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No one wants a strike, especially not teachers who are so tired near the end of the year and will not be paid for that time. Teachers have authorized an Unfair Labor Practices Strike, but OUSD has the power to avoid a strike by coming to the bargaining table with fair contract proposals that address teacher concerns AND support students. The best thing we can do as parents is to tell OUSD to settle this contract NOW! Email school board members, Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell and Labor Relations head J
The Oakland Unified School District (“OUSD”) Superintendent and Board of Education President introduced a series of “Budget Adjustments” in a joint letter on 2/27/2023 that they claim are needed to fund badly needed compensation increases for our educators and other union staff. The Attachment A list of “Adjustments” includes (as best as we could make sense of it) the following categories of adjustments:
While the OUSD Board had been talking about reprioritizing the budget since the beginning of the year, it was the first time that the public and perhaps some members of the board had seen some of the “Budget Adjustments” including the plan to lay off nearly a hundred of our lowest paid employees, most of whom work directly with students as special education paraprofessionals, restorative justice facilitators, case managers, early literacy tutors and a safety position created during the implementation of the