Public invited to school budget meetings as Oakland Unified faces $4M monthly shortfall
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The district faced a similar crisis in 2003 when it descended into fiscal insolvency and was placed under state receivership for 6 years.
Education
California colleges lost millions in humanities purge. Their projects might not recover
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Terminated projects covered a wide variety of topics, from digitizing the history of Catherine the Great at the University of Southern California to the creation of a minor in human rights and border studies at San Diego State University.commentary
The Oakland Public Education Fund needs your help
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Maya Guzdar (PHS ‘18) invites Piedmonters to support OUSD by attending the Oakland Grown Student Art & Music Festival on October 25.California
Where’s the chemistry? Nation’s Report Card shows waning 8th-grade interest in science
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Science uses hands-on and experiential learning, which was hard to replicate during the years of the pandemic and remote learning.budget
OUSD’s budget worse off than once thought; cash reserve plummets as deficits deepen
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The unrestricted general fund, showing a 53% decrease from just one year ago, signals difficult choices ahead.California
Californians asked to track monarch butterfly sightings to help save declining population
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The 29th annual Western Monarch Count starts in October.Education
California changed the way it teaches science. But test scores remain low
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In 2019 only 30% of students met the standard on the state exam. Last year, the number had inched up to only 30.7%.COVID-19
Confusion as kids head back to school and RFK Jr. calls the shots on vaccines
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The country is experiencing some of the lowest childhood vaccine rates and highest levels of public health uncertainty in known memory.Bay Area
People’s Park student housing remains on schedule as UC Berkeley enrollment grows
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The project, which aims to ease the student housing crunch, will provide more than 1,100 beds for undergraduates.berkeley
UC Berkeley receives ‘hostile campus’ label over suppression of anti-genocide speech
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A 2024 CAIR-California report found that 85% of Muslim students at UC Berkeley experienced Islamophobic harassment.Education
