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Proponents say the tax will help reduce obesity and related illnesses such as Type 2 diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This night goes to every single person I spoke to who told me their story about diabetes,” said Joyce Ganthavorn, 25, who spent a year campaigning for the tax in San Francisco and Oakland and was already celebrating. “This victory goes out to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle over soda taxes in the three Bay Area cities became one of the \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11149536/big-bucks-in-bay-area-battles-over-soda-tax-point-to-national-stakes\">most expensive in the state\u003c/a> this election season — with total contributions reaching more than $54 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In unofficial returns, 61 percent of voters in San Francisco and Oakland and 71 percent in Albany have approved the tax in their cities, despite $30 million spent by t\u003c/span>he American Beverage Association in the anti-tax campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is hope for other cities who are thinking of putting a tax on the ballot,” said Monica Chinchilla, campaign manager for San Francisco’s Measure V. “You can beat Big Soda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11166237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11166237 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS21997_Elections_ALW_010-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Monica Chinchilla, 21, the campaign manager for the support of Proposition V embraces a fellow supporter reacting to the passing of the soda tax at The Grand Theater in n the Mission District in San Francisco on Tuesday, Nov 8, 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS21997_Elections_ALW_010-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS21997_Elections_ALW_010-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS21997_Elections_ALW_010-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS21997_Elections_ALW_010-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS21997_Elections_ALW_010-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS21997_Elections_ALW_010-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS21997_Elections_ALW_010-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS21997_Elections_ALW_010-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS21997_Elections_ALW_010-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica Chinchilla (left) embraces Joyce Ganthavorn at the Grand Theater in San Francisco on Tuesday, Nov 8, 2016. 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"content": "\u003cp>California has made a huge about-face when it comes to bilingual education in public schools, approving \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/proposition-58/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 58\u003c/a>. The significance of this initiative underscores the changing demographics and cultural shifts in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really elated right now, as a teacher and as a Californian,” said Anne Zerrien-Lee, who teaches first grade at Aldama Elementary, a Spanish-English dual-language school in Highland Park in Los Angeles. “I think this shows that people are realizing the great benefit to our students of learning in two languages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11165616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11165616\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Mendez attends Randall Elementary School in Milpitas, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Mendez attends Randall Elementary School in Milpitas, California.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eighteen years ago, voters approved \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_227,_the_%22English_in_Public_Schools%22_Initiative_(1998)\">Proposition 227\u003c/a>, the English in Public Schools initiative, which required schools to teach all students in “English only” unless parents obtained a waiver for their child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 58 will repeal key provisions of Proposition 227, thereby eliminating the English-only mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, school districts could adopt an approach they see fit to teach English learners, as long as they get community input and ensure that all students master the English language. Teacher Zerrien-Lee says it will make it easier for more schools to establish dual-language programs like the one where she teaches, in which all students are taught in both English and another language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most families in California have not been able to access that,” said Zerrien-Lee. “They didn’t know they had the right to bilingual education for their kids, and they didn’t know how to go about getting it. And most school districts did not really advertise it or let parents know they had the right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many education experts, as well as influential Latino state lawmakers, say helping young people in California master more than one language today is extremely valuable to succeed in a global economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative’s most vocal opponent, Silicon Valley businessman \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Ron.Unz/\">Ron Unz\u003c/a>, who led the 1998 campaign to dismantle bilingual education, continued to argue this year that bilingual education simply does not effectively teach students the English language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/55/\">Proposition 55\u003c/a> also emerged victorious late Tuesday night. Of the three education-related ballot measures this year, this measure could arguably have the biggest impact on students in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure requires the wealthiest of Californians to continue paying higher taxes for another 12 years to fund schools and health care programs for low-income families. It’s considered an extension of \u003ca href=\"http://trackprop30.ca.gov/\">Proposition 30\u003c/a>, approved in 2012, which raised both sales and income taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11165612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11165612\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Special education instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez (middle) works with students in small groups at Oak Ridge Elementary School in the Sacramento Unified School District.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-800x490.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-960x588.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-240x147.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-375x230.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special education instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez (middle) works with students in small groups at Oak Ridge Elementary School in the Sacramento Unified School District.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m very excited because it confirms that California voters and Californians believe in their public schools and are willing to stand up for our students,” said Eric Heins, president of the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education groups across California, including the state’s two most powerful teachers unions, have been pushing hard for the extension, staging rallies up and down the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the tax extension is desperately needed to protect future spending for schools. For the first time in nearly a decade, schools are actually hiring more teachers and staff, as well as adopting more academic programs to meet the specific needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this money allows us to do is to continue all those exciting changes and restore programs like career and technical education, music and art and keep class sizes at least down to a reasonable level,” said Heins. “It doesn’t fix everything. I mean, it’s certainly not the panacea, but it brings a kind of stability so we can continue to make the kinds of changes that are actually good for our students, so we can focus on the whole child. As a teacher it makes me very excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Proposition 55, districts could have once again faced the volatility of the state’s boom-and-bust budget cycles, possibly resulting in big education spending cuts. That would likely derail many initiatives districts have implemented in order to satisfy\u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/\"> California’s new academic standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure also helps fund community colleges. Fifteen-year-old Zhihao Gao, who attends Oakland Technical High School, was part of a group that called voters to urge them to vote yes on the measure. “The main reason why I support Prop 55 is that it is in a way supporting my education, as a young person of color,” Gao said. “Both of my parents never attended college, but I will, and that will definitely change my life in a way that has never been done in my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians also approved \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/51/\">Proposition 51\u003c/a>. The measure will advance construction and modernization projects for K-12 schools and community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the big sticking points with this initiative has been whether its approach to funding school facility projects makes prudent fiscal sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11165614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11165614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Some students at City College of San Francisco in the counseling and student center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some students at City College of San Francisco in the counseling and student center.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition 51 allows for the sale of $9 billion in general obligation bonds. However, the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/\">Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> says if the $9 billion in bonds were sold at an average interest rate of 5 percent, the total cost to pay off the bonds would be $17.6 billion — $9 billion in principal plus $8.6 billion in interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Zaidee Stavely contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And most school districts did not really advertise it or let parents know they had the right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many education experts, as well as influential Latino state lawmakers, say helping young people in California master more than one language today is extremely valuable to succeed in a global economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative’s most vocal opponent, Silicon Valley businessman \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Ron.Unz/\">Ron Unz\u003c/a>, who led the 1998 campaign to dismantle bilingual education, continued to argue this year that bilingual education simply does not effectively teach students the English language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/55/\">Proposition 55\u003c/a> also emerged victorious late Tuesday night. Of the three education-related ballot measures this year, this measure could arguably have the biggest impact on students in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure requires the wealthiest of Californians to continue paying higher taxes for another 12 years to fund schools and health care programs for low-income families. It’s considered an extension of \u003ca href=\"http://trackprop30.ca.gov/\">Proposition 30\u003c/a>, approved in 2012, which raised both sales and income taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11165612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11165612\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Special education instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez (middle) works with students in small groups at Oak Ridge Elementary School in the Sacramento Unified School District.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-800x490.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-960x588.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-240x147.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-375x230.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special education instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez (middle) works with students in small groups at Oak Ridge Elementary School in the Sacramento Unified School District.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m very excited because it confirms that California voters and Californians believe in their public schools and are willing to stand up for our students,” said Eric Heins, president of the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education groups across California, including the state’s two most powerful teachers unions, have been pushing hard for the extension, staging rallies up and down the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the tax extension is desperately needed to protect future spending for schools. For the first time in nearly a decade, schools are actually hiring more teachers and staff, as well as adopting more academic programs to meet the specific needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this money allows us to do is to continue all those exciting changes and restore programs like career and technical education, music and art and keep class sizes at least down to a reasonable level,” said Heins. “It doesn’t fix everything. I mean, it’s certainly not the panacea, but it brings a kind of stability so we can continue to make the kinds of changes that are actually good for our students, so we can focus on the whole child. As a teacher it makes me very excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Proposition 55, districts could have once again faced the volatility of the state’s boom-and-bust budget cycles, possibly resulting in big education spending cuts. That would likely derail many initiatives districts have implemented in order to satisfy\u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/\"> California’s new academic standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure also helps fund community colleges. Fifteen-year-old Zhihao Gao, who attends Oakland Technical High School, was part of a group that called voters to urge them to vote yes on the measure. “The main reason why I support Prop 55 is that it is in a way supporting my education, as a young person of color,” Gao said. “Both of my parents never attended college, but I will, and that will definitely change my life in a way that has never been done in my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians also approved \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/51/\">Proposition 51\u003c/a>. The measure will advance construction and modernization projects for K-12 schools and community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the big sticking points with this initiative has been whether its approach to funding school facility projects makes prudent fiscal sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11165614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11165614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Some students at City College of San Francisco in the counseling and student center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some students at City College of San Francisco in the counseling and student center.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition 51 allows for the sale of $9 billion in general obligation bonds. However, the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/\">Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> says if the $9 billion in bonds were sold at an average interest rate of 5 percent, the total cost to pay off the bonds would be $17.6 billion — $9 billion in principal plus $8.6 billion in interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Zaidee Stavely contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Have you noticed more local bond and parcel tax measures on your ballot? There are \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiacityfinance.com/Votes1611preview.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a record number of them\u003c/a> this year in California, more than in any presidential or gubernatorial election in the past 10 years, according to the California Local Government Finance Almanac. More than half of these measures are for schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts all over the state propose bonds, but parcel taxes are mostly a Bay Area thing. Most school districts are proposing to renew taxes that are set to expire in the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/290998707″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sjusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Unified School District\u003c/a> is proposing its very first parcel tax. School board member Susan Ellenberg said her district faces a big challenge: recruiting and retaining quality teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When teachers leave our district, it tends to be because the cost of living is so incredibly high here,” Ellenberg said. “They’re moving occasionally to districts in the surrounding areas where they are paid significantly more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11156602\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11156602\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Children play at Horace Mann Elementary in San Jose Unified School District. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play at Horace Mann Elementary in San Jose Unified School District. \u003ccite>(KQED/Zaidee Stavely)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellenberg says many surrounding districts have an advantage, because they either have parcel tax revenue or are in such affluent communities that they get extra property tax revenue, beyond the state’s baseline funding. In some cases, they have both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike bonds, which are used for building new schools or renovating old ones, parcel taxes can be used for anything — from music and art to teacher salaries. They’re more common in the Bay Area than anywhere else in the state. But they require a two-thirds majority of votes to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Proposition 13 limits property taxes. And these parcel taxes are one of the only loopholes around that Prop. 13 restriction,” said Eric McGhee of the Public Policy Institute of California. He’s co-author of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/atissue/AI_913EMAI.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report about school parcel taxes\u003c/a> in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in San Jose Unified rejected a parcel tax proposal back in 2003. But this November, district leaders think they have a chance to get the supermajority they need. They’re asking voters to pass a measure that would allow the district to collect $72 a year for eight years from all property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s facing some opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already about 50 percent of the money that goes into the school budget does not reach the classrooms,” said Mark Hinkle, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.svtaxpayers.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association\u003c/a>, who wrote the argument opposing the measure. “A big chunk of the money is going to administration, bureaucracy and bloated pensions. That’s not helping the students at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area alone, there are 17 school parcel taxes, as well as 25 school bond measures, on local ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District is going for its third parcel tax. The district already has one permanent parcel tax in place. \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland_Unified_School_District_parcel_tax,_Measure_G_(February_2008)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure G passed in 2008\u003c/a>, and pays for teacher recruitment and retention, school libraries, art, music and classes needed to apply for college. Oakland also has a 10-year parcel tax, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland_Unified_School_District_Parcel_Tax,_Measure_N_(November_2014)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure N\u003c/a>, to pay for job training and preparing high school students for college. It expires in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Oakland measure, G1, would pay for middle school enrichment and could be used to increase teacher salaries, which are among the lowest in the Bay Area. The measure has been opposed by some parent and teacher groups because it would give a portion of the funds to charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in Berkeley are being asked to replace an expiring school parcel tax with a new larger one. It would yield an estimated $28 million annually, making it the largest on any Bay Area ballot this year. Berkeley’s parcel tax currently provides about 20 percent of the district’s budget, paying for many classroom teachers, school libraries, music programs and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was one of five districts in the state with the largest proportion of revenue coming from parcel taxes in 2011-12, according to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/publications/pub13-ParcelTaxesFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information compiled \u003c/a>by EdSource. The others were: Piedmont City Unified, Kentfield Elementary, Mill Valley Elementary and Emery Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wealthy school districts are much more likely to have passed one of these taxes, and to have put one of these things on the ballot in the first place,” McGhee said. He says the Bay Area has more parcel taxes than other part of the state because of the high cost of living, which requires higher teacher salaries, and because voters in the generally liberal Bay Area are often more willing to raise taxes on themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts are proposing more bond measures this year, too. The biggest one is San Francisco, which would issue $744 million in bonds to renovate existing schools, build two new ones and put some money toward affordable housing for teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most bond measures need only 55 percent of the vote to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGhee says it’s possible that they are easier to pass than parcel taxes, because it may not be clear to voters how much they will end up paying in added property tax to repay the bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason there are so many local bond measures on the ballot this year is because of \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/2010101856774/prop-51-seeks-9-billion-in-bonds-for-public-school-construction-projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 51\u003c/a>, which would provide construction funds to school districts that can come up with matching funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you can make the case, ‘Hey, we’re just getting a piece of this state pie. If we pass our construction bond, we’ll get extra money from the state, and it’ll be even better,’ ” McGhee said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California voters have a decision to make on the general election ballot: approve $9 billion in bonds for school and community college construction projects and modernization, or reject it to avoid adding to the state debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters appear split on the measure known as \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2014/info/proposition-51\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 51\u003c/a>. The Public Policy Institute of California found in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_916MBS.pdf\">September survey\u003c/a> that 47 percent of likely voters polled support the measure while 43 percent oppose it. The proposition will need a simple majority to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291322952\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third-grader Jade Rosa likely doesn't know anything about the forces aligning for and against Proposition 51. She and her classmates do know that theirs is a portable classroom at Felton Elementary School in Lennox, just a few minutes from the Los Angeles International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent visit, Jade had just finished a math test, and was taking a break to work on a coloring project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m drawing Seedot,\" she said. \"It’s a Pokemon, he’s really cute.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All seems normal in Jade's classroom until you step outside and hear the roar of the jet engines overhead. Unlike other buildings on campus, these portables don't have sound protection and some of the noise filters into the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jade's classroom also doesn’t have any natural light. The windows have been blocked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are covered, there's like a board on the outside part that covers it. I'm not exactly sure how that was made,\"said Elizabeth Franco, Jade's teacher. \"It's always been like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franco said in her 14 years of teaching, she’s never had a classroom with a window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s almost like, just that’s the way it is. I’ve never experienced anything else,\" Franco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11156830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11156830\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Portable classroom buildings at Felton Elementary School in Lennox, California, near LAX have boarded up windows for security and to dampen overhead airplane noise. School officials say some of the portables were brought in as temporary structures but have not been replaced by permanent buildings for decades.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-960x717.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-240x179.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-375x280.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-520x388.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable classroom buildings at Felton Elementary School in Lennox, California, near LAX have boarded-up windows for security and to dampen overhead airplane noise. School officials say some of the portables were brought in as temporary structures but have not been replaced by permanent buildings for decades. \u003ccite>(Michale Pompa/Felton Elementary School)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kent Taylor, superintendent of the Lennox School District of which Felton Elementary is a part, said the windows are blocked for security reasons, but it also serves as a way to dampen the airplane noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district doesn't have the funds to soundproof the portable buildings, according to Taylor. The permanent classrooms are eligible for special funding that the temporary buildings don't qualify for. All of this creates an equity problem, he said. Some kids get to learn in quiet rooms, others don't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, Proposition 51 will authorize $9 billion in general obligation bonds for new construction and improvement projects at K-12 schools, community colleges and vocational and charter schools. For Taylor, that means replacing portable buildings with permanent ones and upgrading his district's aging school infrastructure. Several schools in the district are more than 50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if we get another $10 million because of Prop. 51, we’re so excited,\" he said as he talked over the plane noise. \"It doesn’t meet all of our needs, but it certainly helps our students so much. So we’re encouraging the voters: please think about our kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school's principal, Norma Martinez, said kids in more affluent communities don't have to deal with portables at their schools as frequently as those in less affluent areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's definitely a concern for me,\" she said. \"I would prefer that all kids have equal access.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 51 has an army of supporters — many with deep pockets, like well-known housing developers such as Brookfield, KB Home and Shea Homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson is among the measure's backers. He's been appearing at events around California in support of the measure. Relying entirely on local districts for facility funding, according to Torlakson, takes away from money that can be spent directly on learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been a tradition of state partnership with local school districts that goes back decades, so the state has always been a partner,\" he said. \"It's worked. The state should step up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, more than $11 million has been raised in support of the bond measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe frameborder=\"no\" height=\"555px\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http://162.243.135.6/elections/latest/measure-finance/proposition-51/index.html\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the measure also has high-profile opposition, notably from California Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a blunderbuss effort that promotes sprawl and squanders money that would be far better spent in low-income communities,\" the governor said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office estimates that the state will pay about $17.6 billion to pay off principal and interest on the bonds, or about $500 million annually for 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several newspapers, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-proposition-51-20160921-snap-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/school-732118-costs-state.html\">Orange County Register\u003c/a>, have recommended voters reject the measure, arguing in part that Proposition 51 locks in rules for developers that don’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>G. Rick Marshall, with the California Taxpayers Action Network, helped write the arguments against the measure in the \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/\">state’s voter information guide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All this does is add to the state debt,\" Marshall said. \"And it brings a one-size-fits-all program to school districts, when you have local bond money the locals decide what to do with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes, according to Marshall, developers will benefit. Proposition 51 would prevent changes to the fee structure they pay when they build new housing developments that need schools, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 51 opponents also argue that larger, more organized school districts will be first in line to dip into the pot since, unlike some smaller districts, they have the staff to speedily apply for the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents like Marshall also want to see school districts use local sources of funding rather than new state bond money to build and improve schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think that by providing new construction money, you’re going to encourage schools to build buildings that they don’t need,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, more than 100 school districts, including Lennox, have placed local bond measures on the November ballot. 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For Taylor, that means replacing portable buildings with permanent ones and upgrading his district's aging school infrastructure. Several schools in the district are more than 50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if we get another $10 million because of Prop. 51, we’re so excited,\" he said as he talked over the plane noise. \"It doesn’t meet all of our needs, but it certainly helps our students so much. 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Relying entirely on local districts for facility funding, according to Torlakson, takes away from money that can be spent directly on learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been a tradition of state partnership with local school districts that goes back decades, so the state has always been a partner,\" he said. \"It's worked. The state should step up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, more than $11 million has been raised in support of the bond measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe frameborder=\"no\" height=\"555px\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http://162.243.135.6/elections/latest/measure-finance/proposition-51/index.html\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the measure also has high-profile opposition, notably from California Gov. 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Is that what to call you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, but I prefer that you call me Gustavo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You founded the \u003ca href=\"http://www.laphil.com/education/yola\">Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA)\u003c/a>, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. It’s a music education program that provides instruments and training for about 800 kids from underserved communities in Los Angeles. Tell me about the kids in YOLA.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s inspired by El Sistema, a program that we have in Venezuela. I’m a result of this beautiful, beautiful musical, artistic social program. For 10 years, [YOLA has] developed many things, especially the personality of these children, their belief in life. This is the beautiful thing that music gives to them. We are very happy we are doing our first tour, after 10 years. 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And I’m sure things will get better, but we have to keep playing, in our case, with our instruments, building our country, building a better world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your comments generated a lot of \u003ca href=\"http://www.camelloparlante.com/2016/09/29/la-dura-respuesta-de-gabriela-montero-al-discurso-de-dudamel/\">criticism\u003c/a> on Twitter and elsewhere from people who thought you were being too insensitive to the fact that many people in Venezuela are having trouble getting food and meeting basic needs.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. You know, I have family living there. They are suffering the same things. But the thing is, you have to keep working. I’m a person that works. I don’t like to talk. I prefer to work and build things. I’m not a politician, my dear, I’m a musician, I’m an artist. Of course, I’m a citizen. But what I can do is spread the message of music and art as a very important element of humanity. This is the thing that I do. I’m with my country, with all the people that are suffering. But what I can say is that we will get out of this difficult moment. But keep working and keep dreaming, because nobody can kill our dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Part of your dream here in California is to make classical music more accessible. How do you do that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are an orchestra that has two great venues, Disney Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. At the Bowl, we can have 18,000 people every night. So it’s beautiful, the amount of people that have access to classical music. Tickets are less expensive, some of them only a dollar. And with all the programs we have here for young people, for children, for new music, I think our doors are really open to new audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You recently got to conduct part of John Williams' soundtrack for the latest \"Star Wars\" movie, \"The Force Awakens.\" What was that like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, amazing. Imagine, knowing the film and this music since I was a child. By the way, my son is a big admirer of \"Star Wars,\" so I took him to the session. It was amazing. I’m so thankful and grateful to have John Williams as a friend. When he called me, I was like, ‘Are you sure John, you are not joking?’ He said, ‘No, I would love to give a surprise to the orchestra.' It was a great experience. I’d love to repeat it again someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You mentioned your 5-year-old son, Martin. You travel around the world, you’ve got this grueling schedule. How do you juggle it all and make time for him?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I open time. I try to be a good father. When I’m here in Los Angeles, I take him every morning to school. He comes on tour with me sometimes. He goes to Venezuela with his mom, with me, we have all the family there. It’s not the amount of time you spend with them. 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Imagine, knowing the film and this music since I was a child. By the way, my son is a big admirer of \"Star Wars,\" so I took him to the session. It was amazing. I’m so thankful and grateful to have John Williams as a friend. When he called me, I was like, ‘Are you sure John, you are not joking?’ He said, ‘No, I would love to give a surprise to the orchestra.' It was a great experience. I’d love to repeat it again someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You mentioned your 5-year-old son, Martin. You travel around the world, you’ve got this grueling schedule. How do you juggle it all and make time for him?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I open time. I try to be a good father. When I’m here in Los Angeles, I take him every morning to school. He comes on tour with me sometimes. He goes to Venezuela with his mom, with me, we have all the family there. It’s not the amount of time you spend with them. 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That view was widespread in 1998, the year that 61 percent of voters passed Proposition 227, ending what was called “transitional bilingual education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 227 did not outlaw all bilingual education programs. It did, however require that parents sign a waiver if they wanted to keep their children in a bilingual classroom. Without a waiver, ELLs were automatically placed in English-only classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot has changed in 18 years, though. Public support for programs that help children master two languages has grown significantly in California. More and more parents see biliteracy as a crucial skill that will open doors for their children. And districts like San Francisco and Los Angeles have created sizable bilingual programs using that waiver provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One influential supporter of Proposition 58 is Shelly Spiegel-Coleman. 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He calls it “an attempt to right a tremendous wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the debate over bilingual education is different this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians know and value and understand the importance of having their students be multilingual, bilingual and multiliterate,” he said recently. “And so we’re removing those barriers and ensuring that we are going to continue to have those dynamic programs in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11146645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11146645\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/npr-15_slide-84d3d78311336aac2c1253c87266e1b0fe7e5685-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Drawings hang on the walls at Las Familias Del Pueblo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/npr-15_slide-84d3d78311336aac2c1253c87266e1b0fe7e5685-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/npr-15_slide-84d3d78311336aac2c1253c87266e1b0fe7e5685-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/npr-15_slide-84d3d78311336aac2c1253c87266e1b0fe7e5685-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/npr-15_slide-84d3d78311336aac2c1253c87266e1b0fe7e5685-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/npr-15_slide-84d3d78311336aac2c1253c87266e1b0fe7e5685-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/npr-15_slide-84d3d78311336aac2c1253c87266e1b0fe7e5685-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/npr-15_slide-84d3d78311336aac2c1253c87266e1b0fe7e5685-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/npr-15_slide-84d3d78311336aac2c1253c87266e1b0fe7e5685-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/npr-15_slide-84d3d78311336aac2c1253c87266e1b0fe7e5685-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawings hang on the walls at Las Familias Del Pueblo. \u003ccite>(Morgan Walker/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the measure, for example, school districts would still decide locally whether they want to expand bilingual education or not. English-only programs would remain, but parents would no longer need to sign a waiver to place their children in a bilingual program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents fear this would allow schools to transfer ELLs to a bilingual classroom without the parent’s consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading the charge against the bilingual measure is Ron Unz, the Silicon Valley millionaire who orchestrated the original ban in 1998. His campaign was inspired by a protest by immigrant parents in Los Angeles in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, a group called Las Familias del Pueblo launched a boycott at the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1996-02-14/local/me-35833_1_district-schools\">Ninth Street School in \u003c/a>L.A.’s garment district. Latino parents complained that, as much as they wanted their kids to continue speaking Spanish, only 1 percent of the students at the school knew enough English to transition out of the bilingual program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”hVhY4GiK7kEAQfPH9zc9fVfu3c1xiYcC”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unz insists that bilingual instruction is ineffective and cheats ELLs of a quality education. He argues that ELLs need no more than a year of intensive English instruction before moving on to English-only classrooms, and that while challenges remain, those students today are better off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino students “are doing much better than they had been doing 18 or 20 years ago,” he says, “or that they would be doing if they weren’t being taught English.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years after the ban, test scores for English Language Learners statewide improved considerably. Supporters interpreted it as powerful evidence that English-only was a better way to get ELLs to succeed, even if it meant that children would lose their Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, the academic achievement and test scores of ELLs began to drop off. So much so that in 2015, a coalition of civil rights groups won a landmark case against the state for failing to address the high failure rates of ELLs. State officials have since agreed to new monitoring procedures to ensure that districts provide the necessary services and interventions required under the federal Equal Educational Opportunities Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, the bilingual debate has been much more muted than it was in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Unz says the proposed initiative is likely to pass, thanks to upper-middle-class families who see bilingual instruction as a form of academic enrichment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our election series “All Politics is Local,” we’re looking at some of the races voters will find lower down on their ballot. We hear plenty about the presidential election. These races are much less publicized, but no less important.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are only two schools in the tiny \u003ca href=\"http://www.smcsd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sausalito-Marin City School District\u003c/a>: a charter school and a traditional public school. Tension is high this election season, after state investigators reported that the school board has favored the charter school over the district school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four out of five of the current school board members are affiliated with the charter school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.willowcreekacademy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Willow Creek Academy\u003c/a>. One was a founder, and three are parents, one of whom also serves on the board of the charter school foundation. Many parents at the charter school are worried that two of those board members could be voted out this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/288857809\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we’re doing right now at Willow Creek is working!\" said John Donovan, whose daughter attends fourth grade at the charter school. \"I mean, we’ve got kids from all different walks of life coming in here, working together, studying together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both schools in this district are K-8 and both are about 30 percent Latino and 10 percent Asian, but they have \u003ca href=\"http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/EthnicEnr.aspx?cChoice=DistEnrEt2&cYear=2015-16&cSelect=2165474--Sausalito%20Marin%20City&TheCounty=&cLevel=District&cTopic=Enrollment&myTimeFrame=S&cType=ALL&cGender=B\" target=\"_blank\">very different percentages\u003c/a> of African-American and white students. At the traditional public school, Bayside Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy, 44 percent of the students last year were African-American, and 9 percent were white. At the charter school, 41 percent were white, and 12 percent were African-American. More than two thirds of the students at the district school qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. At the charter school, less than half of the kids are from such low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sausalito is so wealthy that the school district receives more money from property taxes than the minimum it would get from the state. The state Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team \u003ca href=\"http://fcmat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/08/Marin-COE-Sausalito-Marin-City-final-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">found the school board\u003c/a> diverted some of that money to the charter school that it said should have been used at the district school. But the school board \u003ca href=\"http://www.smcsd.org/files/SMCSD%20-%20Response%20to%20FCMAT%20Report_001.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">denies doing anything wrong\u003c/a>. They say the district school already gets more money per pupil, and to give it additional money would be unfair to the charter school students, many of whom also have high needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My feelings are that if they’re to detract from the charter school, we could jeopardize the progress that this whole district has made and wind up going back fifteen years in our progress,\" Donovan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifteen years ago, a group of parents in Sausalito started the charter school here. It used to share a campus with the traditional public elementary school, but over time, the charter grew to serve more than twice the number of students that the district school serves. Three years ago, the school board decided to move the traditional public school across the highway to Marin City and merge it with the middle school to cut costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents at the Marin City school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baysidemlk.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bayside Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy\u003c/a>, see the move as one of many ways the school board has shortchanged their school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The board favored them,\" said mother Kahaya Adams. \"It's always favored Willow Creek. It's unacceptable that we have to suffer and get cuts. Willow Creek has teachers' assistants, they have a full P.E. teacher, they have a full math, full science. We don't even have a science teacher!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents said the middle-schoolers at Bayside started the year without textbooks and with no permanent math teacher. Many parents are worried their kids are not being prepared for high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My sixth, seventh and eighth graders do the exact same work,\" said Kimberly Robinson. \"How is that? It’s not fair to these kids. There’s no way that they would let Willow Creek be going without books. We’re this far into the school year and we’re just now getting our books in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson and other parents at the Marin City school say they plan to vote for the two candidates who are challenging the school board incumbents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle playing out in this tiny district is not so different than in other school boards in California. School board races in California seem to be attracting more attention than in the past, in part because of the state's new policies on school funding. In addition to changing the way money is allocated to school districts, California's funding formula also gives local school boards more control over how to spend money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Urban and suburban school districts have become a battleground for a number of high profile issues,\" said Bruce Fuller, professor of education and public policy at UC Berkeley. \"One is charter schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In bigger districts, charter school backers and teachers' unions (which oppose charters) contribute campaign funds to influence elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If voters don’t show up, we’re going to give power away to these special interests, rather than electing board members who have the broad interests of trying to improve schools for all kids,\" said Fuller.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hey are third-, fourth- and fifth-graders, but the English lessons are at a kindergarten level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these students are able to write full compositions in their native languages, said the school’s principal, Jim Symonds. So the ideal approach would be to continue \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/09/28/65207/a-bold-new-approach-to-english-proficiency-for-kid/\">teaching them in their native language\u003c/a> to keep their brains stimulated, while folding in English language instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could spend more time teaching them in their native language and working on that proficiency and getting to those higher-level thinking skills, I think they’d be that much further ahead academically and be able to pick up English faster,” said Symonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But current state law prevents the school from teaching them using those methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the English in Public Schools Initiative, which California voters approved in 1998, requires that the students spend one year in a sheltered class like this one, taking all of their classes in English, before transitioning to mainstream classes at their grade level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/10/03/64930/election-2016-faq-proposition-58-non-english-langu/\">Proposition 58\u003c/a>, on California’s general election ballot, would remove those limits on native language instruction. The measure would directly affect instruction for the state’s 1.3 million English learners and indirectly for those students whose parents want them to be bilingual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative has drawn wide support from educators, who point to research in the last decade that suggests young people who learn multiple languages improve their brain’s ability to focus and manage several tasks at the same time, which are the keys to learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also supported by dozens of Democratic elected officials, the California Association for Bilingual Education, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Advancement Project and the think tank EdTrust West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition’s strongest opponent is the man who created the bilingual education limits through Proposition 227, the original ballot measure passed 18 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bilingual education is dead and it’s not coming back,” said Ron Unz, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who authored and funded Proposition 227.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time Proposition 227 made it on the ballot, more than 400,000 students were enrolled in bilingual education programs in California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The old system put hundreds of thousands — a good fraction of 1 million students — in a program where they were not taught English as soon as they started school,” Unz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the bilingual education programs immersed students in their native language — largely Spanish — while dual immersion programs focused on Spanish instruction and built up English gradually from the early grades. At the time, many Californians were worried about increasing levels of immigration and were concerned about how newly arrived students were acclimating to their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unz and others seized on the failings of some bilingual programs to underline that many students languished without properly learning English and transitioning to standard classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Proposition 58 don’t disagree entirely.[contextly_sidebar id=”KIauSBiMJMT1a9s4YFGctZWoYWT58a3S”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The programs were literally all over the place,” said Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of the University of California Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. “Each district, each school, seemed to have its own set of priorities and rules and predilections when it came to bilingual education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 227, he said, was a political response to the failings of bilingual education that largely eliminated bilingual education rather than find what was working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a lot has changed in California since Proposition 227. Latinos are now the state’s largest ethnic group, while Latino representation in Sacramento has also increased. Bilingualism has become accepted as a point of cultural pride, while the changing workforce has put a premium on workers who speak multiple languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now know in California that it’s not just a cool thing to have your child be bilingual. We actually know that it’s important for our children to have more than one language early on,” said University of Southern California education researcher Gisele Ragusa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new measure would keep the current English immersion programs as a minimum requirement for English learners, but would allow school districts to create their own bilingual education programs as they see fit to serve those students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would also allow schools to use as much of a student’s native language as they see fit to support a student’s learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We are sending messages to them that the language of power isn’t their own and it’s incredibly discriminatory.’\u003ccite>Gisele Ragusa\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If the state’s English learner students have struggled because state rules limit the amount of native language support, the lifting of those limits by Proposition 58 could improve their learning at a time when there’s a deep achievement gap between most English learners and their white and Asian counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students struggle in an environment in which they have to abandon the familiarity of their native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we say to them, when you come to school you can’t speak the language you’ve been speaking for four years, five years, three years at home, we are sending messages to them that the language of power isn’t their own, and it’s incredibly discriminatory,” Ragusa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Californians pass the ballot measure, future classes for students learning English might look something like the dual language program that exists at McKinley Elementary School just down the hall from the newcomer class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current law, courses can be taught in more than one language if the parents of each child participating in the program sign a waiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley started such a program for Spanish three years ago, and the students enrolled are a mix of English learners and native English speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teacher Consuelo Gomez and an aide walk around a kindergarten classroom helping students recognize basic Spanish words by asking them to identify pictures. The question and answer between teacher and student is sometimes in Spanish, and sometimes a mixture of English and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach, principal Symonds said, is to gradually build up these kids’ mental ability to learn two languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In kindergarten, the instruction is 90 percent in Spanish and 10 percent in English, Symonds said. The amount of instruction in English gradually increases each year as students progress through elementary school, until roughly half of class time is spent in English and half in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re immersing them in two languages,” he said. “We’re looking at the long-term picture of student achievement. The gains, we’re not going to start seeing until the upper grades and into high school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current bilingual education limits, Symonds said, are like a timer that forces kids to sink or swim in their new language without the lifeline of their native language. 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That’s why we dedicated a special edition of our broadcast last week to exploring challenges Latino youth face when it comes to education, jobs and financial security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a collaboration with NPR called \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/a-nation-engaged/\" target=\"_blank\">A Nation Engaged\u003c/a>, about unlocking economic opportunities for more Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met UC students mired in debt, a teen who has to take a long bus ride to get on the internet and a young single mom who’s struggling to get her GED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/02/when-a-jobs-not-enough-to-get-you-off-food-stamps/\" target=\"_blank\">When a Job’s Not Enough to Get You Off Food Stamps\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11120016 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Lupe-800x523.jpg\" alt='“I need to get this diploma,” says Guadalupe Beltran. “I need to get this out of the way, it’s like a big ol’ stone that’s right there. 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But first, she needs to get her GED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I need to get this diploma,\" says Beltran. “I need to get this out of the way, it’s like a big ole’ stone that’s right there. 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But now he’s saddled with $45,000 in debt. Experts say if current trends in tuition increases persist, the University of California will become the most expensive public higher education system in the country. We hear from four UC alums and students -- from the 1950s to the present -- about the evolving promise of a free college education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely is a scary thought to think about. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's 8:30 a.m. and the sun is already heating up the artificial turf at Banning High School's football field. Some 70 ninth- and 10th-graders line up on their stomachs for pushups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of these kids, the \"pushup ready\" pose looks like a cross between an aborted yoga position and a nap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Come on! Butts down, hips off the ground, shoulders over your hand!\" barks Los Angeles Fire Capt. Eddie Marez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Down!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One, sir!\" the sleepy students shout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Didn't say 'up' yet. Start all over!\" Marez yells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, dressed in blue T-shirts and shorts that say \"LAFD Academy,\" try again in unison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most students don't make it to 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning workout at this school in L.A.'s Wilmington neighborhood is part of two new LAFD magnet school programs. The department hopes to inspire future firefighters or emergency medical technicians — and recruit more women and minorities — in a department that remains nearly 97 percent male and about 50 percent white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, L.A. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/story/trying-change-fdnys-longstanding-lack-diversity/\">isn't alone\u003c/a>. Nationally, the firefighting ranks are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfpa.org/news-and-research/fire-statistics-and-reports/fire-statistics/the-fire-service/administration/firefighting-occupations-by-women-and-race\">largely white and overwhelmingly male\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We provide a better level of service to the public when we walk into somebody's home for a medical call, and if they see a female or a Hispanic or an Asian person, they can connect with us better,\" says L.A. Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas. \"It's not only a challenge for the Los Angeles Fire Department, it's a challenge for all fire departments: We are all competing to hire from a very small population of females\" who want to join the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're trying to excite students about a career in firefighting or emergency response, it doesn't hurt to fire up Engine 38 and simulate battling a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the parking lot near Banning High's football field, Marez barks: \"Let's go ladies, let's put this fire out!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117233\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gail Sonoda (R), an instructor and firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department, teaches young cadets how to work a hydrant.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gail Sonoda (R), an instructor and firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department, teaches young cadets how to work a hydrant. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jessica Melgoza, 14, and a friend get ready to let rip with a large fire hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You got about 100 pounds here between the two of you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, God!\" Melgoza says, apprehensively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're gonna be just fine,\" the veteran fire captain cautions. \"Open it up nice and slow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls tighten their grip on the hose. As the water shoots out, they pull the large nozzle back slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt awesome! This is something I've wanted to do for a while,\" Melgoza says afterward. \"Pretty heavy. I think it weighs more than me!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgoza, a freshman, says she's interested in a career as a first responder. Maybe fire, maybe law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask her if she's concerned that it's a male-dominated field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" she says quickly. \"There is a lady trying to become president now. No one thought that could happen. And I think girls have the same opportunity to do anything guys can do. I mean, we have a firefighter right here that's a woman!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's talking about Gail Sonoda, an instructor — and firefighter — here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something like this can be very empowering for young females,\" Sonoda says. It can build a foundation of confidence, she adds, \"that they can do something guys can do, not only firefighting but anything else they set their minds to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Banning High, 21 of the 74 firefighter cadets are female. Across town at Wilson High — the other LAFD magnet program — one-quarter are female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117236\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"OK, who's next?\" Sonoda asks a group of girls huddled around a fire hydrant for a lesson on how to use a hydrant wrench. \"Who's the strongest here?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructors offer the sweaty students a tough-love mix of PE teacher and drill sergeant as groups race each other across the field carrying heavy fire hoses: \"Run run run! Good job. Hustle up!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workouts aren't for show. It's a huge part of this program, which includes CPR, first aid, and fire science and technology classes, in addition to the regular high school curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact is, Sonoda says, when adult recruits wash out of the L.A. fire academy -- especially females -- it's usually during the strenuous boot camp, where candidates have to wrestle ladders, tools, equipment and hoses, wearing full work gear during simulated fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hands-on portion, it's a lot of skills involved,\" Sonoda explains. \"And if they are able to be strong physically,\" then learning those skills early is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The magnet program, \"encourages me to do better in school, to stay focused,\" says 15-year-old Wendy Gomez. For now, anyway, she's determined to forge a career as a first responder. \"If I become a firefighter I'll be the first one in my family. They're very supportive. [They] tell me, 'Don't give up.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the program who may end up later trying to get into the department's training academy \"are going to have a huge leg up on other candidates by knowing everything the way L.A. City does what they do,\" Capt. Marez says. \"We're introducing tools and equipment, our department's organizations and our terminology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a fire truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-1180x1194.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a firetruck. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's not clear is whether the program's academic quality will match the technical and physical sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The preliminary results show that the grades -- across the board -- have increased with these kids,\" says Terrazas, \"because they feel part of a team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operative word there is preliminary. It's far too soon to tell. The LAFD's two magnet programs have been up and running only since August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"State%20law%20forbids%20governments%20from%20setting%20hiring%20quotas%20for%20women%20and%20minorities,%20and%20city%20officials%20say%20programs%20such%20as%20the%20new%20magnet%20school%20are%20the%20best%20hope%20of%20increasing%20future%20diversity%20by%20enticing%20more%20members%20of%20underrepresented%20groups%20to%20apply.\">California law\u003c/a>, government agencies can't set hiring quotas for women and minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Terrazas sees these fire magnet programs as key to boosting diversity in the ranks. He plans to add two more firefighting magnet programs next year. \"My vision for the future is that we develop a feeder pool so that we can set (the students) on the right course for whatever they do life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terrazas knows that, in all likelihood, only a small percentage of these students are likely to end up as firefighters or EMTs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I look at the bigger picture,\" the chief adds. \"If we don't hire them as firefighters, we are going to develop better citizens. We are going to help them, hopefully, pursue education. Go to college, the military. Whatever they decide to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Nationally, the firefighting ranks are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfpa.org/news-and-research/fire-statistics-and-reports/fire-statistics/the-fire-service/administration/firefighting-occupations-by-women-and-race\">largely white and overwhelmingly male\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We provide a better level of service to the public when we walk into somebody's home for a medical call, and if they see a female or a Hispanic or an Asian person, they can connect with us better,\" says L.A. 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As the water shoots out, they pull the large nozzle back slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt awesome! This is something I've wanted to do for a while,\" Melgoza says afterward. \"Pretty heavy. I think it weighs more than me!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgoza, a freshman, says she's interested in a career as a first responder. Maybe fire, maybe law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask her if she's concerned that it's a male-dominated field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" she says quickly. \"There is a lady trying to become president now. No one thought that could happen. And I think girls have the same opportunity to do anything guys can do. I mean, we have a firefighter right here that's a woman!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's talking about Gail Sonoda, an instructor — and firefighter — here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something like this can be very empowering for young females,\" Sonoda says. It can build a foundation of confidence, she adds, \"that they can do something guys can do, not only firefighting but anything else they set their minds to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Banning High, 21 of the 74 firefighter cadets are female. Across town at Wilson High — the other LAFD magnet program — one-quarter are female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117236\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"OK, who's next?\" Sonoda asks a group of girls huddled around a fire hydrant for a lesson on how to use a hydrant wrench. \"Who's the strongest here?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructors offer the sweaty students a tough-love mix of PE teacher and drill sergeant as groups race each other across the field carrying heavy fire hoses: \"Run run run! Good job. Hustle up!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workouts aren't for show. It's a huge part of this program, which includes CPR, first aid, and fire science and technology classes, in addition to the regular high school curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact is, Sonoda says, when adult recruits wash out of the L.A. fire academy -- especially females -- it's usually during the strenuous boot camp, where candidates have to wrestle ladders, tools, equipment and hoses, wearing full work gear during simulated fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hands-on portion, it's a lot of skills involved,\" Sonoda explains. \"And if they are able to be strong physically,\" then learning those skills early is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The magnet program, \"encourages me to do better in school, to stay focused,\" says 15-year-old Wendy Gomez. For now, anyway, she's determined to forge a career as a first responder. \"If I become a firefighter I'll be the first one in my family. They're very supportive. [They] tell me, 'Don't give up.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the program who may end up later trying to get into the department's training academy \"are going to have a huge leg up on other candidates by knowing everything the way L.A. City does what they do,\" Capt. Marez says. \"We're introducing tools and equipment, our department's organizations and our terminology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a fire truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-1180x1194.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a firetruck. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's not clear is whether the program's academic quality will match the technical and physical sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The preliminary results show that the grades -- across the board -- have increased with these kids,\" says Terrazas, \"because they feel part of a team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operative word there is preliminary. It's far too soon to tell. The LAFD's two magnet programs have been up and running only since August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"State%20law%20forbids%20governments%20from%20setting%20hiring%20quotas%20for%20women%20and%20minorities,%20and%20city%20officials%20say%20programs%20such%20as%20the%20new%20magnet%20school%20are%20the%20best%20hope%20of%20increasing%20future%20diversity%20by%20enticing%20more%20members%20of%20underrepresented%20groups%20to%20apply.\">California law\u003c/a>, government agencies can't set hiring quotas for women and minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Terrazas sees these fire magnet programs as key to boosting diversity in the ranks. He plans to add two more firefighting magnet programs next year. \"My vision for the future is that we develop a feeder pool so that we can set (the students) on the right course for whatever they do life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terrazas knows that, in all likelihood, only a small percentage of these students are likely to end up as firefighters or EMTs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I look at the bigger picture,\" the chief adds. \"If we don't hire them as firefighters, we are going to develop better citizens. We are going to help them, hopefully, pursue education. Go to college, the military. Whatever they decide to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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