The Oakland Unified District school board early Wednesday morning voted to close or merge nearly a dozen schools over the next two years, despite community objections and even a hunger strike by two teachers not to do so.
The vote came just before 1 a.m. after eight hours of emotional public comment.
By this summer, two schools in District 6 – Parker Elementary and Community Day schools will close. By 2023, five more schools are set to close, others will merge and some K-8 schools will have their middle school grades removed. "Ya'll just declared war on the community, and I plan on leading the charge," Hutchinson said. "No way!"
At the end of the 2022-2023 school year Brookfield, Carl B. Munck, Grass Valley and Horace Mann – all elementary schools, and Fred T. Korematsu Middle School will close.
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