A coalition is seeking to legally force the Oakland Unified School District to drop its school consolidation plan, alleging that the district failed to evaluate it based on the California Environmental Quality Act.

Justice for Oakland Students Coalition, a group seeking greater equity for low-income students of color in the district, filed a complaint May 12 in Alameda County Superior Court.

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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.