Teens could vote in Oakland Unified school board elections if voters pass Measure QQ

by Keith Burbank, Bay City News October 15, 2020October 15, 2020

Teenagers 16 and 17 years old will be eligible to vote in Oakland Unified School District school board elections if Measure QQ passes in November.

Passage of the measure would allow the Oakland City Council to adopt an ordinance allowing the two groups of teens to vote for school board members.

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Keith Burbank, Bay City News

Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.

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