Oakland Teachers High Dropout Rate OAKLAND, CA (kalw) - In Oakland most kids don't make it through high school. High violence, poverty and incarceration rates are just some of the factors that pull kids in different directions. As school becomes one of the few constants in student's lives, the burden of support falls heavily on the shoulders of teachers. But that kind of commitment takes energy and time, and in the Oakland unified school district nearly a third of the teachers, themselves, drop out. © Copyright 2009, kalw