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OAKLAND — Although thousands of teachers and students returned to class Monday morning after a tumultuous seven-day strike, hundreds took one more day off to protest at a daytime meeting where the school board ended up cutting $21.75 million from Oakland Unified’s budget.

Students, teachers and supporters packed the La Escuelita Elementary School auditorium to oppose the proposed cuts to the district’s 2019-20 budget, but the school board voted 4-3 to proceed anyway. Board members Jody London, Aimee Eng, Gary Yee and Shanthi Gonzales voted for the cuts and James Harris, Jumoke Hinton-Hodge and Roseann Torres against.

“What I want to make clear to folks is that this raise that teachers ratified yesterday is dependent on the school board making the reduction to next year’s budget,” London said, drawing boos and shouts from the crowd. The night before, teachers ratified an agreement that gives them an 11 percent raise through 2021 and a one-time 3 percent bonus.

About 300 people, many of them appearing to be of high school age, attended Monday’s meeting. A group of them marched around the auditorium holding signs and chanting at the beginning of the session while others cheered.

But the majority of school board members approved the cuts anyway, which staff said are needed to make up for giving raises to about 3,000 Oakland Education Association members and to whittle away at a budget shortfall that’s otherwise expected to reach $59 million by the 2020-21 school year.

The cuts will save $11.9 million by eliminating about 90 jobs in administrative offices and $3.75 million by laying off 58 support service employees such as restorative justice facilitators and security officers. Foster youth counselors and Asian Pacific Islander Student Achievement program facilitators also face layoffs. The rest of the savings would come from renegotiating contracts, reducing operational expenses, using more grant money and slashing schools’ discretionary funds.

Most speakers objected to laying off restorative justice facilitators; others questioned whether the cuts really need to be made to pay for teachers’ raises.

Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said administrators are trying to get additional money from nonprofits or city and county programs to save some of the targeted positions. Principals also will be able to use schools’ discretionary funds to pay for the programs.

Lita Hernandez, a junior at Oakland High, said programs such as restorative justice are critical. She said her family now might put her nephew into a charter school that offers such a program, and she fears other families may do the same, which would result in a further decline of student enrollment in district schools.

“We need those programs, they’re helping students,” Hernandez said in an interview.

Hinton-Hodge and one of the district’s student school board directors, Yota Omosowho, suggested that the district require a smaller reserve fund to free up money to retain restorative justice, equity and foster youth positions, but the board majority didn’t go along.

“I don’t think it’s responsible for us, particularly given the oversight at the state and county level … to be walking down from our reserves at this time,” school board president Eng said.

While the school board grappled with the budget, most teachers and students returned to classrooms at the district’s 86 schools that had been largely empty since the strike began.

At Manzanita Elementary Unified in the Fruitvale neighborhood, parents walked their children to school under umbrellas, and students could be seen running into the campus greeting friends while some adults milled about discussing the week.

Asia Hill said her 5-year-old daughter and her friends were happy to go back to their kindergarten class.

“They’re going around asking each other, ‘Did you miss me?’ ” Hill said.

During the seven-day strike, Hill removed her daughter from class but tried to keep her occupied and learning by having her read books and fill out a workbook her teacher provided. They did take a few days for fun though, like going to the park and watching movies, Hill said.

Parent Tonya Chi said keeping her children out of school was a burden, but she did so to support teachers. Other parents she talked to who also pulled their kids out of class struggled to find child care because the “solidarity schools” at the Salvation Army and city recreation centers would often fill up quickly, she said.

Chi said she was hoping teachers would get a better deal.

“I feel like most of the teachers settled just so that those students can get back to school, because they miss their kids and their kids miss their teachers,” Chi said.

The Oakland Education Association announced Sunday that with more than 70 percent of its members casting ballots, 64 percent voted yes for a retroactive 3 percent bonus covering the 2017-18 school year and 58 approved salary raises for the 2018-19 and 2020-21 school years totaling 11 percent over the term of the contract.

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The votes took place Sunday afternoon at the Paramount Theatre.

“Words cannot express how deeply grateful I am that this strike has come to a close,” Johnson-Trammell said in a statement Monday. “I’m happy that students have returned to school today, back into the safe, supportive learning environments created by our dedicated teachers.”

Johnson-Trammell acknowledged that not all teachers voted for the agreement.

“We know that not all members were fully supportive of the contract terms. I understand the sense of urgency to fix all of our long-standing fiscal and systems issues, but the reality is that it will take a few years to stabilize the district,” she said.