The district is leaning towards a hybrid learning model, with some instruction at home and some in the classroom.
Author Archives: Ashley McBride
Ashley McBride reports on education equity for The Oaklandside. She covered the 2019 Oakland Unified School District teachers’ strike as a breaking news reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. More recently, she was an education reporter for the San Antonio Express-News where she covered several local school districts, charter schools, and the community college system. McBride earned her master’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University, has held positions at the Palm Beach Post and the Poynter Institute, and is a recent Hearst Journalism Fellow.
Posted inHealth & Environment
East Bay teens on pandemics, protests, and the people in their lives
We asked eight teenagers in Oakland and Berkeley about their relationships, and how they’ve had to change.
Posted inEducation Equity
Oakland Unified School District is seeking $735 million to improve schools
Board members decided which projects to prioritize, including campus improvements and a relocation of the central office.
Posted inEducation Equity
For youth activists looking to get involved, five Oakland organizations
The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t slowed the work of these groups, which are training the next generation of leaders.
Posted inEducation Equity
School board votes to defund, disband Oakland school police
$6 million will be redirected to programs that support “Black students and all students of color.”
Posted inEducation Equity
How Oakland Unified School District got its own police force
Police have been in Oakland schools for decades, and opposition has existed for just as long.
Posted inHow We Work
Reporting on Oakland schools through an equity lens
Public education is facing a turning point in Oakland and across the country.
Posted inEducation Equity
Oakland Unified could end school police by December
The plan for what that could look like will include input from community members, school staff and the police department.
Posted inEducation Equity
A nine-year campaign to end Oakland school police may finally work
Organizers think this could be a turning point for removing police from Oakland schools. OUSD is the only Alameda County school district with its own police force.
Posted inOaklandside
Relief for East Bay artists, mapping food security, and goodbye Stork Club (for now)
News and notes from our Oakland newsletter.
Posted inEducation Equity
Oakland students may get to vote for school board members
A November ballot measure to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in school district elections would make Oakland the fifth U.S. city to lower its voting age.
Posted inEducation Equity
Summer school looms, but OUSD still struggles with its digital divide
Two weeks before the end of the school year, nearly 1,400 OUSD students still need a device at home, and about 3,400 still don’t have internet access.