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They're also asking for smaller caseloads for support staff like nurses, counselors and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Najeeb Khoury, the neutral fact-finder, recommended a new contract that would last through the 2019-2020 school year and would include 3 percent pay increases over the first two years and reopen talks for a salary increase in the third year. However, he also encouraged the two sides to explore a contract that would run through the summer of 2021 and could include greater salary increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are among the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lowest paid\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, even when taking benefits into account, according to an analysis by School Services of California, a consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s current education funding system is complicated and flawed in a number of ways,\" Khoury wrote in his report. \"These flaws make finding resolutions to this contract and other teacher contracts throughout the state very difficult.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See More of KQED's Coverage of the Debates Surrounding Oakland Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Khoury agreed that cutting class sizes would improve the district's poor \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/SRA1718_10TEACHER_RETENTION_EXPERIENCE_0/TeacherRetention?iframeSizedToWindow=true&:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teacher retention\u003c/a>, but only recommended reducing classes across the board by one student by July 2020, with implementation happening at the highest-needs schools first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disagreements between the teachers and the district are exacerbated by OUSD's roughly $30 million budget deficit, which it has to significantly reduce to avoid being taken over by the state. To help cut costs, the district has proposed closing and consolidating up to 24 of its 87 school sites, a plan that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11722135/oakland-unifieds-hella-hard-week\">proven highly controversial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers and parents who spoke at the announcement took particular aim at the district's decision to encourage the proliferation of and coordination with charter schools in Oakland, in line with what's known as the \"\u003ca href=\"https://chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2018/07/03/the-oakland-school-board-is-pushing-for-more-coordination-with-charter-schools-but-faces-fierce-backlash/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">portfolio model\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In these competition-based portfolio districts, schools compete against each other for resources and support, creating a system of haves and have-nots,\" Brown said. He decried billionaire supporters of the model including Netflix founder and CEO \u003ca href=\"https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/reed-hastings-creates-100-million-education-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reed Hastings\u003c/a> and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation run by Gates and his wife Melinda was behind an earlier education reform effort undertaken by the district to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726682/why-does-oakland-have-so-many-small-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smaller schools\u003c/a> in hopes of improving outcomes. Now lacking private funding from the Gates, OUSD is looking at closing up many of those small schools as part of its budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The black and brown families in Oakland have suffered enough displacement,\" said Clarissa Doutherd, the parent of a fifth-grader at Laurel Elementary School. \"Our public schools should stay open. 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"content": "\u003ch2>An earlier district reform effort broke large, underperforming campuses into smaller schools that could, in theory, better support at-risk students. Since 2000, OUSD created scores of new schools, even as enrollment throughout the district sharply declined.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Want to know more? Read on...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District has about 37,000 students in 87 non-charter public schools, or an average of roughly 425 students per school. That comparatively high school-to-student ratio is largely due to an earlier reform movement to create smaller, more intimate educational settings for students. Today, amid a serious budget crisis, district leaders are revisiting the premise of the small schools experiment, and have suggested paring down the number of schools by upward of 25 percent. Here’s a look at how Oakland ended up with so many small schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does OUSD really have \u003cem>that\u003c/em> many schools? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes. The number of public schools OUSD oversees is much higher than Bay Area districts of similar size. Take nearby Fremont Unified, which has just over 35,000 students but only 42 schools. Or San Jose Unified, where about 32,000 students attend 46 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Oakland still has its fair share of larger schools. About \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/school/Alameda/Oakland-Unified/Skyline-High\">1,800 students\u003c/a> were enrolled at Skyline High School during the 2017-2018 school year, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/school/Alameda/Oakland-Unified/Oakland-Technical-High\">nearly 2,000\u003c/a> at Oakland Tech. But a good number of district schools have fewer than 300 students. Among them: Roots International Academy, one of the schools slated for closure, which now has just about 260 students and Sankofa Academy, which has fewer than 200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726709\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11726709 size-complete_open_graph\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-1200x867.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-1200x867.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-160x116.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-800x578.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377-1020x737.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/OUSDschools-e1550279017377.png 1247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schools in the Oakland Unified School District \u003ccite>(OUSD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why were so many new schools created?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2000, the district has opened a huge number of small schools, even as its enrollment dropped \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showShareOptions=true&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no&:render=false#3\">by about 45 percent\u003c/a>. Here’s how it unfolded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1990s, Oakland’s public school district was dealing with many of the same issues it faces today, including financial problems, low test scores and high teacher turnover. Most of the under-performing schools were concentrated in the city’s “flatlands” neighborhoods and primarily attended by lower-income, minority students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike now, though, many of those schools were bursting at the seams and straining to manage far more students than they were designed to accommodate, particularly elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of these overcrowded and sometimes chaotic conditions, a group of concerned parents teamed up with an alliance of religious and civic leaders, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcommunity.org/\">Oakland Community Organizations\u003c/a>, to push for a major overhaul of the district’s most troubled campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Oakland Schools: Your Questions Answered\" tag=\"ousd-qa\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the group called attention to the glaring disparities between their kids’ schools and the markedly smaller, safer and better performing schools largely concentrated in wealthier neighborhoods in the Oakland hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe that the same school district would be failing thousands of children, while the other kids in the more affluent neighborhoods were very successful,” said Emma Paulino, an immigrant from Guadalajara, Mexico, who was appalled by the conditions at Hawthorne Elementary, the East Oakland school her son attended. “It was like a slap in my face. My child is not a third-class kid just because he’s brown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulino became involved with OCO and its grassroots campaign to push the district to break apart some of its long-struggling, large flatlands schools and replace them with smaller autonomous academies. It was part of a growing small schools movement that had taken root in urban districts across the country, including New York, Chicago and Milwaukee, and touted as a transformational tool to help narrow the growing achievement gap between poor, mostly minority students and their more affluent peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates believed that schools with fewer than 400 students could provide a stronger sense of community and security and create more engaging learning environments, particularly for students from underserved neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small schools were also intended to empower a new generation of community and educational leaders who could help shape their school’s vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s school board and its superintendent went all in, approving a \u003ca href=\"https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED467119\">new small schools policy\u003c/a> in 2000 that jump-started the opening of nine new schools over the next three years. (To put that in perspective: the district hadn’t opened a single new school in the previous 20 years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/37f2a288-0fd1-434c-8fff-b97a4f708fbb?src=embed\" title=\"Oakland Small Schools\" width=\"600\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Chaconas, who was the district’s superintendent from 2000 to 2003, said that besides reducing overcrowding, the goal was to create more community-focused and academically rigorous institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to get a group of teachers and community members to design schools in which they felt they would own the kids more, and actually end up getting better performance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulino helped start ASCEND, an arts-based kindergarten- through eighth-grade school in East Oakland that opened its doors in 2001 (it has since become a charter school).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At ASCEND, we the parents had a voice,” she said. “We worked really closely with the teachers. And all the adults were responsible for the children, including the custodians, people in the cafeteria, every person at the school. We were like a family. Parents really owned the school and all the kids were accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label= \"We're answering your questions about Oakland Schools.\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools#have-a-question,Tell us what you want to know.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who paid for the expansion?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good chunk of the funding came from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which had begun infusing a number of urban districts across the country with large grants specifically earmarked for creating more small schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2003 — when the financially distressed district was taken over by the state and its locally elected school board dissolved — and 2009, Oakland continued to receive multimillion-dollar contributions from the Gates Foundation for the explicit purpose of converting large campuses into multiplexes of smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that period of state receivership, the district shuttered seven large middle and high schools and seven elementary schools — located almost entirely in the city’s poorest neighborhoods in East and West Oakland — and replaced them with 40 smaller academies. Many had distinct vocational themes, from media studies and performing arts to architecture and activism. The schools’ teachers and principals all had to reapply for their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 2009, when the district finally regained local control, philanthropic enthusiasm for the small schools movement had waned, and the Gates Foundation shifted its focus to new educational initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, OUSD opened a whopping 49 new schools in a decade, each with its own separate administration and teaching staff. Some were eventually phased out or turned into charter schools, but the majority remain open today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also during this period that district-approved, publicly funded charter schools proliferated in the city. Oakland’s underserved communities, which had just a few years earlier been sorely lacking in educational options for their children, were suddenly awash in an often dizzying array of new schools from which to choose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So ... did it work? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results were mixed. There were definitely some major improvements. Between 2004 and 2009, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib07/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/14/Impact_Assessment_OUSD_Results.pdf\"> district reported\u003c/a> a 92-point increase in its overall Academic Performance Index score, which it claimed was the biggest improvement of any large urban district in California, although it still fell below the statewide average. And some of the new schools unquestionably outperformed the larger institutions they’d stemmed from. In 2008, Think College Now, one of the new small elementary schools in the Fruitvale district, was named a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/364\">California Distinguished School\u003c/a> at the same time as Hillcrest, an elementary school in one of Oakland’s wealthiest neighborhoods. That same year, about \u003ca href=\"https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/news/articles/899\">40 percent of graduates from LIFE Academy\u003c/a>, a bioscience-themed high school in East Oakland that opened in 2001, were admitted into the University of California system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/oakland-unified-school-district-new-small-schools-initiative-evaluation.pdf\">2009 Stanford study\u003c/a> found that Oakland students in the new small schools performed better, on average, over a three-year period than students from similar socioeconomic groups who stayed in their larger, traditional schools. The same study also found that students, parents and teachers were “significantly more satisfied” than their counterparts at traditional schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Oakland’s small school transformation was hardly the magic bullet that some reformers had hoped for. Many of the same problems persisted, and academic progress was at best uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/09/01/small-schools-found-not-making-the-grade/\">Data released in 2007\u003c/a> showed that the new small high schools at the Castlemont and McClymonds campuses — as well as all but one of the district’s new middle schools — failed to meet national education standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, by 2009, just as the district regained local control, it again found itself sliding into deep financial trouble, in large part because \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showShareOptions=true&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no&:render=false#3\">thousands of students \u003c/a>were transferring into the many charter schools that had recently emerged throughout Oakland, taking with them critical state funding tied to enrollment, and leaving some of the newly created schools with an increasing number of empty seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operating more schools was also more expensive, particularly in the absence of foundational support. Each school required its own principal, administrative staff and additional overhead costs, adding millions of dollars every year to the district’s tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Hill, a former OUSD program manager, said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eightcities.org/blog/oakland-california\">recent interview\u003c/a> with the education site Eight Cities that the district probably opened too many schools at once. “There should have been a tighter look at financial and demographic need,” he said. “It wasn’t financially sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the Oakland school board\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/12/19/oakland-school-district-at-important-juncture/\"> regained control in 2009, some members were already suggesting\u003c/a> merging some of the “new, small schools” back together again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Newsom is the first Democrat to follow a Democrat into the California governor’s office in more than a century — and friendship between the Brown and Newsom families \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/gavin-newsoms-keeping-it-all-in-the-family/\">goes back generations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/gavin-newsom-transition-jerry-brown/\">creates a challenge\u003c/a> other recent governors have not faced: Newsom must pay homage to the legacy of his predecessor while also establishing his own vision. 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Brown responded by saying California troops wouldn’t enforce immigration laws or “build a new wall.” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/trump_california/gavin-newsom-says-hes-refuse-trump-on-sending-national-guard-to-the-border/\">But he agreed\u003c/a> to add 400 troops, saying they would focus on combating transnational crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/newsletters/national-guard-newsom-state-of-state-kamala-harris-caltrans-homeless/\">rolled back Brown’s order\u003c/a> this week, reassigning most of the troops from the border to areas threatened by wildfire and illegal marijuana grows. Those remaining at the border “will focus on stopping criminals smuggling drugs and guns through existing border checkpoints,” Newsom said in his speech. “This is our answer to the White House: No more division, no more xenophobia and no more nativism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>High-speed rail\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since his first stint as governor in the 1970s, Brown has advocated for a new high-speed train to connect Northern and Southern California. He took steps more recently to support the project by negotiating funding for it from California’s signature climate change program. “I make no bones about it,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/01/25/80125/gov-brown-to-lay-out-vision-in-last-state-of-state/\">Brown said last year\u003c/a>. “I like trains, and I like high-speed trains even better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said Tuesday that he has “nothing but respect for Governor Brown’s and Governor Schwarzenegger’s ambitious vision.” But he derided the current plan for a train from San Francisco to Los Angeles, saying it “would cost too much and take too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Newsom embraced a more limited rail line, from Merced to Bakersfield. He also announced a new chairman for the rail authority, Lenny Mendonca, and a plan to post rail spending publicly online, a step meant to hold the administration accountable for cost overruns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans, long opposed to the new train, welcomed Newsom’s tack. State Sen. Shannon Grove of Bakersfield, who will soon take over as the Senate Republican leader, thanked Newsom for scaling back the project and making spending on it more transparent. “That was very responsible,” she said. “I’m pleasantly surprised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom also wants to scale back Brown’s controversial plan to carve two massive tunnels through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to move water to Southern California. 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Brown repeatedly rejected the idea of developing a database to track student performance over time, saying he disagreed with a focus on test scores and feared the data could be abused to support prejudice. Newsom\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/can-california-afford-newsom-education-plan/\"> is embracing\u003c/a> a long-term student database as a way to measure which programs advance student learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need clear and achievable standards of transparency, more information sharing, and accountability for all public schools,” he said in his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom used the speech to announce his pick to lead the state Board of Education, naming \u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/person/linda-darling-hammond\">Linda Darling-Hammond\u003c/a> to the post. A former Stanford professor, she is an expert in teacher training and has chaired the state’s Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the last eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Housing & homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tackling California’s extraordinarily high cost of housing — and the related epidemic of homelessness — was never a top priority for Brown. Even as he left office, he said he didn’t think there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675647260/transcript-nprs-full-interview-with-california-gov-jerry-brown\">much the state could do\u003c/a> to make homes more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom wants to change that by holding cities accountable for building affordable housing. 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But the Rev. Amos Brown, head of San Francisco’s NAACP, challenged the board after the vote, calling race the original sin of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I appeal to you go home tonight,” Brown said. “Search your hearts. Do some logical thinking. Are we going to be a part of the problem? Or a solution to this problem?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixie is a nickname for the Southern U.S. states in the pro-slavery Confederacy. The legacy of the Confederacy has sparked political, legal and cultural battles, particularly in the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-school district has about 1,700 students. It was founded in 1864, making it one of the oldest districts in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Miller donated land for the first schoolhouse. Those who \u003ca href=\"https://www.changethename.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support\u003c/a> changing the name say the district was named Dixie by Miller on a dare from Confederate sympathizers. 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"content": "\u003cp>As student government president for the California Community Colleges, Iiyshaa Youngblood represents millions of people who scrape to pay for, and complete, even a two-year degree program. So you might expect the Inland Empire psychology major to be excited about a proposal to offer Californians two years of community college tuition-free. \u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11725154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-2-800x1311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1311\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-2-800x1311.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-2-160x262.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-2-1020x1671.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-2-732x1200.jpg 732w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-2.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d be wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That bill helps people who can already afford college,” Youngblood, a student at Moreno Valley College, says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s referring to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation\u003c/a> introduced in December that would tack a second year onto California’s existing College Promise Program. The scholarship covers a year’s worth of fees—usually $46 per credit hour—for first-time, full-time students in community college districts that meet certain requirements, such as participating in the federal student loan program and offering counseling services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, according to Youngblood, is who isn’t eligible: part-time students, who make up more than two thirds of the community college population. While research shows students taking 12 units or more per semester are more likely to earn a degree or certificate, Youngblood says many low-income students are simply too busy working to handle a full-time course load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with rent, food, bus fare or car costs, and hundreds of dollars out of pocket every semester for textbooks, she said, students typically need those paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of times legislators are disconnected from what students actually endure,” she said. “It sounds good, but for a lot of people, especially students of color, it’s unrealistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youngblood’s skepticism illustrates the complexity of debates about tuition-free college programs, which are springing up around the country at a time of rising discontent with student debt and widespread evidence of food insecurity and homelessness on campus. Some state plans have garnered bipartisan support. But often, say college affordability advocates, “free” doesn’t really mean free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Promise program, for example, doesn’t address non-tuition costs, which make up the bulk of community college students’ total price of attendance. When those are taken into account, in most regions of the state, low-income students pay a higher net price for community college than they would to attend a California State University campus or University of California campus, according to a recent report from The Institute for College Access and Success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there’s more grant aid available at the state’s four-year universities, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For community college students, “there isn’t nearly enough financial aid to bring their other costs of college in reach,” said TICAS vice president Debbie Cochrane in a statement accompanying the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent Hope Center survey of 40,000 California community college students, half reported experiencing food insecurity in the past year; one in five said they’d been homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11725158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-1200x848.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-1920x1357.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, the bill’s author, says he sees the College Promise program as just one piece of a larger college affordability agenda. The program’s requirement that students apply for other federal or state aid, the Los Angeles Democrat said, is designed to lead them to grants that might help cover their living costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a third of high school graduates nationwide didn’t complete a federal student aid application in 2018, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/2018-fafsa-study/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NerdWallet analysis\u003c/a>, leaving $2.6 billion in need-based Pell Grants on the table. Students can be confused by the form, think they’re not eligible for help, or have concerns about family members’ immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santiago also said he wants to amend his bill so that current part-time students could receive Promise fee waivers if they decide to take 12 units per semester. But he was firm that students should attend full-time. That way, he said, “it’s not just a giveaway. There’s responsibility on both sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s economy will need about a million more college graduates by 2030 than the state is on track to produce, the Public Policy Institute of California \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/will-california-run-out-of-college-graduates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimates\u003c/a>. Conscious of that projected gap, policymakers are looking for ways to encourage students to earn degrees quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers’ focus on tuition was on display in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed 2019-2020 budget. Community colleges have spent the past year building food pantries and making it easier for students to spend food stamps on campus, thanks to $10 million in grants from a state fund aimed at fighting college hunger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that money expires this year, and Newsom didn’t include plans to renew it—though the governor did set aside $40 million to provide a second year tuition-free, along with more support for students with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of anti-hunger activists and student government groups has drafted a letter to legislative leaders asking them for $20 million to combat hunger on community college campuses next year, along with $5 million each for UC and CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The forward momentum in preventing hunger on college campuses has been tremendous,” reads the draft letter, which the coalition shared with CALmatters. “Without this funding, campus leaders expect to lose momentum and even lose ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11725160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-800x669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-800x669.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-160x134.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-1020x853.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-1200x1004.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-1920x1606.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because California already waived community college tuition for low-income students prior to the Promise program—the income ceiling is about $37,000 for a family of four—it mostly helps students whose families earn too much to qualify for a waiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That poses a dilemma for people like Chris Nellum, director of higher education research at The Education Trust-West, which works to close the achievement gap for low-income students and students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is really challenging to say you don’t support a free college program,” he said. “It’s something I struggle with personally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this going to help students? Sure, it’ll help some students. But for the students we care about at Ed Trust West, the ones I’ve spent my career trying to support, I’m not sure it’s going to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community colleges have chosen to use their Promise dollars for non-tuition benefits designed to help the neediest students, rather than slash fees for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Mount San Antonio College in the Southern California suburbs, administrators crunched some numbers and found that the typical student who would receive a fee waiver was a white, male teenager from the upper-middle-class town of Diamond Bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The zip codes where they were from and the age group doesn’t match what our neediest students are,” said Bill Scroggins, the college’s president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, said Scroggins, the college is using the money to offer first-time students free bus passes, book grants of up to $250 per semester, and food cards that can be used to buy meals on campus. To qualify, students must be enrolled full-time and earn at least a 2.0 GPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las Positas College, in the San Francisco Bay Area, has also used part of its Promise funds to help students with textbooks—up to $500 per semester. The college will spend the rest on hiring more financial aid counselors to help students apply for other forms of aid, said vice president of student services William Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While about half of the college’s students already paid no fees, said Garcia, very few of them had any assistance with textbooks and supplies, which can cost full-time students nearly $2,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you start the first day of class and don’t have that book the teacher’s requiring, you’re going to get behind from day one,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11725162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-800x491.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-1200x736.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-1920x1178.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of a universal tuition waiver say its importance is symbolic. It sends high-school students a simple message: College is accessible to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Community College District has seen a 24 percent bump in Los Angeles Unified School District graduates enrolling right after high school since it began offering them a year of free tuition in 2017. Students who participated in the district’s Promise program were also more likely to continue for a second year than their peers in previous classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we came up with this, we thought, ‘How do we make this a conversation so that college is within somebody’s reach, so they can feel it and taste it, whether they’re a parent or a student?” said Santiago, who also sponsored the original College Promise legislation in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Universal programs can also be politically popular, as middle-class families, too, are squeezed by college costs. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.edpolicyinca.org/publications/pace-and-usc-rossier-polls-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PACE/USC Rossier poll\u003c/a> released this week, California voters ranked college affordability as the second-most important education issue for the state, behind gun violence in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states have gone farther than California, extending tuition-free community college to part-time and returning students. 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But often, say college affordability advocates, “free” doesn’t really mean free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Promise program, for example, doesn’t address non-tuition costs, which make up the bulk of community college students’ total price of attendance. When those are taken into account, in most regions of the state, low-income students pay a higher net price for community college than they would to attend a California State University campus or University of California campus, according to a recent report from The Institute for College Access and Success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there’s more grant aid available at the state’s four-year universities, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For community college students, “there isn’t nearly enough financial aid to bring their other costs of college in reach,” said TICAS vice president Debbie Cochrane in a statement accompanying the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent Hope Center survey of 40,000 California community college students, half reported experiencing food insecurity in the past year; one in five said they’d been homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11725158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-1200x848.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3-1920x1357.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, the bill’s author, says he sees the College Promise program as just one piece of a larger college affordability agenda. The program’s requirement that students apply for other federal or state aid, the Los Angeles Democrat said, is designed to lead them to grants that might help cover their living costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a third of high school graduates nationwide didn’t complete a federal student aid application in 2018, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/2018-fafsa-study/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NerdWallet analysis\u003c/a>, leaving $2.6 billion in need-based Pell Grants on the table. Students can be confused by the form, think they’re not eligible for help, or have concerns about family members’ immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santiago also said he wants to amend his bill so that current part-time students could receive Promise fee waivers if they decide to take 12 units per semester. But he was firm that students should attend full-time. That way, he said, “it’s not just a giveaway. 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Community colleges have spent the past year building food pantries and making it easier for students to spend food stamps on campus, thanks to $10 million in grants from a state fund aimed at fighting college hunger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that money expires this year, and Newsom didn’t include plans to renew it—though the governor did set aside $40 million to provide a second year tuition-free, along with more support for students with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of anti-hunger activists and student government groups has drafted a letter to legislative leaders asking them for $20 million to combat hunger on community college campuses next year, along with $5 million each for UC and CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The forward momentum in preventing hunger on college campuses has been tremendous,” reads the draft letter, which the coalition shared with CALmatters. “Without this funding, campus leaders expect to lose momentum and even lose ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11725160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-800x669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-800x669.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-160x134.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-1020x853.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-1200x1004.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4-1920x1606.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/1-4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because California already waived community college tuition for low-income students prior to the Promise program—the income ceiling is about $37,000 for a family of four—it mostly helps students whose families earn too much to qualify for a waiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That poses a dilemma for people like Chris Nellum, director of higher education research at The Education Trust-West, which works to close the achievement gap for low-income students and students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is really challenging to say you don’t support a free college program,” he said. “It’s something I struggle with personally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this going to help students? Sure, it’ll help some students. But for the students we care about at Ed Trust West, the ones I’ve spent my career trying to support, I’m not sure it’s going to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community colleges have chosen to use their Promise dollars for non-tuition benefits designed to help the neediest students, rather than slash fees for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Mount San Antonio College in the Southern California suburbs, administrators crunched some numbers and found that the typical student who would receive a fee waiver was a white, male teenager from the upper-middle-class town of Diamond Bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The zip codes where they were from and the age group doesn’t match what our neediest students are,” said Bill Scroggins, the college’s president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, said Scroggins, the college is using the money to offer first-time students free bus passes, book grants of up to $250 per semester, and food cards that can be used to buy meals on campus. To qualify, students must be enrolled full-time and earn at least a 2.0 GPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las Positas College, in the San Francisco Bay Area, has also used part of its Promise funds to help students with textbooks—up to $500 per semester. The college will spend the rest on hiring more financial aid counselors to help students apply for other forms of aid, said vice president of student services William Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While about half of the college’s students already paid no fees, said Garcia, very few of them had any assistance with textbooks and supplies, which can cost full-time students nearly $2,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you start the first day of class and don’t have that book the teacher’s requiring, you’re going to get behind from day one,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11725162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-800x491.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-1200x736.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/college-hidden-costs-graphic-4-1920x1178.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of a universal tuition waiver say its importance is symbolic. It sends high-school students a simple message: College is accessible to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Community College District has seen a 24 percent bump in Los Angeles Unified School District graduates enrolling right after high school since it began offering them a year of free tuition in 2017. Students who participated in the district’s Promise program were also more likely to continue for a second year than their peers in previous classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we came up with this, we thought, ‘How do we make this a conversation so that college is within somebody’s reach, so they can feel it and taste it, whether they’re a parent or a student?” said Santiago, who also sponsored the original College Promise legislation in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Universal programs can also be politically popular, as middle-class families, too, are squeezed by college costs. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.edpolicyinca.org/publications/pace-and-usc-rossier-polls-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PACE/USC Rossier poll\u003c/a> released this week, California voters ranked college affordability as the second-most important education issue for the state, behind gun violence in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states have gone farther than California, extending tuition-free community college to part-time and returning students. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of Oakland students from high schools across the city skipped class Friday morning to march from Oakland Technical High School to the school district's downtown headquarters in a spirited show of support for their teachers, who are threatening to strike amid tense contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Teachers Say They're Ready to Strike\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723411/oakland-teachers-say-theyre-willing-to-strike-heres-what-that-means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" />\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I'm here to support our teachers, to fight for things that I want in our schools and show that this is not just a teacher issue. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Tues., Feb. 19\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Teachers want better pay, smaller class sizes, and more resources for classrooms and student programs. The district says it supports these goals but also needs to balance its budget.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers say they will begin their strike on Thursday, Feb. 21, the union representing them \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726864/oakland-teachers-announce-plans-to-strike-starting-on-thursday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced\u003c/a> Saturday. The decision came after the union rejected the recommendations of a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSHkn3IwBmO-zewwFcfFhdvvc_RjKVyZ/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-finding report\u003c/a>, delivered on Friday by a neutral third party, which offered non-terms for a potential settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough. Bargaining with our school district has not worked,” Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, said on Saturday, while announcing the strike. “Bargaining with our school district has not in two years produced an agreement that will pay teachers enough to stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers have been working without a contract since July 2017. Despite prolonged efforts, the union, which represents some 2,300 teachers, and the Oakland Unified School District have failed to reach an agreement, and the formal negotiation process is nearly exhausted. Meanwhile, frustrated teachers staged their own one-day “sick-outs” in December and January without union approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does the fact-finding report recommend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The report, written by Najeeb Khoury, an arbitrator appointed by the state’s Public Employee Relations Board, begins by pointing out the deep flaws in California’s school-funding system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These flaws make finding resolutions to this contract and other teacher contracts throughout the state very difficult,” Khoury writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report goes on to note that the district’s offer of a 5 percent salary increase for teachers over three years will not keep pace with inflation. But it also stresses that the union’s demand for a 12 percent increase is financially unfeasible for the cash-strapped district. As a compromise, it recommends a 6 percent salary increase retroactive to the 2017-18 school year and calls for new salary negotiations for the 2019-20 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommends a reduction of one student per class, across the board, by 2020. For the neediest 20 percent of schools, that deadline would be 2019. And it suggests reducing the counselor-to-student ratio to a maximum of 1-to-550.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the report recommends hiring three additional psychologists for the district. And rather than hiring additional nurses, as the union is demanding, it suggests that the union and district work together to fill the district’s vacant school nurse positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What has to happen before a strike can be called?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The union and the district are now in the formal fact-finding process, a step legally mandated by state law in collective bargaining negotiations. Late last week, each party made its case before a three-person panel consisting of one member appointed by each party and one neutral member appointed by the Public Employee Relations Board, the state agency charged with administering collective bargaining laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label= \"We're answering your questions about Oakland Schools.\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Tell us what you want to know.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It works a little bit like a jury trial. After each party lays out its arguments (you can see OEA’s presentation to the panel \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/updates/remedying-educational-malpractice-oea-fact-finding-presentation/\">here\u003c/a>), the neutral panel member writes a report with recommendations for a settlement. The district and union have said \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UvyqV-akz2augtfC1SMeY4j-wVj_BujeSk3y7tv-Jcc/edit\">they expect to receive the report by February 15\u003c/a>. The report then has to be made public within 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the two sides don’t agree to the fact-finder’s recommendations, the union is likely to call for a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to get further in the weeds, you can read the state law that outlines the fact-finding process \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perb.ca.gov%2Flawspdfs%2Feera.pdf\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are teachers asking for, and what’s the district offering?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Generally speaking, teachers want more pay, smaller classes and more support staff. They say they’re overworked and considerably underpaid, especially given how expensive it is to live in the Bay Area. It’s a key reason, they note (and the \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/mediaplayer.php?clip_id=1302&view_id=4&meta_id=480162\">district agrees\u003c/a>), why the teacher retention rate in Oakland is substantially lower than average as compared with other urban districts nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the union is demanding a 12 percent salary increase over three years and graduated class-size reductions over the next two years. It also wants much deeper class-size reductions in schools where 75 percent or more of students are low-income, foster youth, homeless or English learners, as well as slimmer caseloads for support staff like nurses, counselors and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a pretty sizeable gulf, though, between the union’s demands and what the district has put on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it recognizes and supports an increase in teacher compensation, especially in the costly Bay Area, but also stresses the tenuous financial situation it’s currently in. The district is shouldering a roughly $30 million budget deficit, which it has to significantly reduce to avoid being taken over by the state (again). As part of an urgent cost-cutting strategy, the district recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\">proposed closing\u003c/a> and consolidating up to 24 of its 87 school sites, a plan that’s proven highly controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s offer is a salary increase of 5 percent over three years and marginal class-size cuts, but only for fourth and fifth grades, physical education and fine arts classes. It’s also offering a special education class size cap of 15 students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current contract, core high school classes like math and English are capped at 32 students (unless a teacher has fewer students in other periods). For kindergarten, the maximum is 27 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see where other class size caps and staff-to-student-ratio caps stand, check out \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Foaklandea.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F04%2FOEA-Contract-2014-2017.pdf\">the current contract\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about the proposal to close schools?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the union has asked to bargain around school closures. An attorney with the California Teachers Association, the state teachers’ union, sent OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/760fd0fd-fa9c-4792-a46e-89977448a490.pdf\">a letter\u003c/a> demanding that the issue of closures be brought to the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD Board President Aimee Eng said the district does not believe the issue of closures is within the scope of negotiations and has referred the matter to legal counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do OUSD teacher salaries compare to other districts?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, even when taking benefits into account, according to an analysis by School Services of California, a consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the starting OUSD teacher salary of $46,570 is roughly equivalent to starting salaries in most other large Bay Area districts, the average teacher salary in Oakland ($63,149) \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/cs/documents/j90summary1718.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is notably lower\u003c/a>, as is the highest-paid salary ($83,724). In San Francisco, by contrast, the average teacher salary for the 2017-18 school year was more than $73,00, with top-earners making more than $96,000. In San Jose, teachers on average made just over $79,000, with some of the highest paid making as much as $97,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0tV6H/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What would it cost the district to meet the union’s demands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell has said each 1 percent raise that teachers get means an additional $1.9 million per year in costs to the district. Factoring in all district staff represented by the union — teachers, counselors, nurses, psychologists, speech therapists, etc. — she said those costs go up to about $3.5 million per year for each 1 percent raise. By that metric, the 12 percent raise the union is asking for over three years would cost the district $42 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said \u003ca href=\"https://votersedge.org/en/ca/ballot/election/area/42/measures/measure/2479?election_authority_id=1\">Measure G1\u003c/a> funding will provide $5 million annually to help pay for salary increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When did Oakland teachers last go on strike? What happened?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers walked out in 2010 for one day. According to news reports at the time, the district imposed a contract after exhausting the negotiation process. Teachers then had been working without a contract since summer of 2008 and the issues were similar: pay, class size, lack of support staff. Teachers were asking for a 15 percent pay increase over three years. The district, which faced an $85 million shortfall at the time, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-teachers-strike-ends-after-1-day-3190553.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, put forward a pay cut initially, citing its deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 90 percent of teachers joined the strike, according to the media reports, and some 300 emergency substitutes, administrators, non-union staff and volunteers oversaw classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers who participated reportedly lost one day’s pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some 600 students spent the day at the Grand Lake Theatre enjoying a double feature and free popcorn, courtesy of theater owner Allen Michaan, who put the show together in support of the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1996, teachers went on strike for 26 days.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It works a little bit like a jury trial. After each party lays out its arguments (you can see OEA’s presentation to the panel \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/updates/remedying-educational-malpractice-oea-fact-finding-presentation/\">here\u003c/a>), the neutral panel member writes a report with recommendations for a settlement. The district and union have said \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UvyqV-akz2augtfC1SMeY4j-wVj_BujeSk3y7tv-Jcc/edit\">they expect to receive the report by February 15\u003c/a>. The report then has to be made public within 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the two sides don’t agree to the fact-finder’s recommendations, the union is likely to call for a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to get further in the weeds, you can read the state law that outlines the fact-finding process \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perb.ca.gov%2Flawspdfs%2Feera.pdf\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are teachers asking for, and what’s the district offering?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Generally speaking, teachers want more pay, smaller classes and more support staff. They say they’re overworked and considerably underpaid, especially given how expensive it is to live in the Bay Area. It’s a key reason, they note (and the \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/mediaplayer.php?clip_id=1302&view_id=4&meta_id=480162\">district agrees\u003c/a>), why the teacher retention rate in Oakland is substantially lower than average as compared with other urban districts nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the union is demanding a 12 percent salary increase over three years and graduated class-size reductions over the next two years. 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As part of an urgent cost-cutting strategy, the district recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721015/the-big-fight-over-a-small-school-in-oakland-what-you-need-to-know\">proposed closing\u003c/a> and consolidating up to 24 of its 87 school sites, a plan that’s proven highly controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s offer is a salary increase of 5 percent over three years and marginal class-size cuts, but only for fourth and fifth grades, physical education and fine arts classes. It’s also offering a special education class size cap of 15 students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current contract, core high school classes like math and English are capped at 32 students (unless a teacher has fewer students in other periods). 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An attorney with the California Teachers Association, the state teachers’ union, sent OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/760fd0fd-fa9c-4792-a46e-89977448a490.pdf\">a letter\u003c/a> demanding that the issue of closures be brought to the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But OUSD Board President Aimee Eng said the district does not believe the issue of closures is within the scope of negotiations and has referred the matter to legal counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do OUSD teacher salaries compare to other districts?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, even when taking benefits into account, according to an analysis by School Services of California, a consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the starting OUSD teacher salary of $46,570 is roughly equivalent to starting salaries in most other large Bay Area districts, the average teacher salary in Oakland ($63,149) \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/cs/documents/j90summary1718.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is notably lower\u003c/a>, as is the highest-paid salary ($83,724). In San Francisco, by contrast, the average teacher salary for the 2017-18 school year was more than $73,00, with top-earners making more than $96,000. In San Jose, teachers on average made just over $79,000, with some of the highest paid making as much as $97,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0tV6H/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What would it cost the district to meet the union’s demands?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell has said each 1 percent raise that teachers get means an additional $1.9 million per year in costs to the district. Factoring in all district staff represented by the union — teachers, counselors, nurses, psychologists, speech therapists, etc. — she said those costs go up to about $3.5 million per year for each 1 percent raise. By that metric, the 12 percent raise the union is asking for over three years would cost the district $42 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said \u003ca href=\"https://votersedge.org/en/ca/ballot/election/area/42/measures/measure/2479?election_authority_id=1\">Measure G1\u003c/a> funding will provide $5 million annually to help pay for salary increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When did Oakland teachers last go on strike? What happened?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers walked out in 2010 for one day. According to news reports at the time, the district imposed a contract after exhausting the negotiation process. Teachers then had been working without a contract since summer of 2008 and the issues were similar: pay, class size, lack of support staff. 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