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This story was first published in The Mercury News. When Pecolia Manigo’s eldest daughter lost out on a $20,000 scholarship after a breakdown over a grade dispute, Manigo heard more than one family’s frustration with a school system. She heard the harm she had spent years trying to prevent. As a co-chair of Oakland Unified…
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This story was co-published with The Oaklandside. Earlier this year, Oakland adopted a roadmap outlining steps to help minority and woman-owned businesses get a fairer share of public contracts. But for many contractors and advocates, the question is why has it taken so long? In 2008, Oakland first commissioned a study to determine whether there…
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This story was first published on EdSource. Lillian Ansari’s daughter, Atrina, endured two years of hourslong commutes from Oakland to Marin County to attend her nonpublic school. Cars provided by Oakland Unified School District shuttled Atrina, then 12, across the busy Richmond-San Rafael Bridge for round-trip school commutes that could take up to four hours.…
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The Oakland Police Department may be four months away from independence, after a federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday found it had met all the goals spelled out in 2003, when a federal monitor was assigned to oversee a cultural shift in a police force then known for discrimination and brutality. “It’s never going…
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Ali Adams dedicates much of her free time to cleaning up trash along Courtland Avenue and Redding Street in Oakland’s Maxwell Park neighborhood. She says the illegal dumping in her neighborhood reminds her of Detroit, where she grew up. “It seems that as time goes on, we’re supposed to be getting better with these things…
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