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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District is chopping $9 million from its budget in a move that will hit the district's more than 36,000 students midyear. The school board approved the budget cuts Wednesday night in a 6-1 vote, in an effort to correct years of overspending and a growing deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School sites will shoulder $3.8 million in budget reductions, while the rest of the cuts will come from the district's central office as early as January. Dozens of support, management and administrative positions will be affected through reduced hours or layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the long and raucous board meeting Wednesday night, hundreds of students, parents and teachers loudly objected to the cuts, saying schools are already struggling with a lack of basic resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers regularly have to pay for classroom supplies out of their own pockets at Piedmont Elementary School, said OUSD parent Geneva Nicherie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"It breaks my heart. My child’s school is so underfunded it’s disgusting,\" said Nicherie, after witnessing the board's vote with her son, Edward, a second-grader. \"It's going to get worse for our school.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11637065 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board president James Harris addresses opponents of budget cuts as Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell looks on at La Escuelita Education Center in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified is grappling with sharp increases in retirement costs and in special education, while state funding has flattened, said Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell, a former OUSD teacher and administrator on her first year leading the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have inherited this fiscal challenge and I have a responsibility to right this ship,\" said Johnson-Trammell during a public meeting on the budget last month. \"I would like to say how deeply sorry I am for the current financial position we find ourselves in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district, with a budget of nearly $800 million, also has struggled to spend within its means. Ineffective checks and balances and internal controls remain a key problem, according to several sources, including a state team that \u003ca href=\"http://fcmat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/08/Oakland-USD-final-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analyzed OUSD's finances\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the frustration in the community, which is very well understood, is we need to do a better job of budget monitoring, budget planning, forecasting ... to address issues that have been in our district for a decade,\" said Johnson-Trammell during the Wednesday night meeting at La Escuelita Education Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified struggled with similar fiscal problems when it was taken over by the state in 2003 and administered by the California Department of Education for six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Severe financial difficulties forced the District into state receivership in exchange for a sizable state loan,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/16300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says\u003c/a> the OUSD website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified is still paying interest on the $100 million bailout loan it took out then, and is required to host a state-assigned fiscal trustee until the district repays the loan in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11637063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Gonzalez, 13, a student at Elmhurst Community Prep, leads chants of \"They say cut back, we say fight back!\" before school board directors in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents who witnessed that history are incensed the district has not resolved those problems -- even after being administered by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These cuts are absolutely ridiculous,\" said OUSD mom Che Phinnessee, adding that her kids' schools don't have enough basics, such as paper and pens. \"It's a problem of mismanagement and there needs to be a total systems change. We do not need to be under state receivership again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board member Roseann Torres, who cast the only dissenting vote on the budget cuts, said the board didn’t have a dedicated group of directors taking a \"deep dive\" on the district's finances until recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is my sense of responsibility and regret for not pushing harder,\" said Torres, who joined the board in 2013. \"But we didn’t have the structures like a budget committee that could push harder on staff and say 'What’s really going on? Why are we spending from categories inappropriately instead of spending within our means?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the district's overspending ran in the millions of dollars during the tenure of the last superintendent, Antwan Wilson, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/11/22/oakland-school-chief-resigns-to-become-d-c-schools-chief-what-now/\">left the district earlier this year\u003c/a> to run the public schools in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, during fiscal year 2015-2016, the district budgeted $20 million for professional and consulting services, but spent a whopping $29.3 million. That same year, the district spent more than $10 million over its budgeted amount in classified supervisors and administrators, but significantly less for books and supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified planned to spend $18 million on those materials, but spent only $12 million, according to district data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board signed off on those expenses, and the state trustee at the time, Carlene Naylor, had veto power over financial decisions but didn't use it, said Carmelita Reyes, a principal at Oakland International High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s plenty of blame to go around,\" said Reyes, who is planning to cut about $84,000 from her school's budget. \"Antwan Wilson was absolutely irresponsible. The state trustee was asleep on the job. The school board didn’t have enough internal resources to make sure that what staff was telling them was timely, accurate and complete. And historically we’ve haven't had the budget controls we needed as an organization. And all these things came together at once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11637062 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenna Swan, 7, is helped by her mother, Kiera, to address the school board in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. Swan and dozens of other students, parents and teachers spoke up against budget cuts to schools. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, Johnson-Trammell asked principals like Reyes to prepare for cuts of a specific amount, depending on the number of students and grade span of each school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some schools decided to abstain from filling teacher positions and other vacancies, others are making do with fewer support staff, like custodians and instructional assistants. Classrooms are already feeling those effects, said Stephanie Hironaka, a math teacher at Edna Brewer Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For us, it’s mainly canceling field trips, cutting supplies and subscriptions to some technology that we have to renew on an annual basis. Things that enhance the classroom experience are no longer going to be available,\" said Hironaka. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students at the meeting said they felt like they were paying the price for past decisions by administrators and others who were supposed to manage and oversee the district's finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like my education isn’t being valued,\" said Delaney Kreber-Mapp, 15, a student at Oakland Technical High School. \"I feel like there are so many other things that this district is putting ahead of my own education.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District is chopping $9 million from its budget in a move that will hit the district's more than 36,000 students midyear. The school board approved the budget cuts Wednesday night in a 6-1 vote, in an effort to correct years of overspending and a growing deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School sites will shoulder $3.8 million in budget reductions, while the rest of the cuts will come from the district's central office as early as January. Dozens of support, management and administrative positions will be affected through reduced hours or layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the long and raucous board meeting Wednesday night, hundreds of students, parents and teachers loudly objected to the cuts, saying schools are already struggling with a lack of basic resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers regularly have to pay for classroom supplies out of their own pockets at Piedmont Elementary School, said OUSD parent Geneva Nicherie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"It breaks my heart. My child’s school is so underfunded it’s disgusting,\" said Nicherie, after witnessing the board's vote with her son, Edward, a second-grader. \"It's going to get worse for our school.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11637065 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board president James Harris addresses opponents of budget cuts as Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell looks on at La Escuelita Education Center in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified is grappling with sharp increases in retirement costs and in special education, while state funding has flattened, said Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell, a former OUSD teacher and administrator on her first year leading the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have inherited this fiscal challenge and I have a responsibility to right this ship,\" said Johnson-Trammell during a public meeting on the budget last month. \"I would like to say how deeply sorry I am for the current financial position we find ourselves in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district, with a budget of nearly $800 million, also has struggled to spend within its means. Ineffective checks and balances and internal controls remain a key problem, according to several sources, including a state team that \u003ca href=\"http://fcmat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/08/Oakland-USD-final-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analyzed OUSD's finances\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the frustration in the community, which is very well understood, is we need to do a better job of budget monitoring, budget planning, forecasting ... to address issues that have been in our district for a decade,\" said Johnson-Trammell during the Wednesday night meeting at La Escuelita Education Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified struggled with similar fiscal problems when it was taken over by the state in 2003 and administered by the California Department of Education for six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Severe financial difficulties forced the District into state receivership in exchange for a sizable state loan,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/16300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says\u003c/a> the OUSD website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified is still paying interest on the $100 million bailout loan it took out then, and is required to host a state-assigned fiscal trustee until the district repays the loan in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11637063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Gonzalez, 13, a student at Elmhurst Community Prep, leads chants of \"They say cut back, we say fight back!\" before school board directors in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents who witnessed that history are incensed the district has not resolved those problems -- even after being administered by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These cuts are absolutely ridiculous,\" said OUSD mom Che Phinnessee, adding that her kids' schools don't have enough basics, such as paper and pens. \"It's a problem of mismanagement and there needs to be a total systems change. We do not need to be under state receivership again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board member Roseann Torres, who cast the only dissenting vote on the budget cuts, said the board didn’t have a dedicated group of directors taking a \"deep dive\" on the district's finances until recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is my sense of responsibility and regret for not pushing harder,\" said Torres, who joined the board in 2013. \"But we didn’t have the structures like a budget committee that could push harder on staff and say 'What’s really going on? Why are we spending from categories inappropriately instead of spending within our means?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the district's overspending ran in the millions of dollars during the tenure of the last superintendent, Antwan Wilson, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/11/22/oakland-school-chief-resigns-to-become-d-c-schools-chief-what-now/\">left the district earlier this year\u003c/a> to run the public schools in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, during fiscal year 2015-2016, the district budgeted $20 million for professional and consulting services, but spent a whopping $29.3 million. That same year, the district spent more than $10 million over its budgeted amount in classified supervisors and administrators, but significantly less for books and supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified planned to spend $18 million on those materials, but spent only $12 million, according to district data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board signed off on those expenses, and the state trustee at the time, Carlene Naylor, had veto power over financial decisions but didn't use it, said Carmelita Reyes, a principal at Oakland International High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s plenty of blame to go around,\" said Reyes, who is planning to cut about $84,000 from her school's budget. \"Antwan Wilson was absolutely irresponsible. The state trustee was asleep on the job. The school board didn’t have enough internal resources to make sure that what staff was telling them was timely, accurate and complete. And historically we’ve haven't had the budget controls we needed as an organization. And all these things came together at once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11637062 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenna Swan, 7, is helped by her mother, Kiera, to address the school board in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. 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"content": "\u003cp>With wildfires \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/14/colossal-southern-california-fire-now-4th-largest-in-state-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still raging\u003c/a> across parts of Southern California, dozens of schools have been closed. Many will stay that way until the new year. That gives educators valuable time to think about what they can do, when school resumes, to help students who have been traumatized by these fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One answer can be found a few hundred miles north, in Santa Rosa. In late October, students there returned to class after three weeks away. A massive wildfire had swept through the city of 175,000 and the surrounding county, killing at least 22 people and destroying or damaging at least 5,500 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”X9s6qAuDuuRDhp4WjSfIXGWwmZfxkYhU”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a> took the homes of many students at Northwest Prep Charter School, a small secondary school in northwestern Santa Rosa. Given the trauma their community had just experienced, teachers knew they couldn’t dive right back into algebra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day back, all 75 students at Northwest Prep gathered in a community circle and spoke about the fire’s impact on their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think every one of the students who lost a home spoke during that discussion, which we didn’t expect,” says Jessica Hadid, the language and communication teacher there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those kids was 12-year-old Clark Howe. The seventh-grader remembers Oct. 9 clearly: He woke up to a chaotic scene around 1:30 a.m. His dad told him they needed to leave right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Nothing was left. Everybody lost something.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Clark grabbed some of his things and rounded up the family dogs. After picking up a neighbor who couldn’t drive, his family headed out onto the packed roads, full of other people evacuating their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all really nervous. There were just cars everywhere, people driving on the wrong side of the road, fires starting on lawns,” Clark says. “We were all just really scared for what could happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his family made it to safety, but their home, located in Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park neighborhood, was completely destroyed. They lost some of their most prized possessions: a classic Mustang in the garage, some favorite stuffed animals left behind in Clark’s bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing was left,” Clark says. “Everybody lost something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view shows the devastation of the Coffey Park neighborhood after the Tubbs Fire swept through Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-1180x747.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-960x608.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-375x238.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyPark-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows the devastation of the Coffey Park neighborhood after the Tubbs Fire swept through Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California National Guard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before returning to school, Northwest Prep’s teaching staff received trauma-based training to help students cope with the aftermath of the fires. But the teachers also wanted to do something in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized we needed to do something, as a school, to help our students and really our whole community process what we’d all been through,” says Alyssa Dossat, a math teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”03oVDL7rz1YmZLhdOyE5KxVEgZzMGNla”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was evacuated from her own home, Dossat took her kids to a museum. Her 7-year-old was looking at an exhibit about earthquakes that struck California in 1906 and 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was reading it going, ‘Mom, who, who wrote this? Who are these quotes from?’ ” Dossat says. “I said, ‘They’re just from people, sweetie, that’s how it works. That’s how we record history that way.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that moment, Dossat had an idea: This could be done in her school. An oral history assignment was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the project, Northwest Prep students will use their smartphones and tablets to record stories from the Tubbs Fire and its impact on the Santa Rosa community. From there, students will curate and archive the firsthand accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”HK6RVMjpfOan8wSEsC3chFPbsFeNJHI7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has brought the community together, says Adam Napoleon, a social systems teacher. He hopes the project will go beyond storytelling and provide a “sense of healing” to both the students and their interviewees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can provide not only this historical record, but this emotional healing aspect that a lot of people in our community need right now,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, Clark was eager to get back to school and be with his friends — many of whom also lost their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he returned, he sometimes found it hard to talk about the fire and remember all that was lost. But, Clark says, it has also been really helpful to talk about it — and he can’t believe the support he has received from his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family received many donations and has since been able to relocate to an apartment building. They plan to rebuild their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11637036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Howe family and neighbors returned to their old neighborhood to put Christmas decorations on one of the few trees left standing after the fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-960x719.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/CoffeyStrong.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Howe family and neighbors returned to their old neighborhood to put Christmas decorations on one of the few trees left standing after the fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Michelle Howe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, Clark’s family and neighbors returned to their old neighborhood to put Christmas decorations on one of the few trees left standing after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not struggling very much anymore. 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An oral history assignment was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the project, Northwest Prep students will use their smartphones and tablets to record stories from the Tubbs Fire and its impact on the Santa Rosa community. From there, students will curate and archive the firsthand accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has brought the community together, says Adam Napoleon, a social systems teacher. He hopes the project will go beyond storytelling and provide a “sense of healing” to both the students and their interviewees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can provide not only this historical record, but this emotional healing aspect that a lot of people in our community need right now,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, Clark was eager to get back to school and be with his friends — many of whom also lost their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he returned, he sometimes found it hard to talk about the fire and remember all that was lost. 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We needed to take control of the school back again.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Superintendent Matthew Ross\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The principal, Matthew Ross, confirms he meted out the punishments described, but argues they were necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year it was absolutely out of control,” said Ross. “We needed to take control of the school back again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross is also the superintendent of \u003ca href=\"http://vineland.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this tiny district\u003c/a>. He stepped in as Sunset’s principal a year ago after the last principal quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cyber bullying, intimidation, harassment, parents taking their students to another person's house to fight the other student because that's how they thought that they would get justice,” he said. “That's what we were facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The behavior got so bad, he said, because the school was trying to do something good: reduce the suspension rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of it was an over-correction of the idea that we’re not supposed to suspend kids,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Sunset Middle School was suspending students at close to three times the state rate. Since then, suspensions have dropped by 60 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California has made this a priority, plus there was the added pressure of that lawsuit over discipline policies in the county, so the school cut way back on suspensions. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last month, California’s top education official \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr17/yr17rel80.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced suspensions have been cut in half since five years ago, and expulsions are down more than 40 percent.\u003c/a> The state has encouraged these reductions as mounting evidence has shown out-of-school suspensions and expulsions do more harm than good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story behind the numbers is complicated. As schools stop relying on suspensions and expulsions to discipline students, some struggle to find other ways to keep bad behavior in check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one middle school in Kern County that’s lead to some drastic measures. A few weeks ago, a dozen parents, teachers and community members met in the public library near the little farmworker community of Weedpatch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local school board member Leticia Prado gathered them around a whiteboard to go over the results of a recent survey of with 100 kids from local schools. Prado took the group through a series of punishments students described:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Standing with their noses to the wall for long periods of time — 21 students said yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being forced to do push-ups — 18 students said yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group found these practices were pervasive at one school in particular, Sunset Middle School in Weedpatch, where kids were also told to pull weeds and clean classrooms and bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Virginia Melchor’s son goes to school. Melchor is worried those practices are lowering the kids’ self-esteem, and making them resentful. She doesn’t want her son to end up hating school, on a path that’s all too familiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“We’re living in poverty and they want our kids to stay in poverty, working in the fields.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Parent Virginia Melchor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Her older son was bullied in middle school, got in fights and was suspended. That record followed him to high school, where he kept getting suspended until he was finally expelled. “My son was really hurt and left with a negative outlook on school,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melchor was part of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-kern-high-school-discipline-settlement-20170727-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit over discipline policies at the district that disproportionately impacted black and Latino students\u003c/a>. According to the suit, for the 2009-2010 school year, the district had over 2,000 expulsions, the highest number in the state, and it expelled black and Latino kids at twice the rate of white kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district settled the suit earlier this year. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kernhigh.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=901809&type=d&pREC_ID=1247007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In an agreement\u003c/a>, it promised to create new discipline policies with help from experts on unconscious racial bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melchor said these reforms come too late for her older son. He’s working in the fields now, picking fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience has left her with a dark view of her local schools. “We’re living in poverty,” she said, “and they want our kids to stay in poverty, working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s glad things are changing at the high schools, but knows what happens before ninth grade helps determine how students fare later on. That’s why she’s worried about her younger son and his middle school classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“I was in pain, my eyes went watery.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>6th grader Crystal Rodriguez Morales\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Crystal Rodriguez Morales is a sixth-grader at Sunset. When she got in trouble for messing around in class, she said the principal made her stand outside the office, facing the wall, during lunch and recess — that’s 35 minutes per day — for the whole week. She’d eat lunch standing at the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me want to cry,\" said Crystal, “because it wasn’t fair. At least make me sit down. My feet were really hurting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, she said, the principal had her in the office doing wall sits, those exercises where you sit against the wall without a chair and your quads burn like crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was in pain, my eyes went watery,” said Crystal, adding that she couldn’t do her school work because she was in the office most of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal’s mother, Teresa Morales, doubts this kind of punishment works. “I know my daughter,” said Morales. “This is not the way to get through to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal agrees. “It just makes us frustrated more,” she said, “and makes us do more bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Last year it was absolutely out of control. We needed to take control of the school back again.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Superintendent Matthew Ross\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The principal, Matthew Ross, confirms he meted out the punishments described, but argues they were necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year it was absolutely out of control,” said Ross. “We needed to take control of the school back again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross is also the superintendent of \u003ca href=\"http://vineland.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this tiny district\u003c/a>. He stepped in as Sunset’s principal a year ago after the last principal quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cyber bullying, intimidation, harassment, parents taking their students to another person's house to fight the other student because that's how they thought that they would get justice,” he said. “That's what we were facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The behavior got so bad, he said, because the school was trying to do something good: reduce the suspension rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of it was an over-correction of the idea that we’re not supposed to suspend kids,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Sunset Middle School was suspending students at close to three times the state rate. Since then, suspensions have dropped by 60 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California has made this a priority, plus there was the added pressure of that lawsuit over discipline policies in the county, so the school cut way back on suspensions. But nobody really figured out what to do instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The principal doesn’t want it to look like there’s a lot of suspensions, so he doesn’t suspend anyone,” said a long-time instructional aide at the school who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, \"but there are a lot of problems at the school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross, though, feels like he had no choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I challenge anyone who's complaining: work here for 30 days and watch the frustration of a teacher who’s got six or seven kids who incessantly disrupt the class and keep others from learning. See the frustration from other kids who actually want to learn. Or the parents who send their kids to school to get a good education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross defends his harsh practices and says he’s taking steps to put in place a more structured system of discipline — including counselors to help get at the root causes of kids’ behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, those parents who surveyed their kids about how they were treated at school plan to take the results to the county. If the county doesn’t take action, they said they’ll go to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melchor said they’ll take this as far as it needs to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For the 120 students at Santa Rosa’s Anova Center for Education, the past two months have been tough. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire that raged through wine country \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/12/fire-destroys-santa-rosa-school-for-students-with-autism/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">burned the school down\u003c/a>, and nine families lost their houses, too. This school for high-functioning kids with autism was a home away from home for them. One 12-year-old boy takes us on the journey to recovery, for him and his school. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unsettled\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a mid-October morning, not long after the Tubbs Fire destroyed his home and school, Jaco Sodhi sits down to play the piano at the Santa Rosa home of family friends. He, his twin sister, and his parents are staying here – for now. It’s the fourth place they’ve landed since the disaster upended their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635595\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11635595 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raj Sodhi helps his son, Jaco, with a piano lesson on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. It’s the fourth place they’ve stayed since the North Bay fires destroyed their home — and Jaco’s school, the Anova Center for Education. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s playing from memory because all his sheet music burned. His dad, Raj Sodhi, helps him work through a piece of music. It helps them feel a little bit normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family had to evacuate their own home not far from here in the early hours of October 9. Jaco’s dad, who plays jazz, loaded his double bass into the family minivan. His mom, Lucia Cascio, a portrait photographer, grabbed her camera bag. And his sister, Sofia, managed to take her trombone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jaco ran out of time. He left without much besides his Star Wars shirt — the one that’s got Darth Vader on it playing baseball with a light saber. He says it all happened too fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”8UGsw3iGUvWTEZrO2PooVKZzB2GHR3h9″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My sister said, ‘We are evacuating, Jaco, just get out of your dang bed’ — yeah my sister was cruel that way — and I was able to grab, literally my toothbrush, toothpaste and only one pair of clothes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s pretty unhappy about that. The family thought they were just being cautious, that they’d be able to return soon. But their house, and everything in it, burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could have grabbed more,” Jaco says, “I probably would have grabbed all my fencing gear, which costs like hundreds of dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s got big brown eyes, braces and a very rational mind. He was diagnosed with autism when he was three-and-a-half years old. Kids on the autism spectrum don’t tend to do well with big changes — and a lot is up in the air for him right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635597\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raj Sodhi helps his son, Jaco, with a piano lesson on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. It’s the fourth place they’ve stayed since the North Bay fires destroyed their home — and Jaco’s school, the Anova Center for Education. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He puts on a good face, but he’s clearly struggling with his feelings. He talks about riding an imaginary lion into his devastated neighborhood — to chase off looters. And he tells his mom — three times — how mad he is “that I was able to grab, basically nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rental housing market here is so tight that Jaco’s parents have even been talking about leaving the county. Jaco says “necessity beats friends” so he’ll go if he has to. But his mom says the upheaval is taking a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She explains how low he seemed after two recent tours of other schools for autistic kids in San Mateo and Contra Costa counties, saying the thought of changing was “heavy for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco interrupts. “We’re probably not gonna change schools,” he asks, “are we?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cascio tries to soothe him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying really hard to stay here, right?” she says. “That’s what mommy and daddy are trying really hard to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Got it,” Jaco says, sighing heavily. “That’s what I was just waiting to hear, that we’re actually trying to stay and we’re not just trying to move away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To understand just how hard this is, it helps to know what things were like for Jaco before Anova. He spent kindergarten, first and second grades at a public school, but he struggled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cascio says there were instances when Jaco was aggressive with his peers, “pulling down the shelves in the library where they were trying to keep him away from the other kids, and it was just getting worse and worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole time, she and her husband were pushing to find the right classroom environment and behavior plan for him at his public school, but Jaco started having suicidal thoughts. And his outbursts were regular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia, Jaco’s sister, says it was hard to see how misunderstood he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaco and Sofia Sodhi, who are twins, relax on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kids would approach her, “not as Sofia but, like, ‘You’re Jaco’s sister,” she says. “‘You’re the one who’s related to the guy that pulled my hair’ or something. It’s like: No! He’s Jaco. He’s not just a hair-puller. He can learn stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jaco got to Anova, everything changed. He speaks softly when he talks about it, gazing down at the table. It’s clearly painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t treating me as if I was a bad person,” he says, “for like the first time in a while … It hasn’t happened in a while for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova’s students come from as far as 80 miles away. Like Jaco, most are referred by their public school districts, which cover the costs. When Jaco got in, he skipped a grade. And his outbursts? They dwindled to almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids can leave class whenever they need a break. There are quiet rooms for calming down, rooms where they can jump on a trampoline or swing, to help stimulate their vestibular systems. Plus, counselors to talk to. And there’s a therapy dog, named Larry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco loves his Larry breaks. Sometimes, he grabs some of Larry’s toys and plays with him. He gives him belly rubs. And he likes to “just flop his ears around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time he just sleeps on his bed,” Jaco adds, “which hopefully wasn’t, which probably might have been burned in the fire.” He pauses. “Hopefully wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finding Temporary Space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Andrew Bailey is Anova’s CEO and director of educational services. He also co-founded the school 17 years ago. As a therapist, he had come to realize that high-functioning kids with autism, the ones who often test at grade level, were falling through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us really started understanding that the students like the ones we serve are not misbehaving because they’re bad or manipulative, and that is a game-changer for our students,” he says in an interview at the school’s administrative offices, which didn’t burn. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re understood and they’re addressed with sensory sensitivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Bailey, Anova Center for Education’s CEO and co-founder, surveys the charred remains of his Santa Rosa school, which serves high-functioning kids with autism. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bailey knows that sensitivity will be more important than ever when classes start up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do understand the dangers in life,” he says, so when something like a fire comes along, the stresses in the students’ lives become exacerbated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s therapists know all that, and when school gets back in session, Bailey says, they’ll be ready to help students like Jaco assess how they’re feeling and calm down using techniques such as “breathing and imagination and rationalization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova was able to lease extra space in its administrative building, and a suite of rooms in a new wing is buzzing with teachers and therapists finishing lesson plans and ordering supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anova Center for Education found temporary space for its students in three separate locations. Jaco’s class is here, in borrowed rooms at a Healdsburg Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The older students will come here. The rest will be split between two other schools in the county with classrooms to spare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s team of therapists will split up too, so each site will be staffed all day. The only rover will be Larry, the golden retriever Labrador mix. He’ll make his rounds with Principal Heidi Adler. And yes, his bed did burn. But he seems to be doing ok. He sits on his hind legs and gives Bailey a hug. Then, on command, he speaks and executes a perfect twirl.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School Starts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just before Halloween, school starts up again. Jaco’s class and two others are in borrowed space in Healdsburg for now. A counselor spent the morning talking to students about what they’ve been through. Now they’re making art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few kids listen to music on headphones. One hums. Jaco sits near the front of the classroom, drawing a picture of a dog that looks a lot like his. She’s been staying with a pet sitter since the fire, and Jaco really misses her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova staff tried to replicate the students’ old classroom as much as possible, down to the posters on the wall and the type of box that holds the headphones. All the Chromebooks and textbooks, every single pencil and paper folder, everything had to be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, the kids mill around in the unfamiliar parking lot, waiting for a ride home. Jaco’s teacher, Alicia Honn, says the new space is an adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had more tables in the back so they could spread out, and a nice library, and the nook in the back with big bean-bag chairs,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for these kids with autism, just getting back to routine is a huge relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could just feel the positivity from all of them, just seeing their friends and seeing their teachers,” she says, “and just being like, ‘ahhhhhh, normalcy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A New Home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11635603 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaco Sodhi plays video games in early December at his newly-rented house, in Healdsburg, not far from his temporary school. On Oct. 9, the Tubbs Fire destroyed his home and his school, the Anova Center for Education, both in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a stroke of luck, Jaco’s family finds a rental house through a friend. And it happens to be in Healdsburg, just a few miles from Jaco’s temporary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Sofia celebrate their 12th birthdays there in mid-November. By early December, they’re just starting to get settled. The kids have new beds. And the landlord has loaned the family some furniture, a big TV, and plenty of games. Jaco’s playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed when his father Raj Sodhi tells him his screen time is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nooooooooooo,” he protests, before helping to set the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Sofia show off the library of books – also on temporary loan from the landlord. But it’s been hard to settle into a new routine. Jaco’s mom and dad have longer commutes now, because their old office was smoke damaged. They’re overwhelmed with fire recovery: meeting with builders, dealing with insurance, hunting for a new car to replace the burned one. With so little time, they had to cancel Jaco’s weekly meetings with an outside psychologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over dinner, Jaco says he’s warmed up to his temporary school. He likes the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he may not be playing there much longer. Anova could reopen at the old location as soon as next month — in portable classrooms, while the school awaits a full rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some things in Jaco’s life are already back to normal – like old-fashioned twin rivalry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ogling a shelf full of video games, Jaco boasts that he’s the only one in the house who knows how to work the home entertainment system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not anymore,” Sofia practically yells with happy defiance. “I figured it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wait, what?” Jaco stammers, foiled. “Do you even know how, you know how to turn on the TV?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her yes leaves him deflated. But then he’s on to the next thing, chattering away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story originally aired on KALW’s \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/after-fires-north-bay-school-autistic-children-seeks-new-normal#stream/0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crosscurrents\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the 120 students at Santa Rosa’s Anova Center for Education, the past two months have been tough. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire that raged through wine country \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/12/fire-destroys-santa-rosa-school-for-students-with-autism/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">burned the school down\u003c/a>, and nine families lost their houses, too. This school for high-functioning kids with autism was a home away from home for them. One 12-year-old boy takes us on the journey to recovery, for him and his school. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unsettled\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a mid-October morning, not long after the Tubbs Fire destroyed his home and school, Jaco Sodhi sits down to play the piano at the Santa Rosa home of family friends. He, his twin sister, and his parents are staying here – for now. It’s the fourth place they’ve landed since the disaster upended their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635595\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11635595 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28350_IMG_5926-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raj Sodhi helps his son, Jaco, with a piano lesson on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. It’s the fourth place they’ve stayed since the North Bay fires destroyed their home — and Jaco’s school, the Anova Center for Education. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s playing from memory because all his sheet music burned. His dad, Raj Sodhi, helps him work through a piece of music. It helps them feel a little bit normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family had to evacuate their own home not far from here in the early hours of October 9. Jaco’s dad, who plays jazz, loaded his double bass into the family minivan. His mom, Lucia Cascio, a portrait photographer, grabbed her camera bag. And his sister, Sofia, managed to take her trombone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jaco ran out of time. He left without much besides his Star Wars shirt — the one that’s got Darth Vader on it playing baseball with a light saber. He says it all happened too fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My sister said, ‘We are evacuating, Jaco, just get out of your dang bed’ — yeah my sister was cruel that way — and I was able to grab, literally my toothbrush, toothpaste and only one pair of clothes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s pretty unhappy about that. The family thought they were just being cautious, that they’d be able to return soon. But their house, and everything in it, burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could have grabbed more,” Jaco says, “I probably would have grabbed all my fencing gear, which costs like hundreds of dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco’s got big brown eyes, braces and a very rational mind. He was diagnosed with autism when he was three-and-a-half years old. Kids on the autism spectrum don’t tend to do well with big changes — and a lot is up in the air for him right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635597\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28348_IMG_5876-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raj Sodhi helps his son, Jaco, with a piano lesson on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. It’s the fourth place they’ve stayed since the North Bay fires destroyed their home — and Jaco’s school, the Anova Center for Education. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He puts on a good face, but he’s clearly struggling with his feelings. He talks about riding an imaginary lion into his devastated neighborhood — to chase off looters. And he tells his mom — three times — how mad he is “that I was able to grab, basically nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rental housing market here is so tight that Jaco’s parents have even been talking about leaving the county. Jaco says “necessity beats friends” so he’ll go if he has to. But his mom says the upheaval is taking a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She explains how low he seemed after two recent tours of other schools for autistic kids in San Mateo and Contra Costa counties, saying the thought of changing was “heavy for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco interrupts. “We’re probably not gonna change schools,” he asks, “are we?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cascio tries to soothe him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying really hard to stay here, right?” she says. “That’s what mommy and daddy are trying really hard to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Got it,” Jaco says, sighing heavily. “That’s what I was just waiting to hear, that we’re actually trying to stay and we’re not just trying to move away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To understand just how hard this is, it helps to know what things were like for Jaco before Anova. He spent kindergarten, first and second grades at a public school, but he struggled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cascio says there were instances when Jaco was aggressive with his peers, “pulling down the shelves in the library where they were trying to keep him away from the other kids, and it was just getting worse and worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole time, she and her husband were pushing to find the right classroom environment and behavior plan for him at his public school, but Jaco started having suicidal thoughts. And his outbursts were regular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia, Jaco’s sister, says it was hard to see how misunderstood he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28349_IMG_5910-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaco and Sofia Sodhi, who are twins, relax on Oct. 21 at the home of a family friend. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kids would approach her, “not as Sofia but, like, ‘You’re Jaco’s sister,” she says. “‘You’re the one who’s related to the guy that pulled my hair’ or something. It’s like: No! He’s Jaco. He’s not just a hair-puller. He can learn stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jaco got to Anova, everything changed. He speaks softly when he talks about it, gazing down at the table. It’s clearly painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t treating me as if I was a bad person,” he says, “for like the first time in a while … It hasn’t happened in a while for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova’s students come from as far as 80 miles away. Like Jaco, most are referred by their public school districts, which cover the costs. When Jaco got in, he skipped a grade. And his outbursts? They dwindled to almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids can leave class whenever they need a break. There are quiet rooms for calming down, rooms where they can jump on a trampoline or swing, to help stimulate their vestibular systems. Plus, counselors to talk to. And there’s a therapy dog, named Larry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaco loves his Larry breaks. Sometimes, he grabs some of Larry’s toys and plays with him. He gives him belly rubs. And he likes to “just flop his ears around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time he just sleeps on his bed,” Jaco adds, “which hopefully wasn’t, which probably might have been burned in the fire.” He pauses. “Hopefully wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finding Temporary Space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Andrew Bailey is Anova’s CEO and director of educational services. He also co-founded the school 17 years ago. As a therapist, he had come to realize that high-functioning kids with autism, the ones who often test at grade level, were falling through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us really started understanding that the students like the ones we serve are not misbehaving because they’re bad or manipulative, and that is a game-changer for our students,” he says in an interview at the school’s administrative offices, which didn’t burn. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re understood and they’re addressed with sensory sensitivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28351_IMG_6015-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Bailey, Anova Center for Education’s CEO and co-founder, surveys the charred remains of his Santa Rosa school, which serves high-functioning kids with autism. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bailey knows that sensitivity will be more important than ever when classes start up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do understand the dangers in life,” he says, so when something like a fire comes along, the stresses in the students’ lives become exacerbated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s therapists know all that, and when school gets back in session, Bailey says, they’ll be ready to help students like Jaco assess how they’re feeling and calm down using techniques such as “breathing and imagination and rationalization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova was able to lease extra space in its administrative building, and a suite of rooms in a new wing is buzzing with teachers and therapists finishing lesson plans and ordering supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28373_IMG_6115-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anova Center for Education found temporary space for its students in three separate locations. Jaco’s class is here, in borrowed rooms at a Healdsburg Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The older students will come here. The rest will be split between two other schools in the county with classrooms to spare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s team of therapists will split up too, so each site will be staffed all day. The only rover will be Larry, the golden retriever Labrador mix. He’ll make his rounds with Principal Heidi Adler. And yes, his bed did burn. But he seems to be doing ok. He sits on his hind legs and gives Bailey a hug. Then, on command, he speaks and executes a perfect twirl.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School Starts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just before Halloween, school starts up again. Jaco’s class and two others are in borrowed space in Healdsburg for now. A counselor spent the morning talking to students about what they’ve been through. Now they’re making art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few kids listen to music on headphones. One hums. Jaco sits near the front of the classroom, drawing a picture of a dog that looks a lot like his. She’s been staying with a pet sitter since the fire, and Jaco really misses her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anova staff tried to replicate the students’ old classroom as much as possible, down to the posters on the wall and the type of box that holds the headphones. All the Chromebooks and textbooks, every single pencil and paper folder, everything had to be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, the kids mill around in the unfamiliar parking lot, waiting for a ride home. Jaco’s teacher, Alicia Honn, says the new space is an adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had more tables in the back so they could spread out, and a nice library, and the nook in the back with big bean-bag chairs,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for these kids with autism, just getting back to routine is a huge relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could just feel the positivity from all of them, just seeing their friends and seeing their teachers,” she says, “and just being like, ‘ahhhhhh, normalcy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A New Home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11635603 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28374_IMG_6131-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaco Sodhi plays video games in early December at his newly-rented house, in Healdsburg, not far from his temporary school. On Oct. 9, the Tubbs Fire destroyed his home and his school, the Anova Center for Education, both in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a stroke of luck, Jaco’s family finds a rental house through a friend. And it happens to be in Healdsburg, just a few miles from Jaco’s temporary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Sofia celebrate their 12th birthdays there in mid-November. By early December, they’re just starting to get settled. The kids have new beds. And the landlord has loaned the family some furniture, a big TV, and plenty of games. Jaco’s playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed when his father Raj Sodhi tells him his screen time is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nooooooooooo,” he protests, before helping to set the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Sofia show off the library of books – also on temporary loan from the landlord. But it’s been hard to settle into a new routine. Jaco’s mom and dad have longer commutes now, because their old office was smoke damaged. They’re overwhelmed with fire recovery: meeting with builders, dealing with insurance, hunting for a new car to replace the burned one. With so little time, they had to cancel Jaco’s weekly meetings with an outside psychologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over dinner, Jaco says he’s warmed up to his temporary school. He likes the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he may not be playing there much longer. Anova could reopen at the old location as soon as next month — in portable classrooms, while the school awaits a full rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some things in Jaco’s life are already back to normal – like old-fashioned twin rivalry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ogling a shelf full of video games, Jaco boasts that he’s the only one in the house who knows how to work the home entertainment system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not anymore,” Sofia practically yells with happy defiance. “I figured it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wait, what?” Jaco stammers, foiled. “Do you even know how, you know how to turn on the TV?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her yes leaves him deflated. But then he’s on to the next thing, chattering away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Near the front door of Michelle Boire's classroom in Menlo Park sits a box, where students can ask questions about anything, anonymously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boire teaches sex ed as part of her Life Skills class at Mid-Peninsula High School, and she's found the box offers students a way to ask the ask questions they might be afraid to ask out loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other day, Boire received a question that's been weighing heavy on her mind. She reads aloud to her class, made up high school seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To what events do you need a verbal yes as consent?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boire had already planned to have this talk with her students about sexual harassment next quarter. But this question -- and the non-stop news about sexual harassment and abuse over the last few weeks -- has pushed the discussion to now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They know that it's wrong and they're very able to say, 'What that guy did was horrible,'\" says Boire. \"But I have taught students where they didn't even know sexual harassment was a thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ujr44JUz6fB7urirk92OG0ZM3tOzE7f9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if they do understand, says Boire, most don’t understand the nuances, and how sexual harassment can play out. She poses a follow up question to the class:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Does anyone want to share what consent is or why consent is important?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighteen-year-old Ian DeTreville is the first to answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people say yes but you can also tell if they're reluctant and then you should probably not,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah,\" says Boire. \"But how do you tell? Is it the tone of their voice, or body language?\" she presses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, it's a lot of body language and language cues honestly,\" DeTreville continues. \"Because in everyday life, most people will say something and then they could possibly mean something else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boire says this back and forth about the nuances of human interaction is one of the most important parts of sex education. But for generations it's been one of the most overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was literally you know, anatomy, physiology, STIs. And that was it,\" says Boire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"LRvSlRWtaKM8tZ4Vs7r3tTM2sRguPokM\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has recently become known as a leader for teaching beyond the basics. Three years ago the state passed the Healthy Youth Act, which requires educators teach about topics like sexual assault and sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curriculum Boire follows goes a step further, asking to students discuss these topics with loved ones at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And the kids hate it but in the end they realize it wasn't that bad,\" Boire says. \"And parents love it, they really open up to their kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In class, these conversations also drift into the grey areas. Take for example, what happens later in class, when Boire puts two signs up across the room. One says \"Disagree.\" The other says \"Agree.\" She poses a series of questions, and has the students move from one side to the other based on their stance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sending unwanted, explicit text messages is a form of sexual harassment. Agree or disagree?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a big deal to me anymore honestly,\" says 18-year-old DeTreville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You feel it's normalized?\" asks Boire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeTreville responds. \"It just happens so often, you just get over it and move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 17-year-old senior Allyson Huelsenkamp argues it is harmful. Most, aren’t asking for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other person is doing it without your consent so it's not really agreeable,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boire will likely have this kind of conversation a few more times this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, I can't protect them,\" she says. \"I can't be there all the time, but I can definitely start to give them tools on how to work with this and give them outlets for this information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, tools to make informed decisions about what’s OK -- and what’s not.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District plans to lay out the specifics of a proposal to cut $9 million from the district's budget during tonight's special school board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell, a former OUSD teacher, is expected to announce that school budgets might shoulder about half of the potential cuts: $4.2 million. Those reductions could impact supplies and programs, as well as substitute teachers and staff that support offices and facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at risk are funds for books, contracts for services and jobs in the district's central office. About 70 support, clerical and management employees could be affected either with reduced hours or layoffs, according to Trammell's presentation included in the \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/DepartmentDetail.aspx?ID=3805&GUID=8F4A7423-0C38-4C3A-BB83-485A96F99772&Mode=MainBody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agenda\u003c/a> for tonight's meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trammell, who is in her first year as superintendent, says the district is grappling with the aftermath of years of mismanagement and overspending. The cuts are also needed, she says, because of rising costs for special education and state-mandated retirement. And, she notes, the district has seen enrollment drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district's Board of Education must approve any budget cut. The board will receive a presentation tonight. A vote is expected next Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing has been finalized,\" said district spokesman John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11635686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell attends a leadership event at La Escuelita Elementary School before the start of the 2017-2018 school year. She says millions of dollars in budget cuts are necessary for the district's fiscal solvency. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just last month, Johnson-Trammell proposed budget cuts totaling $15 million, with about a third -- $5.6 million -- coming directly from school sites and the rest from the central office. The district says the revised plan comes after receiving additional information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Monica Kaldani-Nasif attended a budget committee meeting Wednesday. She said district administrators and school board members have not sufficiently explored other options to generate revenue and trim unnecessary costs. Cuts directly impacting the district's nearly 37,000 students are unacceptable, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thousands and thousands of students, parents, community members should organize, should march, should email their school board representatives and say this is not acceptable either,\" said Kaldani-Nasif, whose kids attend Crocker Highlands Elementary and Edna Brewer Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11635637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sondra Aguilera, from OUSD, explains to board members on Dec. 6, 2017, how the district is calculating cuts to each school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The superintendent asked all principals to plan budget cuts of specific amounts and provided recommendations to do so. Schools were asked to consider cuts based on the amount of funding they get per student. That figure varies according to grade span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondra Aguilera, deputy chief of student services for OUSD, told board members Wednesday that this is the \"best option.\" She said a more tailored approach for cutting the budget at each school would be difficult, in part because some parent-teacher associations raise their own grants but are not required to report those funds to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We began to see this rabbit hole that we were going to go down mapping all the different sources,\" Aguilera said. \"You can’t possibly map all the different sources that school sites receive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"One of my schools in my district might be able to pick up thousands of dollars, whereas other schools in my district cannot. So it's going to be felt much more painfully.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Roseann Torres, member, Oakland Unified School Board\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>School board member Roseann Torres, whose district includes the Fruitvale neighborhood, questions whether the proposed budget cuts would disproportionately affect schools with fewer outside resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my schools in my district might be able to pick up thousands of dollars, whereas other schools in my district cannot,\" she said. \"So it's going to be felt much more painfully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11635631 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bettie Reed Smith, with SEIU-1021, represents payroll clerks, administrative assistants, library specialists and other OUSD employee whose jobs could be at risk. \"Some of our members are already sleeping under freeways because they can’t afford the rent,\" said Reed Smith. \"So if they lose their jobs they lose medical benefits, they lose everything.\" \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Student Adriana Villegas, a senior at Skyline High School, said her school has already stopped hiring instructors for the performing arts, such as for choir and piano classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since those classes have been cut because we didn’t have anyone hired and we are not going to hire anyone, that has already affected what students in my school can take,\" Villegas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to Skyline High School's principal and vice principal offices were not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing has been finalized,\" said district spokesman John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11635686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell attends a leadership event at La Escuelita Elementary School before the start of the 2017-2018 school year. She says millions of dollars in budget cuts are necessary for the district's fiscal solvency. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just last month, Johnson-Trammell proposed budget cuts totaling $15 million, with about a third -- $5.6 million -- coming directly from school sites and the rest from the central office. The district says the revised plan comes after receiving additional information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Monica Kaldani-Nasif attended a budget committee meeting Wednesday. She said district administrators and school board members have not sufficiently explored other options to generate revenue and trim unnecessary costs. Cuts directly impacting the district's nearly 37,000 students are unacceptable, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thousands and thousands of students, parents, community members should organize, should march, should email their school board representatives and say this is not acceptable either,\" said Kaldani-Nasif, whose kids attend Crocker Highlands Elementary and Edna Brewer Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11635637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sondra Aguilera, from OUSD, explains to board members on Dec. 6, 2017, how the district is calculating cuts to each school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The superintendent asked all principals to plan budget cuts of specific amounts and provided recommendations to do so. Schools were asked to consider cuts based on the amount of funding they get per student. That figure varies according to grade span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondra Aguilera, deputy chief of student services for OUSD, told board members Wednesday that this is the \"best option.\" She said a more tailored approach for cutting the budget at each school would be difficult, in part because some parent-teacher associations raise their own grants but are not required to report those funds to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We began to see this rabbit hole that we were going to go down mapping all the different sources,\" Aguilera said. \"You can’t possibly map all the different sources that school sites receive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"One of my schools in my district might be able to pick up thousands of dollars, whereas other schools in my district cannot. So it's going to be felt much more painfully.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Roseann Torres, member, Oakland Unified School Board\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>School board member Roseann Torres, whose district includes the Fruitvale neighborhood, questions whether the proposed budget cuts would disproportionately affect schools with fewer outside resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my schools in my district might be able to pick up thousands of dollars, whereas other schools in my district cannot,\" she said. \"So it's going to be felt much more painfully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11635631 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bettie Reed Smith, with SEIU-1021, represents payroll clerks, administrative assistants, library specialists and other OUSD employee whose jobs could be at risk. \"Some of our members are already sleeping under freeways because they can’t afford the rent,\" said Reed Smith. \"So if they lose their jobs they lose medical benefits, they lose everything.\" \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Student Adriana Villegas, a senior at Skyline High School, said her school has already stopped hiring instructors for the performing arts, such as for choir and piano classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since those classes have been cut because we didn’t have anyone hired and we are not going to hire anyone, that has already affected what students in my school can take,\" Villegas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to Skyline High School's principal and vice principal offices were not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It's not just Hollywood, politics and media where allegations of sexual misconduct are pouring in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women in academia are sharing in the #MeToo moment, opening up about the high-ranking professors they say abused their trust and violated their bodies when they were graduate students. The women describe experiences of being stalked, forcibly kissed and raped by men who were entrusted with shepherding them through their studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates fighting to prevent sexual violence and harassment on college campuses say cases allegedly involving professors who taught at Stanford University and UC Berkeley point to a \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/146049/a-professor-kind-like-priest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culture in graduate schools\u003c/a> where powerful professors are protected and allowed to act with near impunity at the expense of the students who depend on them for advice, guidance and the recommendations they needed to advance their education and careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Election Stirs Uncomfortable Memories\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, as Seo-Young Chu watched Donald Trump ascend to the highest office in the country, she felt an eerie sense of familiarity. Maybe it was the crude language he used to describe women on the \"Access Hollywood\" videotape, or the women who came forward during the campaign alleging he'd sexually harassed them, but Chu felt she recognized those mannerisms of his, and they jogged ugly memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a moment, I remember watching TV and thinking 'How could they elect Jay Fliegelman?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Fliegelman had been Chu's dissertation adviser at Stanford 17 years ago. Chu was a 21-year-old graduate student in the English Department who'd tried to commit suicide not long before and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Fliegelman was a leading scholar and \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/august22/fliegelman-082207.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Literature professor\u003c/a>. He died in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu alleges Fliegelman harassed her, touched her and ultimately raped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-800x617.jpg\" alt=\"Seo-Young Chu's 1999 Stanford ID.\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-800x617.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-1180x910.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-960x740.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-240x185.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-375x289.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-520x401.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seo-Young Chu's 1999 Stanford ID. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Seo-Young Chu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It started with strange remarks,” Chu says. Then, she says, Fliegelman invited her to his house to see \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/march12/oldbooks-031208.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his famous collection of rare books\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were in his living room,\" Chu says. \"I remember him telling me that his current project was about his books, and that reading his books meant feeling them and touching them and being emotional with them, possessive even, and that’s when he started touching me. I couldn’t move. I was petrified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day in class, she says, she didn’t know how to interact with him. Then, she says, he invited her back to his house. “This was the man who would be writing letters of recommendation for me and, in his words, controlling my future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worried that if she declined his invitation, she’d be shunned. “He was so powerful,” she says. “He was this man who could get you jobs in a market where it’s difficult to get jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she went back. “I thought, well, I’ll go to his house, but if he starts doing something I won’t let it happen. But he did something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu alleges Fliegelman raped her that night. She didn't report the assault. \"I didn't know what to do,\" she says. \"I felt powerless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the harassment went on and, finally, she told him she was gay. It wasn’t exactly true, but it was the only way she could see to navigate what she calls his \"fragile ego\" and power over her future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a forced coming out, one she still resents. Chu says she is bisexual but didn’t get a chance to fully explore her sexuality as a young person. She says she’d been a virgin before the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-800x1001.jpg\" alt=\"'I used to think my guest lecture for JF’s course (winter 2000) was a dream,' Chu posted on Instagram.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-800x1001.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1020x1276.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1920x2402.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1180x1476.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-960x1201.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-520x651.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus.jpg 1637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'I used to think my guest lecture for JF’s course (winter 2000) was a dream,' Chu posted on Instagram. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Seo-Young Chu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Chu says, she fell apart. Seeing her pain, a friend started making calls on her behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly what happened next is hazy for Chu. But \u003ca href=\"https://english.stanford.edu/people/herbert-lindenberger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Stanford English professor Herbert Lindenberger\u003c/a> said in an email he reported the misconduct to the chair of the English Department and a graduate student reported it to the dean's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a supportive note on Chu’s Facebook page \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1518874364868885&set=a.606218539467810.1073741835.100002390091936&type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responding to a post about her experience\u003c/a>, Lindenberger described how the campus community reacted when he spoke out: “Because I played a key role in instigating Fliegelman's punishment,\" he wrote, \"a number of my friends -- colleagues and students whom he mentored -- have held my role against me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an open letter last month on Facebook, Chu claims that others enabled \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sj.chu.9/posts/1519896918099963\">Fliegelman's conduct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stanford Investigation Concludes There Was Harassment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the allegations first surfaced, Stanford University hired an outside lawyer to investigate. Stanford said it could not share the findings of that investigation due to privacy laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just recently Chu herself managed to get a summary of the findings after repeatedly pressing the university. The two-page letter from Stanford's general counsel summarized the 2000 investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4323656-Debra-Zumwalt-Letter-to-Seo-Young-Chu-11-27-2017.html\" responsive=true sidebar=false text=false pdf=false]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said the investigation found Fliegelman had called Chu repeatedly and left her messages with sexual content, showed her pornography and initiated oral sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You stated that the sexual contact was preceded by your stating that you were uncomfortable and wanted to leave,\" the letter reads. The summary says Fliegelman disputed that, but the letter continues, \"Although there were no other witnesses to this incident, the investigation found that you made contemporaneous reports to others that were consistent with your assertion that the contact was nonconsensual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the findings, the provost at the time, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/24/provost-john-etchemendy-leaves-remarkable-legacy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Etchemendy\u003c/a>, concluded that Fliegelman \"engaged in a pattern of unwelcome verbal conduct of a sexual nature, and engaged in an incident of physical sexual contact under circumstances that were extremely inappropriate and in which your assent could be questioned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fliegelman was suspended for two years, barred from the department during that time and sent to mandatory counseling. Then he went back to teaching at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was later honored multiple times -- at a one-day conference at Stanford known as \"Jayfest\" put on by former grad students, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/march12/oldbooks-031208.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when the university acquired his rare book collection\u003c/a>, and when he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This to me encapsulates the problem. The provost of Stanford University participated in a ceremony that praised an individual who had literally been banned from campus.'\u003ccite>Michele Dauber, Stanford Law School\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The university also named an award in his honor, a practice the university followed for other faculty but which it has since discontinued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies also named a mentorship award after Fliegelman. The society renamed it after hearing from Chu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fliegelman was honored even though his sexual misconduct case was well-known on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he died in 2007, following standard practice at Stanford, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/april23/minutes-042308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a colleague read a memorial resolution\u003c/a> honoring him in the Faculty Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/april23/memlflie-042308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described Fliegelman as a dedicated teacher and mentor\u003c/a>. \"On three occasions he won awards for teaching, including the Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Associated Students of Stanford University Teaching Award,\" it said. \"These honors do not begin to tell the story of his remarkable devotion to classroom instruction and to advising and reading dissertations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone there -- including Provost Etchemendy, who disciplined Fliegelman -- stood in tribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4322446-Stanford-Faculty-Senate-Minutes.html\" responsive=true]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This to me encapsulates the problem,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/10/02/woman-of-steel/\">Michele Dauber\u003c/a>, a professor at Stanford Law School and a vocal advocate for victims of sexual assault on campus. \"The provost of Stanford University participated in a ceremony that praised an individual who had literally been banned from campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Dauber it’s not a surprise. “This is what has been my experience at Stanford: light consequences followed by a sense that this kind of conduct just isn’t bad enough to remove someone from this community. And that is the sense that really must change if we’re going to make any progress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says sexual misconduct occurs on many college campuses, but she argues an acute lack of transparency at private universities like Stanford contributes to a lack of accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 630px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11634644\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber.jpg 630w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford Law School professor Michele Dauber has been an advocate for victims of sexual assault on campus for the last decade. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michele Dauber)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Private schools aren't subject to public records laws, though they're \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/04/06/are-harvard-yale-and-stanford-really-public-universities/?utm_term=.b7b5ccdfaba0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heavily subsidized\u003c/a> by taxpayers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.chronicle.com/items/biz/pdf/Rich%20Schools%20Poor%20Students.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 2015 report\u003c/a> found Stanford receives $63,100 in tax subsidies per student, while UC Berkeley -- which is subject to public records laws -- receives $10,500 per student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are literally awash in government money and yet they are not subject to the same kinds of transparency that we impose on public schools,\" Dauber says. \"It is contrary to the public interest to spend so much public money on a black box, particularly where sexual harassment and assault by faculty are concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dauber has publicly called for the university to disavow the memorial resolution, and says she's putting together a formal request to the Faculty Senate in conjunction with other faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding Chu's case, Stanford University says the Title IX office is \"reviewing the allegations to see if there is an action for the university to take.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Stanford has tried to make it easier for students to report sexual misconduct. The school has created \u003ca href=\"https://sexualviolencesupport.stanford.edu/reporting/review-my-options\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confidential resources to provide support to students\u003c/a> and strengthened policies governing \u003ca href=\"https://adminguide.stanford.edu/chapter-1/subchapter-7/policy-1-7-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relationships between faculty and students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Emily Doe's' Letter to Brock Turner Inspired Chu to Speak Out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chu is now \u003ca href=\"http://english.qc.cuny.edu/quick-links/seo-young-chu/\">an associate professor in the English Department\u003c/a> at Queens College CUNY. She started writing about her experience at Stanford on Facebook last summer, after she read \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.at3agQyyP#.kn65ymeek\">Emily Doe’s letter to Brock Turner\u003c/a>, the Stanford student convicted for sexually assaulting Doe while she was unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently \u003ca href=\"https://entropymag.org/a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-fugues-in-the-key-of-english-major/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published an essay\u003c/a> in Entropy magazine that has brought her considerable attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"AJzRscZwlRyHNOoaFCgbB6WhqWx4yXiJ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford did offer Chu an apology. In that Nov. 27 letter summarizing the investigation, the general counsel, Debra Zumwalt, wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On behalf of Stanford University, let me express how sorry I am that you have suffered as a result of a faculty member's misconduct. You did the right thing by bringing this issue forward back in 2000, and we are grateful to you for doing so.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's the first apology Chu recalls getting from the university, but instead of bringing her closure, the letter raises more questions for her. She remembers being raped all too clearly, she says, and doesn't understand why the school found Fliegelman responsible only for harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point what I really want is an explanation,\" Chu says. \"I want to move on, but first I need to understand what happened to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu requested a copy of the investigative report on her case from Stanford, but hasn't received it yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>UC Berkeley Grad Student Shares Familiar Story of Abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A couple of days after Chu’s essay came out, another woman made public her own decades-old allegations against a professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Latta was in her first semester of grad school at UC Berkeley in the mid-'80s when she took a class from a visiting professor: \u003ca href=\"https://english.stanford.edu/people/franco-moretti\">Franco Moretti\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta during her first few weeks at UC Berkeley in 1985. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KimberlySuzannJoansdottir/posts/10155592416355202?pnref=story\">In a Nov. 5 letter posted on Facebook\u003c/a>, Latta writes that Moretti “sexually stalked,\" \"pressured\" and \"raped” her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember wanting him to stop and telling him I don’t like this, I'm not comfortable with this,\" she says in an interview. To which she remembers him responding, “‘You American women, when you say no you mean yes.’” Moretti is Italian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the harassment continued for several months. During his office hours in the English Department, she remembers Moretti pushing her up against the wall and grabbing her breasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember feeling kind of revolted and paralyzed and embarrassed and ashamed and deeply uncomfortable,” she says, “and yet totally and completely passive and unable to do anything. For the longest time I remember feeling so ashamed of myself for having allowed that to happen, as though it were somehow my fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Latta says, she became sick with anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stopped going to Moretti’s class because she’d get sick to her stomach when she did. She went to Berkeley’s Title IX office to make a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember walking in and thinking, ‘Oh shit.’\" The officer at the time was Frances Ferguson, another professor in the English department. Latta remembers crying in Ferguson’s office and telling her she was being harassed. She doesn’t remember if she told Ferguson she’d been raped. “I was deeply ashamed of that,\" Latta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says Ferguson actively discouraged her from reporting. \"Her demeanor and coldness led me to believe that if I were to go through with a formal process, there would be nobody at the university who would be on my side, who would believe me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She assumed it was because Ferguson and Moretti knew each other, and “they were on the same team and I wasn’t. I was an expendable graduate student.” Both professors deny they were friends at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-800x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-800x642.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-1020x819.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-1180x947.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-960x771.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-240x193.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-375x301.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-520x417.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Ferguson said she hadn’t understood the misconduct to be so significant. She recalled Latta describing sexual harassment, not assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I respect that we remember some of these events differently,\" she said in the statement. \"Had any student at Berkeley brought a formal complaint concerning such allegations, I would have pursued it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that wasn’t Latta’s impression. So instead of going through with the formal process, Latta says, she told Moretti she’d reported him to the university. She says he threatened to destroy her reputation and end her career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moretti is now a professor emeritus at Stanford. He did not respond to a request for comment, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/11/09/two-women-accuse-former-stanford-professors-of-sexual-assault/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told the Stanford Daily\u003c/a> he denies the rape allegation. He said Latta had been a consensual partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went out to dinner together one night and back to her apartment, where we had fully consensual sex and I spent the night,” Moretti told the campus paper. “I did not rape her, and am horrified by the accusation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he and Latta kept meeting, and maintained their acquaintance until he left Berkeley. He also denied threatening Latta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend of Latta’s, who was a fellow student in Moretti’s class, confirmed much of Latta’s account. She asked not to be named because she’s still in academia. She remembers Latta agreeing to go on a date with Moretti and having a bad experience, though she didn’t know the details. Afterward, she says, the professor wouldn’t stop pursuing Latta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically we would call it stalking,” she said. “She would leave his office and be very upset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend remembers Latta trying to make a complaint and later telling her that she’d been threatened with legal recrimination. The friend says Latta was a strong student, but ended up dropping out because of the episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says that’s true. She didn’t finish her Ph.D. at Berkeley. “I had to leave academia for a long time because of what happened,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the trauma of the alleged assault and harassment, or the way the university responded that affected her. She says the experience with Moretti undermined her sense of herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta with family on her 25th birthday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At first I thought he was interested in me because he thought I had an interesting mind,” she says. “But then to find out it was only sex -- it really sapped me of my sense of myself as an intellectual. It took me a long time to gather myself together and feel like a competent scholar after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says she has wanted to tell this story for years, but it’s only because she feels buoyed by the recent wave of women's public testimonies that she’s doing it now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t any longer feel like a single voice crying in the wilderness,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University says it is reviewing her allegations against Moretti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after Latta spoke out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/11/16/harassment-assault-allegations-against-moretti-span-three-campuses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another allegation involving Moretti has surfaced\u003c/a> from Jane Penner, a woman who alleges he harassed her while she was attending a seminar at Dartmouth University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing women like Chu, Latta and Penner come forward as part of the #MeToo movement is heartening, says Stanford student Stephanie Pham, who founded the university’s Association of Students for Sexual Assault Prevention. But, she says, it's also upsetting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I’ve found most disappointing and scary is that if you compare what happened to these survivors decades -- generations -- ago, to what’s happening now, you see that nothing has really changed,” Pham says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, about 40 percent of undergrad women who were surveyed said they had experienced sexual violence in some form at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pham says, “History continues to repeat itself.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's not just Hollywood, politics and media where allegations of sexual misconduct are pouring in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women in academia are sharing in the #MeToo moment, opening up about the high-ranking professors they say abused their trust and violated their bodies when they were graduate students. The women describe experiences of being stalked, forcibly kissed and raped by men who were entrusted with shepherding them through their studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates fighting to prevent sexual violence and harassment on college campuses say cases allegedly involving professors who taught at Stanford University and UC Berkeley point to a \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/146049/a-professor-kind-like-priest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culture in graduate schools\u003c/a> where powerful professors are protected and allowed to act with near impunity at the expense of the students who depend on them for advice, guidance and the recommendations they needed to advance their education and careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Election Stirs Uncomfortable Memories\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, as Seo-Young Chu watched Donald Trump ascend to the highest office in the country, she felt an eerie sense of familiarity. Maybe it was the crude language he used to describe women on the \"Access Hollywood\" videotape, or the women who came forward during the campaign alleging he'd sexually harassed them, but Chu felt she recognized those mannerisms of his, and they jogged ugly memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a moment, I remember watching TV and thinking 'How could they elect Jay Fliegelman?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Fliegelman had been Chu's dissertation adviser at Stanford 17 years ago. Chu was a 21-year-old graduate student in the English Department who'd tried to commit suicide not long before and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Fliegelman was a leading scholar and \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/august22/fliegelman-082207.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Literature professor\u003c/a>. He died in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu alleges Fliegelman harassed her, touched her and ultimately raped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-800x617.jpg\" alt=\"Seo-Young Chu's 1999 Stanford ID.\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-800x617.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-1180x910.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-960x740.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-240x185.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-375x289.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/StanfordID-520x401.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seo-Young Chu's 1999 Stanford ID. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Seo-Young Chu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It started with strange remarks,” Chu says. Then, she says, Fliegelman invited her to his house to see \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/march12/oldbooks-031208.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his famous collection of rare books\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were in his living room,\" Chu says. \"I remember him telling me that his current project was about his books, and that reading his books meant feeling them and touching them and being emotional with them, possessive even, and that’s when he started touching me. I couldn’t move. I was petrified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day in class, she says, she didn’t know how to interact with him. Then, she says, he invited her back to his house. “This was the man who would be writing letters of recommendation for me and, in his words, controlling my future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worried that if she declined his invitation, she’d be shunned. “He was so powerful,” she says. “He was this man who could get you jobs in a market where it’s difficult to get jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she went back. “I thought, well, I’ll go to his house, but if he starts doing something I won’t let it happen. But he did something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu alleges Fliegelman raped her that night. She didn't report the assault. \"I didn't know what to do,\" she says. \"I felt powerless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the harassment went on and, finally, she told him she was gay. It wasn’t exactly true, but it was the only way she could see to navigate what she calls his \"fragile ego\" and power over her future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a forced coming out, one she still resents. Chu says she is bisexual but didn’t get a chance to fully explore her sexuality as a young person. She says she’d been a virgin before the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-800x1001.jpg\" alt=\"'I used to think my guest lecture for JF’s course (winter 2000) was a dream,' Chu posted on Instagram.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-800x1001.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1020x1276.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1920x2402.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-1180x1476.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-960x1201.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus-520x651.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Syllabus.jpg 1637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'I used to think my guest lecture for JF’s course (winter 2000) was a dream,' Chu posted on Instagram. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Seo-Young Chu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Chu says, she fell apart. Seeing her pain, a friend started making calls on her behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly what happened next is hazy for Chu. But \u003ca href=\"https://english.stanford.edu/people/herbert-lindenberger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Stanford English professor Herbert Lindenberger\u003c/a> said in an email he reported the misconduct to the chair of the English Department and a graduate student reported it to the dean's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a supportive note on Chu’s Facebook page \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1518874364868885&set=a.606218539467810.1073741835.100002390091936&type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responding to a post about her experience\u003c/a>, Lindenberger described how the campus community reacted when he spoke out: “Because I played a key role in instigating Fliegelman's punishment,\" he wrote, \"a number of my friends -- colleagues and students whom he mentored -- have held my role against me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an open letter last month on Facebook, Chu claims that others enabled \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sj.chu.9/posts/1519896918099963\">Fliegelman's conduct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stanford Investigation Concludes There Was Harassment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the allegations first surfaced, Stanford University hired an outside lawyer to investigate. Stanford said it could not share the findings of that investigation due to privacy laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just recently Chu herself managed to get a summary of the findings after repeatedly pressing the university. The two-page letter from Stanford's general counsel summarized the 2000 investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This to me encapsulates the problem,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/10/02/woman-of-steel/\">Michele Dauber\u003c/a>, a professor at Stanford Law School and a vocal advocate for victims of sexual assault on campus. \"The provost of Stanford University participated in a ceremony that praised an individual who had literally been banned from campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Dauber it’s not a surprise. “This is what has been my experience at Stanford: light consequences followed by a sense that this kind of conduct just isn’t bad enough to remove someone from this community. And that is the sense that really must change if we’re going to make any progress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says sexual misconduct occurs on many college campuses, but she argues an acute lack of transparency at private universities like Stanford contributes to a lack of accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 630px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11634644\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber.jpg 630w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/dauber-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford Law School professor Michele Dauber has been an advocate for victims of sexual assault on campus for the last decade. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michele Dauber)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Private schools aren't subject to public records laws, though they're \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/04/06/are-harvard-yale-and-stanford-really-public-universities/?utm_term=.b7b5ccdfaba0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heavily subsidized\u003c/a> by taxpayers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.chronicle.com/items/biz/pdf/Rich%20Schools%20Poor%20Students.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 2015 report\u003c/a> found Stanford receives $63,100 in tax subsidies per student, while UC Berkeley -- which is subject to public records laws -- receives $10,500 per student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are literally awash in government money and yet they are not subject to the same kinds of transparency that we impose on public schools,\" Dauber says. \"It is contrary to the public interest to spend so much public money on a black box, particularly where sexual harassment and assault by faculty are concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dauber has publicly called for the university to disavow the memorial resolution, and says she's putting together a formal request to the Faculty Senate in conjunction with other faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding Chu's case, Stanford University says the Title IX office is \"reviewing the allegations to see if there is an action for the university to take.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Stanford has tried to make it easier for students to report sexual misconduct. The school has created \u003ca href=\"https://sexualviolencesupport.stanford.edu/reporting/review-my-options\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confidential resources to provide support to students\u003c/a> and strengthened policies governing \u003ca href=\"https://adminguide.stanford.edu/chapter-1/subchapter-7/policy-1-7-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relationships between faculty and students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Emily Doe's' Letter to Brock Turner Inspired Chu to Speak Out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chu is now \u003ca href=\"http://english.qc.cuny.edu/quick-links/seo-young-chu/\">an associate professor in the English Department\u003c/a> at Queens College CUNY. She started writing about her experience at Stanford on Facebook last summer, after she read \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.at3agQyyP#.kn65ymeek\">Emily Doe’s letter to Brock Turner\u003c/a>, the Stanford student convicted for sexually assaulting Doe while she was unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently \u003ca href=\"https://entropymag.org/a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-fugues-in-the-key-of-english-major/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published an essay\u003c/a> in Entropy magazine that has brought her considerable attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford did offer Chu an apology. In that Nov. 27 letter summarizing the investigation, the general counsel, Debra Zumwalt, wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On behalf of Stanford University, let me express how sorry I am that you have suffered as a result of a faculty member's misconduct. You did the right thing by bringing this issue forward back in 2000, and we are grateful to you for doing so.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's the first apology Chu recalls getting from the university, but instead of bringing her closure, the letter raises more questions for her. She remembers being raped all too clearly, she says, and doesn't understand why the school found Fliegelman responsible only for harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point what I really want is an explanation,\" Chu says. \"I want to move on, but first I need to understand what happened to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu requested a copy of the investigative report on her case from Stanford, but hasn't received it yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>UC Berkeley Grad Student Shares Familiar Story of Abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A couple of days after Chu’s essay came out, another woman made public her own decades-old allegations against a professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Latta was in her first semester of grad school at UC Berkeley in the mid-'80s when she took a class from a visiting professor: \u003ca href=\"https://english.stanford.edu/people/franco-moretti\">Franco Moretti\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta5.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta during her first few weeks at UC Berkeley in 1985. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KimberlySuzannJoansdottir/posts/10155592416355202?pnref=story\">In a Nov. 5 letter posted on Facebook\u003c/a>, Latta writes that Moretti “sexually stalked,\" \"pressured\" and \"raped” her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember wanting him to stop and telling him I don’t like this, I'm not comfortable with this,\" she says in an interview. To which she remembers him responding, “‘You American women, when you say no you mean yes.’” Moretti is Italian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the harassment continued for several months. During his office hours in the English Department, she remembers Moretti pushing her up against the wall and grabbing her breasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember feeling kind of revolted and paralyzed and embarrassed and ashamed and deeply uncomfortable,” she says, “and yet totally and completely passive and unable to do anything. For the longest time I remember feeling so ashamed of myself for having allowed that to happen, as though it were somehow my fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Latta says, she became sick with anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stopped going to Moretti’s class because she’d get sick to her stomach when she did. She went to Berkeley’s Title IX office to make a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember walking in and thinking, ‘Oh shit.’\" The officer at the time was Frances Ferguson, another professor in the English department. Latta remembers crying in Ferguson’s office and telling her she was being harassed. She doesn’t remember if she told Ferguson she’d been raped. “I was deeply ashamed of that,\" Latta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says Ferguson actively discouraged her from reporting. \"Her demeanor and coldness led me to believe that if I were to go through with a formal process, there would be nobody at the university who would be on my side, who would believe me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She assumed it was because Ferguson and Moretti knew each other, and “they were on the same team and I wasn’t. I was an expendable graduate student.” Both professors deny they were friends at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-800x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-800x642.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-1020x819.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-1180x947.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-960x771.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-240x193.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-375x301.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta1-520x417.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Ferguson said she hadn’t understood the misconduct to be so significant. She recalled Latta describing sexual harassment, not assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I respect that we remember some of these events differently,\" she said in the statement. \"Had any student at Berkeley brought a formal complaint concerning such allegations, I would have pursued it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that wasn’t Latta’s impression. So instead of going through with the formal process, Latta says, she told Moretti she’d reported him to the university. She says he threatened to destroy her reputation and end her career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moretti is now a professor emeritus at Stanford. He did not respond to a request for comment, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/11/09/two-women-accuse-former-stanford-professors-of-sexual-assault/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told the Stanford Daily\u003c/a> he denies the rape allegation. He said Latta had been a consensual partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went out to dinner together one night and back to her apartment, where we had fully consensual sex and I spent the night,” Moretti told the campus paper. “I did not rape her, and am horrified by the accusation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he and Latta kept meeting, and maintained their acquaintance until he left Berkeley. He also denied threatening Latta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend of Latta’s, who was a fellow student in Moretti’s class, confirmed much of Latta’s account. She asked not to be named because she’s still in academia. She remembers Latta agreeing to go on a date with Moretti and having a bad experience, though she didn’t know the details. Afterward, she says, the professor wouldn’t stop pursuing Latta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically we would call it stalking,” she said. “She would leave his office and be very upset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend remembers Latta trying to make a complaint and later telling her that she’d been threatened with legal recrimination. The friend says Latta was a strong student, but ended up dropping out because of the episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says that’s true. She didn’t finish her Ph.D. at Berkeley. “I had to leave academia for a long time because of what happened,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the trauma of the alleged assault and harassment, or the way the university responded that affected her. She says the experience with Moretti undermined her sense of herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Latta4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Latta with family on her 25th birthday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kimberly Latta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At first I thought he was interested in me because he thought I had an interesting mind,” she says. “But then to find out it was only sex -- it really sapped me of my sense of myself as an intellectual. It took me a long time to gather myself together and feel like a competent scholar after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta says she has wanted to tell this story for years, but it’s only because she feels buoyed by the recent wave of women's public testimonies that she’s doing it now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t any longer feel like a single voice crying in the wilderness,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University says it is reviewing her allegations against Moretti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after Latta spoke out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/11/16/harassment-assault-allegations-against-moretti-span-three-campuses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another allegation involving Moretti has surfaced\u003c/a> from Jane Penner, a woman who alleges he harassed her while she was attending a seminar at Dartmouth University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing women like Chu, Latta and Penner come forward as part of the #MeToo movement is heartening, says Stanford student Stephanie Pham, who founded the university’s Association of Students for Sexual Assault Prevention. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#documents\">New documents obtained by KQED\u003c/a> reveal that half of San Francisco schools have lead in their water, though levels vary widely from school to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information obtained as a result of a request under the California Public Records Act shows water from one tap measured more than 370 times the allowable concentration of lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The science classroom faucet at San Francisco International High School registered lead at 5,600 parts per billion. The Environmental Protection Agency sets the allowable limit at just 15 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tap is one of about a dozen extremely high levels recorded at the campus, which is shared with elementary school kids from the New School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Isolated Case?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, the city's Childhood Lead Prevention Program coordinator, Haroon Ahmad, says it's too soon to panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still believe that the water is pretty good,\" Ahmad says. \"It's probably the fixture that's the problem, and at this point the fixture has been taken out of service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmad sees statistics on every child with high lead levels in their blood, and he says he hasn't seen an increase or clusters of high concentrations at city schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have not seen a spike of cases coming our way since the school investigation has started,\" Ahmad says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco volunteered to begin testing its schools for lead -- 5 taps per school -- earlier this year. A new state law will require all districts to do the same by the end of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Three-San-Francisco-public-schools-show-high-12306785.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three school sites \u003c/a>-- West Portal and Malcolm X elementary schools, and San Francisco International High School -- came back with samples that were too high. Repeat testing at those schools was conducted by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Much Is Too Much?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of an observed increase in reported lead poisoning could support the district's belief that many faucets were rarely used -- like that science lab faucet, which officials say wasn't used for drinking. But it could also mean that parents haven't tested their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we see more typically is that kids may have no symptoms at all with lower levels,\" says Dr. Alison Matsunaga, a hematologist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. \"But we know chronically over time, when kids have lead levels that are elevated, it can affect IQ, cognitive issues, neurodevelopmental issues as well, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matsunaga says many experts, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/With-No-Amount-of-Lead-Exposure-Safe-for-Children,-American-Academy-of-Pediatrics-Calls-For-Stricter-Regulations.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Academy of Pediatrics\u003c/a>, maintain that any lead is too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's important, because 34 of the 74 San Francisco schools tested so far came back with detectable levels of lead \u003cem>under\u003c/em> the EPA limit, including taps in cafeterias and water refill stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no safe level of lead in drinking water for children,\" says the California Public Interest Research Group's Jason Pfeifle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pfeifle has been actively pushing for a zero-lead policy in neighboring Oakland, which has \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8A8X8ktDxQkV3Z6RU85R1pWZXc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> the toxic metal in nearly as many of its schools so far. 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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr17/yr17rel82.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Board of Education approved 10 LGBT-inclusive history textbooks\u003c/a> for kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The great things about these books is that they serve our students well,\" says Tom Adams, deputy superintendent for the Teaching and Learning Support Branch of the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know there are many students out there who are LGBT or whose parents are,\" he says. \"This is a reality that most of our students have in their schools and our instructional materials should reflect that reality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fourth grade, textbooks will teach kids about a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mobileranger.com/losgatos/one-eyed-charlie-the-cross-dressing-stagecoach-driver/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notorious bandit-battling California stagecoach driver named Charley Parkhurst\u003c/a>, who was born a woman but lived as a man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polly Pagenhart says that's important. \"It occasions a conversation for kids about why a person would live their life as a man,\" says Pagenhart, policy director for \u003ca href=\"http://www.ourfamily.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our Family Coalition\u003c/a>, one of several organizations that worked toward the inclusive textbooks. \"What does that tell us about gender roles or the possibility for women to live full lives in the Wild West?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pagenhart says the new textbooks will change how students learn about the history of social change movements, too. \"The LGBTQ movement won't be omitted, as it often has been in the past,\" she says, noting that LGBT activists' work helps shape the world kids live in today. \"There's a lot of changes to constitutional law that have happened as a result of LGBT civil rights movement work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates expect there will be some lively debate at the school district level. 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