Education/Schools/Youth
Black Students Demand School District Take Steps to Reduce Racism at Berkeley High
Posted in Berkeley, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Ferguson/Black Lives Matter, Labor, Racial profiling By Ken Epstein In the wake of a racist, violent threat and…
Oakland School District’s Catalog Promotes Charters That Exclude Special Needs Students
Posted in Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity By Ken Epstein The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) for the first time has included…
Community Objects to Privately Funded OUSD Enrollment Reform
Posted in Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Labor By Ken A. Epstein Members of the Board of Education and community activists are raising…
Berkeley NAACP Calls on BUSD to Investigate Discrimination Against Employees, Students
Berkeley High School By Ken Epstein Manour Id-Deen, president of the Berkeley NAACP, met recently with Berkeley…
Oakland Schools’ PR Chief Receives New $192,000 Contract
Posted in Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Responsive Government By Ken Epstein Isaac Kos-Read, chief of Communications and Public Affairs for…
Racism in Berkeley Schools “Has Been Tolerated for Too Long,” Say Community Leaders
Posted in Berkeley, Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Ferguson/Black Lives Matter, Responsive Government Berkeley High School students walked out of school Nov. 5 after a…
High Priced Consultant Still Earning $30,000 a Month at Oakland Unified
Posted in Education/Schools/Youth, Labor, Oakland Job Programs Buildings and Grounds Workers Fear They Will Be Replaced by Consultants By Ken A….
Racist Threat at Berkeley High School Sparks Outage, Students Walk Out
Posted in Berkeley, Education/Schools/Youth, Ferguson/Black Lives Matter, Police-Public Safety, Responsive Government, Uncategorized Berkeley High School students walked out of classes and rallied at UC…
Gentrification Threatens Oakland Churches and Artists
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Community, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Oakland Job Programs, Racial profiling, Restorative Justice Coalition of faith-based, housing and cultural groups…
Art Exhibit at Oakland’s Betti Ono Gallery Exposes Realities Migrants Experience in Detention
Posted in Arts and Culture, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Immigrant Rights Visitors to the Betti Ono gallery exhibit “Visions from the Inside”…