Oakland public school teachers struck a tentative deal Sunday with their employer over wages and other issues core to their bargaining efforts, the teachers’ union said Monday.

The teachers said the other issues called “common good” proposals include help for unhoused students and among other things, resources for historically Black schools. Teachers defined historically Black schools as those consisting of 40 percent or more Black students.

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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.