ACC is the platform for Student Leadership in Oakland Unified School District!
08/03/2024
Join us to support Oakland Youth Vote at the Oakland Ballers game, Saturday August 17th at 4:35PM! Secure your discounted tickets via our exclusive link and empower us with $10 from each purchase! Let’s make a difference together! tickets.oaklandballers.com/event/663511a3c34bd9ab1afc5653?underShop=669ec3b4e704ec26b5df3659
10/19/2022
What a strong day for student power!!!
We had the privilege of being with our middle school students yesterday and then heading over to our candidates forum at 💚
All 9 of our school board candidates for Districts 2, 4, and 6 showed up and answered questions about Youth Democracy/Oakland Youth Vote, School Safety, the OUSD Budget, Ethnic Studies and more!
Thank you to all the students, families, community members and candidates for joining us!
10/06/2022
How One Oakland School Is Using California's Billion-Dollar Investment in Student Mental Health | KQED California is investing billions of new dollars in trying to meet the mental health needs of K-12 students. In Oakland, Bridges Academy at Melrose found a way to leverage the money to maximize its impact.
10/06/2022
OUSD students invite you to attend our School Board Candidate Forum to ask questions and learn where the district 2, 4 and 6 candidates stand on Oakland student and family priorities. Please register to attend on our EventBrite. https://bit.ly/3Cb2Z0K.
09/23/2022
ACC’s 1st HIGH SCHOOL meeting for school year 2022-23 is a wrap! Thank you to “The Central Kitchen” for sharing the space, thank you to the student leaders who joined us, & to the adult allies that came to support. We enjoyed the scavenger hunt, taste test, & prizes!🤗🤗 As well as shoutout to these powerful queens Fabiola & Lauren who ran for Media Director! Oakland Unified School District The Link OUSD OUSD Office of Equity
07/28/2022
We are excited to start another incredible school year working in partnership with student leaders across OUSD and OUSD leaders!
Take a look at some of our returning and new Governing Board for the 2022-23 who We’re elected at the end of last school year
The All City Council (ACC) is the student government made up of young people from across the District, amplifying student voices and serving as a bridge between adult decision-makers and the student body. This week, the ACC introduced its Governing Board for the 2022-23 school year. Please help us celebrate our newly elected student leaders.
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02/09/2022
We should not be closing down schools, take action!
09/24/2021
It 👏🏽 takes👏🏾 a 👏🏼village! HUGE THANKS to our students, families, community partners, education leaders and supporters who joined us for night at the Oakland Athletics game.
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06/03/2021
In 2014, the Marcus Foster Education Institute partnered with student leaders in Oakland USD, our All City Council (ACC) Student Union, to create the Making A-G Real Multimedia Scholarship. This scholarship highlights ACC's Making A-G Real campaign to bring attention to the work students have done related to Safety and Campus Climate, Student Supports, and Quality Teaching.
We are excited to announce that our Scholarship Community Voting is now OPEN!
To publicly showcase applicant’s submissions and engage you, our community, to join in supporting our visions for “Making A-G Real”, submissions are published every year and we ask you to cast your vote for the vision and student work that speaks to you.
Making A-G Real Multimedia Scholarship — Marcus Foster Education Institute In 2014, seeking new ways to uplift the voices of Oakland youth and their visions for how systemic change for equity in education should transpire, MFEI initiated a partnership with the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) All City Council Student Union (ACC) to create the "Making A-G Real" Multim...
04/08/2021
Calling ALL OUSD students to stand up to anti-Asian violence in our communities! Share how you've been impacted by recent events, and tell us what you believe we can do to end anti-Asian violence. Prizes up to $500! DEADLINE APRIL 28TH! ousd.org/apisa for details.
STUDENTS WIN!! The Oakland Youth Vote resolution passed 8-0, making hxstory! This victory will place a ballot initiative on the November 2020 elections to EXPAND VOTING RIGHTS to 16 and 17 year olds in school board elections. On behalf of our All City Council Student Union we want to thank all who have stood with us in partnership and allyship since the start. We are overfilled with joy!
So much respect and appreciation to the youth leaders of Oakland Kids First for co-leading this campaign with our ACC leaders! Special SHOUT OUT to Oakland Youth Advisory Commission Power California J4OS: Justice for Oakland Students Coalition Cal Justice Youth Together
Aypal: Building API Community Power BAY-Peace and so many others for joining our coalition and supporting this fight!
Thank you to our school board members Roseann Torres-Caraves Jumoke Hinton for your early on support and championship on this youth-led initiative. We are looking forward to the next steps with our OUSD leaders and community to make this real!
Huge props to Council President Rebecca Kaplan for authoring OYV, Councilmembers Nikki Fortunato Bas Councilmember Loren Taylor and Councilmember Sheng Thao for co-sponsoring the resolution and the rest of the council for voting YES! Thank you for believing and standing with Oakland students!
Hella Oakland love to all the progressive organizations, the union leaders, community pillars, and youth allies who endorsed this campaign, wrote letters to the council, spoke out, and activated their networks for our young people's cause! This could not have been possible without your advocacy and solidarity!
Special appreciation to the many generations of young people, adult allys, and our ACC alumni who have organized tirelessly over the years to get us to this moment in time. So much love to our OUSD leadership teachers and OUSD educators who have supported and partnered with us since ACC’s inception!!
Finally, thank you to the powerful youth leaders who embarked on this journey last September and carried it all the way through to the WIN! You all put in hundreds of hours to learn and train other youth. You planned and organized the Student Power Voter Registration Drives to pre-register 16-17 year old to vote. You went canvassing. You planned meetings with your ACC representative student delegates, with your city council members, and your school board members. You conducted so much research and engaged your peers all along the way! Thank you for leading this movement and for modeling representative leadership, all while being a student in these times of COVID19! You are the real MVP!
You made Oakland Youth Vote real! Your dedication and commitment to educational justice is so inspiring and so needed in our city! Next step, let’s pass this in November!!
This victory is a testimony to the power of youth and the power of the community that stands with youth!