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.
About 70% of public school teachers in Oakland, California, voted to engage in a one-day walkout to protest unfair labor practices over school closures. A teachers' union said the Oakland Unified School District is going back on a 2019 agreement with the closures.
"The district ignored that agreement. And early this year, the majority school board hastily passed a resolution to close three schools for this year, the 2022 school year. And they have voted to close seven schools for the 2022 - 2023 school year," Keith Brown, the president of the Oakland Education Association, told ABC News.
"The District is pursuing all legal means to prevent this action from happening. We are hoping that OEA will change course, but we are also putting plans in place in case the strike occurs," Johnson-Trammell said in the letter. Protesters hold signs protesting planned school closures in the district at Prescott Elementary school in Oakland, Calif., Feb. 5, 2022.
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