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He noted that there are over 500,000 athletes in the association. Mosier said the decision to target transgender athletes despite their small numbers was a political one that hurts both the transgender community and other marginalized groups looking to participate in college athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about banning a handful of trans athletes from participating in sports,” Mosier said. “Trans identity has been politicized and weaponized… It’s a strategy to try to legislate away transgender people from public life. 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Furuya, director of education at nonprofit Athlete Ally. In the NCAA, there have been zero reports of transgender women assaulting teammates in locker rooms or bathrooms, and it’s been proven that transgender women do not have a considerable advantage over their cisgender counterparts, Furuya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sports were created to build community and foster social growth and a better sense of self worth,” they said. “To take those opportunities away from transgender kids — it says if you don’t fit and follow the guidelines we create, you will be bullied and harassed, and we will celebrate that harm to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA already enforces strict policies for transgender athletes in women’s sports, including requiring them to undergo testosterone testing before competing, Furuya said. With the new policy, Furuya noted even more women and girls will be vulnerable to invasive scrutiny when it comes to their sex, whether they’re transgender or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major loss for everybody, and we will continue to see the impact for years,” Furuya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliza Brown, an associate professor of sociology at UC Berkeley, said policies restricting transgender athletes assume sex and gender are binary categories, which can create challenges for women and girls who do not conform to traditional expectations, regardless of their sex at birth. Some cisgender women take testosterone treatments to address medical conditions that have nothing to do with a gender transition, and the NCAA’s policy could affect them as well, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you see somebody who has a naturally higher level of testosterone, which has happened for decades in terms of Olympic investigations, there’s suspicion,” Brown said. “There is a broader goal here to terrify queer and transgender people, and to police women more broadly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025974 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-12.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interscholastic Federation, which governs high school athletics, said it follows state law allowing students to compete on sports teams that align with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA has faced public backlash for allowing transgender athletes to compete alongside cisgender women and access facilities such as women’s bathrooms and locker rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose-state-university\">San José State University\u003c/a> has been at the center of a nationwide debate since a women’s volleyball player and others sued last year, seeking to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015114/anti-trans-lawsuit-seeks-ban-san-jose-state-volleyball-player-tournament\">bar a player they said was transgender\u003c/a>. Federal officials are looking into whether the school discriminated against female athletes, and the lawsuit is still ongoing. The Department of Education also announced Thursday that it is investigating San Jose State University and two other institutions for alleged Title IX violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several athletes and coaches, including those from the University of Pennsylvania, have sued the NCAA over alleged Title IX violations related to transgender women in sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosier, who helped change the International Olympic Committee’s policy on transgender athletes, said he wants to see more transgender youth participate in sports because it can be an affirming experience. 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Furuya, director of education at nonprofit Athlete Ally. In the NCAA, there have been zero reports of transgender women assaulting teammates in locker rooms or bathrooms, and it’s been proven that transgender women do not have a considerable advantage over their cisgender counterparts, Furuya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sports were created to build community and foster social growth and a better sense of self worth,” they said. “To take those opportunities away from transgender kids — it says if you don’t fit and follow the guidelines we create, you will be bullied and harassed, and we will celebrate that harm to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA already enforces strict policies for transgender athletes in women’s sports, including requiring them to undergo testosterone testing before competing, Furuya said. With the new policy, Furuya noted even more women and girls will be vulnerable to invasive scrutiny when it comes to their sex, whether they’re transgender or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major loss for everybody, and we will continue to see the impact for years,” Furuya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliza Brown, an associate professor of sociology at UC Berkeley, said policies restricting transgender athletes assume sex and gender are binary categories, which can create challenges for women and girls who do not conform to traditional expectations, regardless of their sex at birth. 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"content": "\u003cp>Amid reports that President Trump’s newly formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5286314/department-of-government-efficiency-doge-explainer-elon-musk\">Department of Government Efficiency\u003c/a> appears ready to target key weather and climate change resources housed under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Bay Area Democrats are ringing alarm bells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elected officials, along with local agriculture and public safety leaders, say that slashing NOAA programs and privatizing some of its operations — part of the controversial Project 2025 playbook — would uproot industries and cost lives as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995420/climate-scientists-warn-of-growing-whiplash-effect-on-weather-patterns\">effects of human-caused climate change\u003c/a> grow more severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Rep. Zoe Lofgren said that DOGE chief Elon Musk and other employees visited NOAA offices Tuesday, and staffers have said they searched through IT databases for information related to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that Trump has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025581/trump-is-weighing-big-cuts-to-the-u-s-education-department\"> targeted for elimination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elon Musk and his DOGE hackers are ransacking their way through the federal government, unlawfully gaining unfettered access to Americans’ private information and gutting programs people depend on,” Lofgren said in a joint statement with North Bay Rep. Jared Huffman. Both are ranking members of House environmental committees. “Now they have reached NOAA where they’re wreaking havoc on the scientific and regulatory systems that protect American families’ safety and jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026305\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/AP110824023292-scaled-e1738975599366.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026305\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/AP110824023292-scaled-e1738975599366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1134\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A storm surge specialist studies a computer at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. The agency is a division of the United States’ NOAA and National Weather Service. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The action at NOAA’s headquarters re-upped fears over a plan to significantly dismantle the department and get rid of the National Weather Service in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">Project 2025\u003c/a>, the 900-page conservative policy document aiming to reshape the federal government that was published ahead of last year’s election. Trump has tried to distance himself from the plan, but in his first few weeks in office, he’s already implemented some of its initiatives, and Russell Vought, considered one of its architects, was confirmed Thursday as his director of the Office of Management and Budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 calls for eliminating many of NOAA’s functions and outsourcing others to states and the private sector. The document suggested that the agency drives climate change alarm and said its related research should be disbanded, calling it “harmful to future U.S. prosperity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental experts and Democratic elected officials worry that its dismantling is what could be harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Privatizing this, basically eliminating it, would put Americans in danger,” Lofgren told KQED. “The Republicans are saying that climate change doesn’t exist, which is ridiculous, but the weather service tells us who’s in harm’s way. Ripping the rug out from under the program would prevent Americans from getting lifesaving information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Matters of life and death’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the year, the NWS has issued red flag warnings and fire weather planning forecasts that helped prepare Southern California ahead of — and during — the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires. It tracked flooding in Sonoma County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025777/north-bay-rivers-flood-after-storm-little-time-prepare-next-round-rain\">prompting evacuations\u003c/a> of low-lying areas that were underwater when the Russian River rose during recent storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain criticized the idea of cutting NOAA funding even before these events in one of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3GRgeNJoNo&t=3642s\">YouTube office hours\u003c/a> last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12026048 hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/gettyimages-1239964184-8607e24e542b289e57840cc9b8de8eb18fc6afcf.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, “the weather service has played an outsized role in peoples’ lives all around the country given the relatively extreme volume of extreme weather events we’ve seen — including some record-breaking ones — that 50, 60, 70 years ago probably would have killed hundreds of people if not thousands of people,” he said. “This time [the events] killed 10 to 100 times fewer people and resulted in many billions of dollars less in damages. That’s just this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Olyer, the president of Oakland’s firefighter union, said the department uses NOAA data to adjust staffing for red flag days and high wind events and ahead of storms that down trees and power lines and prompt evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The day of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">Keller Fire\u003c/a>, we had upstaffed the amount of fire engines that were on the street from Oakland, and they were up in the hills patrolling because of the high wind event,” he said. “We have more people, more boots on the ground, to deal with the situation to keep small incidents small.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are frequently matters of life and death,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air traffic controllers and the agriculture industry also rely on the weather data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think it could impact farming as we know it,” said Andy Naja-Riese, the executive director of the Agricultural Institute of Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said farmers use weather modeling to make decisions every day — ensuring that they don’t plant crops before intense rains that would wash away seeds, staffing agricultural workers for harvest during heat waves, and preparing frost-prone crops for freezes. Ranchers also look at modeling to decide when livestock should be roaming outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We grow a lot of wine grapes in the North Bay,” Naja-Riese told KQED. “Thinking through irrigation patterns and understanding how to prepare for things like when to water crops, let’s say, in the summer if there are forecasts of really intense heat that’s coming. You want to be able to plan for these types of activities, and you need reliable data to make that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain said that there are some private weather providers that give more agriculture-specific information, but that data comes from the weather service — as do commercial weather services and GPS apps found on Apple and Google devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do you think the information in the Weather app comes from? It comes from NOAA,” Lofgren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Privatizing comes with costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the NWS — which costs individual taxpayers around $3 a year — were to be privatized, it would be expensive and likely time-consuming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Diffenbaugh, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, said a look at the budget of the federal programs gives a good idea of what it would take for a private company to run a comprehensive weather service. In 2023, the NWS had a budget of about \u003ca href=\"https://www.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-05/NOAA_Blue_Book_2024.pdf\">$1.3 billion\u003c/a>, while NOAA’s as a whole was \u003ca href=\"https://research.noaa.gov/external-affairs/budget/#:~:text=CONSOLIDATED%20APPROPRIATIONS%20ACT%20OF%202023&text=On%20December%2029%2C%202022%2C%20President,of%20%246.35B%20for%20NOAA.\">$6.3 billion\u003c/a>. That doesn’t include the investments needed to set up the infrastructure the federal government has built over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our satellite observing systems that have now been in place for more than 40 years — that for a long time has really been dependent on government investments in satellite development,” Diffenbaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While there certainly we can leverage knowledge that’s been developed, the reality is that the operational capabilities in terms of the real-time forecasts, the real-time warnings, the real-time response, you know, that’s all that’s all needed going forward,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creating new infrastructure would also take time. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:55 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, joined by three other cities and counties across the country, are suing the Trump administration over its threats to punish jurisdictions that have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023560/bay-area-officials-vow-uphold-sanctuary-immigrants-despite-threats-from-trump\">sanctuary immigration policies\u003c/a>, calling the moves unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit, filed in the Northern District of California, asks the court to declare the Trump administration’s actions unlawful and prevent the federal government from implementing them. The two Bay Area counties brought similar lawsuits during the first Trump administration and won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys say the Trump administration is violating the 10th Amendment, which says that powers not given to the federal government are reserved for the states. The amendment has been interpreted as prohibiting the federal government from forcing states to use their resources to carry out federal responsibilities, such as immigration enforcement. The suit also alleges that Trump’s actions violate the separation of powers, spending clause, due process clause and administrative procedures act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the federal government illegally asserting a right it does not have, telling cities how to use their resources, and commandeering local law enforcement,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said. “This is the federal government coercing local officials to bend to their will or face defunding or prosecution. That is illegal and authoritarian. As local officials, we have a right to do our jobs without threats and interference from the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is also joined by Portland, Oregon, New Haven, Connecticut, and King County, Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump took office, he and his administration have made a number of moves to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024342/trump-wants-to-break-californias-sanctuary-state-law-5-things-to-know\">crack down on sanctuary jurisdictions\u003c/a> — generally cities, counties and states that prohibit local officials from participating in most immigration enforcement activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trump issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/29/2025-02006/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion\">executive order\u003c/a> calling for sanctuary cities, counties and states to lose federal funds, and the administration issued Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388531/dl?inline\">memos\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25501154-doj-all-staff-memo-jan-21/\">instructing\u003c/a> federal law enforcement to investigate and civilly and criminally prosecute local officials who don’t actively assist in immigration enforcement. Earlier this week, the Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/nyregion/ny-sheriff-ithaca-immigration.html\">threatened to prosecute a local sheriff\u003c/a> in New York state for releasing an undocumented immigrant who had pleaded guilty to assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Thursday, the federal government filed suit against Chicago, Cook County and Illinois, challenging their sanctuary laws. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5288871/justice-department-sues-chicago-and-illinois-over-sanctuary-laws\">In that suit, the administration charged\u003c/a> that sanctuary jurisdictions make it more difficult for and deliberately impede federal immigration officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said that lawsuit made “the prosecution of state and local officials for following their local laws a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanctuary jurisdictions like San Francisco do not prevent the federal government from carrying out its own immigration enforcement. And California’s statewide sanctuary laws include provisions that require state prison and local jail officials to hand over people lacking legal status after they serve their sentence if they are convicted of serious and violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025395 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250203-DayWithoutAnImmigrant-04-BL.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the laws make a clear distinction between federal immigration enforcement and local law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say San Francisco’s law, in place since 1989, is aimed at ensuring that immigrants, with legal status or not, feel comfortable reporting crimes to local police. Supporters, including Chiu, argue that such laws make communities safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump Administration’s actions have nothing to do with public safety because we know that sanctuary laws improve public safety,” said Chiu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti added that both counties are “striving to create a culture of trust and security within our communities so that our residents know that they can come to the county when they are in need or when they can be of help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first Trump administration, San Francisco and Santa Clara sued the federal government for attempting to withhold federal funds based on their sanctuary policies; the two counties prevailed in that suit before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the policies were legal and the withholding of funds were not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024439\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024439\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Vara, with the Latino Task Force, stands with a group of elected and public safety officials, labor leaders, and community members fill the steps in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, during a press conference to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the latest threats to withhold funding are identical to the first time around, noting Trump used the same exact executive order language that was struck down before — but that this time, the administration also expanded the offensive to include investigations both civil and criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government can’t weaponize federal funding to bully us away from that commitment to trust and security,” LoPresti said. “We worked hand in hand with San Francisco in 2017 to enforce the Constitution against the Trump administration. We litigated before, and we prevailed. We are litigating again, and we will prevail again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA law professor Hiroshi Motomura said the Constitution does prohibit state law from conflicting with federal law but added that in past cases, the courts have ruled clearly on the sides of the states when it comes to the question of whether the federal government can force a city to use its personnel or resources to do the federal government’s job. Immigration has been clearly defined as in the purview of the federal government, Motomura added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Constitution protects city and local autonomy,” he said. “If ICE calls up San Francisco and says we need some of your police officers to back up an immigration raid, the city attorney would surely say that’s commandeering. You can’t tell us how to spend our resources, basically make local decisions for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Motomura said part of the Trump administration’s goal is a chilling effect, to scare immigrants in sanctuary jurisdictions — and prevent other cities and counties from enacting new sanctuary laws or policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what’s going on in the administration is, you know, basically messaging and making people afraid. And so a lot of that is accomplished whether or not there is even ever a lawsuit or even follow through,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Santa Clara County receive billions of dollars a year from the federal government. Chiu and LoPresti said that the Trump administration has not yet actually withheld any funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, LoPresti added, “We have seen the administration moving so fast, and oftentimes so chaotically, it’s difficult to tell when they are putting something forward or withdrawing it. So rather than be caught flat-footed, we definitely felt like we needed to be proactive rather than wait for the impacts to our residents in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">number of faculty lecturers\u003c/a> were informed in the fall that they wouldn’t be teaching classes this semester, and next year, sections of some courses, like introductory writing, will be significantly reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University spokesperson Bobby King said the campus is just beginning to budget for next year, but he expects it to have to make $25 million in reductions based on a 5% decrease in enrollment-based funding and dwindling tuition dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFSU has been working to align budgets with current enrollment trends for several years. 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It’s housed the Estuary and Ocean Science Center — which employs three tenure-track faculty members, 11 faculty researchers and nine state-funded employees — since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students haven’t taken courses there since a master’s program in estuary science was discontinued last year, but about 40 conduct research onsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The closure of RTC will allow SFSU to redirect critical funding into the main campus during a challenging period for the University, CSU and the state,” Mahoney said in a statement on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State faculty roles won’t be cut and will be relocated to the main campus. It’s unclear what will happen to the nine state-funded positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State East Bay is also phasing out use of one of its satellite campuses, the Oakland Center, for ongoing “significant savings.” It will terminate its lease at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student walks past the East Bay sign at Cal State East Bay in Hayward on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are projecting a significant structural deficit,” campus President Cathy Sandeen said in a message to the school community in September. The deficit was around $14 million after enrollment fell further at the start of the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson said Thursday that the campus has been able to save $10 million throughout this budget year but was still looking at discontinuing low-enrolled programs while prioritizing required courses and ensuring faculty assignments align with enrollment demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs,” Sandeen said in a budget update last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were identified for discontinuation at the beginning of the 2024–25 academic year and women’s water polo was cut last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 18 months, 165 lecturers, who taught part-time or up to four classes in a semester, lost their appointments. Jeff Newcomb, the president of Cal State East Bay’s faculty union, said the union was warned that layoffs might still be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandeen said at the beginning of the year that administrators were working with the faculty union since some represented positions might be eliminated and was forming an Academic Senate Layoff Committee to advise on the job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José State University’s Washington Square Hall located in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the CSU system’s 23 campuses will also be hit by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2025/uc-csu-face-cuts-under-newsoms-proposed-budget/724947\">a 7.95% state funding cut\u003c/a>, based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020389/newsom-projects-slight-budget-surplus-with-focus-on-saving-accountability\">Gov. 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All of the universities have expressed hope that the state — which has a $363 million budget surplus — will reinstate school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Romesburg, the Sonoma State Women and Gender Studies department chair who is set to be laid off at the end of the year when his department closes, said the state should be stepping up to fund the CSU system, especially as President Trump’s administration targets public institutions and social welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to recognize that doing so is a way of pushing back against all of the ways in which we are being besieged by the federal government and its politics right now,” he said on Forum. “Reinvest in a California-style, quality public higher education system that creates the engines of change and social justice and prosperity and purpose for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The significant cuts announced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State University\u003c/a> are not likely to be a one-off, interim President Emily Cutrer warned — other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> campuses in the Bay Area are facing similar budget deficits and might have to take the same drastic steps as enrollment and statewide funding decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may be the first, but we’re not the last CSU where you are going to see issues,” Cutrer said Thursday morning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908804/what-sonoma-states-massive-budget-cuts-mean-for-the-universitys-future\">on KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma State is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">eliminating 20 degree programs, six departments and all NCAA Division II athletics\u003c/a> at the end of the academic year to stave off a $24 million budget shortfall — worsened by a 38% decline in enrollment over the last decade. That shrinking student body affects two of the university’s major funding streams: tuition dollars and CSU funding, which the system announced in 2023 that it would reallocate away from campuses that don’t meet enrollment goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other CSUs in Northern California — including Cal State East Bay and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-state-university\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a> — have also faced declining enrollment, saddling them with significant deficits as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, university President Lynn Mahoney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">announced a fiscal emergency\u003c/a> in December, which she told KQED at the time was “just the language that [she] had to use based on a very old [Academic] Senate policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk up to the top of San Francisco State University’s campus in San Francisco, California, on Aug. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, she said in a message to staff that month that the policy allows programs to “be reduced, phased out, reorganized or discontinued.” She also said the university would cut back on hiring staff and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State’s student body has been decreasing since the fall of 2019, and this year, its first-year class was 20% to 25% smaller than anticipated. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">number of faculty lecturers\u003c/a> were informed in the fall that they wouldn’t be teaching classes this semester, and next year, sections of some courses, like introductory writing, will be significantly reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University spokesperson Bobby King said the campus is just beginning to budget for next year, but he expects it to have to make $25 million in reductions based on a 5% decrease in enrollment-based funding and dwindling tuition dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFSU has been working to align budgets with current enrollment trends for several years. But with the additional cuts that appear to be on the horizon, we — unfortunately — will have a lot more work to do,” King told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details will emerge in the coming months, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the university announced that it was beginning to phase out the use of its Romberg Tiburon Campus in Marin County, which has been a research location since 1978. It’s housed the Estuary and Ocean Science Center — which employs three tenure-track faculty members, 11 faculty researchers and nine state-funded employees — since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students haven’t taken courses there since a master’s program in estuary science was discontinued last year, but about 40 conduct research onsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The closure of RTC will allow SFSU to redirect critical funding into the main campus during a challenging period for the University, CSU and the state,” Mahoney said in a statement on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State faculty roles won’t be cut and will be relocated to the main campus. It’s unclear what will happen to the nine state-funded positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State East Bay is also phasing out use of one of its satellite campuses, the Oakland Center, for ongoing “significant savings.” It will terminate its lease at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student walks past the East Bay sign at Cal State East Bay in Hayward on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are projecting a significant structural deficit,” campus President Cathy Sandeen said in a message to the school community in September. The deficit was around $14 million after enrollment fell further at the start of the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson said Thursday that the campus has been able to save $10 million throughout this budget year but was still looking at discontinuing low-enrolled programs while prioritizing required courses and ensuring faculty assignments align with enrollment demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs,” Sandeen said in a budget update last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were identified for discontinuation at the beginning of the 2024–25 academic year and women’s water polo was cut last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 18 months, 165 lecturers, who taught part-time or up to four classes in a semester, lost their appointments. Jeff Newcomb, the president of Cal State East Bay’s faculty union, said the union was warned that layoffs might still be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandeen said at the beginning of the year that administrators were working with the faculty union since some represented positions might be eliminated and was forming an Academic Senate Layoff Committee to advise on the job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José State University’s Washington Square Hall located in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the CSU system’s 23 campuses will also be hit by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2025/uc-csu-face-cuts-under-newsoms-proposed-budget/724947\">a 7.95% state funding cut\u003c/a>, based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020389/newsom-projects-slight-budget-surplus-with-focus-on-saving-accountability\">Gov. Gavin Newson’s proposed budget\u003c/a>, released in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of such deep funding cuts will have significant real-world consequences, both in and out of the classroom,” CSU Chancellor Mildred García said in a statement at the time. “Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and a reduced workforce will hinder students’ ability to graduate on time and weaken California’s ability to meet its increasing demands for a diverse and highly educated workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state cuts would cost SF State $20.7 million and Cal State East Bay $11 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José State, which saw a 3.5% increase in its student body this year, will see enrollment-based funding go up instead of being trimmed, but spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald called the state’s financial outlook “challenging” for the university. Between the enrollment-based increase and the overall state funding cut, SJSU expects a net reduction of 2.5% to 4%, McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts won’t be finalized until June, when the California Legislature approves a final budget. All of the universities have expressed hope that the state — which has a $363 million budget surplus — will reinstate school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Romesburg, the Sonoma State Women and Gender Studies department chair who is set to be laid off at the end of the year when his department closes, said the state should be stepping up to fund the CSU system, especially as President Trump’s administration targets public institutions and social welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to recognize that doing so is a way of pushing back against all of the ways in which we are being besieged by the federal government and its politics right now,” he said on Forum. “Reinvest in a California-style, quality public higher education system that creates the engines of change and social justice and prosperity and purpose for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After the 2017 Tubbs wildfire destroyed the Santa Rosa preschool Renee Whitlock-Hemsouvanh had opened three years earlier, she felt desperate and hopeless and uncertain of the school’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the school’s families had also lost their homes, and she didn’t think she could recuperate enough insurance money to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was just a lot of disbelief because whoever thinks that you’re going to lose everything, like it’s just gonna burn to the ground?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually reestablished her preschool at another site, but the recovery took years. Lately, Whitlock-Hemsouvanh finds herself playing the role of wildfire survivor, giving advice to early educators in Los Angeles County figuring out how to move forward after last month’s devastating wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025677\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kauai, a preschool student, puts on dry socks after coming in from outdoor play at Fulton Community School & Farm. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Forty licensed centers or homes that provide child care in Altadena and Pacific Palisades were destroyed, and about 240 others remain closed because of smoke damage or lack of power and water, according to the California Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family child care providers who lost their homes also lost their livelihoods. A coalition of childcare advocates, along with state and local agencies, are helping providers prepare for reopening and displaced families find child care wherever they land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks are just getting to the point where they’ve been able to see what’s left, if anything is left, and starting to make plans for their next steps,” said Donna Sneeringer, chief strategy officer for Child Care Resource Center, based in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renee Whitlock-Hemsouvanh is the director of Fulton Community School & Farm in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whitlock-Hemsouvanh advises program directors like Alana Levitt, whose preschool sustained smoke damage in the Palisades fire, how to mitigate that damage, how to deep clean playgrounds and how to support families whose lives were upended by the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt, director of Kehillat Israel’s Early Childhood Center, said enrollment had been cut in half because families scattered to other parts of California or even other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She temporarily moved to another preschool building in nearby Santa Monica that had space for the remaining children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We acted fast because the lesson that we learned from COVID is that we have to adapt really quickly,” Levitt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fulton Community School & Farm in Santa Rosa was once a Lutheran church. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was able to do that because the state is granting\u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/meTVCkRozNIr6xKjTkCyTGeHqZ?domain=cdss.ca.gov\"> licensed child care providers some flexibility\u003c/a> in where they can relocate and how many children they can admit so they can continue their work in the aftermath of a disaster. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass also issued \u003ca href=\"https://mayor.lacity.gov/sites/g/files/wph2066/files/2025-02/EO%204%20-%20Emergency%20Executive%20Order%20-%20Temporary%20School%20and%20Child%20Care%20Facility%20Use.pdf\">an executive order\u003c/a> this week to speed up the process of opening new child care facilities in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt’s experience parallels what Whitlock-Hemsouvanh went through seven years ago. Two weeks after the Tubbs fire killed 22 people and destroyed 4,600 homes — the most destructive in state history at the time — her preschool moved to a temporary site and relied on donated books and supplies. Parents pitched in to spruce up the classrooms and outdoor play area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She then caught a break when the city of Santa Rosa decided to lease a former church on city-owned land at a fair market value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026087 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preschooler Joshua plays with a set of toys and (right) changes socks with the direction of his teacher, Yuka Morris, at Fulton Community School & Farm. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-to-lease-former-church-to-day-care-company-that-lost-facility-in/\">City officials chose the preschool over other proposals to\u003c/a> convert the property into transitional housing or a hospice facility after deciding to make affordable child care a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, Sonoma County \u003ca href=\"https://upstreaminvestments.org/Microsites/Upstream%20Investments/Documents/READY/READY-Annual-Report-23-24.pdf\">lost 450 child care slots to the 2017 fires and\u003c/a> about 50% of its remaining licensed child care capacity after the COVID-19 pandemic gutted the early education workforce, according to a county report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say that because the sector already struggles with low profit margins, any additional costs brought on by events like the Sonoma and Los Angeles fires can destabilize providers and lead to closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s already this lack of quality, accessible child care and when you add in an extreme weather event or natural disaster, it just kind of multiplies and exacerbates those existing problems,” said Ariel Ford, senior vice president of program impact at Child Care Aware of America, which offers \u003ca href=\"https://www.childcareaware.org/our-issues/crisis-and-disaster-resources/\">emergency preparedness, response and recovery tips\u003c/a> to its national network of child care resource organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care is often an afterthought following a disaster, Ford said, “even though the parents are scrambling to find [it] because when you have little ones, you can’t do the work of recovery while you also have a baby on your hip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02536.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025681\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02536.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02536-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02536-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02536-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02536-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02536-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Soundara prepares lunch for the students at Fulton Community School & Farm. Soundara was on staff at the Mark West Community Preschool before fire destroyed it. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Whitlock-Hemsouvanh, community support was instrumental in helping her recover from her loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes in zoning regulations and reductions in red tape allowed her to reestablish her business. She abandoned plans to rebuild the burned preschool and used money raised for that project to convert the church into a spacious preschool named \u003ca href=\"https://fultoncommunityschool.com/\">Fulton Community School & Farm\u003c/a>. Contributions from United Way Wine Country and First 5 Sonoma County helped cover the $100,000 cost of installing a fire sprinkler system to bring it up to licensing standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_00170.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025674\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_00170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_00170.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_00170-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_00170-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_00170-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_00170-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_00170-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play on ‘woodchip mountain’ at Fulton Community School & Farm. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, a day after moving into the building in March 2020, the state ordered shutdowns to slow the spread of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a wild time, and we stayed closed for two months,” she said.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021661,news_12024321,forum_2010101908557\"]When it reopened, the preschool operated at a lower capacity as children and teachers gradually returned to in-person learning. But after seven years of turmoil, enrollment has increased, staffing has stabilized, and she has paid off debts associated with losing her preschool to the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new building is on three acres of land, giving kids plenty of room to play outside, grow the food they eat and feed goats and chickens in the garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From that time in 2017 until now has been nothing but change and recovery, and I think that it is this year finally that we’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel,” Whitlock-Hemsouvanh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She encourages early educators to strengthen relationships in their community as they seek the help that they need. She also thinks a growing awareness of the child care crisis led voters in November to pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014476/3-local-measures-in-california-boosting-funding-for-kids-programs-on-verge-of-victory\">a quarter-cent sales tax\u003c/a> to raise about $30 million annually to fund child care and mental health services for young kids. She sees the funding as part of the long-term recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>There’s a lot more people looking at this early childhood time as a profound time in life and seeing it as valuable and worthy of investment,” she said. “I’m just hoping that that kind of momentum continues in our community. And I realize it’s not that way everywhere, but in Sonoma County and in Santa Rosa, it feels like we’re really being seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After the 2017 Tubbs wildfire destroyed the Santa Rosa preschool Renee Whitlock-Hemsouvanh had opened three years earlier, she felt desperate and hopeless and uncertain of the school’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the school’s families had also lost their homes, and she didn’t think she could recuperate enough insurance money to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was just a lot of disbelief because whoever thinks that you’re going to lose everything, like it’s just gonna burn to the ground?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually reestablished her preschool at another site, but the recovery took years. Lately, Whitlock-Hemsouvanh finds herself playing the role of wildfire survivor, giving advice to early educators in Los Angeles County figuring out how to move forward after last month’s devastating wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025677\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_01420-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kauai, a preschool student, puts on dry socks after coming in from outdoor play at Fulton Community School & Farm. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Forty licensed centers or homes that provide child care in Altadena and Pacific Palisades were destroyed, and about 240 others remain closed because of smoke damage or lack of power and water, according to the California Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family child care providers who lost their homes also lost their livelihoods. A coalition of childcare advocates, along with state and local agencies, are helping providers prepare for reopening and displaced families find child care wherever they land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks are just getting to the point where they’ve been able to see what’s left, if anything is left, and starting to make plans for their next steps,” said Donna Sneeringer, chief strategy officer for Child Care Resource Center, based in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02636-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renee Whitlock-Hemsouvanh is the director of Fulton Community School & Farm in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whitlock-Hemsouvanh advises program directors like Alana Levitt, whose preschool sustained smoke damage in the Palisades fire, how to mitigate that damage, how to deep clean playgrounds and how to support families whose lives were upended by the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt, director of Kehillat Israel’s Early Childhood Center, said enrollment had been cut in half because families scattered to other parts of California or even other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She temporarily moved to another preschool building in nearby Santa Monica that had space for the remaining children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We acted fast because the lesson that we learned from COVID is that we have to adapt really quickly,” Levitt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02693-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fulton Community School & Farm in Santa Rosa was once a Lutheran church. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was able to do that because the state is granting\u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/meTVCkRozNIr6xKjTkCyTGeHqZ?domain=cdss.ca.gov\"> licensed child care providers some flexibility\u003c/a> in where they can relocate and how many children they can admit so they can continue their work in the aftermath of a disaster. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass also issued \u003ca href=\"https://mayor.lacity.gov/sites/g/files/wph2066/files/2025-02/EO%204%20-%20Emergency%20Executive%20Order%20-%20Temporary%20School%20and%20Child%20Care%20Facility%20Use.pdf\">an executive order\u003c/a> this week to speed up the process of opening new child care facilities in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt’s experience parallels what Whitlock-Hemsouvanh went through seven years ago. Two weeks after the Tubbs fire killed 22 people and destroyed 4,600 homes — the most destructive in state history at the time — her preschool moved to a temporary site and relied on donated books and supplies. Parents pitched in to spruce up the classrooms and outdoor play area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She then caught a break when the city of Santa Rosa decided to lease a former church on city-owned land at a fair market value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026087 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250204_Post-Fire-Child-Care_DMB_02015_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preschooler Joshua plays with a set of toys and (right) changes socks with the direction of his teacher, Yuka Morris, at Fulton Community School & Farm. \u003ccite>(David M. 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Neither KCBS nor its parent company, Audacy, responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Carr criticized his own commission for voting to approve part of Audacy’s bankruptcy reorganization plan that would involve the investment firm founded by billionaire George Soros, a donor to liberal causes and a lightning rod for the right wing. Soros Fund Management bought much of Audacy’s debt during the reorganization process, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-14/soros-fund-set-to-own-biggest-audacy-stake-after-bankruptcy?sref=0h3tD0ig\">\u003cem>Bloomberg\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>First, there was President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023248/trump-again-wades-into-california-water-use-fight-drawing-skepticism-from-experts\">executive order\u003c/a> to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in the Central Valley, a move the Feds walked back after farmers and water experts decried it as \u003ca href=\"https://sjvwater.org/decision-to-dump-water-from-tulare-county-lakes-altered-after-sending-locals-in-mad-scramble/\">wasteful\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/post/central-california-farmers-raise-concerns-trump-orders-dam-water-release/15862080/\">ill-conceived\u003c/a> — and an unnecessary risk factor for levees in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mandate, said Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geoscience at UC Davis who studies California’s levees, amounted to “hydrologic insanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The volume they were initially starting to release and the lack of warning to local officials — it’s hard to characterize it as anything but insane,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came this week’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935067/rivers-in-the-sky-what-you-need-to-know-about-atmospheric-river-storms\">atmospheric rivers\u003c/a>, which keep people like Pinter on watch during California’s rainy season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the condition of California’s levees is, by and large, already precarious. In its \u003ca href=\"https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/california/\">2019 infrastructure report card\u003c/a>, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the state’s levees a ‘D,’ citing that despite significant investments, much more work is needed to rehabilitate and improve them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025777/north-bay-rivers-flood-after-storm-little-time-prepare-next-round-rain\">more rain in the forecast\u003c/a>, here’s what to know about California’s levees:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are levees?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Levees are barriers constructed alongside rivers, streams and other waterways to prevent land and property from flooding, \u003ca href=\"https://levees.sec.usace.army.mil/levee-basics/what-is-a-levee/\">according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\u003c/a>. Levees generally take the form of either an earthen embankment or a floodwall made of concrete or other materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levees are different from dams, which are built across waterways to hold back and collect water in reservoirs. When water is released from a reservoir, it can put levees downstream to the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1981900]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the consequences of levee failure happen fast. By some accounts, \u003ca href=\"https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15429/hurricane-katrina-floods-the-southeastern-united-states\">80% of New Orleans was flooded\u003c/a> by Hurricane Katrina in 2004 due to levee breaches, with water depths reaching \u003ca href=\"https://nola.gov/nola/media/Safety-and-Permits/floodplain-management/Extent-Depth-of-Flooding-Katrina.pdf\">7 feet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, levees are managed by a patchwork of federal, state and local agencies, as well as by private landowners. 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