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Got Health? Laney Students and Staff Spread Awareness of Health Resources on Campus

August 5, 2024 Randi Cross

Fall semester at Laney College is just about to begin, and with COVID-19 cases still on the rise, health should be a priority for students. On-campus resources are available, but most students may not know

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Opinion: Voting for a Ceasefire Resolution means Supporting Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Students in OUSD

January 22, 2024 Yahya Cadji

Arab and Palestinian students in Oakland do not feel supported. A teacher calls for supporting a ceasefire resolution.

Some Unexpected Outcomes of the Pandemic: Katharine Davies Samway

February 25, 2022 Katharine Davies Samway

We asked our Oakland Voices alumni community members and correspondents: How has pandemic life changed your habits and your outlook? How have you navigated public spaces and health risks now that we are in a

“Health, Racial Equity, and Truck Transportation on 580 Under the Microscope”

February 23, 2022 Howard Dyckoff

How an Issue Raised by Oakland Middle Schoolers May be Sparking Changes

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School Closures Will Impact Oakland’s Most Vulnerable Students: Disproportionately Low-income, Special Education, and English Learners

February 8, 2022 Tony Daquipa

Update: On February 9, around 1 a.m., the OUSD school board passed a modified resolution that will close two schools this year: Parker K-8 and Community Day School. Brookfield Elementary, Grass Valley Elementary, Carl B.

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Oakland Students, Teachers, Community Mobilize to Oppose District Plan to Permanently Close Schools

February 2, 2022 Tony Daquipa

On a cold Monday night in the middle of a pandemic, almost two hundred members of the Manzanita Community School family and their allies gathered for a watch party on the school playground to witness

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Oakland Students Call for Strike Next Week Over School Safety

January 15, 2022 Tony Daquipa

As I struggled trying to figure out how to host a Zoom meeting for the first time, the two 10th graders whom I was trying to interview sent me a link to a meeting that

An Old Student Opines on Belonging and Otherness

December 17, 2021 Pamela Rudd

This opinion piece was first published at The Citizen, Laney College’s news outlet. In America, old people are seen as irrelevant–it doesn’t matter your race, religion or political party. We don’t count for much. With

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Kids COVID Vaccine Requirements

December 15, 2021 Momo Chang

When Oakland Students Need to be Vaccinated OUSD pushed back the deadline of vaccine requirements for children aged 12 and up to February (previously, it was January). (Children must be fully vaccinated with two shots

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OUSD Adopts COVID Vaccine Mandate, with Details to Come

September 28, 2021 Momo Chang

OUSD’s School will require students over 12 years old to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.