Today’s stories that you shouldn’t miss:
1. Oakland schools will remain open during the one-day teacher’s strike on April 29, the Chron reports. The school district plans to staff classrooms with substitutes. The teachers’ union is holding a one-day walkout to protest the school board’s decision to unilaterally implement a contract that includes no raises. The cash-strapped district is facing another $37 million in budget cuts because of the economy and has no money available to meet the union’s demands for a 15 percent raise over three years. The Trib’s editorial page also praised the school board today for its stance against the teachers’ union, noting that raises could return the district to insolvency.
2. County prosecutors decided not to file hate crime charges against the two young black men who brutally attacked and killed a 59-year-old Asian father last Friday. The Chron reports that prosecutors said that there’s no evidence that the two assailants attacked Tiansheng Yu and his son because of their ethnicity. Prosecutors said the attackers, Lavonte Drummer and Dominic Davis, were motivated by rage and likely would have assaulted anyone who they came in contact with.
