Ashley McBride

The REEL Film Program works with high schools in Oakland and across the East Bay helping students write and shoot their own short films.

Children 18 and younger can get lunches and snacks throughout the summer at community centers, libraries, recreation centers, and schools.

The small North Oakland school is hoping to stay open for its 25th year and beyond.

The Center for ArtEsteem has been working since 2012 to paint five 200-by-20-foot murals under the interstate in the Hoover-Foster neighborhood.

“A bright spot for a very complex year in democracy.” Four years after Oakland approved a measure to lower the voting age in school board

The school district is poised to pay off its 20-year-old state loan and be free of fiscal oversight, but it must make careful spending decisions to avoid another takeover.

Students built a pair of shoes from scratch during the SoleSpace Lab’s inaugural summer internship.

The Alameda County Registrar of Voters still has to finish testing the new voting software.

Curbing student cell-phone use has challenged East Bay schools. No matter the policy, teachers say the biggest issue is enforcement.

Dozens of candidates are leaping into council races while recall and anti-recall campaigns duke it out. Plus, new political groups modeled on San Francisco tech-funded networks promise to ‘structurally fix' the Town.