public education

As climate change is becoming more prominent in our day to day lives, we see it everywhere from the newspaper to TV and pop-culture. Inherently, the topic of climate change will be brought into the classroom anywhere from primary to secondary school because of its wide public attention.

We must organize to fight against attacks on public education, not just in Oakland, but across the state and the country.

Until more disadvantaged children rub shoulders with middle-class peers, worsening segregation will exacerbate gaping disparities in learning — even in seemingly serene suburbs.

Public school curriculum is determined by state and local authorities. Each state has the power to pick and choose the information it feeds to its children.

Cast your opinions and make sure your voice is heard at the pole booth, so here is how you should vote in this year’s primary elections.

Most people value the public school system. Yet at the end of the day, there has to be more than lip service towards improving schools.

California has the fifth-largest economy in the world, yet it still falls 41st in the nation in per-pupil spending.

While it’s a pity that the state hasn’t yet prioritized grade school education, it’s on Berkeley voters to keep teachers in the district and let them do what they do best. 

The state ought to be stepping in to support public education, considering that California is home to a large segment of the country’s population.

After more than a year of contract negotiations in which the Oakland Unified School District has not met teachers’ demands, the Oakland Education Association, or OEA, announced that it would go on strike this Thursday. The OEA, which represents almost 3,000 public school teachers in the school district, supports teachers who are fighting for common good demands such as smaller class sizes, more school nurses and counselors, more funding for classroom supplies, higher wages and better work conditions for teachers. T