FILE: Teachers rally during a strike in Oakland on May 9, 2023. Following the Oakland Unified School District board's vote to approve roughly 400 layoffs on Wednesday, union members signaled a potential strike if they cannot reach a contract agreement with the district. (Isaac Ceja/Bay City News)

Teachers in Oakland are set to go on strike Thursday for one day if their union isn’t provided with certain financial documents by school administrators.

The Oakland Education Association announced Saturday that its membership had voted to allow OEA president Kampala Taiz-Rancifer to call the brief strike.

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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.