Oakland teachers remained on the picket lines Friday, keeping their hopes for a resolution with OUSD with just two weeks remaining until the last day of school.
Oakland teachers remained on the picket lines Friday, keeping their hopes for a resolution with OUSD with just two weeks left of school."There are many places where we've come to agreement, we still have a little bit of work to do, but at this moment in time, we are feeling hopeful," Carrie Anderson, an OUSD second grade teacher said.
"Having enough teachers in classrooms, keeping teachers in classrooms year after year that includes having counselors, speech pathologists, nurses - so a lot of it is around that financial piece around staffing," she said.Meanwhile, Sam Davis from the Oakland Unified School Board, is calling for an end to the strike and says there are other ways to negotiate, outside of a labor agreement.
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