It’s been nearly three months since Oakland teachers celebrated a decisive victory at the bargaining table after district officials gave in to nearly all their demands to avoid a strike.
Yet, so far, the expensive deal is still pending, meaning salary increases and other wins for the union remain on hold, including the educators’ retroactive raises back to last July.
The reason for this delay is tangled in a complex web of questionable bookkeeping, backroom deals, school board bickering and an overall sense of chaos, according to the extensive public record of meetings, correspondence and official documents…