Congratulations to Oakland's young scholars! More than 80 percent of OSSF network schools posted achievement gains on the CST. Click here for more on the district-wide success.

Urban Promise Academy's students posted the best Geometry scores of any 8th-graders in Oakland! Read their story here!

Join the group of Oakland businesses that support our public school students. Check out OSF's "100:100" Club.

Learning Without Limits Elementary took first place in Oakland's recent chess championship. Click here to watch!

OSF has hired Dan Quigley as its new Executive Director. Read the press release here.

Elmhurst Community Prep, an OSSF network middle school, was recently profiled in the Oakland Tribune. Read the piece here!

What do Oakland middle-schoolers wish for Barack Obama's presidency? NPR visited Melrose Leadership Academy to find out. Listen here!

2009 is off to a great start! Read about what we've been up to in our winter newsletter. To find out how you can support our public schools in the new year, click here!

According to a small schools evaluation recently published by Stanford Professor of Education Linda Darling-Hammond, "New schools are...more productive than older schools...[and] become more effective and productive as they mature." Read more here!

Karen Pezzetti, a 12th-grade teacher at Youth Empowerment School, has been named Oakland's Teacher of the Year! Click here to read more.