# Oakland Unified Board of Education, District 6 Compare records and positions simply between Alexandra Williams, LeAna Powell, and 1 more for Oakland Unified Board of Education, District 6 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your area's seat on the Oakland Unified school board. They vote on district policy, the budget, and hiring the superintendent. - Jurisdiction: School District - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/ousd-board-6 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 21, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 94 out of 100 (Very strong), across 4 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Alexandra Williams** — Teacher/Program Director - **LeAna Powell** — Family Advocate/Parent - **Valarie Bachelor** — School Board Director · Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Three candidates are on the ranked-choice ballot for the District 6 seat on the Oakland Unified school board: incumbent Valarie Bachelor, the board's vice president, against LeAna Powell and Alexandra Williams. The winner holds one of seven seats governing Oakland Unified. They vote on district policy and the budget. They also hire and oversee the superintendent. Trustee areas share the city council's district lines by charter. The term is four years. The three candidates offer different theories of the job. The incumbent comes out of labor. She ran on moving power from OUSD's central office to school communities. A parent and former council staffer runs on financial transparency. A working teacher runs on measuring student outcomes. Ranked-choice voting lets you rank the field in order of preference. You do not have to pick just one name. ## Valarie Bachelor The incumbent District 6 director and the board's vice president, on the ballot as a School Board Director. Elected in 2022, she is a former labor organizer and social-justice advocate and the Oakland director for the tenant-advocacy organization ACCE. When she first ran in 2022 she named shifting power from OUSD's central office to school communities and returning district finances to local control as her priorities; the Oaklandside could not find a current campaign site for her. **Strengths:** A term on the board plus its vice presidency, and organizing experience with both labor and tenant advocacy across the district she represents. **Trade-offs:** The Oaklandside could not find a current campaign website, so her 2026 platform is less documented than her opponents'. **Keep in mind:** Her stated 2022 goal — moving power out of the central office and finances back to local control — is checkable against four years of board decisions, which is a fairer test than a fresh platform. ## LeAna Powell On the ballot as a Family Advocate/Parent. A parent, including of two children at Burckhalter Elementary where she serves on the parent-teacher organization, she previously worked as a City Council staffer and filed an ethics complaint against a former mayor. Her platform promises transparency around district finances, student safety, and support for students with disabilities (per the Oaklandside). **Strengths:** City Hall staff experience alongside school-level involvement, and a demonstrated willingness to file an ethics complaint against a sitting mayor. **Trade-offs:** No school-district governance record; her institutional experience is city government rather than education. **Keep in mind:** Willingness to challenge an administration she worked near is real evidence about temperament — a board seat rewards that differently than a staff job did. ## Alexandra Williams On the ballot as a Teacher/Program Director. She has worked in public, private and charter schools and joined AIMS Academy as a math teacher in September 2024. Her top issue is measuring student outcomes; her site says every decision should be assessed on whether it improves well-being, opportunity and outcomes for Oakland students (per the Oaklandside). **Strengths:** Current classroom teaching across public, private and charter settings, and the field's clearest single standard for judging decisions. **Trade-offs:** No governance record, and she teaches at a charter school rather than in OUSD — a distinction some Oakland voters weigh heavily. **Keep in mind:** An outcomes-first standard sounds neutral but implies choices about what gets measured and what gets cut; ask which decisions it would change. ## Financial info - **Alexandra Williams** — $11,714 raised (Small donors: $1,595; Individuals: $8,524; PACs & committees: $900; Self-funding: $100) - **LeAna Powell** — $5,303 raised (Small donors: $1,238; Individuals: $3,675; Self-funding: $100) - **Valarie Bachelor** — $9,813 raised (Small donors: $713; Individuals: $8,200; PACs & committees: $900) Separately, independent committees — not the candidate's campaign — reported $1,810 in spending supporting Valarie Bachelor: Oakland Education Association Political Action Committee (per Form 496 filings). Figures are CA Form 460 filings through 2026-06-30, per the Oakland Public Ethics Commission's e-filed transaction exports, retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Sources 1. [Oakland City Clerk — Nov 2026 Election Qualified Candidate List (final, in ballot order, with ballot designations)](https://www.oaklandca.gov/files/assets/city/v/20/city-clerk/documents/elections/nov-2026-election-qualified-candidate-list.pdf) 2. [Oakland City Clerk qualified-candidate list for November 3, 2026, as published by The Oaklandside (2026-08-10)](https://oaklandside.org/2026/08/10/election-2026-oakland-candidate-list-mayor-council-school-board/) 3. [Ballotpedia — City elections in Oakland, California (2026)](https://ballotpedia.org/City_elections_in_Oakland,_California_(2026)) 4. [Oakland Public Ethics Commission — e-filed campaign-finance transactions (NetFile)](https://netfile.com/public/coak/campaign) ## The rest of the ballot Oakland Unified Board of Education, District 6 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Oakland Unified Board of Education, District 6 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/ousd-board-6 (sources last retrieved September 21, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.