Bonta’s bill would provide cash to help OUSD buy time to avoid school closures

by Keith Burbank, Bay City News February 14, 2022February 11, 2022

Students at Oakland Technical High School take part in a protest on Friday, Feb. 11, in response to a vote of the Oakland Unified School District Board of Education to close or merge 11 campuses. Assemblymember Mia Bonta has introduced legislation that would provide $10 million in state funding to the school district to help it avoid the closures. (Photo courtesy of @rayloviejones/Twitter)

School closures in Oakland could be avoided under a new bill being considered in the state Assembly.

Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, introduced Assembly Bill 1912, which while it doesn’t stop the closure and consolidation plan Oakland school board members voted on this past Wednesday, could pave the way for avoiding it.

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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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