Overview

• The Oakland Education Association (OEA) and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) reached an agreement on April 30, preventing a one-day strike planned for May 1.
• The agreement restores budget cuts critical to retaining over 120 experienced teachers and site-based substitutes at hard-to-staff schools like Castlemont, Fremont, and McClymonds.
• The union had demanded access to financial documents it claimed were withheld for over a year, which it argued were necessary to assess budget impacts on staffing and resources.
• OUSD stated that most of the union's financial information requests had been fulfilled, with only two still pending, and emphasized that its budget data is publicly available.
• This would have been the fourth teachers' strike in Oakland in six years, with the district currently facing a $70-million budget deficit and ongoing challenges in labor relations.