Oakland teachers and families’ one-day strike (photo gallery)
Oakland teachers and families picketed outside schools Thursday. According to various reports, few students attended school.
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Hundreds gathered at the Frank Ogawa Plaza outside Oakland City Hall for the one-day teachers’ strike. The “Big O,” a band of music school teachers, performed for the crowd. Photo by Monica Jensen/SF Public Press.
Joyce Baker, a music teacher in Oakland, plays drums with Oakland Unified School District music teachers, during the one-day strike at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Photo by Monica Jensen/SF Public Press.
Channon Neal de Stanton, a fifth-grade teacher at New Highland Academy, said she wants to fight for smaller class sizes. Photo by Monica Jensen/SF Public Press.
Isabella Jensen-Williams (left), 6, climbs a tree while her mother, an Oakland Unified School Distirct teacher, demonstrates in front of Oakland City Hall. Photo by Monica Jensen/SF Public Press.
Teachers, staff and families from Lake View Elementary School vie for the attention of passing cars. Photo by Monica Jensen/SF Public Press.
Wendy Dondero, a third-grade teacher at Lakeview Elementary School, said that students arrived to school, but a majority supported the one-day strike by staying off campus. Photo by Monica Jensen/SF Public Press.
Yanai Tadesse, a fourth-grader at Lakeview Elementary School, Mailick Kalako, 7, Bintu Keita, a parent of a second-grader, protested alongside teachers on Grand Avenue. Photo by Monica Jensen/SF Public Press.
About the Author
Monica Jensen, the multimedia editor at SF Public Press, is also a volunteer at the “Crosscurrents” news program on KALW Public Radio. She has been documenting a collective art project titled “Welcome to the NeighborHood” in Bayview-Hunters Point. The project has been exhibited in the Sargent Johnson Gallery in the African American Arts and Culture Complex, and will be displayed at Zeum and Art 94124. Jensen is also the winner of an honorable mention from the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism award.
