At just past 8 a.m. on Monday morning, Gregory Nash called out to a group of children walking toward Oakland’s Hoover Elementary School.
“I feel amazing and nervous,” said 6-year-old Daniel Lands, a newly minted first-grader. “I just graduated from kindergarten, so I hope I make some friends.” But this year, it seemed both teachers and parents were more hopeful about the state of education in Oakland. “We’re in a staffing shortage in the field of education in general,” said Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, the superintendent of Oakland Unified. “We’ve been making contingency plans all throughout the summer anticipating that we would have some schools where we wouldn’t have a teacher present the first day.”
Hoover Elementary School students line up by class before starting the first day of instruction on Monday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Oakland, Calif. Hoover Elementary School students test out the new campus playground on the first day of instruction on Monday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Oakland, Calif.
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