By shifting these expenses, the consultants managed to reduce next year’s general fund deficit to around $50 million. Glaser put together a budget framework document to help parents understand the district’s predicament and engage in budget conversations. Arielle Fleisher, a parent at Crocker Highlands Elementary, helped create another analysis of the budget, a second independent effort to provide a resource for parents struggling to wrap their heads around the district’s budget woes. Teachers union seeks a 14% raiseNegotiations between the Oakland Education Association, which represents the district’s teachers, and OUSD have been at an impasse since a mediation period ended in December. The union’s student-centered budget highlights outside contracts and central office management as areas to cut in order to protect budget for schools and classrooms.