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"content": "\u003cp>Corinthian Colleges, the for-profit college operator from Orange County, is collapsing under the weight of a crackdown by federal and state regulators, as well as private lawsuits. Last week, Corinthian announced a deal to sell off its U.S. schools outside California. That leaves an uncertain future for roughly 20,000 students in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. Education Department temporarily suspended Corinthian's access to federal student aid in June, the company was forced to \u003ca href=\"http://newsroom.cci.edu/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=884129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">start selling off its three chains\u003c/a>: Heald, Everest and Wyotech. Corinthian had no choice: in 2013, the Santa Ana-based company made 84 percent of its $1.6 billion in revenue from federal student aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corinthian is still looking for someone to take on its Canadian schools and 22 campuses in California. Most are located in the Bay Area and Southern California. Why were the California schools the only ones in the U.S. left out of the deal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Corinthian says that's because Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office refused to sign off. The AG launched a suit last year, accusing Corinthian of advertising programs it doesn’t offer, and placing some graduates in temp jobs to boost the statistics it then reported to the federal government, investors and prospective students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0exvrM8AFFs&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris' office refused to release the buyer, ECMC Group, from liability for Corinthian's alleged sins. The office has several concerns, including that the sale of the colleges didn't include any clarity about whether current and former students would get any debt relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corinthian is still shopping for a buyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corinthian isn’t the only chain accused of operating like a taxpayer-subsidized student loan mill. But the company believes it's the biggest to go down at the hands of the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mark Takano of Riverside is pushing legislation to \u003ca href=\"http://takano.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-mark-takano-announces-legislation-to-protect-students-from-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tighten the rules\u003c/a> governing for-profit colleges. \"Far too many of these for-profit colleges are taking advantage of students -- students who are already vulnerable,\" the Democrat says. When he taught high school English years ago, Takano says he saw for-profits target the students he knew were the least able to succeed in college or to fight back after realizing they’d made a mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They tend to be single mothers, low income, who very often are minorities, veterans. I’m really concerned that if we don’t do something soon, more and more people who are looking to improve their lives are going to be left with mountains of debt and meaningless degrees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 million Americans now have some form of student loan debt, according to the credit bureau \u003ca href=\"http://press.experian.com/United-States/Press-Release/experian-analysis-finds-student-loans-increased-by-84-percent-since-the-recession-40-millio.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Experian\u003c/a>. Nationwide, student loan debt is at an all-time high of $1.2 trillion, an 84 percent jump since the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Heald Success Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For-profit schools are notorious for doing a hard sell on prospective students. But Josh Gomez walked into the \u003ca href=\"http://www.heald.edu/locations/san-jose-milipitas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heald campus in Milpitas\u003c/a> sold. He'd seen an ad, not unlike this one, that inspired him to change his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3WHcsLFxhc&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warm, outgoing 27-year-old admits he \u003cem>hated\u003c/em> high school. \"I was barely passing in high school. I got D's and F's.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he hated his $18.25-an-hour job assembling medical devices even more than high school and he wanted out and up -- even if that meant going back to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10352946\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10352946\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-400x560.jpg\" alt=\"Heald College Graduate Josh Gomez. (Credit: Michael Barnes. )\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-400x560.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heald College Graduate Josh Gomez. (Credit: Michael Barnes)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Gomez is in many ways the kind of success story Heald trumpets in its ads. He wanted an IT degree and he got one. He wanted a better-paying job and he got one, with help from several Heald career service advisors. He got hired to do desktop support for the drug maker Genentech, for $25.50 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Gomez need a degree for that? \"I don’t even know if I’m actually putting it to use,\" Gomez says, \"because I don’t even know if the job description even requires it. At least I’m getting more money. That’s all I care [about], ‘cause you gotta pay the bills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez owes about $27,000. That's three times what it would have cost him to get an associate of applied science degree at a community college in California. Gomez says now he should have done some more research before he signed on for three loans with Corinthian's preferred private lender, \u003ca href=\"http://genesis-fs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Genesis Financial Solutions\u003c/a>. But he also says nobody at Heald told him what the loans would add up to in the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Debt Relief\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"MNGiSection\">Is there some hope of debt relief for students? U.S. Education Department officials stipulated some student debt relief as part of Corinthian's \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/21/guaranty-agency-buys-most-crumbling-profit-corinthian-colleges-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">purchase agreement with that loan servicer\u003c/a> announced last week. Corinthian has agreed to forgive all of the estimated $4 million in private debt still on its books, as soon as the sale closes, possibly in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean Josh Gomez is off the hook? It depends. Only if his loans haven’t been resold yet. Debt, including student debt, is a commodity. The $4 million is a small fraction of loans racked up by Corinthian students. While the company argues the ECMC deal spares students disruption and allows those still in school to finish their degrees, there are others who argue it would be better for Corinthian schools to collapse completely. That way, students could apply for what's called a \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/closed-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closed school discharge\u003c/a>. But then the federal government might be on the hook for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/files/Corinthian%20filing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion\u003c/a> in discharged student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">In the meantime, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which signed off on the ECMC deal, \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201409_cfpb_complaint_corinthian.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is still suing\u003c/a> Corinthian \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">to wipe away $569 million in outstanding private debt held by tens of thousands of current and former students. A Corinthian spokesman says the company is contesting the suit and will continue to do so while it still stands.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Corinthian Colleges, the for-profit college operator from Orange County, is collapsing under the weight of a crackdown by federal and state regulators, as well as private lawsuits. Last week, Corinthian announced a deal to sell off its U.S. schools outside California. That leaves an uncertain future for roughly 20,000 students in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. Education Department temporarily suspended Corinthian's access to federal student aid in June, the company was forced to \u003ca href=\"http://newsroom.cci.edu/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=884129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">start selling off its three chains\u003c/a>: Heald, Everest and Wyotech. Corinthian had no choice: in 2013, the Santa Ana-based company made 84 percent of its $1.6 billion in revenue from federal student aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corinthian is still looking for someone to take on its Canadian schools and 22 campuses in California. Most are located in the Bay Area and Southern California. Why were the California schools the only ones in the U.S. left out of the deal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Corinthian says that's because Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office refused to sign off. The AG launched a suit last year, accusing Corinthian of advertising programs it doesn’t offer, and placing some graduates in temp jobs to boost the statistics it then reported to the federal government, investors and prospective students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0exvrM8AFFs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0exvrM8AFFs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris' office refused to release the buyer, ECMC Group, from liability for Corinthian's alleged sins. The office has several concerns, including that the sale of the colleges didn't include any clarity about whether current and former students would get any debt relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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When he taught high school English years ago, Takano says he saw for-profits target the students he knew were the least able to succeed in college or to fight back after realizing they’d made a mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They tend to be single mothers, low income, who very often are minorities, veterans. I’m really concerned that if we don’t do something soon, more and more people who are looking to improve their lives are going to be left with mountains of debt and meaningless degrees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 million Americans now have some form of student loan debt, according to the credit bureau \u003ca href=\"http://press.experian.com/United-States/Press-Release/experian-analysis-finds-student-loans-increased-by-84-percent-since-the-recession-40-millio.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Experian\u003c/a>. Nationwide, student loan debt is at an all-time high of $1.2 trillion, an 84 percent jump since the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Heald Success Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For-profit schools are notorious for doing a hard sell on prospective students. But Josh Gomez walked into the \u003ca href=\"http://www.heald.edu/locations/san-jose-milipitas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heald campus in Milpitas\u003c/a> sold. He'd seen an ad, not unlike this one, that inspired him to change his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/C3WHcsLFxhc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/C3WHcsLFxhc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warm, outgoing 27-year-old admits he \u003cem>hated\u003c/em> high school. \"I was barely passing in high school. I got D's and F's.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he hated his $18.25-an-hour job assembling medical devices even more than high school and he wanted out and up -- even if that meant going back to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10352946\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10352946\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-400x560.jpg\" alt=\"Heald College Graduate Josh Gomez. (Credit: Michael Barnes. )\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-400x560.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heald College Graduate Josh Gomez. (Credit: Michael Barnes)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Gomez is in many ways the kind of success story Heald trumpets in its ads. He wanted an IT degree and he got one. He wanted a better-paying job and he got one, with help from several Heald career service advisors. He got hired to do desktop support for the drug maker Genentech, for $25.50 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Gomez need a degree for that? \"I don’t even know if I’m actually putting it to use,\" Gomez says, \"because I don’t even know if the job description even requires it. At least I’m getting more money. That’s all I care [about], ‘cause you gotta pay the bills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez owes about $27,000. That's three times what it would have cost him to get an associate of applied science degree at a community college in California. Gomez says now he should have done some more research before he signed on for three loans with Corinthian's preferred private lender, \u003ca href=\"http://genesis-fs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Genesis Financial Solutions\u003c/a>. But he also says nobody at Heald told him what the loans would add up to in the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Debt Relief\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"MNGiSection\">Is there some hope of debt relief for students? U.S. Education Department officials stipulated some student debt relief as part of Corinthian's \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/21/guaranty-agency-buys-most-crumbling-profit-corinthian-colleges-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">purchase agreement with that loan servicer\u003c/a> announced last week. Corinthian has agreed to forgive all of the estimated $4 million in private debt still on its books, as soon as the sale closes, possibly in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean Josh Gomez is off the hook? It depends. Only if his loans haven’t been resold yet. Debt, including student debt, is a commodity. The $4 million is a small fraction of loans racked up by Corinthian students. While the company argues the ECMC deal spares students disruption and allows those still in school to finish their degrees, there are others who argue it would be better for Corinthian schools to collapse completely. That way, students could apply for what's called a \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/closed-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closed school discharge\u003c/a>. But then the federal government might be on the hook for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/files/Corinthian%20filing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion\u003c/a> in discharged student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">In the meantime, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which signed off on the ECMC deal, \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201409_cfpb_complaint_corinthian.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is still suing\u003c/a> Corinthian \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">to wipe away $569 million in outstanding private debt held by tens of thousands of current and former students. 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"content": "\u003cp>Several hundred UC Berkeley students staged a walkout and march on Monday to protest a series of tuition increases approved last week by the University of California Board of Regents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd marched through downtown Berkeley before gathering outside California Hall, which houses the offices of Chancellor Nicholas Dirks. Students demanded the chancellor, who issued \u003ca href=\"http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/11/20/chancellors-statement-on-uc-tuition-plan/\" target=\"_blank\">a statement in support of the tuition increase\u003c/a> last week, come out and meet with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than an hour, Dirks did just that, emerging from the building to tell protesters that both students and administrators are on the same side in the dispute -- they all want more money from the state to help fund the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JaneNho/status/536988030255374336\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to work together,\" Dirks told the students. \"This is not a contest. We agree on much more than we disagree. We agree that the state has an obligation to support the great system of higher education that it produced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/178506158\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University leaders, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/20/gov-brown-and-uc-president-napolitano-very-different-views-of-ucs-future\" target=\"_blank\">led by UC President Janet Napolitano\u003c/a>, have argued that the tuition increase is necessary to offset cuts in state funding. But they also say they hope that negotiations with Gov. 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But the tuition increase and overall UC funding is likely to be the subject of continued negotiations between Napolitano, Brown and legislative leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano agreed in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/20/gov-brown-and-uc-president-napolitano-very-different-views-of-ucs-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview with KQED’s Scott Shafer\u003c/a> on Thursday that she’d prefer more state funding to the tuition increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”iyDMh8i4Lpydvy2aGT93f4NgOMV1UI78″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think today’s vote was the end of the beginning, but there’s a process we’ll undertake,” Napolitano said. “I want to work with Sacramento — we all do — but we really want to work in the interests of the university and its students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of Thursday’s vote at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus and the surrounding fracas \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-tuition-hike-20141120-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Over the din of students chanting their protest, the University of California regents voted 14-7 on Thursday to approve tuition increases of as much as 5% for each of the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual voice vote of the regents could not be heard by the public as about 25 students in the meeting room yelled, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, tuition hikes have got to go!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote for the increases sets up months of negotiations and political posturing before a final tuition-percentage increase is chosen. UC officials say the hike can be eliminated or moderated if state funding increases enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opposing votes were cast by Gov. Jerry Brown, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, State Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, student regent Sadia Saifuddin and two new regents appointed by Brown earlier this week, former Assembly Speaker John Perez and Long Beach City College President Eloy Ortiz Oakley.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:35 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>A key UC Board of Regents committee has approved a plan to raise tuition by as much as 5 percent a year for the next five years. Some details \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-raises-tuition-20141119-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by way of the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The regents committee on long range planning approved the hike in a 7-2 vote after an unusual debate that pitted the state’s most powerful political leaders against administrators of the 10-campus UC system. The full board of regents is scheduled to vote Thursday on the proposed increase, which would end a three-year freeze on tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials said the increase could be lowered if enough state funding comes through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown argued strongly against the tuition increase and instead proposed an in-depth study of such basic educational and cost issues as getting students to graduate in three years, offering more online courses and consolidating programs duplicated across UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and student regent Sadia Saifuddin cast the two dissenting votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For undergraduates who are California residents, tuition next year could rise to $12,804, not including room, board and books. By the 2019-20 school year, that could increase to $15,564.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC President Janet Napolitano has said the university needs more money to help cover rising costs of pensions and salary costs, to hire more faculty and to boost the number of California undergraduates by 5,000.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>Gov. Jerry Brown appeared Wednesday morning at the start of a two-day UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco to announce he’ll vote against a proposal to raise tuition. Then he offered a counterproposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In place of UC President Janet Napolitano’s plan to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article3938256.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raise tuition as much as 25 percent over five years\u003c/a>, Brown wants the Board of Regents to appoint a panel to study the university’s finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the steps the governor wants a select committee to study are streamlining offerings on UC’s 10 campuses, offering more online courses, granting credit based on work experience and making it easier for community college students to transfer into UC. All those steps would make it easier for UC students to earn degrees more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s proposal (full text below) follows moves he made earlier in the week to derail Napolitano’s proposal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Jerry-Brown-takes-on-Janet-Napolitano-over-UC-5903762.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the San Francisco Chronicle’s Matier and Ross\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… Brown on Monday appointed former Assembly Speaker John Pérez — who has already gone as record saying the UC tuition plan “takes us in the wrong direction” — to a 12-year term on the board that starts immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a brushback pitch, but a very smooth one,” said one Sacramento insider who has spoken to Brown about the appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feeling in the Brown camp is that if the tuition hike is approved, it will stir student protests and put pressure on state lawmakers to increase funding to the system beyond a 4 percent bump-up promised for each of the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two months ago, Brown vetoed legislation giving UC an extra $50 million for backlogged building maintenance — something Napolitano pointed out in an e-mail the other day announcing the tuition plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the tension: Brown and Lt. 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Pushing matches between police and protesters erupted at several entrances and at metal barricades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 21 year old male UC Berkeley student was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism and inciting a riot, said Elizabeth Fernandez, a spokeswoman for UC San Francisco. She said that a group of demonstrators forced their way through metal barricades and police security lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While attempting to force their way to where the regents were meeting, a large glass door was shattered, Fernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one appeared to be seriously injured in the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, former UC Chancellor Karl Pister, who is 89, later said he was knocked down and cut his hand as he tried to enter the building. Wearing a small bandage on one hand, he later addressed the regents in support of the tuition increase and said he spoke for a group of other retired chancellors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all his years as a UC administrator and faculty member, he said, “today is the first time I was knocked down.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s Brown’s statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I request that the following be placed on the January 2015 agenda for Regental action:\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>1. A select committee is hereby established to develop proposals to reduce the university’s cost structure, while increasing access and quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. The membership of the select committee shall be determined by the President of the Regents and the President of the University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. The Office of the President and the Department of Finance are designated to jointly staff the select committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. 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UC officials say the hike can be eliminated or moderated if state funding increases enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opposing votes were cast by Gov. Jerry Brown, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, State Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, student regent Sadia Saifuddin and two new regents appointed by Brown earlier this week, former Assembly Speaker John Perez and Long Beach City College President Eloy Ortiz Oakley.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:35 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>A key UC Board of Regents committee has approved a plan to raise tuition by as much as 5 percent a year for the next five years. Some details \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-raises-tuition-20141119-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by way of the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The regents committee on long range planning approved the hike in a 7-2 vote after an unusual debate that pitted the state’s most powerful political leaders against administrators of the 10-campus UC system. The full board of regents is scheduled to vote Thursday on the proposed increase, which would end a three-year freeze on tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials said the increase could be lowered if enough state funding comes through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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Jerry Brown appeared Wednesday morning at the start of a two-day UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco to announce he’ll vote against a proposal to raise tuition. Then he offered a counterproposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In place of UC President Janet Napolitano’s plan to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article3938256.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raise tuition as much as 25 percent over five years\u003c/a>, Brown wants the Board of Regents to appoint a panel to study the university’s finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the steps the governor wants a select committee to study are streamlining offerings on UC’s 10 campuses, offering more online courses, granting credit based on work experience and making it easier for community college students to transfer into UC. All those steps would make it easier for UC students to earn degrees more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s proposal (full text below) follows moves he made earlier in the week to derail Napolitano’s proposal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Jerry-Brown-takes-on-Janet-Napolitano-over-UC-5903762.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the San Francisco Chronicle’s Matier and Ross\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… Brown on Monday appointed former Assembly Speaker John Pérez — who has already gone as record saying the UC tuition plan “takes us in the wrong direction” — to a 12-year term on the board that starts immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a brushback pitch, but a very smooth one,” said one Sacramento insider who has spoken to Brown about the appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feeling in the Brown camp is that if the tuition hike is approved, it will stir student protests and put pressure on state lawmakers to increase funding to the system beyond a 4 percent bump-up promised for each of the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two months ago, Brown vetoed legislation giving UC an extra $50 million for backlogged building maintenance — something Napolitano pointed out in an e-mail the other day announcing the tuition plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the tension: Brown and Lt. 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"content": "\u003cp>With an extra 250 students projected to crowd into Berkeley schools in the coming three years, the school board considered a long list of options for creating space at its Nov. 5 meeting. The board will narrow down the choices at its Dec. 10 meeting, and decide on a plan of action in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s no solution that has no downside.'\u003ccite>Josh Daniels, BUSD board president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After hearing a report on the options to add up to 12 classrooms, board members asked staff to more fully explore three possibilities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003c/ul>\u003col>--Moving transitional kindergartens out of the elementary schools to a pre-school site;\u003c/ol>\n\u003col>--Converting some, but not all, of the 12 “enrichment classrooms” around the district to regular classrooms. Enrichment classrooms are those used for art, dance, theater, science or other purposes.\u003c/ol>\n\u003col>--Moving Berkeley Technology Academy and Independent Study to the Adult Education School on San Pablo Avenue, and using the BTA site on Martin Luther King Jr. Way near Derby as an elementary school.\u003c/ol>\n\n\u003cp>“There’s no solution that has no downside,” said board president Josh Daniels after the presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Beatriz Leyva-Cutler expressed concern that under the three potential solutions being studied, the populations being asked to move (pre-schoolers and students at BTA) were more often low-income than the district average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes after an \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/09/05/added-kindergartens-a-result-of-squeeze-from-tk-classes/\" target=\"_blank\">increase in students this fall\u003c/a> that led the district to convert several enrichment classrooms into regular classrooms at Malcolm X and Cragmont elementary schools. The decision frustrated many parents at those schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 parents spoke up at the November meeting, urging the board not to convert any more enrichment classrooms and not to increase class sizes. (Many others were not able to speak due to time constraints.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/03_11_14building_m-8-720x480.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10348589 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/03_11_14building_m-8-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"BUSD forecasts that as many as 12 new classrooms will be needed across the district in three years. It’s a worst-case scenario, said Pasquale Scuderi, assistant superintendent. 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Evans said that superintendents from local districts met recently to discuss this problem. He called it a “lively conversation” and the first of many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district forecasts that up to six new classrooms will be needed next fall, up to four more in 2016 and another two in 2017 — as many as 12 new classrooms in three years. It’s a worst-case scenario, said Pasquale Scuderi, assistant superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The various options, outlined in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Enrollment-and-Capacity-Meeting-2-V7.pdf?864d7e\" target=\"_blank\">board packet\u003c/a>, include:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using the enrichment classrooms.\u003c/strong> Costs would be minor. There are a dozen at elementary schools in the district. Two are used for special education and medically fragile students, others are for arts, cooking, science, language lab, a learning center and after-school classes. One is in a basement and several are smaller than average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before you make a decision to re-purpose room 9 [for special education and medically fragile students at Oxford], spend a day there,” said parent and doctor Amy Garland. “Don’t take it away from the most vulnerable kids in the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing the parents’ concerns about taking away these classrooms, Daniels asked district administrators to make a list of the five classrooms that could be repurposed with the least impact on schools. Leyva-Cutler called for protecting the special-education classrooms. Karen Hemphill said she would like each school to keep at least one enrichment classroom. Another board member added that the district should avoid taking rooms from schools that already lost enrichment rooms this school year. If all of those stipulations were met, only two extra classrooms would be found, as most schools have only one (or zero) flex spaces now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Increasing kindergarten classes to 24 students, up from 20.\u003c/strong> This would add five classrooms, and no costs would be involved, according to the report.But the district’s report points out that smaller class sizes improve student outcomes, especially amongst disadvantaged students. Daniels said he was open to some increase in class sizes, but noted how unpopular the idea was with parents, and asked administrators not to pursue this any further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving the transitional kindergarten (TK) classes.\u003c/strong> Costs would be small. TK is a new class serving 4-year-olds with fall birthdays, who are no longer eligible for kindergarten, under new state rules. The TK classes are currently in six of the elementary schools. If some of the TKs moved to one of the three pre-school sites, the preschool classes would be consolidated on the other two pre-school campuses. Hopkins is the most likely pre-school site for the move, Daniels said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This move was suggested last spring, when the space crunch first hit, but the idea was discarded when some teachers and parents complained that the TK students would be better served on the elementary campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Installing portables at LeConte, Muir and Thousand Oaks schools.\u003c/strong> The soonest that could happen is 2016. At least one parent protested the use of portables. Cost ranges from $4 million to $8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving BTA and Independent Study\u003c/strong> from the relatively new school at MLK Jr Way and Derby Street to the Adult Education School (the former Franklin School, which has been renovated) on San Pablo Avenue near at Virginia Street. The BTA site could become an elementary school. This would cost under $1 million. Several board members expressed interest, saying that combining BTA with Adult Education could be beneficial to the students. Hemphill expressed concern that BTA was not built as an elementary school, and so could be substandard and would be serving a lower income population in south Berkeley – not an equitable solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Having the Adult School and an elementary school share the Adult School campus.\u003c/strong> While this would keep the district from taking enrichment rooms and keep TK classes at grade schools, it would create “an unusual combination of student groups in one facility,” according to the report, and would reduce the adult education program. 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If all of those stipulations were met, only two extra classrooms would be found, as most schools have only one (or zero) flex spaces now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Increasing kindergarten classes to 24 students, up from 20.\u003c/strong> This would add five classrooms, and no costs would be involved, according to the report.But the district’s report points out that smaller class sizes improve student outcomes, especially amongst disadvantaged students. Daniels said he was open to some increase in class sizes, but noted how unpopular the idea was with parents, and asked administrators not to pursue this any further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving the transitional kindergarten (TK) classes.\u003c/strong> Costs would be small. TK is a new class serving 4-year-olds with fall birthdays, who are no longer eligible for kindergarten, under new state rules. The TK classes are currently in six of the elementary schools. If some of the TKs moved to one of the three pre-school sites, the preschool classes would be consolidated on the other two pre-school campuses. Hopkins is the most likely pre-school site for the move, Daniels said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This move was suggested last spring, when the space crunch first hit, but the idea was discarded when some teachers and parents complained that the TK students would be better served on the elementary campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Installing portables at LeConte, Muir and Thousand Oaks schools.\u003c/strong> The soonest that could happen is 2016. At least one parent protested the use of portables. Cost ranges from $4 million to $8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving BTA and Independent Study\u003c/strong> from the relatively new school at MLK Jr Way and Derby Street to the Adult Education School (the former Franklin School, which has been renovated) on San Pablo Avenue near at Virginia Street. The BTA site could become an elementary school. This would cost under $1 million. Several board members expressed interest, saying that combining BTA with Adult Education could be beneficial to the students. Hemphill expressed concern that BTA was not built as an elementary school, and so could be substandard and would be serving a lower income population in south Berkeley – not an equitable solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Having the Adult School and an elementary school share the Adult School campus.\u003c/strong> While this would keep the district from taking enrichment rooms and keep TK classes at grade schools, it would create “an unusual combination of student groups in one facility,” according to the report, and would reduce the adult education program. 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"content": "\u003cp>For many children, even young ones, school has become more of a training ground for the tests used to measure the efficacy of their teachers and schools than a place to learn about the world. As pressure to focus on academics pushes into ever younger grades, some parents are being drawn to alternatives that they hope will help inspire their children to discover a lifelong love of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/176965884\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools that use nature as the classroom, focusing on student-driven inquiry, are becoming increasingly popular. Called forest schools, these programs couldn’t be farther from traditional preschool or kindergarten. There are no rubber-padded play areas, no ABCs and no structured activities. Instead, rain or shine, teachers take the children to different natural places to explore forests, meadows, creeks and shorelines. The philosophy centers around exploring and connecting with the natural world.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think the most important thing is the impulse towards curiosity and to explore and figure things out and have that nurtured.'\u003ccite>Ed Boyda, Berkeley Forest School dad\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/let-em-out-the-many-benefits-of-outdoor-play-in-kindergarten/\" target=\"_blank\">Forest schools have been around for decades in Europe\u003c/a>, where children play outside and mostly unsupervised in weather much colder and nastier than anything California can dish up. The motto of these schools is: “There’s no bad weather, only bad gear.” The forest school movement is gaining momentum in California with several new schools popping up in recent years in places like San Diego, Laguna Beach and Santa Barbara, in addition to a handful in the Bay Area, including Sebastopol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lia Grippo runs \u003ca href=\"http://www.wildrootsschool.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Roots\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara, one of the oldest forest schools in the state. She’s recently begun convening a conference of forest school educators in the summer. She says there was no need for such formality until a few years ago because she personally knew the directors of the other three or four programs. But now that there are closer to 13 programs with new ones opening every year, she and others are trying to form an Association of Forest School educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My sense is that people are not feeling great about the direction that education is taking with young children, towards academics early on,” Grippo said. “People are noticing that it’s taking a toll on young children to be indoors, to be inactive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery link=\"file\" type=\"slideshow\" ids=\"10348470,10348472,10348473,10348476,10348477,10348474\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyforestschool.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Forest School\u003c/a> opened in 2011 as a small neighborhood preschool program, but is steadily growing and will offer kindergarten next year. When students come to school there isn't a set schedule of activities. Instead kids investigate their own interests, moving from one thing to another at their own pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They decide the direction they're going in and we give them the tools to help them along their way,” said Andrew McCormick, co-founder of the school, along with his wife, Liana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids often draw on literacy and math concepts to make their ideas come alive, McCormick said, but no one is telling them they have to learn academics. Instead, students, even young students, drive the process based on their passions. A big job of forest educators is to trust kids and give them space to have great ideas, McCormick said, remembering one little girl’s determination to build a swing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had her start with drawing what that swing might look like and then talking with friends about what materials she might need,” McCormick said. It took weeks, but she tested different versions, settled on a model made of bamboo and rope, and used a saw (with supervision) to cut the materials down to size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348489\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/DSCF3907.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10348489 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/DSCF3907-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"A 3-year-old conducts on experiment, testing his theory on which tools are best to strip bark off tree rounds. 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He often gets frustrated that other children don’t want to build with him all day long. His dad, Ed Boyda, recalls his son's excitement returning to school after summer vacation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got out of car on the first day of school and he said: ‘Papa, it's good to get back to work.’ And with his hard hat on he marched up to the gate and let himself in to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a physics professor at St. Mary's College, Boyda see lots of students who can't figure things out for themselves. He thinks that's a product of schools that reward students for rote learning and following instructions. He loves that his 3-year-old son is passionate about building and can spend hours absorbed in a design challenge. He doesn’t want to take that joy away from him by sending him to a traditional school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think, especially at this young age, the most important thing is the impulse towards curiosity and to explore and figure things out and have that nurtured,” Boyda said. “Once they have that, the rest will come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A central part of what makes forest school special and appealing to many parents is the focus on unstructured free play. In a busy world filled with overscheduled children and harried parents, the freedom to wander and explore outdoors is hard to come by for many children. And yet psychologists are clear that play is a cornerstone of child development. Kids play to master concepts, experiment with new roles and test out their understanding of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"circle\" link=\"file\" ids=\"10348495,10348496,10348497,10348492,10348494\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want them to be able to engage in really active construction of knowledge where they are exploring and experimenting and able to interact, able to raise questions, take risks and make sense of the world through active engagement with it,” said Julie Nicholson, an education professor at Mills College specializing in early childhood education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson says the No Child Left Behind law and the standardized tests that came with it are largely responsible for removing play from classrooms. She’s adamant that standardized tests are developmentally inappropriate for children younger than 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that's happening in a lot of kindergartens is that we are increasing the academic push and the desire for academic outcomes, and we're doing that in a way that we're not maintaining what we know about how children learn best,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing number of forest schools is a response to that criticism. Though most common in preschool, some families are even choosing to stay through kindergarten and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents even say that forest kindergarten has changed the way they interact with their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's been a shift in the way I've learned to talk with my kids in order to draw out more of their thoughts and feelings and have more interesting conversations with them,” explained Rivkah Medow, a mother at the Berkeley Forest School. “Instead of telling them how something works, just ask them and it makes a much more interesting conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the forest school movement is a respect for the child and his or her individual emotional and physical development. “Stick true to child development and help to grow a healthy, capable, confident, curious human,” Liana McCormick said of her goals at Berkeley Forest School. “That's where our hearts are and that's what we keep working towards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The McCormicks recognize that they’re only able to offer their program to a small, select group of kids. 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