Dewey Academy in Danger of Displacement: Gentrification and the Oakland Unified School District
The Gentrification of Oakland Unified School District & The Precarious Position of Dewey Academy
Gentrification is a long-standing process that targets the lower waged group to displace, dislocate, and disperse in favor of the higher income community. Gentrification has been a reality in the bay area for long. For the past few months, this reality is hitting the students’ community in the OUSD hard.
The Oakland Unified School District’s administration revealed that the gentrifying developers are targetting the Dewey academy, a public continuation high school.
It was known to the masses that the developers were planning to forge a twenty-four story condominium right in front of the Dewey academy, eclipsing it like a tower. But recent developments have put the very existence of this public institution at risk.
What entails is a close view of the reasons and the Causes why the Dewey Academy and the Admin building are under threat of displacement.
Dewey Academy: A Surplus Land?
The duty to ascertain the fate of Dewey academy was entrusted upon the ‘7-11 CONTINUE READING: Dewey Academy in Danger of Displacement: Gentrification and the Oakland Unified School District
