Oakland teachers start week 2 of strike over community issues like homelessness, mental health
Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO — Oakland teachers started their second week on strike Thursday as they push for their contract to include “common good” provisions such as using district property to help homeless students, addressing reparations for Black students, and improving school safety. There is no end in sight for the strike by 3,000 educators, counselors and other workers in the Oakland Unified School District, who say the district has failed to bargain in good faith on a new three-year contract that also makes more traditional demands like higher salaries. In California, a growing number of school districts have bargained common good demands with teacher unions, including the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest school system. Shared decision-making would keep the district accountable, Armendariz said, pointing out that in 2021 the Oakland school board voted to commit more support to all schools with over 40% Black students and allocated funds, but that the district has yet to follow through.
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