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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>To celebrate Black History Month, we will be highlighting clips from the KQED video archive throughout the month of February. All clips have been made available by the \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area TV Archive at San Francisco State University\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The above clip features KQED footage taken from three different news reports from Dec. 4, 1968, featuring the African-American community of Bayview/Hunters Point at San Francisco State College, supporting the Black Students Union and Third World Liberation Front in their efforts to establish a college of Ethnic Studies.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In early November 1968, the Black Student Union at San Francisco State University presented a list of 10 \"non-negotiable\" demands to administrators -- a list focusing on creating a black studies department and increasing black access to the university. College officials didn't grant the demands. So the BSU, along with other people of color organized as the Third World Liberation Front, launched what would become the longest campus strike in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 115-day strike, lasting into late March 1969, led to repeated clashes between students and the hundreds of police officers summoned to campus to impose order. More than 700 students were arrested and scores injured during the strike's first two months. The standoff led to headline-grabbing confrontations between students on one side and Gov. Ronald Reagan and S.F. State's acting president on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10428497\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/group.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10428497 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/group-1440x964.jpg\" alt=\"A group of community leaders march in solidarity with the Black Students Union at San Francisco State on Dec. 4, 1968.\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/group.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/group-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/group-800x536.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of community leaders marches in solidarity with the Black Student Union at San Francisco State on Dec. 4, 1968.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the end, the strike resulted in the creation of San Francisco State's College of Ethnic Studies, a division that today offers hundreds of classes each year and serves thousands of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike had a wider significance for San Francisco's black community, which was fighting its own battles for a more effective voice in community affairs and which came out strongly in support of the student activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10428495\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 390px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Eloise-Westbrook.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10428495\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Eloise-Westbrook-400x271.jpg\" alt=\"Eloise Westbrook (1915-2011) speaking at a protest in support of a student strike at San Francisco State on Dec. 4, 1968. \" width=\"390\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Eloise-Westbrook-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Eloise-Westbrook-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Eloise-Westbrook.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eloise Westbrook (1915-2011) speaking at a protest in support of a student strike at San Francisco State on Dec. 4, 1968.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eloise Westbrook (1915-2011), seen first on camera in this clip, was a formidable community activist in Bayview-Hunters Point for many years. In 1970, as part of a 15-person delegation that went to Washington, D.C., to lobby for housing funds, Westbrook used her strength and determination to help secure financial backing from the Republican Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, when confronted with a cafe sign stating: \"Senators only,\" she declared: \"I ain't no Senator, but I'm only!\" and pushed her way inside for lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruth Williams, shown second on camera in this clip, was also a widely respected community leader in Bayview-Hunters Point, who (with Westbrook) was part of a group of women known as the \"Big Five.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10428496\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 390px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/ruth-williams.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10428496\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/ruth-williams-400x273.jpg\" alt=\"Ruth Williams speaking at a protest in support of a student strike at San Francisco State on Dec. 4, 1968. \" width=\"390\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/ruth-williams-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/ruth-williams-800x547.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/ruth-williams.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Williams speaking at a protest in support of a student strike at San Francisco State on Dec. 4, 1968.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Williams was instrumental in campaigning to prevent the demolition of the historic Opera House on Third Street, and a video is currently being made by local filmmakers and residents to commemorate her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Williams proudly announces onstage, \"I'm from the ghetto community!\" it's worth knowing -- as her son, Kevin Williams, points out -- that she wanted to reclaim the word \"ghetto\" for the African-American community and use it as a means of empowerment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the Bayview-Hunters Point community worked with the \u003ca href=\"http://sfpl.org\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Library\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://bavc.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area Video Coalition\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area Television Archive\u003c/a> to produce a short documentary film that considers the legacy of Eloise Westbrook, Ruth Williams and other Bayview-Hunters Point community leaders from the 1960s. It's called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozflNOVzd6w\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Point of Pride\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (available online) and is being screened at S.F. State on Wednesday, Feb. 18, in the Richard Oakes Multicultural Center at 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Cherian is a Film Archivist at the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive. He can be reached at acherian@sfsu.edu. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Unified School District is trying to hire teachers that reflect its student body. At a recruitment event on Wednesday, Feb. 4, prospective African-American teachers and support staff will have the chance to meet principals, submit resumes and get a sense of what working for the district might be like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an opportunity for African-Americans in the community who want to work with our students to get a one-on-one opportunity to engage with the district, with our administrators and with our human resources staff,\" said Swen Ervin, a human capital specialist at the district with an emphasis on diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ervin's job is to reach out to organizations, schools of education and community members to attract more qualified candidates of color to the district. The focus is working -- three years ago the district hired 17 African-American teachers. That number increased to 23 two years ago and peaked at 39 last year. But that doesn't mean those teachers always stay. Ervin says African-American teachers have the lowest retention rate of any demographic in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's hugely impactful to see someone that looks like you on a daily basis.'\u003ccite>Landon Dickey, SFUSD Special Assistant for African-American Achievement and Leadership\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of teachers of color experience very high rates of burnout,\" Ervin said. \"A lot of times when they work in diverse schools, whenever something is going on with the students of the community they represent, they are kind of deferred to or burdened with whatever those issues are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers of color can also feel isolated in their school buildings, unheard as a minority group, Ervin added. His goal is to not only hire more African-American teachers, but to check in on them and make sure they have what they need to be successful. He'd like African-American teachers working across the district to be able to rely on one another for support, but has found it hard to convene meetups because teachers' schedules are already stretched so thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public schools in San Francisco overwhelmingly serve students of color, and the district is aiming to have its teaching staff mirror those demographics. Right now, about 8 percent of students are African-American, but only about 5.5 percent of their teachers are African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"eDvnFwOnbBa09f7IaHaa9bjfRxXpsv5C\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hugely impactful to see someone that looks like you on a daily basis,\" said Landon Dickey, the district's new special assistant for African-American achievement and leadership. \"That person can serve as a role model for students. And it shapes their perception of whether or not they can be successful, based on how many African-American adults that are in positions to help shape their own lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dickey attended Lakeshore Elementary, then A.P. Giannini Middle School and finally Lowell High School in San Francisco. He can pinpoint several points in his own education when a dedicated teacher helped him through an academic struggle or helped him stay motivated. 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"content": "\u003cp>Eight-year-old Karishma Sears started her trek to school with her father in the family car one Thursday in December. It took only 15 minutes to drive from their home near Mount Davidson 4.6 miles to Starr King Elementary in Potrero Hill, where she participates in a highly regarded Mandarin immersion program her parents chose for her. Their jobs are on the Peninsula, but both can work from home and help shuttle Karishma to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she had to take mass transit? It would be an hourlong commute each way, even if Karishma were old enough to do that on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco’s school assignment system has benefited families with the means to transport their children to schools with the most desirable programs, it creates dilemmas for more disadvantaged students who must travel long distances to school, often without the help of their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Even if you can get into a school that’s performing much better but is on the other side of the city, a trip on Muni might require one, two, even three transfers.'\u003ccite>Joel Ramos, regional planning director TransForm\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Many lower-income students must choose between long commutes on unreliable public transit and attending lower-performing schools closer to home. This may help explain why San Francisco public schools, like those in many cities nationwide, are increasingly resegregating as decades of court-ordered diversity measures recede into history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, San Francisco Unified School District data show that most families of all socioeconomic backgrounds travel outside of their neighborhoods for school. There are numerous potential reasons: Their children got into a school they preferred to the one in their neighborhood, or they did not get assigned their neighborhood school because there were too few seats to accommodate nearby residents. But the district lacks solid information about exactly who is trekking across town and why, making it difficult to understand transportation’s effect on school choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a district that lacks robust school bus service, even students who do not get a top-choice school are caught up in public transit headaches when the system assigns them across town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420190\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/collier-bus-route.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420190 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/collier-bus-route-400x210.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Collier's journey on public transportation: 75 minutes, 6.4 miles.\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/collier-bus-route-400x210.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/collier-bus-route-800x421.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/collier-bus-route.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Collier's journey on public transportation: 75 minutes, 6.4 miles. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Erika Rae Langdon / San Francisco Public Press, Stamen Maps / Creative Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chris Collier leaves his home in the Richmond District each morning long before sunrise — nearly two hours before school starts. The ninth-grader first takes a bus on Muni’s busiest line, the 38, more than 4 miles east to Van Ness Avenue and O’Farrell Street. There, he transfers to the 49 for the final 2 miles to John O’Connell High School in the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris, 14, had hoped to attend Washington High School, just half a mile from his home. But he did not get his top choice, or any of his choices in the district’s school-assignment system. And he has no one to drive him across town. So his commute takes 75 minutes, at best. When the 38 is overcrowded and he cannot squeeze in, he risks being late for his first-period English class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Collier-38.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420192 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Collier-38.jpg\" alt=\"Chris leaves the 38 bus to catch the 49.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Collier-38.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Collier-38-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Collier-38-800x530.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris leaves the 38 bus to catch the 49. \u003ccite>( Colleen Cummins / San Francisco Public Press )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Unified School District in 2010 adopted a student assignment system intended to increase diversity and give all families access to the best schools. The policy lets parents select schools they like the most, creating competition. It is a contest that not everyone wins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EQUITY CHALLENGES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Sears, Karishma’s father, knows his daughter is lucky. A group of recent Chinese immigrant families in Visitacion Valley who wanted to send their children to Starr King could not, because they had no way to get them there. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency — aka Muni — does not offer direct service, and no school bus runs that route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district prioritizes bus service for its most disadvantaged students, including those who live in census tracts with the lowest test scores: Treasure Island, parts of the Tenderloin, the Western Addition and most of the southeastern neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district does not transport elementary-age students from more affluent areas to schools in low-performing neighborhoods, while the buses that serve most lower-performing schools pick up kids who live in nearby neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Karishma.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10420194\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Karishma.jpg\" alt=\"Karishma gets dropped off at her school.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Karishma.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Karishma-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Karishma-800x487.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karishma gets dropped off at her school. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet / San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the Visitacion Valley families lose out two times over: their schools perform below average, but not at the bottom, and the school they wanted to attend is in a neighborhood to which the district will not bus their children. Thus, isolation and inequity persist, bus or no bus, for all kinds of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we've heard from families, especially in the southeast neighborhoods, is that while we have choices as to where to send students, getting them there is a barrier that’s too high to overcome,” said Masharika Maddison, executive director of the nonprofit Parents for Public Schools, which advocates on policy for families throughout the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Ramos, regional planning director for the mass transit advocacy nonprofit TransForm and a board member of Muni, said many families simply cannot use public transit to get their children to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420195\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/karishma-route.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420195 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/karishma-route-400x210.jpg\" alt=\"Karishma Sears’ drive: 15 minutes, 4.6 miles.\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/karishma-route-400x210.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/karishma-route-800x421.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/karishma-route.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karishma Sears’ drive: 15 minutes, 4.6 miles. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Erika Rae Langdon / San Francisco Public Press, Stamen Maps / Creative Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even if you can get into a school that’s performing much better but is on the other side of the city, a trip on Muni might require one, two, even three transfers,” Ramos said. “A lot of people aren’t going to feel comfortable letting their kids do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District data, collected by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, show that few students have changed their commute patterns since 2010–2011, the year before the current assignment system took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At eight of the 25 district elementary schools with below-average statewide academic rankings, the number of students who live within a mile of school has increased over the last four years. With few exceptions, a significantly higher percentage of these students live closer to school than do students at the highest-performing and most requested schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a number of factors are at play, lack of mobility looms large. Even though families of all socioeconomic backgrounds are traveling long distances, many schools in the most economically disadvantaged parts of town draw the bulk of their students from the surrounding neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student populations at some of these schools are so imbalanced that the district considers them “racially isolated,” meaning that more than 60 percent of the school’s students are of a single race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PUBLIC TRANSIT POOR SUBSTITUTE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosario Bolos walks her daughter, Jessica, three blocks from their house to Cesar Chavez Elementary in the Mission. She knows it is one of the city’s lowest-performing schools. But she likes its feeling of community, and her top priority when choosing a school for Jessica was, by necessity, its proximity to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10420228\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica.jpg\" alt=\"Rosario Bolos walks with her daughter Jessica, 6, to Cesar Chavez Elementary school in the Mission.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-800x534.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Bolos walks with her daughter Jessica, 6, to Cesar Chavez Elementary school in the Mission. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet / San Francisco Public Press )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We can’t afford a car, and my husband works full time, so this is the only choice we have,” she said. She does not let Jessica, 6, ride Muni alone. “That’s for older kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its effort to align its transportation services with the new student assignment policy, the district cut its fleet to 25 buses last school year, down from 44 buses in 2011–2012. As a result, 20 schools lost all bus service, and service to many others shrank or changed. The district does not plan more cuts or additions, according to school district spokeswoman Heidi Anderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As school board member Rachel Norton sees it, every dollar spent on busing is a dollar taken out of the classroom. One bus costs $100,000 to operate and maintain for a year. The money comes out of the district’s general fund, which also covers teacher salaries and operating essentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a lot of money, and we have to be careful to invest in the highest-impact strategy,” said Norton, who was first elected in 2009 and now chairs the Ad-Hoc Committee on Student Assignment. “You can pay for a literacy coach and a half with the money it costs to run a bus. Is a bus that carries students to a school without literacy coaches the best strategy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Bolos-and-Jessica.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420229 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Bolos-and-Jessica.jpg\" alt=\"The Bolos have no car, so choosing a school a few blocks from home is essential. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Bolos-and-Jessica.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Bolos-and-Jessica-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Bolos-and-Jessica-800x534.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bolos have no car, so choosing a school a few blocks from home is essential. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet / San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Norton said that while the district knows the demographics of students who request transportation, it does not have stop-by-stop data, nor the expertise to design routes that would optimally serve the most students. “We as a district could use some planning assistance,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CHARITY BUYS BUS PASSES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni in 2013 started offering free passes to low- and moderate-income San Franciscans ages 5 to 18 through a pilot program funded by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Last February, Google donated $6.8 million to continue the program for two more years. So far, 26,000 kids have signed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Collier said it saves his family about $30 per month, and many families praise the program for making the commute to school more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420230\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-route.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420230 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-route-400x447.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Bolos’ walk: 9 minutes, 0.5 miles.\" width=\"400\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-route-400x447.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-route-800x894.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-route.jpg 895w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Bolos’ walk: 9 minutes, 0.5 miles. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Erika Rae Langdon / San Francisco Public Press, Stamen Maps / Creative Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For families with younger children, who need to be accompanied on public transit, the cost of travel is even more significant because caregivers must pay $2.25 per trip, even if a student qualifies for a free pass. The crowded and delay-plagued Muni system, which gets fewer than 60 percent of buses and trolleys to arrive on time, will bring in millions in new funding to upgrade infrastructure and add service starting this year, thanks to propositions A and B, approved by voters in November. But Muni is not a transit system designed to transport large numbers of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what families really want, some certainly prioritize community, family history and convenience over test scores when choosing a school. But the district found in a 2012 survey of more than 10,000 families that academic reputation usually trumped proximity to home as a factor. Fewer than half the families responding to the survey included nearby schools in their choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, a number of families interviewed for this story chose otherwise. This contradiction demonstrates the difficulty of drawing conclusions about what drives choice patterns in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the 2014 application process shows that half of the 22 schools least requested by families living in their attendance areas are located in the city’s poorest neighborhoods, and eight of them have student populations dominated by a single race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, reports produced by the district show that a higher percentage of African-Americans and Latinos submit school choice applications late than do their Asian and white peers, and by doing so are placed at the bottom of the heap during student-assignment season. This limits their access to the district’s best schools, and can result in assignment to the least-requested schools, which are often in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2014 report produced by the Denver transit advocacy organization Mile High Connects and UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities + Schools, notes that reforming student transportation can be complicated by the sharing of responsibility for busing by local, regional and federal agencies. It can get very political as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Ehrman, a sustainable transportation fellow with San Francisco public schools and a fellow at the Center for Cities + Schools, spent last summer investigating the district’s transportation landscape. She found that there was very little data about how transportation affects families’ ability to take advantage of school choice. But she cautioned against the view that programs intended to promote walking and biking as part of the district’s sustainability goals can replace school bus and transit service for public school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we only promote walking and biking, then we sort of contradict the premise of school choice: that mobility is a good way to pursue educational equity,” Ehrman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maddison said the biggest problem actually is not transportation. It is the vast disparities among San Francisco schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School choice can never be a replacement for ensuring that all our schools are excellent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post originally appeared on KQED News Associate site \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Eight-year-old Karishma Sears started her trek to school with her father in the family car one Thursday in December. It took only 15 minutes to drive from their home near Mount Davidson 4.6 miles to Starr King Elementary in Potrero Hill, where she participates in a highly regarded Mandarin immersion program her parents chose for her. Their jobs are on the Peninsula, but both can work from home and help shuttle Karishma to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she had to take mass transit? It would be an hourlong commute each way, even if Karishma were old enough to do that on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco’s school assignment system has benefited families with the means to transport their children to schools with the most desirable programs, it creates dilemmas for more disadvantaged students who must travel long distances to school, often without the help of their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Even if you can get into a school that’s performing much better but is on the other side of the city, a trip on Muni might require one, two, even three transfers.'\u003ccite>Joel Ramos, regional planning director TransForm\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Many lower-income students must choose between long commutes on unreliable public transit and attending lower-performing schools closer to home. This may help explain why San Francisco public schools, like those in many cities nationwide, are increasingly resegregating as decades of court-ordered diversity measures recede into history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, San Francisco Unified School District data show that most families of all socioeconomic backgrounds travel outside of their neighborhoods for school. There are numerous potential reasons: Their children got into a school they preferred to the one in their neighborhood, or they did not get assigned their neighborhood school because there were too few seats to accommodate nearby residents. But the district lacks solid information about exactly who is trekking across town and why, making it difficult to understand transportation’s effect on school choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a district that lacks robust school bus service, even students who do not get a top-choice school are caught up in public transit headaches when the system assigns them across town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420190\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/collier-bus-route.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420190 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/collier-bus-route-400x210.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Collier's journey on public transportation: 75 minutes, 6.4 miles.\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/collier-bus-route-400x210.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/collier-bus-route-800x421.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/collier-bus-route.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Collier's journey on public transportation: 75 minutes, 6.4 miles. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Erika Rae Langdon / San Francisco Public Press, Stamen Maps / Creative Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chris Collier leaves his home in the Richmond District each morning long before sunrise — nearly two hours before school starts. The ninth-grader first takes a bus on Muni’s busiest line, the 38, more than 4 miles east to Van Ness Avenue and O’Farrell Street. There, he transfers to the 49 for the final 2 miles to John O’Connell High School in the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris, 14, had hoped to attend Washington High School, just half a mile from his home. But he did not get his top choice, or any of his choices in the district’s school-assignment system. And he has no one to drive him across town. So his commute takes 75 minutes, at best. When the 38 is overcrowded and he cannot squeeze in, he risks being late for his first-period English class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Collier-38.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420192 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Collier-38.jpg\" alt=\"Chris leaves the 38 bus to catch the 49.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Collier-38.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Collier-38-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Collier-38-800x530.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris leaves the 38 bus to catch the 49. \u003ccite>( Colleen Cummins / San Francisco Public Press )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Unified School District in 2010 adopted a student assignment system intended to increase diversity and give all families access to the best schools. The policy lets parents select schools they like the most, creating competition. It is a contest that not everyone wins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EQUITY CHALLENGES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Sears, Karishma’s father, knows his daughter is lucky. A group of recent Chinese immigrant families in Visitacion Valley who wanted to send their children to Starr King could not, because they had no way to get them there. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency — aka Muni — does not offer direct service, and no school bus runs that route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district prioritizes bus service for its most disadvantaged students, including those who live in census tracts with the lowest test scores: Treasure Island, parts of the Tenderloin, the Western Addition and most of the southeastern neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district does not transport elementary-age students from more affluent areas to schools in low-performing neighborhoods, while the buses that serve most lower-performing schools pick up kids who live in nearby neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Karishma.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10420194\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Karishma.jpg\" alt=\"Karishma gets dropped off at her school.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Karishma.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Karishma-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Karishma-800x487.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karishma gets dropped off at her school. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet / San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the Visitacion Valley families lose out two times over: their schools perform below average, but not at the bottom, and the school they wanted to attend is in a neighborhood to which the district will not bus their children. Thus, isolation and inequity persist, bus or no bus, for all kinds of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we've heard from families, especially in the southeast neighborhoods, is that while we have choices as to where to send students, getting them there is a barrier that’s too high to overcome,” said Masharika Maddison, executive director of the nonprofit Parents for Public Schools, which advocates on policy for families throughout the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Ramos, regional planning director for the mass transit advocacy nonprofit TransForm and a board member of Muni, said many families simply cannot use public transit to get their children to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420195\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/karishma-route.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420195 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/karishma-route-400x210.jpg\" alt=\"Karishma Sears’ drive: 15 minutes, 4.6 miles.\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/karishma-route-400x210.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/karishma-route-800x421.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/karishma-route.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karishma Sears’ drive: 15 minutes, 4.6 miles. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Erika Rae Langdon / San Francisco Public Press, Stamen Maps / Creative Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even if you can get into a school that’s performing much better but is on the other side of the city, a trip on Muni might require one, two, even three transfers,” Ramos said. “A lot of people aren’t going to feel comfortable letting their kids do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District data, collected by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, show that few students have changed their commute patterns since 2010–2011, the year before the current assignment system took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At eight of the 25 district elementary schools with below-average statewide academic rankings, the number of students who live within a mile of school has increased over the last four years. With few exceptions, a significantly higher percentage of these students live closer to school than do students at the highest-performing and most requested schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a number of factors are at play, lack of mobility looms large. Even though families of all socioeconomic backgrounds are traveling long distances, many schools in the most economically disadvantaged parts of town draw the bulk of their students from the surrounding neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student populations at some of these schools are so imbalanced that the district considers them “racially isolated,” meaning that more than 60 percent of the school’s students are of a single race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PUBLIC TRANSIT POOR SUBSTITUTE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosario Bolos walks her daughter, Jessica, three blocks from their house to Cesar Chavez Elementary in the Mission. She knows it is one of the city’s lowest-performing schools. But she likes its feeling of community, and her top priority when choosing a school for Jessica was, by necessity, its proximity to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10420228\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica.jpg\" alt=\"Rosario Bolos walks with her daughter Jessica, 6, to Cesar Chavez Elementary school in the Mission.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-800x534.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Bolos walks with her daughter Jessica, 6, to Cesar Chavez Elementary school in the Mission. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet / San Francisco Public Press )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We can’t afford a car, and my husband works full time, so this is the only choice we have,” she said. She does not let Jessica, 6, ride Muni alone. “That’s for older kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its effort to align its transportation services with the new student assignment policy, the district cut its fleet to 25 buses last school year, down from 44 buses in 2011–2012. As a result, 20 schools lost all bus service, and service to many others shrank or changed. The district does not plan more cuts or additions, according to school district spokeswoman Heidi Anderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As school board member Rachel Norton sees it, every dollar spent on busing is a dollar taken out of the classroom. One bus costs $100,000 to operate and maintain for a year. The money comes out of the district’s general fund, which also covers teacher salaries and operating essentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a lot of money, and we have to be careful to invest in the highest-impact strategy,” said Norton, who was first elected in 2009 and now chairs the Ad-Hoc Committee on Student Assignment. “You can pay for a literacy coach and a half with the money it costs to run a bus. Is a bus that carries students to a school without literacy coaches the best strategy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Bolos-and-Jessica.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420229 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Bolos-and-Jessica.jpg\" alt=\"The Bolos have no car, so choosing a school a few blocks from home is essential. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Bolos-and-Jessica.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Bolos-and-Jessica-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Bolos-and-Jessica-800x534.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bolos have no car, so choosing a school a few blocks from home is essential. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet / San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Norton said that while the district knows the demographics of students who request transportation, it does not have stop-by-stop data, nor the expertise to design routes that would optimally serve the most students. “We as a district could use some planning assistance,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CHARITY BUYS BUS PASSES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni in 2013 started offering free passes to low- and moderate-income San Franciscans ages 5 to 18 through a pilot program funded by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Last February, Google donated $6.8 million to continue the program for two more years. So far, 26,000 kids have signed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Collier said it saves his family about $30 per month, and many families praise the program for making the commute to school more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420230\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-route.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420230 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-route-400x447.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Bolos’ walk: 9 minutes, 0.5 miles.\" width=\"400\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-route-400x447.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-route-800x894.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Jessica-route.jpg 895w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Bolos’ walk: 9 minutes, 0.5 miles. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Erika Rae Langdon / San Francisco Public Press, Stamen Maps / Creative Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For families with younger children, who need to be accompanied on public transit, the cost of travel is even more significant because caregivers must pay $2.25 per trip, even if a student qualifies for a free pass. The crowded and delay-plagued Muni system, which gets fewer than 60 percent of buses and trolleys to arrive on time, will bring in millions in new funding to upgrade infrastructure and add service starting this year, thanks to propositions A and B, approved by voters in November. But Muni is not a transit system designed to transport large numbers of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what families really want, some certainly prioritize community, family history and convenience over test scores when choosing a school. But the district found in a 2012 survey of more than 10,000 families that academic reputation usually trumped proximity to home as a factor. Fewer than half the families responding to the survey included nearby schools in their choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, a number of families interviewed for this story chose otherwise. This contradiction demonstrates the difficulty of drawing conclusions about what drives choice patterns in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the 2014 application process shows that half of the 22 schools least requested by families living in their attendance areas are located in the city’s poorest neighborhoods, and eight of them have student populations dominated by a single race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, reports produced by the district show that a higher percentage of African-Americans and Latinos submit school choice applications late than do their Asian and white peers, and by doing so are placed at the bottom of the heap during student-assignment season. This limits their access to the district’s best schools, and can result in assignment to the least-requested schools, which are often in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2014 report produced by the Denver transit advocacy organization Mile High Connects and UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities + Schools, notes that reforming student transportation can be complicated by the sharing of responsibility for busing by local, regional and federal agencies. It can get very political as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Ehrman, a sustainable transportation fellow with San Francisco public schools and a fellow at the Center for Cities + Schools, spent last summer investigating the district’s transportation landscape. She found that there was very little data about how transportation affects families’ ability to take advantage of school choice. But she cautioned against the view that programs intended to promote walking and biking as part of the district’s sustainability goals can replace school bus and transit service for public school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we only promote walking and biking, then we sort of contradict the premise of school choice: that mobility is a good way to pursue educational equity,” Ehrman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maddison said the biggest problem actually is not transportation. It is the vast disparities among San Francisco schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School choice can never be a replacement for ensuring that all our schools are excellent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“Morris” is a stocky, friendly young man who works in the cafeteria of the Youth Uprising community center. I meet him there in East Oakland, a neighborhood that police say bears the brunt of the city’s robberies. Morris was recently robbed at gunpoint outside a check-cashing place. He didn’t want to use his real name for fear that speaking out would make him more of a target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody asked me, like, they see my watch, they was like, ‘What kind of watch is that?’ And then another guy came from around the corner, there they both just … ‘Give me everything’. Took my wallet, my watch, all the little stuff I had on me,” says Morris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it wasn’t the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know you feel like a sucker,” he shrugs, “stripped you for all [your] dignity, like, you don’t feel like a man no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbery — it’s one of the quintessential crimes that we fear when we think of strangers. Overall, robberies in Oakland were down substantially over the past year — by almost a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak050910.pdf\">third\u003c/a>. That’s after they peaked at 4,838 in 2013, or more than 13 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year also registered as the city’s worst for the crime since at least \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak050833.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1969\u003c/a>. Cops, criminologists and community leaders disagree about what is driving the ups and downs in the city’s crime rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gangs or Gentrification?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent says Oakland’s 50 or so gangs shifted the way they make money — from drugs to, in part, robberies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to get significantly more drug hotline calls than we do now,” says Whent, “many more calls about street drug dealing. And that’s really reduced. And so what have those groups and gangs done? Well, we have seen the increase obviously in the street robberies and fraud crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent says police had some success curbing those robberies in 2014. He points to Ceasefire, the city’s chief anti-violence strategy. Its purpose is to reduce homicides, which fell 10 percent last year. But Whent says the heavy focus on certain gang members is turning the robbery rate around, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth Uprising Director Olis Simmons is skeptical of Whent’s view that gangs were responsible for the increase in robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big-time crime syndicates \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Drug-Kingpin-s-Sentencing-Ends-Bloody-Era-in-2946651.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went away\u003c/a> 20 years ago,” says Simmons, “What we see is acts of desperation. People are robbing their neighbors, their community members, out of hunger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other Oakland community leaders say the surge in robberies was more like a canary in the coal mine. A sign that as Oakland enters its so-called renaissance, the economic gap is widening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Oakland is realizing the dream of economic vitality — a renaissance right? — sadly, there is a concentration of people who are locked out,” says Simmons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she thinks for many years those people, largely in East and West Oakland, felt that as the city did better, their neighborhoods would also turn around; they’d get a job, maybe a store would open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The realization that it’s never going to happen for (them) is what’s new,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons says the best way for Oakland to fight crime is by helping the community. That means helping kids like Morris, who says he empathizes with the people who stole from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just be the lack of having, like, because if a kid got everything he needs, he don’t need to be in no gang, he don’t need to be out here stealing. Why?” asks Morris, “‘Cause he got his own. But somebody else that ain’t got nothing to take. … ‘Hey, What I’m gonna lose? Go to jail? I ain’t got nothing out here anyway.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A power relationship\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But none of that reasoning convinces UC Berkeley crime expert Franklin Zimring. The first thing to know about robbery, he says, is that it’s usually not about money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You go into a 7-Eleven store and you come out with $93. And for this you’re risking 10 years of your life in Pelican Bay,” says Zimring, a law professor at Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says robbery as a criminal career nets vastly less than minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Robbery is on a risk/reward basis literally the worst way of making a criminal living you can imagine,” he says. “So you have to think that there’s a mix of recreation and power and a playing out of envy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cities face the pressures of gentrification and displacement, but not all of them can claim Oakland’s distinction of robbery capital of the U.S. for three consecutive years, according to the latest FBI \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how does Zimring explain the uptick? High-status recreation, he says, or put more simply, a fad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it comes to the drop, he says crediting Ceasefire might be wishful thinking. Zimring says catching even a few robbers could account for last year’s dip. Others who study crime, such as UCLA’s Mark Kleiman, agree, saying that nearly 5,000 robberies could easily be accomplished by just 100 people over the course of a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the statistics reveal just how hard it may be for Oakland to reduce crime overall. As robberies dropped last year, drug crimes rose once again, by about the same percentage.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>There aren't many complex tasks where someone would be unsure about how things work but still insist on a decision-making role. After all, you wouldn't tell a mechanic that you wanted to help rebuild the engine of a car when you had no idea how engines work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, there's a bit of a parallel in public opinion about the Golden State's budget, opinion sampled by \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1125\" target=\"_blank\">the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) in its new poll\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short: Californians want a say in how tax dollars are spent, but remain largely unaware of how those dollars actually \u003cem>are\u003c/em> spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before you conclude that it's just a single poll -- a snapshot in time -- and thus somewhat of an unfair conclusion, know this: \u003cem>PPIC has been asking these same questions ... and getting the same answers ... now for 10 straight years\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2010/01/28/we-dont-need-no-budget-education/\" target=\"_blank\">In fact, I first wrote about this very same topic almost exactly five years ago\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still see very low knowledge,\" says Mark Baldassare, PPIC's president and pollster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the two questions in which Californians seem to keep sending a mixed message. First, the knowledge test:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10419067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-10.44.34-AM-800x292.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-29 at 10.44.34 AM\" width=\"800\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-10.44.34-AM-800x292.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-10.44.34-AM-400x146.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-10.44.34-AM-1440x525.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-10.44.34-AM.png 1492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As has been the case now for every single year the question has been asked, Californians think prisons are the big kahuna of state government spending. But in truth, the answer is actually K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prisons, per the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">2015-16 state budget\u003c/a> proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2015-16/StateAgencyBudgets/5210/agency.html\" target=\"_blank\">account for less than 8 cents of every dollar in total state spending\u003c/a> (about 9 cents if you're looking just at the state's general fund). On the other hand, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2015-16/StateAgencyBudgets/6010/agency.html\" target=\"_blank\">K-12 schools take up 29 cents of every total state dollar\u003c/a> (and almost 42 cents of every general fund dollar) -- easily the biggest single spending category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Note: PPIC groups together \"health and human services,\" which are these days being counted separately in state spending data. Due to some \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/05/brown-on-health-coverage-right-thing-to-do-but-it-isnt-free/\" target=\"_blank\">pretty big growth in state spending on health through the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a>, these two sectors combined are almost 33 cents of every total state dollar -- thus edging out K-12 education. But we digress.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians have been consistent in their lowballing of K-12 spending. As PPIC points out, \u003cem>the question has now been asked for almost 10 consecutive years and no more than 30 percent of citizens have ever picked the right answer\u003c/em>. Prisons always seems to come out on top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, one response would be: Hey, we elect lawmakers to keep tabs on tax dollars and make decisions on where they're spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to the follow-up question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10419069\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-11.07.50-AM-800x251.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-29 at 11.07.50 AM\" width=\"800\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-11.07.50-AM-800x251.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-11.07.50-AM-400x126.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-11.07.50-AM-1440x452.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-11.07.50-AM.png 1880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians, perhaps because of the state's robust initiative and referendum process, like to get under the hood and tinker with the engine's performance. And as the poll shows, the notion of voters making some of the state's budget decisions is widely popular among partisans and independents alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don't fault the voters, says PPIC's Baldassare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a very complex budget system,\" he says, \"and one that is not transparent to the average voter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after a decade of asking these questions, both in good and bad economic times, the pollster says it's quite clear that voter education\" is not an area on which we've made great progress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, no one thinks it's an easy thing to fix. If anything, the state's budget has gotten more complicated over the decade in which PPIC has been asking this knowledge-and-power set of questions. And political campaigns, from bonds to rainy day reserve funds and mandates about local versus state expenses, often sell proposals in generalities. No doubt a decade's worth of headlines about the problems in California prisons, from high health care costs to overcrowding, haven't helped either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the results of the polling are unsettling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a major disconnect between how the state operates,\" says pollster Baldassare, \"and what the state's residents know about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still see very low knowledge,\" says Mark Baldassare, PPIC's president and pollster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the two questions in which Californians seem to keep sending a mixed message. First, the knowledge test:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10419067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-10.44.34-AM-800x292.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-29 at 10.44.34 AM\" width=\"800\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-10.44.34-AM-800x292.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-10.44.34-AM-400x146.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-10.44.34-AM-1440x525.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-10.44.34-AM.png 1492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As has been the case now for every single year the question has been asked, Californians think prisons are the big kahuna of state government spending. But in truth, the answer is actually K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prisons, per the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">2015-16 state budget\u003c/a> proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2015-16/StateAgencyBudgets/5210/agency.html\" target=\"_blank\">account for less than 8 cents of every dollar in total state spending\u003c/a> (about 9 cents if you're looking just at the state's general fund). On the other hand, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2015-16/StateAgencyBudgets/6010/agency.html\" target=\"_blank\">K-12 schools take up 29 cents of every total state dollar\u003c/a> (and almost 42 cents of every general fund dollar) -- easily the biggest single spending category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Note: PPIC groups together \"health and human services,\" which are these days being counted separately in state spending data. Due to some \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/05/brown-on-health-coverage-right-thing-to-do-but-it-isnt-free/\" target=\"_blank\">pretty big growth in state spending on health through the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a>, these two sectors combined are almost 33 cents of every total state dollar -- thus edging out K-12 education. But we digress.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians have been consistent in their lowballing of K-12 spending. As PPIC points out, \u003cem>the question has now been asked for almost 10 consecutive years and no more than 30 percent of citizens have ever picked the right answer\u003c/em>. Prisons always seems to come out on top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, one response would be: Hey, we elect lawmakers to keep tabs on tax dollars and make decisions on where they're spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to the follow-up question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10419069\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-11.07.50-AM-800x251.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-29 at 11.07.50 AM\" width=\"800\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-11.07.50-AM-800x251.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-11.07.50-AM-400x126.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-11.07.50-AM-1440x452.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-11.07.50-AM.png 1880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians, perhaps because of the state's robust initiative and referendum process, like to get under the hood and tinker with the engine's performance. And as the poll shows, the notion of voters making some of the state's budget decisions is widely popular among partisans and independents alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don't fault the voters, says PPIC's Baldassare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a very complex budget system,\" he says, \"and one that is not transparent to the average voter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after a decade of asking these questions, both in good and bad economic times, the pollster says it's quite clear that voter education\" is not an area on which we've made great progress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, no one thinks it's an easy thing to fix. If anything, the state's budget has gotten more complicated over the decade in which PPIC has been asking this knowledge-and-power set of questions. And political campaigns, from bonds to rainy day reserve funds and mandates about local versus state expenses, often sell proposals in generalities. 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To really think differently about what does it mean as a nation to be “indivisible” and what does it mean for us to really make sure that there’s a place for everybody at the table. “Right” would look like a mixed-income opportunity: that you have neighborhoods that are not all affluent or all poor, but in fact we begin to really deliver on the American Dream and create an opportunity for people across a much broader range … to live in a neighborhood where all the benefits of a healthy community are available to everyone in our nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is this boom having any benefit for the young people you serve at Youth UpRising?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”z9UQlyDMpe4adprPJp1jaG6hKfGeamjA”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. And that’s not just the truth in East Oakland. 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