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The totals may be incomplete as DGS depends on departments and agencies to self-report their own totals and doesn't request information on state contracts worth less than $5,000. The numbers represent the total amounts awarded, not paid out, in a calendar year.\u003c/small>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These kinds of conversations are common knowledge among Sacramento insiders. And while many prominent lobbying firms in the capital city even \u003ca href=\"http://www.capitoladvocacy.com/services-solutions/procurement/\" target=\"_blank\">advertise their expertise\u003c/a> in helping to secure lucrative contracts, they are nonetheless allowed to keep that part of their business a secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Winuk, the former chief enforcement officer for \u003ca href=\"http://www.fppc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California's Fair Political Practices Commission\u003c/a>, said more than two dozen states and the federal government require disclosure of lobbying efforts to win government contracts. So do nearly all of California’s big cities and counties -- including San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it always seemed like a common sense idea,” Winuk said. “The same reason you want it for bills, you want it for (contracts), because you want to see out in the open who’s trying to influence who and if there are any indications that people aren’t working on behalf of the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winuk helped write a legislative attempt to tackle the issue, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1200\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 1200\u003c/a> by Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park), which is pending in the state Senate as legislators return from summer recess next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"You want to see out in the open who’s trying to influence who and if there are any indications that people aren’t working on behalf of the public.” \u003ccite>Gary Winuk, former ethics officer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>AB 1200 would expand state lobbying disclosure laws to include contracts. If it’s ultimately signed into law, private companies and organizations that hire lobbyists would have to disclose how much they are spending to influence which contracts -- the same way they have to divulge which legislation and regulations they seek to impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone thinks there needs to be more transparency. Jim Sutton, a San Francisco lawyer who works on campaign finance and lobbying issues, said that AB 1200 has “surface appeal,” but won’t really give Californians any more information than they have under existing law. Sutton argues that it’s already clear who wants to influence a contracting process: the companies that bid on the contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know who is influencing the process,” Sutton said. “You know who the companies are and frankly whether it's through a public records request for emails or the bid itself, you are going to know who is working on it, or if they have hired a lobbyist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wasn’t our experience, however, when we started digging into the circumstances surrounding the Common Core testing contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘They Are Going to Have Some Advantages’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, it wasn’t surprising the California State Board of Education decided to award the Common Core contract to ETS in April. The New Jersey nonprofit has a long and lucrative history with the department, one worth $800 million over the past 15 years. ETS has held the state Department of Education’s main standardized testing contract for more than a decade -- a contract repeatedly extended without a competitive bidding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new contract is a new version of that 13-year-old contract; earlier this year, ETS was also awarded a three-year, $38 million contract to oversee English language testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Common Core contract is the one that seems to have raised the most eyebrows -- in large part because ETS’ winning proposal will cost taxpayers $34 million more than the lowest alternative bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"There’s very little question in my mind that Educational Testing Service was the favorite from the beginning.\" \u003ccite>Doug McRae, retired testing publisher\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Longtime observers said it’s not unusual for education officials to favor known vendors and for the state Board of Education to rubber stamp those staff recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s very little question in my mind that Educational Testing Service was the favorite from the beginning,” said Doug McRae, a retired test publisher who closely follows state education policy and raised questions about whether ETS should have won the newest contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ETS officials sought to capitalize on that that familiarity when they presented their bid to state board members last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things we’d like you to consider when you are looking at the proposals from these great companies is our track record,” said John Oswald, ETS vice president for K-12 schools. \"Here in California, we obviously have had the advantage that we’ve been here, so you know our work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"vnGU5mAa7a7R0Pb19njbU4BBsPMz3t6H\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a track record of familiarity isn’t the only thing public officials are supposed to be considering when they award taxpayer money. While in this case, the Department of Education was not required by state law to pick the lowest bidder, it was supposed to make the process “open and competitive” -- and make sure the public got the best possible deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keric Ashley, a deputy state superintendent of public instruction, insisted in an interview that the agency did just that, that it considered the “depth and quality” of the proposals as well as the cost to choose a vendor with “the best chance of delivering a successful test contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Ashley said any familiar contractor is going to have a leg up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime you have a contractor currently in place and doing activity and they are doing a job well, they are going to have some advantages. I wouldn't call them unfair advantages,” he said. “It’s the same everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley admitted that representatives of all three testing companies that bid on the most recent contract met with him and his supervisor prior to the contract being put out to bid -- meetings he described as routine. He insisted that those conversations were only general in nature and didn’t include detailed discussions about how the department would structure its request for bids, known as the request for submissions (RFS).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Anytime you have a contractor currently in place and doing activity and they are doing a job well, they are going to have some advantages.\" \u003ccite>Keric Ashley, deputy state superintendent of public instruction\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We meet fairly regularly with a lot of different vendors,” Ashley said. “We certainly don’t discuss the RFS itself, because we have to maintain not only objectivity but make sure all the test vendors get the same information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when KQED News sought detailed information about those meetings, we came up empty-handed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proof Hard to Come By\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public records request only turned up information on a single meeting -- between the deputy superintendent, Ashley, and an official with the low bidding company that lost the contract, Pearson Education. State officials disclosed no records of meetings between ETS and education officials, despite Ashley’s admission in a KQED News interview that at least one meeting occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Ewing, an ETS spokesman, first said that no such meeting occurred; then, he later admitted that it had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State education officials were more vague. Elizabeth Stein, an attorney for the Department of Education, wrote in an email, “the fact that the search did not uncover a record of a meeting ... that you were told may have taken place does not shed light on whether such a meeting did or did not actually occur, and it would be wrong to draw conclusions or entertain speculation based on the fact that records were not located in our search.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three companies that bid on the Common Core testing contract retain professional lobbyists in Sacramento, and spend tens of thousands of dollars a year on their advocacy services inside the state Capitol. Ewing, however, said that ETS does not use its firm to lobby for government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearson Education, the rival company that lost out on the contract, did make use of its lobbyist to reach out to Board of Education officials, according to emails disclosed through the public records request. Those emails indicate that Pearson officials met with two members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ms/mm/\" target=\"_blank\">state Board of Education\u003c/a> but that a third, Sue Burr, wrote that she could not sit down with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am sorry but I have to decline,” she wrote. “All board members have recently been advised by our legal counsel that, due to competitive procurement process for statewide assessments, we should not engage in independent conversations with potential contractors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email was sent in October, a month before the request for bids went out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winuk, the former FPPC enforcement chief, said those early meetings are troubling, because that’s when a private company can actually exercise the most influence: while the language of a contract proposal is still being drafted, language that can ultimately favor a specific bidder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s really where the process can potentially be manipulated to give someone a leg up,” Winuk said. “If you are building an arena, for example, you (could say) you have to have built another arena in California -- but maybe there is only one company that has ever built an arena in California. That company is going to have an advantage if you have that criteria.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the the case of the state’s Common Core contract, concerns about the internal process extended throughout the bidding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Pearson officials and McRae, the retired testing executive, took issue with the scoring process used by education officials to evaluate the bids. McRae raised his concerns in public testimony prior to the board's final vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that ETS scored the highest in virtually all of the areas assessed, even though some of its proposals were clearly inferior to those of the other bidder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McRae said other aspects of the scoring also didn’t make sense. For example, he said, Pearson had the lowest cost proposal but was scored number two out of three vendors in that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearson, an international education company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article17481269.html\" target=\"_blank\">initially threatened to file a lawsuit over the decision\u003c/a> but has since backed off -- meaning ETS appears here to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if ETS was the best choice, supporters of ethics reform said disclosure laws are really about assuring Californians that they can have confidence that the process is fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot ethics rules are designed to deal with the issue of trust in government,” Winuk said. “Part of this is help to instill some transparency, some sunshine, so people can really see what’s going on and hopefully get more engaged in the process.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This is one of two stories that look at California's largest lobbying player -- local governments -- and the lack of transparency in how private companies lobby for state government contracts. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/1HJ8E84\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Read Part 1 here.\u003c/em> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California education officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ag/ag/yr15/agenda201505.asp\" target=\"_blank\">awarded\u003c/a> a $240 million, three-year contract to conduct Common Core testing for millions of school children this spring, they said it was an open and competitive process -- and that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ets.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Educational Testing Service\u003c/a>, the winning company, simply had the best proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone agrees the process was so open, nor do they agree that ETS was the clear choice. And several weeks of KQED News questions about the contracting process ended without a full set of answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219067611&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219067611'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's murky disclosure laws make it nearly impossible to know exactly what kinds of work private companies do to influence how thousands of state government contracts are awarded, including whether those same companies seek advantages at every step of the process with behind-the-scenes lobbying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fppc.ca.gov/manuals/7-05lobbymanual.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Existing state law generally limits the disclosure of influence\u003c/a> to anyone being paid to advocate for changes in state law or regulations, the traditional kind of lobbying that’s largely focused around the work of the California Legislature and the executive branch. But a private company looking to influence the awarding of a state contract by one of dozens of state agencies and departments isn’t held to the same standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means conversations between advocates and key decision-makers about the roughly 100,000 state contracts handed out each year -- worth some $12 billion in taxpayer funds in 2014 and an average of $34 billion a year since 2010 -- remain in the shadows, far from public scrutiny. The totals were culled from a\u003ca href=\"http://www.dgs.ca.gov/pd/Programs/eprocure/SCPRSData.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> state Department of General Services database\u003c/a> that does not include contracts worth less than $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bxPDbzrZzR_7pYIqbmpECMNkadh2qGslcaXtuuPFILk/pubchart?oid=1803940951&format=interactive\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bxPDbzrZzR_7pYIqbmpECMNkadh2qGslcaXtuuPFILk/pubchart?oid=606977930&format=interactive\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003csmall>These numbers were culled from a California Deptartment of General Services database. The totals may be incomplete as DGS depends on departments and agencies to self-report their own totals and doesn't request information on state contracts worth less than $5,000. The numbers represent the total amounts awarded, not paid out, in a calendar year.\u003c/small>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These kinds of conversations are common knowledge among Sacramento insiders. And while many prominent lobbying firms in the capital city even \u003ca href=\"http://www.capitoladvocacy.com/services-solutions/procurement/\" target=\"_blank\">advertise their expertise\u003c/a> in helping to secure lucrative contracts, they are nonetheless allowed to keep that part of their business a secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Winuk, the former chief enforcement officer for \u003ca href=\"http://www.fppc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California's Fair Political Practices Commission\u003c/a>, said more than two dozen states and the federal government require disclosure of lobbying efforts to win government contracts. So do nearly all of California’s big cities and counties -- including San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it always seemed like a common sense idea,” Winuk said. “The same reason you want it for bills, you want it for (contracts), because you want to see out in the open who’s trying to influence who and if there are any indications that people aren’t working on behalf of the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winuk helped write a legislative attempt to tackle the issue, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1200\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 1200\u003c/a> by Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park), which is pending in the state Senate as legislators return from summer recess next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"You want to see out in the open who’s trying to influence who and if there are any indications that people aren’t working on behalf of the public.” \u003ccite>Gary Winuk, former ethics officer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>AB 1200 would expand state lobbying disclosure laws to include contracts. If it’s ultimately signed into law, private companies and organizations that hire lobbyists would have to disclose how much they are spending to influence which contracts -- the same way they have to divulge which legislation and regulations they seek to impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone thinks there needs to be more transparency. Jim Sutton, a San Francisco lawyer who works on campaign finance and lobbying issues, said that AB 1200 has “surface appeal,” but won’t really give Californians any more information than they have under existing law. Sutton argues that it’s already clear who wants to influence a contracting process: the companies that bid on the contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know who is influencing the process,” Sutton said. “You know who the companies are and frankly whether it's through a public records request for emails or the bid itself, you are going to know who is working on it, or if they have hired a lobbyist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wasn’t our experience, however, when we started digging into the circumstances surrounding the Common Core testing contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘They Are Going to Have Some Advantages’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, it wasn’t surprising the California State Board of Education decided to award the Common Core contract to ETS in April. The New Jersey nonprofit has a long and lucrative history with the department, one worth $800 million over the past 15 years. ETS has held the state Department of Education’s main standardized testing contract for more than a decade -- a contract repeatedly extended without a competitive bidding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new contract is a new version of that 13-year-old contract; earlier this year, ETS was also awarded a three-year, $38 million contract to oversee English language testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Common Core contract is the one that seems to have raised the most eyebrows -- in large part because ETS’ winning proposal will cost taxpayers $34 million more than the lowest alternative bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"There’s very little question in my mind that Educational Testing Service was the favorite from the beginning.\" \u003ccite>Doug McRae, retired testing publisher\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Longtime observers said it’s not unusual for education officials to favor known vendors and for the state Board of Education to rubber stamp those staff recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s very little question in my mind that Educational Testing Service was the favorite from the beginning,” said Doug McRae, a retired test publisher who closely follows state education policy and raised questions about whether ETS should have won the newest contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ETS officials sought to capitalize on that that familiarity when they presented their bid to state board members last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things we’d like you to consider when you are looking at the proposals from these great companies is our track record,” said John Oswald, ETS vice president for K-12 schools. \"Here in California, we obviously have had the advantage that we’ve been here, so you know our work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a track record of familiarity isn’t the only thing public officials are supposed to be considering when they award taxpayer money. While in this case, the Department of Education was not required by state law to pick the lowest bidder, it was supposed to make the process “open and competitive” -- and make sure the public got the best possible deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keric Ashley, a deputy state superintendent of public instruction, insisted in an interview that the agency did just that, that it considered the “depth and quality” of the proposals as well as the cost to choose a vendor with “the best chance of delivering a successful test contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Ashley said any familiar contractor is going to have a leg up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime you have a contractor currently in place and doing activity and they are doing a job well, they are going to have some advantages. I wouldn't call them unfair advantages,” he said. “It’s the same everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley admitted that representatives of all three testing companies that bid on the most recent contract met with him and his supervisor prior to the contract being put out to bid -- meetings he described as routine. He insisted that those conversations were only general in nature and didn’t include detailed discussions about how the department would structure its request for bids, known as the request for submissions (RFS).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Anytime you have a contractor currently in place and doing activity and they are doing a job well, they are going to have some advantages.\" \u003ccite>Keric Ashley, deputy state superintendent of public instruction\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We meet fairly regularly with a lot of different vendors,” Ashley said. “We certainly don’t discuss the RFS itself, because we have to maintain not only objectivity but make sure all the test vendors get the same information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when KQED News sought detailed information about those meetings, we came up empty-handed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proof Hard to Come By\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public records request only turned up information on a single meeting -- between the deputy superintendent, Ashley, and an official with the low bidding company that lost the contract, Pearson Education. State officials disclosed no records of meetings between ETS and education officials, despite Ashley’s admission in a KQED News interview that at least one meeting occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Ewing, an ETS spokesman, first said that no such meeting occurred; then, he later admitted that it had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State education officials were more vague. Elizabeth Stein, an attorney for the Department of Education, wrote in an email, “the fact that the search did not uncover a record of a meeting ... that you were told may have taken place does not shed light on whether such a meeting did or did not actually occur, and it would be wrong to draw conclusions or entertain speculation based on the fact that records were not located in our search.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three companies that bid on the Common Core testing contract retain professional lobbyists in Sacramento, and spend tens of thousands of dollars a year on their advocacy services inside the state Capitol. Ewing, however, said that ETS does not use its firm to lobby for government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearson Education, the rival company that lost out on the contract, did make use of its lobbyist to reach out to Board of Education officials, according to emails disclosed through the public records request. Those emails indicate that Pearson officials met with two members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ms/mm/\" target=\"_blank\">state Board of Education\u003c/a> but that a third, Sue Burr, wrote that she could not sit down with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am sorry but I have to decline,” she wrote. “All board members have recently been advised by our legal counsel that, due to competitive procurement process for statewide assessments, we should not engage in independent conversations with potential contractors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email was sent in October, a month before the request for bids went out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winuk, the former FPPC enforcement chief, said those early meetings are troubling, because that’s when a private company can actually exercise the most influence: while the language of a contract proposal is still being drafted, language that can ultimately favor a specific bidder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s really where the process can potentially be manipulated to give someone a leg up,” Winuk said. “If you are building an arena, for example, you (could say) you have to have built another arena in California -- but maybe there is only one company that has ever built an arena in California. That company is going to have an advantage if you have that criteria.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the the case of the state’s Common Core contract, concerns about the internal process extended throughout the bidding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Pearson officials and McRae, the retired testing executive, took issue with the scoring process used by education officials to evaluate the bids. McRae raised his concerns in public testimony prior to the board's final vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that ETS scored the highest in virtually all of the areas assessed, even though some of its proposals were clearly inferior to those of the other bidder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McRae said other aspects of the scoring also didn’t make sense. For example, he said, Pearson had the lowest cost proposal but was scored number two out of three vendors in that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearson, an international education company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article17481269.html\" target=\"_blank\">initially threatened to file a lawsuit over the decision\u003c/a> but has since backed off -- meaning ETS appears here to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if ETS was the best choice, supporters of ethics reform said disclosure laws are really about assuring Californians that they can have confidence that the process is fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redfin reported that there wasn’t a single home for sale in San Francisco that a teacher making that average salary could afford. In San Mateo County, 1.2 percent of homes — one in 80 — were affordable for teachers; in Santa Clara County, the number was 1.3 percent. The more affordable counties for teachers: Solano (22 percent), Marin (12 percent), Alameda (9.7 percent) and Contra Costa (8.6 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lillian Mongeau, who has reported on education for KQED News and now writes for \u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a> — published by Columbia University’s Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media — has just taken a closer look at how the teacher housing issue is playing out in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/07/silicon-valley-housing-tough-on-teachers/399071/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a piece published last week\u003c/a> by The Atlantic, she looks at the roots of the problem — the high-tech industry salaries chasing a limited supply of housing, for instance — and some suggested remedies. Among the latter, she mentions a San Francisco program that provides down-payment loans to teachers and one district’s more direct intervention in the housing market:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Perhaps one of the most straightforward solutions to the lack of affordable housing for teachers in the Valley is the “Casa del Maestro,” or “House of the Teacher” apartment complex in the city of Santa Clara. Over the past 15 years, 70 one- and two-bedroom units have been built on district-owned land and rented only to new Santa Clara public-school teachers at reduced prices ranging from $1,110 to $1,805 a month for a maximum period of seven years.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Mongeau’s conclusion is, well, less than hopeful:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If a Bay Area tech company needs to set up a server farm, they could, say, open it in a less expensive mid-sized city, like Bend, Oregon. But a Bay Area school has no such luxury. Advances in computer-based learning aside, Stolan’s eighth-graders are unlikely to teach themselves algebra while he monitors their work from Oregon via video conference call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t really have teachers just living in the Pacific Ocean,” Brennan said. “We need to make sure these workers can afford to be in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unless something changes drastically (or an as-yet-unknown app is invented to solve the problem), Silicon Valley risks losing the very people it’s counting on to educate its future stars.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED News morning anchor Joshua Johnson talked to Mongeau about the situation Monday morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216581151&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Justin Van Zandt is a busy dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has five kids, all under 18 years old, and holds down a demanding full-time job. But that doesn’t stop him from spending all his free time teaching and tutoring his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want my kids to do as well as possible,” says Van Zandt. “I want them all to graduate college and have good jobs. 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He also has high expectations for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/\">San Francisco Unified\u003c/a>, which is why he and many parents like him were outraged when they learned\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusdmath.org/middle-school-faq.html\"> Algebra 1 will no longer be taught in middle school\u003c/a> under \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/\">Common Core\u003c/a>, the state’s new academic standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, all students will have to wait until their freshman year in high school to take the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valentina says delaying Algebra 1 is going to hurt gifted students because some classes are “too easy” or “aren’t very challenging” for high-achieving students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift to now require Algebra 1 in high school may seem like a subtle change, but it hits on a deep-rooted debate over when advanced math should be introduced, and to which students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say Algebra 1 at a young age causes students to flounder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say students will be unprepared for tough college-prep courses in high school if they don’t take Algebra 1 early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts like\u003ca href=\"http://achieve.lausd.net/cms/lib08/CA01000043/Centricity/domain/219/ccss%20docs/CCSS%20for%20MATH.pdf\"> Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/cms/lib07/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/2993/ParentGuide_Math_8.pdf\">Oakland\u003c/a> are going to allow some high-achieving kids to go ahead and take algebra in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/assets/sfusd-staff/Math%20Resources/ccss-math-faq.pdf\">San Francisco Unified\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, all eighth-graders had to take Algebra 1. The vast majority, however, either failed or did poorly in the subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those students are now in a cycle of failure,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusdmath.org/our-team.html\">Lizzy Hull Barnes\u003c/a>, mathematics program administrator for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611633\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Eighth grade algebra students study at Presidio Middle School, a San Francisco Unified School District school, in 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611633\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-400x275.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-1440x989.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-1400x961.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-1180x810.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-960x659.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eighth grade algebra students study at Presidio Middle School, a San Francisco Unified School District school, in 2011. \u003ccite>(Lenny Gonzalez/MindShift)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the new standards, the district is no longer taking a “drill and kill” approach to math. Instead, algebraic concepts will be woven into all math courses, beginning in kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to get students fully prepared for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/assets/sfusd-staff/curriculum-and-standards/files/ccss-math-faq.pdf\">Math 8\u003c/a>, a hybrid pre-algebra class in eighth grade focusing on how linear functions and equations all fit together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students will then take a deep dive into Algebra 1 as high school freshman, which will also include transformational geometry and angle relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hull Barnes says exposing all students to high-quality math instruction is a social justice issue for SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials say the controversial practice of tracking students — or separating them based on talent and ability — is simply wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Math is now supposed to be more rigorous and engaging at all levels, regardless of the students’ ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it means to be good in math is no longer about answer-getting and speed,” Hull Barnes says. “To be truly deeply proficient in math, you have to defend your reasoning and understand how a mathematical situation would apply in the real world. That’s a very significant shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, San Francisco math teachers have been working hard to figure out how to implement Algebra 1 under the new standards because now teachers will have to engage students at all levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before, most students didn’t talk in their Algebra 1 class unless a teacher called on them for an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course was also “packed” with content, says eighth-grade teacher Vriana Kempster, forcing educators to “move pretty quickly” and “skip the parts about when you would use those skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now students will be asked to tackle a math assignment in small groups so they can discuss, interact and problem-solve together in a more methodical manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is this the best thing for the super-smart kids?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing group of San Francisco parents don’t believe so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say that not allowing their children to take Algebra 1 in middle school is going to significantly slow down their progress, and they’ll wind up helping other students in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re now pressuring the district to create more options so they don’t have to choose between private school or paying extra for advanced math classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very disappointing to me that our education system is really starting to be this cookie-cutter approach,” says Melody Hernandez, whose 13-year-old son will be in eighth grade this year. “It’s not feasible. … I really don’t want [my son] to lose his engagement in school because it’s not moving at a fast enough pace for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report’s education reporter, Ana Tintocalis, will be taking a closer look at how Common Core Academic Standards are transforming education across the state as students gear up for the 2015-2016 school year . \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He also has high expectations for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/\">San Francisco Unified\u003c/a>, which is why he and many parents like him were outraged when they learned\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusdmath.org/middle-school-faq.html\"> Algebra 1 will no longer be taught in middle school\u003c/a> under \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/\">Common Core\u003c/a>, the state’s new academic standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, all students will have to wait until their freshman year in high school to take the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valentina says delaying Algebra 1 is going to hurt gifted students because some classes are “too easy” or “aren’t very challenging” for high-achieving students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift to now require Algebra 1 in high school may seem like a subtle change, but it hits on a deep-rooted debate over when advanced math should be introduced, and to which students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say Algebra 1 at a young age causes students to flounder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say students will be unprepared for tough college-prep courses in high school if they don’t take Algebra 1 early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts like\u003ca href=\"http://achieve.lausd.net/cms/lib08/CA01000043/Centricity/domain/219/ccss%20docs/CCSS%20for%20MATH.pdf\"> Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/cms/lib07/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/2993/ParentGuide_Math_8.pdf\">Oakland\u003c/a> are going to allow some high-achieving kids to go ahead and take algebra in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/assets/sfusd-staff/Math%20Resources/ccss-math-faq.pdf\">San Francisco Unified\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, all eighth-graders had to take Algebra 1. The vast majority, however, either failed or did poorly in the subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those students are now in a cycle of failure,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusdmath.org/our-team.html\">Lizzy Hull Barnes\u003c/a>, mathematics program administrator for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611633\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Eighth grade algebra students study at Presidio Middle School, a San Francisco Unified School District school, in 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611633\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-400x275.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-1440x989.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-1400x961.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-1180x810.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls-960x659.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/AlgebraGirls.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eighth grade algebra students study at Presidio Middle School, a San Francisco Unified School District school, in 2011. \u003ccite>(Lenny Gonzalez/MindShift)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the new standards, the district is no longer taking a “drill and kill” approach to math. Instead, algebraic concepts will be woven into all math courses, beginning in kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to get students fully prepared for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/assets/sfusd-staff/curriculum-and-standards/files/ccss-math-faq.pdf\">Math 8\u003c/a>, a hybrid pre-algebra class in eighth grade focusing on how linear functions and equations all fit together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students will then take a deep dive into Algebra 1 as high school freshman, which will also include transformational geometry and angle relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hull Barnes says exposing all students to high-quality math instruction is a social justice issue for SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials say the controversial practice of tracking students — or separating them based on talent and ability — is simply wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Math is now supposed to be more rigorous and engaging at all levels, regardless of the students’ ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it means to be good in math is no longer about answer-getting and speed,” Hull Barnes says. “To be truly deeply proficient in math, you have to defend your reasoning and understand how a mathematical situation would apply in the real world. That’s a very significant shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, San Francisco math teachers have been working hard to figure out how to implement Algebra 1 under the new standards because now teachers will have to engage students at all levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before, most students didn’t talk in their Algebra 1 class unless a teacher called on them for an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course was also “packed” with content, says eighth-grade teacher Vriana Kempster, forcing educators to “move pretty quickly” and “skip the parts about when you would use those skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now students will be asked to tackle a math assignment in small groups so they can discuss, interact and problem-solve together in a more methodical manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is this the best thing for the super-smart kids?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing group of San Francisco parents don’t believe so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say that not allowing their children to take Algebra 1 in middle school is going to significantly slow down their progress, and they’ll wind up helping other students in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re now pressuring the district to create more options so they don’t have to choose between private school or paying extra for advanced math classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very disappointing to me that our education system is really starting to be this cookie-cutter approach,” says Melody Hernandez, whose 13-year-old son will be in eighth grade this year. “It’s not feasible. … I really don’t want [my son] to lose his engagement in school because it’s not moving at a fast enough pace for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report’s education reporter, Ana Tintocalis, will be taking a closer look at how Common Core Academic Standards are transforming education across the state as students gear up for the 2015-2016 school year . \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Declaring \"it's the right thing to do\" for workers and their families, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday that the state's third-largest employer will increase base pay for its staff and contract workers to $15 an hour over the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move follows similar steps by local governments and employers to give employees what activists call a \"living wage.\" Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco have all approved phased-in increases that eventually will take their minimum wage to $15 an hour, or about $31,200 for a full-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano said Wednesday that UC should be taking the lead in ensuring its lowest-paid workers make decent wages. UC has 10 campuses, including UCLA and UC Berkeley, nearly 240,000 students and a staff of 195,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our community does not exist in a vacuum. How we support our workers and their families impacts Californians who might never set foot on one of our campuses,\" she said. \"It's the right thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university's hourly wage earners -- a group that includes students and full-time employees working in dining halls, dorms and bookstores or as gardeners, housekeepers and custodians at campuses and hospitals -- currently make the state minimum of $9 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano said she will boost that to $13 in October for employees who work at least 20 hours a week and by $1 an hour in each of the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 4,200 UC employees and a much larger but undetermined number of workers hired by university contractors will receive the higher wage, UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just thought it was important for a public university to plant the flag here for low-wage workers and a more livable wage,\" Napolitano, who was President Barack Obama's homeland security secretary before she assumed leadership of the University of California nearly two years ago, said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher minimum-wage argument has gained traction amid concerns over the shrinking middle class and rising income inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters argue a higher wage floor will help lift the working poor into the middle class. Opponents warn that businesses will have to raise prices, shed jobs or cut employees' hours. At least 15 states have passed laws barring local governments from setting their own minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, including presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, have said they support a higher federal minimum wage, which is currently $7.25 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to promote a higher minimum wage during a stop Wednesday at a washroom equipment manufacturer in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous county, voted to craft a law to raise the minimum wage to $15 over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the country, a New York state board Wednesday was poised to recommend a minimum wage increase for fast-food workers. The state's minimum wage is now $8.75 an hour and is set to rise to $9 an hour at year's end. Many fast-food workers say their industry should pay a minimum of $15 so that they can afford the high cost of living in New York City and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, announced in February that it was raising its wages for a half-million employees to at least $10 an hour by next February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $15 minimum has become the rallying cry of labor groups nationwide who argue the base wage hasn't kept up with inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of California officials estimated that the raises for workers directly employed by UC will cost $14 million a year, a fraction of the system's $12.6 billion annual payroll. Klein said UC also predicts contractors will pass some of the cost of higher wages onto the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, workers and UC union leaders have complained about the university's increased reliance on contractors who, they allege, treat employees unfairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano said she is setting up a hotline and online reporting system so complaints about contractors' labor practices go directly to her office. The university also plans to audit its contractors to make sure they are paying their workers the higher base wage, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano's minimum-wage plan does not need approval from the governing Board of Regents, who on Wednesday were scheduled to consider a 3 percent cost-of-living increase for campus chancellors, medical center directors and other top executives.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://annadeaveresmithprojects.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Deavere Smith\u003c/a> is best known for her TV work on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sho.com/sho/nurse-jackie/home\" target=\"_blank\">\"Nurse Jackie\"\u003c/a> and \"The West Wing,\" but she’s been making documentary theater for decades, about race and class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her latest play, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1415/9293.asp\" target=\"_blank\">“Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter”\u003c/a> at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, tackles what social justice groups have dubbed the\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/tsr/education-under-arrest/school-to-prison-pipeline-fact-sheet/\" target=\"_blank\"> school-to-prison pipeline\u003c/a>. 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You have an undercaste of young people who just feel forgotten, neglected and just angry, and don’t know what to be angry at.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the other characters: Abby Abinanti, chief judge of the Yurok Tribal Court, and Taos Proctor, a Yurok fisherman, who Abinanti helped rescue from the school-to-prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monologues, so vivid in Smith's impersonations, are underscored with musical backing from bassist, bandleader and composer Marcus Shelby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10603544\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 373px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/NF6_lr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10603544 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/NF6_lr.jpg\" alt='Bassist Marcus Shelby composes music for and performs in Anna Deavere Smith’s \"Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter\"' width=\"373\" height=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bassist Marcus Shelby composes music for and performs in Anna Deavere Smith’s \"Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter\" \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one transition between scenes, Shelby improvises on \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGd6CdtOqEE\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish Harlem,\u003c/a>\" a old song that restates the theme of the Tupac poem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a rose in Spanish Harlem...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's growing in the street\u003cbr>\nRight up through the concrete.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby plays that song and a lot of blues throughout the play because, he says, the blues capture the pain of the human condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s the dichotomy between tragedy and triumph,\" Shelby said. \"All the ways we feel life: anger happiness, love, tension, release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play is highly personal for Smith, whose mother was a teacher at a school in a poor Baltimore neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So in my house,\" Smith said, \"my mother would bring home these great big boys because she believed there was no such thing as a non-reader. So if someone was in her sixth-grade class, they weren’t leaving sixth grade until they learned to read.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith argues, during an interview in a break from rehearsal recently, and in her characters on stage, that these days teachers are taking an unfair share of the blame for funneling troubled students into the school-to-prison pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because it is a broader problem that is linked to poverty,\" Smith said, \"and the question is how do we help people become productive citizens to their families, to their country and to their communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play has a surprise built into its second act, even for audiences familiar with Smith’s discursive storytelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At intermission during a recent preview, 20 facilitators, some from the writing corps \u003ca href=\"http://youthspeaks.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Speaks\u003c/a>, broke the audience up into groups of 30 or so for a brisk whiteboard exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10603673\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10603673 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Poet Dahlak Brathwaite at the whiteboard during Anna Deveare Smith's "Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter.”\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poet Dahlak Brathwaite at the whiteboard during Anna Deveare Smith's \"Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter.” \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As audience members munched packets of cookies, the kind you might find in a schoolkid's lunchbox, poet Dahlak Brathwaite asked the audience to accept the challenge implicit in Smith's play, \"to be part of the effort to change (the school-to-prison pipeline).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the play, Smith portrays a conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, in which Ifill calls for the U.S. to invest in education in the same way it invested in the U.S. highway system and the suburbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But audience members in our group were less ambitious. 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You have an undercaste of young people who just feel forgotten, neglected and just angry, and don’t know what to be angry at.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the other characters: Abby Abinanti, chief judge of the Yurok Tribal Court, and Taos Proctor, a Yurok fisherman, who Abinanti helped rescue from the school-to-prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monologues, so vivid in Smith's impersonations, are underscored with musical backing from bassist, bandleader and composer Marcus Shelby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10603544\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 373px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/NF6_lr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10603544 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/NF6_lr.jpg\" alt='Bassist Marcus Shelby composes music for and performs in Anna Deavere Smith’s \"Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter\"' width=\"373\" height=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bassist Marcus Shelby composes music for and performs in Anna Deavere Smith’s \"Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter\" \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one transition between scenes, Shelby improvises on \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGd6CdtOqEE\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish Harlem,\u003c/a>\" a old song that restates the theme of the Tupac poem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a rose in Spanish Harlem...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's growing in the street\u003cbr>\nRight up through the concrete.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby plays that song and a lot of blues throughout the play because, he says, the blues capture the pain of the human condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s the dichotomy between tragedy and triumph,\" Shelby said. \"All the ways we feel life: anger happiness, love, tension, release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play is highly personal for Smith, whose mother was a teacher at a school in a poor Baltimore neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So in my house,\" Smith said, \"my mother would bring home these great big boys because she believed there was no such thing as a non-reader. So if someone was in her sixth-grade class, they weren’t leaving sixth grade until they learned to read.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith argues, during an interview in a break from rehearsal recently, and in her characters on stage, that these days teachers are taking an unfair share of the blame for funneling troubled students into the school-to-prison pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because it is a broader problem that is linked to poverty,\" Smith said, \"and the question is how do we help people become productive citizens to their families, to their country and to their communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play has a surprise built into its second act, even for audiences familiar with Smith’s discursive storytelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At intermission during a recent preview, 20 facilitators, some from the writing corps \u003ca href=\"http://youthspeaks.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Speaks\u003c/a>, broke the audience up into groups of 30 or so for a brisk whiteboard exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10603673\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10603673 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Poet Dahlak Brathwaite at the whiteboard during Anna Deveare Smith's "Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter.”\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_458627864-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poet Dahlak Brathwaite at the whiteboard during Anna Deveare Smith's \"Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter.” \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As audience members munched packets of cookies, the kind you might find in a schoolkid's lunchbox, poet Dahlak Brathwaite asked the audience to accept the challenge implicit in Smith's play, \"to be part of the effort to change (the school-to-prison pipeline).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the play, Smith portrays a conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, in which Ifill calls for the U.S. to invest in education in the same way it invested in the U.S. highway system and the suburbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But audience members in our group were less ambitious. 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"content": "\u003cp>Outside his small apartment in Richmond, Travis McGee’s 9-month-old daughter, Honesty, clutches his chest as he shoos his two other little ones back inside a living room littered with toys and laundry. Like all new parents, McGee has been exhausted, freaked out and in love — for the past six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sleep?” he says, laughing lightly, “I don’t even know what sleep is anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since he lost his job last fall, McGee has been staying home with the kids while their mom works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as I would like to be working right now,” McGee says, “[I] can’t beat the experience I’m getting being here with them every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGee isn’t alone. More dads are staying home to take care of their kids than ever before, according to a 2014 study from Pew Research Center. And as McGee points out, along with the joy of watching your kids grow up comes a lot of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In low-income neighborhoods in Contra Costa County, men like McGee have been showing up at family resource centers with their kids in tow asking for help. In response, \u003ca href=\"http://www.firstfivecc.org/\">First 5 Contra Costa\u003c/a> and the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.brighter-beginnings.org/\">Brighter Beginnings\u003c/a> have launched a new home-visiting program just for dads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January, McGee’s been getting some much-needed help from Chris Gibson, a fatherhood involvement coach for the new program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Travis first got into the program he was standoffish, wouldn’t open up,” Gisbon says. “It was cool, but it wasn’t cool. One day we had a sit-down and a talk, and things just opened up drastically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For McGee, dealing with unemployment and three kids under the age of 5 has been stressful. But he says being able to open up to Gibson helped relieve some of that stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I need somebody to talk to about what I’m going through, ain’t nobody listening, he listens,” McGee says. “ ’Cause you just build up, keep building up that pent-up emotion, it’s just going to explode one way or another. So I mean, Chris, I can’t even explain how helpful he’s been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be very difficult for McGee to get this help if Gibson didn’t come to his house once every couple of weeks. 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