Lazear Charter Academy, Oakland
Our school was slated to be closed by OUSD and families organized to keep the school open as a hub for interdisciplinary arts and science education for the Fruitvale community. Staff, families and students have worked hard to dream up our new school vision to ‘use quality education as a tool to dismantle systems of oppression’ by designing ‘a multidisciplinary STEAM program…to empower learners to be the change we want to see in the world’.’ This project will support our dedicated teacher leaders to overcome structural barriers of time, funding, and access to quality professional development in order to support us in making this a sustainable reality for our whole school community.
