Four more years for Tony Smith?
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: The Oakland school board unanimously extended the superintendent’s contract through June 2015. The Oakland school board votes Wednesday whether to extend the current, three-year...
View ArticlePlan for Oakland schools up for approval Saturday
On Saturday, the Oakland school board is scheduled to vote on the superintendent’s five-year strategic plan — the product of 14 task forces and, according to the document, some 350 task force and...
View Article“Mutual matching” off the table in Oakland
There will be no mutual matching in OUSD this spring. Without the support it needed from the Oakland Education Association, the OUSD administration says it’s run out of time to reach an agreement with...
View ArticleFor some Oakland teachers, a job re-application
As we reported on Saturday night, teachers on Oakland’s Fremont and Castlemont campuses and at McClymonds High School have recently learned that if they want to stay at their schools they will have to...
View ArticleOUSD board considers charter school conversions tonight
UPDATE: The OUSD board voted 6-0 (board member Alice Spearman wasn’t present) to approve the charter conversions of both ASCEND and Learning Without Limits. You can find the full story here. As a...
View ArticlePosted: Oakland’s new high school teaching positions
OUSD is hiring an unspecified number of teachers (a.k.a. “teacher leaders” or “Acceleration High School: Teachers On Special Assignment”) to work an 11-month year at Castlemont, Fremont and McClymonds...
View ArticleTony Smith, on OUSD schools turning into charters
2011 file photo by Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group At a meeting with principals and other administrators before spring break, Oakland Superintendent Tony Smith apparently said he didn’t care how many of...
View ArticleUpdate: Tony Smith and AIMS
At 6 p.m. tonight, the OUSD board is expected to speak publicly for the first time about the resignation of schools superintendent Tony Smith last week. There is nothing on the agenda but the board...
View ArticleOUSD Board’s Gary Yee candidate for acting superintendent
The Oakland Board of Education will host a press conference on Monday April 22nd to announce Dr. Gary Yee as a candidate for the position of Acting Superintendent in the Oakland Unified School District...
View ArticleOUSD D4 replacement
Parents of District 4 pupils, your OUSD representative (replacing Gary Yee) will be appointed by the current board by June 12. More details from the Tuesday meeting where trustees decided on all this...
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