Thousands of Oakland’s students, parents and teachers have taken to the streets in the last week — and two teachers are on their eighth day of a hunger strike — protesting proposed school closures that would disproportionately affect Black students in…
Proponents of the closures point out that Oakland has a higher number of schools per student than similarly-sized districts, and many of Oakland's schools are under-enrolled, which spreads resources out across many locations. “The toll of gentrification on Oakland is really severe in terms of the number of families that have left,” Sam Davis, vice president and one of seven members of the school board, told SFGATE. “Right now, salaries in Oakland Unified are very low.
Prescott Elementary School supporters stand in unison peacefully protesting against OUSD school closures during the Oakland School Solidarity Rally and 4Peace Community Walk, on Saturday morning, Feb. 5, 2022.But opponents of the plan maintain that other budgetary mismanagement is the primary reason for the shortfall.
At a board meeting last week, the district claimed the school closures will save between $4 and $15 million, though critics point out that a round of closures in 2019. Promises to provide transportation and other support to students affected by those earlier closures fell far short of community needs, according to Williams and Oakland parents who spoke with SFGATE.
“Those closures did not give any savings whatsoever, or very negligible savings,” Williams said. “That’s what makes it so shocking that they’re pushing this without any conversation or debate.” Amir Mohamed, 8, a student at Brookfield Elementary reads aloud his own written words against school closures as his father Mokhtar helps with the microphone, at the Oakland School Solidarity Rally and 4Peace Community Walk, on Saturday morning, Feb. 5, 2022.Like many parents of kids at West Oakland’s Prescott Elementary, one of the schools slated for closure, Tiffany Climens walks her son to school every day.
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