Oakland Unified School District Cuts Teachers But Keeps 'Sanctuary' Training
The educational priorities of our coastal elites
Due to an estimated $95 million budget deficit and an even larger shortfall looming in 2026, the Oakland Unified School District is cutting hundreds of jobs. Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell blames “declining enrollment, higher salaries, and sunsetting COVID relief funds, which expired last fall.”
The first hundred layoffs were announced on Friday. However, yesterday OUSD still held the first of two scheduled trainings “on our District Sanctuary protocols,” according to a message posted on ParentSquare and shared with The Distance. For no matter how bad things get for the children, there must always be resistance to immigration authorities.
The message is signed by the Office of Equity and the Office of English Language Learner and Multilingual Achievement (ELLMA). A Zoom session took place at 2 PM local time yesterday and a second will be held at the same hour on 19 March. The brave Trump #resistance fighters have been spared from the layoffs. One might even suggest that their jo…
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