Oakland Unified School District

Building for even a few hours can give your body a much needed chance for a reset.

The Oakland Unified School District is letting parents know how it's keeping students cool this week, including water and shade breaks, adjusting outdoor activities and moving classes to cooler spaces.

North Bay firefighters are watching the hot, dry weather because fire season is far from over.

There's a ton of focus right now on El Nino and be prepared for the winter months.

And it turned out kidnapping Patty Hearst wasn't their first crime.

Early on, they set their sights on Marcus Foster, the Black superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District.

The group took issue with his alleged support of a student identification card system, which the SLA denounced as fascist.

On November 6th, 1973, as Marcus left a school board meeting, SLA members ambushed him with cyanide-laced bullets.

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Katie, before we let you go, we just have to ask, what's your day job?

I'm a pet travel agent, actually.

And here at home, some Oakland parents are on a mission to keep kids cool in the classroom.

The group Cool the Schools is trying to raise $100,000 to put portable AC units in 200 Oakland Unified classrooms.

They say this is a short-term solution, but necessary to keep students, teachers, and staff comfortable.

When we did a reading and realized that they were getting up to 87 degrees during heat waves, and that most afternoons classrooms were above 80 degrees, we said, "We can't stay.

We can't just let our kids continue to go to school like this."

Oakland Unified says it is working to address the problem long-term, and is actively making improvements at five schools.

However, there are 78 in the district, which is why parents are working to help fill that gap.

Warrior star Stephen Curry is revealing he has a progressive eye condition.

Elizabeth, talk to me.

Hi, I'm I'm calling because about the boycotting of Tillamook cheese and also a lawsuit on Oakland Unified School District.

Okay.

Are you talking about Tillamook cheese out of Wisconsin, I believe?

What is the second subject about the school district again?

Oh, yeah.

In Oakland Unified School District, there is a... a racist group that is trying to sue the district to stop them from offering tutoring and mentoring to Latino boys and Latino students with the claim that is so-called racism.

But they have a low literacy rate in OUSD and this mentoring program has been able to help them improve their academics.

We actually used the money to develop a preschool to 12th grade computer science curriculum.

In a statement, Oakland Unified said their school district also received $6 million this year, saying the funds have really supercharged our science education for our kids.

We're so excited that they continue to support us.

Around Dreamforce, law enforcement presence is evident.

Let's talk about a really interesting project that you worked on.

It was at the Oakland Unified School District.

Tell us about that school district in California and what you were trying to solve.

Yes, that's a great question.

Are they needed in the building? Are they needed back in energy storage at the BESS? Could they sell that back to the grid? to be used on the grid.

And that is the incredible power and capability of a microgrid.

Now, we just said one of them, right? Oakland Unified School District.

Think about that times what I just said.

and you're donating roughly $27 million this year to local public schools.

We're giving another $27 million to our local public schools, $18 million to our San Francisco Unified and Oakland Unified school districts to give them a little extra boost.

As our time together came to an end, I asked Mark to reflect on his success and impact.

A fourth-generation San Franciscan, born on Divisadero Street, raised in the public school system, now a tech titan.

Thank you so much.

By the way, that last speaker you heard in her piece was Oakland Unified spokesman John Sasaki.

All right, you can expect Dreamforce to impact traffic in the city.

I certainly experienced it coming in today.

I've been a professional drummer my whole life.

For 29 years, I was a music teacher in the Oakland Unified School District, where I was a union organizer for the Oakland Education Association.

Now, I'm running on CalCare, Medicare for All.

The current Democrat incumbent, Wix, has continued to block CalCare in her committee.