At ross. Yes for less. After a tumultuous school year for oakland which included a weeklong teacher strike the first day of the school next monday might be off to a rough start. Good evening. Reports from Woodland Elementary in oakland. And tells us the district is under pressure to replace about a quarter of its principles. Reporter im here at acorn Woodland Elementary in oakland. One of 20 schools and the districts whose principals have quit and gone elsewhere. The former principal here said he saw the writing on the wall. It was time to go. Any regrets . No regrets. Reporter leroy gaines used to be the principal at acorn elementary. He helped to train his peers and sat on the unions board. What he saw troubled him. Just being in those spaces gave me a clear understanding of the turmoil and only oakland but the state is in. In terms of finding and our finances and our ability to keep those in mind and stay in the black. Reporter it was a tumultuous year for the Oakland Unified School
Have negative impacts on the surrounding community. The new kpix5 news at 7 starts now with the feds kicking off a major crime crackdown in San Francisco. Good evening i am elizabeth cook. I am ken bastida. Andria borba joins us live from the tenderloin, whats going on . Reporter the dea has already taken 32 people into custody in connection with two hunter and drug families that were setting up shop in the bay area and peddling their drugs here in the tenderloin. My 23 years of Law Enforcement i havent seen this Business Model before. Reporter in hundreds of pages of charging documents, the Drug Enforcement agency says it is cracked not one but two Drug Trafficking rings run by hand or nationals based in oakland, and selling in the tenderloin. These commuter drug dealers, every load or every morning a new load would come into the east bay, packaged up. I did take bart or commute across the bridge, into the tenderloin to sell your drugs during the day and then come back to the east bay