OAKLAND, Calif. — Teachers in Oakland, California, will be going on a one-day strike Friday to protest school closures the district has planned for this year and next year. A teachers' union said the Oakland Unified School District is going back on a 2019 agreement with the closures.
The Oakland Education Association, a union made up of nearly 3,000 educators including teachers, counselors and social workers, said the school district and the union made an agreement to end a strike in 2019 which requires the district to engage in at least one year of community engagement and engagement with stakeholders before any school is considered for closure.
The district says this agreement did not happen, according to a letter that Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell sent to the community. According to Brown, the district currently has 85 schools. The closures will impact thousands of students, he said.The district called the strike"illegal" in the letter it sent out, saying OEA can not strike on the basis of an unfair labor charge it has brought against the school district over school closures because there has not been a final ruling on the charge.
She added,"We respect the rights to collectively bargain, protest, and disagree with District decisions. But it must be done within the bounds of the law. We have and will continue to strongly urge OEA to reconsider its illegal activity."Brown said closing schools puts a burden on families to find means for transportation to find schools outside of their neighborhoods.
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