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"content": "\u003cp>Gail Anderson is driving around her Richmond neighborhood, checking out all the best spots -- for potholes. She says they’re actually not very hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"See these cracks in here. ... A whole line just tore up. ... They go anywhere from 2 to 3 inches deep,\" Anderson explains, as she swerves to stay on flat ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is frustrated about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/29481\" target=\"_blank\">state of the streets\u003c/a>, but she’s even more upset about the mattresses, furniture and other trash piled up on the sidewalks, and a tree branch that fell on her house last year -- she’s afraid the whole tree will fall soon. On all of these issues, the city has not given this life-long Richmond resident the help she thinks citizens deserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not taking care of the citizens of this city. The graffiti, the holes in the road, the dumping which is just outrageous. 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They call it a city of pride and purpose, but it’s pathetic and pitiful to me,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Richmond’s crime rate has significantly improved in the last few years, it’s not necessarily sharing in the Bay Area's economic boom. New businesses have been slow to invest, and wealthy newcomers have been gravitating toward other East Bay cities, like Berkeley and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Richmond came up with a potential new revenue source: a half-cent sales tax called \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Richmond_Sales_Tax,_Measure_U_(November_2014)\" target=\"_blank\">Measure U\u003c/a>. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.tombutt.com/forum/2014/e-forum%20template%202014_clip_image038_0004.jpg\">informational mailers paid for by the city\u003c/a>, Measure U was promoted as a way to help fund improvements to roads, as well as public safety and youth programs. 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But Jack Weir, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwij14nS_frMAhVK8GMKHd5uCRkQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cocotax.org%2F&usg=AFQjCNGGQqH9_gKkK9MM5C67mkd_66uILg&sig2=IQaNa4veVMV7BfalWXX2TA\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Taxpayers Association, \u003c/a>said it’s a bad way to run city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole controversy about Measure U. It's not just about that they didn’t use the money the way they said,\" said Weir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10969638\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 774px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10969638 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best.jpg\" alt=\"An 2014 election season mailer, touting how measure U would improve Richmond's streets and other city servives.\" width=\"774\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best.jpg 774w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best-400x472.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2014 election season mailer, touting how Measure U would improve Richmond's streets and other city services.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the roads aren’t properly maintained over time, taxpayers wind up having to pay way more to keep the infrastructure capable of fulfilling its expected useful life. And that’s bad management, both from a policy perspective and from a fiscal perspective,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is \u003ca href=\"http://richmondstandard.com/2016/04/31289/\" target=\"_blank\">in a tough place\u003c/a>. It's been facing budget deficits for years. Last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-Richmond-CA-issuer-rating-to-Baa1-from-A1--PR_325368\" target=\"_blank\">Moody’s downgraded Richmond’s bond rating\u003c/a>, and the California State Controller’s Office \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_29188200/richmond-list-california-cities-rated-at-high-risk?source=infinite-up\" target=\"_blank\">briefly opened an investigation into the city’s finances\u003c/a>. To try and keep its financial reputation afloat, the city's 2016-17 draft budget again routes all the Measure U revenue, almost $8 million, into the city’s general fund. Nothing is earmarked for streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Manager Bill Lindsay admits no one is tracking how the Measure U money is being spent, but says, \"The Measure U story really isn't done yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay says population growth should lead to more sales tax revenue in the next few years, which could free up the City Council to fund things that the Measure U campaign promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two, three years, four years down the road, looking back, I expect our pavement condition index is going to be better, and my hope is that the voters feel like it was a good investment,” said Lindsay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, there may be more new taxes coming soon. \u003ca href=\"http://richmondstandard.com/2016/01/richmond-mayor-to-pursue-taxes-and-fees-on-soda-litter-marijuana/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Butt is pursuing a hike in the city's real estate transfer tax and a “litter” fee on cigarettes\u003c/a>, to appear on the November ballot. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gail Anderson is driving around her Richmond neighborhood, checking out all the best spots -- for potholes. She says they’re actually not very hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"See these cracks in here. ... A whole line just tore up. ... They go anywhere from 2 to 3 inches deep,\" Anderson explains, as she swerves to stay on flat ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is frustrated about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/29481\" target=\"_blank\">state of the streets\u003c/a>, but she’s even more upset about the mattresses, furniture and other trash piled up on the sidewalks, and a tree branch that fell on her house last year -- she’s afraid the whole tree will fall soon. On all of these issues, the city has not given this life-long Richmond resident the help she thinks citizens deserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not taking care of the citizens of this city. The graffiti, the holes in the road, the dumping which is just outrageous. It just makes the city look unclean, “ says Anderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10969635\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10969635 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Gail Anderson and a pothole in front of her house.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gail Anderson and a pothole in front of her house. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is embarrassing to me that we can’t keep our city together. They call it a city of pride and purpose, but it’s pathetic and pitiful to me,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Richmond’s crime rate has significantly improved in the last few years, it’s not necessarily sharing in the Bay Area's economic boom. New businesses have been slow to invest, and wealthy newcomers have been gravitating toward other East Bay cities, like Berkeley and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Richmond came up with a potential new revenue source: a half-cent sales tax called \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Richmond_Sales_Tax,_Measure_U_(November_2014)\" target=\"_blank\">Measure U\u003c/a>. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.tombutt.com/forum/2014/e-forum%20template%202014_clip_image038_0004.jpg\">informational mailers paid for by the city\u003c/a>, Measure U was promoted as a way to help fund improvements to roads, as well as public safety and youth programs. However, Mayor Tom Butt says it didn’t quite turn out as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Measure U was actually born with the idea that it would provide additional revenue, some of which could be \u003ca href=\"http://www.tombutt.com/forum/2014/14-11-01a.html\" target=\"_blank\">used for streets\u003c/a>. And as it developed, we came to realize that it probably wasn’t all gonna be used for streets,” Butt explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the money raised through the tax \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_28339604/richmond-looks-use-road-fund-money-balance-budget\" target=\"_blank\">has gone straight into the city’s general fund\u003c/a>. The way the initiative was worded, that's \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2014/11/04/ca/cc/meas/U/\" target=\"_blank\">completely within the law\u003c/a>. But Jack Weir, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwij14nS_frMAhVK8GMKHd5uCRkQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cocotax.org%2F&usg=AFQjCNGGQqH9_gKkK9MM5C67mkd_66uILg&sig2=IQaNa4veVMV7BfalWXX2TA\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Taxpayers Association, \u003c/a>said it’s a bad way to run city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole controversy about Measure U. It's not just about that they didn’t use the money the way they said,\" said Weir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10969638\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 774px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10969638 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best.jpg\" alt=\"An 2014 election season mailer, touting how measure U would improve Richmond's streets and other city servives.\" width=\"774\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best.jpg 774w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best-400x472.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2014 election season mailer, touting how Measure U would improve Richmond's streets and other city services.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the roads aren’t properly maintained over time, taxpayers wind up having to pay way more to keep the infrastructure capable of fulfilling its expected useful life. And that’s bad management, both from a policy perspective and from a fiscal perspective,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is \u003ca href=\"http://richmondstandard.com/2016/04/31289/\" target=\"_blank\">in a tough place\u003c/a>. It's been facing budget deficits for years. Last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-Richmond-CA-issuer-rating-to-Baa1-from-A1--PR_325368\" target=\"_blank\">Moody’s downgraded Richmond’s bond rating\u003c/a>, and the California State Controller’s Office \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_29188200/richmond-list-california-cities-rated-at-high-risk?source=infinite-up\" target=\"_blank\">briefly opened an investigation into the city’s finances\u003c/a>. To try and keep its financial reputation afloat, the city's 2016-17 draft budget again routes all the Measure U revenue, almost $8 million, into the city’s general fund. Nothing is earmarked for streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Manager Bill Lindsay admits no one is tracking how the Measure U money is being spent, but says, \"The Measure U story really isn't done yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay says population growth should lead to more sales tax revenue in the next few years, which could free up the City Council to fund things that the Measure U campaign promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two, three years, four years down the road, looking back, I expect our pavement condition index is going to be better, and my hope is that the voters feel like it was a good investment,” said Lindsay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, there may be more new taxes coming soon. \u003ca href=\"http://richmondstandard.com/2016/01/richmond-mayor-to-pursue-taxes-and-fees-on-soda-litter-marijuana/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Butt is pursuing a hike in the city's real estate transfer tax and a “litter” fee on cigarettes\u003c/a>, to appear on the November ballot. 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"content": "\u003cp>In her campaign for Barbara Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat, California Attorney General Kamala Harris often mentions the record settlement her office negotiated with five of the largest mortgage lenders after the home foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal that brought about $20 billion in relief to California won national media attention for Harris. But the mortgage meltdown continues affecting homeowners to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is not my home.'\u003ccite>Rosario Frisse\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the home Rosario Frisse rents in a quiet neighborhood in Antioch -- a city about 45 miles east of San Francisco -- there aren't many decorations on her walls. Even though she's been living there for a few years, there are unpacked boxes on her patio outside and more in the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not my home,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home she once owned sits about a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Frisse lost the house after her adjustable mortgage was raised to an amount she couldn’t afford. Her husband was working with the bank to modify the loan. At one point a deal looked promising and they were waiting on an offer from the lender, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The offer never came.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the lender foreclosed on Frisse's house and it was sold at auction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, 632,573 Californians received a foreclosure filing, including a default notice, scheduled foreclosure auction or bank repossession, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtytrac.com/landing/2009-year-end-foreclosure-report.html\">RealtyTrac\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10968406\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national settlement that was announced in 2012 was supposed to provide some debt relief to homeowners and fix the way banks communicated and worked with people like Frisse, whose homes were in jeopardy of being foreclosed. \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Attorney General Harris was crucial to negotiating the national settlement's terms, since California had the country's highest number of foreclosures. She even refused to sign onto an initial deal because it wasn't enough money. But eventually she would settle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harris Was In a No-Win Situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris played a bad hand relatively well,\" said journalist \u003ca href=\"http://daviddayen.tumblr.com/\">David Dayen\u003c/a>, whose new book, \"Chain of Title,\" examines the mortgage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dayen also followed the national settlement closely and is part of the group of critics who believe the banks should have been prosecuted. There was certainly enough evidence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was finally a bit of leverage over the financial industry on behalf of homeowners that we did not see at any other point in this crisis, certainly not to this degree,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecuting would take time. Plus, even if Harris wanted to fight the banks, there needed to be a bigger coalition -- not just her, said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266189765\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Californians were losing their homes. In 2012, Harris and 48 other attorneys general settled with five of the largest mortgage lenders, including Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the banks provided about $20 billion in relief to California. The lenders were credited for providing certain types of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $9.2 billion went to short sales. That’s when people still lose their home but the impact is less damaging to the homeowner's credit than a foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around $4.5 billion went to debt relief on the second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best possible type of relief homeowners got was debt relief on the first mortgage -- known as first mortgage principal reduction -- which attempted to bring the value of the loan down to the value of the home. Roughly 33,000 homeowners received an average reduction of $137,280.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the settlement relief that homeowners received to help them stay in their homes, the smallest number got a first mortgage reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely distributed relief, which was given to about 200,000 homeowners, was the $1,500 in restitution that Rosario Frisse got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was like a slap in the face for a lot of us,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than Just the Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the best things Harris did, according to Dayen, was to appoint UC Irvine professor Katherine Porter to lead the special monitor program. Her job was to hold the lenders accountable over the settlement period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I took calls on day one,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, her office responded to over 5,000 complaints. A website was quickly created for homeowners to check their eligibility in the settlement -- something that wasn't done at the national level. Porter and others also spoke with attorneys and judges who needed help understanding the settlement's terms, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter told KQED the media were focused on the billions of dollars in settlement money, but Harris’ real achievement was the reforms she was pushing for simultaneously in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was passed in 2012, the \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/hbor\">Homeowner Bill of Rights\u003c/a> meant that all banks and lenders had to obey the new rules, not just the top five lenders in the settlement. The reforms meant there is now a single point of contact to prevent miscommunication. There are restrictions on dual tracking, which prevents foreclosure on homeowners who are in the process of modifying their loans. And homeowners were given the ability to sue lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The servicing standards helped everybody. Every homeowner,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, banks and lenders were making more of an effort to change under the settlement, she said. But when housing counselors were asked how the banks are doing now, four years later, some have said lenders are still violating the reforms that were intended to be permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my view that's grounds for new prosecution,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1419px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10968547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013.\" width=\"1419\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg 1419w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-400x541.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-800x1082.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-1180x1597.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-960x1299.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1419px) 100vw, 1419px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the national settlement, Harris has reached other smaller related agreements with lenders. A spokesman for Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign said she would continue her fight to prevent the risky practices that caused the financial collapse, but he declined to give specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has used her power in other ways. She recently wrote a brief on behalf of a homeowner in a case that went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/23/kamala-harris-catches-ride-on-populist-wave-in-california-senate-primary/\">California Supreme Court\u003c/a>. She also put her shoulder into a law that would cover \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/surviving-spouses-can-have-their-homes-foreclosed-on-if-they-arent-listed-on-the-mortgage\">widows, widowers and other survivors\u003c/a> in the Homeowner Bill of Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Settlement Is Hard to Measure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still no true accounting of whether the government did enough to help struggling borrowers during the foreclosure crisis\u003cb>,\u003c/b> according to Carolina Reid, a UC Berkeley professor who studies the impacts the foreclosure crisis had on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data exist on who gets loans, and we know that African- American and Latino families \u003ca href=\"http://www.responsiblelending.org/mortgage-lending/research-analysis/Lost-Ground-2011.pdf\">disproportionately got the worst loans\u003c/a>. But we don’t know much about the families who get loan modifications, even those who were helped from the settlement. There’s no race or neighborhood data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been great to look at each of the loan modifications and understand who got them -- and, more importantly, who didn’t,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of mortgage lending to African-American and Latino families has dropped since the recession. Banks are almost too cautious in some cases and not lending to some families who would make great homeowners, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosario Frisse saw some friends and neighbors keep their homes because of the settlement. It was a celebration when they did, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2009, the year she lost her house, she fought hard on behalf of homeowners. She caravaned with a group called Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization to Washington, D.C., to protest the banks, and she spoke at rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn't help her save her own home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frisse said her husband now wants to move back to Missouri, where there's family. She wants to stay in California. But at the same time there are no pictures on her walls. And there are still unpacked boxes that tell her she’s not home yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KQED. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/election-2016\">kqed.org/election2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Frisse lost the house after her adjustable mortgage was raised to an amount she couldn’t afford. Her husband was working with the bank to modify the loan. At one point a deal looked promising and they were waiting on an offer from the lender, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The offer never came.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the lender foreclosed on Frisse's house and it was sold at auction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, 632,573 Californians received a foreclosure filing, including a default notice, scheduled foreclosure auction or bank repossession, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtytrac.com/landing/2009-year-end-foreclosure-report.html\">RealtyTrac\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10968406\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national settlement that was announced in 2012 was supposed to provide some debt relief to homeowners and fix the way banks communicated and worked with people like Frisse, whose homes were in jeopardy of being foreclosed. \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Attorney General Harris was crucial to negotiating the national settlement's terms, since California had the country's highest number of foreclosures. She even refused to sign onto an initial deal because it wasn't enough money. But eventually she would settle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harris Was In a No-Win Situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris played a bad hand relatively well,\" said journalist \u003ca href=\"http://daviddayen.tumblr.com/\">David Dayen\u003c/a>, whose new book, \"Chain of Title,\" examines the mortgage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dayen also followed the national settlement closely and is part of the group of critics who believe the banks should have been prosecuted. There was certainly enough evidence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was finally a bit of leverage over the financial industry on behalf of homeowners that we did not see at any other point in this crisis, certainly not to this degree,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecuting would take time. Plus, even if Harris wanted to fight the banks, there needed to be a bigger coalition -- not just her, said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266189765&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266189765'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Californians were losing their homes. In 2012, Harris and 48 other attorneys general settled with five of the largest mortgage lenders, including Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the banks provided about $20 billion in relief to California. The lenders were credited for providing certain types of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $9.2 billion went to short sales. That’s when people still lose their home but the impact is less damaging to the homeowner's credit than a foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around $4.5 billion went to debt relief on the second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best possible type of relief homeowners got was debt relief on the first mortgage -- known as first mortgage principal reduction -- which attempted to bring the value of the loan down to the value of the home. Roughly 33,000 homeowners received an average reduction of $137,280.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the settlement relief that homeowners received to help them stay in their homes, the smallest number got a first mortgage reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely distributed relief, which was given to about 200,000 homeowners, was the $1,500 in restitution that Rosario Frisse got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was like a slap in the face for a lot of us,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than Just the Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the best things Harris did, according to Dayen, was to appoint UC Irvine professor Katherine Porter to lead the special monitor program. Her job was to hold the lenders accountable over the settlement period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I took calls on day one,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, her office responded to over 5,000 complaints. A website was quickly created for homeowners to check their eligibility in the settlement -- something that wasn't done at the national level. Porter and others also spoke with attorneys and judges who needed help understanding the settlement's terms, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter told KQED the media were focused on the billions of dollars in settlement money, but Harris’ real achievement was the reforms she was pushing for simultaneously in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was passed in 2012, the \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/hbor\">Homeowner Bill of Rights\u003c/a> meant that all banks and lenders had to obey the new rules, not just the top five lenders in the settlement. The reforms meant there is now a single point of contact to prevent miscommunication. There are restrictions on dual tracking, which prevents foreclosure on homeowners who are in the process of modifying their loans. And homeowners were given the ability to sue lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The servicing standards helped everybody. Every homeowner,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, banks and lenders were making more of an effort to change under the settlement, she said. But when housing counselors were asked how the banks are doing now, four years later, some have said lenders are still violating the reforms that were intended to be permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my view that's grounds for new prosecution,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1419px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10968547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013.\" width=\"1419\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg 1419w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-400x541.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-800x1082.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-1180x1597.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-960x1299.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1419px) 100vw, 1419px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the national settlement, Harris has reached other smaller related agreements with lenders. A spokesman for Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign said she would continue her fight to prevent the risky practices that caused the financial collapse, but he declined to give specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has used her power in other ways. She recently wrote a brief on behalf of a homeowner in a case that went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/23/kamala-harris-catches-ride-on-populist-wave-in-california-senate-primary/\">California Supreme Court\u003c/a>. She also put her shoulder into a law that would cover \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/surviving-spouses-can-have-their-homes-foreclosed-on-if-they-arent-listed-on-the-mortgage\">widows, widowers and other survivors\u003c/a> in the Homeowner Bill of Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Settlement Is Hard to Measure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still no true accounting of whether the government did enough to help struggling borrowers during the foreclosure crisis\u003cb>,\u003c/b> according to Carolina Reid, a UC Berkeley professor who studies the impacts the foreclosure crisis had on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data exist on who gets loans, and we know that African- American and Latino families \u003ca href=\"http://www.responsiblelending.org/mortgage-lending/research-analysis/Lost-Ground-2011.pdf\">disproportionately got the worst loans\u003c/a>. But we don’t know much about the families who get loan modifications, even those who were helped from the settlement. There’s no race or neighborhood data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been great to look at each of the loan modifications and understand who got them -- and, more importantly, who didn’t,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of mortgage lending to African-American and Latino families has dropped since the recession. Banks are almost too cautious in some cases and not lending to some families who would make great homeowners, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosario Frisse saw some friends and neighbors keep their homes because of the settlement. It was a celebration when they did, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2009, the year she lost her house, she fought hard on behalf of homeowners. 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There’s a lot of repetition. I’ve been teaching this program for five years, and I always see students make a ton of growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264385801″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students in Craig’s classes are English learners — or those who speak English as a second language. Most speak Spanish at home, but others speak Hmong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They get about 45 minutes of intense instruction four days a week on the basics of the English language. Teachers say this program is instrumental because it gives English learners the linguistic know-how to “crack the code” to more rigorous course content in their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why many of them were shocked when the principal scaled back the program last year. Before, there were four reading specialists. Now, they’re down to Craig.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Join reporter Ana Tintocalis for an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kqednews/\">Instagram tour\u003c/a> of Oak Ridge Elementary, led by its students.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kqednews/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2016/05/13/InstaTakeover375.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then, a few months ago, more bad news: Craig learned her position will be cut next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most valuable resource is a human resource,” Craig says. “Our kids really do benefit from getting extra support based on their needs. So it does make me just a little bit nervous about what is going to happen now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tough Spending Decisions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite getting an extra $187,000 this year to help at-risk kids — \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/2016/local-control-funding-formula-guide-lcff/89272\">the state’s new way of handing out money\u003c/a> — Oak Ridge still has to make cuts because several other streams of funding are drying up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big chunk of the state money next year is paying for the school’s assistant principal. But some teachers argue specialists are more critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth-grade teacher Stephanie Smith says there is a “hidden” population of English learners at Oak Ridge. They may speak English conversationally but they are not proficient academically. They’re also not proficient in their native language — so they’re often stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think we do need more staff,” Smith says. “That’s a huge thing for me because a glossy cool curriculum is not going to make a difference unless we systematically figure out where we are going to put our human resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10955029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"Katherine Craig has been teaching a special program for struggling readers at Oak Ridge Elementary for the past five years. Despite helping students make considerable academic gains, her position will be eliminated next year.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10955029\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom-400x250.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine Craig has been teaching a special program for struggling readers at Oak Ridge Elementary for the past five years. Despite helping students make considerable academic gains, her position will be eliminated next year. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nine-year-old Kenya Vargas Zepeda is one English learner at Oak Ridge who still struggles. The fourth-grader was born in Mexico and went to preschool in that country. She has attended Oak Ridge since kindergarten and says her biggest obstacle is writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was little, I used to have a lot of imagination in my head. I used to have all these ideas to write about,” Kenya says. “I don’t know what happened, but my thoughts aren’t that good anymore. And I don’t really know what to write down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”llWeOaKbKMvfX69dRkVq6svymuD0LkqC”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenya’s mother, April Ybarra, is an outspoken parent leader at Oak Ridge who is trying to hold the school and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scusd.edu/\">Sacramento Unified School District\u003c/a> more accountable for how officials choose to spend additional state funding intended for English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other education advocates worry that school leaders are simply funding existing people and programs without exploring other ways to approach school improvement for this specific group of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools now have the freedom to spend this extra money. So it’s easy for them to say, ‘We should use this money to pay for a librarian.’ But, realistically, will that librarian help English learners more than a language specialist?” Ybarra asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, that concern has reached a boiling point in two California school districts — \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/aclu-socal-files-lawsuit-over-misappropriated-education-funds/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/2016/complaint-says-district-must-revise-lcap-in-passing-big-pay-raise/562315\">West Contra Costa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public interest law groups, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/\">ACLU SoCal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.publicadvocates.org/\">Public Advocates\u003c/a>, insist those districts are depriving English language learners of state funds that should be directed to their education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Learners Face Difficult Transition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oak Ridge, more English learners are transitioning to mainstream classes. However, \u003ca href=\"http://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2015/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2015&lstTestType=B&lstCounty=34&lstDistrict=67439-000&lstSchool=6034185\">state test results last year\u003c/a> show more than half of them are not meeting new academic standards called \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/\">Common Core\u003c/a>. The situation mirrors what is happening at schools across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators say that’s because English learners enter the public school system at so many different levels of language proficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10955078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A kindergarten student Oak Ridge Elementary School completes a writing assignment to hone her language skills.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10955078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A kindergarten student Oak Ridge Elementary School completes a writing assignment to hone her language skills. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I sat down with Oak Ridge principal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/21/budgeting-from-the-blacktop-how-one-school-is-trying-to-bridge-inequities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Rolleri\u003c/a> to find out why he eliminated the full-time language specialists in favor of putting state funds intended to help English learners toward an assistant principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He argues the assistant principal manages student behavior problems at school, which helps all children — including English learners — focus on learning. He says students struggling with English will get support from the school’s special education instructor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that the school’s classroom teachers have the training and skills to help all of their English learners meet \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/eldstandards.asp\">new more rigorous academic standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have talented teachers, and once we have time to discuss (the standards) and analyze them, they’ll take off and run with it,” Rolleri says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, he points out test scores will no longer be the only way to measure school success. Under the state’s new accountability system, things like student engagement and school climate will likely be factored into the mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you deal with the reality of the community that we serve, I feel that we are providing the highest-quality education that we can for our students and our families, and I feel they genuinely appreciate it and love us for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all these spending decisions are a gamble, and the community is on edge. The only way to find out if the more than 500 students at Oak Ridge will benefit is to come back in a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report is the fourth in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/budgeting-from-the-blacktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Budgeting From the Blacktop\u003c/a>, a four-part series by Ana Tintocalis taking a deep look at Oak Ridge Elementary in Sacramento.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/16/ayudan-los-fondos-adicionales-a-los-que-aprenden-ingles-la-decision-contenciosa-de-una-escuela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leer esto en Español\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nA handful of first-graders sit cross-legged on a rainbow-colored rug with their eyes fixed on Katherine Craig, the reading specialist at \u003ca href=\"http://oakridge.scusd.edu/\">Oak Ridge Elementary\u003c/a> in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s in charge of a special program for struggling readers called \u003ca href=\"https://www.collaborativeclassroom.org/sipps\">Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Sight Words\u003c/a> (SIPPS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of every class, Craig shuffles through a stack of flashcards and asks students to sound out letters and blend those sounds together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“It’s very scientific,” Craig says. “I almost feel like a doctor who gives a test, and you see what the prescription is. There’s a lot of repetition. I’ve been teaching this program for five years, and I always see students make a ton of growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264385801″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264385801″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students in Craig’s classes are English learners — or those who speak English as a second language. Most speak Spanish at home, but others speak Hmong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They get about 45 minutes of intense instruction four days a week on the basics of the English language. Teachers say this program is instrumental because it gives English learners the linguistic know-how to “crack the code” to more rigorous course content in their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why many of them were shocked when the principal scaled back the program last year. Before, there were four reading specialists. Now, they’re down to Craig.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Join reporter Ana Tintocalis for an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kqednews/\">Instagram tour\u003c/a> of Oak Ridge Elementary, led by its students.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kqednews/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2016/05/13/InstaTakeover375.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then, a few months ago, more bad news: Craig learned her position will be cut next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most valuable resource is a human resource,” Craig says. “Our kids really do benefit from getting extra support based on their needs. So it does make me just a little bit nervous about what is going to happen now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tough Spending Decisions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite getting an extra $187,000 this year to help at-risk kids — \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/2016/local-control-funding-formula-guide-lcff/89272\">the state’s new way of handing out money\u003c/a> — Oak Ridge still has to make cuts because several other streams of funding are drying up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big chunk of the state money next year is paying for the school’s assistant principal. But some teachers argue specialists are more critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth-grade teacher Stephanie Smith says there is a “hidden” population of English learners at Oak Ridge. They may speak English conversationally but they are not proficient academically. They’re also not proficient in their native language — so they’re often stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think we do need more staff,” Smith says. “That’s a huge thing for me because a glossy cool curriculum is not going to make a difference unless we systematically figure out where we are going to put our human resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10955029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"Katherine Craig has been teaching a special program for struggling readers at Oak Ridge Elementary for the past five years. Despite helping students make considerable academic gains, her position will be eliminated next year.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10955029\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom-400x250.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/CraigClassroom-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine Craig has been teaching a special program for struggling readers at Oak Ridge Elementary for the past five years. Despite helping students make considerable academic gains, her position will be eliminated next year. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nine-year-old Kenya Vargas Zepeda is one English learner at Oak Ridge who still struggles. The fourth-grader was born in Mexico and went to preschool in that country. She has attended Oak Ridge since kindergarten and says her biggest obstacle is writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was little, I used to have a lot of imagination in my head. I used to have all these ideas to write about,” Kenya says. “I don’t know what happened, but my thoughts aren’t that good anymore. And I don’t really know what to write down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenya’s mother, April Ybarra, is an outspoken parent leader at Oak Ridge who is trying to hold the school and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scusd.edu/\">Sacramento Unified School District\u003c/a> more accountable for how officials choose to spend additional state funding intended for English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other education advocates worry that school leaders are simply funding existing people and programs without exploring other ways to approach school improvement for this specific group of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools now have the freedom to spend this extra money. So it’s easy for them to say, ‘We should use this money to pay for a librarian.’ But, realistically, will that librarian help English learners more than a language specialist?” Ybarra asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, that concern has reached a boiling point in two California school districts — \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/aclu-socal-files-lawsuit-over-misappropriated-education-funds/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/2016/complaint-says-district-must-revise-lcap-in-passing-big-pay-raise/562315\">West Contra Costa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public interest law groups, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/\">ACLU SoCal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.publicadvocates.org/\">Public Advocates\u003c/a>, insist those districts are depriving English language learners of state funds that should be directed to their education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Learners Face Difficult Transition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oak Ridge, more English learners are transitioning to mainstream classes. However, \u003ca href=\"http://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2015/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2015&lstTestType=B&lstCounty=34&lstDistrict=67439-000&lstSchool=6034185\">state test results last year\u003c/a> show more than half of them are not meeting new academic standards called \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/\">Common Core\u003c/a>. The situation mirrors what is happening at schools across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators say that’s because English learners enter the public school system at so many different levels of language proficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10955078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A kindergarten student Oak Ridge Elementary School completes a writing assignment to hone her language skills.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10955078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Kindergartners-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A kindergarten student Oak Ridge Elementary School completes a writing assignment to hone her language skills. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I sat down with Oak Ridge principal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/21/budgeting-from-the-blacktop-how-one-school-is-trying-to-bridge-inequities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Rolleri\u003c/a> to find out why he eliminated the full-time language specialists in favor of putting state funds intended to help English learners toward an assistant principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He argues the assistant principal manages student behavior problems at school, which helps all children — including English learners — focus on learning. He says students struggling with English will get support from the school’s special education instructor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that the school’s classroom teachers have the training and skills to help all of their English learners meet \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/eldstandards.asp\">new more rigorous academic standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have talented teachers, and once we have time to discuss (the standards) and analyze them, they’ll take off and run with it,” Rolleri says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, he points out test scores will no longer be the only way to measure school success. Under the state’s new accountability system, things like student engagement and school climate will likely be factored into the mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you deal with the reality of the community that we serve, I feel that we are providing the highest-quality education that we can for our students and our families, and I feel they genuinely appreciate it and love us for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all these spending decisions are a gamble, and the community is on edge. The only way to find out if the more than 500 students at Oak Ridge will benefit is to come back in a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Does California want to be a grasshopper that uses everything it has, or an ant that saves food for winter? That was the question posed today by Gov. Jerry Brown as he released his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">May budget revision\u003c/a>. Not surprisingly, Brown made the case for being a frugal ant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has adjusted his revenue forecast down $1.9 billion since his initial January budget proposal. Most of that was absorbed through lower contributions to the state's reserve, meaning there were no budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown says history shows California is overdue for an economic downturn. That led him to reject many of the spending requests sent to him by lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hard truth is that we have committed the available funds,\" he says. \"So the only way you can envision large new spending programs is to ignore the history of how revenues rise and fall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown says even if voters approve an \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/05/12/60570/prop-30-income-tax-increase-extension-likely-heade/\">extension of Proposition 30 \u003c/a>income taxes in November, the budget will remain barely balanced. Without an extension, he says cuts will have to be made. Brown's administration predicts, if nothing else changes, that the state will have a $4 billion deficit by the 2019-2020 budget cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Paradoxically, at the very moment when everybody feels the best is the moment just before the recession is about to hit.'\u003ccite>Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Brown declined to endorse that fall ballot measure to extend those taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown reminded the media what happened to his two predecessors, Democrat Gray Davis and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor noted that both ignored warnings that revenues were about to fall and instead accelerated spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Paradoxically, at the very moment when everybody feels the best is the moment just before the recession is about to hit,\" he says. \"Instead of pulling back in the last two recessions, the state of California accelerated its spending and therefore made the budget cuts all the more painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then \"it was bye-bye Davis ... and bye-bye Arnold,\" Brown said, referring to Davis' recall and Schwarzenegger's falling popularity as he left office. \"Now is it bye-bye Jerry? Not if I can help it,\" Brown joked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the governor's cautious tone was not well received by many lawmakers and social service advocates arguing for a restoration of funds that were cut in the last recession. Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson chairs the Legislative Women's Caucus, which had requested $800 million to fund child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"KUDgqareMbZweXCxkbzu8R3tkKAlzMVA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s fitting that Governor Brown included a children’s story in his release of the May Revise today,\" she said in a statement, \"because the California Legislative Women’s Caucus has been and remains committed to prioritizing a strong investment in early care and education so children can learn and parents can work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate leader Kevin de León was one of the few lawmakers to have his budget priority included in Brown's plan. It would allow funds dedicated to treating mental illness to also be used to fight homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness plagues communities across our state so I’m very pleased Governor Brown has embraced the Senate’s bipartisan ‘\u003ca href=\"http://sd24.senate.ca.gov/news/2016-01-04-senate-announces-%E2%80%9Cno-place-home%E2%80%9D-initiative-tackle-homelessness-california\">No Place Like Home\u003c/a>’ proposal to direct $2 billion from the Prop. 63 bond to bolster local efforts to tackle this crisis,\" de León said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans appreciated Brown's message of saving for a rainy day. But Republican Senate leader Jean Fuller points out the state isn't exactly holding back on spending this budget cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the highest general fund budget that we've ever had,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The general fund budget would be $122.2 billion under Brown's proposal, a 5.7 percent increase from the current year.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The group is trying to give low-wage workers here more clout and a bigger share of profits in the super successful innovation economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/259868419\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though many of the demonstrators worked for a \u003cem>contractor\u003c/em> that runs Intel’s cafeteria, organizer Derecka Meherns is pushing Intel to allow these workers to organize a union. Meherns says tech companies like Intel have tremendous resources to influence this -- and a wide range of public policy issues affecting workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They can put those resources into campaigns and an army of lobbyists that can walk the halls of every city hall, county, state governments -- it’s a resource working people don’t have,\" Meherns says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But organized labor is hardly an underdog. Analysis by \u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Maplight\u003c/a> shows that in the past two election cycles, unions gave state legislators nearly $6 million in political contributions -- that’s \u003cem>10 times\u003c/em> more than the largest tech firms here. But Doug Bloch, political director for the Teamsters union, sees the tech sector gaining influence in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10920898\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10920898\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-800x369.png\" alt=\"Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder (1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-800x369.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-400x184.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-1180x544.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-960x443.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an outcry over low wages and split shifts for drivers of shuttle buses for companies like Google and Apple, the Teamsters worked with those companies to join the union and raise their wages. But given the complexity of the new “gig economy” and the changing nature of work, Bloch wonders if Democrats will start wobbling on some issues labor cares about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we have Democrats who are with us when it comes to bus drivers, food service workers and security officers,\" Bloch said. \"And when we go talk to them about supposed independent contractors driving for Uber, it’s a different story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some labor unions, Uber -- the transportation upstart that’s crushing the taxi industry -- is corporate enemy number one. They, and other app-based services like TaskRabbit, say they don’t have employees -- just contractors who set their own hours and get \"gigs\" via customers using apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Teamsters lobbyist Barry Broad doesn’t buy the notion that these aren't employees. He goes so far as to compare them to African-American sharecroppers after the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re working in a field,\" says Broad, sitting in his modest office near the state Capitol. \"The field is an urban area where people need rides. And Uber allows as many people into the field to pick crops, and Uber says this is how much you're getting per pound. They may not even be getting the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly, their system is from our perspective perfectly designed for exploitation of low-wage workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This friction between labor and tech could create conflict for legislators, especially Democrats. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom says organized labor needs to be nimble. Sitting in his office in a SoMa San Francisco startup incubator, Newsom says \"the tech genie is out of the bottle and you can't stuff it back in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something big is happening and we’re going through this radical shift in real time, yet we have work rules and labor rules that have been inflexible that were designed for a world that no longer exists,\" Newsom said. The former San Francisco mayor has close ties to the tech industry, but is also considered a strong ally of labor. And he thinks unions will be making a mistake if they resist adapting to the changing workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the attitude is, 'No, we’re just going to deny it and everything is going to be fine,' labor and the middle class are in trouble. I'm rooting for labor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblywoman \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a80/\" target=\"_blank\">Lorena Gonzalez \u003c/a>from San Diego understands that the old workplace rules don’t always apply anymore. She’s sponsoring legislation that would extend rights and a safety net to workers in the gig economy -- without involvement from unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her bill -- \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1727\" target=\"_blank\">AB1727 \u003c/a>known as the \"California 1099 Self-Organizing Act\" -- will be heard in the Assembly Labor Committee later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Guardino of the \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Leadership Group \u003c/a>says the time is right for this conversation about the gig economy, but he worries about stifling the innovation economy, or what he calls \"the goose that lays the golden egg in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rather than imposing laws on people and companies, let’s sit down and try to figure out what’s best for all concerned,\" Guardino says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now anyway, there’s not an app for finding common ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Search below to see how much companies and their employees donated to state legislators during the last two election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[techUnionDonations]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Methodology: MapLight analysis of campaign contributions to the candidate-controlled committees associated with current members of the California Legislature during the 2013-2014 and 2015-2016 election cycles. 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