By Ken Epstein Parents, teachers, and community members shut down the Oakland Board of Education meeting Wednesday evening to protest attempts by several members of the school board to keep a discussion of a Gaza Ceasefire resolution off the board agenda for the past five months. Hours into the meeting, protest leaders came to the
Jorge Lerma, a candidate with almost no financial backing, is in front of Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez in the race for a crucial swing seat on the politically divided, cash-strapped Oakland Unified School District board.
It is a familiar late-game push by labor organizers in the final days before the Nov. 7 election, which may shift the balance of power in the cash-strapped Oakland Unified School District to either its administrators or the teachers union.
Whoever wins would take office immediately after the election and serve out the final year in the District 5 seat, which by that point will have sat vacant for roughly eight months.
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