We will fight. Reporter teachers and parents are rallying together to protest millions of dollars in mid year budget cuts in a financially strapped Oakland Unified School district. Among the items set to be eliminated, money for school supplies. Our children absolutely do not deserve, our families do not deserve any dollars to come from their school sites where they are already struggling to make ends meet. Schools simply dont get enough money to support our students, to support our staff. Reporter Oakland School Officials Say they need to make 5. 6 million in cuts immediately. 15. 1 million in all this year, and another 11 million next year. To head off potential state intervention and makeup for the miss steps of a previous administration. It depends on who you ask. Depends on what youre talking about. But there have been areas certainly thaw that you could argue there was overspending in the past and thats what were trying to rectify. Reporter while the district claims twothirds cut
On where to start, faced with a sudden budget crisis. The Oakland School board is forced to make millions of dollars in cuts in the middle of the school year. Thanks for joining us. Im kristen sze in for alma dates. Im dan ashley. A special Board Meeting is starting right now. The Education Center in oakland, the story. A lot of people there, lauren. They certainly are. You can probably hear them behind me. These folks just all filed in here. They are chanting, we will not stop, chop from the top. Now they changed that chant. Well let you listen to them just a second. No cuts to schools. No cuts to schools. Reporter now, this is going to be a special meeting of the Oakland Unified School district board. They are going to discuss potential cuts, 15 million this Current School year. You can see these are parents and teachers. They are quite upset about these proposed cuts. They could impact students in the classrooms as well as many as 300 nonteacher positions could be cut. You can see t
Home addresses of Cincinnati Police officers as part of the protest. Joe webb is following the story. He follows us, with more on the allegations the group is making. This is the video posted by an anonymous verdict. They posted personal information on police officers, 52 Cincinnati Police officers, including the names of family members, phone members and addresses. Greetings word. And activist group posted a video from cell phones, claiming paul gaston was shot with his hands up, not reaching for the waistband like the video shown by Cincinnati Police the next day. The group then makes a direct threat to police. We have a message to not only the Cincinnati Police department but to every Law Enforcement officer. When you murder a human being, when you have other choices the group posted links to data jupgs that were quickly back up in the afternoon. The first name on the list, chief isaac. Police dont know if they hacked into records or information using public records. They are out th
He maintains there is a strong possibility that both men may have been drugged inside the strip club in an effort to get them to spend more money with the dancers. The only way to conclusively prove that abboud was, in fact, drugged, is my testing his blood sample from that night. That has not happened. When that happens they can make the determination. His next court date is december the 8th. Dray clark, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. New at noon, a School Van Driver in new jersey has been fired after she was caught on camera texting and speeding with at least one student on board. 16yearold ashley chase sent these videos to her mother on tuesday. The teen capturing her charter van driving up to 80 Miles Per Hour on the garden state parkway. The substitute teacher was caught on camera taking pictures of a stuffed animal as the van was speeding along. No one was hurt. Also new at noon, a collapse at a building that was under construction in queens. The project in astoria. The cl
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