Oakland students and teachers were glad to be back in school Tuesday to finish out the school year following the end of a seven-day teacher strike, two educators said.

After Tuesday, just seven days are left in the school year in the Oakland Unified School District, which serves about 35,000 students. District officials said Monday that the school year will not be extended because of the strike, but individual schools may adjust their calendars.

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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.