Upcoming Events
No Decision About Us Without Us!
Date: 10/12 Time: 5-7 pm
Join us at student-led School Board Candidate Forum for District 5
OAKLAND & BERKELEY YOUTH ARE OFFICIALLY ELIGIBLE TO VOTE!
- Oakland and Berkeley 16- and 17-year-olds now have the right to vote in school board elections!
- This achievement took four years of hard work by Oakland youth and community organizations pushing for implementation.
- Berkeley passed Measure Y1 in 2016, and Oakland passed Measure QQ in 2020, but progress was slow until recently.
- Join our mailing list to stay updated on upcoming initiatives, events, and youth-led actions!
Oakland Youth Making History: With The First Ever Youth Vote!
Check Out Our Oakland Youth Vote Mini Documentary!
This mini-documentary features youth organizers sharing how they took youth vote from a seed of an idea to a ballot measure and then a successful campaign to secure voting rights in school board elections for Oakland 16 and 17 year-olds.
Student Justice Platform
1,400 students across OUSD have identified the priority educational demands listed below. We are asking voters to support candidates who champion these core student needs.
We Demand Access to Health & Wellness
OUSD must provide resources and curriculum to support all students' mental health and physical wellness in and out of the classroom.
We Demand Community-Centered Schools
OUSD must cultivate environments rooted in student leadership, experience-based learning, and belonging to create safety for all students.
We Demand Essential Life Skills
OUSD must provide all students with the necessary skills and resources to successfully navigate life beyond school.
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UPDATES
OYV ENDORSERS
Community Organizations
Youth Organizations
Education Organizations
Individuals
OYV ENDORSERS
- Assemblymember Rob Bonta
- CA Senator Nancy Skinner
- Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf
- Roseann Torres (OUSD District 5 School Board Director)
- Aimee Eng (OUSD District 2 School Board Director)
- James Harris (OUSD District 7 School Board Director)
- Jumoke Hinton-Hodge (OUSD District 3 School Board Director)
- Keith Brown (President of OEA Oakland Education Association)
- Alameda County COPE Committee of SEIU Local 1021
- Sheila Jordan (Superintendent of Schools Emerita, Alameda County)
- Jennifer Shanoski (President, Peralta Federation of Teachers, AFT 1603)
- Angela Norman (Alameda County Board of Education)
- Amber Childress (Vice President, Alameda County Board of Education)
- Gema Quetzal (Former Student Board Member on CA State Board of Education and Former OUSD Student School Board member)
Community Organizations
ACCE; Causa Justa Just Cause; Oakland Rising; Faith In Action; Bay Rising; Wellstone Democratic Club Education Committee; Just Cities (John Jones III); Public Advocates Inc; Communities for a Better Environment; Centro Legal De La Raza; East Bay Asian Youth Center; Urban Habitat; Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice; East Bay Consortium; Allen Temple Baptist Church; APEN; EBASE; Oakland Asian Cultural Center; Oakland Trybe; Filipino Advocates for Justice; ACLU of Northern California; Afrikan Black Coalition; East Oakland Building Healthy Communities
Youth Organizations
Oakland Kids First; All City Council Student Union; Californians for Justice; AYPAL: Building API Community Power; Bay Peace; Youth Together; Power California; Oakland Youth Advisory Commission; East Oakland Youth Development Center; Youth ALIVE!; Alliance for Girls; Youth Leadership Institute; RYSE Center; Youth Uprising; Youth Speaks; Bay Area Community Resources; Generation Citizen Bay Area; 67 Sueños; 99 Rootz; Youth Leadership Council (OPD); Youth Vs Apocalypse; Mycelium Youth Network
Education Organizations
Justice for Oakland Students Coalition (J4OS); Marcus Foster Education Institute; Bay Area PLAN; Parent Voices Oakland; Educators for Democratic Schools; Parents United for Public Schools; Equity Allies; AAPI’s for Civic Empowerment Education Fund; Oakland Education Fund
Individuals
Ann Swinburn (CTA Center for Organizing and Bargaining); Staci Ross-Morrison (Principal, Oakland Technical High School); Cliff Hong (Principal, Roosevelt Middle School); LaShawn Route Chatmon (National Equity Project); Young-Whan Choi (OUSD Manager of Performance Assessments); Romeo Garcia (Leadership Consultant); Ismael Armendariz (1st Vice President of OEA); Chastity Garcia (2nd Vice President of OEA); Kampala Taiz-Rancifer and Chela Delgado (OEA Executive Board Officers); Allyssa Victory (Worker Rights Attorney); David Yusem and Heather Manchester (OUSD Restorative Justice); Kharyshi Wiginton (Culture Keepers); Wladimir Wlassowsky (Asst Director, Public Works); Sam Davis, School Board Candidate for District 1; Victor Valerio School Board Candidate District 7
