Parents of Parker Elementary School students and their allies planned to assume control of the Oakland school starting Wednesday evening following the last day of classes in the Oakland Unified School District, organizers said.

Following outcries over the last three months about the district’s consolidation plan, which will affect Parker Elementary along with 10 other schools, parents and their allies planned to occupy the school starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday and reopen it Monday, May 30, as Parker Community School.

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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.