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COVID-19

COVID Cases Start to Drop but ICU Cases Remain High

January 28, 2021 Momo Chang 2

What you need to know about COVID in Oakland right now. […]

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COVID-19

Oakland COVID News: Playgrounds Can Be Open, Alameda County Cases Rise

December 10, 2020 Momo Chang 1

County ICU hospitalizations increase; Teachers push back on district’s re-opening plan; playgrounds can open […]

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COVID-19

OUSD has a targeted re-opening date of January 25, 2021, with many caveats

December 2, 2020 Momo Chang 0

OUSD has submitted its re-opening plan to the county, including a targeted re-opening date for January 25, 2021 for lower grades. […]

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COVID-19

Talk of the Town: OUSD Teachers in a Distance Learning World (Part 2)

November 18, 2020 Debora Gordon 0

OUSD teachers share the challenges of distance learning, and what it would take to go back to the classroom. […]

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Education

Talk of the Town: OUSD Teachers in a Distance Learning World

November 10, 2020 Debora Gordon 2

Oakland Voices spoke with some teachers about the challenges and surprises of distance learning. […]

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COVID-19

Oakland Unified and Teachers’ Union Come to Agreement on Distance Learning

August 25, 2020 Tony Daquipa 2

“We will continue to work to improve crisis distance learning and organize to get the funding and resources for a safe school reopening. We have an opportunity to make schools better than they were pre-COVID.” – OEA President Keith Brown […]

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COVID-19

COVID-19 cases rise in Oakland’s Fruitvale

August 14, 2020 Iris Crawford 1

Amid coronavirus, teachers reach tentative deal and police say crime on the rise. […]

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Education

Oakland Activists Call For “Ed Equity or Else”

August 11, 2020 Tony Daquipa 0

Oakland Voices chats with four activists who attended the ““Ed Equity or Else” National Day of Resistance against calls from the Federal government to prematurely reopen schools. […]

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COVID-19

Educators Propose Safety Precautions As OUSD Seeks To Reopen Some Preschools Next Week

July 16, 2020 Tony Daquipa 0

OUSD needs to successfully negotiate Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with seven labor unions before school of any type can resume. […]

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COVID-19

COVID-19 in Oakland: OUSD and al fresco dining updates

July 16, 2020 Momo Chang 1

Oakland now has 3,259 positive COVID-19 cases. Alameda County is at 8,478 cases (data as of July 14), nearly doubling the number of cases from just a month ago (there were 4,390 cases on June […]

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Oakland Schools Closed and Port Shut Down To Protest Closures and Privatization 

May 1, 2022 0

On Friday, April 29, the Oakland Education Association held a one-day strike to protest the Oakland Unified School District’s lack of an engagement process prior to deciding to permanently close eight schools and truncate two […]

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