FILE: Teachers and students demonstrate outside Westlake Middle School in Oakland, Calif., on April 29, 2022. The OUSD board reversed a controversial spending cap that threatened to gut afterschool and summer programs after strong community pushback. (Keith Burbank/Bay City News)

THE OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT this week voted to reverse course on a decision to potentially gut afterschool and summer programs that roiled the school community for the past month.

The board’s decision repeals a vote from March 26 that would have capped the district’s spending on outside contractors at $125 million.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.