A coalition of parents and teachers in the Oakland Unified School District whose goal is to keep their schools public will donate $100,000 toward that cause following a settlement with the district in an alleged police brutality case.

The case stemmed from claims of police brutality at a board meeting in October 2019, when parents and teachers showed up to protest the closure of Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary School at 25 S. Hill Court. Tempers flared during the contentious meeting and uniformed Oakland school police officers used metal barricades and their batons to push several protesters away from the stage where board members were seated. Six protesters were arrested.

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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.