Voices Against Privatizing Public Education
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Approximately 30 minutes in, there is summary of cognitive studies showing cognitive harms with use of edtech apps and AI use in the classroom. Higher rates of ADHD symptoms, white matter degradation in young students, memory loss and reduction in learning skills.
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When this happens, it’s usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it’s been deleted.As a resident of Escondido, I find it appalling and quite unsurprising that the board majority would appoint a political campaign manager with no experience in education. Every other applicant was more qualified and had more knowledge and connection to the school district. One applicant is a highly qualified retired administrator who is heavily involved in local public schools and the community in general. Such appointments have been typical in our district. Local Republicans see our school board seats as a stepping stone to higher political office. The pro-charter majority continues to work to undermine the district schools and do what is best for conservative politicans and the local Christian Nationalist charter schools.
Oakland school board member denied that the teachers union paid him. It did
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By Jill Tucker,
Staff Writer
Sep 4, 2026
The Oakland Unified School District Board of Directors, at their meeting on May 14 at La Escualita Middle School in Oakland. Vancedric Williams, third from the left, could have voted on issues that were in conflict with his role with the state teachers union.
The Oakland Unified School District Board of Directors, at their meeting on May 14 at La Escualita Middle School in Oakland. Vancedric Williams, third from the left, could have voted on issues that were in conflict with his role with the state teachers union.
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An Oakland school board member has been on the payroll of the state teachers union for more than a year despite public claims to the contrary, raising renewed questions about the validity of the district’s teacher contract based on violations of California conflict-of-interest laws.
Officials in San Francisco Unified confirmed VanCedric Williams, who is a teacher in the district, has been on paid leave to work full-time as a state director for the California Teachers Association (CTA). While the local district cuts the check for his salary and benefits, the CTA reimburses the city’s school system for all those costs.
That is a common arrangement in public education to allow unionized staff to work in an official capacity for their labor unions.
Williams was on paid release last school year and is expected to continue in that capacity this year and the next two.
Yet despite Williams’s financial ties to the CTA, he declined to recuse himself from any aspect of the $105 million teachers contract, which financially and politically benefited the state labor group.
Williams participated in school board votes, closed-session meetings and public discussions about teacher pay and benefits, including a final vote for the contract on June 24.
Vancedric Williams, Oakland Unified School District board member, may have voted on issues that were in conflict with his role with the state teachers union.
Vancedric Williams, Oakland Unified School District board member, may have voted on issues that were in conflict with his role with the state teachers union.
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He did not return requests for comment on his CTA pay.
During that meeting, board member Mike Hutchinson questioned whether Williams’s paid work for the CTA was a conflict of interest.
“I do not take a paycheck from CTA. They do not pay me a salary at all,” Williams said in response. “Let’s just be clear, that’s misinformation, that’s distortion, that’s misleading folks and I’m appalled by this false information.”
The district’s lead counsel, Jenine Lindsay, said Williams’s claim was “germane” to whether there was a conflict of interest and then gave no further guidance.
District administrators also did not respond to requests for comment.
“Everyone knows that’s how paid release works,” Hutchinson said Friday after learning of San Francisco Unified’s confirmation of the pay agreement. “My understanding is for conflict of interest laws that it is on the elected official to recuse themselves.”
Hutchinson said that Williams urged the board during closed session to offer the teachers union the $105 million deal that was ultimately approved by teachers and the board.
Violations of the Political Reform Act by public officials, which include making or influencing decisions in which they have a financial interest, can result in felony criminal prosecution and civil penalties, including a lifetime ban from public office. The Fair Political Practices Commission enforces the law.
Williams, first elected to the Oakland school board in 2021, has also voted over the years on other teachers’ union agreements. His current term expires in 2029.
He was elected as a CTA director in 2022, which required him to take a leave from his teaching position in San Francisco public schools. He is one of 23 directors at the state union, a role that includes overseeing the labor organization’s policies, budget and fiscal health.
While each of the local teachers unions operate independently, their 310,000 members across California pay into the CTA’s coffers, their annual fees based on the statewide average teacher salary.
That means, the legal experts said, Williams sits on two boards that can have competing interests.
The CTA board of directors, for example, was responsible for overseeing the CTA’s “We Can’t Wait” campaign, launched in February 2025 to coordinate contract negotiations of 32 school districts, including Oakland.
The goal was to align the local teachers unions to focus on the same issues, including smaller class sizes, opposition to closures and layoffs, and better pay and benefits.
That meant Williams was both supporting the CTA’s effort to ensure coordinated wins for local unions and sitting on the other side of the bargaining table as a school board member with a fiduciary duty to serve the public and well-being of the district.
Oakland teachers achieved most of those goals in their contract.
If there was a conflict of interest in Williams’s case, he could be subject to not only the Political Reform Act, but also common law restrictions on self-dealing as well, which could be enforced through a court challenge and lead to the nullification of any applicable votes.
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