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Dozens of parents, teachers and students gathered Wednesday at a Hayward elementary...

Most of the students, parents and union representatives at the rally decried the district’s planned closing of schools as a cost-saving measure. The district blames declining enrollment.

Students and parents are pushing back an East Bay’s school district’s plans to shut down a school that is going through severe low enrollment.

Teachers and families in the East Bay said they were blindsided by one district’s proposal to close schools. The Hayward Unified School District is looking at closing five elementary schools come next school year. The district said it’s based on declining enrollment.

California school board unanimously approves removing police from campuses Oakland has also recently ended its partnership with Oakland police. The Hayward Unified School District school board will have more discussions with the community on how to ensure the safety of students and staff on school campuses, but otherwise the district did not say what will be put in place of police. “After a national reckoning on issues of racial injustice and policing practices, we owed it to our community to...