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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of our series “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-ed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Ed\u003c/a>,” exploring how President Trump’s proposed federal education policies could impact California schools. The series was produced in collaboration with reporters from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPBS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPCC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CALmatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education Secretary Betsy DeVos \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/03/29/devos-picking-a-school-should-be-like-choosing-among-uber-lyft-or-a-taxi/?utm_term=.ceaff4f40ad8\">has compared\u003c/a> private schools to the ride-hailing app Uber and public schools to traditional taxis. Where one’s sleek and nimble, she says, the other is rickety and slow to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/07/504451460/school-choice-101-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-does-it-work\">school voucher proposal\u003c/a> — giving parents direct federal dollars to send their children to a private school of their choice — is meant to change all of that that through market competition. But parents hoping for a slick ride for their kid’s education might want to think again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/jul/25/san-diego-taxi-union-wants-city-better-regulate-ub/\">Also like Uber\u003c/a>, the schools most likely to gain from the new administration’s policies are wary of the government regulation that may come with federally funded vouchers. And that makes many private schools unlikely foes of the vouchers many thought would help parents pay for a private school option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”1wOy219OXnij8PAISNr7slTiQ7YSXipG”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An independent school is just that. We are independent,” said Kim Cooper, director of admissions at \u003ca href=\"https://www.bishops.com/page\">The Bishop’s School\u003c/a> in La Jolla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Bishop’s board has not yet weighed in on vouchers, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nais.org/\">National Association of Independent Schools\u003c/a> says the vast majority of its members are unlikely to accept them. Very few do in states that already have such programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the handful of San Diego independent schools KPBS surveyed, none said they would take vouchers. That closes any new doors a federal voucher program might open to San Diego’s most coveted schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘If it ain’t broke…’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If private schools are to school choice what Uber is to ride hailing, then Bishop’s is a luxury Uber Black. The 108-year-old campus is filled with the scent of flowers, chirping birds and rich history. Open the door to a classroom and it is like your favorite college professor’s office — full of books, ephemera and great discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The classrooms are small like an office, too, built to perfectly fit about a dozen students around an oval table. The school enrolls 800 students and keeps a lengthy waiting list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11461252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11461252\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-800x432.jpg\" alt=\"Students sit around a table in their English class at The Bishop's School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-800x432.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-160x86.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-1020x550.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-1180x637.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-960x518.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-240x130.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-375x202.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-520x281.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students sit around a table in their English class at The Bishop’s School. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You really have the opportunity to really engage with your teachers to really experience that learning,” said Tamika Lipford, who graduated from Bishop’s in 2005 and went on to become a military prosecutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently came back to the school to give the keynote address at its annual fundraiser, which brought in $1 million for tuition assistance. Each year, Bishop’s awards $3 million in financial aid to 20 percent of its students. It costs more than $33,000 a year to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipford was herself a financial aid recipient. One of seven children, she expected to go to El Camino High School in Oceanside before Bishop’s basketball coach recruited her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a stark difference between where I went to middle school, Martin Luther King Middle School, and the actual high school I would have gone to, El Camino.” Lipford said. “The focus there would have been on athletics, not so much on academics. Whereas, at Bishop’s the focus is on academics and making sure you excel in that area, and then having athletics come second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipford said that focus was a result of small class sizes, personalized instruction and daily contact with an adviser. She said she worries throwing a school choice initiative into the mix would ruin all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper, the admission’s director, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an admission process and that process is to enroll the most qualified students who would fulfill the mission of our school and be mission-appropriate. That’s where our focus is, not on affordability,” she said, adding that the school’s fundraising efforts allow it to recruit diverse students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kb6nWYahp0\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Wary of Regulation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Myra McGovern, the vice president of media for NAIS, said Bishop’s has reason to believe a voucher program might change things on campus. She said vouchers could come with regulatory strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/05/trump_praises_dc_vouchers_graduation.html\">existing voucher programs\u003c/a> require student beneficiaries to take standardized tests. Schools worry that may bleed into curriculum by encouraging schools to “teach to the test.” And vouchers are often awarded through lotteries, complicating a system whereby independent schools first admit students whom they believe will excel in their school model and then figure out financial aid later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGovern added that independent schools have even less incentive to take vouchers because they likely wouldn’t cover the full cost of tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So would parents gain access for their children anywhere under a voucher program?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parochial Schools in Need of Fixing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Spanish archways and chirping birds at \u003ca href=\"http://69.167.141.143/~bsps2013/\">Blessed Sacrament Catholic School\u003c/a> in San Diego’s urban core echo those at Bishop’s. But look closer and you’ll see an abandoned preschool playground and peeling paint on a statue of the Virgin Mary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11461256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11461256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-800x448.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of the Virgin Mary at Blessed Sacrament Catholic School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-800x448.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-1020x571.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-1180x661.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-960x538.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-240x134.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-375x210.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-520x291.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of the Virgin Mary at Blessed Sacrament Catholic School. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was, at one time, one of our powerhouse Catholic schools,” said John Galvan, the head of schools for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdcatholic.org/\">Catholic Diocese of San Diego County\u003c/a>. “Founded in 1947, it currently has 114 students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s about half its capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a tour of the school, Galvan stops at the trophy case. The years etched in brass stop around 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Blessed Sacrament is in a position where they don’t have enough students to field sports teams,” Galvan said. “And what’s ironic about that is you have two Hall of Famers — college basketball with \u003ca href=\"http://www.billwalton.com/\">Bill Walton\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://philmickelson.com/\">Phil Mickelson\u003c/a>, a professional golfer — they both graduated from this school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”66E6KaaEWReUThEdjhQXoeAAhKDYIH4X”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galvan says it’s the cost. A lot of families \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdcatholic.org/Portals/0/pdf/EducationInsert_B_web.pdf\">cannot afford\u003c/a> to pay $5,000 a year for elementary school and $15,000 for high school. The diocese has a financial aid fund filled by parishioners, but it taps out at $1 million. Last year, Galvan calculated there was $16 million in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically, parish schools were built in this country to serve poor, immigrant families,” Galvan said. “The parochial model in its current form, in most cases, cannot survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galvan is not comfortable saying his schools would accept vouchers without seeing a plan on paper, but they are the ones most likely to. They have \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/jan/13/san-diego-diocese-searches-way-keep-schools-afloat/\">experienced a sharp decline\u003c/a> in enrollment nationwide, so they have the space. And they already take federal education dollars for low-income children and professional development, so vouchers are not as far of a stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galvan said school choice, generally, is good for parochial schools — and for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The value of Catholic education — moral and character development, leadership development, a sense of responsibility ethos for others, a safe, caring environment where students are known and loved — those are all reasons why our families choose our schools,” Galvan said, adding that nearly all of his students graduate high school on time, many going on to impressive universities. “So with the question of school choice, that’s something we certainly advocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Galvan is hesitant to give vouchers his blessing for fear of government influence. He and his colleagues in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cacatholic.org/\">California Catholic Conference\u003c/a>, the lobbying arm of the Catholic community, favor \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/03/01/517917450/trump-highlighted-this-unusual-school-choice-idea-last-night\">tax credit scholarships\u003c/a>. That is what they are lobbying for in Sacramento — tax credits that incentivize donations to a private scholarship fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11461259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11461259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Tamika Lipford stands in The Bishop's School gym.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamika Lipford stands in The Bishop’s School gym. \u003ccite>(Matthew Bowler/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What About Public Schools?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Bishop’s, Tamika Lipford shares her vision for how to give more children the successful education she received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it would probably be appropriate to bring public schools up to the caliber of Bishop’s, just so any individual student that is in a public school actually has the opportunity,” Lipford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keri Peckham, a lead organizer on Bishop’s spring fundraiser, underscored the current need at public schools. She also helped organize the fundraiser for her children’s school in the Poway Unified School District (they are too young to attend Bishop’s). The top item on their wish list was a physical education teacher, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite pushback from parents, public schools and even private schools, President Trump and Education Secretary DeVos continue to push for a voucher program. Meanwhile, Congress is looking at tax credits that could gain more traction among private schools and voters.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of our series “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-ed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Ed\u003c/a>,” exploring how President Trump’s proposed federal education policies could impact California schools. The series was produced in collaboration with reporters from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPBS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPCC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CALmatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education Secretary Betsy DeVos \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/03/29/devos-picking-a-school-should-be-like-choosing-among-uber-lyft-or-a-taxi/?utm_term=.ceaff4f40ad8\">has compared\u003c/a> private schools to the ride-hailing app Uber and public schools to traditional taxis. Where one’s sleek and nimble, she says, the other is rickety and slow to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/07/504451460/school-choice-101-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-does-it-work\">school voucher proposal\u003c/a> — giving parents direct federal dollars to send their children to a private school of their choice — is meant to change all of that that through market competition. But parents hoping for a slick ride for their kid’s education might want to think again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/jul/25/san-diego-taxi-union-wants-city-better-regulate-ub/\">Also like Uber\u003c/a>, the schools most likely to gain from the new administration’s policies are wary of the government regulation that may come with federally funded vouchers. And that makes many private schools unlikely foes of the vouchers many thought would help parents pay for a private school option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An independent school is just that. We are independent,” said Kim Cooper, director of admissions at \u003ca href=\"https://www.bishops.com/page\">The Bishop’s School\u003c/a> in La Jolla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Bishop’s board has not yet weighed in on vouchers, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nais.org/\">National Association of Independent Schools\u003c/a> says the vast majority of its members are unlikely to accept them. Very few do in states that already have such programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the handful of San Diego independent schools KPBS surveyed, none said they would take vouchers. That closes any new doors a federal voucher program might open to San Diego’s most coveted schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘If it ain’t broke…’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If private schools are to school choice what Uber is to ride hailing, then Bishop’s is a luxury Uber Black. The 108-year-old campus is filled with the scent of flowers, chirping birds and rich history. Open the door to a classroom and it is like your favorite college professor’s office — full of books, ephemera and great discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The classrooms are small like an office, too, built to perfectly fit about a dozen students around an oval table. The school enrolls 800 students and keeps a lengthy waiting list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11461252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11461252\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-800x432.jpg\" alt=\"Students sit around a table in their English class at The Bishop's School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-800x432.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-160x86.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-1020x550.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-1180x637.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-960x518.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-240x130.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-375x202.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/BishopsClassroom-520x281.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students sit around a table in their English class at The Bishop’s School. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You really have the opportunity to really engage with your teachers to really experience that learning,” said Tamika Lipford, who graduated from Bishop’s in 2005 and went on to become a military prosecutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently came back to the school to give the keynote address at its annual fundraiser, which brought in $1 million for tuition assistance. Each year, Bishop’s awards $3 million in financial aid to 20 percent of its students. It costs more than $33,000 a year to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipford was herself a financial aid recipient. One of seven children, she expected to go to El Camino High School in Oceanside before Bishop’s basketball coach recruited her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a stark difference between where I went to middle school, Martin Luther King Middle School, and the actual high school I would have gone to, El Camino.” Lipford said. “The focus there would have been on athletics, not so much on academics. Whereas, at Bishop’s the focus is on academics and making sure you excel in that area, and then having athletics come second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipford said that focus was a result of small class sizes, personalized instruction and daily contact with an adviser. She said she worries throwing a school choice initiative into the mix would ruin all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper, the admission’s director, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an admission process and that process is to enroll the most qualified students who would fulfill the mission of our school and be mission-appropriate. That’s where our focus is, not on affordability,” she said, adding that the school’s fundraising efforts allow it to recruit diverse students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/6Kb6nWYahp0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/6Kb6nWYahp0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Wary of Regulation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Myra McGovern, the vice president of media for NAIS, said Bishop’s has reason to believe a voucher program might change things on campus. She said vouchers could come with regulatory strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/05/trump_praises_dc_vouchers_graduation.html\">existing voucher programs\u003c/a> require student beneficiaries to take standardized tests. Schools worry that may bleed into curriculum by encouraging schools to “teach to the test.” And vouchers are often awarded through lotteries, complicating a system whereby independent schools first admit students whom they believe will excel in their school model and then figure out financial aid later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGovern added that independent schools have even less incentive to take vouchers because they likely wouldn’t cover the full cost of tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So would parents gain access for their children anywhere under a voucher program?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parochial Schools in Need of Fixing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Spanish archways and chirping birds at \u003ca href=\"http://69.167.141.143/~bsps2013/\">Blessed Sacrament Catholic School\u003c/a> in San Diego’s urban core echo those at Bishop’s. But look closer and you’ll see an abandoned preschool playground and peeling paint on a statue of the Virgin Mary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11461256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11461256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-800x448.jpg\" alt=\"A statue of the Virgin Mary at Blessed Sacrament Catholic School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-800x448.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-1020x571.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-1180x661.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-960x538.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-240x134.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-375x210.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CrackedVirginMary-520x291.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of the Virgin Mary at Blessed Sacrament Catholic School. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was, at one time, one of our powerhouse Catholic schools,” said John Galvan, the head of schools for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdcatholic.org/\">Catholic Diocese of San Diego County\u003c/a>. “Founded in 1947, it currently has 114 students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s about half its capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a tour of the school, Galvan stops at the trophy case. The years etched in brass stop around 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Blessed Sacrament is in a position where they don’t have enough students to field sports teams,” Galvan said. “And what’s ironic about that is you have two Hall of Famers — college basketball with \u003ca href=\"http://www.billwalton.com/\">Bill Walton\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://philmickelson.com/\">Phil Mickelson\u003c/a>, a professional golfer — they both graduated from this school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galvan says it’s the cost. A lot of families \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdcatholic.org/Portals/0/pdf/EducationInsert_B_web.pdf\">cannot afford\u003c/a> to pay $5,000 a year for elementary school and $15,000 for high school. The diocese has a financial aid fund filled by parishioners, but it taps out at $1 million. Last year, Galvan calculated there was $16 million in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically, parish schools were built in this country to serve poor, immigrant families,” Galvan said. “The parochial model in its current form, in most cases, cannot survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galvan is not comfortable saying his schools would accept vouchers without seeing a plan on paper, but they are the ones most likely to. They have \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/jan/13/san-diego-diocese-searches-way-keep-schools-afloat/\">experienced a sharp decline\u003c/a> in enrollment nationwide, so they have the space. And they already take federal education dollars for low-income children and professional development, so vouchers are not as far of a stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galvan said school choice, generally, is good for parochial schools — and for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The value of Catholic education — moral and character development, leadership development, a sense of responsibility ethos for others, a safe, caring environment where students are known and loved — those are all reasons why our families choose our schools,” Galvan said, adding that nearly all of his students graduate high school on time, many going on to impressive universities. “So with the question of school choice, that’s something we certainly advocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Galvan is hesitant to give vouchers his blessing for fear of government influence. He and his colleagues in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cacatholic.org/\">California Catholic Conference\u003c/a>, the lobbying arm of the Catholic community, favor \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/03/01/517917450/trump-highlighted-this-unusual-school-choice-idea-last-night\">tax credit scholarships\u003c/a>. That is what they are lobbying for in Sacramento — tax credits that incentivize donations to a private scholarship fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11461259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11461259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Tamika Lipford stands in The Bishop's School gym.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Tamika-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamika Lipford stands in The Bishop’s School gym. \u003ccite>(Matthew Bowler/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What About Public Schools?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Bishop’s, Tamika Lipford shares her vision for how to give more children the successful education she received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it would probably be appropriate to bring public schools up to the caliber of Bishop’s, just so any individual student that is in a public school actually has the opportunity,” Lipford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keri Peckham, a lead organizer on Bishop’s spring fundraiser, underscored the current need at public schools. She also helped organize the fundraiser for her children’s school in the Poway Unified School District (they are too young to attend Bishop’s). The top item on their wish list was a physical education teacher, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of our series “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-ed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Ed\u003c/a>,” exploring how President Trump’s proposed federal education policies could impact California schools. The series was produced in collaboration with reporters from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPBS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPCC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CALmatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private school feels out of reach for many Californians — but what if a nonprofit organization offered to foot the bill?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states already do this through tax credit scholarships, an approach President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos want to make accessible to families across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, however, the state Legislature has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/school_choice/50statereport/states/california.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected tax credit scholarships\u003c/a>, saying it hurts public schools and violates the separation of church and state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”hueMXO9HYkwk7yB45qJKCKWjugtSg29H”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of California’s neighboring states — Nevada — \u003ca href=\"http://www.doe.nv.gov/Private_Schools/Nevada_Choice_Scholarship_Program/\">has adopted this option\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emery family is one of hundreds of families receiving these special grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never ever thought my children would go to a private school. We just always thought they would go to their public school,” says Melanie Emery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emerys live in Carson City, the state’s rural capital about 30 miles east of Lake Tahoe. Their three children — Nevaeh, 8, Grace, 6, and Josiah, 3 — are adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11459835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11459835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Emery plays around with his oldest daughter Nevaeh, 8, at their Carson City home. She's one of three adopted children in the Emery household.\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-1180x804.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-960x655.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-240x164.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-375x256.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-520x355.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Emery plays around with his oldest daughter Nevaeh, 8, at their Carson City home. She’s one of three adopted children in the Emery household. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many families, Melanie and her husband, Nick Emery, turned to their neighborhood public school when it came time to enroll their oldest daughter in kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Melanie says it just didn’t feel right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just knew in my heart that this was not a fit for our daughter,” she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.doe.nv.gov/\">Nevada public schools\u003c/a> are among the lowest-performing in the nation, and many underperforming schools are located in rural communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melanie recalls there were nearly 40 kids in each class at the local campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says teachers didn’t seem properly trained, classwork wasn’t challenging and she didn’t feel a sense of school community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just so worried about her,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11459346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11459346 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-960x675.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-240x169.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-375x264.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevaeh Emery briefly attended a local public school in Carson City before her parents decided it wasn’t the best fit for her needs. She now attends a private Christian school using a tax credit scholarship. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family’s request to transfer to another school was denied, and the next school district was about 50 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt trapped,” Nick Emery says. “That can’t be our reality. That can’t be their reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In desperation, they turned to what’s called a tax credit scholarship — a school choice option offered in 16 other states, including Florida and Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”cuV0oZsqFZ2kxlAs0cs2qFJFooQxdb6H”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, these special scholarships are not \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/school-choice-vouchers.aspx\">school vouchers\u003c/a>, which often get mired in legal challenges because they’re funded through taxpayer money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/school-choice-scholarship-tax-credits.aspx\">Tax credit scholarships\u003c/a> are made up of private donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individuals and businesses donate to nonprofits that specialize in these grants and, in return, get sizable tax breaks. Families looking for public school alternatives apply for these scholarships and, if selected, can use them at certain private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada adopted this school choice option about two years ago, following a public outcry for more options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these tax credit scholarships are controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11459353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11459353\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-1180x818.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-960x666.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-375x260.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevaeh Emery, 8, plays the piano in the family room of her Carson City home. She is one of three adopted children in the Emery household. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is one of 37 states that have a statute written into their constitutions that prohibits the use of public dollars going to religious causes — for example, parochial school tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics in the Golden State also say these scholarships are a workaround to school vouchers, but that they have the same effect: Take students and money away from local public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say these grants don’t necessarily get to the kids who need them the most, because often there’s no income threshold, so low-income families sometimes compete with middle-class families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, private tax credit scholarships don’t always cover the full cost of tuition, leaving families in a precarious position from year to year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Emery family, tuition at the private Christian school Nevaeh and Grace now attend costs roughly $10,000 combined, which is fully covered by the tax credit scholarships they received this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11459350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11459350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-1020x742.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-1180x859.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-960x699.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-240x175.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-375x273.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-520x378.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melanie Emery hugs her two adopted daughters Grace, 6 (left) and Nevaeh, 8 (right). Roughly $10,000 in private school tuition is now covered for both daughters under a school choice option offered by Nevada. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Melanie and Nick say they could not afford that on his meager salary as a pastor, which is why they’re thankful Nevada and other states do give families the option and resources to make this choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people across the nation who also believe in equipping families to make the best choice, and it’s a movement,” Nick says. “People are rising up and saying, ‘We want to do what’s best in every community, every neighborhood, and for every person.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say their daughters’ new school has helped the girls overcome social and emotional problems stemming from early experiences with their birth parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels more like a family,” Melanie says. “As far as testing goes, it does test head-and-shoulders above the other schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yet it’s still teaching to the same standards that are required of the public schools,” Nick adds. “The teachers have found a way to make it work, and to make it work well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, it’s unclear how the Trump administration could force a tax credit system on every state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that happens, most educators in California say they’ll fight back.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of our series “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-ed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Ed\u003c/a>,” exploring how President Trump’s proposed federal education policies could impact California schools. The series was produced in collaboration with reporters from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPBS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPCC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CALmatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private school feels out of reach for many Californians — but what if a nonprofit organization offered to foot the bill?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states already do this through tax credit scholarships, an approach President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos want to make accessible to families across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, however, the state Legislature has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/school_choice/50statereport/states/california.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected tax credit scholarships\u003c/a>, saying it hurts public schools and violates the separation of church and state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of California’s neighboring states — Nevada — \u003ca href=\"http://www.doe.nv.gov/Private_Schools/Nevada_Choice_Scholarship_Program/\">has adopted this option\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emery family is one of hundreds of families receiving these special grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never ever thought my children would go to a private school. We just always thought they would go to their public school,” says Melanie Emery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emerys live in Carson City, the state’s rural capital about 30 miles east of Lake Tahoe. Their three children — Nevaeh, 8, Grace, 6, and Josiah, 3 — are adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11459835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11459835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Emery plays around with his oldest daughter Nevaeh, 8, at their Carson City home. She's one of three adopted children in the Emery household.\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-1180x804.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-960x655.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-240x164.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-375x256.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/ClimbinonDad-520x355.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Emery plays around with his oldest daughter Nevaeh, 8, at their Carson City home. She’s one of three adopted children in the Emery household. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many families, Melanie and her husband, Nick Emery, turned to their neighborhood public school when it came time to enroll their oldest daughter in kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Melanie says it just didn’t feel right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just knew in my heart that this was not a fit for our daughter,” she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.doe.nv.gov/\">Nevada public schools\u003c/a> are among the lowest-performing in the nation, and many underperforming schools are located in rural communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melanie recalls there were nearly 40 kids in each class at the local campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says teachers didn’t seem properly trained, classwork wasn’t challenging and she didn’t feel a sense of school community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just so worried about her,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11459346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11459346 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-960x675.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-240x169.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-375x264.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25347_DSC_0667-qut-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevaeh Emery briefly attended a local public school in Carson City before her parents decided it wasn’t the best fit for her needs. She now attends a private Christian school using a tax credit scholarship. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family’s request to transfer to another school was denied, and the next school district was about 50 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt trapped,” Nick Emery says. “That can’t be our reality. That can’t be their reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In desperation, they turned to what’s called a tax credit scholarship — a school choice option offered in 16 other states, including Florida and Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, these special scholarships are not \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/school-choice-vouchers.aspx\">school vouchers\u003c/a>, which often get mired in legal challenges because they’re funded through taxpayer money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/school-choice-scholarship-tax-credits.aspx\">Tax credit scholarships\u003c/a> are made up of private donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individuals and businesses donate to nonprofits that specialize in these grants and, in return, get sizable tax breaks. Families looking for public school alternatives apply for these scholarships and, if selected, can use them at certain private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada adopted this school choice option about two years ago, following a public outcry for more options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these tax credit scholarships are controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11459353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11459353\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-1180x818.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-960x666.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-375x260.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25351_DSC_2320-qut-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevaeh Emery, 8, plays the piano in the family room of her Carson City home. She is one of three adopted children in the Emery household. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is one of 37 states that have a statute written into their constitutions that prohibits the use of public dollars going to religious causes — for example, parochial school tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics in the Golden State also say these scholarships are a workaround to school vouchers, but that they have the same effect: Take students and money away from local public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say these grants don’t necessarily get to the kids who need them the most, because often there’s no income threshold, so low-income families sometimes compete with middle-class families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, private tax credit scholarships don’t always cover the full cost of tuition, leaving families in a precarious position from year to year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Emery family, tuition at the private Christian school Nevaeh and Grace now attend costs roughly $10,000 combined, which is fully covered by the tax credit scholarships they received this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11459350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11459350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-1020x742.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-1180x859.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-960x699.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-240x175.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-375x273.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25350_DSC_0702-qut-520x378.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melanie Emery hugs her two adopted daughters Grace, 6 (left) and Nevaeh, 8 (right). Roughly $10,000 in private school tuition is now covered for both daughters under a school choice option offered by Nevada. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Melanie and Nick say they could not afford that on his meager salary as a pastor, which is why they’re thankful Nevada and other states do give families the option and resources to make this choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people across the nation who also believe in equipping families to make the best choice, and it’s a movement,” Nick says. “People are rising up and saying, ‘We want to do what’s best in every community, every neighborhood, and for every person.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say their daughters’ new school has helped the girls overcome social and emotional problems stemming from early experiences with their birth parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels more like a family,” Melanie says. “As far as testing goes, it does test head-and-shoulders above the other schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yet it’s still teaching to the same standards that are required of the public schools,” Nick adds. “The teachers have found a way to make it work, and to make it work well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, it’s unclear how the Trump administration could force a tax credit system on every state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that happens, most educators in California say they’ll fight back.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Donna Perez was stooped over in her backyard, fixing a sprinkler, when she heard her dog start shrieking. She stood up and whirled around, but it was too late. A coyote had jumped over the yard’s 5-foot wall, snatched one of her two pet Yorkies, and disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not find her until the next day, and she was 95 percent dead,” said the Arcadia resident. The dog later died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Perez went to the Arcadia City Council, along with five other worried residents. They told stories of being stalked while walking their dogs, of coyotes trapping them in their cars, and of the pepper spray and golf clubs they now carried when they left their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a new breed of coyote in the neighborhood,” Perez told the council. “They are smart and cunning, they are bold and fearless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two years, aggressive coyotes have attacked pets or bitten people in a number of cities throughout the region, including Glendora, Montebello, Irvine and Los Angeles. And Southern Californians have been filing complaints about coyotes for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a problem with Perez’s conclusion that the region is being stalked by a more dangerous type of coyote: There’s no science to back it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11442248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11442248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-800x866.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Perez with her pet Yorkie, Cody. Her other dog was killed by a coyote in her backyard last fall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-800x866.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-160x173.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-1020x1104.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-1920x2078.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-1180x1277.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-960x1039.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-240x260.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-375x406.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-520x563.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady.jpg 1892w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Perez with her pet Yorkie, Cody. Her other dog was killed by a coyote in her backyard last fall. \u003ccite>(KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There has been very little research on coyote-human conflicts in urban areas, so experts don’t have a handle on what causes these interactions, how often they occur or how to prevent them. And that makes it difficult for cities to know how to respond. So the approach they often use has more to do with emotion than science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Arcadia, City Manager Dominic Lazzaretto recommends educating residents about how to live with coyotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t really focused on things we can do to make the coyotes uncomfortable in our neighborhoods,” he said, “to make the coyotes perceive humans as threats once again and go back into the hills where they belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”KqeOjrLfrjfAPp3vCOZlSmUumOOXAx04″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Councilman Roger Chandler favors something more aggressive: trapping the animals and killing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wouldn’t be cruel, because “if we were in Wisconsin on a farm we’d be shooting them with .22s,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trapping coyotes is legal in California, but by law they can’t be relocated; they have to be killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arcadia tried trapping once already, back in 2010 and 2011. Many people in town say it worked, that they didn’t see many coyotes afterward. But the city stopped trapping, and now City Hall gets three to five coyote complaints a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always had problems with coyotes but I sense there’s a bigger problem now than we’ve ever had before,” said Councilman Tom Beck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is hard to prove. Like most cities in Southern California, Arcadia doesn’t have long-term data about coyote complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11442254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11442254\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A coyote stands on the 12th fairway at SilverRock Resort in La Quinta.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coyote stands on the 12th fairway at SilverRock Resort in La Quinta. \u003ccite>(Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The data is an absolute mess,” said Niamh Quinn, a coyote researcher with UC Cooperative Extension in Irvine, who recently authored a study on coyote conflict trends in Southern California that’s currently undergoing peer review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even among the city, county and state agencies that do track complaints or coyote bites, there is little standardization in the collection of information, making it very hard to look for trends. It’s why Quinn \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/02/20/69162/new-app-lets-anyone-report-and-get-alerts-about-co/\">created an app\u003c/a> to track coyote complaints that she hopes most Southern California cities will adopt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a scientific point of view, if you’re not asking the same questions, you can’t really analyze it,” said Quinn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, one of the few reliable sets of data in the area suggests the problem may be getting worse. The L.A. County Department of Public Health tracks the number of county residents receiving rabies shots for coyote bites. In 2012, just three people got the shots. That jumped to 16 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”oDH3w9I8ob0GdWP7G3cf7EBJXFDuMmzp”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, 12 people were bitten by coyotes in Elysian Park in Los Angeles in the space of five months, according to Public Health. In one incident, a person was bitten while trying to stop a coyote from attacking a dog. But in many other cases the coyote approached humans directly. People were bitten while stargazing, lying on the ground or jogging. Kids were bitten while playing in a playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prior to that, we’d rarely see attacks of people,” said Karen Ehnert, the chief veterinarian for Public Health. “Now we’ve been hearing about them in different circumstance where it’s totally unprovoked. I mean, that’s just not normal behavior for wild animals; they should be afraid of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists don’t know why coyotes lose their fear of people. But there are a few theories. One is that because urban coyotes constantly see people and we don’t frighten them away or try to hurt them, they slowly get used to us. Over time, that can lead to the animals becoming aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many coyote management policies include an aggression scale that begins with seeing coyotes on the street, and ends with coyotes harassing or even biting people. But there is fierce disagreement about when to kill coyotes, if ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74135.html\">The University of California’s Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program\u003c/a> recommends killing coyotes when they become aggressive, specifically when they begin killing pets in daytime. \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/wildlife/template-coyote-management-plan.pdf\">The Humane Society of the United States\u003c/a>, meanwhile, recommends lethal control only in the event of an unprovoked attack on a human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11442250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11442250\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-800x447.jpg\" alt=\"The University of California's Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program's coyote aggression scale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-800x447.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-1180x659.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-960x537.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-240x134.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-375x210.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-520x291.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of California’s Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program’s coyote aggression scale.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But according to multiple scientists interviewed for this story, there is no scientific consensus on when to kill a coyote or on how effective trapping is. \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/02/17/69144/arcadia-becomes-latest-city-to-trap-kill-coyotes/\">That didn’t stop Arcadia from voting to spend $15,000 on a trapping contract.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to do whatever we can to help the residents, make them feel safe,” said Councilman Beck. “Nobody should have to worry about going to their mailbox or getting in their car. We shouldn’t have to feel that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After choosing to move ahead with trapping, Arcadia got pushback from animal rights activists, led by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA. They staged a silent protest outside City Hall, holding signs of bloodied coyotes caught in snares, and they packed the next City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arcadia residents Jean Jerose and Maria Christina Halstead were among the 80 or so PETA supporters urging the council to reverse course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please do not let this happen,” Jerose said. “The fear is not real and it’s based on a lack of knowledge, as almost all fears are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Halstead: “The trapping and killing of these animals is an irresponsible and inhumane response to a problem that has other solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PETA argues that people need to change their behavior to avoid conflicts with coyotes. It suggests steps to make the human environment unwelcoming to coyotes, such as cleaning up garbage, not leaving pet food out, keeping pets on leash, and yelling or blowing whistles at bold coyotes, an action called “hazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there is no research to support this approach. KPCC asked PETA for evidence that hazing works to reverse aggressive behavior, but the organization couldn’t provide any, instead saying it works best as part of a suite of nonlethal solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National Park Service researchers based in the Santa Monica Mountains who are running one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/07/18/62651/first-year-of-la-s-urban-coyote-study-is-full-of-s/\">few urban coyote studies in greater Los Angeles\u003c/a> say there is anecdotal evidence that hazing works on coyotes that aren’t accustomed to people yet. But once they get used to humans, it may be too late. At that point, according to Seth Riley, a Park Service wildlife ecologist, there’s not much else that can be done besides trapping and euthanizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even then, it’s hard to be sure you’ve killed the problem coyote. The only surefire way is if a person has been bitten, he goes to the emergency room, the wound is swabbed for coyote DNA and it’s matched with a snared coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a coyote is trapped in response to a pet attack, however, there’s no way to ensure the aggressive coyote is being killed. In that case, Riley said, animal control companies may trap coyotes until the problem goes away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say this level of uncertainty is commonplace in urban coyote management, given the almost complete lack of research on what works, on whether conflicts are getting worse, and even on what constitutes a conflict. So cities find themselves confronted with the question: Is it more important to avoid harming coyotes at all costs, or protect people and their pets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Arcadia, the City Council voted to protect people and pets. But then PETA sued the city in March. To get out of the lawsuit, Arcadia announced last month it wouldn’t trap after all. PETA claimed victory, but resident Donna Perez felt differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels very unsafe,” she said, adding that she feels “very let down .. very alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arcadia is now working on a comprehensive coyote management plan that will likely include education and, possibly, trapping.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a problem with Perez’s conclusion that the region is being stalked by a more dangerous type of coyote: There’s no science to back it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11442248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11442248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-800x866.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Perez with her pet Yorkie, Cody. Her other dog was killed by a coyote in her backyard last fall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-800x866.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-160x173.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-1020x1104.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-1920x2078.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-1180x1277.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-960x1039.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-240x260.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-375x406.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady-520x563.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DogLady.jpg 1892w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Perez with her pet Yorkie, Cody. Her other dog was killed by a coyote in her backyard last fall. \u003ccite>(KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There has been very little research on coyote-human conflicts in urban areas, so experts don’t have a handle on what causes these interactions, how often they occur or how to prevent them. And that makes it difficult for cities to know how to respond. So the approach they often use has more to do with emotion than science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Arcadia, City Manager Dominic Lazzaretto recommends educating residents about how to live with coyotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t really focused on things we can do to make the coyotes uncomfortable in our neighborhoods,” he said, “to make the coyotes perceive humans as threats once again and go back into the hills where they belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Councilman Roger Chandler favors something more aggressive: trapping the animals and killing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wouldn’t be cruel, because “if we were in Wisconsin on a farm we’d be shooting them with .22s,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trapping coyotes is legal in California, but by law they can’t be relocated; they have to be killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arcadia tried trapping once already, back in 2010 and 2011. Many people in town say it worked, that they didn’t see many coyotes afterward. But the city stopped trapping, and now City Hall gets three to five coyote complaints a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always had problems with coyotes but I sense there’s a bigger problem now than we’ve ever had before,” said Councilman Tom Beck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is hard to prove. Like most cities in Southern California, Arcadia doesn’t have long-term data about coyote complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11442254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11442254\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A coyote stands on the 12th fairway at SilverRock Resort in La Quinta.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteGolf-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coyote stands on the 12th fairway at SilverRock Resort in La Quinta. \u003ccite>(Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The data is an absolute mess,” said Niamh Quinn, a coyote researcher with UC Cooperative Extension in Irvine, who recently authored a study on coyote conflict trends in Southern California that’s currently undergoing peer review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even among the city, county and state agencies that do track complaints or coyote bites, there is little standardization in the collection of information, making it very hard to look for trends. It’s why Quinn \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/02/20/69162/new-app-lets-anyone-report-and-get-alerts-about-co/\">created an app\u003c/a> to track coyote complaints that she hopes most Southern California cities will adopt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a scientific point of view, if you’re not asking the same questions, you can’t really analyze it,” said Quinn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, one of the few reliable sets of data in the area suggests the problem may be getting worse. The L.A. County Department of Public Health tracks the number of county residents receiving rabies shots for coyote bites. In 2012, just three people got the shots. That jumped to 16 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, 12 people were bitten by coyotes in Elysian Park in Los Angeles in the space of five months, according to Public Health. In one incident, a person was bitten while trying to stop a coyote from attacking a dog. But in many other cases the coyote approached humans directly. People were bitten while stargazing, lying on the ground or jogging. Kids were bitten while playing in a playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prior to that, we’d rarely see attacks of people,” said Karen Ehnert, the chief veterinarian for Public Health. “Now we’ve been hearing about them in different circumstance where it’s totally unprovoked. I mean, that’s just not normal behavior for wild animals; they should be afraid of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists don’t know why coyotes lose their fear of people. But there are a few theories. One is that because urban coyotes constantly see people and we don’t frighten them away or try to hurt them, they slowly get used to us. Over time, that can lead to the animals becoming aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many coyote management policies include an aggression scale that begins with seeing coyotes on the street, and ends with coyotes harassing or even biting people. But there is fierce disagreement about when to kill coyotes, if ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74135.html\">The University of California’s Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program\u003c/a> recommends killing coyotes when they become aggressive, specifically when they begin killing pets in daytime. \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/wildlife/template-coyote-management-plan.pdf\">The Humane Society of the United States\u003c/a>, meanwhile, recommends lethal control only in the event of an unprovoked attack on a human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11442250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11442250\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-800x447.jpg\" alt=\"The University of California's Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program's coyote aggression scale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-800x447.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-1180x659.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-960x537.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-240x134.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-375x210.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/CoyoteAggro-520x291.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of California’s Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program’s coyote aggression scale.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But according to multiple scientists interviewed for this story, there is no scientific consensus on when to kill a coyote or on how effective trapping is. \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/02/17/69144/arcadia-becomes-latest-city-to-trap-kill-coyotes/\">That didn’t stop Arcadia from voting to spend $15,000 on a trapping contract.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to do whatever we can to help the residents, make them feel safe,” said Councilman Beck. “Nobody should have to worry about going to their mailbox or getting in their car. We shouldn’t have to feel that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After choosing to move ahead with trapping, Arcadia got pushback from animal rights activists, led by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA. They staged a silent protest outside City Hall, holding signs of bloodied coyotes caught in snares, and they packed the next City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arcadia residents Jean Jerose and Maria Christina Halstead were among the 80 or so PETA supporters urging the council to reverse course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please do not let this happen,” Jerose said. “The fear is not real and it’s based on a lack of knowledge, as almost all fears are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Halstead: “The trapping and killing of these animals is an irresponsible and inhumane response to a problem that has other solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PETA argues that people need to change their behavior to avoid conflicts with coyotes. It suggests steps to make the human environment unwelcoming to coyotes, such as cleaning up garbage, not leaving pet food out, keeping pets on leash, and yelling or blowing whistles at bold coyotes, an action called “hazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there is no research to support this approach. KPCC asked PETA for evidence that hazing works to reverse aggressive behavior, but the organization couldn’t provide any, instead saying it works best as part of a suite of nonlethal solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National Park Service researchers based in the Santa Monica Mountains who are running one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/07/18/62651/first-year-of-la-s-urban-coyote-study-is-full-of-s/\">few urban coyote studies in greater Los Angeles\u003c/a> say there is anecdotal evidence that hazing works on coyotes that aren’t accustomed to people yet. But once they get used to humans, it may be too late. At that point, according to Seth Riley, a Park Service wildlife ecologist, there’s not much else that can be done besides trapping and euthanizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even then, it’s hard to be sure you’ve killed the problem coyote. The only surefire way is if a person has been bitten, he goes to the emergency room, the wound is swabbed for coyote DNA and it’s matched with a snared coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a coyote is trapped in response to a pet attack, however, there’s no way to ensure the aggressive coyote is being killed. In that case, Riley said, animal control companies may trap coyotes until the problem goes away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say this level of uncertainty is commonplace in urban coyote management, given the almost complete lack of research on what works, on whether conflicts are getting worse, and even on what constitutes a conflict. So cities find themselves confronted with the question: Is it more important to avoid harming coyotes at all costs, or protect people and their pets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Arcadia, the City Council voted to protect people and pets. But then PETA sued the city in March. To get out of the lawsuit, Arcadia announced last month it wouldn’t trap after all. PETA claimed victory, but resident Donna Perez felt differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels very unsafe,” she said, adding that she feels “very let down .. very alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A bill making its way through the state Legislature to strengthen tenant protections for immigrants without legal residency status is drawing support from advocates around the state, like David Aigboboh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for the Inner City Law Center in Los Angeles, Aigboboh represents a man fighting eviction from the apartment he's called home for the last 30 or so years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aigboboh thinks he has a case. The landlord wants to give his client's unit to a resident manager, even though Aigboboh said there hasn't been a manager before. The tenant lacks residency papers, so when the landlord's attorney asked him about his immigration status during a deposition in February, it made him \"very, very scared.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now that his case is going to trial, he has expressed some concern about coming to the court to testify because he has seen the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/31/states-chief-justice-doubles-down-on-criticism-of-immigration-enforcement-in-courthouses/\">stories\u003c/a> about (Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents) appearing at courthouses,\" Aigboboh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questioning a tenant about his or her immigration status would be barred in court under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB291\">AB 291\u003c/a>, sponsored by Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, landlords would be banned from threatening to report tenants to immigration agents. If that were to happen, tenants would have the backing of the law to sue the landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill's supporters maintain that landlords are using threats against immigrant tenants as a way to get them to vacate their rent-controlled apartments, which would allow landlords to hike up the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the overwhelming majority of immigrants lacking status are renters, they're in an especially vulnerable position, their advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"kka2g0aBtax96w2mI3kd1OjPnw2NAAeU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which is expected go for a vote before the state Assembly in the coming weeks, also has the backing of the state's biggest trade group for owners and property managers. The \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/\">California Apartment Association\u003c/a> is on a list of more than 50 supporters around the state, mostly housing and legal advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debra Carlton, senior vice president of public affairs for the California Apartment Association, maintains the number of problem landlords who would use deportation threats is small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These would be unscrupulous landlords that don’t subscribe to any kind of good landlord policies, so they operate on the fringes,\" Carlton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlton said her group advises members to never turn over tenants' immigration information to authorities unless ordered by a court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing and legal advocates believe that a growing number of landlords have been emboldened by the Trump administration and its aggressive efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. But advocates suspect that targeted immigrants are not reporting these problems because they fear drawing further attention to themselves, making the prevalence of these incidents hard to pin down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favian Gonzalez said that, as an organizer at \u003ca href=\"http://www.saje.net/\">Strategic Actions for a Just Economy\u003c/a> (SAJE) in Los Angeles, he's gotten a handful of reports this year of undocumented tenants threatened by landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This political climate is making us kind of keep an eye out now,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Protesters rallied in downtown Los Angeles last month in support of 48-year-old Romulo Avelica Gonzalez, a father of four who \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/07/69635/attorney-uphill-battle-to-keep-highland-park-dad-i/\">immigration officials arrested\u003c/a> in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agents pulled him over in Highland Park, about six blocks from where he had taken one of his daughters to school, and while on the way to drop off another daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His case made national headlines. A video of the arrest filmed by his sobbing 13-year-old daughter was widely shared on social media. Politicians got involved. Supporters held a fundraiser to help cover his legal expenses. A broad network of activists and supporters, many strangers, came to the family's defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The keen interest in Avelica's arrest may not have risen\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to the level it did two years ago, under President Obama's administration, when his family says immigration agents first came to their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"h7QZdsx09aV3F9LeMcv27qQGwCGWonIy\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2015 in September, ICE showed up to my mom’s house,\" said Brenda Avelica, 24, one of her father's older daughters. \"He felt that it was ICE, so he didn’t come out. My dad didn’t come out. And they didn’t have an order to come in. So they didn’t take him that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials would not comment on any prior attempts to arrest Romulo Avelica Gonzalez. But they did confirm he would have been a priority for arrest even under the Obama administration's guidelines: According to the immigration agency, Avelica had a 2014 deportation order and a minor criminal record, including a DUI dating back to 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenda Avelica said after the 2015 visit, the family took precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lived paranoid, like scared,\" she said. \"We didn’t have a gate in the back, so we put in a big gate with a lock. We had one dog, but we got another dog, for guarding purposes … my dad didn’t go to the store by himself after that anymore. Somebody went with him, just to be a witness, or in case something like that was going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it took months before the family relaxed and let down its guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We started living normally again,\" Brenda Avelica said. \"But it was always in the back of our heads. I don't think there was a day that we weren't ... thinking that maybe it could happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What's Different Now\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many immigrant families with members in the U.S illegally are living with similar fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Trump administration signed an executive order in January establishing a policy of strict enforcement against unauthorized immigrants, arrests have made frequent headlines. Some immigrants have \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/20/69948/fearing-immigration-crackdown-some-go-into-hiding/\">gone into hiding\u003c/a> or are preparing \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/21/69950/immigrants-prepare-for-a-day-when-another-might-ha/\">for the day ICE agents show up\u003c/a>. Others contemplate or have taken steps to return to their homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet for all the felt fear and life-changing decisions families are making, this is not the first time that immigration agents have cracked down on those lacking permission to reside in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the George W. Bush administration sent ICE agents to arrest immigrants with outstanding deportation orders. ICE \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-1n18immig211029-immigration-agents-casting-their-n-2009jan18-htmlstory.html\">\"fugitive operations\" teams \u003c/a>were sent to people's homes in the early morning hours. On many occasions, bystanders who were not being sought but were in the country illegally were also arrested. ICE called these \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/ice-fugitive-operations-program\">collateral\u003c/a> arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"vURfpyMT3dzLNYPfCVBV7WtmpnUI4H8N\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, the Obama administration deported record numbers of immigrants. In fiscal years 2012 through 2014, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2015/table39\">more than 400,000 deportations\u003c/a> took place each year, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security statistics. A record 434,015 immigrants were removed from the U.S. in fiscal year 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why does the fear seem heightened in the wake of Trump's election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doris Meissner, former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service under President Clinton, says enforcement policies have gotten stricter. INS preceded the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [Trump] guidelines say that everybody who is in the country without a legal status is subject to deportation from the country,\" said Meissner, now a senior policy fellow at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/\">Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Trump executive order rolls back protections initiated in the later Obama years, directing immigration agents to focus on immigrants convicted of serious crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said while those with criminal records remain priority targets under Trump, agents have more discretion to arrest others deemed deportable, even if their sole charge is living in the country without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's still not clear to what extent deportation numbers could change under Trump's executive order. \"We don't really know how much of a difference it will actually make,\" Meissner said. \"It is too soon to tell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does seem likely, she said, is there will be more collateral arrests than occurred in prior administrations, and more arrests of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who don’t have criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rumors, Rhetoric and Reality\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Such arrests essentially return enforcement to where it stood in the late 2000s. But a decade ago, arrests rarely made the national news. Now, cases of an \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/09/514299631/after-years-of-uneventful-check-ins-arizona-woman-is-arrested-faces-deportation\">immigrant suddenly deported\u003c/a> or an arrest of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/02/15/69100/worries-heightened-in-socal-after-arrest-of-daca-r/\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) participant\u003c/a> granted temporary residency can turn into a cause célèbre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Nogales, director of the media watchdog group National Hispanic Media Coalition, has a theory about why this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"DZQXOb5HmGTj7ObYu9NNYqZfSG7jeuc8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is so different now than it was 10 years ago, five years ago? ... [It's] that the talk is out there, day in, day out,\" Nogales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While past administrations carried out tough enforcement, too, they did not engage in the same harsh rhetoric that Trump has employed since \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2015/06/25/29292957/\">his campaign\u003c/a>. His vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants appealed to his supporters, and that promise is now making its way into his enforcement policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, when you have that kind of a toxic environment, of course people are going to talk about it. Of course people are going to report on it,\" Nogales said. \"Of course there is going to be a lot more action and activity and fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contributing to the heightened reaction are immigrant advocates who have stepped up their activity in response to Trump's enforcement policies, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some reports of ICE activity that are circulated — not just by advocates but by concerned residents via social media — have turned out to be inaccurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You kind of get this flurry of calls from friends, like, 'I saw on Facebook that there's this checkpoint over here,' \" said Erick Huerta, a Boyle Heights community activist who grew up undocumented in the U.S. and has temporary protection from deportation under DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles said witnesses told them there were \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/01/08/56716/weekend-immigration-raids-prompting-fear-and-rumor/\">workplace arrests in Chino\u003c/a>. But ICE officials said they made no arrests there on the day cited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE agents did announce the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/02/10/68963/ice-announce-160-arrests-in-socal-as-part-of-surge/\">arrests in Southern California\u003c/a> of about 160 immigrants in February, describing the \"enforcement surge\" as part of the agency's periodic operations. However, reports at the time of ICE checkpoints and random sweeps were dismissed by David Marin, field office director for enforcement and removal operations in the Los Angeles area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"T40DrnHovNTjzMKUj95IZQY1ETlL6MWs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin called the information \"definitely dangerous and irresponsible because reports like that create a panic, and they put communities and law enforcement at risk,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decisions in a Fraught Climate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In this atmosphere, people are basing decisions about their lives on information that may not be true or to their best advantage, said Alejandra Cano, a representative of Mexico's national immigration service, the Instituto Nacional de Migración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cano, who works at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, has seen the effects of this superheated climate. She coordinates a program through Mexico's immigration service called \"Somos Mexicanos,\" or Spanish for \"We are Mexican.\" The program assists Mexicans who are returning home, both voluntarily and because of deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cano said that since January, 77 Southern California families have sought help to move back to Mexico. Most have U.S.-born children, and seven have already left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, she has seen a marked difference in the reasons people give in explaining why they want to leave the U.S..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before ... the reason was because they wanted to retire in Mexico,\" Cano said. \"And now, the people feel afraid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"A6Nge2OXnIIjOpo6VuNABImWek37RAq8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cano said she tries to reason with them. She asks them if they have a criminal record or a deportation order. If they don’t, she tells them there is no cause to rush out of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that in the first three months of this year, Mexico has received fewer deportees than in the same period a year ago, when Obama was in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference now is the message that this administration is sending to everybody, and the fear in everybody,\" Cano said. \"That fear is making people take decisions they shouldn’t take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result of the heightened awareness of deportation cases is that those arrested — like Romulo Avelica Gonzalez — are attracting more support than they might have before Trump took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Avelica was arrested, administrators at his daughter's school quickly spread the word and immigration activists mobilized an effort to stop his deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has worked so far — Avelica is still in detention, but not yet deported. Lawyers are working to keep him in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like now, with the presidency, I feel like immigration is maybe a little bigger now, and maybe it’s talked about more,\" said Avelica's daughter, Brenda. \"So maybe it is getting more attention now than before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's hoping, with the widespread attention he's been receiving, her father will eventually be released.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Somebody went with him, just to be a witness, or in case something like that was going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it took months before the family relaxed and let down its guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We started living normally again,\" Brenda Avelica said. \"But it was always in the back of our heads. I don't think there was a day that we weren't ... thinking that maybe it could happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What's Different Now\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many immigrant families with members in the U.S illegally are living with similar fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Trump administration signed an executive order in January establishing a policy of strict enforcement against unauthorized immigrants, arrests have made frequent headlines. Some immigrants have \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/20/69948/fearing-immigration-crackdown-some-go-into-hiding/\">gone into hiding\u003c/a> or are preparing \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/21/69950/immigrants-prepare-for-a-day-when-another-might-ha/\">for the day ICE agents show up\u003c/a>. Others contemplate or have taken steps to return to their homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet for all the felt fear and life-changing decisions families are making, this is not the first time that immigration agents have cracked down on those lacking permission to reside in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the George W. Bush administration sent ICE agents to arrest immigrants with outstanding deportation orders. ICE \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-1n18immig211029-immigration-agents-casting-their-n-2009jan18-htmlstory.html\">\"fugitive operations\" teams \u003c/a>were sent to people's homes in the early morning hours. On many occasions, bystanders who were not being sought but were in the country illegally were also arrested. ICE called these \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/ice-fugitive-operations-program\">collateral\u003c/a> arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, the Obama administration deported record numbers of immigrants. In fiscal years 2012 through 2014, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2015/table39\">more than 400,000 deportations\u003c/a> took place each year, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security statistics. 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INS preceded the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [Trump] guidelines say that everybody who is in the country without a legal status is subject to deportation from the country,\" said Meissner, now a senior policy fellow at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/\">Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Trump executive order rolls back protections initiated in the later Obama years, directing immigration agents to focus on immigrants convicted of serious crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said while those with criminal records remain priority targets under Trump, agents have more discretion to arrest others deemed deportable, even if their sole charge is living in the country without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's still not clear to what extent deportation numbers could change under Trump's executive order. \"We don't really know how much of a difference it will actually make,\" Meissner said. \"It is too soon to tell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does seem likely, she said, is there will be more collateral arrests than occurred in prior administrations, and more arrests of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who don’t have criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rumors, Rhetoric and Reality\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Such arrests essentially return enforcement to where it stood in the late 2000s. 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