basically giving districts discretion to do as they will, $4 billion for expanded learning — after-school programs, before-school programs,” said Thurmond, in a press conference at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward. “We have not seen funding at this level before. [W]e are seeing the state provide districts with resources that they can use for programs that would support the common good of students. Ultimately, it’s up to the board of every one of our 1,000 school districts, including Oakland, to decide how those resources might get used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond said he had no idea how long the strike would last, adding that he wouldn’t be mediating if he “thought the strike would take up the whole school year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a believer that we can all win, that we can find an agreement that compensates educators the way they deserve to be compensated, that we can find a way to provide programs that support students who’ve been disadvantaged, and we can do it in a way where we prioritize getting our students back into the classroom — and that is the priority,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> As the Oakland teachers’ strike continues to grind on, the number of students attending their teacherless schools — which have remained open, behind the picket lines — has steadily dipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the fifth day of the ongoing walkout, just 1,200 of OUSD’s more than 34,000 students attended one of its 77 school sites, where food and other basic services and activities are still being offered, according to district spokesperson John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland city officials say they’ve seen a 75% drop in attendance in city-run after-school programs since the strike began last Thursday. The teachers union and parent volunteers also have organized pop-up care centers — called “solidarity schools” — at various sites throughout the city, but it’s unclear how many students are attending them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949257\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949257 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg\" alt=\"In the foreground is what appears to be a middle school student in a full-body, bright green Oscar the Grouch costume, with a fuzzy brown unibrow, big googly eyes, and the person's face inside the mouth, holding a cardboard sign on a flat wooden stick that says, 'OUSD, Stop bringing us proposals that belong in the trash!' Oscar is in a crowd of people in a street, including someone to their right playing a trombone.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District teachers, parents and students rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11, 2023, during a teacher strike. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That massive disappearing act offers some indication of just how disruptive this strike has been for Oakland students and their families, who still have no idea when — or if — school will open again before the year ends in just two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the sixth day of the district-wide strike, tense negotiations continued between the teachers union and school district officials, with the union’s “common good” demands for more community services remaining the major sticking point, even as the two sides appeared close to an agreement over compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Gonzalez, vice president of her ninth grade class at Castlemont High School in East Oakland, came out Thursday to support her teachers on the picket line, even as most of her classmates stayed home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandEA/status/1656747427133788161\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel bored at home,” she said. “I decided to come and strike with my teachers because they work hard. They plan lessons. They take time out of their personal lives to grade and stuff like that, and they deserve what they’re asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Oakland City Council committee hearing on Thursday, a stream of attendees spoke of the decrepit conditions they’ve witnessed in many of the district’s schools, and implored city officials to get involved in the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD teacher Edgar Sanchez, whose daughter attends United for Success Academy, told council members of the school’s rodent problems and “the issue of the sewage coming into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been asking for that to be fixed for a year and a half,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez added that the school where he teaches doesn’t have air-conditioning in the classrooms, and said that during last year’s heat wave, teachers had to constantly move students to cooler areas of the building just to maintain a safe learning environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So on Day Six of our strike, you all need to stand with us and push the district to do what’s right for our kids,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who has remained largely quiet during the labor dispute, urged the school district and teachers union to “work together to settle the strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 8 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/b> Thousands of Oakland teachers, counselors and librarians, along with their supporters, once again formed picket lines in front of schools on Thursday, the sixth day of a district-wide strike that has emptied out classrooms and ground instruction to a halt, with little more than two weeks remaining in the school year and a deal still out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Vilma Serrano, bargaining co-chair, Oakland Education Association\"]‘We want to be back in our classrooms, back in our schools. But we’ll do whatever it takes to really get a strong, tentative agreement that improves teaching and learning conditions for our kids and for our members.’[/pullquote]As heated negotiations continue between the district and the teachers union — including a Tuesday session that ran until 1 a.m. — both sides say they are inching closer to a tentative contract agreement, but have given little indication as to how soon the walkout might end. Meanwhile, as an immediate resolution seemed increasingly unlikely, the district canceled its regularly scheduled Wednesday evening school board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilma Serrano, a teacher at Oakland’s Melrose Leadership Academy, and the bargaining co-chair for the Oakland Education Association, said her team is standing firm on its list of demands. She said the district this week delivered “a fuller package” counteroffer that, for the first time, suggests it is willing to consider some of the union’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ousd-teacher-strike-oakland-schools-common-good-18081358.php\">common good proposals\u003c/a> in the new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “we still have many issues on the table that are unresolved. So there’s still a lot of work ahead of us to reach a tentative agreement,” Serrano said. “We want to be back in our classrooms, back in our schools. But we’ll do whatever it takes to really get a strong, tentative agreement that improves teaching and learning conditions for our kids and for our members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More support for special education teachers and their students is among the many outstanding demands on which the union refuses to budge, said Timothy Douglas, the other co-chair of OEA’s bargaining team, and a fifth grade teacher at International Community School in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of issues in special education that we find unacceptable and potentially illegal,” he said. “So we are really working with the district to implement a more sustainable and healthier workload model for our educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those educators is Gena Rinaldi, a special education teacher at Kaiser Early Childhood Center in the Oakland hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that we’re really focused on right now is increasing our support staff to ensure the safety of students in our classrooms,” she said, during a spirited rally Wednesday at Burbank Elementary in East Oakland. “Many of our teachers and our para-educators are not getting their lunch breaks right now because we don’t have enough staff for teachers to leave and still have supervision for our students. So we’re trying to convince the district that our youngest students need more support and we’re hopeful we can come to an agreement to make that happen.”[aside label=\"More Oakland Schools coverage\" postID=\"news_11948320,news_11937906,news_11912597\"]Meanwhile, district officials have reiterated that they’ve offered teachers an unprecedented compensation package — yielding significant pay increases of as much as 22%, plus back pay — and do not have the financial capacity or legal authority to negotiate many of the union’s key “common good” proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We appear close to an agreement for a robust compensation package, which would give teachers a historic raise … thereby supporting the critical goal of attracting and retaining excellent teachers,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.parentsquare.com/feeds/20430541?s=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjA5ODQ3OSwiZXhwIjoxNjkxNzE5Mzc5LCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5wYXJlbnRzcXVhcmUuY29tL2ZlZWRzLzIwNDMwNTQxIiwibWV0aG9kIjoiR0VUIiwicXVlcnkiOnt9LCJyZXF1ZXN0Ijp7fX0.PePW3sJs4be05bTASVEqyC0pp0U8LRec86ZLQOe46PY\">a video message sent to families\u003c/a> on Wednesday evening. “The remaining issue is how best to work on the common good proposal, which seeks to assign the school district with addressing such broad societal issues as housing for homeless [students] and drought-tolerant landscaping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are critical issues, Johnson-Trammell noted, but they “demand multiagency and government support,” and certainly can’t be single-handedly tackled through the school district’s limited budget. Fully implementing the proposals, district officials said, would cost more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moreover, as laudable as common good causes may be, they should not hold children’s learning hostage or deprive students of the services that schools provide,” she said. “OUSD wants to find a way other than the bargaining table to take on these issues and move forward with getting students back in the classroom and putting a significant raise into employees’ paychecks now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an email response sent late Wednesday to KQED, Ismael Armendariz, OEA’s interim president, argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and said several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these issues are critical to supporting our schools,” he said. “We urge the district to spend more time negotiating in good faith and less time making outlandish claims about the total cost of the proposals in email blasts to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although scores of families in the district during the walkout have continued to staunchly support teachers — and their demands — some parent leaders are lambasting the union, accusing its negotiators of pushing for unrealistic goals at the expense of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a false assumption going around that this ongoing strike is meant to help Black and brown students. It’s not. Instead, this strike is proving the opposite,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of The Oakland Reach, a parent-run group, said in a statement on Wednesday. “Without school in session, the flatlands of Oakland are a ghost town, where our lower income Black and brown students already have some of the lowest reading and math scores in California and an absenteeism rate close to 50% among Black students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The longer this strike continues,” she added, “the more it will cost us — physically, emotionally, academically, and in literal dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:25 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>For Laura Kaneko, a middle school teacher at Melrose Leadership Academy in East Oakland, this strike is about much more than demanding a much-needed raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been kind of rejuvenating … to remember that our community is here supporting us not only for our compensation, but really for the common good for everybody,” said Kaneko, while attending a teacher support rally outside her school on Tuesday, the fourth day of a district-wide walkout. “They’ve made so much progress in the negotiations for a contract for our salary, but there’s still so much more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just look at the school’s defective HVAC system, Kaneko said. “Our heater here at the site has been broken for 10 years. So it’s either too hot on warm days or it’s off on really cold days. And there’s no way for us to control that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so one of the common good demands that we’re asking for is for a plan for there to be climate control in every classroom. Seems like a fairly reasonable thing to ask for our students’ learning conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the district has largely conceded to the union’s demands for a significant pay raise, offering up to a 22% salary increase, along with a retroactive bump and a one-time payout as part of a nearly $70 million compensation package. The sticking point, though, and apparent reason the strike is still on — with just 12 days left in the school year — is the impasse over those “common good” proposals: things like building housing for the district’s many unhoused students on surplus district land, offering reparations to historically underserved Black students, addressing long-neglected safety and infrastructure issues at school sites and allowing for shared governance of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">district’s community schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Oakland Education Association’s negotiating team on Tuesday continued to grapple with district officials behind closed doors over the terms of a new contract — with little indication of resolution anytime soon — union leaders and teachers on the picket line made clear that those demands were just as essential for a fair contract as the most generous salary increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message to the community is that you are here with us today. You have been with us through the years and we are with you at the bargaining table,” interim OEA President Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher, told supporters gathered outside Melrose on Tuesday. “And your demands are central, just as valuable to us, as is our wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of teachers unions around the country have in recent years begun fighting for similar common good demands, including Los Angeles educators, who during a 2019 strike pushed their district to commit to a host of racial and environmental justice initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD leaders, and half the members of the school board, argue that these goals, while admirable, pertain to larger societal issues the district can’t single-handedly address and that certainly don’t belong in a teachers’ contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to continue partnering with teachers and the teachers union to find solutions to some of these issues that plague our communities,” Mike Hutchinson, president of the school board, told reporters on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he argued, the district’s bargaining team is not authorized to even consider many of these proposals. “Items that are outside of the scope of the contract, which are basically compensation and work conditions, are not going to be negotiated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials, however, say district negotiators, desperate to get students back in the classroom, are finally beginning to consider some of these proposals — even though the district has not publicly confirmed this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Melrose rally, Malaika Parker, who runs Oakland’s Black Organizing Project, said the district was being extremely shortsighted in refusing to even consider many of the union’s common good proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The debate over teacher compensation versus common good is ridiculous,” she said. “That is a false choice. We deserve communities where all is incorporated — where our teachers are paid well and where our young people feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers shouldn’t have to demand these things, Parker argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are our teachers, the people who we trust with our children, not automatically guaranteed respect and living conditions?” she said. “Why are we having to ask for the basics when we should be demanding the most? Our teachers, our communities, deserve to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 9 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> Oakland school district officials and the teachers union on Monday evening announced that some 3,000 teachers and other school staff would continue striking on Tuesday, leaving classrooms across the district largely empty for a fourth day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As another day of working toward an agreement with the Oakland Education Association approaches an end, we are sorry to report we are preparing for a fourth consecutive day of the teachers’ strike,” the district said in a letter to parents, noting that schools will remain open, with food service and other resources still available for students. “But with teachers engaging in the work stoppage, school operations will be reduced as they have been since Thursday of last week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> With less than three weeks remaining in the school year, some 3,000 Oakland teachers, counselors and other school staff returned to the picket lines Monday for the third day of a district-wide strike, after the teachers union and the school district failed to reach a contract agreement over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Oakland School Board President Mike Hutchinson expressed his “disappointment for where we are today,” imploring the Oakland Education Association to come back to the negotiating table and accusing its leaders of holding up the process with unreasonable demands, at the expense of Oakland students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unprecedented and simply unacceptable for our students and families to be forced into this position during a time when we should instead be focused on planning, graduation and end-of-year celebrations,” he told reporters at an afternoon press briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said that despite the the union’s claims to the contrary, the district’s bargaining team has continued to negotiate in good faith and devoted countless hours toward reaching a deal, including a late-night Sunday session to review OEA’s latest counterproposal. And while State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and his staff helped support the process over the weekend, “it still did not lead us to an agreement,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, he said, has already made a nearly $70 million \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZNSGZxnaZU5S_HBv_FNZPr0R_TbJG0xd\">“historic” offer to teachers\u003c/a> that would significantly boost their pay — up to 22% — while addressing a host of other demands for more support and resources. But Hutchinson said the union remains unrealistically fixated on its “\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/\">common good proposals\u003c/a>” demands — including housing for unhoused students, major school infrastructure and safety improvements, climate change actions and racial justice measures such as reparations for Black students and their families. The district supports these objectives, he said, but fundamentally lacks the capacity to take them on single-handedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we agree on the principles of the proposal, they simply do not belong in contract language and we have not authorized any changes to our approach to this position shared last week,” Hutchinson said. He argued that the district already has some policies in place to work toward certain common good goals, and that other demands — including more mental health services for students — have already been addressed in the current contract offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our students need to be back at school immediately and I cannot make this point more urgently,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union argues that the district has long been aware of, but until recently ignored, these common good proposals, which OEA presented months ago. And the district, the union insists, already has the resources in place to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OUSD is a district exactly designed to deal with outside things like homelessness,” said Jacob Fowler, a Lincoln Elementary School teacher and member of the union’s negotiating team, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgkb2v_sw4\">a video message\u003c/a> to parents over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg\" alt='A huge crowd of protestors walk down a street in Oakland carrying green and yellow picket signs that read \"On Strike Unfair Labor Practices.\" Many participants wear red and one woman has a hooded sweatshirt that reads \"phenomenal teacher.\" Another sign reads \"Safe, Stable and Racially Just Schools\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1536x1118.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue in Oakland on the second day of an ongoing teachers strike on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district, he argued, receives millions of dollars a year from the state for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">community schools\u003c/a>, aimed at providing services to students outside of the normal school day. The union simply wants to make sure there is a community engagement strategy in place to determine how those funds get spent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not asking for any more funds. It costs the district $0 to agree to this proposal. But they’re not even addressing it,” Fowler said. “We just want a fair, complete proposal so that we can get back to the classroom quickly. If OUSD continues to drag their feet, we will continue to be on strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fowler added that the union has also set up “solidarity schools” across the district, run by credentialed teachers and community members, for students to attend for as long as the strike lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?extid=CL-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&mibextid=YCRy0i&ref=watch_permalink&v=591680859401402\">press conference on Monday morning\u003c/a> in front of the district’s headquarters, Oakland school board members Valarie Bachelor, Jennifer Brouhard and VanCedric Williams — representing half of the board — voiced their support for the union’s common good proposals and urged the other three members of the board, including Hutchinson, to embrace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not agree that common good should require a separate authorization to negotiate,” Bachelor said. As one of the largest landowners in Oakland, the district is particularly well positioned to work toward housing solutions for its many unhoused students, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard, a retired Oakland teacher, said recent historic state funding for community schools has created the opportunity to change how decisions in schools are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, decision-making power has been held at the district level,” she said. “It must be shared with teachers, parents and students and those voices must be centered at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard recalled, as a teacher, sitting on committees that had no real power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met, we met, we met. We talked about things our students needed, and they were never funded,” she said. “It’s time to have shared governance in our common good goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 7 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/b>No negotiations were planned over the weekend, said Oakland Education Association bargaining team member Samia Khattab, raising the prospect that striking teachers would be back on the picket lines on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Friday] evening we received a package proposal from [the OUSD] that is still incomplete and [that has] quite a few errors in it,” said Khattab, who is a teacher and librarian at Franklin Elementary School, in an interview with KQED. “We haven’t been able to sit at the table with them to go over some of these inconsistencies, to be able to discuss and walk through the proposal with them, because there is a holdup, and the holdup is that the OUSD school board has not given authority to the OUSD bargaining team to bargain on all of the proposals that the OEA has brought forth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khattab said the 50-member OEA bargaining team was working on a counterproposal Saturday, and said she hopes the district is able to return to the table so they can begin the “back-and-forth process of settling a fair contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district hasn’t responded this weekend,” said Khattab. “We have nothing on our agenda that indicates that they are going to be joining us at the table today … We will be on the picket lines unless we can come to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate interview with KQED on Saturday, Deputy Mayor Kimberly Mayfield said Oakland is committed to education and that the mayor’s office has a good relationship with the districts and the teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our desire is that they can work as hard as they can over this weekend to come up with a solution that will be agreeable to both parties,” said Mayfield. “I will trust the wisdom of the bargaining teams to make the best decision to bring our kids back to school and to bring our teachers back to school with safe conditions for learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 6 p.m. Friday:\u003c/b> Oakland teachers continued to strike for a second day Friday, with union, district and state education officials saying they planned to continue negotiating, likely through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One union rally was held at the United for Success Academy in Oakland’s Fruitvale District on Thursday. Oakland Education Association representatives said they chose the OUSD middle school because it highlights the lack of needed “common good” measures that teachers are demanding in their ongoing fight for a new contract across the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers at the UFSA say the school’s buildings are old and in need of renovation, that there’s \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/03/fruitvale-students-lead-soil-contamination-poisoning/\">lead in the soil\u003c/a> and a rat and mice infestation in the classrooms, and that they’re concerned about lead in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1654608654396710913\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maha Nusrat, a sixth grade humanities teacher who’s taught at UFSA for 13 years, told KQED that it’s impossible to separate the physical conditions of the buildings from the teaching experience, or a child’s home environment from their education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re talking about common good proposals, we’re talking about disability justice, we’re talking about racial justice, we’re talking about social justice, we’re talking about schools in the flatlands having a just experience,” said Nusrat. “And that’s both in the environment, coming to a school that is welcoming, loving, safe — physically — and also [has] enough resources to actually fully serve those students that are in the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Aponte, a special education teacher going into his eighth year at UFSA, advocated for the needs of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [special education] program at UFSA is closing down, and as a special education teacher, that really hits us where it hurts,” said Aponte. “The students need these supports and these services … We need more qualified teachers to support the most vulnerable students that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg\" alt=\"Striking teachers marching holding a big colorful banner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1536x1154.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue from United for Success Academy, on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nusrat said schools like UFSA in the flatlands are a hub for families, a place to find additional resources outside the school day, and a place that serves as a safe space where students can get an “equitable education experience,” adding that UFSA is “a model” of some of the “common good” proposals teachers are demanding in the current strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people on campuses like ours are doing eight jobs because we simply don’t have the human power, no one is actually able to do their job that well,” said Nusrat. “We want to create wraparound services. We want to serve the whole student, including their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While district officials have said they agree in principle with the union’s proposals, they are prioritizing teacher retention by offering raises of up to 22%. But teachers demand that their “common good” proposals be met and that OUSD have a long-term plan in place for the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to have that transparency of a long game,” said Nusrat. “A two-year plan, a three-year plan, a five-year plan that’s going to include some of those common good things and some of those staffing issues that actually don’t let us do the jobs that we need to in our buildings with the integrity that we want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893056/oaklands-teachers-are-on-strike-again\">Oakland teachers’ strike\u003c/a> continues into its second day, First Covenant Church is opening its doors during the day to support K–5 students in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Danny Fitelson said\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandfcc.org/who-we-are\"> the church\u003c/a> also provided a space for students to read and learn when Oakland Unified teachers went on strike in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our mission statements is to be a light to the city. We think this is just a way to respond to a need that our city has right now,” Fitelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church transformed the choir room into a library for kids to lounge, snuggle with stuffed animals, read and munch on popcorn. Volunteers offered lessons on multiplication and division, and showed a science video about building bridges using pasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s board voted to provide this “community educational support program” until at least the end of next week if the strike continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t just about everybody making more money, it’s also about trying to get schools taken care of that have maybe been neglected,” Fitelson said. “I’ve been weighing that, and I think that hopefully something will get worked out. But I know it’s tough for everybody while it’s getting worked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Oakland parents remain frustrated by the disruption in schools as a teachers’ strike continues into its second day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, which represents 3,000 teachers, librarians, nurses and other staff members, has asked the district for what it’s calling “common good” proposals, including providing housing for unhoused students and investing in historically Black schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a> on Friday morning, Lakisha Young, founder of the parent-run organization The Oakland Reach, said some of the issues being raised are deep and longstanding, and unlikely to be resolved any time soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when does this end?” Young said. “I feel like this is what parents are saying. They’re saying, ‘Why does my kid have to be out of school for these conversations amongst adults to happen?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Reach and another parent group, CA Parent Power, proposed a resolution last year to the school board that would have offered families more of a say in collective bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11927865 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59078_Oakland_Parents_003-qut-1020x681.jpg']It’s unclear when the students and teachers will return to the classroom. State Superintendent Tony Thurmond has been mediating talks between the district and the union since Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond aims to continue the mediated talks through the weekend in hopes of ending the strike, though a spokesperson for the California Department of Education said several “significant items” remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/posts/pfbid02tGwEMfFZtoLntHwTSvwcYxuU5mjv361p4VV3AnkcQq2PY6qnbDyRWggiQ9hz3vV6l\">update posted to social media Thursday evening\u003c/a>, the Oakland Education Association confirmed that the strike would continue on Friday, with the union’s president calling for a return to the picket lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“United we will win,” said OEA President Ismael Armendariz in a video update. “We will have a midday rally at United for Success [Academy, in Oakland], to highlight our social justice and environmental justice demands. We’ll see you on the picket lines at 7:30 a.m.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same video, Vilma Serrano, bargaining co-chair for OEA, called on Oaklanders and supporters to “push the school board to have a meeting to give the OUSD bargaining team the authority to bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned this week that the school board has not given the OUSD full authority to bargain,” said Serrano. “It has been really deeply frustrating to get to this point after seven months of bargaining … We need to settle a contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in a square, with one man holding a sign and arms raised high.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of Oakland teachers and their supporters converged on Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall Thursday afternoon for a festive rally to close out the first day of an open-ended strike. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 3 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>After spending the morning picketing in front of their schools, hundreds of Oakland teachers and supporters converged on Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall Thursday afternoon for a festive rally to close out the first day of an open-ended strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With union and school district negotiators still at an impasse over the terms of a new contract, it appeared likely — save for a last-minute agreement — that teachers would be spending at least one more day on the picket lines, resulting in empty classrooms and another lost day of instruction for some 34,000 students in the district, with just three weeks left in the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in front of Oakland City Hall, carrying signs and banners.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking educators and their supporters at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jesse Shapiro, a veteran Oakland High School history and photography teacher, said the district had not yet put forward a reasonable offer, and urged parents and other community members to be patient despite the disruption caused by the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to understand that short-term sacrifice is something that’s necessary for long-term gains,” he said at the rally, as Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day” reverberated from the speakers behind him. “So I’d ask them to be patient, supportive of what the people who teach their children are asking for. Because we’re not just asking for us, we’re asking for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro said his daughter, who attends an elementary school in the district, stands to directly gain from the increases teachers are demanding — rather than being subjected to a succession of novice teachers who leave the district after a year or two because the pay is so low and the resources so limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors gather and hold signs, with two female protestors engaged in a mock sword fight.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The picket took on a festive air Thursday with hundreds gathered at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want her to be in a classroom where there’s a teacher who wants to be there, who has a manageable number of kids, who has the facilities to teach my kid in a safe environment where she wants to be when she gets into high school,” he said. “I want her to be able to have access to a counselor so she can discuss what her options are after high school. And I think every parent wants that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Chan, a single mom of a fifth grader at Sequoia Elementary School in the Lower Dimond District, said she came to the rally to support teachers in their fight for a fair contract that “really values them in the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we just need the district to listen to the teachers on what they’re saying,” Chan said, pointing to accounts she’s heard from teachers of working in dilapidated classrooms where the ceiling tiles were literally falling down, or where students were experiencing homelessness or suffering from serious mental health issues that were not being addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948638 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg\" alt=\"Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads "We Love Teachers" at Thursday's noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads “We Love Teachers” at Thursday’s noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Particularly as a single mom, Chan said, a strike like this makes life a lot more difficult. “But I think we as parents have dealt with a lot of issues the last few years, and interruptions. We’ve dealt with smoke days, we’ve dealt with the pandemic,” she said. “And this was completely preventable by the district. But we’re going to keep on dealing with it because it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents, however, took to social media to voice their frustrations with both the district and the teachers union, lambasting the two sides for failing to reach an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At 9pm at night, we learn our kids won’t have school tomorrow,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of parent advocacy group The Oakland Reach, wrote in a tweet late Wednesday, after the strike was announced. “I’m so disappointed in both sides. Once again, our kids are collateral damage in adult fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948320/weary-oakland-parents-divided-over-whether-to-support-teachers-in-looming-strike\">Oakland teachers\u003c/a> joined picket lines early Thursday morning in front of schools, leaving classrooms largely empty, on the first day of an open-ended strike in an ongoing push for higher wages and better working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, a resource specialist at Manzanita Community School, marched with her colleagues in front of their East Oakland elementary school, chanting, “We want justice for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez said that while it was essential for teachers in the district to receive higher pay, this walkout is about much more than just compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what we’re fighting for are just basic rights, especially for our special education students,” she said. “Those are legal mandates that we aren’t meeting because we don’t have the human capacity to meet them. And a lot of the other things that we’re asking are like, for safety in our schools, for actual ACs, and not to have mice, and not to have real just basic health concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ismael Armendariz, interim president of the Oakland Education Association, the union representing some 3,000 teachers and other school personnel, joined Manzanita teachers on Thursday morning. He said the district had not delivered on its promise to submit a comprehensive proposal to the union, and had consistently failed to address many of \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/bargaining-proposals?authuser=0\">its crucial demands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not received anything in writing. We are waiting to receive everything in writing so that we can settle this contract,” said Armendariz. He urged the school board president to intervene in the negotiating process, which he called “dysfunctional,” accusing the district of negotiating in bad faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Thursday morning, Oakland school board president Mike Hutchinson denied that claim, arguing, “We have been negotiating every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD leaders said \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ousdnews/posts/pfbid027XfdPTjL7txwyziTMF4E6SPawMrR265SCCKPD8zhH1XBDotZ5nrXrmwpQpoaUKoGl\">their latest contract offer\u003c/a>, of nearly $70 million, would give teachers a generous raise — of as much as 22% — while addressing a host of other demands, including investing to hire more counselors and performing arts teachers and giving teachers more classroom preparation time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The latest salary proposal would give teachers an unprecedented raise — one that they deserve, and one that OUSD teachers haven’t seen in years if not decades,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said, noting that teacher retention was her top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/e_baldi/status/1654185032083185664\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My team has thoughtfully planned out a way and made recommendations to make sure the district can afford this massive compensation package to maintain financial stability in the years to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, despite negotiations that ran late into the evening on Wednesday, the union ultimately walked away because of what she called wholly unrealistic demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is asking the district to “singularly solve complex societal realities, such as homelessness, that go far beyond the scope of what public schools can and should do alone,” Johnson-Trammell said. “As a district we simply can’t do everything, and it is our mission critical that we remain focused on prioritizing our primary purpose, which is teaching and learning and student well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond on Thursday said he had invited the union and the district to come back to the table, where he and his team could “formally mediate negotiations to end the strike.” Thurmond offered to arrange a meeting space where his staff could “lead, facilitate, and mediate discussions between the parties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed that the parties could not find an agreement in time to avert a strike,” he said in a statement. “Our goal is to help the parties reach an agreement and to end the strike so that students can return to class as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 5 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Some 3,000 Oakland teachers are striking Thursday morning in a push for higher wages and better resources, the teachers union and school district confirmed late Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/ousd-teacher-strike-oakland-schools-could-close-17920873.php\">the third in just over a year\u003c/a> — comes after the two sides, who have been in intense negotiations for seven days, failed to reach an agreement over a new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impasse leaves the district’s more than 34,000 students stranded without teachers and other school staff, including counselors, nurses, librarians and social workers, who are also represented by the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Educators will be on the picket line tomorrow, on strike for our students & for Oakland schools,” the Oakland Education Association said in a tweet Wednesday night, accusing the district of not negotiating in good faith. “We will continue to negotiate in good faith and hope the district will do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandEA/status/1653983303840727040\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District said in a statement it couldn’t predict how long the strike would last, but pledged to continue negotiating with the teachers union. District officials held a news conference on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the district office in downtown Oakland “to discuss the strike, the impact it will have on Oakland’s young people, and the reasons behind it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The end of the school year is always filled with milestone events for our students, so we want to ensure regular school resumes as soon as possible,” the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools will still be open, with central office staff assigned to each site “to ensure students are safe,” according to the statement. Students are expected to attend school, but those who don’t will receive an “excused absence,” the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School meals, including a simplified breakfast and full lunch, will still be served in each campus’ cafeteria, and most after-school programs will continue, according to the district’s multilingual \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bcqhvvyZPTL8JTXCjJhMic7ipY1pSKgm\">strike information document\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OEA contends that its teachers receive inadequate support and some of the lowest salaries in the region, even after modest gains in recent years, contributing to the district’s low teacher-retention rates. A first-year Oakland teacher \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OUSDNews/status/1653844779145351169/photo/1\">currently makes just under $53,000\u003c/a>, which the union says falls far short of what is necessary to make ends meet in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiators are \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/bargaining-proposals?authuser=0\">demanding a 23% raise\u003c/a> for all of its members. The union has also pushed for smaller special education classes, better services for students experiencing homelessness, more nursing and mental health staff and improvements to physical infrastructure, among other asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers have been working without an active contract since their previous one expired in the fall of 2022. That contract only came to fruition after teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Parents-children-brace-for-Oakland-teacher-strike-13631422.php\">staged a six-day strike in 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promise you we’ve done everything we can to avert this strike,” interim union president Ismael Armendariz said during a press conference earlier this week. “The district has truly failed our students, and the time for us to act is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union recently filed an unfair labor practice grievance with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board, accusing the district of not “bargaining in good faith” by arriving late or repeatedly failing to show up to bargaining sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials on Tuesday said they had offered teachers a fair contract that would give all union members a 13% to 22% raise, as well as a one-time bonus and backpay. The offer would also reduce health care costs by 15%. Under that proposal, first-year teachers would get a bump of about 20% — to $63,604.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teachers want a pay increase, and we agree they need it,” district officials said, noting they were committed to continuing to negotiate, and imploring the union to avoid calling for a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Following all the turmoil and disruption of Covid, the idea that our children might be out of school yet again while both sides work to reach an agreement only harms our students and families,” the district said in the statement. “The adults need to be adults, so that students can be students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers most recently went on \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/oakland-teacher-strike-wildcat-ousd-contract-negotiations/13004171/\">a one-day “wildcat strike”\u003c/a> in March — one not authorized by the union — over staffing cuts and what they called the school board’s unwillingness to address teacher pay. And in April 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/04/29/oakland-teachers-strike-school-closures/\">teachers staged another one-day walkout\u003c/a> over the board’s decision to permanently shutter multiple schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, a resource specialist at Manzanita Community School, said this was “unfortunately” her fourth strike in “these long 15 years” she’s worked for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking for support, we’re asking for resources, we’re asking for actual human beings to be here to give those resources,” she said. “And especially with inflation and the housing market in the Bay Area, we’ve lost hordes of people every single year that we don’t ever get back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez added, “We’re really asking the district to match the pay and the resources that other districts have so that it’s for our Oakland youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Phoebe Quinton, Attila Pelit, Juan Carlos Lara, Christopher Alam and Billy Cruz contributed to this story. This story was originally published on May 4.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ongoing negotiations have been tense, with the union's 'common good' demands for more community services remaining the major sticking point.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1684800748,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":157,"wordCount":8105},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Teachers' Strike Continues Despite Incremental Gains at Bargaining Table | KQED","description":"Ongoing negotiations have been tense, with the union's 'common good' demands for more community services remaining the major sticking point.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11948465/oakland-teachers-to-go-on-strike-thursday-amid-deadlock-with-district","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This article will no longer be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> As the standoff between striking educators and the Oakland Unified School District continues into its seventh school day, a major sticking point remains the “common good” demands from the union, with both sides citing wildly varying figures on the costs of implementing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement Thursday evening, OUSD Director of Communications John Sasaki told KQED that the Oakland Education Association’s proposal is “cost prohibitive” and that the overall price tag could run upwards of $1 billion. Sasaki said many of the “common good” demands would fall under \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=39353&dataid=36993&FileName=2020%20Facilities%20Master%20Plan.pdf\">OUSD’s Facilities Master Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, which “shows the District has a total of $3.4 billion in upgrades and other changes that must happen to get all schools upgraded and modernized,” adding that OEA’s proposal is “far too costly for the District to handle” and that it should not be included in any collective bargaining agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rachel Warino of the California Teachers Association — which has expressed its solidarity with the OEA — said OUSD’s numbers are “months old” and “ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goals we are committed to winning would cost an estimated $500,000 annually — this would be to pay for staffing increases including counselors,” Warino said, in a statement emailed to KQED on Thursday evening. “It’s unfortunate that the district is spending time sending out outlandish claims about proposals that are months old when we are 6 days into a strike. It’s unfair and unhelpful for our Oakland community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warino did not provide cost estimates for the rest of the “common good” proposals, which include housing unhoused students in vacant school buildings and replacing HVAC systems in aging school buildings. On Wednesday, OEA Interim President Ismael Armendariz argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and that several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg\" alt=\"a group of people which appears to be multi-ethnic in composition walks down a street carrying a large banner reading 'ready to strike for a fair contract' in both English and Spanish\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9874-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD educators and their supporters rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who has been mediating the negotiations since last Thursday, praised both parties for “working incredibly hard” and said the talks had been “productive,” but added that it’s ultimately up to the two sides to come to an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is providing right now historic levels of funding that can be used to provide these services for students: $4 billion for community schools, $8 billion for the Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant, $3.5 billion dollars for arts, financial literacy and basically giving districts discretion to do as they will, $4 billion for expanded learning — after-school programs, before-school programs,” said Thurmond, in a press conference at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward. “We have not seen funding at this level before. [W]e are seeing the state provide districts with resources that they can use for programs that would support the common good of students. Ultimately, it’s up to the board of every one of our 1,000 school districts, including Oakland, to decide how those resources might get used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond said he had no idea how long the strike would last, adding that he wouldn’t be mediating if he “thought the strike would take up the whole school year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a believer that we can all win, that we can find an agreement that compensates educators the way they deserve to be compensated, that we can find a way to provide programs that support students who’ve been disadvantaged, and we can do it in a way where we prioritize getting our students back into the classroom — and that is the priority,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> As the Oakland teachers’ strike continues to grind on, the number of students attending their teacherless schools — which have remained open, behind the picket lines — has steadily dipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the fifth day of the ongoing walkout, just 1,200 of OUSD’s more than 34,000 students attended one of its 77 school sites, where food and other basic services and activities are still being offered, according to district spokesperson John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland city officials say they’ve seen a 75% drop in attendance in city-run after-school programs since the strike began last Thursday. The teachers union and parent volunteers also have organized pop-up care centers — called “solidarity schools” — at various sites throughout the city, but it’s unclear how many students are attending them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949257\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949257 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg\" alt=\"In the foreground is what appears to be a middle school student in a full-body, bright green Oscar the Grouch costume, with a fuzzy brown unibrow, big googly eyes, and the person's face inside the mouth, holding a cardboard sign on a flat wooden stick that says, 'OUSD, Stop bringing us proposals that belong in the trash!' Oscar is in a crowd of people in a street, including someone to their right playing a trombone.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC_9905-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District teachers, parents and students rally outside Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11, 2023, during a teacher strike. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That massive disappearing act offers some indication of just how disruptive this strike has been for Oakland students and their families, who still have no idea when — or if — school will open again before the year ends in just two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the sixth day of the district-wide strike, tense negotiations continued between the teachers union and school district officials, with the union’s “common good” demands for more community services remaining the major sticking point, even as the two sides appeared close to an agreement over compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Gonzalez, vice president of her ninth grade class at Castlemont High School in East Oakland, came out Thursday to support her teachers on the picket line, even as most of her classmates stayed home.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1656747427133788161"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel bored at home,” she said. “I decided to come and strike with my teachers because they work hard. They plan lessons. They take time out of their personal lives to grade and stuff like that, and they deserve what they’re asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Oakland City Council committee hearing on Thursday, a stream of attendees spoke of the decrepit conditions they’ve witnessed in many of the district’s schools, and implored city officials to get involved in the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD teacher Edgar Sanchez, whose daughter attends United for Success Academy, told council members of the school’s rodent problems and “the issue of the sewage coming into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been asking for that to be fixed for a year and a half,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez added that the school where he teaches doesn’t have air-conditioning in the classrooms, and said that during last year’s heat wave, teachers had to constantly move students to cooler areas of the building just to maintain a safe learning environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So on Day Six of our strike, you all need to stand with us and push the district to do what’s right for our kids,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who has remained largely quiet during the labor dispute, urged the school district and teachers union to “work together to settle the strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 8 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/b> Thousands of Oakland teachers, counselors and librarians, along with their supporters, once again formed picket lines in front of schools on Thursday, the sixth day of a district-wide strike that has emptied out classrooms and ground instruction to a halt, with little more than two weeks remaining in the school year and a deal still out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We want to be back in our classrooms, back in our schools. But we’ll do whatever it takes to really get a strong, tentative agreement that improves teaching and learning conditions for our kids and for our members.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Vilma Serrano, bargaining co-chair, Oakland Education Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As heated negotiations continue between the district and the teachers union — including a Tuesday session that ran until 1 a.m. — both sides say they are inching closer to a tentative contract agreement, but have given little indication as to how soon the walkout might end. Meanwhile, as an immediate resolution seemed increasingly unlikely, the district canceled its regularly scheduled Wednesday evening school board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilma Serrano, a teacher at Oakland’s Melrose Leadership Academy, and the bargaining co-chair for the Oakland Education Association, said her team is standing firm on its list of demands. She said the district this week delivered “a fuller package” counteroffer that, for the first time, suggests it is willing to consider some of the union’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ousd-teacher-strike-oakland-schools-common-good-18081358.php\">common good proposals\u003c/a> in the new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “we still have many issues on the table that are unresolved. So there’s still a lot of work ahead of us to reach a tentative agreement,” Serrano said. “We want to be back in our classrooms, back in our schools. But we’ll do whatever it takes to really get a strong, tentative agreement that improves teaching and learning conditions for our kids and for our members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More support for special education teachers and their students is among the many outstanding demands on which the union refuses to budge, said Timothy Douglas, the other co-chair of OEA’s bargaining team, and a fifth grade teacher at International Community School in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of issues in special education that we find unacceptable and potentially illegal,” he said. “So we are really working with the district to implement a more sustainable and healthier workload model for our educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those educators is Gena Rinaldi, a special education teacher at Kaiser Early Childhood Center in the Oakland hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that we’re really focused on right now is increasing our support staff to ensure the safety of students in our classrooms,” she said, during a spirited rally Wednesday at Burbank Elementary in East Oakland. “Many of our teachers and our para-educators are not getting their lunch breaks right now because we don’t have enough staff for teachers to leave and still have supervision for our students. So we’re trying to convince the district that our youngest students need more support and we’re hopeful we can come to an agreement to make that happen.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Oakland Schools coverage ","postid":"news_11948320,news_11937906,news_11912597"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Meanwhile, district officials have reiterated that they’ve offered teachers an unprecedented compensation package — yielding significant pay increases of as much as 22%, plus back pay — and do not have the financial capacity or legal authority to negotiate many of the union’s key “common good” proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We appear close to an agreement for a robust compensation package, which would give teachers a historic raise … thereby supporting the critical goal of attracting and retaining excellent teachers,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.parentsquare.com/feeds/20430541?s=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjA5ODQ3OSwiZXhwIjoxNjkxNzE5Mzc5LCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5wYXJlbnRzcXVhcmUuY29tL2ZlZWRzLzIwNDMwNTQxIiwibWV0aG9kIjoiR0VUIiwicXVlcnkiOnt9LCJyZXF1ZXN0Ijp7fX0.PePW3sJs4be05bTASVEqyC0pp0U8LRec86ZLQOe46PY\">a video message sent to families\u003c/a> on Wednesday evening. “The remaining issue is how best to work on the common good proposal, which seeks to assign the school district with addressing such broad societal issues as housing for homeless [students] and drought-tolerant landscaping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are critical issues, Johnson-Trammell noted, but they “demand multiagency and government support,” and certainly can’t be single-handedly tackled through the school district’s limited budget. Fully implementing the proposals, district officials said, would cost more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moreover, as laudable as common good causes may be, they should not hold children’s learning hostage or deprive students of the services that schools provide,” she said. “OUSD wants to find a way other than the bargaining table to take on these issues and move forward with getting students back in the classroom and putting a significant raise into employees’ paychecks now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an email response sent late Wednesday to KQED, Ismael Armendariz, OEA’s interim president, argued the union’s common good proposals “reflect the priorities identified by Oakland educators and in conversations with thousands of OUSD parents and community members,” and said several of them “would not cost the district a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these issues are critical to supporting our schools,” he said. “We urge the district to spend more time negotiating in good faith and less time making outlandish claims about the total cost of the proposals in email blasts to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although scores of families in the district during the walkout have continued to staunchly support teachers — and their demands — some parent leaders are lambasting the union, accusing its negotiators of pushing for unrealistic goals at the expense of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a false assumption going around that this ongoing strike is meant to help Black and brown students. It’s not. Instead, this strike is proving the opposite,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of The Oakland Reach, a parent-run group, said in a statement on Wednesday. “Without school in session, the flatlands of Oakland are a ghost town, where our lower income Black and brown students already have some of the lowest reading and math scores in California and an absenteeism rate close to 50% among Black students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The longer this strike continues,” she added, “the more it will cost us — physically, emotionally, academically, and in literal dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:25 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>For Laura Kaneko, a middle school teacher at Melrose Leadership Academy in East Oakland, this strike is about much more than demanding a much-needed raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been kind of rejuvenating … to remember that our community is here supporting us not only for our compensation, but really for the common good for everybody,” said Kaneko, while attending a teacher support rally outside her school on Tuesday, the fourth day of a district-wide walkout. “They’ve made so much progress in the negotiations for a contract for our salary, but there’s still so much more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just look at the school’s defective HVAC system, Kaneko said. “Our heater here at the site has been broken for 10 years. So it’s either too hot on warm days or it’s off on really cold days. And there’s no way for us to control that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so one of the common good demands that we’re asking for is for a plan for there to be climate control in every classroom. Seems like a fairly reasonable thing to ask for our students’ learning conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the district has largely conceded to the union’s demands for a significant pay raise, offering up to a 22% salary increase, along with a retroactive bump and a one-time payout as part of a nearly $70 million compensation package. The sticking point, though, and apparent reason the strike is still on — with just 12 days left in the school year — is the impasse over those “common good” proposals: things like building housing for the district’s many unhoused students on surplus district land, offering reparations to historically underserved Black students, addressing long-neglected safety and infrastructure issues at school sites and allowing for shared governance of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">district’s community schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Oakland Education Association’s negotiating team on Tuesday continued to grapple with district officials behind closed doors over the terms of a new contract — with little indication of resolution anytime soon — union leaders and teachers on the picket line made clear that those demands were just as essential for a fair contract as the most generous salary increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message to the community is that you are here with us today. You have been with us through the years and we are with you at the bargaining table,” interim OEA President Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher, told supporters gathered outside Melrose on Tuesday. “And your demands are central, just as valuable to us, as is our wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of teachers unions around the country have in recent years begun fighting for similar common good demands, including Los Angeles educators, who during a 2019 strike pushed their district to commit to a host of racial and environmental justice initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD leaders, and half the members of the school board, argue that these goals, while admirable, pertain to larger societal issues the district can’t single-handedly address and that certainly don’t belong in a teachers’ contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to continue partnering with teachers and the teachers union to find solutions to some of these issues that plague our communities,” Mike Hutchinson, president of the school board, told reporters on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he argued, the district’s bargaining team is not authorized to even consider many of these proposals. “Items that are outside of the scope of the contract, which are basically compensation and work conditions, are not going to be negotiated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials, however, say district negotiators, desperate to get students back in the classroom, are finally beginning to consider some of these proposals — even though the district has not publicly confirmed this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Melrose rally, Malaika Parker, who runs Oakland’s Black Organizing Project, said the district was being extremely shortsighted in refusing to even consider many of the union’s common good proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The debate over teacher compensation versus common good is ridiculous,” she said. “That is a false choice. We deserve communities where all is incorporated — where our teachers are paid well and where our young people feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers shouldn’t have to demand these things, Parker argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are our teachers, the people who we trust with our children, not automatically guaranteed respect and living conditions?” she said. “Why are we having to ask for the basics when we should be demanding the most? Our teachers, our communities, deserve to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 9 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> Oakland school district officials and the teachers union on Monday evening announced that some 3,000 teachers and other school staff would continue striking on Tuesday, leaving classrooms across the district largely empty for a fourth day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As another day of working toward an agreement with the Oakland Education Association approaches an end, we are sorry to report we are preparing for a fourth consecutive day of the teachers’ strike,” the district said in a letter to parents, noting that schools will remain open, with food service and other resources still available for students. “But with teachers engaging in the work stoppage, school operations will be reduced as they have been since Thursday of last week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/b> With less than three weeks remaining in the school year, some 3,000 Oakland teachers, counselors and other school staff returned to the picket lines Monday for the third day of a district-wide strike, after the teachers union and the school district failed to reach a contract agreement over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Oakland School Board President Mike Hutchinson expressed his “disappointment for where we are today,” imploring the Oakland Education Association to come back to the negotiating table and accusing its leaders of holding up the process with unreasonable demands, at the expense of Oakland students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unprecedented and simply unacceptable for our students and families to be forced into this position during a time when we should instead be focused on planning, graduation and end-of-year celebrations,” he told reporters at an afternoon press briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said that despite the the union’s claims to the contrary, the district’s bargaining team has continued to negotiate in good faith and devoted countless hours toward reaching a deal, including a late-night Sunday session to review OEA’s latest counterproposal. And while State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and his staff helped support the process over the weekend, “it still did not lead us to an agreement,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, he said, has already made a nearly $70 million \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZNSGZxnaZU5S_HBv_FNZPr0R_TbJG0xd\">“historic” offer to teachers\u003c/a> that would significantly boost their pay — up to 22% — while addressing a host of other demands for more support and resources. But Hutchinson said the union remains unrealistically fixated on its “\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/\">common good proposals\u003c/a>” demands — including housing for unhoused students, major school infrastructure and safety improvements, climate change actions and racial justice measures such as reparations for Black students and their families. The district supports these objectives, he said, but fundamentally lacks the capacity to take them on single-handedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we agree on the principles of the proposal, they simply do not belong in contract language and we have not authorized any changes to our approach to this position shared last week,” Hutchinson said. He argued that the district already has some policies in place to work toward certain common good goals, and that other demands — including more mental health services for students — have already been addressed in the current contract offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our students need to be back at school immediately and I cannot make this point more urgently,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union argues that the district has long been aware of, but until recently ignored, these common good proposals, which OEA presented months ago. And the district, the union insists, already has the resources in place to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OUSD is a district exactly designed to deal with outside things like homelessness,” said Jacob Fowler, a Lincoln Elementary School teacher and member of the union’s negotiating team, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgkb2v_sw4\">a video message\u003c/a> to parents over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg\" alt='A huge crowd of protestors walk down a street in Oakland carrying green and yellow picket signs that read \"On Strike Unfair Labor Practices.\" Many participants wear red and one woman has a hooded sweatshirt that reads \"phenomenal teacher.\" Another sign reads \"Safe, Stable and Racially Just Schools\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/StrikingEducators-1536x1118.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue in Oakland on the second day of an ongoing teachers strike on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district, he argued, receives millions of dollars a year from the state for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communityschools\">community schools\u003c/a>, aimed at providing services to students outside of the normal school day. The union simply wants to make sure there is a community engagement strategy in place to determine how those funds get spent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not asking for any more funds. It costs the district $0 to agree to this proposal. But they’re not even addressing it,” Fowler said. “We just want a fair, complete proposal so that we can get back to the classroom quickly. If OUSD continues to drag their feet, we will continue to be on strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fowler added that the union has also set up “solidarity schools” across the district, run by credentialed teachers and community members, for students to attend for as long as the strike lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?extid=CL-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&mibextid=YCRy0i&ref=watch_permalink&v=591680859401402\">press conference on Monday morning\u003c/a> in front of the district’s headquarters, Oakland school board members Valarie Bachelor, Jennifer Brouhard and VanCedric Williams — representing half of the board — voiced their support for the union’s common good proposals and urged the other three members of the board, including Hutchinson, to embrace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not agree that common good should require a separate authorization to negotiate,” Bachelor said. As one of the largest landowners in Oakland, the district is particularly well positioned to work toward housing solutions for its many unhoused students, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard, a retired Oakland teacher, said recent historic state funding for community schools has created the opportunity to change how decisions in schools are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, decision-making power has been held at the district level,” she said. “It must be shared with teachers, parents and students and those voices must be centered at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard recalled, as a teacher, sitting on committees that had no real power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met, we met, we met. We talked about things our students needed, and they were never funded,” she said. “It’s time to have shared governance in our common good goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 7 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/b>No negotiations were planned over the weekend, said Oakland Education Association bargaining team member Samia Khattab, raising the prospect that striking teachers would be back on the picket lines on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Friday] evening we received a package proposal from [the OUSD] that is still incomplete and [that has] quite a few errors in it,” said Khattab, who is a teacher and librarian at Franklin Elementary School, in an interview with KQED. “We haven’t been able to sit at the table with them to go over some of these inconsistencies, to be able to discuss and walk through the proposal with them, because there is a holdup, and the holdup is that the OUSD school board has not given authority to the OUSD bargaining team to bargain on all of the proposals that the OEA has brought forth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khattab said the 50-member OEA bargaining team was working on a counterproposal Saturday, and said she hopes the district is able to return to the table so they can begin the “back-and-forth process of settling a fair contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district hasn’t responded this weekend,” said Khattab. “We have nothing on our agenda that indicates that they are going to be joining us at the table today … We will be on the picket lines unless we can come to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate interview with KQED on Saturday, Deputy Mayor Kimberly Mayfield said Oakland is committed to education and that the mayor’s office has a good relationship with the districts and the teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our desire is that they can work as hard as they can over this weekend to come up with a solution that will be agreeable to both parties,” said Mayfield. “I will trust the wisdom of the bargaining teams to make the best decision to bring our kids back to school and to bring our teachers back to school with safe conditions for learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 6 p.m. Friday:\u003c/b> Oakland teachers continued to strike for a second day Friday, with union, district and state education officials saying they planned to continue negotiating, likely through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One union rally was held at the United for Success Academy in Oakland’s Fruitvale District on Thursday. Oakland Education Association representatives said they chose the OUSD middle school because it highlights the lack of needed “common good” measures that teachers are demanding in their ongoing fight for a new contract across the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers at the UFSA say the school’s buildings are old and in need of renovation, that there’s \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/03/fruitvale-students-lead-soil-contamination-poisoning/\">lead in the soil\u003c/a> and a rat and mice infestation in the classrooms, and that they’re concerned about lead in the water.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1654608654396710913"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Maha Nusrat, a sixth grade humanities teacher who’s taught at UFSA for 13 years, told KQED that it’s impossible to separate the physical conditions of the buildings from the teaching experience, or a child’s home environment from their education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re talking about common good proposals, we’re talking about disability justice, we’re talking about racial justice, we’re talking about social justice, we’re talking about schools in the flatlands having a just experience,” said Nusrat. “And that’s both in the environment, coming to a school that is welcoming, loving, safe — physically — and also [has] enough resources to actually fully serve those students that are in the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Aponte, a special education teacher going into his eighth year at UFSA, advocated for the needs of the most vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [special education] program at UFSA is closing down, and as a special education teacher, that really hits us where it hurts,” said Aponte. “The students need these supports and these services … We need more qualified teachers to support the most vulnerable students that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg\" alt=\"Striking teachers marching holding a big colorful banner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/TeachersStrikeBanner-1536x1154.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers and their supporters march down Foothill Avenue from United for Success Academy, on May 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nusrat said schools like UFSA in the flatlands are a hub for families, a place to find additional resources outside the school day, and a place that serves as a safe space where students can get an “equitable education experience,” adding that UFSA is “a model” of some of the “common good” proposals teachers are demanding in the current strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people on campuses like ours are doing eight jobs because we simply don’t have the human power, no one is actually able to do their job that well,” said Nusrat. “We want to create wraparound services. We want to serve the whole student, including their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While district officials have said they agree in principle with the union’s proposals, they are prioritizing teacher retention by offering raises of up to 22%. But teachers demand that their “common good” proposals be met and that OUSD have a long-term plan in place for the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to have that transparency of a long game,” said Nusrat. “A two-year plan, a three-year plan, a five-year plan that’s going to include some of those common good things and some of those staffing issues that actually don’t let us do the jobs that we need to in our buildings with the integrity that we want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893056/oaklands-teachers-are-on-strike-again\">Oakland teachers’ strike\u003c/a> continues into its second day, First Covenant Church is opening its doors during the day to support K–5 students in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Danny Fitelson said\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandfcc.org/who-we-are\"> the church\u003c/a> also provided a space for students to read and learn when Oakland Unified teachers went on strike in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our mission statements is to be a light to the city. We think this is just a way to respond to a need that our city has right now,” Fitelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church transformed the choir room into a library for kids to lounge, snuggle with stuffed animals, read and munch on popcorn. Volunteers offered lessons on multiplication and division, and showed a science video about building bridges using pasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s board voted to provide this “community educational support program” until at least the end of next week if the strike continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t just about everybody making more money, it’s also about trying to get schools taken care of that have maybe been neglected,” Fitelson said. “I’ve been weighing that, and I think that hopefully something will get worked out. But I know it’s tough for everybody while it’s getting worked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Oakland parents remain frustrated by the disruption in schools as a teachers’ strike continues into its second day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, which represents 3,000 teachers, librarians, nurses and other staff members, has asked the district for what it’s calling “common good” proposals, including providing housing for unhoused students and investing in historically Black schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a> on Friday morning, Lakisha Young, founder of the parent-run organization The Oakland Reach, said some of the issues being raised are deep and longstanding, and unlikely to be resolved any time soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when does this end?” Young said. “I feel like this is what parents are saying. They’re saying, ‘Why does my kid have to be out of school for these conversations amongst adults to happen?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Reach and another parent group, CA Parent Power, proposed a resolution last year to the school board that would have offered families more of a say in collective bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11927865","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59078_Oakland_Parents_003-qut-1020x681.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s unclear when the students and teachers will return to the classroom. State Superintendent Tony Thurmond has been mediating talks between the district and the union since Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond aims to continue the mediated talks through the weekend in hopes of ending the strike, though a spokesperson for the California Department of Education said several “significant items” remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/posts/pfbid02tGwEMfFZtoLntHwTSvwcYxuU5mjv361p4VV3AnkcQq2PY6qnbDyRWggiQ9hz3vV6l\">update posted to social media Thursday evening\u003c/a>, the Oakland Education Association confirmed that the strike would continue on Friday, with the union’s president calling for a return to the picket lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“United we will win,” said OEA President Ismael Armendariz in a video update. “We will have a midday rally at United for Success [Academy, in Oakland], to highlight our social justice and environmental justice demands. We’ll see you on the picket lines at 7:30 a.m.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same video, Vilma Serrano, bargaining co-chair for OEA, called on Oaklanders and supporters to “push the school board to have a meeting to give the OUSD bargaining team the authority to bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned this week that the school board has not given the OUSD full authority to bargain,” said Serrano. “It has been really deeply frustrating to get to this point after seven months of bargaining … We need to settle a contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in a square, with one man holding a sign and arms raised high.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7354-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of Oakland teachers and their supporters converged on Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall Thursday afternoon for a festive rally to close out the first day of an open-ended strike. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 3 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>After spending the morning picketing in front of their schools, hundreds of Oakland teachers and supporters converged on Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall Thursday afternoon for a festive rally to close out the first day of an open-ended strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With union and school district negotiators still at an impasse over the terms of a new contract, it appeared likely — save for a last-minute agreement — that teachers would be spending at least one more day on the picket lines, resulting in empty classrooms and another lost day of instruction for some 34,000 students in the district, with just three weeks left in the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in front of Oakland City Hall, carrying signs and banners.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7247-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking educators and their supporters at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jesse Shapiro, a veteran Oakland High School history and photography teacher, said the district had not yet put forward a reasonable offer, and urged parents and other community members to be patient despite the disruption caused by the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to understand that short-term sacrifice is something that’s necessary for long-term gains,” he said at the rally, as Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day” reverberated from the speakers behind him. “So I’d ask them to be patient, supportive of what the people who teach their children are asking for. Because we’re not just asking for us, we’re asking for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro said his daughter, who attends an elementary school in the district, stands to directly gain from the increases teachers are demanding — rather than being subjected to a succession of novice teachers who leave the district after a year or two because the pay is so low and the resources so limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors gather and hold signs, with two female protestors engaged in a mock sword fight.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC7397-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The picket took on a festive air Thursday with hundreds gathered at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want her to be in a classroom where there’s a teacher who wants to be there, who has a manageable number of kids, who has the facilities to teach my kid in a safe environment where she wants to be when she gets into high school,” he said. “I want her to be able to have access to a counselor so she can discuss what her options are after high school. And I think every parent wants that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Chan, a single mom of a fifth grader at Sequoia Elementary School in the Lower Dimond District, said she came to the rally to support teachers in their fight for a fair contract that “really values them in the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we just need the district to listen to the teachers on what they’re saying,” Chan said, pointing to accounts she’s heard from teachers of working in dilapidated classrooms where the ceiling tiles were literally falling down, or where students were experiencing homelessness or suffering from serious mental health issues that were not being addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948638 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg\" alt=\"Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads "We Love Teachers" at Thursday's noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DSC06636-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misa Takaki and her son, Akira Takaki, hold a sign that reads “We Love Teachers” at Thursday’s noontime rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Particularly as a single mom, Chan said, a strike like this makes life a lot more difficult. “But I think we as parents have dealt with a lot of issues the last few years, and interruptions. We’ve dealt with smoke days, we’ve dealt with the pandemic,” she said. “And this was completely preventable by the district. But we’re going to keep on dealing with it because it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents, however, took to social media to voice their frustrations with both the district and the teachers union, lambasting the two sides for failing to reach an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At 9pm at night, we learn our kids won’t have school tomorrow,” Lakisha Young, co-founder of parent advocacy group The Oakland Reach, wrote in a tweet late Wednesday, after the strike was announced. “I’m so disappointed in both sides. Once again, our kids are collateral damage in adult fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948320/weary-oakland-parents-divided-over-whether-to-support-teachers-in-looming-strike\">Oakland teachers\u003c/a> joined picket lines early Thursday morning in front of schools, leaving classrooms largely empty, on the first day of an open-ended strike in an ongoing push for higher wages and better working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, a resource specialist at Manzanita Community School, marched with her colleagues in front of their East Oakland elementary school, chanting, “We want justice for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez said that while it was essential for teachers in the district to receive higher pay, this walkout is about much more than just compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what we’re fighting for are just basic rights, especially for our special education students,” she said. “Those are legal mandates that we aren’t meeting because we don’t have the human capacity to meet them. And a lot of the other things that we’re asking are like, for safety in our schools, for actual ACs, and not to have mice, and not to have real just basic health concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ismael Armendariz, interim president of the Oakland Education Association, the union representing some 3,000 teachers and other school personnel, joined Manzanita teachers on Thursday morning. He said the district had not delivered on its promise to submit a comprehensive proposal to the union, and had consistently failed to address many of \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/bargaining-proposals?authuser=0\">its crucial demands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not received anything in writing. We are waiting to receive everything in writing so that we can settle this contract,” said Armendariz. He urged the school board president to intervene in the negotiating process, which he called “dysfunctional,” accusing the district of negotiating in bad faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Thursday morning, Oakland school board president Mike Hutchinson denied that claim, arguing, “We have been negotiating every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD leaders said \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ousdnews/posts/pfbid027XfdPTjL7txwyziTMF4E6SPawMrR265SCCKPD8zhH1XBDotZ5nrXrmwpQpoaUKoGl\">their latest contract offer\u003c/a>, of nearly $70 million, would give teachers a generous raise — of as much as 22% — while addressing a host of other demands, including investing to hire more counselors and performing arts teachers and giving teachers more classroom preparation time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The latest salary proposal would give teachers an unprecedented raise — one that they deserve, and one that OUSD teachers haven’t seen in years if not decades,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said, noting that teacher retention was her top priority.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1654185032083185664"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“My team has thoughtfully planned out a way and made recommendations to make sure the district can afford this massive compensation package to maintain financial stability in the years to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, despite negotiations that ran late into the evening on Wednesday, the union ultimately walked away because of what she called wholly unrealistic demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is asking the district to “singularly solve complex societal realities, such as homelessness, that go far beyond the scope of what public schools can and should do alone,” Johnson-Trammell said. “As a district we simply can’t do everything, and it is our mission critical that we remain focused on prioritizing our primary purpose, which is teaching and learning and student well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond on Thursday said he had invited the union and the district to come back to the table, where he and his team could “formally mediate negotiations to end the strike.” Thurmond offered to arrange a meeting space where his staff could “lead, facilitate, and mediate discussions between the parties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed that the parties could not find an agreement in time to avert a strike,” he said in a statement. “Our goal is to help the parties reach an agreement and to end the strike so that students can return to class as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 5 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Some 3,000 Oakland teachers are striking Thursday morning in a push for higher wages and better resources, the teachers union and school district confirmed late Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/ousd-teacher-strike-oakland-schools-could-close-17920873.php\">the third in just over a year\u003c/a> — comes after the two sides, who have been in intense negotiations for seven days, failed to reach an agreement over a new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impasse leaves the district’s more than 34,000 students stranded without teachers and other school staff, including counselors, nurses, librarians and social workers, who are also represented by the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Educators will be on the picket line tomorrow, on strike for our students & for Oakland schools,” the Oakland Education Association said in a tweet Wednesday night, accusing the district of not negotiating in good faith. “We will continue to negotiate in good faith and hope the district will do the same.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1653983303840727040"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District said in a statement it couldn’t predict how long the strike would last, but pledged to continue negotiating with the teachers union. District officials held a news conference on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the district office in downtown Oakland “to discuss the strike, the impact it will have on Oakland’s young people, and the reasons behind it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The end of the school year is always filled with milestone events for our students, so we want to ensure regular school resumes as soon as possible,” the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools will still be open, with central office staff assigned to each site “to ensure students are safe,” according to the statement. Students are expected to attend school, but those who don’t will receive an “excused absence,” the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School meals, including a simplified breakfast and full lunch, will still be served in each campus’ cafeteria, and most after-school programs will continue, according to the district’s multilingual \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bcqhvvyZPTL8JTXCjJhMic7ipY1pSKgm\">strike information document\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OEA contends that its teachers receive inadequate support and some of the lowest salaries in the region, even after modest gains in recent years, contributing to the district’s low teacher-retention rates. A first-year Oakland teacher \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OUSDNews/status/1653844779145351169/photo/1\">currently makes just under $53,000\u003c/a>, which the union says falls far short of what is necessary to make ends meet in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiators are \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/oeabargaining-2022-2023/bargaining-proposals?authuser=0\">demanding a 23% raise\u003c/a> for all of its members. The union has also pushed for smaller special education classes, better services for students experiencing homelessness, more nursing and mental health staff and improvements to physical infrastructure, among other asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers have been working without an active contract since their previous one expired in the fall of 2022. That contract only came to fruition after teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Parents-children-brace-for-Oakland-teacher-strike-13631422.php\">staged a six-day strike in 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promise you we’ve done everything we can to avert this strike,” interim union president Ismael Armendariz said during a press conference earlier this week. “The district has truly failed our students, and the time for us to act is now.”\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 union recently filed an unfair labor practice grievance with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board, accusing the district of not “bargaining in good faith” by arriving late or repeatedly failing to show up to bargaining sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials on Tuesday said they had offered teachers a fair contract that would give all union members a 13% to 22% raise, as well as a one-time bonus and backpay. The offer would also reduce health care costs by 15%. Under that proposal, first-year teachers would get a bump of about 20% — to $63,604.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teachers want a pay increase, and we agree they need it,” district officials said, noting they were committed to continuing to negotiate, and imploring the union to avoid calling for a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Following all the turmoil and disruption of Covid, the idea that our children might be out of school yet again while both sides work to reach an agreement only harms our students and families,” the district said in the statement. “The adults need to be adults, so that students can be students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers most recently went on \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/oakland-teacher-strike-wildcat-ousd-contract-negotiations/13004171/\">a one-day “wildcat strike”\u003c/a> in March — one not authorized by the union — over staffing cuts and what they called the school board’s unwillingness to address teacher pay. And in April 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/04/29/oakland-teachers-strike-school-closures/\">teachers staged another one-day walkout\u003c/a> over the board’s decision to permanently shutter multiple schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Chavez, a resource specialist at Manzanita Community School, said this was “unfortunately” her fourth strike in “these long 15 years” she’s worked for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking for support, we’re asking for resources, we’re asking for actual human beings to be here to give those resources,” she said. “And especially with inflation and the housing market in the Bay Area, we’ve lost hordes of people every single year that we don’t ever get back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez added, “We’re really asking the district to match the pay and the resources that other districts have so that it’s for our Oakland youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Phoebe Quinton, Attila Pelit, Juan Carlos Lara, Christopher Alam and Billy Cruz contributed to this story. This story was originally published on May 4.\u003c/em>\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/11948465/oakland-teachers-to-go-on-strike-thursday-amid-deadlock-with-district","authors":["1263","11652","11852","11635"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_20013","news_19904","news_20482","news_2432","news_31016","news_1826","news_3366"],"featImg":"news_11949255","label":"news"},"news_11948320":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11948320","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11948320","score":null,"sort":[1683067968000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"weary-oakland-parents-divided-over-whether-to-support-teachers-in-looming-strike","title":"Weary Oakland Parents Divided Over Whether to Support Teachers in Looming Strike","publishDate":1683067968,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Weary Oakland Parents Divided Over Whether to Support Teachers in Looming Strike | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As Oakland teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-teachers-strike-schools-close-ousd-18001248.php\">threaten to once again go on strike\u003c/a> as soon as Thursday, parents in the district say they are split over whether to support them this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of an ongoing push for higher wages and smaller class sizes, the walkout could potentially strand some 34,000 students for at least one day. It would mark the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/ousd-teacher-strike-oakland-schools-could-close-17920873.php\">third teacher walkout in just over a year\u003c/a>, a track record that Lakisha Young, founder of the parent-run organization The Oakland REACH, calls “excessive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They always strike during a bargaining agreement,” Young said, noting that she supports teachers’ demands, but not their tactics. “Enough is enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers most recently launched \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/oakland-teacher-strike-wildcat-ousd-contract-negotiations/13004171/\">a one-day wildcat strike\u003c/a> in March, which was not authorized by the union, over staffing cuts and what they called the school board’s unwillingness to address teacher pay. And in April 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/04/29/oakland-teachers-strike-school-closures/\">educators staged a one-day walkout\u003c/a> over the board’s decision to permanently shutter multiple schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young said students and their families have already suffered from enough disruption during the pandemic, when schools were forced to operate remotely. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/California-reading-and-math-scores-finally-show-17530574.php\">just over a third\u003c/a> of students in the district tested proficient in reading levels. In math, it was just over a quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a district where most kids can’t read and kids can’t do math, we need to have every kid in the building doing work every day,” Young said. “They should not be missing school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other parent leaders, however, said they would stand in solidarity with teachers, even if that meant having to scramble to find alternative options for their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see the conditions teachers are experiencing,” said Pecolia Manigo, a parent and former school board candidate. “We know how difficult it is to recruit teachers, even ones who live in our lovely city of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association has argued that the teachers it represents receive inadequate support and some of the lowest salaries in the region, even after modest gains in recent years. Meanwhile, just 57% of teachers are assigned to classrooms they are actually credentialed to teach – one of the lowest ratios in the state, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/oakland-with-the-lowest-ratio-of-fully-prepared-rightly-assigned-teachers-has-a-strategy-to-address-teacher-churn/676288\">according to EdSource\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promise you we’ve done everything we can to avert this strike,” interim union president Ismael Armendariz said during a Monday evening press conference announcing the potential walkout. “The district has truly failed our students, and the time for us to act is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Education Coverage\" tag=\"education\"]The union accuses the district of bargaining in bad faith and repeatedly failing to show up, or arriving late, to bargaining sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district did not respond to requests for comment. But in a statement it issued Tuesday, officials said they had offered teachers a fair contract that would provide raises of up to 22%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teachers want a pay increase, and we agree they need it,” the district said. “We are committed to continuing to work with our labor leaders to discuss their salaries and support services for our students without the need for a strike. Let’s not interrupt our students’ learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Samia Khattab, an OUSD teacher-librarian on the union’s bargaining team, says this isn’t just about the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Compensation is one out of the 20 proposals that we put forth,” she said. The other sticking points concern mental health support for students, smaller special education classes, more services for students experiencing homelessness and improvements to physical infrastructure, among other asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is ultimately our goal that the contract that we hopefully will ratify soon will reflect the values that we hold in order to have racially just, safe and high-quality schools in Oakland,” Khattab said. She added that state and county education officials, including California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, had gotten involved in negotiations today to help avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, after the union voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, talks between the two sides resumed in earnest, but Vilma Serrano, the union’s lead negotiator, said more work was needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been making some progress,” Serrano said. But, she added, “We’re still needing to see movement on our common good demands to really support our community and our students in other ways beyond just our normal teaching and learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Daves, a former OUSD English teacher, said low salaries and lack of support were big reasons he left the district in the spring of 2020, before leaving the profession altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re part of a team that is bringing resources to address problems, then you kind of feel like you’re all in the trenches together,” said Daves, who now works as a field chemist, and is the parent of a middle school student in the district. “But if you feel like you’re a lone voice in the wilderness, it can be isolating and lonely to be in a classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that although a strike would be an inconvenience for his family, he intended to fully support his former colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like this is out of greed,” Daves said. “This is out of [teachers] wanting smaller class sizes, wanting a wage that allows them to live in the Bay Area and not be broke all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Oakland teachers' union announced plans late Monday to potentially go on strike as early as Thursday if an agreement cannot be reached in ongoing contract negotiations with the district.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1683674180,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":941},"headData":{"title":"Weary Oakland Parents Divided Over Whether to Support Teachers in Looming Strike | KQED","description":"The Oakland teachers' union announced plans late Monday to potentially go on strike as early as Thursday if an agreement cannot be reached in ongoing contract negotiations with the district.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11948320/weary-oakland-parents-divided-over-whether-to-support-teachers-in-looming-strike","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As Oakland teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-teachers-strike-schools-close-ousd-18001248.php\">threaten to once again go on strike\u003c/a> as soon as Thursday, parents in the district say they are split over whether to support them this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of an ongoing push for higher wages and smaller class sizes, the walkout could potentially strand some 34,000 students for at least one day. It would mark the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/ousd-teacher-strike-oakland-schools-could-close-17920873.php\">third teacher walkout in just over a year\u003c/a>, a track record that Lakisha Young, founder of the parent-run organization The Oakland REACH, calls “excessive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They always strike during a bargaining agreement,” Young said, noting that she supports teachers’ demands, but not their tactics. “Enough is enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers most recently launched \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/oakland-teacher-strike-wildcat-ousd-contract-negotiations/13004171/\">a one-day wildcat strike\u003c/a> in March, which was not authorized by the union, over staffing cuts and what they called the school board’s unwillingness to address teacher pay. And in April 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/04/29/oakland-teachers-strike-school-closures/\">educators staged a one-day walkout\u003c/a> over the board’s decision to permanently shutter multiple schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young said students and their families have already suffered from enough disruption during the pandemic, when schools were forced to operate remotely. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/California-reading-and-math-scores-finally-show-17530574.php\">just over a third\u003c/a> of students in the district tested proficient in reading levels. In math, it was just over a quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a district where most kids can’t read and kids can’t do math, we need to have every kid in the building doing work every day,” Young said. “They should not be missing school.”\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>Other parent leaders, however, said they would stand in solidarity with teachers, even if that meant having to scramble to find alternative options for their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see the conditions teachers are experiencing,” said Pecolia Manigo, a parent and former school board candidate. “We know how difficult it is to recruit teachers, even ones who live in our lovely city of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association has argued that the teachers it represents receive inadequate support and some of the lowest salaries in the region, even after modest gains in recent years. Meanwhile, just 57% of teachers are assigned to classrooms they are actually credentialed to teach – one of the lowest ratios in the state, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/oakland-with-the-lowest-ratio-of-fully-prepared-rightly-assigned-teachers-has-a-strategy-to-address-teacher-churn/676288\">according to EdSource\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promise you we’ve done everything we can to avert this strike,” interim union president Ismael Armendariz said during a Monday evening press conference announcing the potential walkout. “The district has truly failed our students, and the time for us to act is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Education Coverage ","tag":"education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The union accuses the district of bargaining in bad faith and repeatedly failing to show up, or arriving late, to bargaining sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district did not respond to requests for comment. But in a statement it issued Tuesday, officials said they had offered teachers a fair contract that would provide raises of up to 22%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teachers want a pay increase, and we agree they need it,” the district said. “We are committed to continuing to work with our labor leaders to discuss their salaries and support services for our students without the need for a strike. Let’s not interrupt our students’ learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Samia Khattab, an OUSD teacher-librarian on the union’s bargaining team, says this isn’t just about the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Compensation is one out of the 20 proposals that we put forth,” she said. The other sticking points concern mental health support for students, smaller special education classes, more services for students experiencing homelessness and improvements to physical infrastructure, among other asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is ultimately our goal that the contract that we hopefully will ratify soon will reflect the values that we hold in order to have racially just, safe and high-quality schools in Oakland,” Khattab said. She added that state and county education officials, including California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, had gotten involved in negotiations today to help avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, after the union voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, talks between the two sides resumed in earnest, but Vilma Serrano, the union’s lead negotiator, said more work was needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been making some progress,” Serrano said. But, she added, “We’re still needing to see movement on our common good demands to really support our community and our students in other ways beyond just our normal teaching and learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Daves, a former OUSD English teacher, said low salaries and lack of support were big reasons he left the district in the spring of 2020, before leaving the profession altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re part of a team that is bringing resources to address problems, then you kind of feel like you’re all in the trenches together,” said Daves, who now works as a field chemist, and is the parent of a middle school student in the district. “But if you feel like you’re a lone voice in the wilderness, it can be isolating and lonely to be in a classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that although a strike would be an inconvenience for his family, he intended to fully support his former colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like this is out of greed,” Daves said. “This is out of [teachers] wanting smaller class sizes, wanting a wage that allows them to live in the Bay Area and not be broke all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11948320/weary-oakland-parents-divided-over-whether-to-support-teachers-in-looming-strike","authors":["11652"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_20013","news_26686","news_18","news_24851","news_31016","news_1826","news_3366"],"featImg":"news_11948331","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":""},"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_11922183":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11922183","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11922183","score":null,"sort":[1660174551000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"whats-new-this-school-year-changing-covid-protocols-universal-tk-later-start-times-and-more","title":"What’s New This School Year? Changing COVID Protocols, Universal TK, Later Start Times and More","publishDate":1660174551,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Later start times for middle and high school students, the expansion of transitional kindergarten, more after-school programs and the opening of more community schools are just some changes students and staff in California will have to adjust to this school year, while still dealing with COVID-19 safety protocols and persistent staff shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the challenges, educators seem confident that the experience of the last two years and increased resources will help them navigate another year of COVID-19, as well as new state programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am looking forward to another year of in-person instruction,” said Corey Willenberg, superintendent of Oroville Union High School District in Butte County. “We are going to offer kids and families a fantastic education despite the hurdles we are facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 uncertainty and testing protocols top the list of concerns of California school administrators this school year, said Naj Alikhan, senior director of communications for the Association of California School Administrators. Other concerns include teacher shortages, the social-emotional health of students and staff and the implementation of later start times for middle and high school students, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Districts relax COVID protocols\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/K-12-Guidance-2022-23-School-Year.aspx\">COVID-19 protocols\u003c/a> have changed tremendously from the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. This year, mask mandates and social distancing are mostly a thing of the past. Regular surveillance testing has made way for at-home tests provided by schools during times of high transmission, as well as testing at school sites as needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State COVID-19 guidance recommends masking but leaves it up to districts and county health departments to determine whether to require it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified, which kept its indoor masking requirement after the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/end-of-school-mask-mandate-brings-relief-lingering-concerns/668768\">state lifted mandatory masking rules\u003c/a> in schools last spring, will not require masks this school year, nor will it require a weekly COVID test in order to enter campuses. Only students or staff exhibiting symptoms or those who are in close contact with someone who tests positive will be required to test, using an at-home antigen test. The district is distributing the tests to students and staff to use within 48 hours of the first day of school and again before the second week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the district is relaxing COVID-19 protocols because of declining infection rates, but it also is ramping up disinfection of high-touch surfaces, hiring more custodians, increasing ventilation and upgrading air filtration systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento City Unified and San Diego Unified, which both mandated masking over the summer because of high COVID-19 rates, haven’t yet decided if masks will be required this school year. The districts, some of the last to start the school year, are watching \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/community-levels.html#anchor_1646419198998\">community infection rates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified, following the guidance of public health officials, began school Monday with no mask requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922201\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/okland-first-day1-1-1200x750-1-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"Students arrive for the first day of school at Markham Elementary in Oakland Unified on Monday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/okland-first-day1-1-1200x750-1-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/okland-first-day1-1-1200x750-1-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/okland-first-day1-1-1200x750-1-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/okland-first-day1-1-1200x750-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students arrive for the first day of school at Markham Elementary in Oakland Unified on Monday. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Masking has been a contentious issue at most school districts, with families on both sides of the issue. .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To kind of strike a balance, we have made mitigation efforts as prevalent as possible and as easily accessible as possible,” said Sailaja Suresh, Oakland Unified’s senior director of strategic projects, during a webinar last week. “But if it’s not a mandate that we do things like mask, we are just going to continue to strongly recommend and provide access to the mitigation measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tammy Yahud isn’t happy that Eagle Peak Montessori, a charter school her two sons attend in Walnut Creek, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.smore.com/ezhvr-welcome-back-newsletter?ref=email\">opted to require masks indoors\u003c/a> for another school year. Yahud says masking is impacting her children’s mental health and making it more difficult for one child, who is in speech therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t understand why the school continues to have a mask mandate when other schools do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is time of progress,” Yahud said. “We have medicine. We have approved vaccine. We have treatment. We have made progress. We are moving forward, so the school has to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A school newsletter said the board’s decision was informed by a committee of health professionals and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR22-073.aspx#:~:text=The%20State%20of%20California%20announced,California's%20Health%20and%20Safety%20Code.\">state of California\u003c/a> and individual districts such as Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified and San Diego Unified have also put vaccine mandates for students on hold, although \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Order-of-the-State-Public-Health-Officer-Vaccine-Verification-for-Workers-in-Schools.aspx\">state law requires all school workers\u003c/a>, including teachers, be fully vaccinated or to undergo a weekly COVID-19 screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento City Unified still has a vaccine mandate for students but hasn’t enforced it, said Brian Heap, the district’s chief communications officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Monkeypox is the latest concern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If COVID-19 weren’t enough, families have a new virus to worry about this year: monkeypox. The virus is spread through close skin-to-skin contact and through contaminated materials like cups, utensils, clothing and towels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Symptoms include swollen lymph nodes, chills, exhaustion, headache, muscle aches, fever and a rash or lesions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least five children in the United States, including one in Long Beach, have been reported to have the virus. This month, both California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden have declared monkeypox a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR22-119.aspx\">public health emergency.\u003c/a>[pullquote align=\"left\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"E. Toby Boyd, president of the California Teachers Association\"]'There are so many things. Not knowing if you are ill, if you are going to be able to get a substitute to cover your classroom.'[/pullquote]Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Medical Center, says the risk of a child contracting the disease is low and that schools should already have health policies in place that exclude students with certain rashes and other infectious diseases from activities where there is direct contact with other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But districts are taking precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest concern for us is sports, like wrestling or gymnastics where kids are on padding on the floors,” said Richard Barrera, San Diego Unified School District trustee. “So, what our facilities folks are doing right now, are going in and taking a look at places kids could potentially be exposed to a situation like monkeypox.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Schools will continue to focus on mental health\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School districts are making the mental health of students and teachers a priority. Districts will be able to put a greater emphasis on mental health this year because they no longer have to deal with online learning options or as many unknowns about COVID, Barrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest challenge for educators this school year is mental fatigue, said E. Toby Boyd, president of the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are still not out of this COVID situation, where we have to mitigate all these circumstances,” he said. “The inability to actually teach truth about what is going on in our history. There are so many things. Not knowing if you are ill, if you are going to be able to get a substitute to cover your classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Staff shortages loom large\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"teacher-shortage\"]School districts are expected to struggle with staff shortages again this year. Bus drivers, paraprofessionals, substitutes and teachers continue to be in short supply even though districts have stepped up efforts to recruit and retain them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Unified and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-expands-recruitment-efforts-educators-other-staff-positions\">San Francisco Unified\u003c/a> were among the many districts that offered signing bonuses to lure teachers to their districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes bonuses aren’t enough. Oroville Union High School District has been advertising for a special education teacher for severely handicapped students since April. Superintendent Willenberg expects that students in that class will start the year with a substitute teacher, who isn’t likely to have all the training needed to work with severely handicapped children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, which serves 2,700 students, still needs three special-education teachers, two English teachers and four special-education paraeducators before school starts Aug. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willenberg has asked outside agencies that work in special education to send teachers to the district in exchange for a finder’s fee. But even that isn’t working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high school district, like \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/severe-driver-shortage-leaves-some-california-kids-waiting-at-the-school-bus-stop/668139\">many others in the state\u003c/a>, has been unable to find enough bus drivers with the required Class B license. So, instead, it has had to hire drivers with standard Class C licenses to drive a “huge” van fleet to pick up students 10 at a time, instead of the 55 or more that fit in a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shortage impacts families in the entire area, as the high school district also provides home-to-school transportation for an elementary school district within its boundaries. As a result, the high school district has had to cut back on providing transportation for athletic events and other activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willenberg said he expects more retirements to make the bus driver shortage even worse this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Older students will start the school day later\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State-mandated later-start times in California will make providing home-to-school bus transportation even more complicated, say administrators. The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB328\">legislation\u003c/a> requires middle schools to begin no earlier than 8 a.m. and high schools to start regular classes at 8:30 a.m. or later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Nguyen, 15, an incoming junior at Bolsa Grande High School in Garden Grove, is thrilled that school will start at 8:30 a.m., instead of 7:55 a.m. this school year. He knows he needs more sleep, but says he will use the time to study and do homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all really sleep-deprived,” he said of teenagers. “But that’s 35 more minutes to do homework. I have a rigorous schedule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Full slate of new programs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/californias-new-budget-includes-historic-funding-for-education/674998\">Record state funding for K-12\u003c/a> education and federal COVID relief money are making new programs like universal transitional kindergarten, after-school extended learning and the expansion of community schools possible this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The budget this year was extremely helpful for educators,” Boyd said. “We have more money going into the classroom to hopefully lower class sizes and to retain and recruit teachers. There is the transitional kindergarten expansion. Community schools are going to be very impactful for our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state also is investing $4.1 billion in community schools, which will take an integrated approach to their students’ academic, health and social-emotional needs by making connections with government and community services and by building trusting relationships with students and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Unified has an ambitious plan to open five community schools each year beginning this school year. The district will continue the process until all the district schools with 80% or more of its students eligible for free and reduced-priced lunch are community schools. Eventually, the district will have upward of 50 community schools, Barrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and federal dollars aimed at learning loss also are allowing districts to offer more extensive after-school programs. San Diego is extending its summer enrichment program, known as Level Up SD, to an after-school enrichment program this year. It is working with community nonprofits to offer classes in marine science, robotics, dance, theater and the arts, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oroville Union High School District has formed a partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of the North Valley to offer extended learning opportunities for its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of trying to find ways to get things done,” Willenberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Universal transitional kindergarten is rolled out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Marceline Marques, operations support officer for San Diego Unified\"]'Reaction to universal transitional kindergarten was overwhelmingly positive. So many families applied that we have more applications than seats available.'[/pullquote]This also is the first year of a three-year rollout of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/universal-transitional-kindergarten-quick-guide/662318\">universal transitional kindergarten\u003c/a>, which will allow every 4-year-old child in the state to be enrolled by 2025-26. Students who turn age 5 between Sept. 2 and Feb. 2 are eligible to attend this school year, although some districts are enrolling even younger students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student-to-teacher ratio will be 12-to-1 this year, and transition to 10-to-1 in 2025-26. That’s half the size of the current transitional kindergarten but larger than Head Start, which generally has an 8-to-1 ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Unified was one of the early implementers of universal kindergarten with nearly 56 school sites last year. This year it expanded its program to almost every elementary school, adding about 700 seats, said Marceline Marques, operations support officer for the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district will enroll any child who turns age 4 by the end of the school year, Barrera said. He is hopeful that the additional enrollment generated by universal transitional kindergarten will help staunch declining enrollment in the district, which has had a 0.5% decline annually over the last five or six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reaction to universal transitional kindergarten was overwhelmingly positive,” Marques said. “So many families applied that we have more applications than seats available. We were determined to increase the number of classrooms in the district to accommodate everyone who applied, as well as to have seats available to families who move into the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Universal transitional kindergarten, which replaces transitional kindergarten, offers a more play-based, developmental-based curriculum, Marques said. But literacy, math, science, social studies, art and physical education components are also taught, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a wonderful program for our students to be prepared before they move into kindergarten,” Marques said. “That piece is super exciting, we are really excited about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/whats-new-this-school-year-changing-covid-protocols-universal-tk-later-start-times-and-more/676502\">This story was originally published in EdSource with contributions from Edsource reporter Kate Sequeira.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Later start times for middle and high school students, the expansion of transitional kindergarten and more after-school programs are just some of the changes students and staff in California will have to adjust to this school year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1661214183,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":54,"wordCount":2312},"headData":{"title":"What’s New This School Year? 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Changing COVID Protocols, Universal TK, Later Start Times and More","source":"Edsource","sourceUrl":"https://edsource.org/","nprByline":"Diana Lambert","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11922183/whats-new-this-school-year-changing-covid-protocols-universal-tk-later-start-times-and-more","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Later start times for middle and high school students, the expansion of transitional kindergarten, more after-school programs and the opening of more community schools are just some changes students and staff in California will have to adjust to this school year, while still dealing with COVID-19 safety protocols and persistent staff shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the challenges, educators seem confident that the experience of the last two years and increased resources will help them navigate another year of COVID-19, as well as new state programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am looking forward to another year of in-person instruction,” said Corey Willenberg, superintendent of Oroville Union High School District in Butte County. “We are going to offer kids and families a fantastic education despite the hurdles we are facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 uncertainty and testing protocols top the list of concerns of California school administrators this school year, said Naj Alikhan, senior director of communications for the Association of California School Administrators. Other concerns include teacher shortages, the social-emotional health of students and staff and the implementation of later start times for middle and high school students, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Districts relax COVID protocols\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/K-12-Guidance-2022-23-School-Year.aspx\">COVID-19 protocols\u003c/a> have changed tremendously from the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. This year, mask mandates and social distancing are mostly a thing of the past. Regular surveillance testing has made way for at-home tests provided by schools during times of high transmission, as well as testing at school sites as needed.\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>State COVID-19 guidance recommends masking but leaves it up to districts and county health departments to determine whether to require it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified, which kept its indoor masking requirement after the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/end-of-school-mask-mandate-brings-relief-lingering-concerns/668768\">state lifted mandatory masking rules\u003c/a> in schools last spring, will not require masks this school year, nor will it require a weekly COVID test in order to enter campuses. Only students or staff exhibiting symptoms or those who are in close contact with someone who tests positive will be required to test, using an at-home antigen test. The district is distributing the tests to students and staff to use within 48 hours of the first day of school and again before the second week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the district is relaxing COVID-19 protocols because of declining infection rates, but it also is ramping up disinfection of high-touch surfaces, hiring more custodians, increasing ventilation and upgrading air filtration systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento City Unified and San Diego Unified, which both mandated masking over the summer because of high COVID-19 rates, haven’t yet decided if masks will be required this school year. The districts, some of the last to start the school year, are watching \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/community-levels.html#anchor_1646419198998\">community infection rates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified, following the guidance of public health officials, began school Monday with no mask requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922201\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/okland-first-day1-1-1200x750-1-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"Students arrive for the first day of school at Markham Elementary in Oakland Unified on Monday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/okland-first-day1-1-1200x750-1-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/okland-first-day1-1-1200x750-1-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/okland-first-day1-1-1200x750-1-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/okland-first-day1-1-1200x750-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students arrive for the first day of school at Markham Elementary in Oakland Unified on Monday. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Masking has been a contentious issue at most school districts, with families on both sides of the issue. .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To kind of strike a balance, we have made mitigation efforts as prevalent as possible and as easily accessible as possible,” said Sailaja Suresh, Oakland Unified’s senior director of strategic projects, during a webinar last week. “But if it’s not a mandate that we do things like mask, we are just going to continue to strongly recommend and provide access to the mitigation measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tammy Yahud isn’t happy that Eagle Peak Montessori, a charter school her two sons attend in Walnut Creek, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.smore.com/ezhvr-welcome-back-newsletter?ref=email\">opted to require masks indoors\u003c/a> for another school year. Yahud says masking is impacting her children’s mental health and making it more difficult for one child, who is in speech therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t understand why the school continues to have a mask mandate when other schools do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is time of progress,” Yahud said. “We have medicine. We have approved vaccine. We have treatment. We have made progress. We are moving forward, so the school has to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A school newsletter said the board’s decision was informed by a committee of health professionals and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR22-073.aspx#:~:text=The%20State%20of%20California%20announced,California's%20Health%20and%20Safety%20Code.\">state of California\u003c/a> and individual districts such as Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified and San Diego Unified have also put vaccine mandates for students on hold, although \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Order-of-the-State-Public-Health-Officer-Vaccine-Verification-for-Workers-in-Schools.aspx\">state law requires all school workers\u003c/a>, including teachers, be fully vaccinated or to undergo a weekly COVID-19 screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento City Unified still has a vaccine mandate for students but hasn’t enforced it, said Brian Heap, the district’s chief communications officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Monkeypox is the latest concern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If COVID-19 weren’t enough, families have a new virus to worry about this year: monkeypox. The virus is spread through close skin-to-skin contact and through contaminated materials like cups, utensils, clothing and towels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Symptoms include swollen lymph nodes, chills, exhaustion, headache, muscle aches, fever and a rash or lesions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least five children in the United States, including one in Long Beach, have been reported to have the virus. This month, both California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden have declared monkeypox a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR22-119.aspx\">public health emergency.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There are so many things. Not knowing if you are ill, if you are going to be able to get a substitute to cover your classroom.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"left","size":"medium","citation":"E. Toby Boyd, president of the California Teachers Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Medical Center, says the risk of a child contracting the disease is low and that schools should already have health policies in place that exclude students with certain rashes and other infectious diseases from activities where there is direct contact with other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But districts are taking precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest concern for us is sports, like wrestling or gymnastics where kids are on padding on the floors,” said Richard Barrera, San Diego Unified School District trustee. “So, what our facilities folks are doing right now, are going in and taking a look at places kids could potentially be exposed to a situation like monkeypox.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Schools will continue to focus on mental health\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School districts are making the mental health of students and teachers a priority. Districts will be able to put a greater emphasis on mental health this year because they no longer have to deal with online learning options or as many unknowns about COVID, Barrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest challenge for educators this school year is mental fatigue, said E. Toby Boyd, president of the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are still not out of this COVID situation, where we have to mitigate all these circumstances,” he said. “The inability to actually teach truth about what is going on in our history. There are so many things. Not knowing if you are ill, if you are going to be able to get a substitute to cover your classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Staff shortages loom large\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"teacher-shortage"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>School districts are expected to struggle with staff shortages again this year. Bus drivers, paraprofessionals, substitutes and teachers continue to be in short supply even though districts have stepped up efforts to recruit and retain them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Unified and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-expands-recruitment-efforts-educators-other-staff-positions\">San Francisco Unified\u003c/a> were among the many districts that offered signing bonuses to lure teachers to their districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes bonuses aren’t enough. Oroville Union High School District has been advertising for a special education teacher for severely handicapped students since April. Superintendent Willenberg expects that students in that class will start the year with a substitute teacher, who isn’t likely to have all the training needed to work with severely handicapped children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, which serves 2,700 students, still needs three special-education teachers, two English teachers and four special-education paraeducators before school starts Aug. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willenberg has asked outside agencies that work in special education to send teachers to the district in exchange for a finder’s fee. But even that isn’t working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high school district, like \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/severe-driver-shortage-leaves-some-california-kids-waiting-at-the-school-bus-stop/668139\">many others in the state\u003c/a>, has been unable to find enough bus drivers with the required Class B license. So, instead, it has had to hire drivers with standard Class C licenses to drive a “huge” van fleet to pick up students 10 at a time, instead of the 55 or more that fit in a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shortage impacts families in the entire area, as the high school district also provides home-to-school transportation for an elementary school district within its boundaries. As a result, the high school district has had to cut back on providing transportation for athletic events and other activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willenberg said he expects more retirements to make the bus driver shortage even worse this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Older students will start the school day later\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State-mandated later-start times in California will make providing home-to-school bus transportation even more complicated, say administrators. The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB328\">legislation\u003c/a> requires middle schools to begin no earlier than 8 a.m. and high schools to start regular classes at 8:30 a.m. or later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Nguyen, 15, an incoming junior at Bolsa Grande High School in Garden Grove, is thrilled that school will start at 8:30 a.m., instead of 7:55 a.m. this school year. He knows he needs more sleep, but says he will use the time to study and do homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all really sleep-deprived,” he said of teenagers. “But that’s 35 more minutes to do homework. I have a rigorous schedule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Full slate of new programs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/californias-new-budget-includes-historic-funding-for-education/674998\">Record state funding for K-12\u003c/a> education and federal COVID relief money are making new programs like universal transitional kindergarten, after-school extended learning and the expansion of community schools possible this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The budget this year was extremely helpful for educators,” Boyd said. “We have more money going into the classroom to hopefully lower class sizes and to retain and recruit teachers. There is the transitional kindergarten expansion. Community schools are going to be very impactful for our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state also is investing $4.1 billion in community schools, which will take an integrated approach to their students’ academic, health and social-emotional needs by making connections with government and community services and by building trusting relationships with students and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Unified has an ambitious plan to open five community schools each year beginning this school year. The district will continue the process until all the district schools with 80% or more of its students eligible for free and reduced-priced lunch are community schools. Eventually, the district will have upward of 50 community schools, Barrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and federal dollars aimed at learning loss also are allowing districts to offer more extensive after-school programs. San Diego is extending its summer enrichment program, known as Level Up SD, to an after-school enrichment program this year. It is working with community nonprofits to offer classes in marine science, robotics, dance, theater and the arts, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oroville Union High School District has formed a partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of the North Valley to offer extended learning opportunities for its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of trying to find ways to get things done,” Willenberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Universal transitional kindergarten is rolled out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Reaction to universal transitional kindergarten was overwhelmingly positive. So many families applied that we have more applications than seats available.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"left","size":"medium","citation":"Marceline Marques, operations support officer for San Diego Unified","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This also is the first year of a three-year rollout of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/universal-transitional-kindergarten-quick-guide/662318\">universal transitional kindergarten\u003c/a>, which will allow every 4-year-old child in the state to be enrolled by 2025-26. Students who turn age 5 between Sept. 2 and Feb. 2 are eligible to attend this school year, although some districts are enrolling even younger students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student-to-teacher ratio will be 12-to-1 this year, and transition to 10-to-1 in 2025-26. That’s half the size of the current transitional kindergarten but larger than Head Start, which generally has an 8-to-1 ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Unified was one of the early implementers of universal kindergarten with nearly 56 school sites last year. This year it expanded its program to almost every elementary school, adding about 700 seats, said Marceline Marques, operations support officer for the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district will enroll any child who turns age 4 by the end of the school year, Barrera said. He is hopeful that the additional enrollment generated by universal transitional kindergarten will help staunch declining enrollment in the district, which has had a 0.5% decline annually over the last five or six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reaction to universal transitional kindergarten was overwhelmingly positive,” Marques said. “So many families applied that we have more applications than seats available. We were determined to increase the number of classrooms in the district to accommodate everyone who applied, as well as to have seats available to families who move into the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Universal transitional kindergarten, which replaces transitional kindergarten, offers a more play-based, developmental-based curriculum, Marques said. But literacy, math, science, social studies, art and physical education components are also taught, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a wonderful program for our students to be prepared before they move into kindergarten,” Marques said. “That piece is super exciting, we are really excited about it.”\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>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/whats-new-this-school-year-changing-covid-protocols-universal-tk-later-start-times-and-more/676502\">This story was originally published in EdSource with contributions from Edsource reporter Kate Sequeira.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11922183/whats-new-this-school-year-changing-covid-protocols-universal-tk-later-start-times-and-more","authors":["byline_news_11922183"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_30911","news_19655","news_27626","news_29575","news_29860","news_1826","news_3946","news_18434"],"featImg":"news_11922199","label":"source_news_11922183"},"news_11921807":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11921807","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11921807","score":null,"sort":[1659746024000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"parker-elementary-activists-demand-investigation-after-clash-with-ousd-security","title":"Parker Elementary Activists Demand Investigation After Clash with OUSD Security","publishDate":1659746024,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Community organizers occupying Parker Elementary School in East Oakland demanded answers from the school district on Friday, a day after district security forces attempted to remove them from the premises in what witnesses described as a violent altercation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those involved in the Thursday evening incident was Max Orozco, an Oakland parent-organizer and school board candidate. He said Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) security officers handcuffed and detained him at the scene in what he called \"an attack.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921881\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 301px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11921881 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM-e1659744317415.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM-e1659744317415.png 778w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM-e1659744317415-160x280.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parker Liberation member and Oakland school board candidate Max Orozco, speaking at a Friday press conference, described being violently detained by OUSD security officers on Thursday evening during a confrontation at the school. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to eyewitnesses, he was held inside for nearly two hours as nearly 60 people gathered outside demanding his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker is among the 11 city schools that the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904618/oakland-moves-to-close-seven-schools-despite-fierce-community-opposition\">in February chose to permanently close or merge\u003c/a> due to budget issues. The school was officially shuttered May 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a group of parents and students who staunchly oppose the closure \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915396/we-have-power-oakland-activists-camp-out-in-school-to-stop-its-closure\">took over the building in early June\u003c/a>. Since then, members of the “Parker Liberation,” as the group calls itself, have been living inside the building and hosting a community-run summer school — part of an effort that organizers say echoes the work of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple people involved in the incident said they responded to a message on social media alerting the community that district security guards were forcefully preventing people from entering the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After officers eventually reopened the building, “the staff were just violent with community members, just pushing and punching,” said community organizer Pecolia Manigo. “There were people harmed, physically beaten today, and that was not OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really proud of our community for a quick response — that people came and saw and witnessed the violence that these OUSD event staff were executing with ... it was unnecessary,\" she added. \"And I hope that we can have a better conversation about our police-free schools, and making sure anybody that's representing and/or on the payroll of our district is not violent toward our community members.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hyphy_republic/status/1555379206078361600\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker Liberation members said more than 10 people sustained mild to moderate injuries during the confrontation and two went to the hospital for treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached on Thursday night, during the confrontation, OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki said that when security first arrived at the building in the afternoon, no one was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So, we changed the locks and set the alarm,” he said in an email. “Someone picked, cut, or otherwise broke through a lock to get back inside the building. They were removed. Now, we are doing what we can to keep several others from entering the building.\"[aside postID=\"news_11915396\" hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7890-1020x765.jpg']Videos posted to Twitter by an account called “Parker For The People” and by independent Oakland journalist Jaime Omar Yassin show chaotic clashes between protesters and security guards at the front doors and hallway of the school. Officers who appear to be with the Oakland Police Department are also seen standing by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday morning, activists were back inside Parker Elementary, and organizers indicated at the press conference that they had no plans to change course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're here to serve our community by any means necessary,\" said parent-organizer Rochelle Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife, who came to the scene on Thursday, said she will work with fellow council members and the school board to find a solution to the Parker standoff. She called the current situation “untenable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orozco, who had a cut lip on Friday and said he was experiencing chest pain as a result of the altercation, called for accountability, saying the community deserved to know who had given the security officers their orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/saveparker510/status/1555452003240722432\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not a violent person,\" he said. \"I do call on all these high officials in the school district to investigate what happened to me yesterday and show consequences to these people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An OUSD spokesperson did not immediately respond on Friday to requests for comment about the incident and what the district planned to do next. The district’s first board of education meeting of the 2022-2023 school year is scheduled for Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED's Annelise Finney.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Organizers are calling for accountability after an attempt by district security officers to remove activists from the shuttered elementary school Thursday night turned physical.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1659825292,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":761},"headData":{"title":"Parker Elementary Activists Demand Investigation After Clash with OUSD Security | KQED","description":"Organizers are calling for accountability after an attempt by district security officers to remove activists from the shuttered elementary school Thursday night turned physical.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11921807 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11921807","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/08/05/parker-elementary-activists-demand-investigation-after-clash-with-ousd-security/","disqusTitle":"Parker Elementary Activists Demand Investigation After Clash with OUSD Security","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11921807/parker-elementary-activists-demand-investigation-after-clash-with-ousd-security","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Community organizers occupying Parker Elementary School in East Oakland demanded answers from the school district on Friday, a day after district security forces attempted to remove them from the premises in what witnesses described as a violent altercation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those involved in the Thursday evening incident was Max Orozco, an Oakland parent-organizer and school board candidate. He said Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) security officers handcuffed and detained him at the scene in what he called \"an attack.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921881\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 301px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11921881 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM-e1659744317415.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM-e1659744317415.png 778w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-4.09.06-PM-e1659744317415-160x280.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parker Liberation member and Oakland school board candidate Max Orozco, speaking at a Friday press conference, described being violently detained by OUSD security officers on Thursday evening during a confrontation at the school. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to eyewitnesses, he was held inside for nearly two hours as nearly 60 people gathered outside demanding his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker is among the 11 city schools that the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904618/oakland-moves-to-close-seven-schools-despite-fierce-community-opposition\">in February chose to permanently close or merge\u003c/a> due to budget issues. The school was officially shuttered May 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a group of parents and students who staunchly oppose the closure \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915396/we-have-power-oakland-activists-camp-out-in-school-to-stop-its-closure\">took over the building in early June\u003c/a>. Since then, members of the “Parker Liberation,” as the group calls itself, have been living inside the building and hosting a community-run summer school — part of an effort that organizers say echoes the work of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple people involved in the incident said they responded to a message on social media alerting the community that district security guards were forcefully preventing people from entering the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After officers eventually reopened the building, “the staff were just violent with community members, just pushing and punching,” said community organizer Pecolia Manigo. “There were people harmed, physically beaten today, and that was not OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really proud of our community for a quick response — that people came and saw and witnessed the violence that these OUSD event staff were executing with ... it was unnecessary,\" she added. \"And I hope that we can have a better conversation about our police-free schools, and making sure anybody that's representing and/or on the payroll of our district is not violent toward our community members.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1555379206078361600"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Parker Liberation members said more than 10 people sustained mild to moderate injuries during the confrontation and two went to the hospital for treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached on Thursday night, during the confrontation, OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki said that when security first arrived at the building in the afternoon, no one was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So, we changed the locks and set the alarm,” he said in an email. “Someone picked, cut, or otherwise broke through a lock to get back inside the building. They were removed. Now, we are doing what we can to keep several others from entering the building.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11915396","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7890-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Videos posted to Twitter by an account called “Parker For The People” and by independent Oakland journalist Jaime Omar Yassin show chaotic clashes between protesters and security guards at the front doors and hallway of the school. Officers who appear to be with the Oakland Police Department are also seen standing by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday morning, activists were back inside Parker Elementary, and organizers indicated at the press conference that they had no plans to change course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're here to serve our community by any means necessary,\" said parent-organizer Rochelle Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife, who came to the scene on Thursday, said she will work with fellow council members and the school board to find a solution to the Parker standoff. She called the current situation “untenable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orozco, who had a cut lip on Friday and said he was experiencing chest pain as a result of the altercation, called for accountability, saying the community deserved to know who had given the security officers their orders.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1555452003240722432"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"I am not a violent person,\" he said. \"I do call on all these high officials in the school district to investigate what happened to me yesterday and show consequences to these people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An OUSD spokesperson did not immediately respond on Friday to requests for comment about the incident and what the district planned to do next. 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