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"content": "\u003cp>UC Berkeley and a conservative student group have reached a settlement agreement in a prominent 2017 free speech case, both parties announced Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement, UC Berkeley has \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Exhibit-A-Revisions-to-Major-Events-Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed its campus events policy\u003c/a>, explicitly laying out which events require student groups to pay security costs. The university also agreed to pay the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/09/19/inconsequential-berkeley-college-republicans-now-command-national-attention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley College Republicans\u003c/a> and Young America’s Foundation $70,000 in attorney fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/04/24/berkeley-college-republicans-file-lawsuit-force-university-let-ann-coulter-speak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed the lawsuit\u003c/a> in federal court in April 2017, alleging UC Berkeley violated conservative students’ First Amendment rights by placing prohibitive restrictions on when and where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11427970/reports-controversial-coulter-speech-at-uc-berkeley-cancelled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">events featuring Ann Coulter\u003c/a> and David Horowitz could take place. The campus maintained that the restrictions were set in place due to legitimate security concerns — following violent protests that forced the cancellation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11618852/free-speech-week-protestors-face-off-at-barricaded-sproul-plaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milo Yiannopoulos’ speech\u003c/a> earlier that year — rather than the political views of the speakers, and that the rules did not prevent the groups from holding their events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709940\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11709940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A campus police officer talks on his radio after protesters toppled a mobile light trailer and set it on fire during a demonstration against the scheduled appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley on Feb. 1, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit emerged during the series of raucous protests and speaking events that trailed the Yiannopoulos melee on campus in 2017. While the public controversy has largely died down, the lawsuit has continued quietly in court. Judge Maxine Chesney dismissed the case in late 2017, but plaintiffs accepted her invitation to file an amended complaint in light of new developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides said they considered the settlement a victory. However, they appear to be interpreting the implications of the agreement differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said the “insubstantial cosmetic changes” to the final events policy simply codify what the campus has been doing all along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve clarified existing practices,” Mogulof said. “The claims that we had an unconstitutional events policy were thrown out of court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the new \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Exhibit-B-UCPD-Event-Fee-Schedule-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fee schedule\u003c/a>, student groups holding events in classrooms and similar venues are not required to pay for security, except in some specific cases like dances. Mogulof said this has been the university’s practice, pointing to several Berkeley College Republicans events last spring that he said were held at no cost to the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troy Worden, president of the Berkeley College Republicans, talks to reporters about the club’s invitation to Ann Coulter and the campus’s response in the spring of 2017. \u003ccite>(Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some venues that are rented out separately, like Zellerbach Hall, set their own security fees that student groups have always been, and are still, responsible for, he said. The Berkeley College Republicans and their sponsors, Young America’s Foundation, paid $9,000 for security, which the groups said was an unfair amount, when they hosted Ben Shapiro there in September 2017. UC Berkeley and the University of California paid $600,000 in security costs for anticipated protests outside the event that barely materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Shapiro event happened again next year, the students would be responsible for the same or similar cost, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy also removes language that allowed the university to judge the nature of an event, and thus how much security would cost, based on its “complexity.” That passage was among pieces of the policy that prompted some conservatives to say the university discriminated against right-wing events. Mogulof said UC Berkeley never actually made any decisions based on the “complexity” provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harmeet Dhillon, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, however, said the new policy required in the settlement “completely changes” the university’s approach to campus events. Her clients achieved the outcome they wanted, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to charge all student groups zero dollars for security — that is a landmark policy,” she said. “Our clients ... and our firm view this settlement as a major victory for the First Amendment rights of all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said her understanding of the agreement is that venues like Zellerbach can state flat security requirements for events held there, but cannot charge amounts that vary based on the nature of the event, like what happened, she said, when Shapiro spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said the $70,000 that UC Berkeley is obligated to pay her clients indicates campus culpability. She said the amount did not represent “100 percent of the attorney fees — that is customary in a settlement,” but declined to state how much her clients had paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said the lawsuit has cost UC Berkeley an estimated $250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the sort of fight that protects something so foundational to the university,” he said. “It was worth all the effort and resources to establish beyond any doubt that the polices are constitutional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said he is unaware of any events held by the College Republicans this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Worden, who was president of the club when the lawsuit was filed, was among the many on the right who celebrated the settlement online Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honored to have been a part of this momentous victory for the New Free Speech Movement,” he said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TroyWerden/status/1069684502170124302\">on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> or get the latest news in your inbox with \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/e-news-signup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing\u003c/a>. Email us at tips@berkeleyside.com. Keep Berkeleyside running and support independent local journalism by \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/support-us-by-becoming-a-member/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">becoming a member\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>UC Berkeley and a conservative student group have reached a settlement agreement in a prominent 2017 free speech case, both parties announced Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement, UC Berkeley has \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Exhibit-A-Revisions-to-Major-Events-Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed its campus events policy\u003c/a>, explicitly laying out which events require student groups to pay security costs. The university also agreed to pay the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/09/19/inconsequential-berkeley-college-republicans-now-command-national-attention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley College Republicans\u003c/a> and Young America’s Foundation $70,000 in attorney fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/04/24/berkeley-college-republicans-file-lawsuit-force-university-let-ann-coulter-speak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed the lawsuit\u003c/a> in federal court in April 2017, alleging UC Berkeley violated conservative students’ First Amendment rights by placing prohibitive restrictions on when and where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11427970/reports-controversial-coulter-speech-at-uc-berkeley-cancelled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">events featuring Ann Coulter\u003c/a> and David Horowitz could take place. The campus maintained that the restrictions were set in place due to legitimate security concerns — following violent protests that forced the cancellation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11618852/free-speech-week-protestors-face-off-at-barricaded-sproul-plaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milo Yiannopoulos’ speech\u003c/a> earlier that year — rather than the political views of the speakers, and that the rules did not prevent the groups from holding their events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709940\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11709940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS23996_20170201_MiloYiannopoulos_protest_Cal_Credit_BertJohnson-9-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A campus police officer talks on his radio after protesters toppled a mobile light trailer and set it on fire during a demonstration against the scheduled appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley on Feb. 1, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit emerged during the series of raucous protests and speaking events that trailed the Yiannopoulos melee on campus in 2017. While the public controversy has largely died down, the lawsuit has continued quietly in court. Judge Maxine Chesney dismissed the case in late 2017, but plaintiffs accepted her invitation to file an amended complaint in light of new developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides said they considered the settlement a victory. However, they appear to be interpreting the implications of the agreement differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said the “insubstantial cosmetic changes” to the final events policy simply codify what the campus has been doing all along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve clarified existing practices,” Mogulof said. “The claims that we had an unconstitutional events policy were thrown out of court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the new \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Exhibit-B-UCPD-Event-Fee-Schedule-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fee schedule\u003c/a>, student groups holding events in classrooms and similar venues are not required to pay for security, except in some specific cases like dances. Mogulof said this has been the university’s practice, pointing to several Berkeley College Republicans events last spring that he said were held at no cost to the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Troy-Worden-president-of-Berkeley-College-Republicans-e1499883091627.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troy Worden, president of the Berkeley College Republicans, talks to reporters about the club’s invitation to Ann Coulter and the campus’s response in the spring of 2017. \u003ccite>(Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some venues that are rented out separately, like Zellerbach Hall, set their own security fees that student groups have always been, and are still, responsible for, he said. The Berkeley College Republicans and their sponsors, Young America’s Foundation, paid $9,000 for security, which the groups said was an unfair amount, when they hosted Ben Shapiro there in September 2017. UC Berkeley and the University of California paid $600,000 in security costs for anticipated protests outside the event that barely materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Shapiro event happened again next year, the students would be responsible for the same or similar cost, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy also removes language that allowed the university to judge the nature of an event, and thus how much security would cost, based on its “complexity.” That passage was among pieces of the policy that prompted some conservatives to say the university discriminated against right-wing events. Mogulof said UC Berkeley never actually made any decisions based on the “complexity” provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harmeet Dhillon, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, however, said the new policy required in the settlement “completely changes” the university’s approach to campus events. Her clients achieved the outcome they wanted, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to charge all student groups zero dollars for security — that is a landmark policy,” she said. “Our clients ... and our firm view this settlement as a major victory for the First Amendment rights of all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said her understanding of the agreement is that venues like Zellerbach can state flat security requirements for events held there, but cannot charge amounts that vary based on the nature of the event, like what happened, she said, when Shapiro spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said the $70,000 that UC Berkeley is obligated to pay her clients indicates campus culpability. She said the amount did not represent “100 percent of the attorney fees — that is customary in a settlement,” but declined to state how much her clients had paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said the lawsuit has cost UC Berkeley an estimated $250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the sort of fight that protects something so foundational to the university,” he said. “It was worth all the effort and resources to establish beyond any doubt that the polices are constitutional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said he is unaware of any events held by the College Republicans this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Worden, who was president of the club when the lawsuit was filed, was among the many on the right who celebrated the settlement online Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honored to have been a part of this momentous victory for the New Free Speech Movement,” he said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TroyWerden/status/1069684502170124302\">on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> or get the latest news in your inbox with \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/e-news-signup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing\u003c/a>. Email us at tips@berkeleyside.com. Keep Berkeleyside running and support independent local journalism by \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/support-us-by-becoming-a-member/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">becoming a member\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Outside the new Paradise Elementary School in Oroville, kids bolted from their cars to greet the teachers and staff waiting for them Monday morning. Formerly know as Bird Elementary, the new school is decorated outside with Bird of Paradise flowers and colorfully painted rocks that say “Paradise Strong.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in Butte County have been out of school for almost a month — ever since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\">deadly Camp Fire\u003c/a> started in early November and left many of their school buildings seriously damaged or completely destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709847\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11709847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Camp Fire reduced Paradise Elementary School to a pile of charred metal and melted plastic on Nov. 28, 2018. On Monday, displaced elementary school students began classes at other area schools, while sections of the burn site remained closed to residents. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little bit nervous,” says student Nevaeh Nichols, who was waiting outside with her mom, Megan. “I might not see any of my friends. I saw some of my friends, but I didn’t see all of my friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because, according to officials from the Paradise Unified School District, only 250 of the 500 students enrolled in Paradise Elementary are expected to return. Others are staying with relatives or have moved out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709850\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11709850\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise Elementary School reopens in Oroville. To greet kids, they had Birds of Paradise flowers set up outside on Dec. 3, 2018. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>District officials have made it a priority to ensure students are placed back in classrooms with their same teachers. That’s why they’re busing students from all over the county to this school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise Unified Superintendent Michelle John says Paradise families brought their kids from as far as Redding and Sacramento, just to keep them with their teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while some students are physically relocating across the county, students at Paradise High School will instead be attending classes virtually.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>District officials have turned the Chico Mall into a kind of hub, where students can meet to work with teachers and counselors on their virtual assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709846\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_9480-e1543888621707.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11709846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_9480-e1543888621707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_9480-e1543888621707.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_9480-e1543888621707-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_9480-e1543888621707-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_9480-e1543888621707-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_9480-e1543888621707-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn Russell with her son, Bryce, on Dec. 3, 2018/ \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But according to 17-year-old Bryce Russell, the best part is that he has reconnected with his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>” ‘Cause now I live so far away — I live in Biggs. So, um, I don’t really get to see anybody,” says Russell. “So now I’m here and I get to see everybody and it’s really cool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709855\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0597-e1543888966592.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11709855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0597-e1543888966592.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise High School students wait in line in the Chico Mall to meet their teachers and receive new laptops and school supplies on Dec. 3, 2018. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Russell’s mom, Dawn, was there with him. She says that while she’s glad to see him back to school, she didn’t realize how hard it was going to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it’d be this emotional to be here today, to do this. But this is his new normal. And it hurts for me that this is his new normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference with local officials, state schools Superintendent Tom Torlakson and Superintendent-elect Tony Thurmond said they would work to secure bond funding and federal grants for the impacted school districts to help them rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Outside the new Paradise Elementary School in Oroville, kids bolted from their cars to greet the teachers and staff waiting for them Monday morning. Formerly know as Bird Elementary, the new school is decorated outside with Bird of Paradise flowers and colorfully painted rocks that say “Paradise Strong.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in Butte County have been out of school for almost a month — ever since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\">deadly Camp Fire\u003c/a> started in early November and left many of their school buildings seriously damaged or completely destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709847\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11709847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34272_playground-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Camp Fire reduced Paradise Elementary School to a pile of charred metal and melted plastic on Nov. 28, 2018. On Monday, displaced elementary school students began classes at other area schools, while sections of the burn site remained closed to residents. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little bit nervous,” says student Nevaeh Nichols, who was waiting outside with her mom, Megan. “I might not see any of my friends. I saw some of my friends, but I didn’t see all of my friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because, according to officials from the Paradise Unified School District, only 250 of the 500 students enrolled in Paradise Elementary are expected to return. Others are staying with relatives or have moved out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709850\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11709850\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/qsYhd-e1543889233314-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise Elementary School reopens in Oroville. To greet kids, they had Birds of Paradise flowers set up outside on Dec. 3, 2018. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>District officials have made it a priority to ensure students are placed back in classrooms with their same teachers. That’s why they’re busing students from all over the county to this school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise Unified Superintendent Michelle John says Paradise families brought their kids from as far as Redding and Sacramento, just to keep them with their teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while some students are physically relocating across the county, students at Paradise High School will instead be attending classes virtually.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>District officials have turned the Chico Mall into a kind of hub, where students can meet to work with teachers and counselors on their virtual assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n her classroom at Bret Harte Middle School in Oakland, teacher Sayuri Sakamoto sits at a desk piled with papers. It’s her precious prep period, and she’s in the middle of scheduling education plan meetings for her special ed students when she remembers something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually need to follow up and go give someone an extra asthma treatment, like right now,” she says, as she stuffs her phone into her fanny pack and rushes out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the hall, Sakamoto pops her head into a classroom and pulls 7th grader Jayare Fulghal-Holloway from his class. Jayare was her student last year, and she knows if he doesn’t use his inhaler multiple times each day, his chest tightens up. He follows her down the hallway. “I feel really cough-y. You get it, coffee?” says Jayare. “But seriously it's really important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today he’s been asking to go home, but Sakamoto is hoping the extra asthma treatment will keep him at school. She walks him to a small room near the front office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's Nurse Williams' room,” Jayare says. But Nurse Williams isn’t here. “She's usually at her other schools,\" Jayare explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because nurse Natasha Williams divides her time between three schools, and a shortage of school nurses in the district means she has to pick up additional assignments, spreading her even thinner. When school started this year, 10 of Oakland Unified School District’s 30 \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nurse positions\u003c/a> weren’t filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It falls to other school staff to pick up the slack. Sakamoto does her best to keep track of when students need to take medications. She sets alarms on her phone to remind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of whatever I'm doing, I stop,” she says. “If I don't then, I will forget to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies ... first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us.'\u003ccite>April Harris-Jackson, Bret Harte principal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But those alarms go off six times per day, so things can get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have so many alarms set close to each other I'll turn one off because I think I already did that and then, 'Oh no!' It turns out that was the alarm for someone else. Sometimes schedules get way off,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20-30 percent of their time on medical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies and in first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us,” Harris-Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s attendance clerk, Carmen Argueta, spends so much time tending to students’ medical needs that Jayare thought she was another school nurse until Sakamoto told him otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 percent of students at the school receive special education services. Many of them require medical care. Harris-Jackson says she has students who regularly have seizures, others who rely on gastronomy tubes (G-tubes) and catheters, plus students with life-threatening allergies and chronic conditions that require daily medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurse Williams is in charge of assessing all those students and coming up with treatment plans. She works with their doctors and trains aides and other staff, like the attendance clerk, who provide care. She also does hearing and vision tests, makes sure kids have the medications they need at school, and follows up if kids aren’t coming to class because of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so few nurses in the district these days, she spends two days each week at Bret Harte, but does daily diabetes rounds at other schools and takes on other assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just question how it’s sustainable,” Harris-Jackson says of nurses’ workload. “How are we getting our needs met here, but also how are those other schools getting their needs met?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Nurse Williams’ office, Sakamoto is doing her best to meet Jayare’s needs. After rifling around in search of the binder where Williams logs treatments, she hands Jayare his inhaler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please do it the right way,” she says, though it’s not clear she knows what that is. “One puff, then a deep breath and hold it — or I don't know if you hold it,” she says. “Just do it slowly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Sakamoto sends Jayare back to class, Nurse Williams bursts through the door. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry! I’m so sorry,” she says. “I just rushed here from another school where I had a new student show up with G-tube feedings.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was due at Bret Harte more than two hours earlier, but she had to train the staff at another school to handle the feeding procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was supposed to see many students today here, and of all those students now I can maybe see one,” she says. “The other students will have to be rescheduled to another day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams loves her job and says it’s painful to see the workload take a toll on her relationship with students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have students telling me all the time, ‘Miss Natasha where are you? I never see you. You never get to sit with me and talk about my medication,’” she says. “I feel like if I was here every day it would make a huge difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Troubling Best-Case Scenario\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Bret Harte is in some ways the district’s best-case scenario. Because it serves so many high-needs students it gets more nursing attention than some schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 30 schools don’t have a nurse assigned to them at all. It falls to managers in the district's Health Services Department and nurses like Williams, who already have brimming caseloads, to assess students and train staff at those schools between other work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers, attendance clerks and other staff are left to manage much of students’ day-to-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in the district has school nurses turning to their union, the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Education Association\u003c/a>, for help. In May the union filed a formal grievance accusing the district of violating the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/contract/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terms of their contract\u003c/a>, which sets a nurse’s maximum caseload at 1,350 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the extra tasks thrown her way, Natasha Williams oversees nearly 1,400 students at her three schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The effects of the shortage are really, really burned out nurses. Our turnover is incredible,” says nurse Sarah Nielsen Boyd, who oversees over 2,000 students at Oakland Tech, though there are other trained staff on site. “It's a crazy job. It's very stressful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to monitoring medical services for severely disabled students and kids with medical conditions from cancer to cystic fibrosis, Nielsen Boyd has dealt with mental health issues like panic attacks and self-harm. She’s also the school’s go-to in emergencies. And with nurses so scarce she sometimes gets pulled away to help at other schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district did not respond to the nurses’ initial complaint, the union tried again. In late August the district rejected the grievance, saying it wasn’t filed in a timely manner, and deemed it null and void.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to nurses and union officials, OUSD Director of Community Schools Student Services Andrea Bustamante wrote, “Notwithstanding denial of the grievance due to untimely filing, I find the start of the 2018-2019 school year to be a great opportunity to work collaboratively to improve working conditions for our valued OUSD nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district have yet to work out a solution. In the meantime, nurses have turned to other tactics. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nurses Demand Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/player/clip/1321?view_id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Board meeting\u003c/a> in late September, they showed up alongside teachers to demand the district address the shortage. They provided board members with statements they said they’d collected from parents and pediatricians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to take this seriously,” Oakland Education Association treasurer Deirdre Snyder told the board. “You’re going to be sued by some parent! It’s a travesty. I have seen seizures in my room, all kinds of problems, more and more as the years go on. You cannot pretend this isn’t happening. You need to act now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District-wide, there are over 700 students with severe allergies, more than 350 students whose asthma requires regular medication, about 200 students with seizure disorders, 50 students with diabetes and nearly 30 students with sickle cell disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a high-needs district. We take great pride in filling the medical needs for our kids,” says OUSD spokesman John Sasaki. He points out the district has a vision clinic and dental services, along with independently run general health clinics families can access at over a dozen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki says in the past five years, several school nurses have retired while others have left for other districts or taken hospital jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20 and 30 percent of their time on medical issues. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of full-time credentialed school nurse positions in the district has dropped over time, and so have the number of unfilled positions. Last school year, the district had 32 nurse positions, six of them unfilled. In 2015, there were about 35 positions and only three were unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some nurses say the district hasn’t done enough to recruit nurses, district officials peg the unfilled positions on a shortage that stretches beyond Oakland. In fact, across the state, about ten percent of school nurse positions are unfilled, according to Sheri Coburn, president of the California School Nurses Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coburn blames the shortage in part on the fact that nurses can make more money in traditional hospital settings. School nursing also requires specialized training that takes time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing everything we can,” Sasaki says. “We're scrambling to find more nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says staff is working to expand the nurse recruitment campaign and the district is working with the union to offer additional incentives, like signing bonuses, referral bonuses and stipends for experienced nurses who support and mentor newer nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown kids who have access to school nurses \u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/6/e20160852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do better than those who don’t\u003c/a> — they’re absent less, and their teachers can dedicate more time to teaching. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a minimum of one full-time school nurse at every school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, on average, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/126/pupilsupportpersonnel-type/Table#fmt=2391&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=95&ch=276,278,280,277,279,807,1136&sortColumnId=0&sortType=asc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one school nurse for every 2,500 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because nurse Natasha Williams divides her time between three schools, and a shortage of school nurses in the district means she has to pick up additional assignments, spreading her even thinner. When school started this year, 10 of Oakland Unified School District’s 30 \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nurse positions\u003c/a> weren’t filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It falls to other school staff to pick up the slack. Sakamoto does her best to keep track of when students need to take medications. She sets alarms on her phone to remind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of whatever I'm doing, I stop,” she says. “If I don't then, I will forget to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies ... first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us.'\u003ccite>April Harris-Jackson, Bret Harte principal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But those alarms go off six times per day, so things can get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have so many alarms set close to each other I'll turn one off because I think I already did that and then, 'Oh no!' It turns out that was the alarm for someone else. Sometimes schedules get way off,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20-30 percent of their time on medical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies and in first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us,” Harris-Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s attendance clerk, Carmen Argueta, spends so much time tending to students’ medical needs that Jayare thought she was another school nurse until Sakamoto told him otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 percent of students at the school receive special education services. Many of them require medical care. Harris-Jackson says she has students who regularly have seizures, others who rely on gastronomy tubes (G-tubes) and catheters, plus students with life-threatening allergies and chronic conditions that require daily medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurse Williams is in charge of assessing all those students and coming up with treatment plans. She works with their doctors and trains aides and other staff, like the attendance clerk, who provide care. She also does hearing and vision tests, makes sure kids have the medications they need at school, and follows up if kids aren’t coming to class because of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so few nurses in the district these days, she spends two days each week at Bret Harte, but does daily diabetes rounds at other schools and takes on other assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just question how it’s sustainable,” Harris-Jackson says of nurses’ workload. “How are we getting our needs met here, but also how are those other schools getting their needs met?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Nurse Williams’ office, Sakamoto is doing her best to meet Jayare’s needs. After rifling around in search of the binder where Williams logs treatments, she hands Jayare his inhaler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please do it the right way,” she says, though it’s not clear she knows what that is. “One puff, then a deep breath and hold it — or I don't know if you hold it,” she says. “Just do it slowly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Sakamoto sends Jayare back to class, Nurse Williams bursts through the door. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry! I’m so sorry,” she says. “I just rushed here from another school where I had a new student show up with G-tube feedings.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was due at Bret Harte more than two hours earlier, but she had to train the staff at another school to handle the feeding procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was supposed to see many students today here, and of all those students now I can maybe see one,” she says. “The other students will have to be rescheduled to another day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams loves her job and says it’s painful to see the workload take a toll on her relationship with students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have students telling me all the time, ‘Miss Natasha where are you? I never see you. You never get to sit with me and talk about my medication,’” she says. “I feel like if I was here every day it would make a huge difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Troubling Best-Case Scenario\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Bret Harte is in some ways the district’s best-case scenario. Because it serves so many high-needs students it gets more nursing attention than some schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 30 schools don’t have a nurse assigned to them at all. It falls to managers in the district's Health Services Department and nurses like Williams, who already have brimming caseloads, to assess students and train staff at those schools between other work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers, attendance clerks and other staff are left to manage much of students’ day-to-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in the district has school nurses turning to their union, the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Education Association\u003c/a>, for help. In May the union filed a formal grievance accusing the district of violating the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/contract/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terms of their contract\u003c/a>, which sets a nurse’s maximum caseload at 1,350 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the extra tasks thrown her way, Natasha Williams oversees nearly 1,400 students at her three schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The effects of the shortage are really, really burned out nurses. Our turnover is incredible,” says nurse Sarah Nielsen Boyd, who oversees over 2,000 students at Oakland Tech, though there are other trained staff on site. “It's a crazy job. It's very stressful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to monitoring medical services for severely disabled students and kids with medical conditions from cancer to cystic fibrosis, Nielsen Boyd has dealt with mental health issues like panic attacks and self-harm. She’s also the school’s go-to in emergencies. And with nurses so scarce she sometimes gets pulled away to help at other schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district did not respond to the nurses’ initial complaint, the union tried again. In late August the district rejected the grievance, saying it wasn’t filed in a timely manner, and deemed it null and void.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to nurses and union officials, OUSD Director of Community Schools Student Services Andrea Bustamante wrote, “Notwithstanding denial of the grievance due to untimely filing, I find the start of the 2018-2019 school year to be a great opportunity to work collaboratively to improve working conditions for our valued OUSD nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district have yet to work out a solution. In the meantime, nurses have turned to other tactics. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nurses Demand Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/player/clip/1321?view_id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Board meeting\u003c/a> in late September, they showed up alongside teachers to demand the district address the shortage. They provided board members with statements they said they’d collected from parents and pediatricians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to take this seriously,” Oakland Education Association treasurer Deirdre Snyder told the board. “You’re going to be sued by some parent! It’s a travesty. I have seen seizures in my room, all kinds of problems, more and more as the years go on. You cannot pretend this isn’t happening. You need to act now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District-wide, there are over 700 students with severe allergies, more than 350 students whose asthma requires regular medication, about 200 students with seizure disorders, 50 students with diabetes and nearly 30 students with sickle cell disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a high-needs district. We take great pride in filling the medical needs for our kids,” says OUSD spokesman John Sasaki. He points out the district has a vision clinic and dental services, along with independently run general health clinics families can access at over a dozen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki says in the past five years, several school nurses have retired while others have left for other districts or taken hospital jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20 and 30 percent of their time on medical issues. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of full-time credentialed school nurse positions in the district has dropped over time, and so have the number of unfilled positions. Last school year, the district had 32 nurse positions, six of them unfilled. In 2015, there were about 35 positions and only three were unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some nurses say the district hasn’t done enough to recruit nurses, district officials peg the unfilled positions on a shortage that stretches beyond Oakland. In fact, across the state, about ten percent of school nurse positions are unfilled, according to Sheri Coburn, president of the California School Nurses Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coburn blames the shortage in part on the fact that nurses can make more money in traditional hospital settings. School nursing also requires specialized training that takes time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing everything we can,” Sasaki says. “We're scrambling to find more nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says staff is working to expand the nurse recruitment campaign and the district is working with the union to offer additional incentives, like signing bonuses, referral bonuses and stipends for experienced nurses who support and mentor newer nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown kids who have access to school nurses \u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/6/e20160852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do better than those who don’t\u003c/a> — they’re absent less, and their teachers can dedicate more time to teaching. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a minimum of one full-time school nurse at every school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Steve Herrington, Sonoma County's top schools official, walked out of a meeting on Nov. 9 when he noticed a huge plume of smoke heading directly for Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw this big cloud coming in and I was like, ‘Whoa, there is a big fire coming in,' \" Herrington said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County superintendent of schools had good reason to pay attention. 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A year later, she shares that information with other districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, Butte County's superintendent of schools, said he was grateful for Sonoma County's help. Still in the midst of a crisis, he is trying to gather his staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his first priorities is to find students from the Paradise Unified School District and figure out where they can attend school next. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly two weeks after Election Day, former state Assemblyman Tony Thurmond has declared victory over Marshall Tuck to become the state’s next Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Associated Press has not called the race, but Tuck conceded on Saturday morning as Thurmond’s lead grew to more than 150,000 votes, with an estimated 2 million ballots left to count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank the voters of California for electing me to serve the 6 million students of California,” Thurmond said in a statement. “I intend to be a champion of public schools and a Superintendent for all California students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond — who represents parts of the East Bay in the state Assembly and used to be a Richmond City Council member, school board member and social worker — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702975/marshall-tuck-has-slim-lead-over-tony-thurmond-for-superintendent-of-public-instruction\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trailed Tuck\u003c/a> by 86,000 votes on election night and was polling more than \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cf0k8sv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 points ahead\u003c/a> of Thurmond a week before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonpartisan race was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/5037b94c95b441869dc7bd3cb72bb99a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most expensive\u003c/a> state superintendent election in U.S. history, according to an Associated Press analysis. Tuck outraised Thurmond by a nearly two-to-one margin, with significant support from charter school advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuck’s loss is a blow to charter schools, whose supporters also contributed heavily to his unsuccessful 2014 run for superintendent against Tom Torlakson. They had hoped Tuck would bring a more supportive view of charter schools to a position that doesn’t have policy-making power, but does have a large megaphone at its disposal as the leader of the state’s Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor and state Legislature have much more control over actual education policy, and Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2016/brown-vetoes-bill-requiring-charters-to-comply-with-conflict-of-interest-open-records-laws-cta-ccsa/570087\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been friendly\u003c/a> to charter schools. Advocates this summer backed former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to replace Brown in hopes of keeping an ally in the governor’s mansion. But Villaraigosa failed to advance out of the top-two primary, and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom has taken an aggressive stance against charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom will be on the same page as his new top school official Thurmond, who supports a moratorium on charter schools in California. Thurmond’s other policy positions include support for Brown’s big education reforms, universal preschool, increased funding for K-12 schools, and better salaries and training for teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond countered Tuck’s support among charter school advocates with backing from teachers unions and other labor groups, the California Democratic Party, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris and U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Vanessa Rancaño contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfires/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow KQED's ongoing wildfire coverage.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of Bay Area students and teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706584/friday-school-closures-and-restrictions-announced-for-the-bay-area\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stayed home from school\u003c/a> Friday after dirty air from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> led many districts across the region to cancel classes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highly unusual decision came down to school leaders, who were often left to make judgment calls in the absence of clear protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is new for us,” says Napa County Superintendent of Schools Barbara Nemko. “It may be becoming the new normal, but it’s not normal yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the region, education officials described consultations with county health and air quality district officials, and protracted discussions that weighed concerns from parents and teachers against concern for kids’ safety at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not an easy decision. It was not made lightly,” says Alameda County Office of Education spokeswoman Michelle Smith-McDonald. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Protect Yourself From Wildfire Smoke\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-1006311468-1180x803.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents in the path of wildfire smoke can take certain precautionary measures to protect their lungs from smoke pollution. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more\u003c/a> about how to protect yourself.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All public schools in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco and Solano counties were closed on Friday. Some schools in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties stayed open because it’s not a certainty that keeping kids home is any better for their health. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no evidence that children are more safe from smoke or particulate matter at home than at school,” says Alameda County Interim Health Officer Erica Pan. “In some cases air quality may be better at school than at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Nemko, that was an important consideration. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very aware the we have the best HVAC system anywhere,” she says. “So the air quality probably inside school buildings is as good or better than at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But superintendents were contending with complaints from parents and teachers, and in some cases, high numbers of teacher absences due to health conditions triggered by smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, teachers union president Keith Brown sent a letter to the superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District asking the district to either provide masks for all students and teachers or cancel school. If not, Brown said teachers would consider not showing up to work. In some cases, Brown says, teachers reported worse air quality inside school buildings than outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nemko says it was a tough spot to be in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think no matter what we decide there will be people on each side of the issue that will be unhappy,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Do Schools Decide Whether to Close?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Public health officials played varying roles in the decisions made by schools across the region. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1930023/map-heres-your-daily-air-quality-report-for-the-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\">MAP: Here's Your Current Air Quality Report for the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Air-Quality-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"367\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11707050\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Air-Quality-3.png 483w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Air-Quality-3-160x122.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\">\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nemko says Napa's chief health officer suggested keeping schools open earlier in the week when the \u003ca href=\"https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Air Quality Index\u003c/a> was in the \"unhealthy\" range between 150 and 200, but that if it rose above 275, it would be good for schools to close. But that was only a suggestion, not a hard-and-fast rule: a spokeswoman for the county said there is no established Air Quality Index cutoff level for school dismissals or closures in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, school and public health department officials say they worked together closely before eventually deciding to leave most schools in the county open. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we get our most vulnerable populations access to indoor air space?\" said county health officer Sarah Cody at a joint press conference with health and school officials on Friday. \"One of the ways we can do that is by keeping the schools open. For many families, schools are really the safest place to send their children.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when education officials in Alameda County asked the Department of Public Health if the department would determine an Air Quality Index threshold at which schools should close, Smith-McDonald says, “They said they were not prepared to do that, so the superintendents were in a position where they needed to make a judgement call.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Alameda County’s Public Health Department, the San Francisco County Department of Public Health did not issue any guidelines to school officials around closing schools. Neither department was not involved in the decision to close schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality District does not make recommendations on school closures, according to a spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, where people have a lot of experience with bad air, the regional air quality district has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthyairliving.com/schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">program dedicated to helping schools\u003c/a> make informed decisions about about keeping kids safe in poor air conditions, but school closures have never been part of their guidelines. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845085/escape-the-smoke-these-san-francisco-museums-are-free-this-weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Escape the Smoke: These San Francisco Museums Are Free This Weekend\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ww2.kqed_.orgGettyImages-525644360-800-8f207d8d671a9a682f43bed8babcf795921c7492-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11706986\">\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Our recommendation is that you reduce their outdoor exposure,” says district spokeswoman Heather Heinks. “If kids get sent home, now there’s a bunch of kids who maybe aren’t supervised and maybe they’re going to go outside anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, while Central Valley school districts often have to contend with poor air — Kern County has had 15 unhealthy red zone days since May — it rarely reaches the levels seen across the Bay Area this week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the decision to cancel classes always comes down to school leaders, most of whom are facing these air quality questions for the first time. As wildfires and drifting smoke make dirty air more common in the Bay Area, education and public health officials are looking to institute clearer protocols. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, the Sonoma County Office of Education released air quality guidelines that establish an Air Quality Index of 275 as the threshold for closing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/SCOE-Rules-800x617.png\" alt=\"Sonoma County's Office of Education released school closure guidelines for poor air quality on Tuesday, Nov. 13.\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707073\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/SCOE-Rules-800x617.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/SCOE-Rules-160x123.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/SCOE-Rules-1020x786.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/SCOE-Rules.png 1039w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sonoma County Office of Education released school closure guidelines for poor air quality on Tuesday, Nov. 13. \u003ccite>(Sonoma County Office of Education)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erica Pan of the Alameda County Public Health Department says she’s working with other health officials in the area to help develop regional guidelines going forward. She says more important than any kind of Air Quality Index threshold for closing schools is thinking about indoor air quality. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the outdoor Air Quality Index is high, we all need to figure out how to best stay inside and have the healthiest indoor air quality,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan says she spoke with school officials on Friday about providing public health input as districts put together plans for the future. One thing schools can do immediately, she says, is assess their HVAC systems and make improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release put out Friday afternoon, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson assured school leaders that cancelling classes because of bad air quality would not lead them to miss out on funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank school districts for acting to protect educators and students, and to let them know that the California Department of Education will assist them in any way that we can,” Torlakson said in a statement. “Safety must come first for students, teachers, and staff.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not an easy decision. It was not made lightly,” says Alameda County Office of Education spokeswoman Michelle Smith-McDonald. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Protect Yourself From Wildfire Smoke\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-1006311468-1180x803.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents in the path of wildfire smoke can take certain precautionary measures to protect their lungs from smoke pollution. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more\u003c/a> about how to protect yourself.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All public schools in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco and Solano counties were closed on Friday. Some schools in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties stayed open because it’s not a certainty that keeping kids home is any better for their health. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no evidence that children are more safe from smoke or particulate matter at home than at school,” says Alameda County Interim Health Officer Erica Pan. “In some cases air quality may be better at school than at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Nemko, that was an important consideration. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very aware the we have the best HVAC system anywhere,” she says. “So the air quality probably inside school buildings is as good or better than at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But superintendents were contending with complaints from parents and teachers, and in some cases, high numbers of teacher absences due to health conditions triggered by smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, teachers union president Keith Brown sent a letter to the superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District asking the district to either provide masks for all students and teachers or cancel school. If not, Brown said teachers would consider not showing up to work. In some cases, Brown says, teachers reported worse air quality inside school buildings than outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nemko says it was a tough spot to be in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think no matter what we decide there will be people on each side of the issue that will be unhappy,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Do Schools Decide Whether to Close?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Public health officials played varying roles in the decisions made by schools across the region. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1930023/map-heres-your-daily-air-quality-report-for-the-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\">MAP: Here's Your Current Air Quality Report for the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Air-Quality-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"367\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11707050\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Air-Quality-3.png 483w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Air-Quality-3-160x122.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\">\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nemko says Napa's chief health officer suggested keeping schools open earlier in the week when the \u003ca href=\"https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Air Quality Index\u003c/a> was in the \"unhealthy\" range between 150 and 200, but that if it rose above 275, it would be good for schools to close. But that was only a suggestion, not a hard-and-fast rule: a spokeswoman for the county said there is no established Air Quality Index cutoff level for school dismissals or closures in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, school and public health department officials say they worked together closely before eventually deciding to leave most schools in the county open. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we get our most vulnerable populations access to indoor air space?\" said county health officer Sarah Cody at a joint press conference with health and school officials on Friday. \"One of the ways we can do that is by keeping the schools open. For many families, schools are really the safest place to send their children.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when education officials in Alameda County asked the Department of Public Health if the department would determine an Air Quality Index threshold at which schools should close, Smith-McDonald says, “They said they were not prepared to do that, so the superintendents were in a position where they needed to make a judgement call.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Alameda County’s Public Health Department, the San Francisco County Department of Public Health did not issue any guidelines to school officials around closing schools. Neither department was not involved in the decision to close schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality District does not make recommendations on school closures, according to a spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, where people have a lot of experience with bad air, the regional air quality district has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthyairliving.com/schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">program dedicated to helping schools\u003c/a> make informed decisions about about keeping kids safe in poor air conditions, but school closures have never been part of their guidelines. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845085/escape-the-smoke-these-san-francisco-museums-are-free-this-weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Escape the Smoke: These San Francisco Museums Are Free This Weekend\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ww2.kqed_.orgGettyImages-525644360-800-8f207d8d671a9a682f43bed8babcf795921c7492-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11706986\">\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Our recommendation is that you reduce their outdoor exposure,” says district spokeswoman Heather Heinks. “If kids get sent home, now there’s a bunch of kids who maybe aren’t supervised and maybe they’re going to go outside anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, while Central Valley school districts often have to contend with poor air — Kern County has had 15 unhealthy red zone days since May — it rarely reaches the levels seen across the Bay Area this week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the decision to cancel classes always comes down to school leaders, most of whom are facing these air quality questions for the first time. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 7 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire in Butte County has led to unhealthy air quality across the Bay Area. In response, a number of school districts are closing schools Friday or restricting students to indoor activities only. Find out more information from the county offices of education below. A number of Bay Area colleges and universities are also closing their doors Friday. This post will be updated as we learn more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acoe.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Alameda County public school districts will close Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/acoe/school-closures-11-15-18?e=0304f97386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Alameda County Office of Education\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.acoe.org/Page/404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full list of districts in the county\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Protect Yourself From Wildfire Smoke\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-1006311468-1180x803.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents in the path of wildfire smoke can take certain precautionary measures to protect their lungs from smoke pollution. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more\u003c/a> about how to protect yourself.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Contra Costa County school districts, Contra Costa County Office of Education schools and the CCCOE main office will close Friday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/district_resources/county_school_districts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See a full list of closures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinschools.org/mcoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marin County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Marin County school districts \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinschools.org/cms/lib/CA01001323/Centricity/Domain/154/Press%20Release%20-%20School%20Closures%20Nov%202018.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will close Friday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.napacoe.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa County Office of Education and all Napa County school districts will be closed on Friday, the district wrote in an email to KQED. The school districts are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nvusd.k12.ca.us/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napa Valley Unified School District\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.sthelena.k12.ca.us/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Helena Unified School District\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.calistogaschools.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calistoga Joint Unified School District\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.pvk8.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Valley Union Elementary District\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.hmesd.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Howell Mountain Elementary District\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Not all of the Napa County school districts above have posted information regarding the closures, so we've linked to their sites in case they do.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1930023/map-heres-your-daily-air-quality-report-for-the-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\">MAP: Here's Your Current Air Quality Report for the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All San Francisco Unified School District schools, central offices and after-school programs will close Friday. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/schools/all-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See a full list of schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://www.smcoe.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Mateo County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School district leaders in San Mateo County are monitoring air quality and will decide whether to remain open or to close school. Some schools have already made decisions to close Friday, so please \u003ca href=\"http://www.smcoe.org/about-smcoe/special-alert.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check the San Mateo County Office of Education website to find out their status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccoe.org/index/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday evening, Santa Clara County Office of Education officials said schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccoe.org/news/featured/Pages/Santa-Clara-County-Superintendent-Issues-Guidance-Due-to-Air-Quality-Concerns.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will not close Friday\u003c/a>. SCCOE officials said they are advising all students to remain indoors and will cancel outdoor activities Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocoe.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solano County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All school districts in Solano County and Solano County Office of Education programs, except for the Juvenile Detention Facility, will be closed Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scoe.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a handful of Sonoma County schools will be closed on Friday. 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This post will be updated as we learn more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acoe.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Alameda County public school districts will close Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/acoe/school-closures-11-15-18?e=0304f97386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Alameda County Office of Education\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.acoe.org/Page/404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full list of districts in the county\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Protect Yourself From Wildfire Smoke\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-1006311468-1180x803.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents in the path of wildfire smoke can take certain precautionary measures to protect their lungs from smoke pollution. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more\u003c/a> about how to protect yourself.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Contra Costa County school districts, Contra Costa County Office of Education schools and the CCCOE main office will close Friday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/district_resources/county_school_districts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See a full list of closures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinschools.org/mcoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marin County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Marin County school districts \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinschools.org/cms/lib/CA01001323/Centricity/Domain/154/Press%20Release%20-%20School%20Closures%20Nov%202018.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will close Friday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.napacoe.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa County Office of Education and all Napa County school districts will be closed on Friday, the district wrote in an email to KQED. The school districts are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nvusd.k12.ca.us/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napa Valley Unified School District\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.sthelena.k12.ca.us/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Helena Unified School District\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.calistogaschools.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calistoga Joint Unified School District\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.pvk8.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Valley Union Elementary District\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.hmesd.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Howell Mountain Elementary District\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Not all of the Napa County school districts above have posted information regarding the closures, so we've linked to their sites in case they do.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1930023/map-heres-your-daily-air-quality-report-for-the-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\">MAP: Here's Your Current Air Quality Report for the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All San Francisco Unified School District schools, central offices and after-school programs will close Friday. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/schools/all-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See a full list of schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://www.smcoe.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Mateo County\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School district leaders in San Mateo County are monitoring air quality and will decide whether to remain open or to close school. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow KQED's ongoing wildfire coverage.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, I spent time in Paradise reporting on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687798/childhood-trauma-can-mean-early-death-this-california-mom-wants-to-beat-the-odds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">childhood trauma\u003c/a>. In my time there, I met incredible people. I visited schools and nonprofits that help some of Paradise's most vulnerable residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the physical locations I visited have burned down in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadly Camp Fire\u003c/a>: the nonprofit, the school, the homes of the people I met. Even the sign that welcomed you to Paradise when you drove in has burned. That sign read, \"May you find Paradise to be all its name implies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, the residents and people who appeared in our stories are alive, each with their own harrowing tale of escaping the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before their lives were upended, Paradise \u003cem>was\u003c/em> a paradise for some: a gorgeous, peaceful place with a strong community; an affordable town next to nature. It was covered in oak and pine trees, with a view of Butte Creek Canyon (what one resident called \"the mini Grand Canyon\") as you drove in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11705869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A June, 2018 photo of Butte Creek Canyon from the road connecting Chico to Paradise. Much of this canyon has burned.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A June 2018 photo of Butte Creek Canyon from the road connecting Chico to Paradise. Much of this canyon has burned. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents had their struggles, too. I was reporting there because Butte County has some of the highest levels of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/1969/aces-brfss/table#fmt=2486&loc=2,127,2146,331,171,2148,345,357,324,362,364,356,217,328,354,320,334,365,343,367,344,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,341,338,350,359,363,340&tf=91&ch=89,90,1273,1256,1274,1259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious childhood trauma\u003c/a> in the state. Public health and social service staff aren't sure why this is, but they believe it has to do with a wave of methamphetamine use in the 1990s and a lack of employment opportunities that contribute to economic instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the voices of people I spoke with this summer, before the flames hit, on what they loved, and found challenging, about Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These interviews have been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kelly Doty:\u003c/strong> program director at nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.youth4change.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youth for Change\u003c/a>, has lived in Paradise since childhood\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you love about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love the community in Paradise. A lot of the churches and the community-based organizations really work well together, and our community is really striving to help others. There's \u003ca href=\"https://paradiseca.adventistchurch.org/love-paradise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love Paradise,\u003c/a> which goes twice a year and beautifies Paradise. There's the Paradise garden group that goes and makes Paradise really pretty. There's just so many different resources and help available. It’s just welcoming and really family-friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What's challenging about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's not enough housing and not enough low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11705880 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sabrina Hanes (left), daughter Aroara, and Kelly Doty (right) in the garden at nonprofit Youth for Change in Paradise. This office and garden burned in the Camp Fire blaze.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hanes (left), daughter Aroara, and Kelly Doty (right) in the garden at nonprofit Youth for Change in Paradise. This office and garden burned in the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sabrina Hanes:\u003c/strong> mother and student at Chico State University, has lived in Paradise since 2007\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you love about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community. It's just so amazing — everybody's just welcoming. There's so many different hiking trails and so many different community events. You just feel like you're home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents still live in the Bay Area, and they want me to come back, but I can't leave. It's amazing here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What's challenging about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jammie Herl:\u003c/strong> principal's secretary with Honey Run Academy in the Paradise Unified School District, born and raised in Paradise\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you love about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a small community. When somebody is in need, the entire community comes out and helps wrap around everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What's challenging about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lack of resources. That's where the community network comes in because we all need help, and we lean on each other and come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be nice to have bigger resources that big communities have, like doctors, counselors and sports funding for schools. Here at Honey Run, we deal with foster and homeless youth, and we're taking the role of seven different people: everything from office manager to mental health care professional to making sure that people are fed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a lot of homeless camps here in Paradise and Magalia [a nearby community]. Buses will take the students to and from those homeless camps. We have community members who donate things for these students: toiletries, sleeping bags and groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of students, even the ones who do have homes, they're struggling to have three meals a day when they're not at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11705886 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Honey Run Academy Instructional Aid Stacy Pew (left) speaks to Principal Dena Kapsalis at Honey Run Academy in June. The school has since burned down.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey Run Academy instructional aide Stacy Pew (left) speaks to Principal Dena Kapsalis at Honey Run Academy in June. The school has since burned down. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dena Kapsalis:\u003c/strong> principal at Honey Run Academy, works in Paradise and lives in Chico\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Why do you think there's a high rate of serious childhood trauma here in Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be several things: unemployment, opioid addiction, mental health issues, teenage pregnancy, high school dropouts. It's very isolated up here. And so we have students that don't leave. We have families that don't leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We had a young man, 20 years old, who was shot and killed up here in Paradise, and I went to his funeral. His mom got up and said he had never been able to achieve one of his lifelong dreams: to see the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a poverty of experience, it's a poverty of imagination and economic poverty as well.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow KQED's ongoing wildfire coverage.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, I spent time in Paradise reporting on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687798/childhood-trauma-can-mean-early-death-this-california-mom-wants-to-beat-the-odds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">childhood trauma\u003c/a>. In my time there, I met incredible people. I visited schools and nonprofits that help some of Paradise's most vulnerable residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the physical locations I visited have burned down in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadly Camp Fire\u003c/a>: the nonprofit, the school, the homes of the people I met. Even the sign that welcomed you to Paradise when you drove in has burned. That sign read, \"May you find Paradise to be all its name implies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, the residents and people who appeared in our stories are alive, each with their own harrowing tale of escaping the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before their lives were upended, Paradise \u003cem>was\u003c/em> a paradise for some: a gorgeous, peaceful place with a strong community; an affordable town next to nature. It was covered in oak and pine trees, with a view of Butte Creek Canyon (what one resident called \"the mini Grand Canyon\") as you drove in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11705869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A June, 2018 photo of Butte Creek Canyon from the road connecting Chico to Paradise. Much of this canyon has burned.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8993-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A June 2018 photo of Butte Creek Canyon from the road connecting Chico to Paradise. Much of this canyon has burned. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents had their struggles, too. I was reporting there because Butte County has some of the highest levels of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/1969/aces-brfss/table#fmt=2486&loc=2,127,2146,331,171,2148,345,357,324,362,364,356,217,328,354,320,334,365,343,367,344,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,341,338,350,359,363,340&tf=91&ch=89,90,1273,1256,1274,1259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious childhood trauma\u003c/a> in the state. Public health and social service staff aren't sure why this is, but they believe it has to do with a wave of methamphetamine use in the 1990s and a lack of employment opportunities that contribute to economic instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the voices of people I spoke with this summer, before the flames hit, on what they loved, and found challenging, about Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These interviews have been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kelly Doty:\u003c/strong> program director at nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.youth4change.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youth for Change\u003c/a>, has lived in Paradise since childhood\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you love about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love the community in Paradise. A lot of the churches and the community-based organizations really work well together, and our community is really striving to help others. There's \u003ca href=\"https://paradiseca.adventistchurch.org/love-paradise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love Paradise,\u003c/a> which goes twice a year and beautifies Paradise. There's the Paradise garden group that goes and makes Paradise really pretty. There's just so many different resources and help available. It’s just welcoming and really family-friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What's challenging about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's not enough housing and not enough low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11705880 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sabrina Hanes (left), daughter Aroara, and Kelly Doty (right) in the garden at nonprofit Youth for Change in Paradise. This office and garden burned in the Camp Fire blaze.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8811-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hanes (left), daughter Aroara, and Kelly Doty (right) in the garden at nonprofit Youth for Change in Paradise. This office and garden burned in the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sabrina Hanes:\u003c/strong> mother and student at Chico State University, has lived in Paradise since 2007\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you love about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community. It's just so amazing — everybody's just welcoming. There's so many different hiking trails and so many different community events. You just feel like you're home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents still live in the Bay Area, and they want me to come back, but I can't leave. It's amazing here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What's challenging about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jammie Herl:\u003c/strong> principal's secretary with Honey Run Academy in the Paradise Unified School District, born and raised in Paradise\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you love about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a small community. When somebody is in need, the entire community comes out and helps wrap around everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What's challenging about Paradise?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lack of resources. That's where the community network comes in because we all need help, and we lean on each other and come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be nice to have bigger resources that big communities have, like doctors, counselors and sports funding for schools. Here at Honey Run, we deal with foster and homeless youth, and we're taking the role of seven different people: everything from office manager to mental health care professional to making sure that people are fed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a lot of homeless camps here in Paradise and Magalia [a nearby community]. Buses will take the students to and from those homeless camps. We have community members who donate things for these students: toiletries, sleeping bags and groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of students, even the ones who do have homes, they're struggling to have three meals a day when they're not at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11705886 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Honey Run Academy Instructional Aid Stacy Pew (left) speaks to Principal Dena Kapsalis at Honey Run Academy in June. The school has since burned down.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8889-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey Run Academy instructional aide Stacy Pew (left) speaks to Principal Dena Kapsalis at Honey Run Academy in June. 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"content": "\u003cp>Every five years, Oakland charters come before the school board to defend their record and ask for board approval to continue operating. This week one of the four up for renewal, Epic Middle School located in the city's Fruitvale neighborhood, received a rare \"no\" vote, in what may signal a tougher approach to charters as the district responds to state pressures to close and consolidate district schools to economize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents, teachers and students who came to support their charter renewal Wednesday night heard the Board of Education of the Oakland Unified School District drill down on how well their schools are doing with issues such as chronic absenteeism, teacher turnover and the number of special education students served, among other data points. Grounds to deny a charter include determining it is underperforming comparison schools serving a similar student body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education for Change CEO Hae-Sin Kim Thomas said Epic will appeal the board's non-renewal decision to officials at the Alameda County Board of Education. Should it be denied there, it can appeal to the state board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had some stumbles with the school, but in the last year and half we have outperformed comparison schools,\" said Thomas, who oversees a seven-school charter network. \"We have chosen not to renew a charter when we recognize it's not working. This is not the case with Epic. We are making progress. 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As of Friday, Marshall Tuck, backed by charter supporters, had a slim lead over Tony Thurmond, backed by teachers unions, with ballots still being counted. Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, also elected with the support of teachers unions, may bring a different approach toward charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Shanthi Gonzales predicted that if Epic appeals all the way to the state, it may find a different political welcome. \"When they go to the state board they're going to be facing a different group of people appointed by a different governor. So we'll see, we'll see what happens if they appeal all the way to the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland district is struggling to get its fiscal house in order, and has laid out a plan that includes reducing the number of schools overall in the district. 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