Oakland Unified wants voters to approve $735 million bond measure for school upgrades

Oakland Unified’s school board voted unanimously Monday night to place a $735 million construction bond measure on the November ballot to upgrade aging facilities.

The funds would go toward over 20 projects at more than a dozen schools and include such things as new classrooms, kitchens, transforming a vacant school into a new administrative building and replacing restrooms that, according to one parent, students refuse to use because they are considered “foul.”