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And that draws in clear relief the problem and the fact that there has to be something done about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, a White House task force found that \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/29/fact-sheet-not-alone-protecting-students-sexual-assault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one out of five female college students has been assaulted\u003c/a>. In May, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released a list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-releases-list-higher-education-institutions-open-title-i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">55 colleges and universities under investigation\u003c/a> over their handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to an extended interview with Speier below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/161033691&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bipartisan group of U.S. senators also introduced legislation Wednesday aimed at curbing sexual assaults on campus. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/us/college-sexual-assault-bill-in-senate.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times\u003c/a> described some of the requirements and punitive measures that would be placed on universities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The new measure would require every university in the United States to conduct anonymous surveys of students about their experience with sexual violence on campus, with the results published online. The survey, which had been pushed for by sexual assault victims, is similar to one conducted by the military, and would allow parents and high school students to make comparative choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also increase the financial risk for schools that do not comply with certain requirements of the bill, like conducting the surveys. Schools would face possible penalties of up to 1 percent of their operating budget; previously, universities that violated student rights in sexual assault cases risked the loss of federal funding, but the punishment (had) never been applied and lawmakers said it was impractical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill increases penalties under the Clery Act — a federal law requiring all colleges and universities receiving federal financial aid to disclose information about campus crimes — to up to $150,000 per violation, from $35,000. Last year, the Department of Education fined Yale University $165,000 for failing to disclose four sexual offenses involving force that had occurred over several years, and other schools have also been fined.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stanford University Creates Its Own Sexual Assault Task Force\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University is taking steps to crack down on campus sexual assaults and has named 17 students, faculty and staff to a task force that will review and recommend changes to the universities’ policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They will consider how to prevent sexual assaults, help with support following an incident and improve the disciplinary process. From the Palo Alto Weekly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The university said in a release that the Task Force on Sexual Assault Policies and Practices, chaired by Stanford Law School Dean M. 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It also applies to those under sexual orientation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier said the university surveys would help hold campuses accountable to students and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are patterning this after the military system, where climate surveys have been done and we’ve been able to track the incidents of sexual assault and rape in the military. And it creates accountability by virtue of seeing how many victims will report,” Speier said. “Now they tend to report anonymously in a survey, and you see the disparity between the figure that represents those who actually have been sexually assaulted and those who report. And that draws in clear relief the problem and the fact that there has to be something done about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, a White House task force found that \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/29/fact-sheet-not-alone-protecting-students-sexual-assault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one out of five female college students has been assaulted\u003c/a>. In May, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released a list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-releases-list-higher-education-institutions-open-title-i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">55 colleges and universities under investigation\u003c/a> over their handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to an extended interview with Speier below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/161033691&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bipartisan group of U.S. senators also introduced legislation Wednesday aimed at curbing sexual assaults on campus. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/us/college-sexual-assault-bill-in-senate.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times\u003c/a> described some of the requirements and punitive measures that would be placed on universities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The new measure would require every university in the United States to conduct anonymous surveys of students about their experience with sexual violence on campus, with the results published online. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/07/2014-07-25d-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khadija Osman, 18, shuffles a stack of certificates, one for making the honor roll and several others awarded by teachers. She just graduated from Arroyo Paseo Charter High School in City Heights and is heading to UC Merced in the fall to study biochemistry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Somalia, where her family comes from, girls are much less likely to go to school than boys are. Here in the United States, Somali girls attending San Diego city schools are surpassing their male counterparts academically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally, boys are more likely to drop out of school than girls are. Statewide, high school boys were nearly 46 percent more likely to drop out than girls during the 2012-2013 school year. The state doesn't keep dropout rates by refugee status, but leaders in the local Somali community say anecdotally that refugee boys are at even higher risk of dropping out than girls are. They say the boys often are drawn into fights and, like many refugees, lack resources and struggle with language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The graduation gap is feeding a rapid gender shift for the Somali community — one that's tricky to navigate for young women like Osman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Osman learned she was accepted to a university an eight-hour drive away, she got a lot of pushback from her sister. That's because Osman helps with the household and her nieces and nephews. It's customary for Somali girls to help look after siblings and other younger relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's girls that would love to go to college but because of all the responsibilities put on us, you know, taking care of the house, and helping parents with translation and appointments, you know, we're not able,\" Osman said. \"It's annoying because a lot of the guys take it for granted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osman believes that's why some refugee boys drop out — school is just not a priority for them. But Oliva Espin has a different take on why refugee boys have a harder time than girls do. She's a professor emerita at San Diego State University who studies psychology and immigrant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141321\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 424px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/SomaliGradsStreet.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/SomaliGradsStreet-424x450.jpg\" alt=\"Isha Aweyso and her mother, Nuriya Abshiro walk through the Little Mogadishu district of City Heights in San Diego. (Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\" width=\"424\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10141321\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isha Aweyso and her mother, Nuriya Abshiro walk through the Little Mogadishu district of City Heights in San Diego. 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Boys don't have that many role models.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isha Aweyso, 17, will start her senior year this fall at Health Sciences High and Middle College, a charter school in City Heights, and is on track to go to a university. Wearing an intricate headscarf and vibrant traditional dress, she said boys get distracted at school because they can wear whatever they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As long as they get their education and make their family proud, (girls are) fine with that,\" Aweyso said. \"Boys, they worry too much about whether or not their clothes look perfect on them and if that specific group is going to want them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Osman, Aweyso has the full support of her female relatives when it comes to higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother, Nuriya Abshiro, said she's really happy her daughter can go to school and get a job. It's something she wanted for herself, but by the time her family earned enough money to enroll her, she had to flee to a refugee camp in Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here's the difference between Aweyso and Osman. Aweyso wants to stay local and go to San Diego State University. She'll be around to help raise her brothers and sisters, and she'll be a greater support to her family after she has a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osman said she also knows she'll have to put her degree to work to support her family. And that's OK with her as long as she gets to go to UC Merced, which has the smaller class sizes she believes she'll need to be successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thought of telling my dad I want to go away to college was kind of terrifying,\" Osman said. \"But then I told him why I want to go and he said, 'You know, at this point, I trust you. You're old enough and you know what's best for you.' 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They came to the Bay Area from Colombia, and they expected to end up in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We are already off to a different start here in Oakland, and that bodes well.’\u003ccite>Mitchell Kapor,\u003cbr>\nVenture capitalist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When we thought about the U.S., we thought about San Francisco, like the mecca of the Silicon Valley,” he says. “But when we got there, the price of the rent was so high. Even sharing a room was high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So instead, the pair moved into West Oakland, a place they had heard about from others in the tech world. Now, they run their start-up out of Impact Hub Oakland. It’s a new shared co-working and event space at Grand and Broadway that’s buzzing with people trying to create the next big thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell Kapor, a venture capitalist also based in Oakland, thinks some of them will succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor, whose \u003ca href=\"http://kaporcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kapor Center for Social Impact\u003c/a> is just down the street from Impact Hub, says tech can have a different culture here than it does in San Francisco. He thinks it can be more diverse, socially aware and connected to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not want to be a Pollyanna. I think change is always a challenging process,” Kapor says, then adds: “We are already off to a different start here in Oakland, and that bodes well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”5tqal8nysLGHFvvZWZptXWpSCNlQZUcE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entrepreneurs and investors like Kapor are trying to grow local talent. 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In order for real change to happen, she says, Oakland needs money for social programs and improving public schools—real investments that would help stabilize her neighborhood. She points out that Google and other big tech companies send billions of dollars in profits overseas to avoid taxes that fund services and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is, if you don’t invest, then over the long haul what you do is you transfer ownership of the city to someone new,” Simmons says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she says if that happens in Oakland, there will be conflict, and it will be more severe than the clash over tech in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to say this. It breaks my heart to say this,” Simmons says. “San Francisco had a very long ramp of displacement and gentrification, that by the time things exploded, the vast majority of the poor people and the people of color were long gone. That’s not true in Oakland. It will happen much more rapidly and it will be a much grittier experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If you don’t invest, then over the long haul what you do is you transfer ownership of the city to someone new.’\u003ccite>Ollis Simmons,\u003cbr>\nYouth Uprisings\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Economist Carol Zabin thinks that distributing the wealth generated by tech could ease the tensions. Zabin is the research director at the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>. One of the quickest ways to do that, she says, would be raising minimum wage. Higher pay would ensure that when the cost of living increases, regular folks could afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about getting into the tech jobs.” Zabin says. “It’s also about improving the jobs that tech creates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabin’s colleague Enrico Moretti calculates that each tech job eventually creates five additional jobs outside of the innovation sector. The wealth that tech generates leads to the employment of more people in areas like food service and construction. That’s why Zabin says other tech hubs should follow Seattle’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle is increasing minimum wage to $15 an hour. 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NBA legend Bill Russell lived in West Oakland, and the Black Panthers had an office on Peralta Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the clubs closed decades ago and Bill Russell is long gone. In their wake, a new wave of residents are sweeping into the neighborhood — many of them white, and many of them coming from San Francisco because of the tech boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the 2010 census, Oakland has more white inhabitants than black residents for the first time since the 1970s. Neighborhoods have been changing for decades, but the expanding tech industry is speeding up the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, sky-high rents are pushing people out of San Francisco, with many ending up in West Oakland, the first BART stop on the east side of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few decades, West Oakland has seen an increase of abandoned factories and shuttered businesses. Danita Robinson, a member of the Center Street Baptist Church on Tenth Street, says for a long time nobody would invest in West Oakland. But she says there is now more development in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141920\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 378px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-141920\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/EsthersOrbitRoom-640x593.jpg\" alt=\"Esther's Orbit Room\" width=\"378\" height=\"351\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now-defunct Esther’s Orbit Room on Seventh Street in West Oakland. The unassuming club played host to many greats of jazz, blues and R&B, including Etta James, Al Green, B.B. King and Tina Turner. (Photo: RadioNicole/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For instance, developers recently built a high-end condo complex in West Oakland called Zephyr Gate. It’s a couple of blocks long and within walking distance from the West Oakland BART stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was so abandoned for such a long time,” Robinson says. “Now it is all nice over there and Mr. Google and Mr. Doctor are living there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to to an old nickname for one section of the neighborhood, she asks, “What could we have put back there outside of these condos that would have been beneficial to the West Oakland area, especially what we call the lower bottoms down here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenna Stormwell-Gougis lives in a Victorian across from the Center Street Baptist Church. She bought the house a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was the only white person on this block 10 years ago,” she says, “and now, I would say the block is 40 percent white.” She says lots of new people are riding by on bikes and popping in and out of old Victorian houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danita Robinson doesn’t think of the newcomers as West Oaklanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call them San Franciscans,” she says. “Why else would you be moving to this area and not another area of Oakland? Because it’s three blocks from the BART station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”jYESxOMr9ASis6f6knorcmBnwUnzx4Ye”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawn Phillips is the program co-director at Causa Justa::Just Cause. His organization published a report that shows some market-rate rents in West Oakland to be higher than in Rockridge and the Oakland Hills — two of the most affluent areas in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we looked at that data it blew us away,” Phillips says. “We did not know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rent is rising throughout Oakland. The real estate company Trulia says rents increased 10.8 percent in May from the year before. That is the third highest rent hike in the country behind San Diego and San Francisco. The median price for a two-bedroom is now $2,450 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a regional pressure that is being created,” Phillips says. “It is rippling out from San Francisco.” Soon he says, it will hit neighborhoods farther out in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In gathering data for their report, Causa Justa::Just Cause found an increase in the eviction and displacement of Africans-Americans from Oakland. Phillips says the current demographic change is just the final stage after decades of disinvestment in the area: “We understand gentrification to be pretty long-term, long-evolving historic process that is actually very systematic in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141922\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 340px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-141922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/10thWood-640x570.jpg\" alt=\"10th and Wood\" width=\"340\" height=\"302\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">10th and Wood, a new sandwich shop near the Zephyr Gate condo complex. (Photo: Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ron Lindsey can tell you first-hand how the long-term process played out in West Oakland, where he grew up. His father and uncle worked at the Navy shipyard. He saw that get shut down and the factory jobs shipped overseas. Then the businesses on Seventh Street started closing. He can still point out where they all were — a clothing store, a shoe shine parlor, barber shops, candy shops and night clubs. “All of these were black businesses,” Lindsey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After companies outsourced the neighborhood’s factory jobs, the tax base eroded and social services were cut. Unemployment and violence spiked. Lindsey watched as highways and train lines carved up the neighborhood. The elevated BART rails got built right over Seventh Street. Now where there was once music, there is the screech of trains, drowning out everything below. People left. Eventually, so did Lindsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips says gentrification is this whole progression, from job loss to neighborhood decay to redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danita Robinson says even though things are changing, there is no way for her to move up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be low-rent,” Robinson says. “I don’t want to be low-income. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barbara Grady, \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Local\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-95476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/oaklandlocallogo.jpg\" alt=\"oaklandlocallogo\" width=\"177\" height=\"99\">\u003c/a>The first day on the job, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/site/default.aspx?PageID=1\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Unified\u003c/a>’s new superintendent, Antwan Wilson, said OUSD is not going to ignore problems sometimes considered “too hard” for school districts to overcome, such as the toll that deep poverty and trauma take on students’ ability to achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, it is going to tackle issues head-on that have caused some students and some schools to falter, and will “ensure every child is getting an excellent education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RMUcGS__R8&w=640&h=480]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district is also going to prioritize tasks and focus on achieving them fast, rather than pursue dozens of initiatives with middling commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must make haste,” Wilson told an assembly of parents, administrators, press and teachers greeting him on day one Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children are only in third grade once, they are only in middle school once,” he said. \"Delay can ruin lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he said a specific plan for his first 100 days is still developing, he cited these priorities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>”Investing in people,” which he elaborated upon: “Make sure teachers and principals have access to training and to worthwhile feedback” as well as, presumably, pay.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creating a culture around student success. “We realize we have to invest in being a values-based organization and (convene) around a consistent set of values.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>”Prioritize professional learning”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Overarching all is a goal to increase graduation and prepare students for successful lives in college or careers.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A school district must prepare students for the option to go on to college, even if they choose not to, Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to be able to read deeply, collaborate and problem-solve,” he said of the education OUSD or any school district must provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson takes over the helm of a district of 37,000 district students and 10,000 charter students, in a city where street violence has cut life short for some young people and poverty has often trumped opportunity for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wilson knew poverty well as a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up with his single teenage mother in Wichita, Kansas, he was often hungry at night and the apartment was cold. “But my mother still expected me to write that paper and my teachers expected me to finish the math homework,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poverty cannot be seen as a reason to have “soft expectations” of students, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 42-year-old father comes to Oakland from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dpsk12.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Public Schools\u003c/a> system, where he was assistant superintendent in charge of secondary schools and student college and career readiness. While in Denver, he earned a national reputation for lifting graduation rates by 22 percent over six years and improving rigor in high schools, leading more kids to attend college after graduation. It is a district with poverty and language barriers much like Oakland's. Denver and Oakland have similar percentages of low-income students (three-quarters qualify for free or reduced lunch) and English learners. He is also known for turning around a very troubled high school, Montebello High School, to produce almost all college-going students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland school board members said Wilson’s success in turning around high schools in Denver was a key quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He takes the helm of a district that is both at the forefront of education reform and recognized nationally for successes and the locus of dismal failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a school system with such excellent elementary schools — in Peralta, Chabot, Highland, Cleveland, Lincoln and others — that parents anywhere would sell their right arms to enroll their kids in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a city where an 8-year-old girl lies paralyzed in a hospital bed because a bullet intended for a 47-year-old gang member somehow lodged in her instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a school district with a science program at Oakland Technical High School and a music program at Skyline High School that are the envy of the state and from which students are launched into Ivy league institutions. It’s also a place where pimps hover outside some high school buildings and follow 16-year-old girls home and trap them in desperate lifestyles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a school district that produced California’s teacher of the year last year, as well as teachers who have thrown chairs at kids or simply not shown up to teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD is an innovative district with Linked Learning internships, with restorative justice and emotional learning programs, and the nation’s first African-American Male Achievement initiative. And it’s a district that somehow allows a third of its schools to fail to produce proficiency in math and English in a majority of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a school district where some kids are winning robotic and debate championships and some kids finish eighth grade not knowing how to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a school district with declining enrollment in a city receiving a huge influx of 20-somethings who haven’t yet thought about having kids, much less where those kids would go to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the district into which Antwan Wilson arrives to make his mark.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Aaron Glantz\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/University-of-Phoenix-framegrab02-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-140423\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/University-of-Phoenix-framegrab02-1-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Nationally, the University of Phoenix received nearly $1 billion from the new GI Bill over the last five years. (Adithya Sambamurthy/CIR)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nationally, the University of Phoenix received nearly $1 billion from the new GI Bill over the last five years. (Adithya Sambamurthy/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years, more than $600 million in college assistance for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans has been spent on California schools so substandard that they have failed to qualify for state financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the GI Bill — designed to help veterans live the American dream — is supporting for-profit companies that spend lavishly on marketing but can leave veterans with worthless degrees and few job prospects, The Center for Investigative Reporting found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not education. I think it’s just greed,” said David Pace, a 20-year Navy veteran who used the GI Bill to obtain a business degree from the University of Phoenix’s San Diego campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"511dfa846fa8fcfa2073ff5b5b11265e\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although taxpayers spent an estimated $50,000 on Pace’s education, he has the same blue-collar job he landed right after he left the service: running electrical cable for a defense contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial records analyzed by CIR show that California is the national epicenter of this problem, with nearly 2 out of every 3 GI Bill dollars going to for-profit colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.phoenix.edu/campus-locations/ca/san-diego-campus/san-diego-campus.html\" target=\"_blank\">University of Phoenix in San Diego\u003c/a> outdistances its peers. Since 2009, the campus has received $95 million in GI Bill funds. That’s more than any brick-and-mortar campus in America, more than the entire 10-campus University of California system and all UC extension programs combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the University of Phoenix, this is a sign of success.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's not education; I think it's just greed.'\u003ccite>David Pace, Navy veteran\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Veterans choose the University of Phoenix,” said Garland Williams, its vice president for military affairs. “The programs we offer are the ones that they desire and lead to careers that they want to aspire to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s large share of GI Bill funding reflects more than just the number of veterans enrolling. The programs are expensive. An associate degree costs $395 a credit, for instance – nearly 10 times the cost at a public community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Phoenix won’t say how many of its veterans graduate or find jobs, but the overall graduation rate at its San Diego campus is less than 15 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Education, and more than a quarter of students default on their loans within three years of leaving school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those figures fall short of the minimum standards set by the \u003ca href=\"http://sandbox.csac.ca.gov/CalGrant_Inst/CalGrantInstSearch.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">California Student Aid Commission\u003c/a>, which dispenses state financial aid. The commission considers either a graduation rate lower than 30 percent or a loan default rate of more than 15.5 percent clear indicators of a substandard education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No such restrictions govern GI Bill funds. And nearly 300 California schools that received GI Bill money either were barred from receiving state financial aid at least once in the past four years or operated without accreditation, CIR has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads-cironline-org/interactives/substandard/index.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the $1.5 billion in GI Bill funds spent on tuition and fees in California since 2009, CIR found that more than 40 percent – $638 million – went to schools that have failed the state financial aid standard at least once in the past four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of those schools were University of Phoenix campuses, which together took in $225 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the others are massage schools, paralegal programs and auto repair academies. More than a third — 121 schools — have no academic accreditation, like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.humansexualityeducation.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality\u003c/a> in San Francisco and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.farrierschool.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School \u003c/a>in Amador County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not what advocates hoped for when they pushed a new GI Bill through Congress in 2008. With its approval, the government for the first time since World War II committed to funding the full cost of a college education for veterans — pegged to the price tag for in-state tuition at the most costly public universities, up to $19,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://iava.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America\u003c/a> pushed hard for the bill’s passage. The results have been disappointing, said Political Director Kate O’Gorman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enormous amounts of GI Bill dollars” are going to schools that don’t see veterans as the future of the country, she said. Instead, companies are “seeing the benefit dollars they can line their pockets with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140424\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/david-pace03_adi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-140424\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/david-pace03_adi-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Pace works as a maintenance electrician at Naval Base San Diego, despite having a University of Phoenix degree paid for with GI Bill funds. (Adithya Sambamurthy/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Pace works as a maintenance electrician at Naval Base San Diego, despite having a University of Phoenix degree paid for with GI Bill funds. (Adithya Sambamurthy/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the University of Phoenix received nearly $1 billion from the new GI Bill over the last five years. In all, 80,000 veterans of America’s recent wars spent their GI Bill money at 89 of its campuses and its online college, Department of Veterans Affairs data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s impossible to tell whether those veterans are receiving a quality education. In fact, no one from any state or federal government knows whether veterans who go to school on the GI Bill graduate or find jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Phoenix’s San Diego campus doesn’t look like a college. It’s a few mid-rise office buildings in a suburban office park, indistinguishable from the life insurance company that occupies the glass-and-steel structure across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Friday morning in early May, a team of inspectors from the California VA pulled into the parking lot and headed to a conference room, where the college’s staff had laid out piles of student veterans’ transcripts and financial records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit’s purpose is to ensure that GI Bill money is properly spent, but auditors don’t sit in on classes or review the qualifications of instructors. “That’s not a part of the visit at all,” said Latanaya Johnson, one of the agency’s senior inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auditors look exclusively at paperwork, she said, to make sure schools aren’t billing the government for students who don’t exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Phoenix is under fire from its accrediting agency. In a\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncahlc.org/download/_PublicDisclosureNotices/FINAL%20UPDATED%20University%20of%20Phoenix%20PDN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> public disclosure in October\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncahlc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Higher Learning Commission\u003c/a> said the school failed to show that its “learning resources support student learning and effective teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, the University of Phoenix vice president, downplayed the severity of the sanction, noting that the school was given a year to present a correction plan. But he wouldn’t detail specific failures that led to the sanction and, as a private company, the University of Phoenix is exempt from public records laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140427\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/gi-funds.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-140427\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/gi-funds-300x300.png\" alt=\"The University of Phoenix's San Diego campus has received more GI funds since 2009 than all 10 UC campuses combined. (CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of Phoenix's San Diego campus has received more GI funds since 2009 than all 10 UC campuses combined. (CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in Washington are well aware that GI Bill money is being wasted. In 2012, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat and chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, issued a scathing \u003ca href=\"http://www.harkin.senate.gov/help/forprofitcolleges.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">5,000-page report \u003c/a>detailing the practices of 30 large for-profit education firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Harkin and his colleagues try to solve the problem, they run into a wall of opposition from the for-profit industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the failed legislation: a bill that would have blocked schools with no academic accreditation from receiving GI Bill money. Another bill, which would have barred for-profit schools from spending GI Bill funds on advertising, marketing or recruiting, never got out of committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the new GI Bill became law, the University of Phoenix’s corporate parent has spent $4.8 million on lobbying Congress, the White House and the federal VA, according to official lobbying records. Now, the legislative fight is moving to the state level, where the for-profit education industry also wields considerable clout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, legislation to prevent schools with low graduation rates and high student loan default rates from receiving GI Bill money was gutted of those measures before its first legislative hearing earlier this year. For-profit colleges continued to oppose the bill, however, because it would have forced schools to tell regulators how many veterans graduate and how many find jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the University of Phoenix’s lobbyist, Scott Govenar, sent a letter to Mike Gatto, D-Burbank, chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee. It argued that telling state regulators how many veterans graduate and find jobs would be cumbersome and “of little practical value.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed the Assembly at the end of May on a 62-4 vote and headed to the state Senate. But by then, the reporting requirement also had been removed, though unaccredited schools would become ineligible for GI Bill funds in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Democrat Jim Frazier of Fairfield, characterized the weakened bill as a first step in a years-long battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you try to take too big a bite of the apple in some instances, it’s counterproductive because they fail,” he said. “So you try to go in increments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Aaron Glantz\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/University-of-Phoenix-framegrab02-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-140423\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/University-of-Phoenix-framegrab02-1-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Nationally, the University of Phoenix received nearly $1 billion from the new GI Bill over the last five years. (Adithya Sambamurthy/CIR)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nationally, the University of Phoenix received nearly $1 billion from the new GI Bill over the last five years. (Adithya Sambamurthy/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years, more than $600 million in college assistance for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans has been spent on California schools so substandard that they have failed to qualify for state financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the GI Bill — designed to help veterans live the American dream — is supporting for-profit companies that spend lavishly on marketing but can leave veterans with worthless degrees and few job prospects, The Center for Investigative Reporting found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not education. I think it’s just greed,” said David Pace, a 20-year Navy veteran who used the GI Bill to obtain a business degree from the University of Phoenix’s San Diego campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although taxpayers spent an estimated $50,000 on Pace’s education, he has the same blue-collar job he landed right after he left the service: running electrical cable for a defense contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial records analyzed by CIR show that California is the national epicenter of this problem, with nearly 2 out of every 3 GI Bill dollars going to for-profit colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.phoenix.edu/campus-locations/ca/san-diego-campus/san-diego-campus.html\" target=\"_blank\">University of Phoenix in San Diego\u003c/a> outdistances its peers. Since 2009, the campus has received $95 million in GI Bill funds. That’s more than any brick-and-mortar campus in America, more than the entire 10-campus University of California system and all UC extension programs combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the University of Phoenix, this is a sign of success.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's not education; I think it's just greed.'\u003ccite>David Pace, Navy veteran\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Veterans choose the University of Phoenix,” said Garland Williams, its vice president for military affairs. “The programs we offer are the ones that they desire and lead to careers that they want to aspire to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s large share of GI Bill funding reflects more than just the number of veterans enrolling. The programs are expensive. An associate degree costs $395 a credit, for instance – nearly 10 times the cost at a public community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Phoenix won’t say how many of its veterans graduate or find jobs, but the overall graduation rate at its San Diego campus is less than 15 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Education, and more than a quarter of students default on their loans within three years of leaving school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those figures fall short of the minimum standards set by the \u003ca href=\"http://sandbox.csac.ca.gov/CalGrant_Inst/CalGrantInstSearch.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">California Student Aid Commission\u003c/a>, which dispenses state financial aid. The commission considers either a graduation rate lower than 30 percent or a loan default rate of more than 15.5 percent clear indicators of a substandard education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No such restrictions govern GI Bill funds. And nearly 300 California schools that received GI Bill money either were barred from receiving state financial aid at least once in the past four years or operated without accreditation, CIR has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads-cironline-org/interactives/substandard/index.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the $1.5 billion in GI Bill funds spent on tuition and fees in California since 2009, CIR found that more than 40 percent – $638 million – went to schools that have failed the state financial aid standard at least once in the past four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of those schools were University of Phoenix campuses, which together took in $225 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the others are massage schools, paralegal programs and auto repair academies. More than a third — 121 schools — have no academic accreditation, like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.humansexualityeducation.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality\u003c/a> in San Francisco and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.farrierschool.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School \u003c/a>in Amador County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not what advocates hoped for when they pushed a new GI Bill through Congress in 2008. With its approval, the government for the first time since World War II committed to funding the full cost of a college education for veterans — pegged to the price tag for in-state tuition at the most costly public universities, up to $19,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://iava.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America\u003c/a> pushed hard for the bill’s passage. The results have been disappointing, said Political Director Kate O’Gorman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enormous amounts of GI Bill dollars” are going to schools that don’t see veterans as the future of the country, she said. Instead, companies are “seeing the benefit dollars they can line their pockets with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140424\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/david-pace03_adi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-140424\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/david-pace03_adi-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Pace works as a maintenance electrician at Naval Base San Diego, despite having a University of Phoenix degree paid for with GI Bill funds. (Adithya Sambamurthy/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Pace works as a maintenance electrician at Naval Base San Diego, despite having a University of Phoenix degree paid for with GI Bill funds. (Adithya Sambamurthy/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the University of Phoenix received nearly $1 billion from the new GI Bill over the last five years. In all, 80,000 veterans of America’s recent wars spent their GI Bill money at 89 of its campuses and its online college, Department of Veterans Affairs data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s impossible to tell whether those veterans are receiving a quality education. In fact, no one from any state or federal government knows whether veterans who go to school on the GI Bill graduate or find jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Phoenix’s San Diego campus doesn’t look like a college. It’s a few mid-rise office buildings in a suburban office park, indistinguishable from the life insurance company that occupies the glass-and-steel structure across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Friday morning in early May, a team of inspectors from the California VA pulled into the parking lot and headed to a conference room, where the college’s staff had laid out piles of student veterans’ transcripts and financial records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit’s purpose is to ensure that GI Bill money is properly spent, but auditors don’t sit in on classes or review the qualifications of instructors. “That’s not a part of the visit at all,” said Latanaya Johnson, one of the agency’s senior inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auditors look exclusively at paperwork, she said, to make sure schools aren’t billing the government for students who don’t exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Phoenix is under fire from its accrediting agency. In a\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncahlc.org/download/_PublicDisclosureNotices/FINAL%20UPDATED%20University%20of%20Phoenix%20PDN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> public disclosure in October\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncahlc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Higher Learning Commission\u003c/a> said the school failed to show that its “learning resources support student learning and effective teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, the University of Phoenix vice president, downplayed the severity of the sanction, noting that the school was given a year to present a correction plan. But he wouldn’t detail specific failures that led to the sanction and, as a private company, the University of Phoenix is exempt from public records laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140427\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/gi-funds.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-140427\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/gi-funds-300x300.png\" alt=\"The University of Phoenix's San Diego campus has received more GI funds since 2009 than all 10 UC campuses combined. (CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of Phoenix's San Diego campus has received more GI funds since 2009 than all 10 UC campuses combined. (CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in Washington are well aware that GI Bill money is being wasted. In 2012, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat and chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, issued a scathing \u003ca href=\"http://www.harkin.senate.gov/help/forprofitcolleges.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">5,000-page report \u003c/a>detailing the practices of 30 large for-profit education firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Harkin and his colleagues try to solve the problem, they run into a wall of opposition from the for-profit industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the failed legislation: a bill that would have blocked schools with no academic accreditation from receiving GI Bill money. Another bill, which would have barred for-profit schools from spending GI Bill funds on advertising, marketing or recruiting, never got out of committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the new GI Bill became law, the University of Phoenix’s corporate parent has spent $4.8 million on lobbying Congress, the White House and the federal VA, according to official lobbying records. Now, the legislative fight is moving to the state level, where the for-profit education industry also wields considerable clout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, legislation to prevent schools with low graduation rates and high student loan default rates from receiving GI Bill money was gutted of those measures before its first legislative hearing earlier this year. For-profit colleges continued to oppose the bill, however, because it would have forced schools to tell regulators how many veterans graduate and how many find jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the University of Phoenix’s lobbyist, Scott Govenar, sent a letter to Mike Gatto, D-Burbank, chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee. It argued that telling state regulators how many veterans graduate and find jobs would be cumbersome and “of little practical value.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed the Assembly at the end of May on a 62-4 vote and headed to the state Senate. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139561\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/IMG_4056.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-139561\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/IMG_4056-640x478.jpg\" alt=\"(John Myers, KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(John Myers/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The safe money, so to speak, in California politics for years has been that voters are usually happy to approve long-term government borrowing. In some ways, it has seemed like free money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the post-recession era, where debt has become a political hot potato and the incumbent governor has made debt reduction his mantra, a statewide bond measure is a bit more of a dicey proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That helps explain what could soon be a real dilemma under the Capitol dome in Sacramento: Can two multibillion-dollar bond plans, one for water and one for schools, both succeed on Nov. 4? Might voters see it as a choice of one or the other? Or, angry over the idea of big debt, reject both?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue was raised, gingerly it seemed, on Wednesday afternoon during a hearing of the Senate Education Committee on \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/asm/ab_2201-2250/ab_2235_bill_20140523_amended_asm_v98.htm\" target=\"_blank\">AB2235\u003c/a>, a bipartisan $9 billion dollar K-12 and higher education bond proposal. A long line of supporters at the hearing suggested that the backlog of school construction and modernization needs is actually bigger than the bond as written — a need some estimate statewide at as much as \u003cem>$12 billion\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That explains why so many of those same education advocates seemed flummoxed by the committee's staff recommendation: Shrink the 2014 schools bond down to just $2 billon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school bond, though, has pretty much flown under the radar this year in comparison to talk of a water bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, public and private Capitol negotiations have labored over how to rework the priorities and reduce the size of an $11 billion water bond already on the November ballot, a water storage and operations measure crafted back in 2010. That bond is now almost universally seen as too expensive and, in light of the current drought, misguided in its approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one believes an $11 billion bond and a $9 billion bond can both win passage in 2014; California voters might have a general proclivity to borrowing, but $20 billion? That would be exactly the kind of scenario on which Republicans would love to hound Democratic candidates in a year in which the GOP is otherwise struggling to find traction. And it certainly would be a political gift for Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari in what may otherwise be a quixotic quest to unseat Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, there's virtually no support these days for a water bond totaling $11 billion. Several legislative proposals remain in discussion, with most of them envisioning between $6 billion and $8 billion in new borrowing for water needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's education hearing raised the idea of a $2 billion school bond now, one to help meet the most pressing construction needs, and then a second and larger school bond for voters to consider in 2016. The bond's author, Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan (D-Alamo), opposed that provision for AB2235 but ultimately agreed to remove a dollar amount from her bill while some of the committee's concerns about priorities and projects could be reviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of us have an interest in making the bond work,\" said Buchanan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the politics may still be tough. Many believe the governor, proud of his paying-down-California-debt mantra, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/25/6268276/dan-walters-crafting-a-2014-water.html\" target=\"_blank\">is leery of having to campaign for re-election alongside more borrowing\u003c/a>, even if it's for a cause voters generally support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the Legislature's leading voices for a water bond, state Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), says the possibility of two bond measures might raise the stakes on water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a need for both,\" Wolk said in an email, \"and education bonds usually fair better than water bonds. If they both are on the same ballot, it heightens the importance of there being a consensus on the water bond.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools may generally fare better, but voters have been supportive of both kinds of bonds in the past. Since 1998, voters have approved some $35 billion in K-12 bonds and another $10 billion for higher education. In that same time period, voters have given their blessing to more than $19 billion in bonds related to water and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1091\" target=\"_blank\">poll by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California this spring\u003c/a> found that a slim majority of voters surveyed support a water bond if it were smaller than the existing $11 billion proposal\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two big bonds on the same ballot? It's anyone's guess. And that's what makes some policy and political observers nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is for sure: It will make for some interesting viewing over the next few weeks. Even though state law says all ballot measures must be in place by next Thursday, June 26, neither of these will make that deadline -- which means the Legislature will have to also give itself a legal extension. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/02/16/special-election-deadline-who-knows/\" target=\"_blank\">In years past, the accepted wisdom has been that the latest that a legislative measure could be placed on the ballot is 88 days from Election Day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would mean that the water bond/schools bond debate must be over by Aug. 8.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school bond, though, has pretty much flown under the radar this year in comparison to talk of a water bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, public and private Capitol negotiations have labored over how to rework the priorities and reduce the size of an $11 billion water bond already on the November ballot, a water storage and operations measure crafted back in 2010. That bond is now almost universally seen as too expensive and, in light of the current drought, misguided in its approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one believes an $11 billion bond and a $9 billion bond can both win passage in 2014; California voters might have a general proclivity to borrowing, but $20 billion? That would be exactly the kind of scenario on which Republicans would love to hound Democratic candidates in a year in which the GOP is otherwise struggling to find traction. And it certainly would be a political gift for Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari in what may otherwise be a quixotic quest to unseat Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, there's virtually no support these days for a water bond totaling $11 billion. Several legislative proposals remain in discussion, with most of them envisioning between $6 billion and $8 billion in new borrowing for water needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's education hearing raised the idea of a $2 billion school bond now, one to help meet the most pressing construction needs, and then a second and larger school bond for voters to consider in 2016. The bond's author, Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan (D-Alamo), opposed that provision for AB2235 but ultimately agreed to remove a dollar amount from her bill while some of the committee's concerns about priorities and projects could be reviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of us have an interest in making the bond work,\" said Buchanan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the politics may still be tough. Many believe the governor, proud of his paying-down-California-debt mantra, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/25/6268276/dan-walters-crafting-a-2014-water.html\" target=\"_blank\">is leery of having to campaign for re-election alongside more borrowing\u003c/a>, even if it's for a cause voters generally support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the Legislature's leading voices for a water bond, state Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), says the possibility of two bond measures might raise the stakes on water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a need for both,\" Wolk said in an email, \"and education bonds usually fair better than water bonds. If they both are on the same ballot, it heightens the importance of there being a consensus on the water bond.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools may generally fare better, but voters have been supportive of both kinds of bonds in the past. Since 1998, voters have approved some $35 billion in K-12 bonds and another $10 billion for higher education. In that same time period, voters have given their blessing to more than $19 billion in bonds related to water and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1091\" target=\"_blank\">poll by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California this spring\u003c/a> found that a slim majority of voters surveyed support a water bond if it were smaller than the existing $11 billion proposal\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two big bonds on the same ballot? It's anyone's guess. And that's what makes some policy and political observers nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is for sure: It will make for some interesting viewing over the next few weeks. Even though state law says all ballot measures must be in place by next Thursday, June 26, neither of these will make that deadline -- which means the Legislature will have to also give itself a legal extension. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/02/16/special-election-deadline-who-knows/\" target=\"_blank\">In years past, the accepted wisdom has been that the latest that a legislative measure could be placed on the ballot is 88 days from Election Day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would mean that the water bond/schools bond debate must be over by Aug. 8.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A crowd gathered this afternoon on the Stanford University campus during a Faculty Senate meeting, as students passed out fliers that said, “#StandWithLeah” and demanding the school change its policy on how it handles sexual assault cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally happened one day after Stanford announced that it will not expel a student it found responsible for sexual assault, rejecting an appeal from the victim, Leah Francis, who thinks the university treated her alleged assailant too leniently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration dangerously mishandled my case,” says Francis, who organized today’s rally. “We need punishment that rises to the magnitude of the assault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 25, a five-person panel unanimously found the student responsible for sexual misconduct through a disciplinary process called the Alternative Review Process. The panel was set up in 2010 to deal with allegations of misconduct relating to sexual assault, sexual harassment, relationship violence and stalking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alhough Francis filed a police report in Juneau, Alaska, where she said the attack occurred on Jan. 1, 2014, the case is still being reviewed and charges have not been filed. The action of the university does not reflect one way or another on any potential criminal charges in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This disciplinary process does not seek to determine whether a crime was committed, but whether the university’s student conduct policies were violated and, if so, what discipline is appropriate,” said Lisa Lapin, associate vice president of university communications at Stanford University, in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 6, the panel handed down its discipline, suspending the student for five quarters and requiring him to complete 40 hours of community service, as well as a sexual assault education program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This discipline came too late and was too lenient, according to Francis, who reported the incident to Stanford on Jan. 7. Michele Dauber, a Stanford law professor who helped create the Alternative Review Process in 2010, helped draft Francis’s appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He (the alleged assailant) is responsible for sexual assault through force, but (the panel) determined paradoxically that he is not a threat to the Stanford community,” Dauber says. They came to their decision based on the alleged assailant and victim’s relationship two years prior, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are acting on the erroneous belief that he is only a danger to me,” Francis says. “That belief is outdated. This is a giant step back for Stanford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis and those at the rally would like to see mandatory expulsion for those found responsible for sexual assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are listening,” Greg Boardman, vice provost for student affairs, wrote in a\u003ca href=\"https://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/news/safe-campus-2014\"> June 6 letter\u003c/a> to the community. “Expulsion is currently one of a range of potential outcomes of Stanford’s disciplinary process for cases of forcible sexual assault. A different approach would be to make it the ‘presumptive’ outcome — not meaning that it would be applied to every case automatically, but that it would be the starting point for the consideration of sanctions. We intend to discuss this possible approach further with students and others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also addressed concerns about prevention efforts, due process and better education about sexual assault issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Francis has become vocal about campus sexual assault issues, she says hundreds of other alleged victims have reached out to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My case is a face to rally behind, to make it real to people,” Francis says. “We are trying to change Stanford’s policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: An earlier version of this post had an inaccurate caption for the photo and inaccurately attributed some information to Stanford University.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/229458162/All-Reviewer-Findings\">All Reviewer Findings\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_18240\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/229458162/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Because state funding is partly tied to attendance, the school has also lost a significant amount of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Monday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.accjc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges\u003c/a> says it will change its terms for terminating accreditation, but no one is quite sure what that means for the fate of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> because the commission hasn’t released any details yet about the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The commission took an action that appears to have changed the termination rules for accreditation,” CCSF spokesman Larry Kamer said on \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED Newsroom\u003c/a>\u003c/em> last Friday. “We have no idea what that is. We asked for a copy of that document. We didn’t get it. We’d like to know, because City College, the state chancellor’s office, the mayor’s office had nothing to do with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has indicated it will release its new conditions of termination on Wednesday. The ACCJC declined to make an appearance on \u003cem>KQED Newsroom\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”f9f27d743cc677abee397c9cf3555879″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACCJC is threatening to yank CCSF’s accreditation on July 31 if the college does not come into full compliance with a list of terms regarding issues of poor college governance and finance. 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