window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"news_12055487": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12055487",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12055487",
"found": true
},
"title": "250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03248_TV-KQED",
"publishDate": 1757538449,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1757975671,
"caption": "Tina De Vera (left) and Justin Chaudoin (right), parents who are vocal about the impact of school district changes on their children, pose for a portrait at Ruskin Elementary School in San José on Sept. 9, 2025. Parents in San José say school consolidations have caused chaos on campus, leading to unsafe traffic and hurried school lunches.",
"credit": "Tâm Vũ/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03248_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03248_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03248_TV-KQED-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03248_TV-KQED-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03248_TV-KQED.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_12056142": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12056142",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12056142",
"found": true
},
"title": "250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-14-BL_qed",
"publishDate": 1758053033,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 12056118,
"modified": 1758055544,
"caption": "A student holds a sign during a rally in Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley, on March 19, 2025, to protest the Trump administration's scrutiny of campus protests and curriculum nationwide. ",
"credit": "Beth LaBerge/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-14-BL_qed-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-14-BL_qed-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-14-BL_qed.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_12055839": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12055839",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12055839",
"found": true
},
"title": "250912-FREE BOOKS FROM DOLLY PARTON-MD-08-KQED-1",
"publishDate": 1757717558,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1757717569,
"caption": "Mayor Daniel Lurie reads a children's book to a group of children at the Main Library in San Francisco at an event celebrating a new partnership between city officials and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library on Sept. 12, 2025.",
"credit": "Martin do Nascimento/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-08-KQED-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-08-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1025,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-08-KQED-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-08-KQED-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-08-KQED-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1334
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_12016604": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12016604",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12016604",
"found": true
},
"title": "The UC Berkeley Campus in Berkeley on Aug. 17, 2023.",
"publishDate": 1733334753,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 12016602,
"modified": 1733334766,
"caption": "The UC Berkeley Campus in Berkeley on Aug. 17, 2023.",
"credit": "Martin do Nascimento/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_12035840": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12035840",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12035840",
"found": true
},
"title": "061121_SummerSchool_AW_CM_06",
"publishDate": 1744574510,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 12035838,
"modified": 1746053532,
"caption": "Rising first graders walk to their classroom at the start of the day during summer session at Laurel Elementary in Oakland on June 11, 2021. ",
"credit": "Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters",
"altTag": "The bottom half of several children on a concrete playground with yellow chalk outlining numbers and letters is shown.",
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/061121_SummerSchool_AW_CM_06-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/061121_SummerSchool_AW_CM_06-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/061121_SummerSchool_AW_CM_06-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/061121_SummerSchool_AW_CM_06-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/061121_SummerSchool_AW_CM_06-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/061121_SummerSchool_AW_CM_06-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/061121_SummerSchool_AW_CM_06-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/061121_SummerSchool_AW_CM_06.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_12055511": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12055511",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12055511",
"found": true
},
"title": "CommunityCollegeFreeMeal1",
"publishDate": 1757542108,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 12055457,
"modified": 1757542146,
"caption": "Santa Clara County’s West Valley-Mission Community College District is providing one no-cost meal per day to every student in an effort to address food insecurity. ",
"credit": "Courtesy of Haley Tabor/West Valley College",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal1-160x120.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 120,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal1-1536x1153.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1153,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1501
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_12054963": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12054963",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12054963",
"found": true
},
"title": "250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-KQED",
"publishDate": 1757110575,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1757110601,
"caption": "Alexander Ybarra, an 11th grader at Coliseum College Prep Academy, leads classmates in a walkout against gun violence on Sept. 5, 2025.",
"credit": "Gustavo Hernandez/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-KQED-1536x1025.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1025,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-KQED-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-KQED-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-KQED.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1334
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_12051869": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12051869",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12051869",
"found": true
},
"title": "250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed",
"publishDate": 1755024187,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 12051862,
"modified": 1755024198,
"caption": "The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025.",
"credit": "Beth LaBerge/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_12054023": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12054023",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12054023",
"found": true
},
"title": "250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-04-BL-KQED",
"publishDate": 1756338810,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1756338960,
"caption": "Laly Cervantes, master head teacher for infant programs at the North Bay Children’s Center, works with young children at the Novato location on Aug. 27, 2025.",
"credit": "Beth LaBerge/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-04-BL-KQED-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-04-BL-KQED-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-04-BL-KQED.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_12053962": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12053962",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12053962",
"found": true
},
"title": "20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool 172_qed",
"publishDate": 1756333041,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 12053938,
"modified": 1756401471,
"caption": "A sign outside Adelante Dual Language Academy is pictured in San José, California, on June 8, 2023. Records obtained by KQED show a music teacher arrested this year for sexually abusing 10 students at Adelante Academy had complaints at a different school for inappropriately touching students before he was transferred.",
"credit": "Kori Suzuki/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-172_qed-160x106.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 106,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-172_qed-1536x1022.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1022,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-172_qed-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-172_qed-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-172_qed.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1331
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_12053836": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12053836",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12053836",
"found": true
},
"title": "An activist seen holding a placard that says keep your laws",
"publishDate": 1756250193,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 12053640,
"modified": 1756323141,
"caption": "Women's rights activists in Los Angeles on May 21, 2019, protested against restrictions on abortions after Alabama passed the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S.",
"credit": "Ronen Tivony/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SexEducationGetty-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SexEducationGetty-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SexEducationGetty-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SexEducationGetty-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SexEducationGetty.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_12053747": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12053747",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12053747",
"found": true
},
"title": "250818-SFUSDFirstDay-20_qed",
"publishDate": 1756229825,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 12053745,
"modified": 1756229850,
"caption": "Superintendent Maria Su speaks to students at Sanchez Elementary School on the first day of classes for the new school year in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 2025.",
"credit": "Beth LaBerge/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-20_qed-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-20_qed-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-20_qed-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-20_qed-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-20_qed.jpg",
"width": 1999,
"height": 1333
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false,
"liveAudioPlayStartedAt": 0,
"liveAudioPlayContext": ""
},
"authorsReducer": {
"hmcdede": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11635",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11635",
"found": true
},
"name": "Holly McDede",
"firstName": "Holly",
"lastName": "McDede",
"slug": "hmcdede",
"email": "hmcdede@KQED.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": null,
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/999d9bf31bb3a2f0511932d99526cb3e?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"edit_others_posts",
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "perspectives",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Holly McDede | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/999d9bf31bb3a2f0511932d99526cb3e?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/999d9bf31bb3a2f0511932d99526cb3e?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/hmcdede"
},
"nnavarro": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11756",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11756",
"found": true
},
"name": "Natalia Navarro",
"firstName": "Natalia",
"lastName": "Navarro",
"slug": "nnavarro",
"email": "nnavarro@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Afternoon News Anchor",
"bio": "Natalia Navarro is KQED's afternoon radio news anchor. She came to KQED in 2021 from Colorado Public Radio, where she was a reporter and host. She has received several awards for her work covering daily and breaking news from professional organizations such as the San Francisco Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists and the Colorado Broadcasters Association. Natalia is originally from Tucson, Arizona, where she got her start in journalism writing for the Arizona Daily Star, Arizona Public Media and the Tucson Weekly. Natalia earned her bachelor's degree in journalism and economics, and her master's degree in journalism from the University of Arizona.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a2bdb19fd9520bdea295a2d5f9b2ad65ec51cf0bf559fb1cc041d3a0a04d62ad?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "@NataliaVNavarro",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Natalia Navarro | KQED",
"description": "Afternoon News Anchor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a2bdb19fd9520bdea295a2d5f9b2ad65ec51cf0bf559fb1cc041d3a0a04d62ad?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a2bdb19fd9520bdea295a2d5f9b2ad65ec51cf0bf559fb1cc041d3a0a04d62ad?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/nnavarro"
},
"adahlstromeckman": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11785",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11785",
"found": true
},
"name": "Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman",
"firstName": "Azul",
"lastName": "Dahlstrom-Eckman",
"slug": "adahlstromeckman",
"email": "adahlstrom-eckman@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "Reporter",
"bio": "Azul is a reporter for KQED focusing on transportation and features. He joined KQED in 2021 as an alumna of KALW's Audio Academy radio journalism training program.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9cb750298435add7815a777f55bf1f46845c1386bb8452555c60a7b820b5aba3?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "@zuliemann",
"bluesky": "@azul415.bsky.social",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman | KQED",
"description": "Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9cb750298435add7815a777f55bf1f46845c1386bb8452555c60a7b820b5aba3?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9cb750298435add7815a777f55bf1f46845c1386bb8452555c60a7b820b5aba3?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/adahlstromeckman"
},
"ibloom": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11805",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11805",
"found": true
},
"name": "Izzy Bloom",
"firstName": "Izzy",
"lastName": "Bloom",
"slug": "ibloom",
"email": "ibloom@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "KQED Reporter & Producer",
"bio": "Izzy is a reporter and producer on KQED's California Politics & Government Desk. She joined the desk in 2024 to produce Political Breakdown, covering local and national elections and attending the RNC and DNC in Milwaukee and Chicago. \r\n\r\nBefore that, Izzy was a producer on The California Report and reported long-form stories for The California Report Magazine. She was a finalist for the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition and was awarded for her reporting on indigenous land back by the Society of Professional Journalists. Izzy received her master's in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc4d272ca430783ee1a8efac470a6b1e0fdd082c3beb61da019801d0ff751c8c?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "perspectives",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Izzy Bloom | KQED",
"description": "KQED Reporter & Producer",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc4d272ca430783ee1a8efac470a6b1e0fdd082c3beb61da019801d0ff751c8c?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc4d272ca430783ee1a8efac470a6b1e0fdd082c3beb61da019801d0ff751c8c?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/ibloom"
},
"daisynguyen": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11829",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11829",
"found": true
},
"name": "Daisy Nguyen",
"firstName": "Daisy",
"lastName": "Nguyen",
"slug": "daisynguyen",
"email": "daisynguyen@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "I have covered early childhood education and child care for KQED since 2022. I focus on policies aimed at increasing access to early care and education and how they shape individual lives. I've been a journalist for more than two decades, with most of that time devoted to covering breaking news throughout California for The Associated Press. I grew up in San Francisco and studied at UC Davis and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. I live in Oakland with my husband and two kids.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2da2127c27f7143b53ebd419800fd55f?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/daisynguyen/",
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Daisy Nguyen | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2da2127c27f7143b53ebd419800fd55f?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2da2127c27f7143b53ebd419800fd55f?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/daisynguyen"
},
"kdebenedetti": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11913",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11913",
"found": true
},
"name": "Katie DeBenedetti",
"firstName": "Katie",
"lastName": "DeBenedetti",
"slug": "kdebenedetti",
"email": "kdebenedetti@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news",
"science"
],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Katie DeBenedetti is a digital reporter covering daily news for the Express Desk. Prior to joining KQED as a culture reporting intern in January 2024, she covered education and city government for the Napa Valley Register.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6e31073cb8f7e4214ab03f42771d0f45?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Katie DeBenedetti | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6e31073cb8f7e4214ab03f42771d0f45?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6e31073cb8f7e4214ab03f42771d0f45?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/kdebenedetti"
},
"bkrans": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11923",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11923",
"found": true
},
"name": "Brian Krans",
"firstName": "Brian",
"lastName": "Krans",
"slug": "bkrans",
"email": "bkrans@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "KQED Contributing Reporter",
"bio": "Brian Krans is an award-winning local news and investigative reporter who has been proudly working as a general assignment reporter for KQED since August 2023. He lives in Richmond, where he also reports on air pollution for Richmondside. He is also a founding member of the Vallejo Sun.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d1014d604089314a94807d2c4f2d3e06?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "citizenkrans",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Brian Krans | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributing Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d1014d604089314a94807d2c4f2d3e06?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d1014d604089314a94807d2c4f2d3e06?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/bkrans"
},
"emanoukian": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11925",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11925",
"found": true
},
"name": "Elize Manoukian",
"firstName": "Elize",
"lastName": "Manoukian",
"slug": "emanoukian",
"email": "emanoukian@KQED.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Digital Producer",
"bio": null,
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4525f1a8e46ccb30933b32653d9772064cfefe3fa655eb45b3b3a80341f6bdad?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Elize Manoukian | KQED",
"description": "Digital Producer",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4525f1a8e46ccb30933b32653d9772064cfefe3fa655eb45b3b3a80341f6bdad?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4525f1a8e46ccb30933b32653d9772064cfefe3fa655eb45b3b3a80341f6bdad?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/emanoukian"
},
"gzada": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11929",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11929",
"found": true
},
"name": "Gilare Zada",
"firstName": "Gilare",
"lastName": "Zada",
"slug": "gzada",
"email": "gzada@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": null,
"bio": "Gilare Zada is a Kurdish-American from San Diego, CA. Storytelling, fitness, and binge reading are some of her passions outside of news reporting. Her work has appeared in Mission Local, the Peninsula Press, the San Francisco Press Club, and more. She also writes as a class correspondent for the Stanford Magazine - go Card!",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33a75f2b947669a488a805edec3fbf3838c1cedaedda710e983770633b4d6a75?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Gilare Zada | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33a75f2b947669a488a805edec3fbf3838c1cedaedda710e983770633b4d6a75?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33a75f2b947669a488a805edec3fbf3838c1cedaedda710e983770633b4d6a75?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/gzada"
}
},
"pagesReducer": {
"news_category_education": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18540",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18540",
"score": 10.969002
},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Education",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Education Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2595,
"slug": "education",
"isLoading": false,
"title": "Education",
"pageMeta": {
"site": "news",
"WpPageTemplate": "page-topic-editorial",
"currentPage": 16
},
"blocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/post-list",
"attrs": {
"layout": "cardArticle2",
"query": "posts/news?category=education",
"seeMore": false,
"paginated": true,
"page": 16
}
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/ad"
}
]
}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"news_12055955": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12055955",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12055955",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1758117642000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "parents-say-lunch-recess-changes-at-san-jose-school-leave-kids-hungry-confused",
"title": "Parents Say Lunch, Recess Changes at San José School Leave Kids Hungry, Confused",
"publishDate": 1758117642,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Parents Say Lunch, Recess Changes at San José School Leave Kids Hungry, Confused | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>When the school year began at Ruskin Elementary School in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> last month, students returned to a changed campus. Enrollment nearly doubled, from about 370 to more than 700, after a nearby elementary school closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Cherrywood Elementary students — from one of three Berryessa Union schools shuttered amid declining enrollment — transferred to Ruskin. Cherrywood’s principal, its Dual Immersion Mandarin Program and its teachers also relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now parents and their children are adjusting to what several describe as a chaotic, confusing transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern was trial and error, which is what they’re doing this year with our kids,” said Tina De Vera, a Ruskin parent for more than a decade who now has two children at the school. “There wasn’t a contingency, proactive plan put in place. So now they’re just going to try and go each day and see what works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new principal for the larger student body has introduced new routines and protocols. Some of the changes have upset parents who never wanted the closures. Several said their children have been rushed through lunch to accommodate the additional students, and many worry about safety as traffic worsens during drop-off and pick-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12055486 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play at Ruskin Elementary School in San José on Sept. 9, 2025. Parents at Ruskin Elementary School in San José say school consolidations have caused chaos on campus, leading to unsafe traffic and hurried school lunches. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen three students over the course of the beginning of the school year almost get run over at crosswalks,” De Vera said. Parents are making dangerous U-turns, she added. “Cars are just illegally blocking traffic so that they can let their kids run out of their cars onto the campus. There is no order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District spokesperson Perla Rodriguez said officials remain committed to promoting safe routes to schools. As a “Walk n’ Roll District,” Rodriguez said Berryessa Union partners with San José to teach safe walking and biking skills. San José will also conduct a formal traffic study this month at the district’s request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain committed to listening with care, learning from one another, and working side by side with all of our Ruskin families,” Rodriguez said in a statement. “Together, we will build a united community that honors the strengths of both schools and ensures the very best for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School lunches and growing pains\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several parents are also concerned about the allotted time for school lunches. They said their children have felt pressure to finish meals in less than 15 minutes after sitting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Chaudoin, another Ruskin parent, said during the first week of school, his third-grade daughter came home hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Chaudoin, a parent who is vocal about the impact of school district changes on his child, poses for a portrait at Ruskin Elementary School in San José on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She was like, ‘I’m hungry, I’m hungry, I’m hungry.’ Usually, that’s her ploy to get me to take her to McDonald’s or something,” Chaudoin said. But his daughter told him she didn’t have enough time to eat, and that the staff urged students to hurry. “She said, ‘It made me nervous and angry because I wanted to eat my food, and I couldn’t. And I didn’t know what was happening. They were just telling us to leave.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education recommends students \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/sn/timetoeat.asp\">have at least 20 minutes to eat\u003c/a> lunch once seated.[aside postID=news_12053938 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-172_qed.jpg']In the school’s newsletter, Principal Tina Tong Choy wrote that Ruskin is now feeding more than 700 students in under two hours, and students who need more time may stay to finish their meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another practice unsettling some parents is a recess protocol where students are told to “freeze” when the bell rings. Some children thought they were supposed to sit, squat or kneel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that is not a norm for Ruskin and is a norm now should have been communicated ahead of time, especially things like this,” parent Jessica Bustos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez, the district spokesperson, said routines for recess and lunch breaks are still new and evolving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the school newsletter, Tong Choy acknowledged “growing pains,” adding that what worked last year “may or may not work for our school community now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t an overnight change, but one that gets better and smoother day by day,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bringing Mandarin Immersion to a new home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Cherrywood Elementary closed, parents pushed to keep it open and preserve its \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/dual-immersion-programs-show-promise-in-fighting-enrollment-declines/677296\">Mandarin Immersion program\u003c/a>, built from the ground up since 2018. Parent Karen Khasymska joined the push to keep Cherrywood open, collaborating with others on a paper arguing enrollment was strong and moving the program would disrupt its success and future district funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Cherrywood closed, she prepared to enroll her daughter at Ruskin for the second grade, encouraged that many classmates would transfer too. Her optimism faded when she learned her daughter would be placed in a “combination class” with first graders because other second-grade classes were full. She transferred her daughter to a private school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03267_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03267_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03267_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03267_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruskin Elementary School stands on 1401 Turlock Lane in San José on Sept. 9, 2025. Parents at Ruskin Elementary School in San José say school consolidations have caused chaos on campus, leading to unsafe traffic and hurried school lunches. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We wanted our public school to work out for us,” Khasymska said. “It was disappointing and certainly a lot of scrambling that first week. We had to consider a Plan B that we hadn’t thought we’d have to consider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khasymska said she knows other Cherrywood families who turned to private schools. “Things are happening at such an accelerated rate or they’re not giving the teachers or school administration the chance to plan or think things through or look at their numbers,” Khasymska said. “I think there was just so much happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all parents describe the same disruption. Former Cherrywood parent Chandan Bhat said the school year at Ruskin has been “so far, so good” for his third-grade son.[aside postID=news_12040597 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-010_qed-1-1020x679.jpg']“He’s still in the Mandarin Immersion program. His teachers haven’t changed, his classmates haven’t changed, even the principal for Ruskin [was] the principal at Cherrywood,” Bhat said. “So in some sense, some things have changed, but a lot of the things are the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the program, both his daughter and son are learning Mandarin, achieving success in competitions and making him proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His main concern is the traffic, which he hopes will be addressed soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez said Berryessa Union is now on a stronger financial footing and the budget has stabilized after closures and other fiscal measures. She said funding can fluctuate with state allocations and enrollment trends, but there are “currently no plans for additional closures in the near future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, public school enrollment \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041122/california-public-school-enrollment-continues-post-pandemic-decline\">continues to decline\u003c/a> due to lower birth rates, families moving out of state and rising private and home school enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means more school districts will face the challenge of closing and consolidating schools — and doing so without breaking parents’ trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "After Cherrywood Elementary in San José closed, families at Ruskin Elementary say the consolidation brought traffic hazards and abrupt policy shifts that disrupted daily routines. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1758113722,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 29,
"wordCount": 1331
},
"headData": {
"title": "Parents Say Lunch, Recess Changes at San José School Leave Kids Hungry, Confused | KQED",
"description": "After Cherrywood Elementary in San José closed, families at Ruskin Elementary say the consolidation brought traffic hazards and abrupt policy shifts that disrupted daily routines. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Parents Say Lunch, Recess Changes at San José School Leave Kids Hungry, Confused",
"datePublished": "2025-09-17T07:00:42-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-09-17T05:55:22-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 18540,
"slug": "education",
"name": "Education"
},
"sticky": false,
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12055955/parents-say-lunch-recess-changes-at-san-jose-school-leave-kids-hungry-confused",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When the school year began at Ruskin Elementary School in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> last month, students returned to a changed campus. Enrollment nearly doubled, from about 370 to more than 700, after a nearby elementary school closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Cherrywood Elementary students — from one of three Berryessa Union schools shuttered amid declining enrollment — transferred to Ruskin. Cherrywood’s principal, its Dual Immersion Mandarin Program and its teachers also relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now parents and their children are adjusting to what several describe as a chaotic, confusing transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern was trial and error, which is what they’re doing this year with our kids,” said Tina De Vera, a Ruskin parent for more than a decade who now has two children at the school. “There wasn’t a contingency, proactive plan put in place. So now they’re just going to try and go each day and see what works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new principal for the larger student body has introduced new routines and protocols. Some of the changes have upset parents who never wanted the closures. Several said their children have been rushed through lunch to accommodate the additional students, and many worry about safety as traffic worsens during drop-off and pick-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12055486 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play at Ruskin Elementary School in San José on Sept. 9, 2025. Parents at Ruskin Elementary School in San José say school consolidations have caused chaos on campus, leading to unsafe traffic and hurried school lunches. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen three students over the course of the beginning of the school year almost get run over at crosswalks,” De Vera said. Parents are making dangerous U-turns, she added. “Cars are just illegally blocking traffic so that they can let their kids run out of their cars onto the campus. There is no order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District spokesperson Perla Rodriguez said officials remain committed to promoting safe routes to schools. As a “Walk n’ Roll District,” Rodriguez said Berryessa Union partners with San José to teach safe walking and biking skills. San José will also conduct a formal traffic study this month at the district’s request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain committed to listening with care, learning from one another, and working side by side with all of our Ruskin families,” Rodriguez said in a statement. “Together, we will build a united community that honors the strengths of both schools and ensures the very best for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School lunches and growing pains\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several parents are also concerned about the allotted time for school lunches. They said their children have felt pressure to finish meals in less than 15 minutes after sitting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Chaudoin, another Ruskin parent, said during the first week of school, his third-grade daughter came home hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Chaudoin, a parent who is vocal about the impact of school district changes on his child, poses for a portrait at Ruskin Elementary School in San José on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She was like, ‘I’m hungry, I’m hungry, I’m hungry.’ Usually, that’s her ploy to get me to take her to McDonald’s or something,” Chaudoin said. But his daughter told him she didn’t have enough time to eat, and that the staff urged students to hurry. “She said, ‘It made me nervous and angry because I wanted to eat my food, and I couldn’t. And I didn’t know what was happening. They were just telling us to leave.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education recommends students \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/sn/timetoeat.asp\">have at least 20 minutes to eat\u003c/a> lunch once seated.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_12053938",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-172_qed.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the school’s newsletter, Principal Tina Tong Choy wrote that Ruskin is now feeding more than 700 students in under two hours, and students who need more time may stay to finish their meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another practice unsettling some parents is a recess protocol where students are told to “freeze” when the bell rings. Some children thought they were supposed to sit, squat or kneel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that is not a norm for Ruskin and is a norm now should have been communicated ahead of time, especially things like this,” parent Jessica Bustos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez, the district spokesperson, said routines for recess and lunch breaks are still new and evolving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the school newsletter, Tong Choy acknowledged “growing pains,” adding that what worked last year “may or may not work for our school community now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t an overnight change, but one that gets better and smoother day by day,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bringing Mandarin Immersion to a new home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Cherrywood Elementary closed, parents pushed to keep it open and preserve its \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/dual-immersion-programs-show-promise-in-fighting-enrollment-declines/677296\">Mandarin Immersion program\u003c/a>, built from the ground up since 2018. Parent Karen Khasymska joined the push to keep Cherrywood open, collaborating with others on a paper arguing enrollment was strong and moving the program would disrupt its success and future district funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Cherrywood closed, she prepared to enroll her daughter at Ruskin for the second grade, encouraged that many classmates would transfer too. Her optimism faded when she learned her daughter would be placed in a “combination class” with first graders because other second-grade classes were full. She transferred her daughter to a private school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03267_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03267_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03267_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03267_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruskin Elementary School stands on 1401 Turlock Lane in San José on Sept. 9, 2025. Parents at Ruskin Elementary School in San José say school consolidations have caused chaos on campus, leading to unsafe traffic and hurried school lunches. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We wanted our public school to work out for us,” Khasymska said. “It was disappointing and certainly a lot of scrambling that first week. We had to consider a Plan B that we hadn’t thought we’d have to consider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khasymska said she knows other Cherrywood families who turned to private schools. “Things are happening at such an accelerated rate or they’re not giving the teachers or school administration the chance to plan or think things through or look at their numbers,” Khasymska said. “I think there was just so much happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all parents describe the same disruption. Former Cherrywood parent Chandan Bhat said the school year at Ruskin has been “so far, so good” for his third-grade son.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_12040597",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-010_qed-1-1020x679.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He’s still in the Mandarin Immersion program. His teachers haven’t changed, his classmates haven’t changed, even the principal for Ruskin [was] the principal at Cherrywood,” Bhat said. “So in some sense, some things have changed, but a lot of the things are the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the program, both his daughter and son are learning Mandarin, achieving success in competitions and making him proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His main concern is the traffic, which he hopes will be addressed soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez said Berryessa Union is now on a stronger financial footing and the budget has stabilized after closures and other fiscal measures. She said funding can fluctuate with state allocations and enrollment trends, but there are “currently no plans for additional closures in the near future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, public school enrollment \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041122/california-public-school-enrollment-continues-post-pandemic-decline\">continues to decline\u003c/a> due to lower birth rates, families moving out of state and rising private and home school enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means more school districts will face the challenge of closing and consolidating schools — and doing so without breaking parents’ trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12055955/parents-say-lunch-recess-changes-at-san-jose-school-leave-kids-hungry-confused",
"authors": [
"11635"
],
"categories": [
"news_31795",
"news_18540",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_1386",
"news_3854",
"news_18538",
"news_20013",
"news_27626",
"news_18541",
"news_21285"
],
"featImg": "news_12055487",
"label": "news"
},
"news_12056118": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12056118",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12056118",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1758054301000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "uc-labor-groups-sue-trump-over-coercive-antisemitism-investigations-and-demands",
"title": "UC Labor Groups Sue Trump Over ‘Coercive’ Antisemitism Investigations and Demands",
"publishDate": 1758054301,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "UC Labor Groups Sue Trump Over ‘Coercive’ Antisemitism Investigations and Demands | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>A coalition of labor groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over what they called the use of civil rights laws as a “coercive cudgel” to attack the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/university-of-california\">University of California\u003c/a> system and the rights of union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal complaint, filed in San Francisco, followed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051300/trump-administration-targeting-ucla-with-half-a-billion-dollars-funding-freeze\">Trump administration’s August settlement proposal\u003c/a> to UCLA that included a $1.2 billion fine over allegations that the university ignored antisemitism on campus. It also comes as the government continues to investigate allegations of antisemitism and demands information from several campuses, including UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the White House’s 28-page proposal to UCLA has not been made public, the settlement includes a series of demands that would drastically overhaul university policies around admissions, gender and diversity, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-15/trump-doj-proposed-settlement-demand-letter-ucla-university-of-california\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under the pretense of addressing antisemitism at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Trump administration has demanded terms that would violate the constitutionally protected free speech and association rights of faculty, students, and staff and fundamentally remake the UC system to align with the president’s ideology,” the labor groups wrote in a press release on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the groups, the Trump administration’s demands include restricting campus protest rights, as well as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Unfettered government access to faculty, student and staff data\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An official statement that the UC does not recognize transgender identity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A ban on gender inclusive restrooms and locker rooms\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The cessation of gender affirming care for minors\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An end to diversity scholarships\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cooperation with immigration enforcement, which appears to include giving ICE access to UC hospitals\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The creation of viewpoint policies for the admission of international students.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestine protesters attempt to block a counterprotester with an Israeli flag at UCLA on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Attendees rallied to protest ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University last year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Labor leaders called the Trump administration’s move the most aggressive that they had seen out of the White House, targeting academic freedom so far, and said it threatened the rights of employees and students across the state, not just at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stand by as the Trump administration tries to destroy one of the largest public university higher education systems in the country and bludgeons academic freedom at the University of California, the heart of the revered free speech movement,” Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, said in a statement. “In this historic lawsuit, faculty, students, and staff walk together to fight the authoritarian takeover of our universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wide-ranging coalition backing the lawsuit includes the AAUP, the American Federation of Teachers, as well as the faculty associations at all 10 UC campuses and a group of other labor unions. It collectively represents tens of thousands of faculty, students and staff working at UCs across the state.[aside postID=forum_2010101910908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/08/UCLA.png']“Agreeing to this settlement would be devastating for researchers, healthcare workers, and the whole UC community,” Ursula Quinn, an occupational therapist at UCLA, said in the statement. “We’re already understaffed and under-resourced. Surrendering this money to Trump would send a terrible moral signal to people who work here and could trickle down to impact patient care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten pushed back against the idea that the settlement was intended to “eradicate antisemitism” on campuses, rather than an act of retaliation against the UC system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: we should tackle antisemitism and other acts of hate and discrimination. But these illegal demands on the University of California are intended to punish an esteemed institution by crippling economic opportunity and hindering the open pursuit of knowledge,” Weingarten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/letter-president-james-b-milliken-uc-community\">letter \u003c/a>to the UC community on Monday, UC President James Milliken acknowledged the administration’s investigations in various stages across all 10 campuses — including an ongoing probe at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055827/uc-berkeley-gives-trump-administration-160-names-in-antisemitism-investigation\">UC Berkeley, which turned over 160 names\u003c/a> of staff and students accused of antisemitism last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal action against the UC system — as California’s second-largest employer, with a presence in every county in the state — could ripple across the state’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is that we are in uncharted waters. Our top priority now is protecting this institution — its resources, its mission and its values — for the sake of everyone we serve,” Milliken wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday and Wednesday, UC’s board of regents will meet in San Francisco to discuss the ongoing threats and negotiations with the Trump administration. While the UC system has not filed its own lawsuit, the AAUP’s hope is that the labor groups’ action will “empower the University of California to defend their rights in court,” said Veena Dubal, AAUP’s counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco, comes as the Trump administration seeks a $1.2 billion fine and a series of demands against UCLA, and amid investigations at other UC schools.\r\n",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1758081195,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 16,
"wordCount": 853
},
"headData": {
"title": "UC Labor Groups Sue Trump Over ‘Coercive’ Antisemitism Investigations and Demands | KQED",
"description": "The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco, comes as the Trump administration seeks a $1.2 billion fine and a series of demands against UCLA, and amid investigations at other UC schools.\r\n",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "UC Labor Groups Sue Trump Over ‘Coercive’ Antisemitism Investigations and Demands",
"datePublished": "2025-09-16T13:25:01-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-09-16T20:53:15-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 18540,
"slug": "education",
"name": "Education"
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12056118",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12056118/uc-labor-groups-sue-trump-over-coercive-antisemitism-investigations-and-demands",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A coalition of labor groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over what they called the use of civil rights laws as a “coercive cudgel” to attack the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/university-of-california\">University of California\u003c/a> system and the rights of union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal complaint, filed in San Francisco, followed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051300/trump-administration-targeting-ucla-with-half-a-billion-dollars-funding-freeze\">Trump administration’s August settlement proposal\u003c/a> to UCLA that included a $1.2 billion fine over allegations that the university ignored antisemitism on campus. It also comes as the government continues to investigate allegations of antisemitism and demands information from several campuses, including UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the White House’s 28-page proposal to UCLA has not been made public, the settlement includes a series of demands that would drastically overhaul university policies around admissions, gender and diversity, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-15/trump-doj-proposed-settlement-demand-letter-ucla-university-of-california\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under the pretense of addressing antisemitism at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Trump administration has demanded terms that would violate the constitutionally protected free speech and association rights of faculty, students, and staff and fundamentally remake the UC system to align with the president’s ideology,” the labor groups wrote in a press release on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the groups, the Trump administration’s demands include restricting campus protest rights, as well as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Unfettered government access to faculty, student and staff data\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An official statement that the UC does not recognize transgender identity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A ban on gender inclusive restrooms and locker rooms\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The cessation of gender affirming care for minors\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An end to diversity scholarships\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cooperation with immigration enforcement, which appears to include giving ICE access to UC hospitals\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The creation of viewpoint policies for the admission of international students.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestine protesters attempt to block a counterprotester with an Israeli flag at UCLA on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Attendees rallied to protest ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University last year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Labor leaders called the Trump administration’s move the most aggressive that they had seen out of the White House, targeting academic freedom so far, and said it threatened the rights of employees and students across the state, not just at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stand by as the Trump administration tries to destroy one of the largest public university higher education systems in the country and bludgeons academic freedom at the University of California, the heart of the revered free speech movement,” Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, said in a statement. “In this historic lawsuit, faculty, students, and staff walk together to fight the authoritarian takeover of our universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wide-ranging coalition backing the lawsuit includes the AAUP, the American Federation of Teachers, as well as the faculty associations at all 10 UC campuses and a group of other labor unions. It collectively represents tens of thousands of faculty, students and staff working at UCs across the state.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "forum_2010101910908",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/08/UCLA.png",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Agreeing to this settlement would be devastating for researchers, healthcare workers, and the whole UC community,” Ursula Quinn, an occupational therapist at UCLA, said in the statement. “We’re already understaffed and under-resourced. Surrendering this money to Trump would send a terrible moral signal to people who work here and could trickle down to impact patient care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten pushed back against the idea that the settlement was intended to “eradicate antisemitism” on campuses, rather than an act of retaliation against the UC system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: we should tackle antisemitism and other acts of hate and discrimination. But these illegal demands on the University of California are intended to punish an esteemed institution by crippling economic opportunity and hindering the open pursuit of knowledge,” Weingarten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/letter-president-james-b-milliken-uc-community\">letter \u003c/a>to the UC community on Monday, UC President James Milliken acknowledged the administration’s investigations in various stages across all 10 campuses — including an ongoing probe at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055827/uc-berkeley-gives-trump-administration-160-names-in-antisemitism-investigation\">UC Berkeley, which turned over 160 names\u003c/a> of staff and students accused of antisemitism last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal action against the UC system — as California’s second-largest employer, with a presence in every county in the state — could ripple across the state’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is that we are in uncharted waters. Our top priority now is protecting this institution — its resources, its mission and its values — for the sake of everyone we serve,” Milliken wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday and Wednesday, UC’s board of regents will meet in San Francisco to discuss the ongoing threats and negotiations with the Trump administration. While the UC system has not filed its own lawsuit, the AAUP’s hope is that the labor groups’ action will “empower the University of California to defend their rights in court,” said Veena Dubal, AAUP’s counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12056118/uc-labor-groups-sue-trump-over-coercive-antisemitism-investigations-and-demands",
"authors": [
"11925"
],
"categories": [
"news_31795",
"news_18540",
"news_34551",
"news_6188",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_24276",
"news_18538",
"news_4750",
"news_1323",
"news_20013",
"news_20482",
"news_21891",
"news_2792",
"news_206"
],
"featImg": "news_12056142",
"label": "news"
},
"news_12055693": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12055693",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12055693",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1757718944000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "dolly-partons-imagination-library-launches-in-san-francisco",
"title": "Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Launches in San Francisco",
"publishDate": 1757718944,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Launches in San Francisco | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Any San Francisco kid under the age of 5 can get a free book mailed to them every month under a new partnership announced Friday by city officials and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To promote the city’s participation in the country star’s popular book gifting program, Mayor Daniel Lurie got on the floor of the central library’s children’s book room and read \u003cem>Llama Llama Red Pajama\u003c/em> to a group of preschoolers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that when a child has access to even one book, their chance of being on track in literacy almost doubles,” he told the children, their parents and teachers who gathered to hear the announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We want them to discover reading early and to build a foundation that will carry them through school and through life,” he said. “With the Imagination Library, each book represents possibility. Each book moves a child closer to success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolly Parton launched the program 30 years ago to inspire children to read as early as possible. The program has expanded to every state in the nation, and overseas to Canada, Australia and the U.K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lifesized cutout of Dolly Parton at the Main Library in San Francisco at an event celebrating a new partnership between city officials and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library on Sept. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, California lawmakers approved spending $68 million to establish the Imagination Library in every county in the state. The fund covers 50% of the costs for purchasing and mailing the books, while local partners — in this case, San Francisco’s public library and Department of Early Childhood — cover the other portion. The city and county will spend $1 million to serve about 60,000 children over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dollywood Foundation manages the ordering system, negotiates wholesale prices for the books and passes the discount on to participating programs. That means in California, it costs $15.50 per year to mail books to each child, according to Hallie Anderson, community engagement coordinator for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said California has more than 2 million children under the age of 5, making it a massive undertaking to try to reach every child. San Francisco is the 41st of 58 California counties to partner with Parton’s nonprofit, and Anderson hopes to grow the program. Usually, when the books reach kids in every county in a state, Parton shows up in person to celebrate.[aside postID=news_12053877 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-04-BL-KQED.jpg']“We are eagerly working to make that happen and have Dolly here in California,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also the first state in the Imagination Library’s network to offer books in English and Spanish. Michael Lambert, San Francisco’s Librarian, said he wants to add books in Chinese, Tagalog and other languages to reflect the city’s diverse population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A panel of early childhood literacy experts chooses books that correspond with the child’s age. Kids under one receive sturdy board books with nursery rhymes, while those about to turn 2 might get books that focus on colors, letters and numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first book that all children will receive in the mail, addressed to them, is \u003cem>The Little Engine That Could.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a classic,” Anderson said, “and it really sets the tone for the program, which is exploring a whole new world of reading and believing in that journey, ‘I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When kids are about to turn 5, the last book sent to them will be \u003cem>Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!\u003c/em> to mark the next chapter of their learning journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To begin receiving free books, families can enroll at their local public library branch or \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/imagination-library/\">online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Dolly Parton launched the program 30 years ago to inspire children to read as early as possible, and it has expanded to every state in the nation.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1757792321,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 16,
"wordCount": 675
},
"headData": {
"title": "Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Launches in San Francisco | KQED",
"description": "Dolly Parton launched the program 30 years ago to inspire children to read as early as possible, and it has expanded to every state in the nation.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Launches in San Francisco",
"datePublished": "2025-09-12T16:15:44-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-09-13T12:38:41-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 18540,
"slug": "education",
"name": "Education"
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12055693",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12055693/dolly-partons-imagination-library-launches-in-san-francisco",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Any San Francisco kid under the age of 5 can get a free book mailed to them every month under a new partnership announced Friday by city officials and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To promote the city’s participation in the country star’s popular book gifting program, Mayor Daniel Lurie got on the floor of the central library’s children’s book room and read \u003cem>Llama Llama Red Pajama\u003c/em> to a group of preschoolers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that when a child has access to even one book, their chance of being on track in literacy almost doubles,” he told the children, their parents and teachers who gathered to hear the announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We want them to discover reading early and to build a foundation that will carry them through school and through life,” he said. “With the Imagination Library, each book represents possibility. Each book moves a child closer to success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolly Parton launched the program 30 years ago to inspire children to read as early as possible. The program has expanded to every state in the nation, and overseas to Canada, Australia and the U.K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-FREE-BOOKS-FROM-DOLLY-PARTON-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lifesized cutout of Dolly Parton at the Main Library in San Francisco at an event celebrating a new partnership between city officials and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library on Sept. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, California lawmakers approved spending $68 million to establish the Imagination Library in every county in the state. The fund covers 50% of the costs for purchasing and mailing the books, while local partners — in this case, San Francisco’s public library and Department of Early Childhood — cover the other portion. The city and county will spend $1 million to serve about 60,000 children over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dollywood Foundation manages the ordering system, negotiates wholesale prices for the books and passes the discount on to participating programs. That means in California, it costs $15.50 per year to mail books to each child, according to Hallie Anderson, community engagement coordinator for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said California has more than 2 million children under the age of 5, making it a massive undertaking to try to reach every child. San Francisco is the 41st of 58 California counties to partner with Parton’s nonprofit, and Anderson hopes to grow the program. Usually, when the books reach kids in every county in a state, Parton shows up in person to celebrate.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_12053877",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-04-BL-KQED.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We are eagerly working to make that happen and have Dolly here in California,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also the first state in the Imagination Library’s network to offer books in English and Spanish. Michael Lambert, San Francisco’s Librarian, said he wants to add books in Chinese, Tagalog and other languages to reflect the city’s diverse population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A panel of early childhood literacy experts chooses books that correspond with the child’s age. Kids under one receive sturdy board books with nursery rhymes, while those about to turn 2 might get books that focus on colors, letters and numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first book that all children will receive in the mail, addressed to them, is \u003cem>The Little Engine That Could.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a classic,” Anderson said, “and it really sets the tone for the program, which is exploring a whole new world of reading and believing in that journey, ‘I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When kids are about to turn 5, the last book sent to them will be \u003cem>Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!\u003c/em> to mark the next chapter of their learning journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To begin receiving free books, families can enroll at their local public library branch or \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/imagination-library/\">online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12055693/dolly-partons-imagination-library-launches-in-san-francisco",
"authors": [
"11829"
],
"categories": [
"news_31795",
"news_18540",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_18880",
"news_2043",
"news_32102",
"news_32928",
"news_20013",
"news_22557",
"news_38"
],
"featImg": "news_12055839",
"label": "news"
},
"news_12055827": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12055827",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12055827",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1757716687000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "uc-berkeley-gives-trump-administration-160-names-in-antisemitism-investigation",
"title": "UC Berkeley Gives Trump Administration 160 Names in Antisemitism Investigation",
"publishDate": 1757716687,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "UC Berkeley Gives Trump Administration 160 Names in Antisemitism Investigation | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> has turned over information about 160 students and staff accused of antisemitism to the Trump administration, the university said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes as the federal government continues to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034707/federal-antisemitism-investigations-california-higher-education-explained\">investigate allegations of antisemitism\u003c/a> on campuses, largely at those that have seen large pro-Palestinian demonstrations against Israel’s war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UC Berkeley said it acted on the advice of the University of California’s attorneys in complying with the demand for information from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which investigates alleged discrimination on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education’s investigation is just one part of the Trump administration’s multipronged effort to root out what it describes as pervasive antisemitism at the country’s top universities. In March, the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029887/trump-doj-investigate-university-california-over-antisemitism-allegations\">announced\u003c/a> that it was investigating whether the UC system created a hostile work environment for Jewish employees. And in April, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">subpoenaed the UC\u003c/a> for information about some employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, UC Berkeley notified those whose names appeared in files and reports related to how the school handled alleged antisemitic incidents. It did so as students had previously expressed concern about their information being released to the federal government, as that information has been used to deport students who were in the United States on student visas at universities including Columbia and Tufts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley professor and world-renowned academic Judith Butler receives the Golden Medal at Circulo de las Bellas Artes on October 27, 2022, in Madrid, Spain. \u003ccite>(Photo by Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Judith Butler, a distinguished professor in UC Berkeley’s graduate school who is also Jewish, received the notice last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice didn’t say whether the allegation was against Butler or whether their name just happened to be in the file, along with other information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was ambiguous as a letter,” Butler said. “What was, of course, most disturbing was to discover that I was allegedly guilty of antisemitism, and that I was given no option to see that complaint, nor was I given an option to respond to that complaint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler said that violated university policies that allow the accused to know the name of their accuser, read the complaint against them and have their response recorded as part of the final adjudication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler said the complaint is likely due to their activism as a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, which objects to Israel’s war in Gaza and has led mass protests in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s obviously equating political expression on Palestine with antisemitism,” Butler said. “It cannot be the case that to support Palestinian lives — which I do as a Jewish person, and which I proudly do as part of Jewish Voice for Peace — it cannot be that it goes against Jewish values to stop a genocide against an entire people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way that that makes sense is if we accept somehow that any criticism of Israel or any support of Palestine is a sign of antisemitism or is a sign of support for Hamas or any of those kinds of things,” Butler continued. “But in fact, people have all kinds of reasons for criticizing the State of Israel, and probably the most predominant of them right now are humanitarian reasons.”[aside postID=news_12055560 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/061121_SummerSchool_AW_CM_06-1020x680.jpg']Butler, who said they are largely retired, fears for others on the list, including international students who could have their visas threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration has not been honest with its own community, and it has broken trust with the community … knowing full well that the consequences [of forwarding these names] could be deportation, harassment, detention, loss of employment, limitations imposed on passports, congressional hearings, vilification, abduction,” Butler said. “All of these things have happened to students at other universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler had hoped that UC Berkeley leaders would have followed the likes of Princeton, George Mason and other universities that have told the federal government they wouldn’t comply with those kinds of requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Butler’s allegations, the UC Office of the President said that as a public university, it is subject to oversight by state and federal agencies and routinely receives document requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC is committed to protecting the privacy of our students, faculty, and staff to the greatest extent possible, while fulfilling its legal obligations,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s notice sent to the affected students and staff said the Office for Civil Rights investigation is ongoing, and the university may be obligated to produce more documents in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "The university said it acted on the advice of lawyers in turning over information to the Department of Education in its probe into allegations of campus antisemitism.\r\n",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1757718448,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 20,
"wordCount": 831
},
"headData": {
"title": "UC Berkeley Gives Trump Administration 160 Names in Antisemitism Investigation | KQED",
"description": "The university said it acted on the advice of lawyers in turning over information to the Department of Education in its probe into allegations of campus antisemitism.\r\n",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "UC Berkeley Gives Trump Administration 160 Names in Antisemitism Investigation",
"datePublished": "2025-09-12T15:38:07-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-09-12T16:07:28-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 18540,
"slug": "education",
"name": "Education"
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12055827",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12055827/uc-berkeley-gives-trump-administration-160-names-in-antisemitism-investigation",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> has turned over information about 160 students and staff accused of antisemitism to the Trump administration, the university said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes as the federal government continues to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034707/federal-antisemitism-investigations-california-higher-education-explained\">investigate allegations of antisemitism\u003c/a> on campuses, largely at those that have seen large pro-Palestinian demonstrations against Israel’s war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UC Berkeley said it acted on the advice of the University of California’s attorneys in complying with the demand for information from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which investigates alleged discrimination on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education’s investigation is just one part of the Trump administration’s multipronged effort to root out what it describes as pervasive antisemitism at the country’s top universities. In March, the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029887/trump-doj-investigate-university-california-over-antisemitism-allegations\">announced\u003c/a> that it was investigating whether the UC system created a hostile work environment for Jewish employees. And in April, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">subpoenaed the UC\u003c/a> for information about some employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, UC Berkeley notified those whose names appeared in files and reports related to how the school handled alleged antisemitic incidents. It did so as students had previously expressed concern about their information being released to the federal government, as that information has been used to deport students who were in the United States on student visas at universities including Columbia and Tufts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1437125462-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley professor and world-renowned academic Judith Butler receives the Golden Medal at Circulo de las Bellas Artes on October 27, 2022, in Madrid, Spain. \u003ccite>(Photo by Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Judith Butler, a distinguished professor in UC Berkeley’s graduate school who is also Jewish, received the notice last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice didn’t say whether the allegation was against Butler or whether their name just happened to be in the file, along with other information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was ambiguous as a letter,” Butler said. “What was, of course, most disturbing was to discover that I was allegedly guilty of antisemitism, and that I was given no option to see that complaint, nor was I given an option to respond to that complaint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler said that violated university policies that allow the accused to know the name of their accuser, read the complaint against them and have their response recorded as part of the final adjudication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler said the complaint is likely due to their activism as a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, which objects to Israel’s war in Gaza and has led mass protests in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s obviously equating political expression on Palestine with antisemitism,” Butler said. “It cannot be the case that to support Palestinian lives — which I do as a Jewish person, and which I proudly do as part of Jewish Voice for Peace — it cannot be that it goes against Jewish values to stop a genocide against an entire people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way that that makes sense is if we accept somehow that any criticism of Israel or any support of Palestine is a sign of antisemitism or is a sign of support for Hamas or any of those kinds of things,” Butler continued. “But in fact, people have all kinds of reasons for criticizing the State of Israel, and probably the most predominant of them right now are humanitarian reasons.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_12055560",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/061121_SummerSchool_AW_CM_06-1020x680.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Butler, who said they are largely retired, fears for others on the list, including international students who could have their visas threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration has not been honest with its own community, and it has broken trust with the community … knowing full well that the consequences [of forwarding these names] could be deportation, harassment, detention, loss of employment, limitations imposed on passports, congressional hearings, vilification, abduction,” Butler said. “All of these things have happened to students at other universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler had hoped that UC Berkeley leaders would have followed the likes of Princeton, George Mason and other universities that have told the federal government they wouldn’t comply with those kinds of requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Butler’s allegations, the UC Office of the President said that as a public university, it is subject to oversight by state and federal agencies and routinely receives document requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC is committed to protecting the privacy of our students, faculty, and staff to the greatest extent possible, while fulfilling its legal obligations,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s notice sent to the affected students and staff said the Office for Civil Rights investigation is ongoing, and the university may be obligated to produce more documents in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12055827/uc-berkeley-gives-trump-administration-160-names-in-antisemitism-investigation",
"authors": [
"11923"
],
"categories": [
"news_31795",
"news_18540",
"news_28250",
"news_8",
"news_13"
],
"tags": [
"news_24276",
"news_18538",
"news_4750",
"news_1323",
"news_20013",
"news_27626",
"news_34377",
"news_23960",
"news_18797",
"news_6631",
"news_1741",
"news_33333",
"news_17968",
"news_17597"
],
"featImg": "news_12016604",
"label": "news"
},
"news_12055560": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12055560",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12055560",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1757631695000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "controversial-ca-bill-to-combat-antisemitism-in-schools-races-against-legislative-clock",
"title": "Controversial California Bill to Combat Antisemitism in Schools Races Against Legislative Clock",
"publishDate": 1757631695,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Controversial California Bill to Combat Antisemitism in Schools Races Against Legislative Clock | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047251/chancellor-lyons-to-testify-in-house-hearing-on-uc-berkeley-antisemitism-policies\">growing action nationwide\u003c/a> to combat antisemitism in places of education, a bill that seeks to address the issue in California’s TK–12 schools is swiftly working through the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://app.trint.com/public/1206e858-ede3-4f83-be3d-3e393aa43637\">AB 715\u003c/a> would establish an Office of Civil Rights, which would become home to a new antisemitism prevention coordinator position. The governor would appoint the coordinator and have a broad remit to both administer antisemitism education to teachers and school administrators, as well as track and report on incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard from hundreds and hundreds of families across California who have tried to speak up when there were antisemitic materials or instruction in the school campus or in the classroom, and that their concerns went unheard,” said Assemblymember Dawn Addis, D-Morro Bay, who co-introduced the bill with Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, D-Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After passing the state Senate Committee on Education with a near-unanimous vote on Wednesday, lawmakers are racing to clear the Senate’s Appropriations Committee and a floor vote before they can return the bill to the Assembly for final votes — all before a Saturday deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While proponents of the law see this as a necessary step to combat a rise in antisemitism in California schools, opponents say the bill would have a chilling effect on free speech and learning in schools, especially when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rabbi Gil Leeds of Berkeley Chabad, left, and Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman, executive director of Berkeley Hillel, right, embrace as Jewish Berkeley students, faculty and community members rally on campus in Berkeley, California, on March 11, 2024. The crowd of over 100 rallied to protest antisemitism and blockage of Sather Gate by pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel students, stating that the University had not been enforcing its policy of keeping the gate path clear. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We, too, want to challenge antisemitism. This is not the way to do it,” said Theresa Montaño, a member of the California Faculty Association and a professor at California State University, Northridge. “This bill does nothing to challenge antisemitism. It does everything to create an environment that is divisive and that creates fear where teachers have to look around to see who in their classroom is likely to report them when they teach issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law would require teacher instruction to be “factually accurate and align with the adopted curriculum and standards in existing law, and be consistent with accepted standards of professional responsibility, rather than advocacy, personal opinion, bias or partisanship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill, like the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said “factual accuracy” is a vague standard and could be used to “prohibit statements that could be construed as ‘advocacy’ and ‘personal opinion,’ inviting politically motivated complaints,” according to a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oussama Mokeddem, legislative and government affairs director for the CAIR’s California chapter, said the bill doesn’t speak to the specific needs of other communities that are also experiencing hate.[aside postID=news_12050654 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg']“To create an antisemitism prevention coordinator — which represents about 5% of the student population in California — with a substantive charge to address hate against the Jewish community, while relegating all other minority groups to coordinators based on general categories is a lopsided approach,” Mokeddem said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law has been heavily modified as it works its way through the halls of Sacramento. Earlier versions mandated instructional materials on Jews, Israel and the Israel-Palestine conflict, which have since been removed from the bill’s language. The bill also does not define antisemitism. Instead, the law looks to a \u003ca href=\"https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/02/the-u-s-national-strategy-to-counter-antisemitism-key-actions-by-pillar-2/\">strategy\u003c/a> from the Biden administration as a means to identify, respond to, prevent and counter antisemitism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, if a school is found to be in violation of existing anti-discrimination laws involving antisemitism, it would be required to implement an improvement plan developed in consultation with the antisemitism prevention coordinator and use alternative instructional materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting of the state Senate Committee on Education, some lawmakers voiced concern that the bill was being rushed through the legislative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Steven Choi at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 15, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We only received the new language for this bill last night at about 6 o’clock,” state Sen. Steven Choi, R-Los Angeles, said. “Ultimately, I wonder if we should be supporting such big changes to this bill when the public has had less than 24 hours to read the new language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choi said he struggled with whether to support the measure, but ultimately decided to vote yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when antisemitism and other forms of hate are rising across our nation, it is vital that our schools are equipped to respond with both clarity and compassion,” Choi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2015 to 2024, reported hate crime events \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/Hate%20Crime%20In%20CA%202024.pdf\">increased\u003c/a> 141.7% in California, according to the state’s Department of Justice. Out of all religious-based hate crimes in the state, Jewish people reported experiencing the vast majority during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this surge, California was recently named the top state for fighting antisemitism in a report by the Anti-Defamation League, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/08/19/independent-review-california-leads-the-nation-in-combating-antisemitism-through-statewide-initiatives/\">receiving a score of 94. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Jewish groups welcomed the bill’s passage in the state’s education committee. “This is a pivotal step forward toward safer, more inclusive classrooms for all students,” the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California wrote in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Proponents say California families have demanded action to fight antisemitism in schools, but critics are concerned that the bill’s broad remit could be used to censure free speech.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1757634359,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 21,
"wordCount": 973
},
"headData": {
"title": "Controversial California Bill to Combat Antisemitism in Schools Races Against Legislative Clock | KQED",
"description": "Proponents say California families have demanded action to fight antisemitism in schools, but critics are concerned that the bill’s broad remit could be used to censure free speech.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Controversial California Bill to Combat Antisemitism in Schools Races Against Legislative Clock",
"datePublished": "2025-09-11T16:01:35-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-09-11T16:45:59-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 18540,
"slug": "education",
"name": "Education"
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12055560",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12055560/controversial-ca-bill-to-combat-antisemitism-in-schools-races-against-legislative-clock",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047251/chancellor-lyons-to-testify-in-house-hearing-on-uc-berkeley-antisemitism-policies\">growing action nationwide\u003c/a> to combat antisemitism in places of education, a bill that seeks to address the issue in California’s TK–12 schools is swiftly working through the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://app.trint.com/public/1206e858-ede3-4f83-be3d-3e393aa43637\">AB 715\u003c/a> would establish an Office of Civil Rights, which would become home to a new antisemitism prevention coordinator position. The governor would appoint the coordinator and have a broad remit to both administer antisemitism education to teachers and school administrators, as well as track and report on incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard from hundreds and hundreds of families across California who have tried to speak up when there were antisemitic materials or instruction in the school campus or in the classroom, and that their concerns went unheard,” said Assemblymember Dawn Addis, D-Morro Bay, who co-introduced the bill with Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, D-Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After passing the state Senate Committee on Education with a near-unanimous vote on Wednesday, lawmakers are racing to clear the Senate’s Appropriations Committee and a floor vote before they can return the bill to the Assembly for final votes — all before a Saturday deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While proponents of the law see this as a necessary step to combat a rise in antisemitism in California schools, opponents say the bill would have a chilling effect on free speech and learning in schools, especially when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rabbi Gil Leeds of Berkeley Chabad, left, and Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman, executive director of Berkeley Hillel, right, embrace as Jewish Berkeley students, faculty and community members rally on campus in Berkeley, California, on March 11, 2024. The crowd of over 100 rallied to protest antisemitism and blockage of Sather Gate by pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel students, stating that the University had not been enforcing its policy of keeping the gate path clear. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We, too, want to challenge antisemitism. This is not the way to do it,” said Theresa Montaño, a member of the California Faculty Association and a professor at California State University, Northridge. “This bill does nothing to challenge antisemitism. It does everything to create an environment that is divisive and that creates fear where teachers have to look around to see who in their classroom is likely to report them when they teach issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law would require teacher instruction to be “factually accurate and align with the adopted curriculum and standards in existing law, and be consistent with accepted standards of professional responsibility, rather than advocacy, personal opinion, bias or partisanship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill, like the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said “factual accuracy” is a vague standard and could be used to “prohibit statements that could be construed as ‘advocacy’ and ‘personal opinion,’ inviting politically motivated complaints,” according to a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oussama Mokeddem, legislative and government affairs director for the CAIR’s California chapter, said the bill doesn’t speak to the specific needs of other communities that are also experiencing hate.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_12050654",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“To create an antisemitism prevention coordinator — which represents about 5% of the student population in California — with a substantive charge to address hate against the Jewish community, while relegating all other minority groups to coordinators based on general categories is a lopsided approach,” Mokeddem said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law has been heavily modified as it works its way through the halls of Sacramento. Earlier versions mandated instructional materials on Jews, Israel and the Israel-Palestine conflict, which have since been removed from the bill’s language. The bill also does not define antisemitism. Instead, the law looks to a \u003ca href=\"https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/02/the-u-s-national-strategy-to-counter-antisemitism-key-actions-by-pillar-2/\">strategy\u003c/a> from the Biden administration as a means to identify, respond to, prevent and counter antisemitism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, if a school is found to be in violation of existing anti-discrimination laws involving antisemitism, it would be required to implement an improvement plan developed in consultation with the antisemitism prevention coordinator and use alternative instructional materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting of the state Senate Committee on Education, some lawmakers voiced concern that the bill was being rushed through the legislative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Steven Choi at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 15, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We only received the new language for this bill last night at about 6 o’clock,” state Sen. Steven Choi, R-Los Angeles, said. “Ultimately, I wonder if we should be supporting such big changes to this bill when the public has had less than 24 hours to read the new language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choi said he struggled with whether to support the measure, but ultimately decided to vote yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when antisemitism and other forms of hate are rising across our nation, it is vital that our schools are equipped to respond with both clarity and compassion,” Choi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2015 to 2024, reported hate crime events \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/Hate%20Crime%20In%20CA%202024.pdf\">increased\u003c/a> 141.7% in California, according to the state’s Department of Justice. Out of all religious-based hate crimes in the state, Jewish people reported experiencing the vast majority during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this surge, California was recently named the top state for fighting antisemitism in a report by the Anti-Defamation League, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/08/19/independent-review-california-leads-the-nation-in-combating-antisemitism-through-statewide-initiatives/\">receiving a score of 94. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Jewish groups welcomed the bill’s passage in the state’s education committee. “This is a pivotal step forward toward safer, more inclusive classrooms for all students,” the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California wrote in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12055560/controversial-ca-bill-to-combat-antisemitism-in-schools-races-against-legislative-clock",
"authors": [
"11785"
],
"categories": [
"news_31795",
"news_18540",
"news_28250",
"news_8",
"news_13"
],
"tags": [
"news_24276",
"news_18538",
"news_20013",
"news_34377",
"news_33333",
"news_35401",
"news_17968"
],
"featImg": "news_12035840",
"label": "news"
},
"news_12055457": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12055457",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12055457",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1757542842000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "silicon-valley-schools-launch-nations-first-free-meal-program-for-college-students",
"title": "Silicon Valley Community Colleges Launch First Universal Free Meal Program in US for Students",
"publishDate": 1757542842,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Silicon Valley Community Colleges Launch First Universal Free Meal Program in US for Students | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>When Sophia Cuevas leaves for school at 7 a.m., like many students, she frequently runs out of time to eat breakfast or pack food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually I skip lunch if I’m on campus, because we had to pay for meals,” the 19-year-old West Valley College student said. “But now that there’s something that I can eat [for free] every day, I am no longer skipping lunch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting this fall, students enrolled in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>’s West Valley-Mission Community College District are receiving one no-cost meal per school day. The new universal free meal program aims to lower barriers to higher education by addressing student food insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students continue to tell us that food insecurity was the biggest barrier that they faced,” district Chancellor Bradley Davis told KQED. “And we went about sculpting a program that would tackle that head-on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is the first of its kind among any college in the nation, according to Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plenty of colleges have programs that address on a very limited basis food insecurity, but no other program applies to every single student at the institution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12055514 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starting this fall, students enrolled in Santa Clara County’s West Valley-Mission Community College District are receiving one no-cost meal per school day. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Haley Tabor/West Valley College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nestled within Silicon Valley, the district serves more than 17,000 students between its two colleges: West Valley College in Saratoga and Mission College in Santa Clara. About a third of district students reported struggling with food insecurity in the past 12 months, \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/West-Valley-Mission-CCD-Dining-Board-of-Trustees-Presentation-9.10.24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year, more community college students stop their educational process because of food and housing insecurity than those who start,” Davis said. The district seeks to limit those challenges with free, nutritious food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Cuevas, who lives at home with her mom and sister, the program means going to her business and economics classes, tennis practice and a campus marketing job with a full stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being in a single-income household, it sometimes is a struggle to find something that’s both nutritious and at a right price for us, and we’re often left sacrificing one for the other,” Cuevas said. “[This program] takes off a ton of stress for not only myself but my family as well.”[aside postID=news_12044911 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-09-BL-KQED.jpg']Every in-person student enrolled in at least six units receives a meal card through the program that replenishes every Monday with a balance ranging from $30 to $60, depending on need. The balance can be used to purchase a freshly made meal from the cafeteria run by food service management company Thomas Cuisine. Students can also purchase snacks and coffee from vending machines and on-campus cafes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been a huge fan of the poké bowls,” Cuevas said. “It tastes really, really good … I’ve also heard some really good reviews about the Greek salad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any unused funds each week expire on Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district celebrated the launch of the program and both colleges’ newly renovated cafeterias at ribbon-cutting ceremonies this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis estimates the program will cost about $2.5 million annually and said local property taxes will fund it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meal program has already served over 22,000 meals to students in its first two weeks, according to Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the advent of this new meal plan, our new coffee shops and our cafeterias have become jam-packed with students,” Davis said. “The other day I went over to sample the food in the cafeteria, and I could not find a single seat to sit down with students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said the free meal program is not a direct response to federal cuts to food nutrition programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. However, “the timing is fortuitous given that there will be greater numbers of community members who are wrestling with food insecurity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuevas, who works as director of marketing at the Associated Students of West Valley College, said she and her peers are excited about the program and already using the funds to snack on coffee, apples, bananas and curly fries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re constantly inside of the office just snacking on everything from the cafeteria,” she said. “It’s good to know that we have full stomachs and we’re able to get a lot more work done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gzada\">\u003cem>Gilare Zada\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Santa Clara County’s West Valley-Mission Community College District is providing one no-cost meal per day to every student in an effort to address food insecurity. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1757545996,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 22,
"wordCount": 802
},
"headData": {
"title": "Silicon Valley Community Colleges Launch First Universal Free Meal Program in US for Students | KQED",
"description": "Santa Clara County’s West Valley-Mission Community College District is providing one no-cost meal per day to every student in an effort to address food insecurity. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Silicon Valley Community Colleges Launch First Universal Free Meal Program in US for Students",
"datePublished": "2025-09-10T15:20:42-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-09-10T16:13:16-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 18540,
"slug": "education",
"name": "Education"
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12055457",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12055457/silicon-valley-schools-launch-nations-first-free-meal-program-for-college-students",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Sophia Cuevas leaves for school at 7 a.m., like many students, she frequently runs out of time to eat breakfast or pack food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually I skip lunch if I’m on campus, because we had to pay for meals,” the 19-year-old West Valley College student said. “But now that there’s something that I can eat [for free] every day, I am no longer skipping lunch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting this fall, students enrolled in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>’s West Valley-Mission Community College District are receiving one no-cost meal per school day. The new universal free meal program aims to lower barriers to higher education by addressing student food insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students continue to tell us that food insecurity was the biggest barrier that they faced,” district Chancellor Bradley Davis told KQED. “And we went about sculpting a program that would tackle that head-on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is the first of its kind among any college in the nation, according to Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plenty of colleges have programs that address on a very limited basis food insecurity, but no other program applies to every single student at the institution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12055514 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starting this fall, students enrolled in Santa Clara County’s West Valley-Mission Community College District are receiving one no-cost meal per school day. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Haley Tabor/West Valley College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nestled within Silicon Valley, the district serves more than 17,000 students between its two colleges: West Valley College in Saratoga and Mission College in Santa Clara. About a third of district students reported struggling with food insecurity in the past 12 months, \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/West-Valley-Mission-CCD-Dining-Board-of-Trustees-Presentation-9.10.24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year, more community college students stop their educational process because of food and housing insecurity than those who start,” Davis said. The district seeks to limit those challenges with free, nutritious food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Cuevas, who lives at home with her mom and sister, the program means going to her business and economics classes, tennis practice and a campus marketing job with a full stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being in a single-income household, it sometimes is a struggle to find something that’s both nutritious and at a right price for us, and we’re often left sacrificing one for the other,” Cuevas said. “[This program] takes off a ton of stress for not only myself but my family as well.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_12044911",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-09-BL-KQED.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Every in-person student enrolled in at least six units receives a meal card through the program that replenishes every Monday with a balance ranging from $30 to $60, depending on need. The balance can be used to purchase a freshly made meal from the cafeteria run by food service management company Thomas Cuisine. Students can also purchase snacks and coffee from vending machines and on-campus cafes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been a huge fan of the poké bowls,” Cuevas said. “It tastes really, really good … I’ve also heard some really good reviews about the Greek salad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any unused funds each week expire on Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district celebrated the launch of the program and both colleges’ newly renovated cafeterias at ribbon-cutting ceremonies this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis estimates the program will cost about $2.5 million annually and said local property taxes will fund it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meal program has already served over 22,000 meals to students in its first two weeks, according to Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the advent of this new meal plan, our new coffee shops and our cafeterias have become jam-packed with students,” Davis said. “The other day I went over to sample the food in the cafeteria, and I could not find a single seat to sit down with students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said the free meal program is not a direct response to federal cuts to food nutrition programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. However, “the timing is fortuitous given that there will be greater numbers of community members who are wrestling with food insecurity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuevas, who works as director of marketing at the Associated Students of West Valley College, said she and her peers are excited about the program and already using the funds to snack on coffee, apples, bananas and curly fries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re constantly inside of the office just snacking on everything from the cafeteria,” she said. “It’s good to know that we have full stomachs and we’re able to get a lot more work done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gzada\">\u003cem>Gilare Zada\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12055457/silicon-valley-schools-launch-nations-first-free-meal-program-for-college-students",
"authors": [
"11805"
],
"categories": [
"news_31795",
"news_18540",
"news_457",
"news_28250",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_18538",
"news_25365",
"news_20013",
"news_23122",
"news_21602",
"news_34586",
"news_21285",
"news_3457"
],
"featImg": "news_12055511",
"label": "news"
},
"news_12054838": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12054838",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12054838",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1757167225000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "oakland-walkout",
"title": "Oakland High School Students Walk Out of Class, Demanding End to Gun Violence",
"publishDate": 1757167225,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Oakland High School Students Walk Out of Class, Demanding End to Gun Violence | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>On an overcast Friday at noon, students spilled onto the blacktop outside of Coliseum College Prep Academy, a public middle and high school in east \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>. Instead of heading to lunch, they carried oversized posterboards with a simple block-letter message: “WE DESERVE TO LIVE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high schoolers joined a nationwide walkout with Students Demand Action, a grassroots organization focused on ending gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest was organized in response to the fatal shooting of two children at a Minneapolis Catholic school in late August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Coliseum College Prep junior Alexander Ibarra, 15, Friday’s walkout felt like a deja vu moment — because it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra remembers spearheading his middle school’s awareness march when he was 11 years old, after the shooting deaths of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like anything has changed nationally,” Ibarra said. “We are simply asking to put a federal ban on assault weapons because we don’t believe that anyone needs the access to assault rifles except for the military.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054958\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054958\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Ybarra, an 11th grader at Coliseum College Prep Academy, speaks through a megaphone during a student walkout on Sept. 5, 2025, in East Oakland. Ybarra and classmates organized the action in response to last week’s school shooting in Minneapolis and ongoing gun violence in their community. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ibarra’s classmate, 16-year-old Enemesio Ayala, said that the students’ call to prevent gun violence wasn’t just about school shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been affected by gun violence with my family,” Ayala, who co-organized the 2022 protest with Ibarra and other students, said. “Even walking, sometimes you gotta be cautious of how you’re walking and who you’re walking with because you never really know.”[aside postID=news_12049635 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CaliforniaAmmoAP.jpg']Oakland, and Alameda County at large, has long grappled with higher-than-average gun violence rates — a December 2024 report by then-District Attorney Pamela Price concluded that gun violence was the leading cause of death among Alameda’s children and young people under the age of 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ayala added that he thinks the federal government needs to do a better job of cracking down on people who purchase guns illegally, and should ban the distribution of automatic assault rifles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson Perez, a 17-year-old Coliseum College Prep senior, said his little sister is a fifth grader at the elementary school across the street. He always has a plan in case things take a turn for the worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I hear a gunshot, to run towards my sister’s school,” Perez said, of the worst-case scenario. “I really don’t think this is an environment and mindset we should have. We should have a mindset of achieving our goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters made by students at Coliseum College Prep Academy call for change, with messages including “Students Are Not Targets” and “Protect Students, Protect the Future.” \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coliseum College Prep administrator Michael Jenkins said he feels the country is still “on ground-zero” in terms of progress toward adequate gun safety laws, but he is proud nonetheless that his students wish “to be the spark plug or the catalyst to actually drum up the action that they want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins also spoke of the gun violence plaguing Oakland and pointed to the fact that many students don’t feel safe stepping outside of their own homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the students are feeling is real,” Jenkins said. “There is a clear need to curtail gun violence — inside and outside the school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "In 2022, a group of Oakland middle school students organized a march in response to the Uvalde shooting. Three years later, those same students joined a nationwide walkout to demand change.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1757195437,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 16,
"wordCount": 648
},
"headData": {
"title": "Oakland High School Students Walk Out of Class, Demanding End to Gun Violence | KQED",
"description": "In 2022, a group of Oakland middle school students organized a march in response to the Uvalde shooting. Three years later, those same students joined a nationwide walkout to demand change.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Oakland High School Students Walk Out of Class, Demanding End to Gun Violence",
"datePublished": "2025-09-06T07:00:25-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-09-06T14:50:37-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 18540,
"slug": "education",
"name": "Education"
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12054838",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12054838/oakland-walkout",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On an overcast Friday at noon, students spilled onto the blacktop outside of Coliseum College Prep Academy, a public middle and high school in east \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>. Instead of heading to lunch, they carried oversized posterboards with a simple block-letter message: “WE DESERVE TO LIVE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high schoolers joined a nationwide walkout with Students Demand Action, a grassroots organization focused on ending gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest was organized in response to the fatal shooting of two children at a Minneapolis Catholic school in late August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Coliseum College Prep junior Alexander Ibarra, 15, Friday’s walkout felt like a deja vu moment — because it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra remembers spearheading his middle school’s awareness march when he was 11 years old, after the shooting deaths of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like anything has changed nationally,” Ibarra said. “We are simply asking to put a federal ban on assault weapons because we don’t believe that anyone needs the access to assault rifles except for the military.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054958\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054958\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Ybarra, an 11th grader at Coliseum College Prep Academy, speaks through a megaphone during a student walkout on Sept. 5, 2025, in East Oakland. Ybarra and classmates organized the action in response to last week’s school shooting in Minneapolis and ongoing gun violence in their community. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ibarra’s classmate, 16-year-old Enemesio Ayala, said that the students’ call to prevent gun violence wasn’t just about school shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been affected by gun violence with my family,” Ayala, who co-organized the 2022 protest with Ibarra and other students, said. “Even walking, sometimes you gotta be cautious of how you’re walking and who you’re walking with because you never really know.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_12049635",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CaliforniaAmmoAP.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Oakland, and Alameda County at large, has long grappled with higher-than-average gun violence rates — a December 2024 report by then-District Attorney Pamela Price concluded that gun violence was the leading cause of death among Alameda’s children and young people under the age of 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ayala added that he thinks the federal government needs to do a better job of cracking down on people who purchase guns illegally, and should ban the distribution of automatic assault rifles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson Perez, a 17-year-old Coliseum College Prep senior, said his little sister is a fifth grader at the elementary school across the street. He always has a plan in case things take a turn for the worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I hear a gunshot, to run towards my sister’s school,” Perez said, of the worst-case scenario. “I really don’t think this is an environment and mindset we should have. We should have a mindset of achieving our goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters made by students at Coliseum College Prep Academy call for change, with messages including “Students Are Not Targets” and “Protect Students, Protect the Future.” \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coliseum College Prep administrator Michael Jenkins said he feels the country is still “on ground-zero” in terms of progress toward adequate gun safety laws, but he is proud nonetheless that his students wish “to be the spark plug or the catalyst to actually drum up the action that they want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins also spoke of the gun violence plaguing Oakland and pointed to the fact that many students don’t feel safe stepping outside of their own homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the students are feeling is real,” Jenkins said. “There is a clear need to curtail gun violence — inside and outside the school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12054838/oakland-walkout",
"authors": [
"11929"
],
"categories": [
"news_18540",
"news_28250",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_18066",
"news_20013",
"news_2795",
"news_22711",
"news_24228",
"news_4922",
"news_34054",
"news_35836"
],
"featImg": "news_12054963",
"label": "news"
},
"news_12054363": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12054363",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12054363",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1756839918000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "ethnic-studies-debate-follows-students-into-san-francisco-classrooms",
"title": "Ethnic Studies Debate Follows Students Into San Francisco Classrooms",
"publishDate": 1756839918,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Ethnic Studies Debate Follows Students Into San Francisco Classrooms | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>When Samantha Aguirre’s ninth graders shuffled into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830384/how-the-longest-student-strike-in-u-s-history-created-ethnic-studies\">ethnic studies\u003c/a> on the first day of school this fall, many had no idea of the drama and strife surrounding the course all summer — still looming in the background of Aguirre’s and many teachers’ minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She delivered her opening spiel, refined over a decade teaching the class in the San Francisco Unified School District, introducing herself to new students, establishing a welcoming environment and posing one of the year’s guiding questions: “What are race and ethnicities and how have they changed over time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discussing that question has always been where Aguirre starts, she said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046122/sfusd-was-a-pioneer-in-ethnic-studies-now-the-program-could-be-put-on-pause\">Despite months of parent pushback\u003c/a> against ethnic studies, prompting a late-summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046580/sf-school-district-wont-cancel-ethnic-studies-but-pauses-its-homegrown-curriculum\">curriculum change\u003c/a> and new oversight regulations, she hasn’t had to alter much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since school let out in the spring, SFUSD’s ethnic studies course has come under major scrutiny after a cohort of parents, backed by local political groups and a national education organization, raised alarms that the curriculum in their children’s classrooms comes from a biased, “activist-driven” perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petitions cropped up to pause the class, parents created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.opt-out-toolkit-sfusd-ethnic-studies.com/\">toolkit to opt kids out\u003c/a> and media scrutiny intensified. In July, the district announced it would replace its pioneering homegrown curriculum with a third-party textbook for this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052662 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco arrive for their first day of the school year on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the online chatter, fewer than 50 ninth graders chose not to take ethnic studies this fall, and the classrooms the other 3,800 freshmen entered looked much the same as in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When teachers began flipping through the new course materials in early August, Aguirre said she and other veterans reached an almost ironic understanding: “This textbook that’s been quote-unquote ‘vetted and approved’ is not radically different from what most of us have been teaching already,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first unit of the new textbook, \u003ca href=\"https://gibbssmitheducation.com/diversity-studies/voices\">\u003cem>Voices: An Ethnic Studies Survey\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by Gibbs Smith Education, focuses on race and ethnicity, sharing many of the themes that SFUSD’s opening “Self and Stories” unit covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[\u003cem>Voices\u003c/em>] talks a little bit about colonialism and constructs and eugenics and hierarchy and race. It defines what race is and how that varies from ethnicity, “ Aguirre said. “It talks a little bit about scientific racism and pseudoscientists of the past. These are all things that were in the SFUSD curriculum.”[aside postID=news_12046580 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg']SFUSD first piloted ethnic studies as an elective at some high schools in 2010, and expanded to all campuses in 2015. San Francisco’s Board of Education voted to make a yearlong ethnic studies course a graduation requirement beginning with students who entered ninth grade last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its inception, the course has been lauded as one of the district’s great successes. When announcing a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891396/new-california-law-will-require-ethnic-studies-class-for-high-schoolers\">state-wide ethnic studies requirement\u003c/a> in 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom pointed to San Francisco’s class, citing \u003ca href=\"https://ed.stanford.edu/news/ninth-grade-ethnic-studies-helped-students-years-stanford-researchers-find\">Stanford University research\u003c/a> that showed it bolstered students’ attendance and graduation rates. Researchers from UC Irvine found that taking ethnic studies in ninth grade boosted the GPAs of SFUSD students throughout high school, especially among Black and Latino students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the district’s course became a graduation requirement in 2024, it has faced intense criticism. Parents Defending Education, a national education group, published multiple reports last year accusing the class of bias and posted course documents it obtained through public records requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News articles cited one in-class activity \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/30/sfusd-new-ethnic-studies-mandate/\">asking students to role-play as Israeli soldiers\u003c/a> putting Palestinians into refugee camps, and a slide deck comparing civil rights and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfusd-ethic-studies-school-20353723.php\">social movements to the Red Guards\u003c/a>, an often-violent youth movement supporting Mao Zedong during China’s cultural revolution in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple ethnic studies teachers previously told KQED they had never seen those materials, much less used them in their classrooms. But the documents sparked a movement to pause the course, led by parents and aided by moderate political action groups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfblueprint.org/blog/ethnic-studies-is-yet-another-disastrous-misstep-for-our-public-school-district\">Blueprint for a Better San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052663 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Superintendent Maria Su speaks to students at Sanchez Elementary School on the first day of classes for the new school year in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They say ethnic studies should focus less on oppression, resistance and activism, and more on the histories of different ethnic groups. The new curriculum, however, changes little, according to Nikhil Laud, who heads the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are taught in a bit of a different sequence than we’re used to teaching, but we’re not planets apart or continents apart, it’s like the next town over,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course’s two guiding questions — “How have race and ethnicity shaped or been shaped by history, policy and beliefs?” and “How, if at all, are race and ethnicity significant today?” — remain the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That makes sense, he said, since SFUSD’s curriculum is one of the longest-standing in the state and served as a model for the state implementing a graduation requirement.[aside postID=news_11830384 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1495678.750x-672x372.png']“Our course actually influenced a lot of the values and principles of the state model curriculum,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarita Lavin, another ethnic studies educator, said she feels the \u003cem>Voice\u003c/em>s book has gaps, lacking sections on the LGBTQ+ movement, disability rights and women’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has no mention of trans people or queer people or their struggles, which is pretty appalling considering the student populations we serve and the fact that we are in San Francisco, which has been a historic hub for queer resistance and rights,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest change teachers face, though, is not the new curriculum itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us are kind of afraid of a witch hunt,” Aguirre said. “It’s very disheartening that … [teachers] feel like they have to look over their shoulder. To question ‘Is this going to be objectionable? Am I going to get doxxed online?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worries ethnic studies classes will be under a microscope this year, especially after the district implemented a new regulation last month governing when supplemental materials that aren’t from the approved curriculum can be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Superintendent Maria Su announced that any outside documents teachers use in any class must go through the district’s review process. That protocol said teachers can use their judgment to decide when something is appropriate. If they are unsure, they must get approval from the superintendent or another designated top official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre said when she and teachers asked for more concrete details about the vetting and complaint process, they were told little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district referred KQED to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/departments/curriculum-instruction/administrative-regulation-616111-supplemental-instructional-materials\">page on its website\u003c/a> that said if a teacher requests a consult, the superintendent’s designee will assess the new material’s “educational value, relevance, appropriateness, and alignment with District criteria.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD also said parents can request feedback forms from school principals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was told to continue sharing curriculum with her department head and campus administrators — which teachers already do — but it did little to ease the anxiety of new and non-tenured teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavin said she fears that using unapproved supplements could lead to discipline or removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing realistically is that people who are not educational professionals are having a voice over the people who are educational professionals,” Lavin said. “People who are not education professionals are determining what is allowed for your students to learn in a classroom space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very dangerous precedent to set.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "San Francisco Unified’s ethnic studies program, once hailed as a national model, is now at the center of heated parent opposition, new curriculum oversight and rising teacher fears about censorship.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1759505810,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 32,
"wordCount": 1358
},
"headData": {
"title": "Ethnic Studies Debate Follows Students Into San Francisco Classrooms | KQED",
"description": "San Francisco Unified’s ethnic studies program, once hailed as a national model, is now at the center of heated parent opposition, new curriculum oversight and rising teacher fears about censorship.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Ethnic Studies Debate Follows Students Into San Francisco Classrooms",
"datePublished": "2025-09-02T12:05:18-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-10-03T08:36:50-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 8,
"slug": "news",
"name": "News"
},
"audioUrl": "https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/8e6946ca-8dfc-45d7-a2c7-b35c010b273a/audio.mp3",
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12054363",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12054363/ethnic-studies-debate-follows-students-into-san-francisco-classrooms",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Samantha Aguirre’s ninth graders shuffled into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830384/how-the-longest-student-strike-in-u-s-history-created-ethnic-studies\">ethnic studies\u003c/a> on the first day of school this fall, many had no idea of the drama and strife surrounding the course all summer — still looming in the background of Aguirre’s and many teachers’ minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She delivered her opening spiel, refined over a decade teaching the class in the San Francisco Unified School District, introducing herself to new students, establishing a welcoming environment and posing one of the year’s guiding questions: “What are race and ethnicities and how have they changed over time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discussing that question has always been where Aguirre starts, she said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046122/sfusd-was-a-pioneer-in-ethnic-studies-now-the-program-could-be-put-on-pause\">Despite months of parent pushback\u003c/a> against ethnic studies, prompting a late-summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046580/sf-school-district-wont-cancel-ethnic-studies-but-pauses-its-homegrown-curriculum\">curriculum change\u003c/a> and new oversight regulations, she hasn’t had to alter much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since school let out in the spring, SFUSD’s ethnic studies course has come under major scrutiny after a cohort of parents, backed by local political groups and a national education organization, raised alarms that the curriculum in their children’s classrooms comes from a biased, “activist-driven” perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petitions cropped up to pause the class, parents created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.opt-out-toolkit-sfusd-ethnic-studies.com/\">toolkit to opt kids out\u003c/a> and media scrutiny intensified. In July, the district announced it would replace its pioneering homegrown curriculum with a third-party textbook for this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052662 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco arrive for their first day of the school year on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the online chatter, fewer than 50 ninth graders chose not to take ethnic studies this fall, and the classrooms the other 3,800 freshmen entered looked much the same as in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When teachers began flipping through the new course materials in early August, Aguirre said she and other veterans reached an almost ironic understanding: “This textbook that’s been quote-unquote ‘vetted and approved’ is not radically different from what most of us have been teaching already,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first unit of the new textbook, \u003ca href=\"https://gibbssmitheducation.com/diversity-studies/voices\">\u003cem>Voices: An Ethnic Studies Survey\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by Gibbs Smith Education, focuses on race and ethnicity, sharing many of the themes that SFUSD’s opening “Self and Stories” unit covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[\u003cem>Voices\u003c/em>] talks a little bit about colonialism and constructs and eugenics and hierarchy and race. It defines what race is and how that varies from ethnicity, “ Aguirre said. “It talks a little bit about scientific racism and pseudoscientists of the past. These are all things that were in the SFUSD curriculum.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_12046580",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>SFUSD first piloted ethnic studies as an elective at some high schools in 2010, and expanded to all campuses in 2015. San Francisco’s Board of Education voted to make a yearlong ethnic studies course a graduation requirement beginning with students who entered ninth grade last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its inception, the course has been lauded as one of the district’s great successes. When announcing a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891396/new-california-law-will-require-ethnic-studies-class-for-high-schoolers\">state-wide ethnic studies requirement\u003c/a> in 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom pointed to San Francisco’s class, citing \u003ca href=\"https://ed.stanford.edu/news/ninth-grade-ethnic-studies-helped-students-years-stanford-researchers-find\">Stanford University research\u003c/a> that showed it bolstered students’ attendance and graduation rates. Researchers from UC Irvine found that taking ethnic studies in ninth grade boosted the GPAs of SFUSD students throughout high school, especially among Black and Latino students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the district’s course became a graduation requirement in 2024, it has faced intense criticism. Parents Defending Education, a national education group, published multiple reports last year accusing the class of bias and posted course documents it obtained through public records requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News articles cited one in-class activity \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/30/sfusd-new-ethnic-studies-mandate/\">asking students to role-play as Israeli soldiers\u003c/a> putting Palestinians into refugee camps, and a slide deck comparing civil rights and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfusd-ethic-studies-school-20353723.php\">social movements to the Red Guards\u003c/a>, an often-violent youth movement supporting Mao Zedong during China’s cultural revolution in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple ethnic studies teachers previously told KQED they had never seen those materials, much less used them in their classrooms. But the documents sparked a movement to pause the course, led by parents and aided by moderate political action groups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfblueprint.org/blog/ethnic-studies-is-yet-another-disastrous-misstep-for-our-public-school-district\">Blueprint for a Better San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052663 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Superintendent Maria Su speaks to students at Sanchez Elementary School on the first day of classes for the new school year in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They say ethnic studies should focus less on oppression, resistance and activism, and more on the histories of different ethnic groups. The new curriculum, however, changes little, according to Nikhil Laud, who heads the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are taught in a bit of a different sequence than we’re used to teaching, but we’re not planets apart or continents apart, it’s like the next town over,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course’s two guiding questions — “How have race and ethnicity shaped or been shaped by history, policy and beliefs?” and “How, if at all, are race and ethnicity significant today?” — remain the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That makes sense, he said, since SFUSD’s curriculum is one of the longest-standing in the state and served as a model for the state implementing a graduation requirement.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11830384",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1495678.750x-672x372.png",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Our course actually influenced a lot of the values and principles of the state model curriculum,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarita Lavin, another ethnic studies educator, said she feels the \u003cem>Voice\u003c/em>s book has gaps, lacking sections on the LGBTQ+ movement, disability rights and women’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has no mention of trans people or queer people or their struggles, which is pretty appalling considering the student populations we serve and the fact that we are in San Francisco, which has been a historic hub for queer resistance and rights,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest change teachers face, though, is not the new curriculum itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us are kind of afraid of a witch hunt,” Aguirre said. “It’s very disheartening that … [teachers] feel like they have to look over their shoulder. To question ‘Is this going to be objectionable? Am I going to get doxxed online?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worries ethnic studies classes will be under a microscope this year, especially after the district implemented a new regulation last month governing when supplemental materials that aren’t from the approved curriculum can be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Superintendent Maria Su announced that any outside documents teachers use in any class must go through the district’s review process. That protocol said teachers can use their judgment to decide when something is appropriate. If they are unsure, they must get approval from the superintendent or another designated top official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre said when she and teachers asked for more concrete details about the vetting and complaint process, they were told little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district referred KQED to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/departments/curriculum-instruction/administrative-regulation-616111-supplemental-instructional-materials\">page on its website\u003c/a> that said if a teacher requests a consult, the superintendent’s designee will assess the new material’s “educational value, relevance, appropriateness, and alignment with District criteria.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD also said parents can request feedback forms from school principals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was told to continue sharing curriculum with her department head and campus administrators — which teachers already do — but it did little to ease the anxiety of new and non-tenured teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavin said she fears that using unapproved supplements could lead to discipline or removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing realistically is that people who are not educational professionals are having a voice over the people who are educational professionals,” Lavin said. “People who are not education professionals are determining what is allowed for your students to learn in a classroom space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very dangerous precedent to set.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12054363/ethnic-studies-debate-follows-students-into-san-francisco-classrooms",
"authors": [
"11913"
],
"categories": [
"news_18540",
"news_28250",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_1386",
"news_20013",
"news_19203",
"news_38",
"news_3946",
"news_1290"
],
"featImg": "news_12051869",
"label": "news"
},
"news_12053877": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12053877",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12053877",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1756476030000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "this-new-north-bay-child-care-center-is-adapting-to-climate-change",
"title": "This New North Bay Child Care Center Is Adapting to Climate Change",
"publishDate": 1756476030,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "This New North Bay Child Care Center Is Adapting to Climate Change | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/wildfires\">Wildfire\u003c/a> smoke, extreme heat and contagious viruses — unhealthy for anyone — are especially dangerous for young bodies, so schools and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051850/as-californias-electricity-rates-rise-parents-struggle-to-pay-their-bills\">child care\u003c/a> are often forced to close when disasters hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2017, the staff at North Bay Children’s Center has seen the rippling consequences of these emergencies: parents had to drop what they were doing to pick up their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the fires, because of poor air quality, and during the pandemic, the natural reaction to our school districts and many of our colleagues in child care was to close,” said Susan Gilmore, CEO of the nonprofit, which operates 14 child development centers in Sonoma and Marin counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And our parents can’t afford that,” she said. “Most of them are essential employees; they live paycheck to paycheck and cannot miss work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the NBCC opened its biggest center in Novato, serving 176 infants, toddlers and preschoolers, and it’s designed to stay open amidst wildfire smoke, extreme heat and other climate-related events, and provide not just for kids but their families as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A preschool classroom at the North Bay Children’s Center in Novato on Aug. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inside, each classroom has its own climate control and filtration system to ensure the air stays cool and clean — and to minimize germs spreading from one room to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, trees and shade structures protect the play yard from the heat. The ground is mostly covered in mulch and astroturf instead of asphalt, which can radiate dangerously high temperatures, cutting outdoor playtime short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To extend that time, playground builders studied the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child from the infant program plays in the outdoor area at the North Bay Children’s Center in Novato on Aug. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Babies, toddlers and kids under 5 are more vulnerable to heat exhaustion because their bodies heat up faster, and they have a harder time cooling down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in an area where those extreme heat days are hotter and they last longer, so we have to make sure that our environments can support what children need,” Gilmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews carefully positioned fabric panels above the sandbox to provide shade as sunlight shifts, said Brian St. Peter, head of facilities for the NBCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Fogolini, director of Garden of Eatin’, checks on lettuce growing in the garden at the North Bay Children’s Center in Novato on Aug. 27, 2025. The program teaches children about healthy food through hands-on gardening. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We really had to look at exactly where it’s coming during the summer months, just to be able to accommodate the most shade for kids where they’re actually going to be playing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $12.5 million campus is on former military land that the NBCC purchased from the federal government for $1 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilmore already had blueprints for the building in 2015, but when the 2017 North Bay wildfires devastated the region and upended the lives of many families — including teachers and other members of the staff — Gilmore said it became crucial to add design features that address climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students learn how to cut vegetables for a salad at the North Bay Children’s Center in Novato on Aug. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To prepare for future emergencies, the new building will serve as a “resiliency hub” where families can go and be safe instead of an evacuation shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>If they’re in a place where they can’t get to their home, it’s important that we do have enough food, we do have enough water, and that we do have space outside of the classrooms where families can gather,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Heat, wildfire and other disasters often force child care centers to close, leaving families in the lurch.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1756924481,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 18,
"wordCount": 651
},
"headData": {
"title": "This New North Bay Child Care Center Is Adapting to Climate Change | KQED",
"description": "Heat, wildfire and other disasters often force child care centers to close, leaving families in the lurch.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "This New North Bay Child Care Center Is Adapting to Climate Change",
"datePublished": "2025-08-29T07:00:30-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-09-03T11:34:41-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 8,
"slug": "news",
"name": "News"
},
"audioUrl": "https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/6713fa6f-9838-43ab-998a-b34d010e11b1/audio.mp3",
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12053877",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12053877/this-new-north-bay-child-care-center-is-adapting-to-climate-change",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/wildfires\">Wildfire\u003c/a> smoke, extreme heat and contagious viruses — unhealthy for anyone — are especially dangerous for young bodies, so schools and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051850/as-californias-electricity-rates-rise-parents-struggle-to-pay-their-bills\">child care\u003c/a> are often forced to close when disasters hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2017, the staff at North Bay Children’s Center has seen the rippling consequences of these emergencies: parents had to drop what they were doing to pick up their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the fires, because of poor air quality, and during the pandemic, the natural reaction to our school districts and many of our colleagues in child care was to close,” said Susan Gilmore, CEO of the nonprofit, which operates 14 child development centers in Sonoma and Marin counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And our parents can’t afford that,” she said. “Most of them are essential employees; they live paycheck to paycheck and cannot miss work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the NBCC opened its biggest center in Novato, serving 176 infants, toddlers and preschoolers, and it’s designed to stay open amidst wildfire smoke, extreme heat and other climate-related events, and provide not just for kids but their families as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A preschool classroom at the North Bay Children’s Center in Novato on Aug. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inside, each classroom has its own climate control and filtration system to ensure the air stays cool and clean — and to minimize germs spreading from one room to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, trees and shade structures protect the play yard from the heat. The ground is mostly covered in mulch and astroturf instead of asphalt, which can radiate dangerously high temperatures, cutting outdoor playtime short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To extend that time, playground builders studied the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child from the infant program plays in the outdoor area at the North Bay Children’s Center in Novato on Aug. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Babies, toddlers and kids under 5 are more vulnerable to heat exhaustion because their bodies heat up faster, and they have a harder time cooling down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in an area where those extreme heat days are hotter and they last longer, so we have to make sure that our environments can support what children need,” Gilmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews carefully positioned fabric panels above the sandbox to provide shade as sunlight shifts, said Brian St. Peter, head of facilities for the NBCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Fogolini, director of Garden of Eatin’, checks on lettuce growing in the garden at the North Bay Children’s Center in Novato on Aug. 27, 2025. The program teaches children about healthy food through hands-on gardening. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We really had to look at exactly where it’s coming during the summer months, just to be able to accommodate the most shade for kids where they’re actually going to be playing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $12.5 million campus is on former military land that the NBCC purchased from the federal government for $1 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilmore already had blueprints for the building in 2015, but when the 2017 North Bay wildfires devastated the region and upended the lives of many families — including teachers and other members of the staff — Gilmore said it became crucial to add design features that address climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-CLIMATERESILIENTCHILDCARECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students learn how to cut vegetables for a salad at the North Bay Children’s Center in Novato on Aug. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To prepare for future emergencies, the new building will serve as a “resiliency hub” where families can go and be safe instead of an evacuation shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>If they’re in a place where they can’t get to their home, it’s important that we do have enough food, we do have enough water, and that we do have space outside of the classrooms where families can gather,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12053877/this-new-north-bay-child-care-center-is-adapting-to-climate-change",
"authors": [
"11829"
],
"categories": [
"news_31795",
"news_34165",
"news_18540",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_25647",
"news_18538",
"news_20754",
"news_32768",
"news_2043",
"news_29886",
"news_19204",
"news_255",
"news_32102",
"news_32928",
"news_20013",
"news_27626"
],
"featImg": "news_12054023",
"label": "news"
},
"news_12053938": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12053938",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12053938",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1756400654000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "former-san-jose-principal-sues-alum-rock-school-district-alleging-retaliation-over-abuse-report",
"title": "Former San José Principal Sues Alum Rock School District, Alleging Retaliation Over Abuse Report",
"publishDate": 1756400654,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Former San José Principal Sues Alum Rock School District, Alleging Retaliation Over Abuse Report | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>More than two years ago, parents of children at Adelante Dual Language Academy in San José called on the district to bring back their principal, Maria Gutierrez. Now, Gutierrez is suing Alum Rock Union School District, alleging she was placed on leave and eventually terminated in retaliation for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990571/east-san-jose-school-conspired-to-hide-teachers-sexual-abuse-11-victims-allege-in-lawsuit\">reporting the school’s music teacher\u003c/a>, Israel Santiago, to authorities for suspected abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutierrez said she was a well-respected principal, known for her dedication to student success and fostering a supportive school culture. But she claims district administrators responded with hostility, engaging in a systemic effort to discredit, intimidate and isolate her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alum Rock Union School District declined to comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, Gutierrez reported Santiago to Child Protective Services and law enforcement in November 2022, triggering a criminal investigation that led to his arrest for multiple counts of molestation and lewd acts on a child by force. Santiago is currently serving a prison sentence for the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after reporting Santiago, Gutierrez said she was placed on administrative leave and later terminated. She alleges the district reported her to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing in an effort to damage her career prospects and prevent future employment in education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants made Plaintiff a scapegoat for their systemic failures in addressing Santiago’s misconduct,” the suit reads. “Rather than taking accountability, they shifted blame onto Plaintiff to protect their reputations and evade responsibility for their inaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign outside Adelante Dual Language Academy is pictured in San José, California on June 8 2023. Records obtained by KQED show a music teacher arrested this year for sexually abusing 10 students at Adelante Academy had complaints at a different school for inappropriately touching students before he was transferred. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Records obtained by KQED show that students at two other district schools had reported Santiago’s behavior from 2012 through 2014. Despite repeated complaints of inappropriate touching, the district issued a letter of reprimand and transferred him to another school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After transferring Santiago to Adelante, the district did not inform site leadership or parents about his history of complaints, according to the lawsuit. Gutierrez alleges she was punished for exposing the district’s institutional failures, while those who failed to report or shielded Santiago were not disciplined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imee Almazan, the former Sheppard Middle School principal who investigated Santiago in 2014, was appointed interim superintendent in 2024, though she is no longer with the district, according to her LinkedIn.[aside postID=news_11990571 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66175_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-111-KQED-1020x678.jpg']The Alum Rock school board is also facing scrutiny over its decision to close or consolidate schools, and the abrupt firing of its most recent superintendent. In an interview with \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/east-san-jose-alum-rock-union-school-district-leader-fired-for-looking-into-questionable-expenses/\">\u003cem>San José Spotlight\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, former superintendent German Cerda said he was let go after asking board members to reimburse questionable expenses billed to the district. Cerda said Board Vice President Andres Quintero received more than $27,000 in reimbursements from the district for an online doctorate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Quintero called the claims “baseless,” saying every reimbursement request he submitted followed proper procedures and was approved by district administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is calling on Cerda to release his own personnel file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Alum Rock community deserves facts, not insinuations. While I remain committed to transparency and accountability, I will not be silent in the face of false and damaging accusations,” Quintero wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Office of Education has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccoe.org/news/NR/Pages/audit-request-ARUSD.aspx\">requested an audit\u003c/a> of the Alum Rock Union School District in response to concerns regarding the “reimbursement of board members for education and training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next Alum Rock board meeting is scheduled for Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "The lawsuit highlights alleged retaliation against a principal who reported child abuse, raising questions about district oversight, board accountability and student safety in San José schools.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1756402247,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 16,
"wordCount": 634
},
"headData": {
"title": "Former San José Principal Sues Alum Rock School District, Alleging Retaliation Over Abuse Report | KQED",
"description": "The lawsuit highlights alleged retaliation against a principal who reported child abuse, raising questions about district oversight, board accountability and student safety in San José schools.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Former San José Principal Sues Alum Rock School District, Alleging Retaliation Over Abuse Report",
"datePublished": "2025-08-28T10:04:14-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-08-28T10:30:47-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 8,
"slug": "news",
"name": "News"
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12053938",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12053938/former-san-jose-principal-sues-alum-rock-school-district-alleging-retaliation-over-abuse-report",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More than two years ago, parents of children at Adelante Dual Language Academy in San José called on the district to bring back their principal, Maria Gutierrez. Now, Gutierrez is suing Alum Rock Union School District, alleging she was placed on leave and eventually terminated in retaliation for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990571/east-san-jose-school-conspired-to-hide-teachers-sexual-abuse-11-victims-allege-in-lawsuit\">reporting the school’s music teacher\u003c/a>, Israel Santiago, to authorities for suspected abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutierrez said she was a well-respected principal, known for her dedication to student success and fostering a supportive school culture. But she claims district administrators responded with hostility, engaging in a systemic effort to discredit, intimidate and isolate her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alum Rock Union School District declined to comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, Gutierrez reported Santiago to Child Protective Services and law enforcement in November 2022, triggering a criminal investigation that led to his arrest for multiple counts of molestation and lewd acts on a child by force. Santiago is currently serving a prison sentence for the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after reporting Santiago, Gutierrez said she was placed on administrative leave and later terminated. She alleges the district reported her to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing in an effort to damage her career prospects and prevent future employment in education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants made Plaintiff a scapegoat for their systemic failures in addressing Santiago’s misconduct,” the suit reads. “Rather than taking accountability, they shifted blame onto Plaintiff to protect their reputations and evade responsibility for their inaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign outside Adelante Dual Language Academy is pictured in San José, California on June 8 2023. Records obtained by KQED show a music teacher arrested this year for sexually abusing 10 students at Adelante Academy had complaints at a different school for inappropriately touching students before he was transferred. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Records obtained by KQED show that students at two other district schools had reported Santiago’s behavior from 2012 through 2014. Despite repeated complaints of inappropriate touching, the district issued a letter of reprimand and transferred him to another school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After transferring Santiago to Adelante, the district did not inform site leadership or parents about his history of complaints, according to the lawsuit. Gutierrez alleges she was punished for exposing the district’s institutional failures, while those who failed to report or shielded Santiago were not disciplined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imee Almazan, the former Sheppard Middle School principal who investigated Santiago in 2014, was appointed interim superintendent in 2024, though she is no longer with the district, according to her LinkedIn.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11990571",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66175_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-111-KQED-1020x678.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Alum Rock school board is also facing scrutiny over its decision to close or consolidate schools, and the abrupt firing of its most recent superintendent. In an interview with \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/east-san-jose-alum-rock-union-school-district-leader-fired-for-looking-into-questionable-expenses/\">\u003cem>San José Spotlight\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, former superintendent German Cerda said he was let go after asking board members to reimburse questionable expenses billed to the district. Cerda said Board Vice President Andres Quintero received more than $27,000 in reimbursements from the district for an online doctorate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Quintero called the claims “baseless,” saying every reimbursement request he submitted followed proper procedures and was approved by district administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is calling on Cerda to release his own personnel file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Alum Rock community deserves facts, not insinuations. While I remain committed to transparency and accountability, I will not be silent in the face of false and damaging accusations,” Quintero wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Office of Education has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccoe.org/news/NR/Pages/audit-request-ARUSD.aspx\">requested an audit\u003c/a> of the Alum Rock Union School District in response to concerns regarding the “reimbursement of board members for education and training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next Alum Rock board meeting is scheduled for Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12053938/former-san-jose-principal-sues-alum-rock-school-district-alleging-retaliation-over-abuse-report",
"authors": [
"11635"
],
"categories": [
"news_34167",
"news_18540",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_17725",
"news_20013",
"news_27626",
"news_19904",
"news_18541",
"news_2700",
"news_21285"
],
"featImg": "news_12053962",
"label": "news"
},
"news_12053640": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12053640",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12053640",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1756322865000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "trump-administration-cuts-california-sex-ed-funding-over-gender-identity-content",
"title": "Trump Administration Cuts California Sex Ed Funding Over Gender Identity Content",
"publishDate": 1756322865,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Trump Administration Cuts California Sex Ed Funding Over Gender Identity Content | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>The Trump Administration last week canceled funding for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> sexual health education program serving homeless, foster care and incarcerated youth, alleging it is an “attempt to indoctrinate children with gender ideology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is California’s curricula, which teach that gender identity can differ from biological sex and that trans and nonbinary people exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that trans people exist and we know that there are trans kids in our schools,” said Perryn Reis, a longtime sex and puberty educator. “They need to feel included and seen in the curriculum and ultimately to try to decrease bullying, to try to increase comfort for them in their school communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law requires public and charter schools to teach comprehensive, inclusive and medically accurate sex and relationship education, including information about gender, gender expression and gender identity, a California Department of Public Health spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Personal Responsibility Education Program, known as CA PREP, provides grants to 20 schools and local nonprofits to offer classes, reaching about 13,000 youth annually across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s students deserve access to educational information and materials that help them make healthy decisions about sexual activity, including the decision to delay sexual activity, while honoring and respecting their dignity, including gender identity,” CDPH said in a statement. “California maintains its position that the curriculum is medically accurate, comprehensive, and age-appropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023046 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a white hat holds a white sign with the word \"Obsessed\" in large letters.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign for women’s rights while marching with hundreds who came out to protest along 24th Street for the People’s March in San Francisco’s Mission District, on Jan. 18, 2025. The protesters represent several causes, including the war in Gaza, women’s rights, targeting of undocumented people, minorities and more, part of a nationwide day of action protesting President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, Health Initiatives for Youth was awarded $274,398 for services in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curricula used by CA PREP were previously reviewed and approved by the federal Administration for Children and Families, but the Trump administration is now revoking that approval. California is now about $5.8 million in federal funding for local organizations and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That loss will likely fall on the grantees who serve high-needs children, who are already struggling financially, Reis said.[aside postID=news_12050618 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed.jpg']“I don’t know who’s going to make up the funding,” Reis said. “I think there’s just going to be a lack of services for our young people, and I think the burden will fall more on our state government to make up the funding or on schools … to make up the difference to either train teachers or hire outside folks to come in and teach a sex ed curriculum, or then they wouldn’t be in compliance with the Ed code.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the California grantees losing funding, three are Planned Parenthood affiliates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby McMichael with the Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California called the cuts an attack not only on reproductive health care, but also “a clear attack on California and its values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make no mistake, these cuts will cause harm: unplanned teen pregnancies will go up, the STI crisis will worsen, and countless youth across the state will be deprived of the knowledge they need to make the decisions that are best for their health, relationships, and lives,” McMichael said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has 30 days to appeal, but CDPH has not confirmed whether or not it will do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the federal Administration for Children and Families before the funding cutoff, Matthew Green with the Center for Family Health at CDPH said the department would not change its curricula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11913111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-4-scaled-e1651632298608.jpg\" alt='A large crowed assembles in downtown San Francisco. Many are chanting and holding up signs. One sign reads, \"My body, my choice.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gathered outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, in support of abortion rights after the Supreme Court’s draft opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The materials are medically accurate and directly relevant to the purposes of personal responsibility education programs set out in the authorizing statute,” Green wrote. “In short, CDPH will continue to comply with federal and California law regarding personal responsibility and sexual health education of youth and pupils in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of just five states that require comprehensive sex education in schools by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reis said she hopes California stands strong and continues to offer trans-inclusive sex education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of the curricula out there are trying to change people’s mind or they’re trying to get kids to go through operations or things like that,” she said. “It’s just about recognizing the diversity in the world and that our world is really diverse … and our bodies are really diverse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "A federal funding cutoff threatens California’s sex education program for at-risk youth after the state refused to remove lessons on gender identity, impacting thousands of students and nonprofits.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1756324115,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 20,
"wordCount": 848
},
"headData": {
"title": "Trump Administration Cuts California Sex Ed Funding Over Gender Identity Content | KQED",
"description": "A federal funding cutoff threatens California’s sex education program for at-risk youth after the state refused to remove lessons on gender identity, impacting thousands of students and nonprofits.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Trump Administration Cuts California Sex Ed Funding Over Gender Identity Content",
"datePublished": "2025-08-27T12:27:45-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-08-27T12:48:35-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 8,
"slug": "news",
"name": "News"
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12053640",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12053640/trump-administration-cuts-california-sex-ed-funding-over-gender-identity-content",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Trump Administration last week canceled funding for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> sexual health education program serving homeless, foster care and incarcerated youth, alleging it is an “attempt to indoctrinate children with gender ideology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is California’s curricula, which teach that gender identity can differ from biological sex and that trans and nonbinary people exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that trans people exist and we know that there are trans kids in our schools,” said Perryn Reis, a longtime sex and puberty educator. “They need to feel included and seen in the curriculum and ultimately to try to decrease bullying, to try to increase comfort for them in their school communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law requires public and charter schools to teach comprehensive, inclusive and medically accurate sex and relationship education, including information about gender, gender expression and gender identity, a California Department of Public Health spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Personal Responsibility Education Program, known as CA PREP, provides grants to 20 schools and local nonprofits to offer classes, reaching about 13,000 youth annually across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s students deserve access to educational information and materials that help them make healthy decisions about sexual activity, including the decision to delay sexual activity, while honoring and respecting their dignity, including gender identity,” CDPH said in a statement. “California maintains its position that the curriculum is medically accurate, comprehensive, and age-appropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023046 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a white hat holds a white sign with the word \"Obsessed\" in large letters.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250118_Peoples-March_DMB_00192-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign for women’s rights while marching with hundreds who came out to protest along 24th Street for the People’s March in San Francisco’s Mission District, on Jan. 18, 2025. The protesters represent several causes, including the war in Gaza, women’s rights, targeting of undocumented people, minorities and more, part of a nationwide day of action protesting President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, Health Initiatives for Youth was awarded $274,398 for services in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curricula used by CA PREP were previously reviewed and approved by the federal Administration for Children and Families, but the Trump administration is now revoking that approval. California is now about $5.8 million in federal funding for local organizations and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That loss will likely fall on the grantees who serve high-needs children, who are already struggling financially, Reis said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_12050618",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I don’t know who’s going to make up the funding,” Reis said. “I think there’s just going to be a lack of services for our young people, and I think the burden will fall more on our state government to make up the funding or on schools … to make up the difference to either train teachers or hire outside folks to come in and teach a sex ed curriculum, or then they wouldn’t be in compliance with the Ed code.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the California grantees losing funding, three are Planned Parenthood affiliates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby McMichael with the Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California called the cuts an attack not only on reproductive health care, but also “a clear attack on California and its values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make no mistake, these cuts will cause harm: unplanned teen pregnancies will go up, the STI crisis will worsen, and countless youth across the state will be deprived of the knowledge they need to make the decisions that are best for their health, relationships, and lives,” McMichael said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has 30 days to appeal, but CDPH has not confirmed whether or not it will do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the federal Administration for Children and Families before the funding cutoff, Matthew Green with the Center for Family Health at CDPH said the department would not change its curricula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11913111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-4-scaled-e1651632298608.jpg\" alt='A large crowed assembles in downtown San Francisco. Many are chanting and holding up signs. One sign reads, \"My body, my choice.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gathered outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, in support of abortion rights after the Supreme Court’s draft opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The materials are medically accurate and directly relevant to the purposes of personal responsibility education programs set out in the authorizing statute,” Green wrote. “In short, CDPH will continue to comply with federal and California law regarding personal responsibility and sexual health education of youth and pupils in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of just five states that require comprehensive sex education in schools by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reis said she hopes California stands strong and continues to offer trans-inclusive sex education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of the curricula out there are trying to change people’s mind or they’re trying to get kids to go through operations or things like that,” she said. “It’s just about recognizing the diversity in the world and that our world is really diverse … and our bodies are really diverse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12053640/trump-administration-cuts-california-sex-ed-funding-over-gender-identity-content",
"authors": [
"11756"
],
"categories": [
"news_31795",
"news_18540",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_18538",
"news_1323",
"news_20013",
"news_27626",
"news_34377",
"news_18543",
"news_35118",
"news_20004",
"news_20003",
"news_19345",
"news_32549",
"news_17968",
"news_5850",
"news_35628",
"news_18077",
"news_1917"
],
"featImg": "news_12053836",
"label": "news"
},
"news_12053745": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12053745",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12053745",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1756314065000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "sf-school-board-to-vote-on-new-mandarin-charter-school-facing-likely-rejection",
"title": "SF School Board Unanimously Denies Mandarin Immersion Charter",
"publishDate": 1756314065,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "SF School Board Unanimously Denies Mandarin Immersion Charter | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s school board unanimously rejected a petition on Tuesday to open a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade Mandarin Immersion school in the city next fall, citing concerns with the parent-led effort’s educational model and the new school’s financial impact on the cash-strapped district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two hours of debate, the board voted 7-0 to deny the charter, following the recommendation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> staff, which said they didn’t believe the plan was “workable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to concerns about the educational model and feasibility of the plan, staff also wrote in a report earlier this month that the school could siphon away funding the district can’t stand to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At full scale, Dragon Gate Academy would serve approximately 396 students and could lead to a loss of funding in excess of $5 million annually,” the report reads. “SFUSD … is not positioned to absorb the impact of the proposed charter school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rejection isn’t the end of the road for the charter petitioners — they can still appeal to the state, and seem prepared to do so. Here’s what’s happened in the saga so far and what could be coming next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036911\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast:\u003c/strong> In June, a group of parents, led by Brian Hollinger, submitted a petition to the San Francisco Board of Education, seeking a charter to open and operate \u003ca href=\"https://www.dragongateacademy.org/\">Dragon Gate Academy\u003c/a> starting next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal argued that SFUSD has long lacked enough seats in Mandarin immersion classrooms and that the current model, which separates elementary and middle school students, makes commuting a challenge for families. Currently, the district offers just 66 seats across two elementary schools to incoming kindergarteners each year, with two-thirds reserved for native speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new school would nearly double that number in the next five years, opening to an estimated 154 students in grades K-4 next fall and expanding to 396 students in K-8 by the 2030-2031 school year.[aside postID=news_12048313 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanFranciscoK8SchoolGetty.jpg']The new school would teach students in both English and Mandarin, introducing some Cantonese “as a cultural feature” in fourth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s new: \u003c/strong>The school board held a public hearing to gauge support for the school in July, and issued a scathing staff report panning the application on Aug. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That report urged the school board to deny the charter, citing concerns with its proposed methods to measure student achievement, ensure proper staffing, recruit a diverse student body and support special education students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Dragon Gate’s petition has about 200 signatures from parents of elementary-age children, the report also questions how broad their reach is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears at most 16 members of the public, including some of the named petitioners, voiced support for the charter school,” at the public hearing, the report says. “Staff do not consider 16 members of the public as representing significant community support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Tuesday’s meeting, Hollinger said that some of the criticisms felt hypocritical because they stemmed from policies modeled by the district. He defended the school’s proposal and questioned whether some board members’ preconceived opinions of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco arrive for their first day of the school year on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>In the months since Dragon Gate submitted its proposal, SFUSD also unexpectedly announced plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048313/san-francisco-unified-plans-new-mandarin-immersion-school-amid-charter-push\">launch its own K-8 Mandarin immersion school\u003c/a> by 2027, aided by an anonymous benefactor and led by former principal Liana Szeto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Maria Su said the move was part of her effort to expand specialized programs to meet a growing need for language immersion education and attract families to the district, but Hollinger believes the announcement was a direct response to Dragon Gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery,” he said last week, speaking with reporters outside the district’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts agree the district’s plan could strengthen the argument to deny the petition, but Hollinger said the news only energized his group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t slow down, we just felt incredibly validated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s next: \u003c/strong>Charter school petitioners have a robust appeals process in California, and Dragon Gate is expected to take advantage of it now that the board has denied its proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under most jurisdictions, Dragon Gate would be required to appeal to a county board of education that oversees the petitioned school district, but since the school board in San Francisco — as a city and county — oversees both SFUSD and the county office of education, there is no independent county board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dragon Gate can appeal directly to the state Board of Education, which typically reviews charters as a last resort and can only reverse a local decision if it was erroneous or unreasonable. In this case, however, the state board will review the petition independently and decide whether to approve the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could work in Dragon Gate’s favor, since the state board has historically been more likely to grant charters than local boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Dragon Gate is approved by the state board of education, it would technically be the school’s oversight. But that doesn’t mean SFUSD would be off the hook financially — the district’s estimate that Dragon Gate could increase costs and intensify competition for students and staff still stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "The board cited concerns about the school’s educational model, financial impact and limited community support, though petitioners can still appeal to the state.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1756314837,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 26,
"wordCount": 971
},
"headData": {
"title": "SF School Board Unanimously Denies Mandarin Immersion Charter | KQED",
"description": "The board cited concerns about the school’s educational model, financial impact and limited community support, though petitioners can still appeal to the state.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "SF School Board Unanimously Denies Mandarin Immersion Charter",
"datePublished": "2025-08-27T10:01:05-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-08-27T10:13:57-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 8,
"slug": "news",
"name": "News"
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12053745",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12053745/sf-school-board-to-vote-on-new-mandarin-charter-school-facing-likely-rejection",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s school board unanimously rejected a petition on Tuesday to open a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade Mandarin Immersion school in the city next fall, citing concerns with the parent-led effort’s educational model and the new school’s financial impact on the cash-strapped district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two hours of debate, the board voted 7-0 to deny the charter, following the recommendation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> staff, which said they didn’t believe the plan was “workable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to concerns about the educational model and feasibility of the plan, staff also wrote in a report earlier this month that the school could siphon away funding the district can’t stand to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At full scale, Dragon Gate Academy would serve approximately 396 students and could lead to a loss of funding in excess of $5 million annually,” the report reads. “SFUSD … is not positioned to absorb the impact of the proposed charter school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rejection isn’t the end of the road for the charter petitioners — they can still appeal to the state, and seem prepared to do so. Here’s what’s happened in the saga so far and what could be coming next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036911\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast:\u003c/strong> In June, a group of parents, led by Brian Hollinger, submitted a petition to the San Francisco Board of Education, seeking a charter to open and operate \u003ca href=\"https://www.dragongateacademy.org/\">Dragon Gate Academy\u003c/a> starting next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal argued that SFUSD has long lacked enough seats in Mandarin immersion classrooms and that the current model, which separates elementary and middle school students, makes commuting a challenge for families. Currently, the district offers just 66 seats across two elementary schools to incoming kindergarteners each year, with two-thirds reserved for native speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new school would nearly double that number in the next five years, opening to an estimated 154 students in grades K-4 next fall and expanding to 396 students in K-8 by the 2030-2031 school year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_12048313",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanFranciscoK8SchoolGetty.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The new school would teach students in both English and Mandarin, introducing some Cantonese “as a cultural feature” in fourth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s new: \u003c/strong>The school board held a public hearing to gauge support for the school in July, and issued a scathing staff report panning the application on Aug. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That report urged the school board to deny the charter, citing concerns with its proposed methods to measure student achievement, ensure proper staffing, recruit a diverse student body and support special education students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Dragon Gate’s petition has about 200 signatures from parents of elementary-age children, the report also questions how broad their reach is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears at most 16 members of the public, including some of the named petitioners, voiced support for the charter school,” at the public hearing, the report says. “Staff do not consider 16 members of the public as representing significant community support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Tuesday’s meeting, Hollinger said that some of the criticisms felt hypocritical because they stemmed from policies modeled by the district. He defended the school’s proposal and questioned whether some board members’ preconceived opinions of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco arrive for their first day of the school year on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>In the months since Dragon Gate submitted its proposal, SFUSD also unexpectedly announced plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048313/san-francisco-unified-plans-new-mandarin-immersion-school-amid-charter-push\">launch its own K-8 Mandarin immersion school\u003c/a> by 2027, aided by an anonymous benefactor and led by former principal Liana Szeto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Maria Su said the move was part of her effort to expand specialized programs to meet a growing need for language immersion education and attract families to the district, but Hollinger believes the announcement was a direct response to Dragon Gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery,” he said last week, speaking with reporters outside the district’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts agree the district’s plan could strengthen the argument to deny the petition, but Hollinger said the news only energized his group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t slow down, we just felt incredibly validated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s next: \u003c/strong>Charter school petitioners have a robust appeals process in California, and Dragon Gate is expected to take advantage of it now that the board has denied its proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under most jurisdictions, Dragon Gate would be required to appeal to a county board of education that oversees the petitioned school district, but since the school board in San Francisco — as a city and county — oversees both SFUSD and the county office of education, there is no independent county board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dragon Gate can appeal directly to the state Board of Education, which typically reviews charters as a last resort and can only reverse a local decision if it was erroneous or unreasonable. In this case, however, the state board will review the petition independently and decide whether to approve the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could work in Dragon Gate’s favor, since the state board has historically been more likely to grant charters than local boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Dragon Gate is approved by the state board of education, it would technically be the school’s oversight. But that doesn’t mean SFUSD would be off the hook financially — the district’s estimate that Dragon Gate could increase costs and intensify competition for students and staff still stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12053745/sf-school-board-to-vote-on-new-mandarin-charter-school-facing-likely-rejection",
"authors": [
"11913"
],
"categories": [
"news_18540",
"news_28250",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_22973",
"news_20013",
"news_23393",
"news_38",
"news_3946",
"news_1290"
],
"featImg": "news_12053747",
"label": "news"
}
},
"podcastsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"podcasts": {}
},
"radioProgramsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"radioPrograms": {}
},
"radioSearchSegmentsReducer": {},
"programsReducer": {
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9a90d476-aa04-455d-9a4c-0871ed6216d4/bay-curious",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/26099305-72af-4542-9dde-ac1807fe36d5/kqed-s-the-california-report",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/44420f75-3b0e-4301-ab3b-16da6b09e543/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Perspectives",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e0c2d153-ad36-4c8d-901d-f1da6a724824/political-breakdown",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Snap Judgment",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Spooked",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d800ea4c-7a2c-42f2-b861-edaf78a5db0b/the-bay",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-sam-sanders-show": {
"id": "the-sam-sanders-show",
"title": "The Sam Sanders Show",
"info": "One of public radio's most dynamic voices, Sam Sanders helped launch The NPR Politics Podcast and hosted NPR's hit show It's Been A Minute. Now, the award-winning host returns with something brand new, The Sam Sanders Show. Every week, Sam Sanders and friends dig into the culture that shapes our lives: what's driving the biggest trends, how artists really think, and even the memes you can't stop scrolling past. Sam is beloved for his way of unpacking the world and bringing you up close to fresh currents and engaging conversations. The Sam Sanders Show is smart, funny and always a good time.",
"airtime": "FRI 12-1pm AND SAT 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Sam-Sanders-Show-Podcast-Tile-400x400-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "KCRW"
},
"link": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feed.cdnstream1.com/zjb/feed/download/ac/28/59/ac28594c-e1d0-4231-8728-61865cdc80e8.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026Reducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/news?category=education": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 180,
"size": 12
},
"vitalsOnly": false,
"totalRequested": 12,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 2580,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"news_12055955",
"news_12056118",
"news_12055693",
"news_12055827",
"news_12055560",
"news_12055457",
"news_12054838",
"news_12054363",
"news_12053877",
"news_12053938",
"news_12053640",
"news_12053745"
],
"complete": true
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"newslettersReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"newsletters": {},
"isSubscribing": false,
"isUnsubscribing": false,
"subscribedNewsletters": {}
},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"careers": {
"name": "Careers",
"type": "terms",
"id": "careers",
"slug": "careers",
"link": "/careers",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"newsletters": {
"name": "newsletters",
"type": "terms",
"id": "newsletters",
"slug": "newsletters",
"link": "/newsletters",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news_category_education": {
"isLoading": true
},
"news_18540": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18540",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18540",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Education",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Education Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2595,
"slug": "education",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/education"
},
"news_31795": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_31795",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "31795",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 31812,
"slug": "california",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/california"
},
"news_8": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_8",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "8",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 8,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/news"
},
"news_1386": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1386",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1386",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Bay Area",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Bay Area Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1398,
"slug": "bay-area",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/bay-area"
},
"news_3854": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3854",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3854",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "budget cuts",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "budget cuts Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3873,
"slug": "budget-cuts",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/budget-cuts"
},
"news_18538": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18538",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18538",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 31,
"slug": "california",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/california"
},
"news_20013": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20013",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20013",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "education",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "education Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20030,
"slug": "education",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/education"
},
"news_27626": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_27626",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "27626",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "featured-news",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "featured-news Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 27643,
"slug": "featured-news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/featured-news"
},
"news_18541": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18541",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18541",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Jose",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Jose Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 91,
"slug": "san-jose",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-jose"
},
"news_21285": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_21285",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "21285",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "South Bay",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "South Bay Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 21302,
"slug": "south-bay",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/south-bay"
},
"news_33746": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33746",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33746",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Education",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Education Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33763,
"slug": "education",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/education"
},
"news_33733": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33733",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33733",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33750,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/news"
},
"news_33731": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33731",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33731",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "South Bay",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "South Bay Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33748,
"slug": "south-bay",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/south-bay"
},
"news_34551": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_34551",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "34551",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Labor",
"slug": "labor",
"taxonomy": "category",
"description": "We examine worker safety, workplace regulation, employment trends and union organizing.",
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Labor | KQED News",
"description": "We examine worker safety, workplace regulation, employment trends and union organizing.",
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 34568,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/labor"
},
"news_6188": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6188",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6188",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Law and Justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Law and Justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6212,
"slug": "law-and-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/law-and-justice"
},
"news_24276": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_24276",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "24276",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Anti-Semitism",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Anti-Semitism Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 24293,
"slug": "anti-semitism",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/anti-semitism"
},
"news_4750": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4750",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4750",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "civil rights",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "civil rights Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4769,
"slug": "civil-rights",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/civil-rights"
},
"news_1323": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1323",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1323",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Donald Trump",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Donald Trump Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1335,
"slug": "donald-trump",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/donald-trump"
},
"news_20482": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20482",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20482",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "labor unions",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "labor unions Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20499,
"slug": "labor-unions",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/labor-unions"
},
"news_21891": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_21891",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "21891",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "lawsuits",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "lawsuits Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 21908,
"slug": "lawsuits",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/lawsuits"
},
"news_2792": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2792",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2792",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "UCLA",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "UCLA Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2810,
"slug": "ucla",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/ucla"
},
"news_206": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_206",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "206",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "University of California",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "University of California Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 214,
"slug": "university-of-california",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/university-of-california"
},
"news_33738": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33738",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33738",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33755,
"slug": "california",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/california"
},
"news_18880": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18880",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18880",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "books",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "books Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18897,
"slug": "books",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/books"
},
"news_2043": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2043",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2043",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "children",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "children Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2058,
"slug": "children",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/children"
},
"news_32102": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_32102",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "32102",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "early childhood education and care",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "early childhood education and care Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 32119,
"slug": "early-childhood-education-and-care",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/early-childhood-education-and-care"
},
"news_32928": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_32928",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "32928",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "early childhood services",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "early childhood services Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 32945,
"slug": "early-childhood-services",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/early-childhood-services"
},
"news_22557": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_22557",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "22557",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Literature",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Literature Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 22574,
"slug": "literature",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/literature"
},
"news_38": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_38",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "38",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 58,
"slug": "san-francisco",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco"
},
"news_33729": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33729",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33729",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33746,
"slug": "san-francisco",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/san-francisco"
},
"news_28250": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_28250",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "28250",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Local",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Local Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 28267,
"slug": "local",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/local"
},
"news_13": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_13",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "13",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Politics",
"slug": "politics",
"taxonomy": "category",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Politics | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 13,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/politics"
},
"news_34377": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_34377",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "34377",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "featured-politics",
"slug": "featured-politics",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "featured-politics Archives | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 34394,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/featured-politics"
},
"news_23960": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_23960",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "23960",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "First Amendment",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "First Amendment Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 23977,
"slug": "first-amendment",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/first-amendment"
},
"news_18797": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18797",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18797",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "free speech",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "free speech Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18814,
"slug": "free-speech",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/free-speech"
},
"news_6631": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6631",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6631",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Gaza",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Gaza Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6655,
"slug": "gaza",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gaza"
},
"news_1741": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1741",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1741",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Israel",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Israel Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1753,
"slug": "israel",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/israel"
},
"news_33333": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33333",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33333",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Israel-Hamas War",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Israel-Hamas War Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33350,
"slug": "israel-hamas-war",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/israel-hamas-war"
},
"news_17968": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17968",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17968",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Politics",
"slug": "politics",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Politics | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 18002,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/politics"
},
"news_17597": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17597",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17597",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "UC Berkeley",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "UC Berkeley Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17631,
"slug": "uc-berkeley",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/uc-berkeley"
},
"news_35401": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_35401",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "35401",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "k-12",
"slug": "k-12",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "k-12 | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 35418,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/k-12"
},
"news_33734": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33734",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33734",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Local Politics",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Local Politics Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33751,
"slug": "local-politics",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/local-politics"
},
"news_457": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_457",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "457",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Health Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 16998,
"slug": "health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/health"
},
"news_25365": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_25365",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "25365",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "community colleges",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "community colleges Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 25382,
"slug": "community-colleges",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/community-colleges"
},
"news_23122": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_23122",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "23122",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "food assistance",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "food assistance Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 23139,
"slug": "food-assistance",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/food-assistance"
},
"news_21602": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_21602",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "21602",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "food insecurity",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "food insecurity Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 21619,
"slug": "food-insecurity",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/food-insecurity"
},
"news_34586": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_34586",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "34586",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Silicon Valley",
"slug": "silicon-valley",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Silicon Valley | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 34603,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/silicon-valley"
},
"news_3457": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3457",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3457",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Students",
"slug": "students",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Students | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 3475,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/students"
},
"news_18066": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18066",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18066",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "east oakland",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "east oakland Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18100,
"slug": "east-oakland",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/east-oakland"
},
"news_2795": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2795",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2795",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "gun control",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "gun control Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2813,
"slug": "gun-control",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gun-control"
},
"news_22711": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_22711",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "22711",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "gun laws",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "gun laws Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 22728,
"slug": "gun-laws",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gun-laws"
},
"news_24228": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_24228",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "24228",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Gun Safety",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Gun Safety Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 24245,
"slug": "gun-safety",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gun-safety"
},
"news_4922": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4922",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4922",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "high school",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "high school Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4941,
"slug": "high-school",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/high-school"
},
"news_34054": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_34054",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "34054",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "oakland",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "oakland Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 34071,
"slug": "oakland",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/oakland"
},
"news_35836": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_35836",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "35836",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "safety",
"slug": "safety",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "safety | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 35853,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/safety"
},
"news_33741": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33741",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33741",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "East Bay",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "East Bay Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33758,
"slug": "east-bay",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/east-bay"
},
"news_19203": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19203",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19203",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "ethnic studies",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "ethnic studies Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19220,
"slug": "ethnic-studies",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/ethnic-studies"
},
"news_3946": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3946",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3946",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco Unified School District",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Unified School District Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3965,
"slug": "san-francisco-unified-school-district",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district"
},
"news_1290": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1290",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1290",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "SFUSD",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "SFUSD Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1302,
"slug": "sfusd",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sfusd"
},
"news_34165": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_34165",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "34165",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Climate",
"slug": "climate",
"taxonomy": "category",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Climate Archives | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 34182,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/climate"
},
"news_25647": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_25647",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "25647",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "affordable child care",
"slug": "affordable-child-care",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "affordable child care | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 25664,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/affordable-child-care"
},
"news_20754": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20754",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20754",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "child care",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "child care Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20771,
"slug": "child-care",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/child-care"
},
"news_32768": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_32768",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "32768",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "child care centers",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "child care centers Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 32785,
"slug": "child-care-centers",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/child-care-centers"
},
"news_29886": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_29886",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "29886",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "children's health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "children's health Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 29903,
"slug": "childrens-health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/childrens-health"
},
"news_19204": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19204",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19204",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "climate",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "climate Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19221,
"slug": "climate",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/climate"
},
"news_255": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_255",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "255",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "climate change",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "climate change Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 263,
"slug": "climate-change",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/climate-change"
},
"news_33750": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33750",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33750",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Climate",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Climate Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33767,
"slug": "climate",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/climate"
},
"news_34167": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_34167",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "34167",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Criminal Justice",
"slug": "criminal-justice",
"taxonomy": "category",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Criminal Justice Archives | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 34184,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/criminal-justice"
},
"news_17725": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17725",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17725",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "criminal justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "criminal justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17759,
"slug": "criminal-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/criminal-justice"
},
"news_19904": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19904",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19904",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Labor",
"slug": "labor",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Labor | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 19921,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/labor"
},
"news_2700": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2700",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2700",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "sexual abuse",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "sexual abuse Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2718,
"slug": "sexual-abuse",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sexual-abuse"
},
"news_33745": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33745",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33745",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Criminal Justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Criminal Justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33762,
"slug": "criminal-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/criminal-justice"
},
"news_18543": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18543",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18543",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Health Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 466,
"slug": "health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/health"
},
"news_35118": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_35118",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "35118",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "health care",
"slug": "health-care",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "health care | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 35135,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/health-care"
},
"news_20004": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20004",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20004",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "LGBTQ",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "LGBTQ Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20021,
"slug": "lgbtq",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/lgbtq"
},
"news_20003": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20003",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20003",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "LGBTQ community",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "LGBTQ community Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20020,
"slug": "lgbtq-community",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/lgbtq-community"
},
"news_19345": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19345",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19345",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "LGBTQ rights",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "LGBTQ rights Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19362,
"slug": "lgbtq-rights",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/lgbtq-rights"
},
"news_32549": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_32549",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "32549",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "LGBTQ youth",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "LGBTQ youth Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 32566,
"slug": "lgbtq-youth",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/lgbtq-youth"
},
"news_5850": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5850",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5850",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "sex education",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "sex education Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5874,
"slug": "sex-education",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sex-education"
},
"news_35628": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_35628",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "35628",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "transgender rights",
"slug": "transgender-rights",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "transgender rights | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 35645,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/transgender-rights"
},
"news_18077": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18077",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18077",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Women's Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Women's Health Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18111,
"slug": "womens-health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/womens-health"
},
"news_1917": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1917",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1917",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "women's rights",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "women's rights Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1932,
"slug": "womens-rights",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/womens-rights"
},
"news_22973": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_22973",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "22973",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "culture",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "culture Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 22990,
"slug": "culture",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/culture"
},
"news_23393": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_23393",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "23393",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "language",
"slug": "language",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "language | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 23410,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/language"
}
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null,
"lastDonationAmount": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {
"region": {
"key": "Restaurant Region",
"filters": [
"Any Region"
]
},
"cuisine": {
"key": "Restaurant Cuisine",
"filters": [
"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
"restaurantDataById": {},
"restaurantIdsSorted": [],
"error": null
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
}
}
