
Rally downtown seeks to reopen colleges forward of agenda
OAKLAND — Dozens of fogeys, scholars and academics of the Oakland Unified Faculty District accumulated Sunday at Eastshore Park to name on district officers to reopen colleges because the unfold of the fatal coronavirus pandemic continues to gradual.
It’s been just about a yr since colleges within the Bay Space’s third-largest town closed down at the beginning of the pandemic. Folks and academics — lots of whom belong to Black and brown households which have been disproportionately impacted by way of the illness’s unfold — are pissed off with the district’s slow option to reopening colleges for its over 50,000 scholars.
OAKLAND, CA – FEBRUARY 28: Group participants participate in a rally calling for the reopening of faculties on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. The gang Oakland...