by JR Valrey, Black New World Media
Election politics in the mainstream media has been governed by the Trump vs. Trump fiasco. Biden-Kamala, while there are many other vital local battles to focus on, such as the Oakland School Board’s election in November, which will open an additional door to school. Purchase of Oakland or public education. We have contacted several applicants to express their opinion on key issues and will provide answers from those who participated in the interviews. Kristina Molina was the first candidate to respond to our interview request.
Kristina Molina’s parents fought in the human rights movement, as organized by unionized migrant agricultural staff through César Chávez and Dolores Huerta. Lately he lives in the Plains of District 7 and has 4 children in the Oakland Unified School District. Molina has worked to provide public education and fitness resources to women and youth traumatized by domestic violence. She is a candidate as an administrator of the Oakland School Board for East Oakland District 7.
JR Valrey: Can you tell us about the systemic generational racism that exists in the Oakland Unified School District? How does this work in District 7 in particular?
Kristina Molina: A coalition of education advocates and I organized a city corridor for schooling, Covid-19 and communities of colored shrines last July, where Dr. Siri Brown of Peralta Colleges spoke directly about the root cause of generational racism that also existed in schooling in the United States and in the OUSD Formula Arrangement that goes back to the days when blacks and maroons were not allowed be informed in the United States. This is the basis of the segregation seen in the formula of our school and the disparities in school resources discovered in schools, discovered in the zip codes and the demographics of the students.
After reviewing the U.S. Department of Education budget. And the budget of the Oakland Unified School District, obviously we see that even with charter schools that receive more investment than the non-charter public, there is still a resource inequality that exists in charter and non-charter audiences. D7.
It has public charter schools and there are no racially segregated public schools in Oakland that have express demographics based on zip codes, and according to the OUSD website, black and brown academics still have the suspension rate: black academics have the Array while having a lower start rate and university. Registration.
We want to put in place an early intervention plan that addresses student recidivism and educational functionality before they get a poor grade, and especially before we even think about criminalizing a student living in some of the poorest and most environmentally degraded communities in the East. Oakland.
JR Valrey: What does the maintenance of black and brown academics in the Oakland Unified School District look like? Why is this necessary?
Kristina Molina: I think racial injustice, school inequality and school segregation and curriculum are the 3 most demanding old situations OUSD has faced. The schooling formula fails our black, brown, Aboriginal and special education students because this schooling formula was created for a specific student: a student who speaks fluent English, has no other learning skills, has shelter, food and transportation, and has two parents who have a job, who have no intellectual disorders. Array that dominate English.
We will have to break this wheel and promote a new informational delight deeply rooted in social justice. We want to be informed and our ancestral bureaucracy and more productive information practices. We want to create a program that is culturally sensitive and integrates the various cultures represented in the OUSD with respect to migration.
According to a 2019 OUSD review and an examination across Alameda County, in recent years, the largest influx of migrants to Oakland has come from Guatemala and African countries that do not speak Spanish or classic African dialects that already existed in Oakland before 2017. OUSD low -ready to face even the language barrier with the mam speaking community.
We will also have to eliminate the biased evidence that is rooted in systemic racism that measures only the intelligence of selective academics. We’ll have to stay in the brain that the colored scholars are recovering from ancient post-traumatic trauma.
Not long ago, black academics were punished for not having an education, Native American academics were sent to residential schools, specialized youths were discriminated against, punished and isolated, and young brunettes were humiliated and assaulted because they spoke Spanish. in class.
Students want to be informed about their stories to perceive their current status and create the desired replacement to build healthy communities for themselves and their loved ones. We want shrines that create spaces where young people can inform themselves, heal themselves and have ‘good problems’.
JR Valrey: Why are transparency and recovery vital in managing the COVID budget of the Oakland Unified School District? Is the neighborhood in a budget crisis?
Kristina Molina: We have to have all eyes on the budget. We want to exercise parent-led school committees to discern alarm signals in their school budgets and require schools to provide parents with a comprehensive budget that is easy to meet and understand. I would like an annual audit of OUSD’s monetary statements to ensure that school administration allocates resources with set deadlines, measurable values, and strong responsibility.
A hole in the overall investment responses for 2020-2021 is the proposed solution to consolidate the tax budget and accounting in a single branch with an estimated savings of $2,116,000. This consolidation is a hot spot for fraud, a massive red flag because it eliminates the right protocol and counterweights.
However, this can be done in two ways: an independent annual audit and a review and balance sheet that is carried out through the board of directors. Due to the old and serious mismanagement, board members can no longer say that central leaders are doing their homework honestly and integrity.
Board members want to master the discernment of warning signs in the budget and start holding others accountable for mismanagement. They will also need to make sure that they apply for subsidies for everyone and that none are lost.
JR Valrey: What about the statutes that get more cash than the Oakland public?
Kristina Molina: It was devastating to see that in addition to the investment already greater than the autonomous school gets annually from local and federal governments, there were autonomous schools that got more federal pandemic aid budget than unauthorized public schools because they are considered a business. The public education formula will have to rely on school obligations for the next number one and general elections for fiscal year 2021 to obtain greater investment in addition to the additional 6% granted in COVID-19.
JR Valrey: If you are elected, how do you plan to deal with the lack of distance instructor training?
Kristina Molina: My child only interacts with the instructor less than an hour a day. If parents are expected to complete the instructor’s education as an instructor would, then I ask for a full additional refund as a para-educator for parents to stay home and help their children during COVID-19. My Crusade and I have written two petitions, a local petition to help instructor unions’ efforts to safely reopen CalOSHA-educated schools for instructors and aid staff, to deal with the public physical fitness crisis in the school system, as public fitness departments did. . expect at least 10 students to show up on the first day of school with Covid positive. Even if my children are vaccinated, we will need to be aware that there are young people suffering from physical and environmental ailments who are medically free of vaccines under state law, so having a comprehensive public fitness plan is very important during this period, and a reap recontura plan should be taken seriously before you even think about reopening schools. For homeschooling, we ask for higher pay for parents as paraeducators. The time the petition asks the federal government to pass the HEROES Act and the Child Care Act is essential to provide an additional source of income to schools and parents who need school and child care resources.
JR Valrey: If elected, how will you deal with educational disparities created through academics who did well in this year’s district?
Kristina Molina: The Alameda County Bureau of Evaluators has published its annual role for the 2020-2021 fiscal era with an increase of more than 6.69% in The overall asset valuation of Alameda County. This means that regardless of the pandemic, schools will get more investment than last year. This budget should be reversed to help the poorest academics catch up on the rest of the school year. This cannot be done without complete transparency and accountability.
JR Valrey: What are your concepts about what the district can do to parents and students who suffer from distance learning?
Kristina Molina: You can view our local and federal petitions on my online page at votekristinamolina.com in Community News, where you can point to requests for reopening, an additional source of income, and the passage of the HEROES Act and child care act is essential. We also launched the Parent Voices Oakland online tool that helps you call U.S. senators and inspire them to pass the child care law is essential.
JR Valrey: How can you say you haven’t won donations from charter schools? What does it mean to receive cash from autonomous school promoters?
Kristina Molina: I’m very proud to lead a 100 percent popular crusade – $0 and $0 corporate dollars – that puts young people ahead of earnings. It is imperative for me to take a firm stand against segregation and systemic racism.
JR Valrey: How can others you?
Kristina Molina: I’d love to hear as many people as possible. You can touch me through my complete touch data found on my online page at http://votekristinamolina.com/. You can also be informed about our assemblies that we have for all members of the network to plan to register and help us get out of voting and give District 7 the means to participate in our next early voting empowerment crusade to assist in combat. voter suppression in the deep area of Oakland.
SF Bay View Oakland Bureau Chief JR Valrey, journalist, author, filmmaker and founder of the Black New World Journalists Society, can be reached at [email protected] or on Facebook. Visit www.youtube.com/blockreporttv.