Fiscal Crisis Management & Assistance Team (FCMAT)
Community Rallies to Stop State Bill That Would Require School Closures
By Ken Epstein Local residents are scrambling to oppose a state bill that they recently found out…
Parents, Teachers Shut Down School Board Meeting, Protesting School Closures, Arrests
By Ken Epstein In ongoing protests, parents and teachers, including members of the Oakland Not for Sale…
Teachers’ Union Says School District Not Honoring Labor Agreement Reached in Strike
School closures, health care coverage, student support staff are key issues By Ken Epstein The Oakland teachers’ union,…
School Board Moves Meetings to Private Room, Excluding Public
By Ken Epstein The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), responding to ongoing parent and teacher protests against…
Post Salon Backs Call on State Officials to Investigate and Remove FCMAT
By Ken Epstein The Oakland Post Community Assembly, along with parents and teachers in the Oakland Not…
School Board Votes to Close Kaiser Elementary School
Posted in Education/Schools/Youth, Fiscal Crisis Management & Assistance Team (FCMAT), Gentrification, School closures By Ken Epstein The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD)…
Parents Push Back Against School District Plan to Close and Merge Schools
Kaiser Elementary School parents meet with school district administrator about school closing, Photo by Ken Epstein. By…
$44.4 More Million for Homeless
Posted in Economic Development, Gentrification, Homelessness, Illegal dumping, Immigrant Rights, Labor, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Politics, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice, Sanctuary City, Transportation Affordable housing, parks, illegal…
District Is Dismantling West Oakland Public Schools ‘Piece by Piece,’ Says Coach Tapscott
Ben “Coach” Tapscott By Ken Epstein The future of West Oakland Middle School (WOMS) – the only…
State Control Over the Oakland Unified School District, Neoliberalism, Austerity, School Closures and the Fiscal Crisis Management and Assistance Team (FCMAT)
Oakland’s state overseers (L to R): California Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Nick Schweizer, Trustee Chris Learned,…