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Oakland public school enrollment fell 35% — far more than the shrinking child population
Enrollment in the public schools OUSD runs has fallen 35% since 2000, while Oakland’s school-age population fell only 23%. Meanwhile, charter schools…
Jul 23
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Oakland Report
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OUSD spent its pandemic 'inheritance'— but it won’t show the receipts
Oakland Unified received $129.9 million in final-round federal pandemic relief. How three East Bay districts handled one-time money and falling…
Jul 15
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Tarini Kakkar
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‘Oakland’s greeting card’: Fox Theater anchors Uptown economy the city is belatedly moving to protect
The landmark performance venue anchors a district of dozens of bars and restaurants, and pays over $157,000 per year into neighborhood safety and…
Jul 14
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Eric Urbach
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Oakland set to give Ray Bobbitt’s company public financing at below-market interest rate to buy the Coliseum
We compare the proposed loan to what commercial lenders charge — and estimate the below-market public financing is essentially a giveaway of roughly $45…
Jul 13
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Alex Montana
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A $9.2 million gift to fight illegal dumping made headlines. The city audit questioning its main strategy mostly didn’t.
How the San Francisco Chronicle, CBS News, KTVU, SFGate, and Oaklandside covered Crankstart’s grant for illegal dumping surveillance cameras — compared…
Jul 11
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Phoebe Vo
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland proposes closing streets to stop prostitution on ‘The Blade.’ But past barricades just moved the problem.
Oakland's July 7 hearing on closing 9th, 10th and 11th Avenues to disrupt sex trafficking arrives with no cost estimate, no baseline data, and a record…
Jul 7
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland’s new First Fridays safety plan began last month. Late-night crime still spiked.
Street closures and stepped-up city presence did appear to help reduce the unsanctioned after-hours street takeovers in front of the Fox Theater that…
Jul 3
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland police spent less per crime than other cities — and spent more per resident
Oakland’s police officers carries the heaviest and most severe caseload among 14 neighboring and comparable cities, at the lowest cost per crime.
Jul 1
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Alex Montana
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Hand-picked: the political and personal ties between mayor Barbara Lee and her Oakland "charter reform working group"
Mayor Barbara Lee’s eight-member panel consists of her transition advisers, her campaign’s institutional backers, a funder of its own process, and…
Jun 16
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Alex Montana
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Oakland city council pay raises: the charter reform provision no one is discussing
Oakland's charter reform could raise council pay up to 125%, pushing total compensation past $300,000 — yet the provision has been nearly absent from…
Jun 15
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Alex Montana
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Late-night crime spikes 44% on First Fridays. The city says it has a new plan to curb it.
Oakland’s First Fridays festivals have been followed by unsanctioned, chaotic after-hours gatherings in the streets near the official event area for…
Jun 5
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland’s charter reform process: the questions it was built not to ask
Mayor Barbara Lee’s charter reform ‘working group’ was hand-picked to diagnose Oakland’s dysfunction. But the group was set up to rule out the reforms…
Jun 2
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Alex Montana
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