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In an interview, Robert Johnson, executive director of the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools, characterized it as part of the Legislature’s effort to kill the for-profit college sector through a “death by a thousand cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said a handful of “boutique schools” would be affected by the bill, which requires all for-profit schools that get GI Bill money to be approved by the state Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, an agency with the power to investigate complaints and refer substantiated allegations of fraud to California’s attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major for-profit chains would not be affected by that provision, Johnson said, because they already have been approved by the bureau or are covered by a carve-out in the bill for schools accredited by approved institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill that emerged from the legislative process is far weaker than the sweeping reform measure Frazier introduced in February, which would have significantly curtailed large for-profit college chains’ access to GI Bill funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It originally would have barred colleges from receiving GI Bill money if they failed standards the state has set for its own financial aid program, \u003ca href=\"http://www.calgrants.org/\">Cal Grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Investigative Reporting revealed in June that nearly 300 California schools had received GI Bill money even though they \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/gi-bill-funds-flow-profit-colleges-fail-state-aid-standards-6477\">failed those standards\u003c/a>. The total cost to taxpayers was $638 million over five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools failed the standard because they lacked accreditation or had low graduation rates or high rates of student loan default. The University of Phoenix, the largest recipient of GI Bill money in both California and the nation, was among the schools that fell short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing opposition from the for-profit education industry, Frazier removed that provision before the bill’s first hearing in April. In May, he removed another section that would have required schools to tell regulators whether veterans graduate or find jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That provision was removed after the University of Phoenix’s lobbyist, Scott Govenar, sent a letter to Mike Gatto, D-Burbank, chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, arguing that it would be cumbersome and “of little practical value.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The for-profit education lobby was not the only one that expressed concern about Frazier’s bill. California’s state colleges and universities complained to lawmakers about the expense of reporting graduation rates of student veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early August, state Sen. Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, held the bill in the Senate Appropriations Committee until Frazier removed a provision that would have required schools receiving GI Bill money to comply with voluntary guidelines established by President Barack Obama called the Principles of Excellence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/27/executive-order-establishing-principles-excellence-educational-instituti\">Those guidelines\u003c/a> include providing a personalized form for each veteran detailing the cost of his or her education program, ending fraudulent or aggressive recruiting tactics, and providing a single point of contact for veterans seeking academic and financial help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many for-profit schools do not comply with the principles, but 15 California State University campuses and 27 community colleges also failed to follow the principles, according to a Senate committee analysis. Lawmakers did not want to appropriate the $50,000 per school that legislative analysts estimated would be needed to bring the public schools into compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill sustained its final blow last week as it awaited a vote by the full Senate.Frazier removed its ban on GI Bill money going to any unaccredited schools in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That measure would have frozen out 121 schools, according to a CIR analysis of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs data. CIR found those schools had received $23 million from the GI Bill since 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the final bill cut off only “degree-granting institutions” without accreditation. Among the schools saved by that change are unaccredited massage schools, yoga programs and Bible colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear why it happened. A spokesman for Frazier said the legislation never was supposed to increase regulation on those kinds of for-profit schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by phone, a representative of the Cinema Makeup School in Los Angeles said he believed his school would continue to be eligible for the taxpayer subsidies because it offers “diplomas” rather than degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two dozen schools that stand to be barred because they grant unaccredited degrees would receive GI Bill money until 2017 if they show they are trying to become accredited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Doan, executive director of the for-profit International American University in Los Angeles, which offers unaccredited business degrees, said his school has launched a preemptive strike: seeking accreditation through the federally recognized Distance Education and Training Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big, costly process and a time-consuming one,” Doan said, “but we can see which way things are going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Sheela Kamath and Nikki Frick.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This story was produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting, an independent, nonprofit newsroom based in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more, visit cironline.org. Glantz can be reached at aglantz@cironline.org. Follow him on Twitter: @Aaron_Glantz. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In an interview, Robert Johnson, executive director of the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools, characterized it as part of the Legislature’s effort to kill the for-profit college sector through a “death by a thousand cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said a handful of “boutique schools” would be affected by the bill, which requires all for-profit schools that get GI Bill money to be approved by the state Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, an agency with the power to investigate complaints and refer substantiated allegations of fraud to California’s attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major for-profit chains would not be affected by that provision, Johnson said, because they already have been approved by the bureau or are covered by a carve-out in the bill for schools accredited by approved institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill that emerged from the legislative process is far weaker than the sweeping reform measure Frazier introduced in February, which would have significantly curtailed large for-profit college chains’ access to GI Bill funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It originally would have barred colleges from receiving GI Bill money if they failed standards the state has set for its own financial aid program, \u003ca href=\"http://www.calgrants.org/\">Cal Grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Investigative Reporting revealed in June that nearly 300 California schools had received GI Bill money even though they \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/gi-bill-funds-flow-profit-colleges-fail-state-aid-standards-6477\">failed those standards\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS8759_ucberkeley20140213-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-145955\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS8759_ucberkeley20140213-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"UC Berkeley students walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus in April 2012. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley students walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus in April 2012. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Sam Harnett \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Google went public, Stanford University made millions. The windfall came because Stanford had equity: not only Google's intellectual property but also the company itself. This kind of direct investment in a startup was not allowed at the University of California — that is, until now. UC President Janet Napolitano made the change possible by removing guidelines for industry-academic relations. Her action is raising questions about ethics, funding and the future of basic research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley grad Rachel Haurwitz has an unusual passion: RNA — those molecules that work with DNA to, well, make life work. “I thought RNA was wacky and weird and sounded super-interesting,” Haurwitz says, “and that is what I wanted to study in school.” Now that study is starting to pay off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While researching RNA at Berkeley, she and her professor discovered a new inexpensive way to edit DNA. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">It involves manipulating the immune system of bacteria. (Yes, bacteria also have immune systems -- they, too, have to fight off viruses.) \u003c/span>Anyway, they realized this innovation could change the biotech industry and make bundles of cash. Haurwitz says, “This is just a fantastic example of how funding even very basic research can lead to translational work that you never would have anticipated.” After graduating, she and her professor started a company called Caribou. But that wasn't always the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Doudna is Haurwitz's old professor and current business partner. “I was just a curious scientist investigating what I thought could be an interesting pathway in bacteria,” Doudna says. Her lab has been studying RNA for more than 20 years. She says people would have thought her crazy if she set out with the goal of creating Caribou’s technology. “Initially,” she says, “I wasn't thinking of applications at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doudna says this is how America has made big science breakthroughs for decades — not by chasing products but by curious investigation. And for decades, schools like UC Berkeley have made money through patents on the intellectual property or IP. (Well, more precisely since 1980. That is when the government passed the Bayh-Dole Act, which lets universities keep profits from patents developed through governmental funding.) Now, however, the University of California hopes to make money in a new way—from the success of the companies themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Mimura is from UC Berkeley's office of \u003ca href=\"http://ipira.berkeley.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances.\u003c/a> She says Napolitano's new policy will allow UC to invest directly in companies that come out of its schools. This is already done at private universities such as MIT, Stanford and Cornell, which, by the way, takes this one step further by turning postdoc pay into a form of angel investment. Company equity can yield bigger returns, such as with Google, but it’s more tied to corporate success than to intellectual innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/166254521&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano made direct investment possible by removing the 1989 set of industry-academia guidelines. The rescission has roiled faculty — not only because of the change but also because of the abrupt way she did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Clare is a physics professor at Cal and chair of the University Committee on Research Policy in the Academic Senate. It’s the representative body where faculty can weigh in on issues like this. He says there was no indication of these sweeping changes and that the official statement made it sound completely benign. “They said that these are just some technical and trivial changes,” he says, “and it is not even going to be brought up to the Senate.” That was in October, after Napolitano had been president for two weeks. She declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clare says the changes are not trivial. He is concerned they will divert resources from basic research — the kind that eventually leads to really big breakthroughs. “I am really worried at a fundamental level that the office of the president is spelling research: T-E-C-H T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R.” Tech transfer — that is, innovations that can be sold to corporations. “We are supposed to be the producers of knowledge,” Clare says, “much more than the producers of widgets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension between intellectual and commercial pursuits in universities is nothing new. Back in 1918, Thorstein Veblen wrote about how corporate intrusion threatened academia in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ditext.com/veblen/veblen.html\">memorandum\u003c/a> on “the Conduct of Universities By Business Men.” Today, there are tech transfer offices and startup incubators right on school campuses. Faculty members feel the pressure to develop patents, not just publish papers. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Maryland-to-Count/132261/\">Chronicle of Higher Education,\u003c/a> over two dozen institutions now have policies that award promotion and tenure to faculty that generate patents that sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Newfield is a UC professor and author of \"Unmaking the Public University.\" College is increasingly portrayed as a place to train workers and churn out startups, he says. Public schools like the University of California are feeling pressure to keep up, especially amid huge budget cuts. The UC system lost almost a billion dollars in funding between 2008 and 2013. “The public university is becoming more dependent on private revenues,” Newfield says, and subsequently “it is becoming more interested in serving private interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term worries over Napolitano's removal of academic-industry guidelines stem from immediate concerns about conflicts of interest — things like departmental favoritism, or the use of graduate students as labor for commercial research. Boundaries could blur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider Professor Doudna's position. Her graduate students are working on research related to Caribou, a company she co-founded that could profit from that research. 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A clear admissions policy will help make the application process easier and less stressful for these students, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">One Mills alum commented on the KQED \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> page that something might also be lost with this new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“I would argue that women’s education was established to meet a great and persistent problem of disparity in educational involvement and leadership opportunities among young women and girls — not to protect marginalized populations at large,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Senior Sonj Basha says the new policy is an opportunity for the college to create a campus culture that is safe, inclusive and committed to social justice. Basha, who identifies as gender queer or gender non-conforming and prefers gender-neutral pronouns, said it’s not so much about policing pronouns as respecting identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“I take all of my identities into consideration, and I think Mills also prides itself on understanding intersectionality,” Basha said. “For me, being gender queer is just one aspect of my identity. But I ask people to respect all aspects of my identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Fillbeck-Bates said she was largely unaware of the scope of gender identities before coming to Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“On my first day of orientation they asked me to say where I was from and what my PGP was. And I (was) like, ‘What is a PGP?’ “she said. (PGP stands for preferred gender pronoun.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">But Fillbeck-Bates quickly learned that Mills was a safe place to ask these kinds of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“Misunderstanding becomes a place for learning, for higher education. That is what Mills does,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Brad Dacus, constitutional attorney and \u003cspan class=\"s1\">president of the Pacific Justice Institute, a nonprofit legal defense organization,\u003c/span> said that while he would defend the school’s right to have this policy, there might also be some legal and privacy issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“\u003c/span>For example, if you have someone who’s transgender, perhaps they haven’t had the surgery. They’re still biologically, physically male,” he said. “Then the school needs to be very sensitive to the privacy interests of females, for instance, who may not feel comfortable changing in the same locker room or showering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The policy takes effect on Sept. 1, and the first students affected by this policy change would begin their studies in the spring semester of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tara Golshan and Adam Grossberg\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new academic year set to begin this month, California’s education system will see changes in terms of both funding and curriculum for the 2014-15 academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, California adopted a new way of funding its public school system by giving local districts \u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/reports_and_periodicals/district_estimate/documents/LCFF_Policy_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">more control\u003c/a> over how they spend the money they get from the state. Backed by Gov. Jerry Brown, the revamped system is meant to increase budgeting flexibility for both districts and individual schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The old funding system 'had no underlying rationale, it did not adjust for different pupil needs, it was ... almost impossible to understand.'\u003ccite>— Michael Kirst,\u003cbr>\nState school board president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For the past several decades, schools received two-thirds of their state money as general purpose funding and one-third through so-called categorical programs -- additional funding meant to address very specific needs, such as American Indian childhood education or reducing classroom size. However, many of the more than 40 “categorical programs” were frozen due to California’s fiscal restraints. Opponents of the old funding model argued that the outdated system had become overcomplicated over many decades of reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The old system was really an historical accretion, going back to the 1960s,” said Michael Kirst, president of the California State Board of Education, in a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>KQED Newsroom\u003c/em> \u003c/a>interview. “[The funding system] had no underlying rationale, it did not adjust for different pupil needs, it was convoluted and almost impossible to understand. The change made was to really throw all that out and start over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local funding formula attempts to simplify the process. Under the new system, funding is based largely on student demographics. Schools receive a base grant per number of registered students and additional grants depending on the schools’ population of high-need students: English learners, socioeconomically disadvantaged students and foster kids. Individual school districts then have the discretion to spend the grant money as they see fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirst estimates that low-income districts will see roughly a 50 percent increase in funding per pupil over the next five or six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formula also seeks to address accountability in a way the old system did not. California public school district administrators were required to submit a three-year plan, to be updated each year, outlining how their budgets will improve student performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This change in fiscal policy comes alongside another major change in California’s education policy with the implementation of \u003ca href=\"http://www.corestandards.org\" target=\"_blank\">Common Core\u003c/a>, a standardized nationwide curriculum for students from kindergarten through 12th grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common Core started as \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/articles/2014/02/27/the-history-of-common-core-state-standards\" target=\"_blank\">an initiative of the National Governors Association\u003c/a> with a goal of establishing consistent curriculum across the 50 states. Currently 43 states have adopted the curriculum, including California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a whole new ballgame,” Kirst said, noting Common Core has a “very, very different assessment theory and implementation” process, compared with the current California education model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will bring all students up over time to a level where they’re much better able to succeed in secondary education or job training,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Common Core curriculum is still being phased in to California schools and teachers are still being trained, a process that will take three to four years to complete, according to Kirst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change isn’t without controversy, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/articles/marina-ratner-making-math-education-even-worse-1407283282\" target=\"_blank\">recent Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> op-ed piece, UC Berkeley mathematics Professor Marina Ratner criticized Common Core for complicating basic principles. Ratner also argued that the standard Common Core curriculum does not even exceed California’s old standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although first endorsed by both ends of the political spectrum, the Obama administration's support of the change has prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/education/common-core-standards-face-a-new-wave-of-opposition.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Republican legislators in some states\u003c/a> to fight Common Core as a federal takeover of the education system. 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Among “factors strongly associated with school readiness” the report states that whether a child comes to school “hungry, tired or ill” was twice as important as the next most important factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hunger is such a big issue would seem strange except for the line of people visible at the food pantry on 36th Street and San Pablo Avenue or at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.svdp-alameda.org/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Vincent de Paul\u003c/a>’s midday meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, 5-year-old Abria and her sister Asha were in line with their mother Regina. Their mother makes sure her girls get three meals a day, but since they have no kitchen in the shelter where they live, it is a huge strategic effort involving traveling around the city and spending hours in lines or walking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Lord provides, so we can’t complain,” Regina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over on San Pablo Avenue and 36th Street, the line goes 77 people deep as another soon-to-be kindergartener, Vanessa, and her mother, Ronnie, wait for their turn to get free groceries. It’s a long wait that will take all of that afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For breakfast, we have food from WIC (\u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/women-infants-and-children-wic\" target=\"_blank\">The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children\u003c/a>),” Ronnie explains, and her children can get lunch at school. But summer is more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bright-eyed and clearly athletic as she does acrobatics from the line, Abria is not hungry. 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