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But as school districts in the state's pricey coastal enclaves struggle to attract and keep qualified teachers, many are considering Santa Clara’s “if you build it, they will come” model to teacher retainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now they have the support of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11340137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11340137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-800x533.jpg\" alt='Mark Leno, author of the \"Teacher Housing Act of 2016.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Leno, author of the \"Teacher Housing Act of 2016.\" \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the governor signed the “\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413\">Teacher Housing Act of 2016\u003c/a>” to make it easier for school districts to get into the landlording business. Authored by Mark Leno, the former Democratic state senator from San Francisco, the law gives districts explicit permission to set aside housing exclusively for its employees and, crucially, to take advantage of state and federal low-income housing tax credits to develop these projects. Under prior law, projects that make use of these low-income housing subsidies had to be open to all tenants who met the income guidelines, to prevent public funds from subsidizing housing discrimination. The new law makes an exception for teachers and district employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the state, extending those tax credits to school employees is a zero-sum game -- it designates a fixed amount for the program. What it does mean, however, is less money for other low-income people who would otherwise take advantage of such subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone, of course, agrees that teachers should be the focal point of affordable housing policy. In areas where the supply of housing is constrained, providing special access to teachers necessarily comes at the expense of others who are just as inconvenienced by high rents and long commutes, if not more so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a teacher, so I love teachers. But this pick-and-choose mentality about professions that we value and professions that we don’t seems kind of crazy,” says Paavo Monkkonen, a professor of urban planning at UCLA. “We don’t want to allow all our service workers to live near us -- just the ones we deem more ‘acceptable’ and more ‘meritorious.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many lawmakers, it’s an appealing way to kill two birds with one stone: tackle affordable housing while simultaneously addressing the teacher shortage plaguing California districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of interest in doing this now, given the conflux of rapidly increasing housing prices coupled with a growing teacher shortage in so many districts” says Jeff Vincent, the deputy director and co-founder of the Center for Cities & Schools at UC Berkeley. “And those things are clearly related.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/ca-teacher-shortage-persistent-problem-brief\">survey\u003c/a> by the Learning Policy Institute and the California School Boards Association found three-quarters of public schools across the state reported being unable to fill all of their teacher positions with qualified, credentialed faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comes at a cost for students -- particularly those who attend schools serving mostly low-income households, where turnover is highest. But the cost is also financial. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://nctaf.org/wp-content/uploads/NCTAFCostofTeacherTurnoverpolicybrief.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, Los Angeles Unified School District pays an additional $94 million per year in recruitment, hiring and training costs just to keep up with staff attrition. In San Francisco and Oakland, the annual price tag is over $11 million and $12 million, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The academic literature is equivocal about the connection between the cost of housing and teacher turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that teachers who are in schools with higher compensation are more likely to stay,” says Anne Podolsky, a policy analyst at the Learning Policy Institute. “So if you think about housing incentives as just one form of compensation, we might have reason to believe that that would be associated with teachers who are going to stay in their schools longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Podolsky points to a national survey that found one in four former teachers said that they would consider returning to the profession if it offered housing incentives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that it’s successful because we continue to have waitlists,” says Jennifer Dericco, a spokesperson for Santa Clara’s school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it may be San Francisco’s turn. With some of the highest housing prices in the country and teacher attrition \u003ca href=\"http://citiesandschools.berkeley.edu/uploads/SFUSD_PLUS_Brief_2016_FINAL_.pdf\">rates\u003c/a> that hover around 10 percent every year, San Francisco seems a likely candidate for a robust teacher housing program. In 2015, the city’s mayor, Ed Lee, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/10/affordable-housings-sf-teachers-middle-class.html\">announced\u003c/a> plans to build 100 new apartments specifically for teachers on district property. The new law allows the mayor and school district to take one step closer to that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other districts may follow suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[TeacherSalaryRent]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anywhere in the Bay Area you’re going to have challenges for housing, and you hear of teachers driving long distances to get to work everyday,” says Debra Carlton, senior vice president of public affairs for the California Apartment Association, a rental housing trade group. “This bill is step number one; step number two is making sure that your local officials, your school districts, et cetera, see it as just as important as San Francisco does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also clear that low-income housing tax credits -- the affordable housing subsidies that the Teacher Housing Act now allows districts and their co-developers to draw from -- are finite. Last year, the State Treasurer’s Office received 163 qualifying applications for its competitive low-income housing tax credit, but only had the resources to fund 82 of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not even clear that most teachers would qualify for subsidized units. According to Mark Stivers, who heads the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee at the Treasurer’s Office, the rents charged at complexes constructed or renovated with low-income tax credit support range from 30 percent to 60 percent of an area’s median income. That puts the upper income \u003ca href=\"http://sfmohcd.org/sites/default/files/Documents/MOH/2016_AMI_IncomeLimits-SanFranHMFA.pdf\">threshold\u003c/a> in a city like San Francisco at $45,250 for one person. Certainly some teachers make less than this, but the district’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/cs/documents/j90summary1516.pdf\">average\u003c/a> salary is $67,537.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the complexities, costs and delays associated with constructing housing specifically for teachers, there’s an obvious question: “Why not pay them more?” says Monkkonen. “That would be the easier thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is also assumes that schools could negotiate such a targeted pay hike with their respective teacher unions. And whereas districts cover operational costs like salaries with funds from the state, which vary little from year to year, districts can be more creative in funding capital projects. For example, Santa Clara’s district paid for the Casa del Maestro project by issuing “certificates of participation” -- financial instruments in which rent payments are divided up and paid directly to investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond these purely financial considerations, there are other reasons that school districts may prefer brick and mortar, says Lindsay Maple, a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities & Schools and a former teacher in Oakland and East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very visible way to commit and to show that they’re dedicated to finding a solution,” she says. Simply providing a plan to build housing may in and of itself serve as a recruitment and retainment tool. Plus, it’s more likely to grab the attention and sympathy of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she’s skeptical that housing is the most effective solution, on a dollar-for-dollar basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a school district with 6,500 teachers and you’re going to build a building with 100 units -- do the cost-benefit analysis,” she says. “Does that really impact student outcomes on such a level where (a housing project) makes sense when you’re using that much money?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, for school districts, housing can be a risky business. When the Santa Clara district built Casa del Maestro, it funded the nearly $6.5 million construction project with borrowed money, with the interest payments on those bonds paid for entirely with rental payments from the teacher tenants. The financial transactions, along with the day-to-day operations of the housing complex, are managed by independent third parties. According to the district, this is all designed to protect district dollars. But it’s also a unique -- and uniquely complex -- arrangement that other districts may have a difficult time replicating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And school districts will ultimately confront what is already obvious to developers: Building new housing in urban California is really hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cupertino Union School District discovered as much when it announced plans to convert a former elementary school into teacher housing in 2015, only to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/CupertinoUnion-School-District-Abandons-Teacher-Housing-Project-Cites-Tensions-381578961.html\">drop\u003c/a> the idea in the face of fierce opposition from local residents who opposed giving up school land for residential development, and questioned whether new housing would actually retain teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the Oakland Unified School District announced its own \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/realestate/oakland-school-district-creates-plan-for-affordable-housing-for-teachers/973340/\">teacher workforce housing\u003c/a> initiative two years ago, only to see the plan stall for lack of a developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Los Angeles Unified School District has had more success in developing affordable housing projects than any other district in the state, of the three housing complexes on district land, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-teacher-housing-20161019-snap-story.html\">none\u003c/a> can count a district teacher as a tenant. Because the projects were financed in part with state and federal affordable housing tax credits, the units have gone to lower-earning district employees, such as cafeteria workers and teacher assistants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the complications that confound housing developments across the state, local ordinances and regulations may pose further obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Berkeley, which is considering a workforce housing initiative. Whereas a project like Casa del Maestro is based on the notion that subsidized housing should be provided to new teachers for a limited time (seven years), after which the tenancy agreement ends, as Maple from the Center for Cities & Schools points out, this would certainly violate Berkeley’s “just cause” eviction regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The development idea is sexy at the moment,” says UC Berkeley’s Vincent. “But districts need to be really careful in understanding their risks associated with these developments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vincent applauds what Santa Clara has done: Rather than placing young, inexperienced teachers in “dorm-style housing” for short period of time, the Casa del Maestro seems designed to keep educators in the district for the long term. But he wonders how many school districts possess the expertise to pull it off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely complicated -- and they can get hosed pretty easily,” he says. “Most districts aren’t set up to be landlords.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ben Christopher is a contributing writer at CALmatters.org—a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No offense to Gilroy. But along with the stresses of the job, not to mention Manzon’s personal challenges -- he's a veteran who \"did some time in the sandbox\" in Iraq and lives with his emotional support animal, Koa -- a twice-daily hourlong commute, along with the familiar angst of finding housing in the Bay Area on a teacher's salary, are extra stressors he's happy to do without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casa del Maestro, a radical experiment in teacher recruitment and retainment, is due to celebrate its 15th anniversary this year. But as school districts in the state's pricey coastal enclaves struggle to attract and keep qualified teachers, many are considering Santa Clara’s “if you build it, they will come” model to teacher retainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now they have the support of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11340137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11340137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-800x533.jpg\" alt='Mark Leno, author of the \"Teacher Housing Act of 2016.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MarkLeno-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Leno, author of the \"Teacher Housing Act of 2016.\" \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the governor signed the “\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413\">Teacher Housing Act of 2016\u003c/a>” to make it easier for school districts to get into the landlording business. Authored by Mark Leno, the former Democratic state senator from San Francisco, the law gives districts explicit permission to set aside housing exclusively for its employees and, crucially, to take advantage of state and federal low-income housing tax credits to develop these projects. Under prior law, projects that make use of these low-income housing subsidies had to be open to all tenants who met the income guidelines, to prevent public funds from subsidizing housing discrimination. The new law makes an exception for teachers and district employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the state, extending those tax credits to school employees is a zero-sum game -- it designates a fixed amount for the program. What it does mean, however, is less money for other low-income people who would otherwise take advantage of such subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone, of course, agrees that teachers should be the focal point of affordable housing policy. In areas where the supply of housing is constrained, providing special access to teachers necessarily comes at the expense of others who are just as inconvenienced by high rents and long commutes, if not more so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a teacher, so I love teachers. But this pick-and-choose mentality about professions that we value and professions that we don’t seems kind of crazy,” says Paavo Monkkonen, a professor of urban planning at UCLA. “We don’t want to allow all our service workers to live near us -- just the ones we deem more ‘acceptable’ and more ‘meritorious.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many lawmakers, it’s an appealing way to kill two birds with one stone: tackle affordable housing while simultaneously addressing the teacher shortage plaguing California districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of interest in doing this now, given the conflux of rapidly increasing housing prices coupled with a growing teacher shortage in so many districts” says Jeff Vincent, the deputy director and co-founder of the Center for Cities & Schools at UC Berkeley. “And those things are clearly related.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/ca-teacher-shortage-persistent-problem-brief\">survey\u003c/a> by the Learning Policy Institute and the California School Boards Association found three-quarters of public schools across the state reported being unable to fill all of their teacher positions with qualified, credentialed faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comes at a cost for students -- particularly those who attend schools serving mostly low-income households, where turnover is highest. But the cost is also financial. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://nctaf.org/wp-content/uploads/NCTAFCostofTeacherTurnoverpolicybrief.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, Los Angeles Unified School District pays an additional $94 million per year in recruitment, hiring and training costs just to keep up with staff attrition. In San Francisco and Oakland, the annual price tag is over $11 million and $12 million, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The academic literature is equivocal about the connection between the cost of housing and teacher turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that teachers who are in schools with higher compensation are more likely to stay,” says Anne Podolsky, a policy analyst at the Learning Policy Institute. “So if you think about housing incentives as just one form of compensation, we might have reason to believe that that would be associated with teachers who are going to stay in their schools longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Podolsky points to a national survey that found one in four former teachers said that they would consider returning to the profession if it offered housing incentives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that it’s successful because we continue to have waitlists,” says Jennifer Dericco, a spokesperson for Santa Clara’s school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it may be San Francisco’s turn. With some of the highest housing prices in the country and teacher attrition \u003ca href=\"http://citiesandschools.berkeley.edu/uploads/SFUSD_PLUS_Brief_2016_FINAL_.pdf\">rates\u003c/a> that hover around 10 percent every year, San Francisco seems a likely candidate for a robust teacher housing program. In 2015, the city’s mayor, Ed Lee, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/10/affordable-housings-sf-teachers-middle-class.html\">announced\u003c/a> plans to build 100 new apartments specifically for teachers on district property. The new law allows the mayor and school district to take one step closer to that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other districts may follow suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[TeacherSalaryRent]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anywhere in the Bay Area you’re going to have challenges for housing, and you hear of teachers driving long distances to get to work everyday,” says Debra Carlton, senior vice president of public affairs for the California Apartment Association, a rental housing trade group. “This bill is step number one; step number two is making sure that your local officials, your school districts, et cetera, see it as just as important as San Francisco does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also clear that low-income housing tax credits -- the affordable housing subsidies that the Teacher Housing Act now allows districts and their co-developers to draw from -- are finite. Last year, the State Treasurer’s Office received 163 qualifying applications for its competitive low-income housing tax credit, but only had the resources to fund 82 of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not even clear that most teachers would qualify for subsidized units. According to Mark Stivers, who heads the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee at the Treasurer’s Office, the rents charged at complexes constructed or renovated with low-income tax credit support range from 30 percent to 60 percent of an area’s median income. That puts the upper income \u003ca href=\"http://sfmohcd.org/sites/default/files/Documents/MOH/2016_AMI_IncomeLimits-SanFranHMFA.pdf\">threshold\u003c/a> in a city like San Francisco at $45,250 for one person. Certainly some teachers make less than this, but the district’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/cs/documents/j90summary1516.pdf\">average\u003c/a> salary is $67,537.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the complexities, costs and delays associated with constructing housing specifically for teachers, there’s an obvious question: “Why not pay them more?” says Monkkonen. “That would be the easier thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is also assumes that schools could negotiate such a targeted pay hike with their respective teacher unions. And whereas districts cover operational costs like salaries with funds from the state, which vary little from year to year, districts can be more creative in funding capital projects. For example, Santa Clara’s district paid for the Casa del Maestro project by issuing “certificates of participation” -- financial instruments in which rent payments are divided up and paid directly to investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond these purely financial considerations, there are other reasons that school districts may prefer brick and mortar, says Lindsay Maple, a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities & Schools and a former teacher in Oakland and East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very visible way to commit and to show that they’re dedicated to finding a solution,” she says. Simply providing a plan to build housing may in and of itself serve as a recruitment and retainment tool. Plus, it’s more likely to grab the attention and sympathy of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she’s skeptical that housing is the most effective solution, on a dollar-for-dollar basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a school district with 6,500 teachers and you’re going to build a building with 100 units -- do the cost-benefit analysis,” she says. “Does that really impact student outcomes on such a level where (a housing project) makes sense when you’re using that much money?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, for school districts, housing can be a risky business. When the Santa Clara district built Casa del Maestro, it funded the nearly $6.5 million construction project with borrowed money, with the interest payments on those bonds paid for entirely with rental payments from the teacher tenants. The financial transactions, along with the day-to-day operations of the housing complex, are managed by independent third parties. According to the district, this is all designed to protect district dollars. But it’s also a unique -- and uniquely complex -- arrangement that other districts may have a difficult time replicating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And school districts will ultimately confront what is already obvious to developers: Building new housing in urban California is really hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cupertino Union School District discovered as much when it announced plans to convert a former elementary school into teacher housing in 2015, only to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/CupertinoUnion-School-District-Abandons-Teacher-Housing-Project-Cites-Tensions-381578961.html\">drop\u003c/a> the idea in the face of fierce opposition from local residents who opposed giving up school land for residential development, and questioned whether new housing would actually retain teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the Oakland Unified School District announced its own \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/realestate/oakland-school-district-creates-plan-for-affordable-housing-for-teachers/973340/\">teacher workforce housing\u003c/a> initiative two years ago, only to see the plan stall for lack of a developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Los Angeles Unified School District has had more success in developing affordable housing projects than any other district in the state, of the three housing complexes on district land, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-teacher-housing-20161019-snap-story.html\">none\u003c/a> can count a district teacher as a tenant. Because the projects were financed in part with state and federal affordable housing tax credits, the units have gone to lower-earning district employees, such as cafeteria workers and teacher assistants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the complications that confound housing developments across the state, local ordinances and regulations may pose further obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Berkeley, which is considering a workforce housing initiative. Whereas a project like Casa del Maestro is based on the notion that subsidized housing should be provided to new teachers for a limited time (seven years), after which the tenancy agreement ends, as Maple from the Center for Cities & Schools points out, this would certainly violate Berkeley’s “just cause” eviction regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The development idea is sexy at the moment,” says UC Berkeley’s Vincent. “But districts need to be really careful in understanding their risks associated with these developments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vincent applauds what Santa Clara has done: Rather than placing young, inexperienced teachers in “dorm-style housing” for short period of time, the Casa del Maestro seems designed to keep educators in the district for the long term. But he wonders how many school districts possess the expertise to pull it off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely complicated -- and they can get hosed pretty easily,” he says. “Most districts aren’t set up to be landlords.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Seven percent of the cases, according to UC, involved sexual assault, including touching of intimate body parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university also adds that approximately two-thirds of the accused no longer work for the UC system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-01b-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/UCLACampus-1920x1125.jpg\" Title=\"UC System Releases Details of 113 Sexual Misconduct Cases\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the cases detailed in the hundreds of pages released by the universities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A UC Santa Cruz professor, who has since resigned, was found to have sexually assaulted a student who says she was drunk and \"blacked out.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An academic adviser at UC Irvine was found to have masturbated in front of students, exposed himself to a student who was a minor and sent sexually suggestive texts to students.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A UC Merced professor was found to have hosted \"wild\" parties for students where he would dance provocatively with students and generally make inappropriate and unwelcome advances toward female students under his supervision.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A UC San Diego janitor was fired after he was found to have stalked a woman, including repeatedly following her into a bathroom and approaching her with unzipped pants.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For years, the UC campuses, especially UC Berkeley, have been criticized for slow response to charges of sexual harassment, abuse or violence. 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(Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program receiving federal financial assistance.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's release of 113 Title IX cases is part of the university's effort to send the message that charges like these will be taken more seriously going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another part of that plan is Napolitano's hiring of a new Title IX coordinator for the entire university. 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Last year, public outrage reached an apex over the handling of cases at UC Berkeley involving an assistant basketball coach, then-Vice Chancellor \u003ca href=\"http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/faculty/chem/fleming\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Fleming\u003c/a>, astronomer \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/berkeley-releases-report-on-astronomer-sexual-harassment-case-1.19068\" target=\"_blank\">Geoffrey Marcy, \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/sujit-choudhry/\">Sujit Choudhry\u003c/a> when he was dean of the law school. In each case, the university seemed to handle the employees with deference and light punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite findings of serial sexual wrongdoing, Choudhry's penalty was a 10 percent cut to his $415,000 salary and a required apology to an assistant, which many regarded as lax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an investigation found that Fleming \"more likely than not\" inappropriately touched and kissed a former employee, he resigned. But UC Chancellor Nicholas Dirks later named Fleming an international ambassador for Berkeley's planned Global Campus in Richmond, with a salary and stipend totaling nearly $300,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last March, UC President Janet Napolitano revoked Fleming's appointment and announced changes to the university's sexual harassment and violence policies and procedures. In an April 2016\u003ca href=\"http://sexualviolence.universityofcalifornia.edu/files/documents/Pres-Napolitano-letter-joint-committee-of-administration-academic-senate.041816.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> letter \u003c/a>to members of a review committee she had appointed, Napolitano announced steps she was taking to strengthen UC's procedures and policies regarding cases of sexual harassment and sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our goals should be threefold,\" she wrote. \"Foster a culture of safety and respect on all our campuses; provide clarity, fairness, and timeliness when investigations are undertaken; and ensure that any sanctions are commensurate with the seriousness of substantiated complaints.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government put a spotlight on sexual harassment and violence at colleges and universities in 2011, when the U.S. Department of Education advised schools to use the power of \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html\" target=\"_blank\">Title IX\u003c/a> to prevent, investigate and resolve cases like these. (Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program receiving federal financial assistance.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's release of 113 Title IX cases is part of the university's effort to send the message that charges like these will be taken more seriously going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another part of that plan is Napolitano's hiring of a new Title IX coordinator for the entire university. 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But she held back on the administration’s rescinding of Obama administration guidance to schools on transgender rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This issue was a very huge example of Obama administration overreach, one-size-fits-all approach to issues best solved at the personal and local level,” DeVos told the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, after brief remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos added that she and the Trump administration have “made clear it’s our job to protect students and teachers’ flexibility and protect and preserve personal freedoms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”t1E0NgyeFThnVliGS2vPYhykz8aORWdS”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/politics/devos-sessions-transgender-students-rights.html\">reported tensions \u003c/a>between DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the joint decision made to rescind the Obama administration guidance that had required schools wanting to receive federal funding to allow transgender students to use bathrooms, locker rooms and participate on athletic teams corresponding with the gender with which they identified — rather than their gender at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos reportedly was uncomfortable with earlier draft language and wanted to stress protections for transgender students. 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As of 2012, \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/blogs/nces/post/free-or-reduced-price-lunch-a-proxy-for-poverty\">31 million children benefited\u003c/a> from the National School Lunch program. The National School Lunch Act was \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp/national-school-lunch-program-nslp\">signed by President Truman\u003c/a> in 1946.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The media has had its fun with me,” DeVos said, noting, however, “my job isn’t to win popularity contests” with the media or the “Washington education establishment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She criticized $7 billion in school grants given out by the Obama Education Department. She said they thought “money alone would solve the problem. 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"content": "\u003cp>Inside a nondescript building on the corner of East Main Street and Avocado Boulevard in El Cajon, dozens upon dozens of shiny porcelain soccer balls sit on desktops and counters. It's hard to find a level surface that isn’t playing host to a small soccer ball-shaped vase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of holding flowers, each holds writing utensils. It almost looks like an army of No.2 pencils and pens have punctured each little ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/YALLASD/\">Yalla.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word means \"Let's Go!\" in Arabic, and the concept is deceptively simple: Use an existing passion to inspire learning in students. 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Today, around 40 percent of Yalla’s cohort is Iraqi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/02/2017-02-10a-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Neymar-Jr.-800x533.jpg\" Title=\"Soccer Is the Best Way to Solve Problems, Say Refugee Kids\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teens and children at Yalla range in age from 6 to 18. They’re from a stew of countries that have grappled with conflict, including Congo, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Colombia, Syria, Guatemala and Afghanistan. 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Alongside her husband, she worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Baghdad, which she eventually fled after receiving threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger kids in the program, she says, barely remember their countries of origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have no idea about Iraq,” she continues. “The older ones have stories, they still remember the violence, the bombs, the blood. ... Sometimes when they start talking, you feel the pain in their voice and in their eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salih says that the students’ thirst for soccer -- which could perhaps be called an obsession -- often extends to the classroom. Many write essays and poems on the topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they choose a story to read, it's always about soccer,” Salih says. “And then they’ll go and read the same story two or three times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every afternoon at Yalla headquarters, a team of volunteer tutors work the adjoining classroom areas, providing one-on-one assistance. Kids use Google Chromebooks and learn from interactive online platforms like Khan Academy and Imagine Learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, the concepts can be tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Wednesday, a boy from Guatemala vainly tried to understand both the practical aspects of his online English lesson while grasping its content: dog sledding. A patient tutor sat beside him, warding off frustration and trying to explain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another volunteer tutor, retiree Patrick Foley, says hearing President Trump's rhetoric about immigrants provoked him to work at Yalla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The campaign of xenophobia and racism was one that I wanted to respond to,” Foley recalls. “And the only thing I could think of to do in a constructive way was to volunteer here, so that the students understand: that is not my America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11310472\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11310472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-800x1169.jpg\" alt=\"Osama Abdulazeez (right) hugs teammate Dani Matti during a pick-up soccer game.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1169\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-800x1169.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-160x234.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-1020x1490.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-1180x1724.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-960x1403.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-240x351.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-375x548.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-520x760.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osama Abdulazeez (right) hugs teammate Dani Matti during a pickup soccer game. \u003ccite>(Photo by Erin Siegal McIntyre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ongoing political climate has worried some in El Cajon. Still, others like Salih are trying to remain optimistic and hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to believe in our president and try to adapt,” she says. “Maybe he doesn’t see the good about our Muslim faith and us being immigrants right now, but I believe that if we prove [ourselves], he’s gonna see the good in us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the children and teens at Yalla, the soccer field is a both a place of belonging and a place where they can, albeit temporarily, forget about the outside world and focus on one thing: improving their game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weekday practices, games and Yalla’s Sunday street soccer pickup games are fiercely competitive. During the Sunday games, co-ed teams of six play each other on the concrete basketball courts outside Cajon Valley Middle School. 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Two were named Gates Millennium scholars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is funded through donations and through partnerships with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/refugeeprogram/PG5062.htm\">Refugee School Impact Grant Program\u003c/a> (RSIG), administered through the Cajon Valley School District and the California Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once in a while, tutor supervisor Zainab Salih says, kids get rowdy and have to be reprimanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tell them, if you don't behave, you're going to spend five extra minutes inside the academy,” she explains. “And they’re like, 'No! 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Alongside her husband, she worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Baghdad, which she eventually fled after receiving threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger kids in the program, she says, barely remember their countries of origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have no idea about Iraq,” she continues. “The older ones have stories, they still remember the violence, the bombs, the blood. ... Sometimes when they start talking, you feel the pain in their voice and in their eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salih says that the students’ thirst for soccer -- which could perhaps be called an obsession -- often extends to the classroom. Many write essays and poems on the topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they choose a story to read, it's always about soccer,” Salih says. “And then they’ll go and read the same story two or three times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every afternoon at Yalla headquarters, a team of volunteer tutors work the adjoining classroom areas, providing one-on-one assistance. Kids use Google Chromebooks and learn from interactive online platforms like Khan Academy and Imagine Learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, the concepts can be tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Wednesday, a boy from Guatemala vainly tried to understand both the practical aspects of his online English lesson while grasping its content: dog sledding. A patient tutor sat beside him, warding off frustration and trying to explain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another volunteer tutor, retiree Patrick Foley, says hearing President Trump's rhetoric about immigrants provoked him to work at Yalla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The campaign of xenophobia and racism was one that I wanted to respond to,” Foley recalls. “And the only thing I could think of to do in a constructive way was to volunteer here, so that the students understand: that is not my America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11310472\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11310472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-800x1169.jpg\" alt=\"Osama Abdulazeez (right) hugs teammate Dani Matti during a pick-up soccer game.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1169\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-800x1169.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-160x234.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-1020x1490.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-1180x1724.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-960x1403.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-240x351.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-375x548.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Yalla-Hug-520x760.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osama Abdulazeez (right) hugs teammate Dani Matti during a pickup soccer game. \u003ccite>(Photo by Erin Siegal McIntyre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ongoing political climate has worried some in El Cajon. Still, others like Salih are trying to remain optimistic and hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to believe in our president and try to adapt,” she says. “Maybe he doesn’t see the good about our Muslim faith and us being immigrants right now, but I believe that if we prove [ourselves], he’s gonna see the good in us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the children and teens at Yalla, the soccer field is a both a place of belonging and a place where they can, albeit temporarily, forget about the outside world and focus on one thing: improving their game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weekday practices, games and Yalla’s Sunday street soccer pickup games are fiercely competitive. During the Sunday games, co-ed teams of six play each other on the concrete basketball courts outside Cajon Valley Middle School. 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"content": "\u003cp>Many California education leaders say they plan to resist any effort to cut or divert public school funding under \u003ca href=\"http://www.betsydevos.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Betsy DeVos\u003c/a>, the country’s new secretary of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand their collective angst, let’s rewind to \u003ca href=\"http://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/nomination-of-betsy-devos-to-serve-as-secretary-of-education\" target=\"_blank\">DeVos' confirmation hearing\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the more contentious moments came when \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaine.senate.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine\u003c/a> grilled DeVos about whether she would hold all schools to the same academic and financial accountability standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kaine\u003c/strong>: I think all schools that receive taxpayer funding should be equally accountable. Do you agree with me or not?\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>DeVos\u003c/strong>: Well, they don’t.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kaine\u003c/strong>: But I think they should. Do you agree with me or not?\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>DeVos\u003c/strong>: Well, no.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That exchange sent chills down the backs of public school supporters because, they say, it shows DeVos won't treat schools equally under the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11307533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11307533\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tontra Love, a transitional kindergarten teacher at Sequoia Elementary School in Oakland, reads to her students at the end of class. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tontra Love, a transitional kindergarten teacher at Sequoia Elementary School in Oakland, reads to her students at the end of class. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DeVos is a billionaire charter school activist who made a name for herself in Michigan for supporting school vouchers -- the complicated and controversial practice of giving families public dollars to use at private and religious schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She calls that the power of school choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics call it undermining public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t let fear and anxiety paralyze us,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.cta.org/About-CTA/Leadership/Officers/President-Eric-Heins.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Heins\u003c/a>, president of the\u003ca href=\"http://www.cta.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> California Teachers Association\u003c/a>, one of the biggest critics of DeVos in the state. “The danger is to sit back and hunker down. We need to now -- more than ever -- come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heins says California’s opposition to DeVos has now turned into resistance, and the vast majority of public school teachers in the Golden State are gearing up for a long fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heins believes state legislators will stand alongside teachers in defending public school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The governor is in the right spot on this. I believe our Legislature is in the right spot on this. We will be working together to express and protect California’s values for our students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/02/2017-02-08b-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/DeVos-1-800x533.jpg\" Title=\"The DeVos Pushback: State Educators Gearing Up for a Long Fight\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has been pushing a $20 billion federal school voucher program, which would give each low-income family up to $12,000 for use at the public or private school of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/voucher-law-comparison.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">13 states use school vouchers\u003c/a> in some fashion, but it’s been a complicated and thorny issue in California with voters twice rejecting measures at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In school districts like \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Unified\u003c/a>, the mere mention of school vouchers strikes fear in the heart of many families who support public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say Oakland is already losing hundreds of students to charter and private schools every year. A federal school voucher program would be a death knell for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s outrageous,” says Kim Davis, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://ousdparentsunited.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Parents United for Public Schools in Oakland\u003c/a>. “I think it would be devastating to a community like Oakland. And to me, our public schools should be the most important focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11307534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11307534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Oak Ridge Elementary School in Sacramento strives to ensure each classroom is well-organized, student-centered and colorful so children feel welcomed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oak Ridge Elementary School in Sacramento strives to ensure each classroom is well-organized, student-centered and colorful so that children feel welcomed. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leading education finance experts say constitutional challenges will likely block any attempt to create a federal voucher program using existing \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Title I\u003c/a> money intended for disadvantaged students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos’ first order of business is to find a different approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible option? A federal scholarship tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it could work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal tax credit would be created for K–12 scholarships. If you donate to any eligible, existing scholarship fund, you could reduce the amount of money you owe on your tax bill by the amount of your donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families could, in turn, tap into this fund to shop for the school of their choice, be it public or private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://edexcellence.net/articles/a-federal-scholarship-tax-credit-trumps-only-fifty-state-school-choice-option?utm_source=Fordham+Updates&utm_campaign=fa4e3392f0-EMAIL_CAMP\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Fordham Institute\u003c/a>, a conservative education policy think tank, this approach is \"Trump's only 50-state school-choice option,\" which could \"unlock school choice for children in every state in the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ms/mm/\" target=\"_blank\">California State Board of Education President Michael Kirst\u003c/a> agrees this approach offers the Trump-DeVos education team a quicker \"political pathway.\" He says states like Florida have already implemented versions of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9jCbZaUfEOootmEjvBrIRtcnbuhMFY2Y\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is certainly rising concern,\" Kirst says. \"We don't incentivize private schools in California. But I don’t think many people had thought of this federal tax credit option.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group you’d think might like this brand of school choice is charter school supporters in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they worry families might pull their kids out of charters in favor of private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families already have plenty of options in California,” says Hilary Harmssen, the Bay Area regional director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Charter Schools Association.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why if Trump’s plan does come to be, California might finally see a coming together of public school supporters and charter advocates as they fight a new common enemy: a federal scholarship tax credit program.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She calls that the power of school choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics call it undermining public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t let fear and anxiety paralyze us,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.cta.org/About-CTA/Leadership/Officers/President-Eric-Heins.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Heins\u003c/a>, president of the\u003ca href=\"http://www.cta.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> California Teachers Association\u003c/a>, one of the biggest critics of DeVos in the state. “The danger is to sit back and hunker down. We need to now -- more than ever -- come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heins says California’s opposition to DeVos has now turned into resistance, and the vast majority of public school teachers in the Golden State are gearing up for a long fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heins believes state legislators will stand alongside teachers in defending public school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The governor is in the right spot on this. I believe our Legislature is in the right spot on this. We will be working together to express and protect California’s values for our students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has been pushing a $20 billion federal school voucher program, which would give each low-income family up to $12,000 for use at the public or private school of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/voucher-law-comparison.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">13 states use school vouchers\u003c/a> in some fashion, but it’s been a complicated and thorny issue in California with voters twice rejecting measures at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In school districts like \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Unified\u003c/a>, the mere mention of school vouchers strikes fear in the heart of many families who support public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say Oakland is already losing hundreds of students to charter and private schools every year. A federal school voucher program would be a death knell for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s outrageous,” says Kim Davis, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://ousdparentsunited.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Parents United for Public Schools in Oakland\u003c/a>. “I think it would be devastating to a community like Oakland. And to me, our public schools should be the most important focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11307534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11307534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Oak Ridge Elementary School in Sacramento strives to ensure each classroom is well-organized, student-centered and colorful so children feel welcomed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oak Ridge Elementary School in Sacramento strives to ensure each classroom is well-organized, student-centered and colorful so that children feel welcomed. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leading education finance experts say constitutional challenges will likely block any attempt to create a federal voucher program using existing \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Title I\u003c/a> money intended for disadvantaged students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos’ first order of business is to find a different approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible option? A federal scholarship tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it could work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal tax credit would be created for K–12 scholarships. If you donate to any eligible, existing scholarship fund, you could reduce the amount of money you owe on your tax bill by the amount of your donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families could, in turn, tap into this fund to shop for the school of their choice, be it public or private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://edexcellence.net/articles/a-federal-scholarship-tax-credit-trumps-only-fifty-state-school-choice-option?utm_source=Fordham+Updates&utm_campaign=fa4e3392f0-EMAIL_CAMP\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Fordham Institute\u003c/a>, a conservative education policy think tank, this approach is \"Trump's only 50-state school-choice option,\" which could \"unlock school choice for children in every state in the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ms/mm/\" target=\"_blank\">California State Board of Education President Michael Kirst\u003c/a> agrees this approach offers the Trump-DeVos education team a quicker \"political pathway.\" He says states like Florida have already implemented versions of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is certainly rising concern,\" Kirst says. \"We don't incentivize private schools in California. But I don’t think many people had thought of this federal tax credit option.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group you’d think might like this brand of school choice is charter school supporters in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they worry families might pull their kids out of charters in favor of private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families already have plenty of options in California,” says Hilary Harmssen, the Bay Area regional director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Charter Schools Association.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why if Trump’s plan does come to be, California might finally see a coming together of public school supporters and charter advocates as they fight a new common enemy: a federal scholarship tax credit program.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nobody told the students to remove their hoodies, or stash their snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, a brief dose of hip-hop eased 10th-graders into their seats at Oakland High. Teacher Earnest Jenkins III, a towering man in a baseball cap, turned off the music. And he asked his class to reflect on a vocabulary word — mendicant, or beggar — and a quote: “Use missteps as steppingstones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to do it yourself,” a student offered, “because it’s got to be genuine.” Jenkins smiled. “Way to sum that up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, Jenkins guided students in writing questions about college admissions — questions for an upcoming guest, a black University of California at Berkeley vice chancellor who had also attended Cal. The campus enrolled about 5,500 freshmen in the fall of 2015, only 157 of them black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think about what she may have thought about when she was in there,” said Jenkins, who is 35 and also black. “Maybe she was the only African-American in a classroom. Maybe the only one in the dorm room. Maybe the only one on that floor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that, he hit a key on a computer and treated the all-male, all-black class to a soundtrack of Bob Marley singing: “Get up, stand up. Stand up for your rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11305910\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11305910 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland-800x444.jpg\" alt=\"Tenth grade Manhood Development class students at Oakland High absorb a discussion about college admissions.\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland-800x444.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland-1020x566.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland-1180x655.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland-960x533.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland-672x372.jpg 672w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland-240x133.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland-375x208.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ManhoodDevOakland-520x288.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenth-grade Manhood Development class students at Oakland High absorb a discussion about college admissions. \u003ccite>(Eleanor Bell Fox/Center for Public Integrity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unorthodox? Perhaps. Jenkins’ reading, writing and reggae style clearly suits Oakland, a city that embraces its multiculturalism with pride. But the popular Manhood Development class that Jenkins teaches is more than a cool elective. It exemplifies the range of experimentation that’s becoming possible as a massive new school-financing formula takes root in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new initiative suffers from a numbing moniker — the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/lcfffaq.asp\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a> — but it represents nothing short of a revolution in how education is financed for more than 6.2 million students in the country’s biggest state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in many states, California’s school districts are funded with a mix of local property taxes and state money. This has tended to mean that spending on kids from affluent communities has been higher — a dilemma that’s led to unequal-funding lawsuits nationwide, starting with a landmark 1971 California case, \u003ca href=\"http://corporate.findlaw.com/law-library/separate-and-unequal-serrano-played-an-important-role-in.html\">\u003cem>Serrano v. Priest\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>and continuing even now in Connecticut, where the latest battle is raging. Despite reforms to create more equity in the wake of that 1971 suit, California’s convoluted distribution system continued to shortchange some of the state’s poorest kids. And strict funding rules foiled educators' attempts to try local approaches tailored to their specific school population.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School Funding: Striving for Equity in an Uneven Landscape\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A new funding formula is sending California school districts extra state money to support low-income students and those who are disadvantaged for other reasons. In 2015, more than half the state’s districts reported that a majority of their students were low-income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below, a comparison reveals that the most affluent districts benefit from local tax revenue generous enough to cover relatively high per-pupil spending levels. These districts can also receive limited state and federal aid. For poorer districts dependent on the state, the new formula won’t close all spending gaps, but per-student spending in some poorer districts has risen dramatically in just the first two years of the new formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can compare spending and other data for any of about 1,000 districts in California using our interactive below. High per-pupil spending in isolated and small poor districts often is due to special support from the state needed to function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[SchoolFunding]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past four years, circumstances in the Golden State have come together to change the game — \u003cem>radically\u003c/em>. In 2012, voters approved \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_30,_Sales_and_Income_Tax_Increase_(2012)\">Proposition 30\u003c/a>, a temporary state sales tax and income tax hike on the wealthy aimed at filling in deep recession-era cuts to state school funding. The measure has raised about $8 billion a year. A white-hot, tech-driven economic recovery has raised many billions more in revenue for education. And although tax collections have dipped recently, the state’s basic budget for K-12 schools and two-year community colleges has rocketed from $47.3 billion in 2011 to a projected $71.4 billion this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bid to fundamentally change how education funds were distributed met skepticism at first because of its aggressive “equity” push. But eventually it found bipartisan support in California's ethnically diverse, mostly Democratic Legislature. Lawmakers approved the new formula in 2013, and an eight-year phase-in plan began that fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new system affords far greater local control and guarantees that districts with substantial populations of disadvantaged kids receive \u003cem>more\u003c/em> state money — lots more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how it works: All districts get higher per-pupil basic grants that vary by grade level. On top of that, districts also receive 20 percent more in “supplemental” per-pupil dollars based on the number of students identified as disadvantaged. If more than 55 percent of a district’s students are disadvantaged, the district also receives “concentration” funding — tied to the percentage of disadvantaged kids above the 55 percent threshold. Concentration funding is equal to a hefty \u003cem>50 percent\u003c/em> of basic per-student base grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom-line increases can be stunning. In 2020, for example, when the formula is expected to be fully phased in, districts could receive a projected basic rate of about $9,115 for every high school student. But a supplemental grant would bump that up to $10,978. A concentration grant would bump it up to more than $14,128 for every disadvantaged high school student above the 55 percent threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disadvantaged students are those who qualify for a free or reduced school lunch because their families are low-income (about half the state’s students are low-income, as students nationally are), or who are English-as-a-second-language learners or high-risk foster kids. Kids in more than one target group are only counted once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statute creating the LCFF requires that supplemental and concentration money be invested in ways that “increase or improve” education for these disadvantaged students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the LCFF unfolds, complaints are surfacing about dubious expenditures — on school policing or across-the-board staff pay raises that state officials warn should be “targeted” to benefit disadvantaged kids. Not enough time has passed to conduct comprehensive evaluations. Critics are also assailing confusing “local control and accountability plans,” or LCAPs, that districts must create using a state template. The state isn’t collecting data on spending of earmarked money either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, if students start showing academic gains, California’s experiment could provide a blueprint as other states struggle to close their own gaps between affluent and disadvantaged students. If achievement remains stagnant, though, that will no doubt threaten the formula’s future — and embolden those who argue that additional spending has little to do with educational quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, some educators are seizing the moment — and the extra money — to institute homegrown experiments aimed at transforming school culture in some of the toughest neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/02/06/20613/get-stand-california-s-search-education-equity\">Read the full story via The Center for Public Integrity \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Perhaps. Jenkins’ reading, writing and reggae style clearly suits Oakland, a city that embraces its multiculturalism with pride. But the popular Manhood Development class that Jenkins teaches is more than a cool elective. It exemplifies the range of experimentation that’s becoming possible as a massive new school-financing formula takes root in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new initiative suffers from a numbing moniker — the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/lcfffaq.asp\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a> — but it represents nothing short of a revolution in how education is financed for more than 6.2 million students in the country’s biggest state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in many states, California’s school districts are funded with a mix of local property taxes and state money. This has tended to mean that spending on kids from affluent communities has been higher — a dilemma that’s led to unequal-funding lawsuits nationwide, starting with a landmark 1971 California case, \u003ca href=\"http://corporate.findlaw.com/law-library/separate-and-unequal-serrano-played-an-important-role-in.html\">\u003cem>Serrano v. Priest\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>and continuing even now in Connecticut, where the latest battle is raging. Despite reforms to create more equity in the wake of that 1971 suit, California’s convoluted distribution system continued to shortchange some of the state’s poorest kids. And strict funding rules foiled educators' attempts to try local approaches tailored to their specific school population.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School Funding: Striving for Equity in an Uneven Landscape\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A new funding formula is sending California school districts extra state money to support low-income students and those who are disadvantaged for other reasons. In 2015, more than half the state’s districts reported that a majority of their students were low-income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below, a comparison reveals that the most affluent districts benefit from local tax revenue generous enough to cover relatively high per-pupil spending levels. These districts can also receive limited state and federal aid. For poorer districts dependent on the state, the new formula won’t close all spending gaps, but per-student spending in some poorer districts has risen dramatically in just the first two years of the new formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can compare spending and other data for any of about 1,000 districts in California using our interactive below. High per-pupil spending in isolated and small poor districts often is due to special support from the state needed to function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[SchoolFunding]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past four years, circumstances in the Golden State have come together to change the game — \u003cem>radically\u003c/em>. In 2012, voters approved \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_30,_Sales_and_Income_Tax_Increase_(2012)\">Proposition 30\u003c/a>, a temporary state sales tax and income tax hike on the wealthy aimed at filling in deep recession-era cuts to state school funding. The measure has raised about $8 billion a year. A white-hot, tech-driven economic recovery has raised many billions more in revenue for education. And although tax collections have dipped recently, the state’s basic budget for K-12 schools and two-year community colleges has rocketed from $47.3 billion in 2011 to a projected $71.4 billion this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bid to fundamentally change how education funds were distributed met skepticism at first because of its aggressive “equity” push. But eventually it found bipartisan support in California's ethnically diverse, mostly Democratic Legislature. Lawmakers approved the new formula in 2013, and an eight-year phase-in plan began that fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new system affords far greater local control and guarantees that districts with substantial populations of disadvantaged kids receive \u003cem>more\u003c/em> state money — lots more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how it works: All districts get higher per-pupil basic grants that vary by grade level. 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Vice President Pence had to cast an unprecedented tie-breaking vote, after hearings that became fodder for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuc18xISwI\">\"Saturday Night Live\"\u003c/a>; after angry constituents swamped Senate offices with \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/senators-flooded-with-calls-letters-ahead-of-betsy-devos-vote-111440514.html\" target=\"_blank\">1.5 million calls a day\u003c/a>; after two \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/02/02/513105005/2-gop-senators-break-with-party-on-betsy-devos-confirmation\" target=\"_blank\">Republican senators defected\u003c/a>; and Democrats \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/02/06/513752308/senate-democrats-plan-all-night-push-to-rally-against-trumps-education-pick\" target=\"_blank\">held the floor overnight in protest.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 59-year-old philanthropist and activist from Michigan takes over the leadership and management of a federal bureaucracy with \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/landing.jhtml?src=ln\" target=\"_blank\">4,400 employees and a $68 billion annual budget\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the question is: How much will actually change for the nation's 50 million public school students and 20 million college students?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps her opponents should take a deep breath. The federal role in education policy is limited. \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/index.html?exp\">Less than 10 percent of funding for K-12 schools comes from the feds\u003c/a>, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, here's what we'll be watching in the coming weeks and months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the higher ed side\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Higher Education Act is up for reauthorization. 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DeVos was dismissive of the idea in her hearing: \"There's nothing in life that's truly free.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>On for-profit colleges:\u003c/strong> During the Obama administration, the department, along with the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, went after many for-profit colleges, with allegations of fraud and predatory lending. Two were forced to shut down: Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute. Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/06/08/412024783/the-forces-behind-the-decline-of-for-profit-colleges\" target=\"_blank\">gainful employment rule\u003c/a> required colleges to demonstrate that they were preparing a significant percentage of their students for the job market. When questioned by Sen. 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DeVos was dismissive of the idea in her hearing: \"There's nothing in life that's truly free.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>On for-profit colleges:\u003c/strong> During the Obama administration, the department, along with the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, went after many for-profit colleges, with allegations of fraud and predatory lending. Two were forced to shut down: Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute. Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/06/08/412024783/the-forces-behind-the-decline-of-for-profit-colleges\" target=\"_blank\">gainful employment rule\u003c/a> required colleges to demonstrate that they were preparing a significant percentage of their students for the job market. When questioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., DeVos said she would \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/devos-declines-to-support_b_14235348.html\" target=\"_blank\">\"review\" rather than uphold that rule\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the K-12 side\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The headline here is: More state decision-making power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regular readers of our NPR Ed blog know that the main K-12 education law was reauthorized last year as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/01/13/500421608/obamas-impact-on-americas-schools\" target=\"_blank\">Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA, which covers annual testing, among other things\u003c/a>. The new law gave more authority to the states, at the expense of the federal government, to identify and remedy failing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has already paused the process of ESSA implementation. Republicans in Congress have moved to use a little-known law called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/01/26/511745408/how-a-law-is-implemented-depends-on-a-presidents-rules\" target=\"_blank\">Congressional Review Act\u003c/a> to throw out the new accountability rules altogether. That leaves states in a situation that some Democrats and advocates have dubbed \"chaos and delay.\" Other groups, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nga.org/cms/home/col2-content/content-list/news-list/content-reference-1@/governors-congress-education.html\" target=\"_blank\">National Governors Association\u003c/a>, have said they welcome having still more authority at the state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some civil rights advocates have raised concerns that, in the absence of a strong federal hand, some states will be less vigilant than others in identifying and correcting historic educational inequities of race and class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos' responses to Sen. 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