Parents and Oakland Unified officials are outraged after a preliminary list of school closures was released without the district's consent.
Wednesday staff at La Escuelita began distributing fliers to parents interested in having a meeting on this possible closure. Lucretia Henderson,a grandmother has had a deep connection with the school.
The school district has said it needs to slash $50 million from next year's budget. But Hutchinson insists there is no budget deficit. Then there's the issue of declining enrollment in Oakland which affects the district's budget. For example, before the schools there shut down because of the pandemic, the number of students enrolled as of March 13, 2020, was 35,904.
Sarah Goudy teaches at Rudsdale Newcomer High School which is also on the preliminary closure list. She says there should be community input.