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Oakland Unified spent over $28,000 per student — more than any nearby district
Black and Hispanic students in Oakland Unified met English and Math standards at lower rates than Black and Hispanic students statewide — a gap of…
Aug 7
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Tarini Kakkar
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Oakland deserves a real contest for mayor. The job is too important to wave in.
Oakland's mayoral elections were decided by slim margins. With two days left for candidates to qualify, incumbent mayor Barbara Lee faces no major…
Aug 5
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Flashback: There’s something about Rebecca
The City of Oakland just can’t seem to quit Rebecca Kaplan. After she left elected office, the city gave her a $149,000-per-year job to work on an…
Aug 4
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland has the #1 property crime rate in America
Oakland also has the #1 violent crime rate in California — and the lowest reported rate of solved crimes of any major city in the nation.
Aug 2
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Sean S. Reinhart
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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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