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"content": "\u003cp>Some of the outsized money spent on California legislative races this year came pouring through the mail slot of voter Michael Johnson’s home, arriving in the form of two or three glossy ads a day in advance of the June primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the ads weren’t from candidates. They were from interest groups that have business before the Legislature, running their own campaigns to elect a favored Assembly contender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Literally this felt like an election not between these candidates but between these special interests,” said Johnson, a former health insurance director who lives in Hollywood. “I can only imagine the kind of spending that we’re going to see now in the general election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interest groups have more at stake this year than usual, and they are spending accordingly. 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Still, races this year are critical for groups that want to tilt the politics of the Democrat-dominated Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers may stay in office for 12 years – up from six in the Assembly and eight in the Senate – under a law passed by voters in 2012. Other changes in California’s political rules over the past two decades created the open primary, in which the top two finishers advance to November regardless of party affiliation, and capped the amount of money that can be donated directly to candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Gg0GGFHTrrsu6uvcnyAT0VDb0WmiDNh0\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules combined to prompt an enormous infusion of independent money in legislative races this year, funding advertising campaigns not controlled by candidates. 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They scored a key victory in a Malibu-area Senate district where Henry Stern, a Democrat with a strong environmental record, ousted a business-backed Democrat and will face Republican Steve Fazio in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business interests supported a few Republicans in parts of the state where the GOP is strong. But by far, most of the independent spending in the primary was by business groups and education activists backing Democrats they believe will align with their interests. Altogether, oil companies, real estate agents, charter school advocates and other groups poured nearly $29 million into independent expenditures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Literally this felt like an election not between these candidates but between these special interests.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The heavy advertising caught some candidates by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You create a campaign plan and a voter outreach strategy, and then all of a sudden these things start happening that are totally outside of your control,” said Marc Berman, a Democrat running for a Palo Alto-area Assembly seat who benefited from $1.2 million in independent spending, largely by real estate and education groups. “I would open my mailbox and there would be two or three – or one day, four – pieces of mail with my face on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he was confronted by voters angry about all the mail, “the outside help definitely increased my name I.D.,” Berman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most who were helped by such spending, Berman is advancing to the general election, in which he will face another Democrat, Vicki Veenker. In eight of the 10 primary races that featured $1 million or more in independent expenditures, two Democrats advanced to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sets up expensive fights between business and labor interests. It also marks success for advocates of the open primary system, who believe business-friendly Democrats will prevail over more liberal party members in contests without a Republican on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10990238 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/3002492619_295958895a_o-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"I Voted Sticker\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/3002492619_295958895a_o.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/3002492619_295958895a_o-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jamelah E.) \u003ccite>(Jamelah E.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The open primary isn’t about putting a Democrat against a Republican. 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They scored a key victory in a Malibu-area Senate district where Henry Stern, a Democrat with a strong environmental record, ousted a business-backed Democrat and will face Republican Steve Fazio in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business interests supported a few Republicans in parts of the state where the GOP is strong. But by far, most of the independent spending in the primary was by business groups and education activists backing Democrats they believe will align with their interests. Altogether, oil companies, real estate agents, charter school advocates and other groups poured nearly $29 million into independent expenditures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Literally this felt like an election not between these candidates but between these special interests.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The heavy advertising caught some candidates by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You create a campaign plan and a voter outreach strategy, and then all of a sudden these things start happening that are totally outside of your control,” said Marc Berman, a Democrat running for a Palo Alto-area Assembly seat who benefited from $1.2 million in independent spending, largely by real estate and education groups. “I would open my mailbox and there would be two or three – or one day, four – pieces of mail with my face on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he was confronted by voters angry about all the mail, “the outside help definitely increased my name I.D.,” Berman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most who were helped by such spending, Berman is advancing to the general election, in which he will face another Democrat, Vicki Veenker. In eight of the 10 primary races that featured $1 million or more in independent expenditures, two Democrats advanced to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sets up expensive fights between business and labor interests. It also marks success for advocates of the open primary system, who believe business-friendly Democrats will prevail over more liberal party members in contests without a Republican on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10990238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10990238 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/3002492619_295958895a_o-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"I Voted Sticker\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/3002492619_295958895a_o.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/3002492619_295958895a_o-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jamelah E.) \u003ccite>(Jamelah E.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The open primary isn’t about putting a Democrat against a Republican. 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But energy businesses have “been very smart in looking at some of the internal play ... They’ve started to figure out that there is a difference between your coastal, liberal, more affluent Democrat and your inland, urban, less affluent Democrat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7rDueRlzM1234HmrASAgBg6xcg7IhLSi\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every lawmaker fits the pattern. The Legislature’s Democratic leaders are both Latinos from urban Los Angeles with strong environmental records: Senate leader Kevin de Leon, who carried the bill on petroleum use, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, who led the California League of Conservation Voters before being elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the environmental movement \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/white-men-run-big-environmental-organizations\">remains largely white\u003c/a>, creating an opening for the oil industry to court ethnic communities, said Marce Gutierrez, who heads an ocean conservation group called Azul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a historical failure of the environmental movement to engage meaningfully with Latinos and people of color, you open it up for that sort of thing to happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to bolster the Legislature’s caucus of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/rise-of-the-business-democrat/\">moderate Democrats\u003c/a>, businesses are pouring millions into advertising campaigns that are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/money-talks-candidates-listen/\">not controlled by candidates\u003c/a>. Some political committees combine oil money with funds from other interests to support an array of candidates, including white Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Chart_oil_PAC.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10975728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Chart_oil_PAC.jpg\" alt=\"Chart_oil_PAC\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Chart_oil_PAC.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Chart_oil_PAC-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One committee, the Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class, is funded entirely by oil: Chevron, Tesoro, Valero and the California Resources Corporation. The group had spent nearly $2 million as of May 31 -- with more spending likely before Tuesday’s primary -- to benefit eight candidates. Two are white Republicans; six are Latino or African-American Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative of the group declined an interview, instead emailing a statement saying it \"supports leaders who have protected California jobs and the middle class and share our commitment to policies that help businesses thrive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee has created a \u003ca href=\"http://restorethemiddleclassca.com/\">series of ads\u003c/a> aimed at working-class Californians:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One praises \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/a-pivotal-race-for-california-democrats/\">Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown\u003c/a> (D-San Bernardino) for blocking the petroleum reduction proposed by “fancy-pants politicians.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A spot supporting Democrat Cecilia Aguiar-Curry in an agricultural region shows a picnic table brimming with strawberries and grapes and says energy companies “make the clean fuels that bring our food from farm to fork.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An ad for Assemblywoman Nora Campos (D-San Jose), who is challenging an incumbent Democrat for state Senate, touts her work on maternity health care as a Latina hangs onesies on a clothesline.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Aguiar-Curry and Campos are each competing against white men campaigning on their environmental records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos declined an interview request. Her campaign consultant, Ed McGovern, sent an email decrying the “proliferation of special interest money in politics” and noting that Campos’ main opponent, Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose), is benefiting from \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2044495&amendid=1\">$500,000\u003c/a> from billionaire environmentalist \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/climate-soulmates/\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beall said oil companies are trying to oust him because he’s rebuffed their efforts to repeal California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/oil-gears-up-for-another-climate-fight/\">low-carbon fuel standard\u003c/a> that requires cleaner blends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to say no to them when they come up with something that hurts people -- like dirtier air,” Beall said. “They’re opposing me on my record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguiar-Curry, the mayor of Winters, said oil companies see that she works to understand both sides in a debate. Her main opponent, Davis mayor Dan Wolk, said the industry is against him because he has promoted renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class spent $714,000 to help elect two Democrats: Assemblymen Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield) and Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove), a Latino and African-American, respectively, from different ends of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a good investment: The pair assumed powerful posts last year as chairmen of the moderate Democratic caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters is a non-profit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policies and politics. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s not often that interest groups call out public officials by their race, but as environmentalists evaluated state lawmakers’ voting records last year, that is just what they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and Latino Democrats “must do better” to buck the interests of the petroleum industry and help the communities they represent, the California Environmental Justice Alliance wrote in its \u003ca href=\"http://caleja.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CEJA_scorecard_2015.pdf\">scorecard\u003c/a>. “We cannot sit on the sidelines as communities of color are used as a wedge for the interests of industry lobbyists,” the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We cannot sit on the sidelines as communities of color are used as a wedge for the interests of industry lobbyists.'\u003ccite>California Environmental Justice Alliance\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The report followed a bruising fight that split Democrats over a proposal to slash vehicles’ petroleum use to slow global warming. Business-friendly Democrats -- many of them African-Americans and Latinos representing economically depressed regions -- sided with the oil industry against the plan, arguing it would hurt working-class Californians by raising the price of gas. They won; the provision was stripped from legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, oil companies are pouring millions of dollars into legislative contests across the state. And the Democrats they most visibly support are black and Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intersection of environmental and ethnic politics reflects a state dominated by Democrats in which 62 percent of the population is non-white. As the Republican Party -- the traditional industry ally -- has shrunk, many business interests have shifted political spending to buoy Democrats. In some contests, all the Democratic candidates are people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil’s support for black and Latino Democrats also reflects cultural and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/us/californias-economic-split-pits-west-against-east.html?_r=0\">economic divides.\u003c/a> The economy is booming in coastal areas, where more whites live, while stagnating in \u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/state_census_data_center/census_2010/documents/Map5_RaceHispDistribution_2010.jpg\">heavily Latino\u003c/a> regions inland. Though blacks and Latinos historically aligned with the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, the economic divide has created fertile ground for industry arguments about the financial burden of some environmental policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big Oil has not been at the top of most Democrats’ friends lists,” said Roger Salazar, a Democratic political consultant. But energy businesses have “been very smart in looking at some of the internal play ... They’ve started to figure out that there is a difference between your coastal, liberal, more affluent Democrat and your inland, urban, less affluent Democrat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every lawmaker fits the pattern. The Legislature’s Democratic leaders are both Latinos from urban Los Angeles with strong environmental records: Senate leader Kevin de Leon, who carried the bill on petroleum use, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, who led the California League of Conservation Voters before being elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the environmental movement \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/white-men-run-big-environmental-organizations\">remains largely white\u003c/a>, creating an opening for the oil industry to court ethnic communities, said Marce Gutierrez, who heads an ocean conservation group called Azul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a historical failure of the environmental movement to engage meaningfully with Latinos and people of color, you open it up for that sort of thing to happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to bolster the Legislature’s caucus of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/rise-of-the-business-democrat/\">moderate Democrats\u003c/a>, businesses are pouring millions into advertising campaigns that are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/money-talks-candidates-listen/\">not controlled by candidates\u003c/a>. Some political committees combine oil money with funds from other interests to support an array of candidates, including white Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Chart_oil_PAC.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10975728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Chart_oil_PAC.jpg\" alt=\"Chart_oil_PAC\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Chart_oil_PAC.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Chart_oil_PAC-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One committee, the Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class, is funded entirely by oil: Chevron, Tesoro, Valero and the California Resources Corporation. The group had spent nearly $2 million as of May 31 -- with more spending likely before Tuesday’s primary -- to benefit eight candidates. Two are white Republicans; six are Latino or African-American Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative of the group declined an interview, instead emailing a statement saying it \"supports leaders who have protected California jobs and the middle class and share our commitment to policies that help businesses thrive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee has created a \u003ca href=\"http://restorethemiddleclassca.com/\">series of ads\u003c/a> aimed at working-class Californians:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One praises \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/a-pivotal-race-for-california-democrats/\">Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown\u003c/a> (D-San Bernardino) for blocking the petroleum reduction proposed by “fancy-pants politicians.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A spot supporting Democrat Cecilia Aguiar-Curry in an agricultural region shows a picnic table brimming with strawberries and grapes and says energy companies “make the clean fuels that bring our food from farm to fork.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An ad for Assemblywoman Nora Campos (D-San Jose), who is challenging an incumbent Democrat for state Senate, touts her work on maternity health care as a Latina hangs onesies on a clothesline.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Aguiar-Curry and Campos are each competing against white men campaigning on their environmental records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos declined an interview request. Her campaign consultant, Ed McGovern, sent an email decrying the “proliferation of special interest money in politics” and noting that Campos’ main opponent, Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose), is benefiting from \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2044495&amendid=1\">$500,000\u003c/a> from billionaire environmentalist \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/climate-soulmates/\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beall said oil companies are trying to oust him because he’s rebuffed their efforts to repeal California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/oil-gears-up-for-another-climate-fight/\">low-carbon fuel standard\u003c/a> that requires cleaner blends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to say no to them when they come up with something that hurts people -- like dirtier air,” Beall said. “They’re opposing me on my record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguiar-Curry, the mayor of Winters, said oil companies see that she works to understand both sides in a debate. Her main opponent, Davis mayor Dan Wolk, said the industry is against him because he has promoted renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class spent $714,000 to help elect two Democrats: Assemblymen Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield) and Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove), a Latino and African-American, respectively, from different ends of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a good investment: The pair assumed powerful posts last year as chairmen of the moderate Democratic caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters is a non-profit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policies and politics. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Vallejo High School teacher Lewis Brown starts his morning government class with a question of the day that takes advantage of newly assigned iPads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is the one-year anniversary of the French magazine terrorist assassination,” Brown says. “What was the name of the magazine?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seniors type on their tablets. In seconds, 17-year-old SioFilisi Anitoni answers from the back row, “Mr. Brown, Charlie Hebdo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo City Unified School District is using increased state funds to assign iPads to each of its roughly 1,000 high school students. The district, in a working-class community in Solano County, is also hoping to improve classroom learning by raising teacher salaries and spending more than $2.5 million on new computer and science labs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848965\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848965\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"Vallejo High School teacher Lewis Brown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-800x575.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-400x287.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-768x552.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-1440x1034.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-1180x848.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-960x690.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vallejo High School teacher Lewis Brown. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Up and down California, public schools are enjoying a rapid rise in state funding. With the state’s economic gains and a temporary tax increase approved by voters in 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/\">$71.6 billion education budget\u003c/a> for the next fiscal year is up more than 50 percent since 2011. Spending per student has increased more than $3,800 to a projected $14,550 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools that handed out tens of thousands of pink slips in the depths of the recession are now scrambling to find qualified teachers, a problem driven in part by low recruitment and high turnover. Teachers are receiving raises and schools are offering signing bonuses. Counselors, librarians and other support staff are being added, along with new textbooks and technology equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10848914 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-800x655.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Brown’s proposed $71.6 billion education budget for the next fiscal year is up more than 50 percent since 2011. \" width=\"800\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-800x655.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-400x328.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-768x629.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-1440x1180.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-1180x967.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-960x787.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Brown’s proposed $71.6 billion education budget for the next fiscal year is up more than 50 percent since 2011. \u003ccite>(CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The welcome lift has made up much of the hardship that schools suffered in the recession. But California still ranked 41st in the nation for per-pupil spending in 2013, the most recent year available. And looking ahead, educators see financial challenges that are significant enough that they hope to qualify a ballot measure this year to extend some temporary taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters approved temporary income and sales taxes under Proposition 30 in 2012 to generate about $8 billion per year for schools. They will phase out by the end of 2018. At the same time, a recent agreement to pay down more than $67 billion in unfunded debt for teacher pensions is expected to consume about 38 percent of the projected growth in the school budget through 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848970\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-800x966.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Navarro, a senior at Vallejo High School, uses an iPad in class.\" width=\"800\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-800x966.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-400x483.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-768x928.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-1440x1739.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-1180x1425.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-960x1160.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Navarro, a senior at Vallejo High School, uses an iPad in class. \u003ccite>( Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s if the economy stays healthy. If there is a recession, as Brown has warned, budget forecasters say schools could be forced once again to lay off teachers and cut costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are enjoying a couple of brief years of impressive recovery in school funding after many years of deep cuts, but these year-over-year gains are not sustainable over time,” said Jack O’Connell, former state superintendent for public instruction and now a partner at Capitol Advisors Group LLC, at government consulting and lobbying firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the potential cutoff of Prop. 30 tax revenues and huge growing costs of the retirement debt, schools will see most of their annual increases evaporate,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pension agreement reached by Brown and state lawmakers in 2014 is intended to eliminate the debt in 30 years. It raises pension contributions for teachers and for the state, but only slightly. Most of the obligation was given to school districts, where contributions will more than double from 8.25 percent of their payroll in 2013 to 19.1 percent in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10848920 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"If there is a recession, as Gov. Brown has warned, budget forecasters say schools could be forced once again to lay off teachers and cut costs, especially if Prop. 30 taxes aren't extended in 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-768x557.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-1440x1045.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-1180x856.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-960x697.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If there is a recession, as Gov. Brown has warned, budget forecasters say schools could be forced once again to lay off teachers and cut costs, especially if Prop. 30 taxes aren't extended in 2019. \u003ccite>(CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In other words, school districts will pay \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3305#Education\">$3.1 billion\u003c/a> more to the pension system in the 2019-20 fiscal year than they do today, while the minimum school budget guaranteed by Proposition 98 is projected to be about $8.3 billion higher in that same year, according to projections by the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the Legislature’s nonpartisan budget analyst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If California slips back into recession, the legislative analyst warned that the pension obligations could grow faster than school budgets, likely forcing districts to cut elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some also worry that California’s pension plan relies on robust returns. It assumes an annual 7.5 percent investment return in a system that has earned 7.8 percent over 20 years. If the pension system only yields 7 percent, the plan could fall \u003ca href=\"http://www.calstrs.com/report/sustaining-retirement-security-future-generations-funding-california-state-teachers\">20 percent short of the goal\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.calstrs.com/report/sustaining-retirement-security-future-generations-funding-california-state-teachers\">to eliminate the debt by 2046\u003c/a>, according to the California State Teachers’ Retirement System.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/21/Jerry-Brown-Delivers-State-of-State\" target=\"_blank\">2016 State of the State address\u003c/a>, Brown said “it is our moral obligation” to chip away at $220 billion in outstanding debt for teacher pensions as well as retiree health care and pension benefits for all state workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each year, the budget must allocate billions to slowly chip away at these obligations,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concern about funding comes as California is implementing a set of new policies to improve academic outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lagging performance of low-income, Latino and African-American students is stark. In the state’s most recent batch of standardized tests, less than one in four low-income or Latino children and less than one in five African-American children scored high enough to be considered proficient in math. About half of white students and more than two-thirds of Asian students measured as proficient on the same test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Brown, California has dramatically changed how it allocates money by giving every school a base grant, with additional funds for each student who is low income, an English learner or a foster child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan -- known as the \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/publications/local-control-funding-formula-guide\">Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)\u003c/a> -- gives considerable discretion to districts about how they spend the money. They are also not required to report their spending choices to the state, raising concern among some lawmakers about whether the money will benefit the intended students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10848988 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Emily Colon, a first grader at Bixby Elementary School in Long Beach, navigates computer coding. LCFF funds are being used to create and support a robotics/computer coding program for students as young as Kindergarten.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-800x495.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-768x475.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-1440x890.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-960x594.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Colon, a first-grader at Bixby Elementary School in Long Beach, navigates computer coding. LCFF funds are being used to create and support a robotics/computer coding program for students as young as kindergarten. \u003ccite>(Nancy Pastor/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How it will play out is the biggest question,” said Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), a former school board member and chair of the Assembly Budget Committee. “Clearly, some money will go into staff development, but it is our hope that it’ll make its way into the classroom and make a difference for our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lion’s share of increased funding has gone to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/state/CA%20thru%202013-14\">teacher and staff salaries and benefits\u003c/a>, which includes new hires and increased pay and benefits for existing staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally \u003ca href=\"http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d14/tables/dt14_211.60.asp?current=yes\">California ranks among the highest in teacher salaries\u003c/a>, and the California Department of Education reports that the average salary for teachers and some credentialed staff has grown 10.6 percent, from $66,995 in 2008 to $74,090 in 2014. In terms of keeping up with inflation, however, those salaries are just below their purchasing power in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions have been raised about how much of the school budget should be allowed for raises. Weber voiced concern last year after state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson declared that money intended for low-income students, English learners and foster children could be used for across-the-board teacher raises. His decision “makes no connection to more equitable (academic) outcomes and use of those funds for salaries,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/jun/16/weber-torlakson-local-control-funding-formula/\">Weber wrote\u003c/a> in an editorial on behalf of the Legislative Black Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School officials, including those from disadvantaged communities, say better pay is necessary in order to hire and retain qualified teachers in a state with a high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the recession, when Vallejo City Unified School District Superintendent Ramona Bishop said the district laid off and furloughed staff, starting credentialed teacher salaries were under $40,000. They are now at $46,475. The top of the scale has gone from $71,855 to $79,756.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishop says she’s proud to be able to offer $2,000 signing bonuses for math and science teachers and to log three consecutive years of pay increases for teachers in a district where nearly 20 percent of students are English learners and more than 71 percent qualify for free or reduced-priced meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848993\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848993\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-800x583.jpg\" alt=\"Students take a nutrition break at Vallejo High School on January 7, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-400x291.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-768x560.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-1440x1049.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-1180x860.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-960x700.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students take a nutrition break at Vallejo High School on January 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Unified School District, a more affluent community that has received limited state increases, chose to use all of its additional funding to provide its 891 teachers a raise. Andrew Lucia, the assistant superintendent for human resources, said after going without salary increases for seven years, the school board approved a 3 percent salary increase in 2013, followed by an 8 percent boost in 2014. There were bonus checks and insurance benefits as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the recent budget increases, however, some school districts say they are still facing difficult financial choices. And in some districts, concern about a possible recession and other financial challenges ahead caused educators to use at least some of their recent increases on one-time expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is warning that a downturn is inevitable. To drive home his point, he displayed a chart at his budget press conference in January projecting a $43 billion deficit if the state committed to new spending before a recession. If the state enters a recession, the Legislative Analyst’s Office projects school funding will fall by \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3305\">$4.6 billion in 2017 and not recover to current levels until 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re being very conservative,” says Long Beach Unified School District Assistant Superintendent Jill Baker. “A lot of it is coming in with one-time funds so we’re thinking about things we couldn’t do before, but not for ongoing expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, she said the district is using increased funds to add a training center. The district is also spending $6 million to convert 14 year-round schools back to a traditional schedule to offset the district’s declining enrollment, the primary way schools get funding. The district has lost more than 15,000 students in the past decade. It’s now down to 77,400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Class sizes haven’t been reduced dramatically. During the recession, Long Beach raised class sizes in kindergarten through third grade to 30-to-1 from 20-to-1. Baker says the ratio is down only to about 26-to-1. Instead, the district invested in updating curriculum, like a computer coding program for students as young as kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Sacramento suburb, Folsom Cordova Unified School District Superintendent Deborah Bettencourt said the district added licensed family therapists to help middle and high school students struggling with bullying or to cope with chaos at home. Bettencourt says she has no plans to resume daily classroom cleaning by janitors because it’s not as high a priority as improving technology or providing academic support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848996\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10848996 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-800x486.jpg\" alt=\"Dylan Williams, a first grader at Bixby Elementary in Long Beach, navigates computer coding with mindstorm lego robotics in his school computer lab.\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-800x486.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-400x243.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-768x467.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-1440x875.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-1180x717.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-960x584.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dylan Williams, a first-grader at Bixby Elementary in Long Beach, navigates computer coding with Lego Mindstorms robotics in his school computer lab. \u003ccite>(Nancy Pastor/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified School District, home to more than 10 percent of the state’s 6.2 million kindergarten through high school students, continues to face structural imbalances despite increased state funding. According to a November \u003ca href=\"http://laschoolreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/LAUSD_IFRP_FINAL_REPORT-110215.pdf\">independent financial report\u003c/a>, the mammoth district is facing declining student enrollment and a long-term deficit that could force the system into bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If voters don’t approve an extension of the temporary taxes on this year’s ballot, John Walsh, the district’s chief financial officer, said Los Angeles will see “a significant hit to the bottom line, no doubt about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Teachers Association, the California Federation of Teachers and the California State PTA -- as well as other public employee unions, hospitals and doctors -- are pushing an \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0065%20%28Temporary%20Taxes%29.pdf?\">initiative\u003c/a> to stop the scheduled expiration of temporary taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups will need to turn in at least 585,000 valid signatures by June 30 to qualify a version of the measure for the November ballot. The proposed measure would extend higher income taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year through 2030. It would let a quarter-cent sales tax in Proposition 30 expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The (economic) crisis going on in China and ripple effect worldwide suggest there is a degree of volatility in the economy we have to consider,” said Joshua Pechthalt, president of the California Federation of Teachers. “What we’re asking is people at the top end of the economic spectrum pay a little bit more. There hasn’t been an exodus of people living in Malibu and Beverly Hills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the tax extension and the economy, the legislative analyst says about $12 billion in annual funding is at stake for schools by 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the tax extension, Brown’s proposal for a $71.6 billion budget next year will still grow to about $77.5 billion in 2019. In addition to that annual budget, Proposition 98’s complex funding formula is designed to capture an added benefit for schools during an extended strong economy. So if the economy continues as it is, the state would owe another \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3305\">$6.3 million to schools by 2019\u003c/a> that could be paid over several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2015/150492.pdf\">If voters approve the tax extension\u003c/a>, the budget analyst estimates the school funding would grow between $2.5 billion and $5.5 billion, meaning state school funding would be between $80 billion and $83 billion in 2019. Without a tax extension and with a recession, the budget in 2019 is projected to be about $71 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opposition to the tax extension is still developing. Republicans and anti-tax groups have already voiced concern, saying Proposition 30 was intended to help during a fiscal emergency. Now that schools have enjoyed a recovery, they say, temporary taxes should be allowed to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Brown, a Democrat, has signaled he isn’t keen on extending taxes. “We ought to look at what’s the capacity of the state, and what’s the willingness of taxpayers to pay more,” Brown said at his January budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_1215MBS.pdf\">An opinion poll\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California in December found 54 percent of likely voters favor an extension of the taxes, but just 37 percent said they think it is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ballot measure to extend taxes could benefit from the higher voter turnout in a presidential year. But it is always tough to pass a tax increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guadalupe Aragon, the mother of a fifth-grader at the underperforming 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Street Elementary School in Los Angeles, said she doesn’t think she’d vote for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is not bringing any more money,” she said. “To a person, the more money you have, the more money you’re going to spend. Are you spending it wisely? That’s the question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a nonprofit journalism venture dedicated to explaining state policies and politics. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Vallejo High School teacher Lewis Brown starts his morning government class with a question of the day that takes advantage of newly assigned iPads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is the one-year anniversary of the French magazine terrorist assassination,” Brown says. “What was the name of the magazine?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seniors type on their tablets. In seconds, 17-year-old SioFilisi Anitoni answers from the back row, “Mr. Brown, Charlie Hebdo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo City Unified School District is using increased state funds to assign iPads to each of its roughly 1,000 high school students. The district, in a working-class community in Solano County, is also hoping to improve classroom learning by raising teacher salaries and spending more than $2.5 million on new computer and science labs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848965\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848965\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"Vallejo High School teacher Lewis Brown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-800x575.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-400x287.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-768x552.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-1440x1034.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-1180x848.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/LewisBrown-960x690.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vallejo High School teacher Lewis Brown. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Up and down California, public schools are enjoying a rapid rise in state funding. With the state’s economic gains and a temporary tax increase approved by voters in 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/\">$71.6 billion education budget\u003c/a> for the next fiscal year is up more than 50 percent since 2011. Spending per student has increased more than $3,800 to a projected $14,550 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools that handed out tens of thousands of pink slips in the depths of the recession are now scrambling to find qualified teachers, a problem driven in part by low recruitment and high turnover. Teachers are receiving raises and schools are offering signing bonuses. Counselors, librarians and other support staff are being added, along with new textbooks and technology equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10848914 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-800x655.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Brown’s proposed $71.6 billion education budget for the next fiscal year is up more than 50 percent since 2011. \" width=\"800\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-800x655.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-400x328.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-768x629.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-1440x1180.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-1180x967.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SchoolSpendingGraph-960x787.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Brown’s proposed $71.6 billion education budget for the next fiscal year is up more than 50 percent since 2011. \u003ccite>(CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The welcome lift has made up much of the hardship that schools suffered in the recession. But California still ranked 41st in the nation for per-pupil spending in 2013, the most recent year available. And looking ahead, educators see financial challenges that are significant enough that they hope to qualify a ballot measure this year to extend some temporary taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters approved temporary income and sales taxes under Proposition 30 in 2012 to generate about $8 billion per year for schools. They will phase out by the end of 2018. At the same time, a recent agreement to pay down more than $67 billion in unfunded debt for teacher pensions is expected to consume about 38 percent of the projected growth in the school budget through 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848970\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-800x966.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Navarro, a senior at Vallejo High School, uses an iPad in class.\" width=\"800\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-800x966.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-400x483.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-768x928.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-1440x1739.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-1180x1425.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ipadDesk-960x1160.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Navarro, a senior at Vallejo High School, uses an iPad in class. \u003ccite>( Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s if the economy stays healthy. If there is a recession, as Brown has warned, budget forecasters say schools could be forced once again to lay off teachers and cut costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are enjoying a couple of brief years of impressive recovery in school funding after many years of deep cuts, but these year-over-year gains are not sustainable over time,” said Jack O’Connell, former state superintendent for public instruction and now a partner at Capitol Advisors Group LLC, at government consulting and lobbying firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the potential cutoff of Prop. 30 tax revenues and huge growing costs of the retirement debt, schools will see most of their annual increases evaporate,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pension agreement reached by Brown and state lawmakers in 2014 is intended to eliminate the debt in 30 years. It raises pension contributions for teachers and for the state, but only slightly. Most of the obligation was given to school districts, where contributions will more than double from 8.25 percent of their payroll in 2013 to 19.1 percent in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10848920 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"If there is a recession, as Gov. Brown has warned, budget forecasters say schools could be forced once again to lay off teachers and cut costs, especially if Prop. 30 taxes aren't extended in 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-768x557.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-1440x1045.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-1180x856.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/EconomySpending-960x697.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If there is a recession, as Gov. Brown has warned, budget forecasters say schools could be forced once again to lay off teachers and cut costs, especially if Prop. 30 taxes aren't extended in 2019. \u003ccite>(CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In other words, school districts will pay \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3305#Education\">$3.1 billion\u003c/a> more to the pension system in the 2019-20 fiscal year than they do today, while the minimum school budget guaranteed by Proposition 98 is projected to be about $8.3 billion higher in that same year, according to projections by the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the Legislature’s nonpartisan budget analyst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If California slips back into recession, the legislative analyst warned that the pension obligations could grow faster than school budgets, likely forcing districts to cut elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some also worry that California’s pension plan relies on robust returns. It assumes an annual 7.5 percent investment return in a system that has earned 7.8 percent over 20 years. If the pension system only yields 7 percent, the plan could fall \u003ca href=\"http://www.calstrs.com/report/sustaining-retirement-security-future-generations-funding-california-state-teachers\">20 percent short of the goal\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.calstrs.com/report/sustaining-retirement-security-future-generations-funding-california-state-teachers\">to eliminate the debt by 2046\u003c/a>, according to the California State Teachers’ Retirement System.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/21/Jerry-Brown-Delivers-State-of-State\" target=\"_blank\">2016 State of the State address\u003c/a>, Brown said “it is our moral obligation” to chip away at $220 billion in outstanding debt for teacher pensions as well as retiree health care and pension benefits for all state workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each year, the budget must allocate billions to slowly chip away at these obligations,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concern about funding comes as California is implementing a set of new policies to improve academic outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lagging performance of low-income, Latino and African-American students is stark. In the state’s most recent batch of standardized tests, less than one in four low-income or Latino children and less than one in five African-American children scored high enough to be considered proficient in math. About half of white students and more than two-thirds of Asian students measured as proficient on the same test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Brown, California has dramatically changed how it allocates money by giving every school a base grant, with additional funds for each student who is low income, an English learner or a foster child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan -- known as the \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/publications/local-control-funding-formula-guide\">Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)\u003c/a> -- gives considerable discretion to districts about how they spend the money. They are also not required to report their spending choices to the state, raising concern among some lawmakers about whether the money will benefit the intended students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10848988 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Emily Colon, a first grader at Bixby Elementary School in Long Beach, navigates computer coding. LCFF funds are being used to create and support a robotics/computer coding program for students as young as Kindergarten.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-800x495.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-768x475.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-1440x890.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GirlsHeadphones-960x594.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Colon, a first-grader at Bixby Elementary School in Long Beach, navigates computer coding. LCFF funds are being used to create and support a robotics/computer coding program for students as young as kindergarten. \u003ccite>(Nancy Pastor/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How it will play out is the biggest question,” said Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), a former school board member and chair of the Assembly Budget Committee. “Clearly, some money will go into staff development, but it is our hope that it’ll make its way into the classroom and make a difference for our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lion’s share of increased funding has gone to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/state/CA%20thru%202013-14\">teacher and staff salaries and benefits\u003c/a>, which includes new hires and increased pay and benefits for existing staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally \u003ca href=\"http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d14/tables/dt14_211.60.asp?current=yes\">California ranks among the highest in teacher salaries\u003c/a>, and the California Department of Education reports that the average salary for teachers and some credentialed staff has grown 10.6 percent, from $66,995 in 2008 to $74,090 in 2014. In terms of keeping up with inflation, however, those salaries are just below their purchasing power in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions have been raised about how much of the school budget should be allowed for raises. Weber voiced concern last year after state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson declared that money intended for low-income students, English learners and foster children could be used for across-the-board teacher raises. His decision “makes no connection to more equitable (academic) outcomes and use of those funds for salaries,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/jun/16/weber-torlakson-local-control-funding-formula/\">Weber wrote\u003c/a> in an editorial on behalf of the Legislative Black Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School officials, including those from disadvantaged communities, say better pay is necessary in order to hire and retain qualified teachers in a state with a high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the recession, when Vallejo City Unified School District Superintendent Ramona Bishop said the district laid off and furloughed staff, starting credentialed teacher salaries were under $40,000. They are now at $46,475. The top of the scale has gone from $71,855 to $79,756.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishop says she’s proud to be able to offer $2,000 signing bonuses for math and science teachers and to log three consecutive years of pay increases for teachers in a district where nearly 20 percent of students are English learners and more than 71 percent qualify for free or reduced-priced meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848993\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848993\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-800x583.jpg\" alt=\"Students take a nutrition break at Vallejo High School on January 7, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-400x291.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-768x560.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-1440x1049.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-1180x860.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/VallejoStudents-960x700.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students take a nutrition break at Vallejo High School on January 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Unified School District, a more affluent community that has received limited state increases, chose to use all of its additional funding to provide its 891 teachers a raise. Andrew Lucia, the assistant superintendent for human resources, said after going without salary increases for seven years, the school board approved a 3 percent salary increase in 2013, followed by an 8 percent boost in 2014. There were bonus checks and insurance benefits as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the recent budget increases, however, some school districts say they are still facing difficult financial choices. And in some districts, concern about a possible recession and other financial challenges ahead caused educators to use at least some of their recent increases on one-time expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is warning that a downturn is inevitable. To drive home his point, he displayed a chart at his budget press conference in January projecting a $43 billion deficit if the state committed to new spending before a recession. If the state enters a recession, the Legislative Analyst’s Office projects school funding will fall by \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3305\">$4.6 billion in 2017 and not recover to current levels until 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re being very conservative,” says Long Beach Unified School District Assistant Superintendent Jill Baker. “A lot of it is coming in with one-time funds so we’re thinking about things we couldn’t do before, but not for ongoing expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, she said the district is using increased funds to add a training center. The district is also spending $6 million to convert 14 year-round schools back to a traditional schedule to offset the district’s declining enrollment, the primary way schools get funding. The district has lost more than 15,000 students in the past decade. It’s now down to 77,400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Class sizes haven’t been reduced dramatically. During the recession, Long Beach raised class sizes in kindergarten through third grade to 30-to-1 from 20-to-1. Baker says the ratio is down only to about 26-to-1. Instead, the district invested in updating curriculum, like a computer coding program for students as young as kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Sacramento suburb, Folsom Cordova Unified School District Superintendent Deborah Bettencourt said the district added licensed family therapists to help middle and high school students struggling with bullying or to cope with chaos at home. Bettencourt says she has no plans to resume daily classroom cleaning by janitors because it’s not as high a priority as improving technology or providing academic support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848996\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10848996 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-800x486.jpg\" alt=\"Dylan Williams, a first grader at Bixby Elementary in Long Beach, navigates computer coding with mindstorm lego robotics in his school computer lab.\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-800x486.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-400x243.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-768x467.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-1440x875.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-1180x717.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CodingKid-960x584.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dylan Williams, a first-grader at Bixby Elementary in Long Beach, navigates computer coding with Lego Mindstorms robotics in his school computer lab. \u003ccite>(Nancy Pastor/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified School District, home to more than 10 percent of the state’s 6.2 million kindergarten through high school students, continues to face structural imbalances despite increased state funding. According to a November \u003ca href=\"http://laschoolreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/LAUSD_IFRP_FINAL_REPORT-110215.pdf\">independent financial report\u003c/a>, the mammoth district is facing declining student enrollment and a long-term deficit that could force the system into bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If voters don’t approve an extension of the temporary taxes on this year’s ballot, John Walsh, the district’s chief financial officer, said Los Angeles will see “a significant hit to the bottom line, no doubt about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Teachers Association, the California Federation of Teachers and the California State PTA -- as well as other public employee unions, hospitals and doctors -- are pushing an \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0065%20%28Temporary%20Taxes%29.pdf?\">initiative\u003c/a> to stop the scheduled expiration of temporary taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups will need to turn in at least 585,000 valid signatures by June 30 to qualify a version of the measure for the November ballot. The proposed measure would extend higher income taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year through 2030. It would let a quarter-cent sales tax in Proposition 30 expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The (economic) crisis going on in China and ripple effect worldwide suggest there is a degree of volatility in the economy we have to consider,” said Joshua Pechthalt, president of the California Federation of Teachers. “What we’re asking is people at the top end of the economic spectrum pay a little bit more. There hasn’t been an exodus of people living in Malibu and Beverly Hills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the tax extension and the economy, the legislative analyst says about $12 billion in annual funding is at stake for schools by 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the tax extension, Brown’s proposal for a $71.6 billion budget next year will still grow to about $77.5 billion in 2019. In addition to that annual budget, Proposition 98’s complex funding formula is designed to capture an added benefit for schools during an extended strong economy. So if the economy continues as it is, the state would owe another \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3305\">$6.3 million to schools by 2019\u003c/a> that could be paid over several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2015/150492.pdf\">If voters approve the tax extension\u003c/a>, the budget analyst estimates the school funding would grow between $2.5 billion and $5.5 billion, meaning state school funding would be between $80 billion and $83 billion in 2019. Without a tax extension and with a recession, the budget in 2019 is projected to be about $71 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opposition to the tax extension is still developing. Republicans and anti-tax groups have already voiced concern, saying Proposition 30 was intended to help during a fiscal emergency. Now that schools have enjoyed a recovery, they say, temporary taxes should be allowed to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Brown, a Democrat, has signaled he isn’t keen on extending taxes. “We ought to look at what’s the capacity of the state, and what’s the willingness of taxpayers to pay more,” Brown said at his January budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_1215MBS.pdf\">An opinion poll\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California in December found 54 percent of likely voters favor an extension of the taxes, but just 37 percent said they think it is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ballot measure to extend taxes could benefit from the higher voter turnout in a presidential year. But it is always tough to pass a tax increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guadalupe Aragon, the mother of a fifth-grader at the underperforming 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Street Elementary School in Los Angeles, said she doesn’t think she’d vote for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is not bringing any more money,” she said. “To a person, the more money you have, the more money you’re going to spend. Are you spending it wisely? That’s the question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After Los Angeles passed an ordinance this summer to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, Richard LoGuercio spent the following weekend driving around a nearby city, looking for warehouses to move his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am just screwed,” said LoGuercio, owner and president of Town and Country Event Rentals in Van Nuys, which employs 450 people, more than half of whom earn between $10 to $13 an hour. Moving his shop to another county could help him escape the mandated wage increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Labor has kind of become our enemy, because it’s just so high,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the minimum wage goes up to $15 an hour, LoGuercio estimates his labor costs will increase by 62 percent. He says he fears his labor costs may rise even further because his more experienced workers will need to be paid more than a new employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in favor of (raising) the minimum wage, but not so much and not so fast,” said LoGuercio, who says he’s weighing his options for cutting labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wherever technology can help, that’s where we’re looking into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the minimum wage ordinance was approved, LoGuercio invested in a $150,000 industrial dishwasher he had been eyeing to save on utility costs. The machine will also allow him to stop paying six to eight people who earn $10 to $11 an hour washing dishes. LoGuercio expects to recoup his costs in nine months, and save a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a start,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Employers: Minimum Wage Increases Will Put More Machines in the Workplace\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employer groups opposed to raising the minimum wage say labor costs are already driving decisions to replace human labor with technology. 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Not so for a strawberry or melons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said if there were a statewide $15 minimum wage, farming would likely become more mechanized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d see more interest in developing commodities that can be machine harvested, or (growers) changing to commodities that lend themselves to machine harvesting,” Little said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When Automation Happens, It May Not Be So Bad\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent economic research suggests that job loss does occur following minimum wage increases, but the losses are evened out by other job gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago-area economists who analyzed employment data between 1999 and 2009 found for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, low-wage jobs that involve routine cognitive tasks -– such as cashiers -- declined 1.5 percent a year or two after the hike. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wherever technology can help, that’s where we’re looking into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the minimum wage ordinance was approved, LoGuercio invested in a $150,000 industrial dishwasher he had been eyeing to save on utility costs. The machine will also allow him to stop paying six to eight people who earn $10 to $11 an hour washing dishes. LoGuercio expects to recoup his costs in nine months, and save a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a start,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Employers: Minimum Wage Increases Will Put More Machines in the Workplace\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employer groups opposed to raising the minimum wage say labor costs are already driving decisions to replace human labor with technology. They say higher minimum wages will accelerate automation trends in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But economists say even when jobs are replaced by technology, overall employment may not suffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machines are already doing what humans had done for decades in supermarkets and some restaurants; shoppers can pay using self-checkout kiosks, and diners at Chili’s can order baby back ribs on a tabletop tablet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Restaurant Association says self-ordering could become more common if the minimum wage is increased to $15 statewide, a scenario proposed in competing initiatives currently trying to qualify for the 2016 November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10795510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10795510\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto.jpg\" alt=\"Jot Condie, president of the California Restaurant Association, picks up his lunch at an automated restaurant in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1272\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-768x509.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-1440x954.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jot Condie, president of the California Restaurant Association, picks up his lunch at an automated restaurant in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beatrice Katcher/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you’re talking about a 60 percent increase in the minimum wage over a short period of time, that absolutely is a game changer,” said Jot Condie, chief executive and president of the restaurant association. “They’re all planning” on ways to cut costs, including buying pre-chopped ingredients, sourcing food from international sources instead of local farmers, or hiring more discriminately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they haven’t adopted technology, they are absolutely looking at technology as an option, a way to cut costs,” Condie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiosks and tablets are most likely to be seen in fast-food restaurants -- but that’s not just because of labor costs, Condie said. Technology helps deliver food more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farmers May Grow What Can Be Mechanized\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to agriculture, the California Farm Bureau Federation says it’s like any other industry that employs large numbers of low-skilled workers. Growers look for “every opportunity” to cut labor costs, and technology is part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan Little, director of employment policy at the farm bureau, said for the past 25 years more and more agricultural products -– including tomatoes, raisins and nuts -– are being harvested by machine. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lydia Flores saves gas money by taking a two-hour train ride to and from her cashier job at a Los Angeles supermarket. She tells her teenage sons about another way the family can save on the cost of eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eat it slow,” she tells them. “They gotta savor their eggs now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To stretch her dollars, Flores gets some food from churches. Her sons wear their uncle’s hand-me-downs. A couple of times a year, she’ll ask a local nonprofit to help pay a utility bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You pay one bill and leave the other. And then, you’ll get the disconnection notice, and then you pay that bill, and then leave another bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235587324\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earning $12.88 an hour, Flores supports her two sons on roughly $2,000 a month or less after taxes. That includes a Social Security check her younger son receives because of a developmental disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s stories like hers, of people who work full time and still struggle to meet basic needs, that have fueled groups such as \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight for $15\u003c/a> and the movement to raise wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California cities have heard their call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California cities lead the charge to raise minimum wage\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last three years, 15 of the 30 cities and counties nationwide that have voted to increase the minimum wage have been in California, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/topic/minimum-wage-living-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is a state that has made it very clear to cities and counties that they have the authority to pass a higher minimum wage,” said Laura Huizar, staff attorney for the National Employment Law Project, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that publishes research about low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10777889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10777889\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-960x633.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huizar said some states, like Georgia and Texas, prohibit localities from passing minimum wage laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts say a mix of politics and economics explain why half of the recent local increases have happened through California regional governments. Andrew Busch of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College said it’s the left-leaning politics and high cost of living in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policymakers or voters are more receptive to an increased minimum wage because they see that it just costs a lot more to live in those places,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the Fight for $15 movement say getting traction on the city level hasn’t necessarily been the focus of their campaign. It is one of many groups that organized to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles. But leaders say their demonstrations have influenced New York State policymakers and employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all types of ways to get there, and I don’t think that the workers really care how they get there. They care that they have $15 so they can get out of poverty,” said Kendall Fells, organizing director for Fight for $15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7m2qiWIcCYdLSSCPAxEcFGQRyArAf0rq\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, actions by the California cities could prove influential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California raised its minimum wage from $8 to $9 an hour in July 2014. The state will raise it again to $10 an hour in January 2016. Large cities in the Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas have passed ordinances to raise their minimum wages to up to $15 an hour by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busch said if enough cities adopt an increase, there may be a “psychological momentum” to adopt similar increases statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They might begin to make the argument that there are too many cities at risk of losing jobs to competitor cities, and the playing field needs to be leveled out,” Busch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cities' minimum wage movements may influence state actions\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, state Sen. 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It stalled in committee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1440x953.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored a bill this year to raise the state's minimum wage to $13. It stalled in committee. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the wave of new local wage ordinances has California employers concerned. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbrt.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The California Business Roundtable\u003c/a> hasn’t yet taken a stance on the statewide wage proposals, and says its members don’t employ many low-wage workers. But Robert Lapsley, president of the roundtable, said minimum wage decisions should happen at the state Capitol, with regional economic differences taken into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do you make good public policy if you’re doing it solely within one city when it’s going to have ripple effects throughout the entire region?” Lapsley asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While proponents of this year’s statewide legislation want to raise the minimum wage so that families of three or four people stay out of poverty, Lapsley argued that’s something the minimum wage was never intended to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the wrong debate,” he said. “It’s really about we have to be growing our jobs so that we have middle-class jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Lapsley said the business community wants to see the manufacturing sector grow to create more opportunities for Californians to transition out of lower-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $13 minimum wage bill stalled in committee this year, but Leno said he will reignite the push in 2016. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s stories like hers, of people who work full time and still struggle to meet basic needs, that have fueled groups such as \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight for $15\u003c/a> and the movement to raise wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California cities have heard their call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California cities lead the charge to raise minimum wage\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last three years, 15 of the 30 cities and counties nationwide that have voted to increase the minimum wage have been in California, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/topic/minimum-wage-living-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is a state that has made it very clear to cities and counties that they have the authority to pass a higher minimum wage,” said Laura Huizar, staff attorney for the National Employment Law Project, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that publishes research about low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10777889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10777889\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-960x633.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huizar said some states, like Georgia and Texas, prohibit localities from passing minimum wage laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts say a mix of politics and economics explain why half of the recent local increases have happened through California regional governments. Andrew Busch of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College said it’s the left-leaning politics and high cost of living in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policymakers or voters are more receptive to an increased minimum wage because they see that it just costs a lot more to live in those places,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the Fight for $15 movement say getting traction on the city level hasn’t necessarily been the focus of their campaign. It is one of many groups that organized to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles. But leaders say their demonstrations have influenced New York State policymakers and employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all types of ways to get there, and I don’t think that the workers really care how they get there. They care that they have $15 so they can get out of poverty,” said Kendall Fells, organizing director for Fight for $15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, actions by the California cities could prove influential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California raised its minimum wage from $8 to $9 an hour in July 2014. The state will raise it again to $10 an hour in January 2016. Large cities in the Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas have passed ordinances to raise their minimum wages to up to $15 an hour by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busch said if enough cities adopt an increase, there may be a “psychological momentum” to adopt similar increases statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They might begin to make the argument that there are too many cities at risk of losing jobs to competitor cities, and the playing field needs to be leveled out,” Busch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cities' minimum wage movements may influence state actions\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who authored a bill this year to raise the minimum wage statewide to $13 with future adjustments for inflation, said higher wages in cities create an opportunity for state policy to make the marketplace fairer for competing businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Raising our state minimum wage to be a little closer to some of these higher city and county minimum wages would do that,” Leno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, Leno said, if cities show that local wage increases don’t “kill jobs,” that would help proponents of the statewide measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10777891\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10777891\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored a bill this year to raise the state's minimum wage to $13. It stalled in committee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1440x953.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored a bill this year to raise the state's minimum wage to $13. 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"content": "\u003cp>Large industrial facilities in California have a few choices about how they comply with the state’s cap-and-trade program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses can emit less pollution, buy allowances to pollute or pay for other projects called offsets to reduce emissions, instead of the polluters . Offset projects are located all over the U.S., but that’s not why they’ve come under fire. 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