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She said the program helped her to “grow into who I want to be and find what my interest was in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She entered community college thinking she wanted to be a nurse, mostly because she knew it was a good career and hadn’t heard of many other jobs. But her core classes in the Health and Wellness cohort exposed her to other aspects of medicine. She fell in love with psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data on the First Year Experience program at Chabot also points to some success. Seventy-four percent of all first-year Chabot students who entered in the fall of 2017 returned for the spring semester, while 92 percent of FYE students did. And even more telling, while 57 percent of all students returned for a second year from 2017-2018, 80 percent of FYE students did. 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It was a big help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prasad said without FYE she would have felt lost, not sure of the classes to take or which counselor to go to. She’s heard stories of students getting one set of advice from one counselor and a different set from another. She said the program helped her to “grow into who I want to be and find what my interest was in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She entered community college thinking she wanted to be a nurse, mostly because she knew it was a good career and hadn’t heard of many other jobs. But her core classes in the Health and Wellness cohort exposed her to other aspects of medicine. She fell in love with psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data on the First Year Experience program at Chabot also points to some success. Seventy-four percent of all first-year Chabot students who entered in the fall of 2017 returned for the spring semester, while 92 percent of FYE students did. And even more telling, while 57 percent of all students returned for a second year from 2017-2018, 80 percent of FYE students did. But the program serves only a small portion of the college’s 20,000-student body -- around 250 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely don’t have sufficient funds to scale it up,” said Amy Mattern, dean of academic pathways and student success at Chabot. “If we want to go beyond the 250, to thousands of students, I wouldn’t be able to pay the faculty. I can’t hardly pay the faculty members now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattern cobbles together funding to pay for the FYE program from a variety of sources. All the participating faculty members and counselors have full course loads, but they are paid an hourly rate for the extra work they do with FYE students. That amounts to somewhere between 1,500-2,500 extra paid hours per year. Additionally, Mattern pays peer advisers for a dozen or so hours per week and has to budget for events, field trips and administrative time. This type of “high touch” program costs money, which makes it hard to scale up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Chabot leaders are looking for aspects of the program they might be able to expand. Mattern is leading the college's \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5834c1702e69cfabd9617089/t/584088d15016e1380c9b0837/1480624337586/CAPathways+Model+Description.pdf\">Guided Pathways work\u003c/a>, a multiyear planning process meant to reorganize how the college works to make it easier for students to navigate. The chancellor’s office has compiled \u003ca href=\"https://www.aacc.nche.edu/programs/aacc-pathways-project/pathways-institutes-resources/\">best practices from around the country\u003c/a> and is charging each community college with implementing those practices in ways that make sense for their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've been talking a lot about being a student-ready college, not that the students need to be ready for us, but that we, as a college, need to be student-ready,” Mattern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This term, “student-ready college,” is getting a lot of play at community colleges right now. The idea is that colleges need to recognize the barriers to success students have and help remove them. Rather than blaming students for not succeeding, the thinking goes, the college needs to change to fit student needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chabot students have to work, take care of siblings, and often only attend school part time. 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And we need to be able to see their whole life and be able to help them figure out how we fit into that life, not how they have to fit into ours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stark example of that is a student she thinks about a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a student who was missing class a lot. But when he was there he was the crackerjack in the class. He was the one who would always ask questions of the guest speaker, he was always the one volunteering to lead something or have the answer. So it was very strange to us. He’s so good, why is he not always here?” Lange wondered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partway through the semester, the student came to her office and apologized for missing so much class. He admitted he was addicted to pain pills and was having difficulty navigating the medical system to get help. 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The board also agreed to consider reopening the closed Santa Fe Elementary campus as part of the next round of school closures, consolidations and expansions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Alicia Johnson, Kaiser parent\"]‘A lot of damage was done intentionally to both communities, and the way forward is unclear.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to appease the many angry attendees at the meeting, Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said that each of the merged and expanded schools in this round of closures would get priority funding in the district’s 2020-21 budget to ensure they have the support they need to succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will talk about what our priorities are,” she said. “We will need to think about the investments we need to make for the next school year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell, who backs the mergers, noted the weight of the decision, acknowledging that the district is expecting to lose students who may not want to stay after their schools have closed. But she also said this created an opportunity to build stronger merged schools that may actually attract new students moving into those neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move follows the board’s recent approval of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/18311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blueprint for Quality Schools\u003c/a> plan to restructure the district and close up to 24 of its roughly 80 schools, many of which are under-enrolled and struggling academically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first round of closures and mergers last year, which included the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721969/school-board-votes-decisively-to-close-east-oaklands-roots-middle-school-by-end-of-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial shuttering\u003c/a> of Roots International Academy, the district admitted it did not provide enough support to staff during the process. This time around, the district said, it has allotted $300,000 to help those school communities with the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Closing schools is not the answer to addressing those inequities,” Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, told the board. “It’s fully funding our schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal to close Kaiser and merge it with Sankofa has proved particularly controversial and racially fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is a diverse school in the more affluent hills with a sizable white population and strong parent involvement. Its excellent academic reputation draws students from largely middle-class families throughout North Oakland. Sankofa, on the other hand, has long struggled academically, with declining enrollment and a largely low-income, African American student body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The months-long debate over their merger has involved heated exchanges about race and equity in Oakland, with some opponents accusing the district of pitting the two communities against each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple parents and teachers from Kaiser gave emotional appeals before the board, pointing to the school as a shining model of success in a district with a less-than-stellar record. They implored the board to instead consider expanding the campus and bringing other schools into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a way to do this so we could be successful, but we don’t have buy-in to do this,” said Gonzales, who voted against the merger. “Without buy-in from teachers, and very little buy-in from parents, I don’t think it’s going to work and I think it’s a little irresponsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oakland-schools\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Kaiser parents have threatened to file lawsuits or initiate recall campaigns against board members. And a group of Kaiser teachers said they would refuse to participate in the redesign process, vowing to continue the fight after the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will take a day to process and decide how to move forward as a community,” said Alicia Johnson, a Kaiser parent. “A lot of damage was done intentionally to both communities, and the way forward is unclear. The board is corrupt and does not care about best outcomes for children and communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa parents and teachers, however, have said they would be happy to merge with anyone, as long as they could stay on their campuses and receive adequate resources to improve their school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johnson-Trammell, the schools will plan their “redesigns” this year and merge in 2020-21 with a goal of first getting the school communities to work together to support the new school and then moving toward improving academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board voted separately to close Oakland School of Language dual-language immersion middle school and merge it with Frick Academy, following Johnson-Trammell’s promise that the two schools could spend more than a year planning their redesigns if necessary after merging onto one campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move, too, while not as contentious, has also drawn ire from community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The children wear uniforms now. 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"content": "\u003cp>Just a few months ago, California’s Democratic-controlled legislature seemed poised to pass the nation’s toughest restrictions on for-profit colleges. School owners publicly fretted that they’d have to shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the seven-bill package, which sailed through the Assembly, hoped California could help close a gap in oversight as the Trump administration has backed away from policing quality in a sector that relies heavily on public money but has been plagued by fraud and poor outcomes. But as the legislative session draws to a close, nearly all of the bills have died or been significantly weakened, felled by a costly lobbying blitz and the complexity of crafting a state-based solution to a nationwide challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their demise marks a victory for an industry that has been plagued by scandals and school closures in recent years — and a setback for consumer and veterans groups that supported the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience we’ve had moving this package forward highlights the role of money and what that buys as far as influence in the Capitol and in state capitols around the country,” said Assemblyman David Chiu, a San Francisco Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu’s bill would have conditioned the right of career education programs to enroll Californians on proof that their graduates earn enough to pay back their student loans. It’s a version of the so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/2019/04/california-gainful-employment-for-profit-colleges-veterans/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gainful employment\u003c/a>” rule created under President Barack Obama and repealed by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11773053 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"1831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic.jpg 700w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic-160x419.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/FOR-PROFIT-COLLEGE-graphic-459x1200.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other bills would have limited how much for-profit schools can rely on federal and state financial aid, prevented admissions staff from earning bonuses based on how many students they recruit and cracked down on colleges that officially convert to non-profit status but turn most of their earnings over to a profit-driven management company. The bills’ authors said they were meant to root out fraud and abuse in the industry, while allowing good schools to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many schools saw the legislation as an existential threat and spent heavily to defeat it. For-profit colleges, vocational schools and online education companies poured more than $800,000 into lobbying California legislators in the first six months of 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s nearly the same amount of lobbying cash that Pacific Gas & Electric spent defending its role in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state’s wildfire crisis\u003c/a> over the same period — and more than four times the money spent by the consumer and veterans groups backing the for-profit college bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=mindshift_54347,news_11767050 label=\"Higher Education in California\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sector is under a sustained assault by certain individuals and we don’t expect them to stop,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cappsonline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools\u003c/a>, an industry association, wrote in an email to members about the bills, which it dubbed “The Terrible 7.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association’s lobbying muscle was on display during the bills’ first hearing in April. While former students and recruiters at for-profit colleges testified about the schools’ aggressive recruiting tactics, dozens of current students opposed to the bills flooded the halls outside the hearing room, some wearing scrubs and nametags that read simply, ‘Student.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few spoke passionately about receiving a quality education at a for-profit college. Patricia Stanley, a Navy veteran, said that she chose the occupational therapy program at Stanbridge University for its small class size and “family feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We aren’t forced or persuaded or preyed upon,” Stanley said. “We definitely made the choice and sought out these schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students, however, said they attended the hearing because school officials asked them to, and had told them that they would lose their financial aid if the bills passed. CAPPS president Robert Johnson did not respond to messages requesting comment about the association’s lobbying efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions also flowed from for-profit colleges to the Democratic Party and lawmakers that would make decisions on the bills. ICEPAC, the association’s political action committee, invited donors to a $1,000-a-head April fundraiser at the sleek Sawyer Hotel for the reelection campaign of Senate Education Committee chair Connie Leyva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Patricia Stanley, a Navy veteran']‘We aren’t forced or persuaded or preyed upon,’ Stanley said. ‘We definitely made the choice and sought out these schools.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days before the Senate Education and Business, Professions and Economic Development committees were set to vote on the bills, one vocational college chain donated to the campaigns of Leyva, Business and Professions chair Steve Glazer, and five other senators who sat on the committees, in five cases contributing the maximum allowable under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer’s committee went on to convey concerns to two of the bills’ authors. One withdrew her bill and the other made significant changes. Leyva’s committee approved that bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer’s chief of staff, Dan Weintraub, said the senator’s decisions “were driven by the facts and his concerns for the students who are enrolling or considering enrolling in this kind of a program, and nothing else.” A Leyva spokesperson said that “no contribution influences Senator Leyva’s decisions,” adding that Leyva “also strictly follows all fundraising reporting requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramond Curtis, the state policy manager for the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://vetsedsuccess.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veterans Education Success\u003c/a>, said he felt outgunned. His group supported \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1343\u003c/a> by Asm. 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CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/10/california-for-profit-colleges-investigation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported last year\u003c/a> that the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education was sitting on a backlog of nearly 1,200 unresolved student complaints, and inspecting schools less than half as often as it was required to by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the bureau says that it has hired more investigators to handle the complaints, shrinking the average caseload from 77 cases to about 20. But its outdated computer system — scheduled to be replaced in 2021 — still cannot perform basic functions such as tracking the status of complaints. A bill analysis found that putting the bureau in charge of enforcing the gainful employment standard would cost $12 million, an increase of more than 50% to the agency’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer doubted the bureau’s capacity to “gather all that data and compare it with wage data, and to do that in a high stakes environment,” Weintraub said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills’ fate points to a dilemma faced by consumer advocates who want to tighten state-level oversight of for-profit colleges in response to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s laissez-faire approach. State officials in Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts and New York are considering such measures. But states lack the budget of the federal government, and most haven’t developed an infrastructure to effectively monitor schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a moment where state attorney generals and legislatures are saying, ‘What can we do for consumer protection within our own state?’” said Howard Lurie, a higher education analyst with the research firm Eduventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators could take up that question again when the bureau undergoes a review of its performance next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Chiu hopes that gathering information on which for-profit vocational programs effectively prepare graduates for careers will help students make better decisions, and regulators identify red flags. 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Leyva’s committee approved that bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer’s chief of staff, Dan Weintraub, said the senator’s decisions “were driven by the facts and his concerns for the students who are enrolling or considering enrolling in this kind of a program, and nothing else.” A Leyva spokesperson said that “no contribution influences Senator Leyva’s decisions,” adding that Leyva “also strictly follows all fundraising reporting requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramond Curtis, the state policy manager for the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://vetsedsuccess.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veterans Education Success\u003c/a>, said he felt outgunned. His group supported \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1343\u003c/a> by Asm. Susan Eggman, aimed at closing a loophole in federal law that lets for-profit colleges subsist almost entirely on public financial aid dollars if the money includes military education benefits. Lowering the ceiling on financial aid to 85% of revenue and including GI Bill funds, many veterans groups believed, would remove an incentive for schools to target service members with predatory recruiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like other groups supporting the bill, Veterans Education Success is tax-exempt, does not make political contributions and spends little on lobbying. “We’re dealing with an issue of resources,” Curtis said. “We don’t have the money to oppose them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools had argued that to comply with the financial aid cap in Eggman’s bill, they’d either have to raise tuition or shut down. Committee chair Sen. 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CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/10/california-for-profit-colleges-investigation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported last year\u003c/a> that the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education was sitting on a backlog of nearly 1,200 unresolved student complaints, and inspecting schools less than half as often as it was required to by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the bureau says that it has hired more investigators to handle the complaints, shrinking the average caseload from 77 cases to about 20. But its outdated computer system — scheduled to be replaced in 2021 — still cannot perform basic functions such as tracking the status of complaints. A bill analysis found that putting the bureau in charge of enforcing the gainful employment standard would cost $12 million, an increase of more than 50% to the agency’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer doubted the bureau’s capacity to “gather all that data and compare it with wage data, and to do that in a high stakes environment,” Weintraub said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills’ fate points to a dilemma faced by consumer advocates who want to tighten state-level oversight of for-profit colleges in response to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s laissez-faire approach. State officials in Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts and New York are considering such measures. But states lack the budget of the federal government, and most haven’t developed an infrastructure to effectively monitor schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a moment where state attorney generals and legislatures are saying, ‘What can we do for consumer protection within our own state?’” said Howard Lurie, a higher education analyst with the research firm Eduventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators could take up that question again when the bureau undergoes a review of its performance next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Chiu hopes that gathering information on which for-profit vocational programs effectively prepare graduates for careers will help students make better decisions, and regulators identify red flags. 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And everyday Californians wondered, “How did things get this bad?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Berman, a Democrat from Palo Alto, has decided not to move the bill forward after the Senate Appropriations Committee added amendments that delayed it until 2021, made it easier for colleges to opt out and exempted colleges within 250 feet of an elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That last caveat would only serve to stigmatize students,” Berman said in a statement in response to the amendments, which were made without public debate. “Homeless students are not pedophiles that need to be kept away from children,” he said. “They are men and women — many of them barely adults themselves — who are trying to improve their lives by obtaining a better education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berman said he’ll work with the governor’s office to produce a stronger version of the bill next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One in five California community college students report experiencing homelessness at some point in the past year — including sleeping on a friend’s couch or in a motel because they didn’t have a place to stay, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://hope4college.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/RealCollege-CCCCO-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> by the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University. Skyrocketing housing costs and a financial aid system that mostly focuses on the cost of tuition have created a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-cost-of-college-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perfect storm of unaffordability\u003c/a> for many of the state’s 2.1 million community college students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11772960\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-07-at-11.54.37-AM-800x874.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"874\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics called the parking lot idea a Band-Aid on a gaping wound. Others envisioned unintended consequences if colleges began maintaining parking lots as makeshift vehicle camp sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen community college districts opposed the bill, citing concerns about the cost of securing and cleaning the lots, and the effect on colleges’ relationships with neighboring residents and businesses. A Senate Appropriations analysis said costs could run into the tens of millions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccleague.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Community College League of California\u003c/a> argued lawmakers should focus on longer-term solutions such as expanding financial aid, and that the bill would institutionalize disparities between community colleges and better-funded four-year universities. “By only including community colleges, AB 302 sends the message that parking lots are good enough for community college students,” the League wrote in a message to legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law already mandates that community colleges allow homeless students to shower on campus. A few are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2019/06/should-community-colleges-build-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">building dorms\u003c/a> to house students, and next year’s state budget sets aside $14 million to address housing and food insecurity in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those efforts will take time to pay off. Advocates of the parking lot bill saw it as a modest short-term step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Justice would look like adequate housing for every student in their college career,” Shahera Hyatt, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://cahomelessyouth.library.ca.gov/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Homeless Youth Project\u003c/a>, told reporters at a press conference on the bill this spring. But a safe, legal place to park could reduce harm to students now, she added. “These are not mutually exclusive goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palomar College student Althea Green said she’d been living in her car for six months while studying to become a substance abuse counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found a safe place to park, but I have to go all the way to a rest area and it burns a lot of gas,” she said. “If you end up getting a ticket for sleeping in your car, it adds so much strain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California campuses have made progress in combating student hunger over the past few years, opening food pantries and signing students up for CalFresh, housing has proven a more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/04/homeless-college-students-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stubborn challenge\u003c/a>, in part because of the costs involved. 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But Octavio said the emotional toll of attending a new school has been high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anyone there yet, unlike Roots where I knew a lot of my friends.” he said. “I could be who I wanted at Roots, but at Elmhurst I feel like people could judge who you are because you don’t know the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom, Ady Rios, began to cry as she recalled her son’s distress during the first week at the new school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I picked him up on his second day and he came home and didn’t want to eat, didn’t want to do anything,” Rios said. “Straight two days it was nothing but crying. My husband and myself had to go lay down with him and tell him it was going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771508\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771508\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/AdyRios2-800x698.jpg\" alt=\"Ady Rios said her son found switching schools stressful. 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I know I’m supposed to be like a leader of it, but it was just really weird to be there, in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district closed Roots this year as part of its Citywide Blueprint for Quality Schools, a plan to reduce the total number of schools in the district by 24 over the course of several years. The district says that restructuring will help create higher-quality schools throughout the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\">one of the first schools\u003c/a> to be closed under the plan. It had declining enrollment and poor academic outcomes, which the district said put it on the list for closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771090\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 399px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/pasted-image-0.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11771090 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/pasted-image-0.png\" alt=\"Students from the now-shuttered Roots Academy were enrolled at other district schools. 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District officials said they intended to work with those families to find the most appropriate placement for their children, and highlighted the opportunity to transfer to better-performing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to district data, 40 of those students are now at Elmhurst United, an East Oakland school newly formed by merging Elmhurst Community Prep and Alliance Academy, all part of the first phase of school restructuring. The district estimates 10 students left OUSD-run schools altogether, but can’t confirm whether they went to charter or private schools, elected home-schooling or simply moved out of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for some Roots families, the upheaval may not be over. Twenty-three Roots students now attend Oakland SOL (School of Language) and another 23 attend Frick Impact Academy — both schools are slated for a merger within the next year. The stress and uncertainty of the looming closure is one more hurdle teachers and students have to overcome this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents in the district now say they are wary of picking a school that could end up on a closure list, as plans continue to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Wilson, the district’s former head of enrollment, stands by the decision to close Roots but regrets the compressed timeline. “I wish the decision had been made before the start of the 2018-19 school year so this [relocation of students] could have been carried out more fully,” Wilson wrote in a statement. “I just didn’t have the staff to devote to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"oakland-schools\" label=\"A changing district\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Elmhurst United, principal Kilian Betlach said he and staff strategized on how to make Roots students feel welcome, even as they were trying to figure out the merger of Alliance and Elmhurst Community Prep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put Roots students together when we could. 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I know I’m supposed to be like a leader of it, but it was just really weird to be there, in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district closed Roots this year as part of its Citywide Blueprint for Quality Schools, a plan to reduce the total number of schools in the district by 24 over the course of several years. The district says that restructuring will help create higher-quality schools throughout the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\">one of the first schools\u003c/a> to be closed under the plan. 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District officials said they intended to work with those families to find the most appropriate placement for their children, and highlighted the opportunity to transfer to better-performing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to district data, 40 of those students are now at Elmhurst United, an East Oakland school newly formed by merging Elmhurst Community Prep and Alliance Academy, all part of the first phase of school restructuring. The district estimates 10 students left OUSD-run schools altogether, but can’t confirm whether they went to charter or private schools, elected home-schooling or simply moved out of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for some Roots families, the upheaval may not be over. Twenty-three Roots students now attend Oakland SOL (School of Language) and another 23 attend Frick Impact Academy — both schools are slated for a merger within the next year. 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Gavin Newsom brokered an agreement Wednesday on a high-profile charter-school regulation proposal at the center of this year’s contentious battle between teachers unions and charter advocates, removing a key hurdle for its passage this session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise on \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1505\u003c/a> comes after months of lobbying by the state’s two most influential education interest groups and several impassioned hearings over sweeping proposed changes to how the publicly funded, independently managed schools operate in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initiated in the early 1990s as a way to bring innovation into California’s K-12 school system, charter schools have sharply grown over the years, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2019/02/california-charter-school-data-enrollment-cost-teachers-unions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">primarily\u003c/a> in the state’s urban school systems, and have become a flashpoint for unions, which contend they draw enrollment away from traditional public schools — depriving them of critical funding and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Democratic Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell']‘This bill is good for kids and for California taxpayers but there is more work to be done to ensure bad actors are held accountable.’[/pullquote]In a joint statement, Newsom and Senate and Assembly leaders characterized the deal on AB 1505 as one that “significantly reforms the Charter Schools Act to address long-standing challenges for both school districts and charter schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This agreement focuses on the needs of our students,” the statement from the Governor’s Office read. “It increases accountability for all charter schools, allows high-quality charter schools to thrive, and ensures that the fiscal and community impacts of charter schools on school districts are carefully considered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the latest iteration of AB 1505, which lawmakers are expected to vote on in the two weeks remaining before the end of the legislative session, local school boards would have more discretion over approving new charter schools, including the ability to factor in a new charter’s impact on a district’s finances — a criterion that districts were not allowed to consider for prior charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All charter school teachers also would be required to hold some sort of state credential along with a background check, though uncredentialed charter teachers leading “non-core” classes would have five years to meet that requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state would also impose a two-year moratorium on non-classroom based and online charter schools under the proposal. But a pathway toward appeals to county and state boards for charters denied by local school boards would remain in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing teachers and classified school employees celebrated the agreement, touting it as “significant progress on behalf of our students.” The California Teachers Association, which backed Newsom during the election, spent $4.3 million this year lobbying for more restrictions on charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All along, our goals have included ensuring locally elected school board members have the discretion to make decisions to meet the needs of local students … and holding all taxpayer-funded public schools to the same high standards,” the CTA and a coalition of unions said in a joint statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='public-schools' label='Coverage of Public Schools']The California Charter Schools Association removed its opposition — formally shifting to a “neutral” position — to AB 1505 after the group said it secured “significant protections” for charter schools, including some preservation of appeals to counties and the state, as well as granting high-performing charters a fast track toward renewal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For 25 years, California’s charter public school movement has relentlessly run towards the greatest challenges in public education,” Myrna Castrejón, president and CEO of the state’s charter association, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Far too many of our most vulnerable students have been underserved by our current public school system, which is exactly why we’ve engaged in thoughtful conversations and shown a willingness to compromise on this important legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the agreement marked a striking departure from previous sessions in which teachers unions and charter advocates bitterly fought the opposing sides’ proposals to a legislative stalemate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Myrna Castrejón, of the California Charter Schools Association']‘Far too many of our most vulnerable students have been underserved by our current public school system …’[/pullquote]But Newsom, who won office amid heavy opposition from deep-pocketed charter supporters, signified soon after he took office in January that he planned to play an active role in mediating California’s charter school debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the first bills Newsom signed this year, Senate Bill 126, requires charters to adhere to the same public-records and open-meeting laws as traditional district schools — a proposal that had previously passed but was vetoed by Gov. 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Charter advocates, including the state charter association, decried the original proposal as “poisonous” and an existential threat to charters in California. Teachers unions and supporters of the legislation said the accountability proposals were “commonsense” reforms that were long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1505 gradually has been amended as it has cleared each successive legislative hurdle, but it became clear it would become the vehicle for a consensus revision after it cleared the Assembly in a narrow and dramatic floor vote. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an emotional Oakland school board meeting Wednesday night, parents, students and staff from four schools slated for closure and consolidation made their case for more time to help shape the plans that will radically alter their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://fcmat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/08/Oakland-USD-final-report.pdf\">Under pressure from a state oversight body\u003c/a> to balance its budget, the Oakland Unified School District is crafting plans to reduce its total number of schools by up to 24 and to invest any cost savings in strengthening existing schools. Four schools — Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, Sankofa Academy, Oakland SOL (School of Language) and Frick Impact Academy — are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769908/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students\">targeted to be merged\u003c/a> in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But overwhelmingly the board was scorned by parents who showed up from across the district to express their profound mistrust of the institution that serves their children. Parent after parent asked for evidence that the closures would save the district money and, more importantly, help improve educational outcomes for students. Many cited the district’s own \u003ca href=\"http://grandjury.acgov.org/grandjury-assets/docs/2018-2019/OUSD%20Broken%20Culture.FR-2.pdf\">history of fiscal mismanagement.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees line up to speak at an Oakland school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38847_OUSD_011-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees line up to speak at an Oakland school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"oakland-schools\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been starving for resources for years now. My son attended Sankofa back in the second grade. He is currently in 10th grade at McClymonds,” said Valerie Manchester, who has a fourth-grader at Sankofa. “You guys have lied to us and deceived us since then. It does not make any sense, I don’t see how you guys can sit on this board and sit here with straight faces and not consider these children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the largest groups in attendance Wednesday night was representing Kaiser Elementary, sporting green T-shirts and carrying signs saying “Do No Harm” to express opposition to the proposed merger of their school with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parents who addressed the board argued that they chose their school because it is small and their children do better in that environment. They also pointed to data showing that their school closes the achievement gap for its black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daryl Guidry, a parent at Kaiser, said that families of color are being underserved in Oakland but not at Kaiser. “When you are closing schools that are taking care of families of color and most importantly children of color, that’s just lack of resources,” Guidry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But school board member James Harris challenged the Kaiser parents — a school that is about one-third white, largely affluent and located in the Claremont Hills — to reconsider their opposition to merging with Sankofa Academy in North Oakland’s Bushrod neighborhood, where the majority of youth qualify for free or reduced-price lunches and are students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re coming from a special place. I would ask you to think about what would it mean to share that experience with people that have not had that special experience,” Harris said. “What would it mean for the community at Kaiser to say: You know what? Oakland needs us to do something differently now. Oakland needs us to show up in a different way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His statement was met with scornful jeers from some in the audience, but Harris rebutted, “I’m presenting this to you to think about as a community. You can take it or leave it. I’m not here to argue with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770915 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019 OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading "Do Not Harm" in opposition to the district's plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1321\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1200x826.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019, OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading “Do Not Harm” in opposition to the district’s plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board seemed united on one thing: forcing change on Kaiser. One option they’re considering is relocating Kaiser to the larger Santa Fe Elementary campus where there is space to expand the model. Reopening Santa Fe is a move strongly supported by parents in that neighborhood, who also turned up in force at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response to the resistance that many Kaiser parents were showing towards any changes, board member Shanthi Gonzales went so far as to suggest the school be eventually phased out, by halting kindergarten enrollment after this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several board members also questioned why district staff had abandoned an earlier idea of merging a different elementary —Peralta — with Sankofa. A Peralta parent gave the board \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EDYw9DJ8ff0fF0NojT8PsayEM2KGDfZD5hqBWPUSiFU/edit?ts=5d4d167c\">a letter\u003c/a> signed by 50 parents who support merging their school with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770918 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Unified School District Vice President Jody London, President Aimee Eng, and Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell (left to right) listen to speakers at a school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-800x592.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-1020x755.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38855_OUSD_019-qut-1200x888.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District Vice President Jody London, President Aimee Eng and Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell (left to right) listen to speakers at a school board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are Peralta folks who are interested in a merger with Sankofa, and I think that’s going to lead us to be much more successful,” Gonzales said. “I’m interested in them being at a bigger campus where we can draw more students into OUSD and into a quality program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of two other schools slated for a merger were also discussed at Wednesday’s meeting. Oakland SOL and Frick Impact Academy, both in East Oakland neighborhoods that Gonzales represents, are slated to consolidate onto the Frick campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales seemed to agree with the cries of parents from both schools who say they’re in favor of merging, but insist more time is needed to plan for the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You heard SOL and Frick ask for more time tonight. Is that possible?” Gonzales asked, directing her comments to OUSD Deputy Innovation Officer Yvette Renteria. “You have two brand-new principals at Frick and SOL. What do you anticipate them needing and how are they going to get it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales pointed to the fact that the schools are 1.4 miles apart and that Oakland SOL has a dual-language immersion program while Frick does not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770917\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent\" href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770917 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Parents in attendance at the OUSD board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-1020x737.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38854_OUSD_018-qut-1200x868.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents in attendance at the OUSD board meeting on Aug. 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At stake for some parents is the changing racial makeup of their neighborhoods and schools. Frick Academy’s students are about 41% African American and 53% Latinx, while Oakland SOL has a 71% Latinx student body. Some parents have expressed concern about how merging the two schools will tip the balance toward a much heavier Latinx student ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Sankofa parent concerned about gentrification in a historically black neighborhood said, “I know what I felt like when I went outside and my whole neighborhood changed. I been in that neighborhood for years and years, 40-plus. It’s important that you think of the people before you make moves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting, Renteria and some board members acknowledged earlier mistakes made during the first phase of mergers and closures last year. In merging Alliance Academy and Elmhurst Community Prep\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>district officials admitted that they did not provide enough support for the budgeting or planning process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also failed to relocate all 266 seventh graders displaced by the closure of Roots International Academy into better schools, which had been the intention. In fact, 46 Roots students are now at Oakland SOL and Frick, potentially facing upheaval once again in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria said that to support the current phase of closures, a philanthropic foundation donated $200,000 over the coming two years to help fund the work of reconfiguring smaller schools into larger ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first phase of closures, Oakland-based nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.educate78.org/who-we-are/\">Educate78\u003c/a> paid for a consultant to help Alliance and Elmhurst middle schools combine into Elmhurst United this past school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to dismantle the district’s smaller schools is an ironic twist in the history of school reform efforts in Oakland. In 2000 the Gates Foundation spent millions to help launch the small schools movement across the country, with an initial focus on the Bay Area. The first 10 of those smaller schools opened in Oakland, beginning with a difficult process of breaking apart older, larger schools and their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is scheduled to make a decision Sept. 11 on the current round of closures and mergers, which is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/blueprintforquality\">OUSD’s Citywide Blueprint for Quality Schools.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re coming from a special place. I would ask you to think about what would it mean to share that experience with people that have not had that special experience,” Harris said. “What would it mean for the community at Kaiser to say: You know what? Oakland needs us to do something differently now. Oakland needs us to show up in a different way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His statement was met with scornful jeers from some in the audience, but Harris rebutted, “I’m presenting this to you to think about as a community. You can take it or leave it. I’m not here to argue with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11770915 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019 OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading "Do Not Harm" in opposition to the district's plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1321\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38860_OUSD_024-qut-1200x826.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee at an Aug. 28, 2019, OUSD board meeting holds a sign reading “Do Not Harm” in opposition to the district’s plan to merge Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary with another school.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board seemed united on one thing: forcing change on Kaiser. One option they’re considering is relocating Kaiser to the larger Santa Fe Elementary campus where there is space to expand the model. Reopening Santa Fe is a move strongly supported by parents in that neighborhood, who also turned up in force at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response to the resistance that many Kaiser parents were showing towards any changes, board member Shanthi Gonzales went so far as to suggest the school be eventually phased out, by halting kindergarten enrollment after this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several board members also questioned why district staff had abandoned an earlier idea of merging a different elementary —Peralta — with Sankofa. 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Frick Academy’s students are about 41% African American and 53% Latinx, while Oakland SOL has a 71% Latinx student body. Some parents have expressed concern about how merging the two schools will tip the balance toward a much heavier Latinx student ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Sankofa parent concerned about gentrification in a historically black neighborhood said, “I know what I felt like when I went outside and my whole neighborhood changed. I been in that neighborhood for years and years, 40-plus. It’s important that you think of the people before you make moves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting, Renteria and some board members acknowledged earlier mistakes made during the first phase of mergers and closures last year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wanted specifically for us to revisit those percentages because some of them had gotten some calls from parents at high-demand schools specifically,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how it might play out: If there are 100 open seats in a school, and 20 siblings enroll, then of the 80 remaining seats, at most 41 of them would go to children from outside that attendance area, using the opportunity ticket. As some critics see it, that's 41 neighborhood kids who would be displaced. Elmhurst United Middle School Principal Kilian Betlach, who was on the district's advisory committee, disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Neighborhood preference is not a guarantee. It’s preference,\" Betlach said. \"I wouldn't choose the word displacement. That’s the way it’s being framed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the district moves ahead with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769908/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students\">its plans\u003c/a> to merge Kaiser Elementary School with Sankofa Academy at the Sankofa site, and Oakland SOL with Frick Impact Academy at the Frick site, just the 280 students from Kaiser and 136 from SOL would get opportunity tickets to move to any of the city's top schools. Students from Sankofa and Frick would not have that option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that Kaiser parents at a school that is 31% white and already high-achieving would see their students get an opportunity ticket to another high-performing school is an irony not lost on Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a bunch of privileged families take a loophole in the policy to take this ticket to get a further leg up for their families, then I think folks need to take a long look in the mirror and revisit the signs in the window,\" Young said, of Kaiser parents who are resisting the merge with Sankofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advisory group considered limiting the ticket to affected students who fall into \"disadvantaged student\" categories defined by the Local Control Funding Formula, but backed off, said Lee. Betlach agreed with that move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to be policy leader in place like OUSD, where it’s incredibly segregated and a huge part of your community is not well served, and at same time the kids going to school in the hills and those young people ... we are also accountable to them,\" Betlach said. \"We can’t be hostile to them or to their privilege. They are part of community. It's a line to walk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several on the advisory board spoke of the opportunity ticket as a mechanism to soften the blow of the hardship of changing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"School closure kids go through negative experiences, and these structural changes are understood to be for the greater good. It makes sense to offer something for the sacrifice,\" Betlach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Elementary parent Katherine Lee said it was still unclear how her fellow parents were thinking about the choice between moving to Sankofa and creating a newly merged school or taking an opportunity ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, it's [Kaiser] an academically well-performing school. And so there might be a desire to go to another school that is as well performing or better,\" Lee said. \"And unfortunately, in Oakland, that tends to mean whiter schools. Ultimately, I don't know what each family's going to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Kaiser Elementary parents are already threatening to sue or leave the district altogether, should their school be merged, opportunity ticket or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is expected to weigh the recommendations before a final vote in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District has unveiled plans for its second round of school restructuring, and it is already hearing from incensed parents who don't want to see their schools altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shuttered Roots International Academy Middle School\u003c/a>, which became a rallying point for teachers and families at school board meetings during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the teachers' strike\u003c/a>. This Wednesday's board meeting is now the first opportunity for district staff, parents and students to weigh in on the latest recommendations in front of the full board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11735304,news_11766985,news_11721015,news_11716967,news_11711497\" label=\"Restructuring at the Oakland School District\"]The district has been rolling ahead on a controversial plan to pare down its number of schools by as many as 24. In the first phase of the citywide plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/18243\">six schools were targeted for change\u003c/a> with roughly 1,500 students affected. Beyond closing Roots, two other schools in East Oakland were merged, another two are still in the planning stages and a third, Met West, has expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This second round of closures and mergers, expected to affect another 1,324 students, took some by surprise when it tagged a small, successful and diverse school in the Oakland hills, Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Elementary, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721070/oakland-unified-announces-plans-to-merge-kaiser-and-sankofa-elementary-schools-as-part-of-major-downsizing-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merge with Sankofa Elementary\u003c/a> on the Sankofa campus in North Oakland. In addition, Oakland SOL in East Oakland, which offers a dual-language immersion program, will merge with Frick Impact Academy on the Frick campus, also in East Oakland. And Melrose Leadership Academy (MLA), another dual-language program, would expand to upper and lower campuses across Maxwell Park and Sherman facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district used a variety of factors to determine which schools would be affected, including the potential for cost savings, how well a school was performing academically, teacher retention, enrollment trends and demand for certain programs. The district is under pressure to reduce the number of schools it has in order to save money, but officials and school board members have maintained the restructuring is also an opportunity to create more equitable schools across the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all parents see it that way. Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson said parents at both Kaiser and Sankofa would be sending a letter to the board opposing their merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"OUSD staff continues to use misinformation, unscientific 'data' and conflicting rhetoric to justify their closing of Kaiser Elementary and starving Sankofa of much needed resources,\" Johnson wrote in an email. \"The school board has the opportunity to do the right thing and demand that OUSD stop this flawed and deceptive process and truly engage their community to tackle the problems OUSD is facing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parents are scheduled to meet again with OUSD officials Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district held a series of meetings over the summer with parents from all of the schools involved, in order to discuss the possible changes. The final recommendations were made public just a few days ahead of the Aug. 28 board meeting, when the board will take public comment. The board is then scheduled to vote on the recommendations on Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents from Kaiser and Sankofa \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11766985/its-all-about-race-parents-want-say-in-how-oakland-schools-integrate\">have expressed skepticism\u003c/a> that the district can successfully pull off a consolidation of two school cultures. The district reported some MLA families shared that concern and that some SOL parents are worried about the lack of safe routes to Frick for students who live near SOL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/26/second-phase-of-ousd-school-closure-plans-will-affect-1324-students/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11769976\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11769976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/oobineme_kqedousd_killian-9-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Principal Kilian Betlach is already overseeing the merger of two schools into Elmhurst United. \u003ccite>(Olivia Obeneme/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Principal Kilian Betlach has overseen the merger of Elmhurst and Alliance middle schools in the first phase of the district's plan. The two newly merged schools, renamed Elmhurst United, opened three weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betlach said that after his schools' merger was announced, the district seemed to take a \"do-it-yourself\" approach when it came to supporting the two schools through the planning process. Betlach said he hopes this time around the district is more intentional in the planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of what would be interesting to me would be to see what level of detail staff goes into, what support they will offer. With us it was incredibly vague, it was pretty much nothing, in terms of support, and with a really small amount of money,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betlach, though, considers the outcome of the merger to be positive so far. Elmhurst United has increased enrollment to 715 students this year, beyond district expectations, he said. And the school was able to bring in new resources to hire an assistant principal, two science teachers, and add music, dance and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are supportive of the potential mergers as well. Lakisha Young, who runs Oakland Reach, a parent group representing many families in East Oakland, said she supports the efforts to remake schools if it leads to more quality schools for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district has been trying to get Kaiser down off that hill for years,\" said Young, referring to earlier attempts to close Kaiser, which the school fended off. \"This sends a big message. The will and the courage to do what’s right for all students, that is the leadership that is needed. I think it’s important that all communities, not just all flatland communities, are impacted by this shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is estimating the second round of mergers will save $1,147,117 over five years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The district has been rolling ahead on a controversial plan to pare down its number of schools by as many as 24. In the first phase of the citywide plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/18243\">six schools were targeted for change\u003c/a> with roughly 1,500 students affected. Beyond closing Roots, two other schools in East Oakland were merged, another two are still in the planning stages and a third, Met West, has expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This second round of closures and mergers, expected to affect another 1,324 students, took some by surprise when it tagged a small, successful and diverse school in the Oakland hills, Henry J. 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The district is under pressure to reduce the number of schools it has in order to save money, but officials and school board members have maintained the restructuring is also an opportunity to create more equitable schools across the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all parents see it that way. Kaiser Elementary parent Alicia Johnson said parents at both Kaiser and Sankofa would be sending a letter to the board opposing their merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"OUSD staff continues to use misinformation, unscientific 'data' and conflicting rhetoric to justify their closing of Kaiser Elementary and starving Sankofa of much needed resources,\" Johnson wrote in an email. \"The school board has the opportunity to do the right thing and demand that OUSD stop this flawed and deceptive process and truly engage their community to tackle the problems OUSD is facing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser parents are scheduled to meet again with OUSD officials Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district held a series of meetings over the summer with parents from all of the schools involved, in order to discuss the possible changes. The final recommendations were made public just a few days ahead of the Aug. 28 board meeting, when the board will take public comment. 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