“Our efforts to improve school quality have been inconsistent and not nearly ambitious enough,” Oakland school board member Shanthi Gonzales said in a public letter announcing her resig…
After months of protest and tension over a plan to close, shrink and merge 11 public schools, Oakland school board member Shanthi Gonzales announced Monday she’s resigning from the board months before her term expires.Monday, Gonzales criticized the board for not staying focused on meeting students’ academic needs and denounced the teachers’ union and allies for what she described as a resistance to improving school quality and a hostile effort to silence those with whom they disagree.
Gonzales was among the majority of the board members who approved the plan earlier this year to close and consolidate schools, citing the financial shortfall for the district stemming in large part to declining enrollment. “We need to concentrate our resources in fewer schools in order to ensure stable staffing for students,” she continued.”
She did not elaborate about which board members faced harassment, but current board President Gary Yee told this newspaper in February that he was harassed by two people while out on a walk near his home after the board vote about the school closure plan. They followed and threatened him after asking if he was indeed on the school board, Yee said then.
Yee, Gonzales’ colleague on the board and the current board president, expressed a very different sentiment. Gonzales referenced some things she’s proud of the district for achieving during her time on the board, such as increasing the graduation rate of high schoolers by more than 7% and expanding services for students new to the U.S.
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