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(Ana Tintocalis/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Dinosaur.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-130085\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Dinosaur-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Dinosaur\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nDinosaurs may be long extinct, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/20/how-quirky-is-berkeley-check-out-these-dinosaurs/\" target=\"_blank\">they survive in Berkeley front yards\u003c/a>, where small, medium or big, they stand as declarations of individualism in a city of individualists. 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But if we can associate those things with something that they love, they're more engaged with it.\" (Sukey Lewis/\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Telegraph-food-truck.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-130091\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Telegraph-food-truck-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Telegraph-food-truck\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMonday, March 17, saw the last \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/17/off-the-grid-pulls-plug-on-southside-berkeley-market/\" target=\"_blank\">Off The Grid Southside Berkeley food truck market\u003c/a>, which has been taking place once a week there since it launched in July 2012. This leaves Berkeley with just one Off The Grid market, at the North Berkeley BART station. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Thuy Vu\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/cyDLehxHswA?list=UU0FISFbEaHFc5ccrIgkZ3mg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>If a state senator has his way, Californians may once again be asked to vote on an emotionally charged issue that has divided people for decades — affirmative action in higher education. State lawmakers are considering \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SCA5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCA5, a proposed constitutional amendment\u003c/a> that would give voters a chance to repeal parts of \u003ca href=\"http://vote96.sos.ca.gov/bp/209.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 209\u003c/a> and restore racial and gender preference in college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1996, voters approved Prop. 209, which prohibits public institutions from granting preferential treatment to any group or individual in hiring, contracting and college admissions. Since then, admission offers to black students have dropped 49 percent at UC Berkeley and 16 percent at UCLA, two flagship campuses in the UC system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, author of the proposed amendment, spoke with KQED “Newsroom” about why he is seeking to reinstate affirmative action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the master plan for the state of California, it clearly says that our institutions should reflect the diversity of the state. It is not doing that,” Hernandez said. “If we’re going to get prepared for the next century…we have to make sure we have a diverse population, but more importantly, a diverse workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez has tried amending Prop. 209 before. When he tried changing the law at the state level, the bills were vetoed by Govs. Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year the overall UC system is roughly 36 percent Asian, 28 percent white, 28 percent Latino and 4 percent African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[contextly_sidebar id=”83ea01e64d93b336e60007fe53f0b1b6″]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current proposal by Hernandez has drawn fierce criticism from opponents of affirmative action, and an online petition is circulating to defeat it. Some of the sharpest comments have come from Asian-Americans who fear that, despite getting good grades, Asian students will be denied spots at California’s top colleges to make room for students of other ethnicities.\u003cbr>\n“I think the petition they’re signing on to is based on a lot of misinformation,” said Hernandez. “We’ve been getting calls into our office that their kids won’t get in because now there’s going to be quota systems. That’s not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Personal View\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This debate is especially interesting to me because I have personally experienced affirmative action on both sides of the fence. When I applied to UC Berkeley, well before the passage of Prop. 209, I was told by numerous people my Asian race would be a negative since Cal already had “enough Asians.” I was admitted anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> ‘This debate is especially interesting to me because I have personally experienced affirmative action on both sides of the fence.’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I graduated, my race would once again be a focal point. I was applying for my first professional job, and my ethnicity made me eligible to apply for a “diversity fellowship” at KQED Radio for a one-year reporting stint. Nearly 100 people applied, and I was offered the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was nearly 20 years ago, when there were far fewer Asian-Americans in the media. It was, and still is, a profession that needs to be diverse to effectively serve an increasingly diverse population. My experiences illustrate the complexity of the debate over affirmative action. When does it work? When does it fail? How do we go about creating equal opportunity when the roots of inequality are deep and not necessarily color-blind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate has already passed the constitutional amendment by Sen. Hernandez. Next steps include whether the Assembly will take it up and where voters stand if it gets to the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thuy Vu is the host of KQED “NEWSROOM,” a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online. Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand here.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez has tried amending Prop. 209 before. When he tried changing the law at the state level, the bills were vetoed by Govs. Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year the overall UC system is roughly 36 percent Asian, 28 percent white, 28 percent Latino and 4 percent African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current proposal by Hernandez has drawn fierce criticism from opponents of affirmative action, and an online petition is circulating to defeat it. Some of the sharpest comments have come from Asian-Americans who fear that, despite getting good grades, Asian students will be denied spots at California’s top colleges to make room for students of other ethnicities.\u003cbr>\n“I think the petition they’re signing on to is based on a lot of misinformation,” said Hernandez. “We’ve been getting calls into our office that their kids won’t get in because now there’s going to be quota systems. That’s not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Personal View\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This debate is especially interesting to me because I have personally experienced affirmative action on both sides of the fence. When I applied to UC Berkeley, well before the passage of Prop. 209, I was told by numerous people my Asian race would be a negative since Cal already had “enough Asians.” I was admitted anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> ‘This debate is especially interesting to me because I have personally experienced affirmative action on both sides of the fence.’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I graduated, my race would once again be a focal point. I was applying for my first professional job, and my ethnicity made me eligible to apply for a “diversity fellowship” at KQED Radio for a one-year reporting stint. Nearly 100 people applied, and I was offered the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was nearly 20 years ago, when there were far fewer Asian-Americans in the media. It was, and still is, a profession that needs to be diverse to effectively serve an increasingly diverse population. My experiences illustrate the complexity of the debate over affirmative action. When does it work? When does it fail? How do we go about creating equal opportunity when the roots of inequality are deep and not necessarily color-blind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate has already passed the constitutional amendment by Sen. Hernandez. Next steps include whether the Assembly will take it up and where voters stand if it gets to the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thuy Vu is the host of KQED “NEWSROOM,” a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online. Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand here.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 598px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/BioqhdZCUAEyGhQ.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-129263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/BioqhdZCUAEyGhQ.jpg\" alt=\"Police and students were involved in a dispute at CCSF following a rally about accreditation issues. Photo: Alex Emslie/KQED\" width=\"598\" height=\"337\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police and students were involved in a dispute at CCSF following a rally about accreditation issues. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Friday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two City College of San Francisco students arrested yesterday at a chaotic protest against the state-imposed administration were released from jail this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor studies major Otto Pippenger, 20, is charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest and battery on a peace officer, according to the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. Members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aft2121.org/\" target=\"_blank\">American Federation of Teachers Local 2121\u003c/a> and fellow students raised about $1,600 to post his bail, said Pippenger's mother, Heidi Alletzhauser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English major Dimitrious Philliou, 21, was cited and released early this morning for resisting arrest and \"returning to school property,\" according to the sheriff's department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129475\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/20140313_1339030.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-129475 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/20140313_1339030-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"20140313_133903(0)\" width=\"307\" height=\"172\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A moment from the clash between students and police at City College March 13, 2014. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 200 students and teachers with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.saveccsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Save CCSF Coalition\u003c/a> rallied yesterday afternoon at the school's main campus demanding the resignation of Special Trustee Robert Agrella, the reinstatement of City College's elected board of trustees, and an end to a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/en/student-services/admissions-and-registration/registration/billing-and-payment.html#paydead\" target=\"_blank\">payment policy\u003c/a> requiring class fees to be paid upfront, at the beginning of the semester. Agrella was made a special trustee with broad administrative powers after an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/city-college-accreditation/\" target=\"_blank\">accreditation agency ruled\u003c/a> it would pull the school's accreditation. This would render the school ineligible to receive state funding and close the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think anytime there’s any economic downturn, private forces try to sell our most important institutions for scrap,\" Pippenger said after returning home from jail this morning. \"I’m committed to try to keep it open in the way that it has been. I’m a dedicated participant in the fight to save City College.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/10/timeline-of-ccsfs-accreditation-woes/\" target=\"_blank\">-year battle\u003c/a> between City College and the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges has drawn charges of conflict of interest in the private regulatory body, a state audit of the commission and three lawsuits, including one brought by the city of San Francisco. An \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/122601/judge-blocks-closure-City-College-San-Francisco\" target=\"_blank\">injunction granted in that case\u003c/a> put the school's closure on hold indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students and teachers with the Save CCSF Coalition say much of the damage is already done. The school \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/content/dam/Organizational_Assets/Department/Research_Planning_Grants/EnrollmentManagement/EnrollmentReport/DailyEnrollmentReportSP2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">shed more than 5,000 students\u003c/a> since last year. Chairs of diversity-related departments, like African American or LGBT studies, say their departments are under siege as programs are being cut. In addition, students who pay nonresident tuition, including noncitizen students, are angry about thousands of dollars in fees now being charged at the beginning of the semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, I was not able to register this semester,\" Itzel Calvo said at yesterday's rally. \"I pay out-of-state tuition because I'm undocumented, and so for me that's about $3,000 for only two classes.\" Calvo also said the school's payment plan requiring 20 percent down is also \"completely unaffordable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College Chancellor Arthur Tyler said the college has an obligation to be stricter about collecting fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've instituted a payment plan to try to help students as much as we possibly can, but we've also got a fiscal crisis and I have a fiduciary responsibility to the state and to the taxpayers to ensure that we are collecting fees in a timely way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters gathered yesterday afternoon and listened to students and teachers decry the policy and other changes imposed by Agrella, who replaced the elected board of trustees last summer by order of state Community Colleges Chancellor Brice Harris. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Neighborhood Safety and Services Committee is considering a resolution today that would urge Harris to restore the elected Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From my perspective the board should have been restored months ago,\" Supervisor David Campos said. \"I came here as an undocumented student, to the U.S., and I think education is not a privilege, it's a right. Part of that right is that you're allowed to have a reasonable way of paying for something as basic as education, and the fact that they're not giving these students that opportunity is actually shameful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violence erupted yesterday after the crowd tried to get into City College's main administration building at the Ocean campus in southern San Francisco. The protesters said they wanted to take their demands directly to Agrella and the school's administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129467\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 269px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9420.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-129467 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9420-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Police from the San Francisco and City College campus police departments block the majority of protesters from entering Conlan Hall after a rally calling for the resignation of special trustee Robert Agrella on March 13, 2014. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"269\" height=\"179\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police from the San Francisco and City College campus police departments block the majority of protesters from entering Conlan Hall after a rally calling for the resignation of special trustee Robert Agrella. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campus and San Francisco police blocked the entrance, but some students already inside the building opened two sets of doors in the front, and more than a dozen students pushed past campus Police Chief Andre Barnes and other officers. A melee ensued, and Peppinger was thrown to the ground face-down, with officers pulling his wrists behind his back to handcuff him. An SFPD officer punched Peppinger in the back of his head, bouncing his face off the concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He disputes that he assaulted any officers or resisted arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pippenger's first appearance in San Francisco Superior Court is scheduled for Wednesday, his mother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pippenger, who said he's an intern with the AFT 2121, the local teacher's union, said he attended the rally for five points of extra credit for a labor studies class. His instructor was one of the people who delivered his bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second arrested student, Dimitrious Philliou, also said he was treated roughly by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They threw me to the ground, choked me, twisted my arm, and maced me,\" he said while in custody from the back of an ambulance. \"They pepper-sprayed me in the eyes for several seconds. The pain is still excruciating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether Philliou was talking about San Francisco or campus police, which were both on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philliou said he wants Agrella to have a face-to-face meeting with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College student and Save CCSF organizer Eric Blanc stayed at a sit-in with about 12 students in the administration building overnight. He said many students cried and were very upset about the violent clash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it’s shocking that this administration would incite police on peaceful protesters,\" he said. \"The reason there was violence yesterday was there was a decision to bring in massive amounts of police and lock a public building. It shows that they’re scared, the fact that they had to use excessive force against students, that our two demands are widely shared and this administration is increasingly isolated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chancellor Tyler said campus police had a responsibility to lock down the building to ensure the safety of students and staff inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm never happy to see someone get hurt,\" he said. \"There is always a challenge when people are exercising their rights. The idea of civil discourse starts with being civil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyler said the inside of the building, Conlan Hall, is not one of the three designated free-speech zones on campus. He didn't think coming down from his office to address the protesters would have diffused the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did have my staff down there talking to the crowd. That didn't seem to help,\" Tyler said. \"I did have business that I had to conduct and continued to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-- Alex Emslie\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 5 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Save CCSF Coalition has issued a statement saying that the students who entered the administrative building at the Ocean campus intend to continue their sit-in until Agrella steps down and the payment policy is reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement reads: \"The students are demanding that the Special Trustee With Extraordinary Powers (STWEP), Robert Agrella, step down. Ever since the democratically elected Board of Trustees were stripped of their powers students, faculty and staff have endured a series of destructive decisions and policies. One such policy the students are demanding be reversed is the aggressive payment policy that has forced many students out of school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Itzel Calvo, an undocumented student, is also quoted in the release explaining how the payment policy was hurtful to low-income and undocumented students. \"I was not able to enroll in classes this semester unless I paid thousands of dollars in tuition up front, even before the classes started. I can't afford that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agrella and other school officials are expected at the Chinatown campus right now for a previously scheduled meeting on the controversial policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 3:15 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dimitrious Philliou, the student who was pepper-sprayed and arrested, spoke with KQED reporter Alex Emslie as he was in the back of an ambulance. According to Philliou, he was trying to enter the building \"that is public for students\" when he was stopped by officers during the scrum. After asking why he was being detained, he said that police pushed him to the ground and pepper-sprayed him in the eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129377\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-129377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9254_IMG_9397-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"City College student Otto Pippenger is detained by SFPD officers outside an administration building. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City College student Otto Pippenger is detained by SFPD officers outside an administration building. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It was extremely painful. The pain is still excruciating and they still aren't giving me a reason for my arrest,\" said Philliou, although he was told that he was being held for trespassing and resisting arrest. The officer in the ambulance confirmed that he was under arrest, but couldn't confirm the charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief of campus police said it's too early to know for sure, but it appears two students have been detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students remaining in sit-ins both inside and outside the building have made two demands: the immediate resignation of special trustee Robert Agrella and ending the student payment plan, which requires that out-of-state students pay all tuition upfront at the beginning of the semester. This has been difficult for low-income students and undocumented students, who typically don't have California residency and are considered out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley Garabato, a San Francisco resident and student at CCSF, is one of about 18 students now inside the lobby of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I pushed my way through,\" she said. She also reported seeing students being hit by batons and that officers, at one point, arrived on the scene in full riot gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, who have been inside the building for nearly an hour and a half now, are making posters with slogans on them and snacking on whatever food they have in their bags, said Garabato. There are no serious injuries among the group inside and they intend to stay there \"all night if we have to,\" she said, until their demands are met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rally at City College of San Francisco turned violent this afternoon when protesters attempted to enter the school's administration building, Conlan Hall, to present a petition to special trustee Robert Agrella calling for his resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to KQED reporter Alex Emslie, who was on campus covering the rally organized by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.saveccsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Save CCSF Coalition\u003c/a>, the event became chaotic around 1:30 p.m. when students and teachers tried to enter Conlan Hall. Campus police blocked the entrances to the building, said Emslie, forcing the 250 or so marchers to circle the building looking for an open door. Protesters eventually pushed aside San Francisco Community College Police Chief Andre Barnes and forced their way inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, said Emslie, \"it was a melee.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus police were promptly joined by officers from the San Francisco Police Department, who attempted to physically stop the protesters from entering the building. According to Emslie, batons were used to push back the crowd, and there was at least one detention of a student. Emslie said that while that student was being held on the ground in the process of being detained, he was hit by an officer, slamming his head into the concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AFT Local 2121 President and CCSF English teacher Alisa Messer also reported a student being pepper-sprayed and receiving medical attention. \"This has never happened at City College,\" said Messer of the physical altercation with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been no official word on the number of detainees or any charges that may be brought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, a relative standoff has been reached, with about a dozen students inside the lobby of the administration building conducting a sit-in and the remainder of the protesters holding a sit-in outside the building. There are approximately 20 officers outside, monitoring the crowd, and about that many inside, said Emslie, but the administration has said it is going to release the SFPD officers and continue to oversee the scene with just CCSF officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, who was scheduled to hold a symposium this evening on the CCSF accreditation issues, arrived after the incident and helped to negotiate with both Barnes and school officials. Campos has introduced a resolution calling for the restoration of the City College Board of Trustees and is holding a hearing on the issue at City Hall on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The negotiated standoff will allow the students, both inside and outside, to continue their peaceful sit-ins, but no one else will be allowed to enter the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group was protesting the scope of powers of \u003ca title=\"Controversy Rages Over Possible Closure of City College of San Francisco\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/10/103173/\" target=\"_blank\">Agrella\u003c/a>, who was appointed after \u003ca title=\"Timeline: CCSF’s Fight to Retain Accreditation\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/10/timeline-of-ccsfs-accreditation-woes/\" target=\"_blank\">CCSF lost its accreditation last summer\u003c/a>. Last July, the California Community Colleges Board of Governors stripped the elected City College Board of Trustees of its powers after the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges announced that the school would have its accreditation revoked because of financial and governance issues. The board of governors replaced the trustees with Agrella, who has unilateral power over decisions on the school's rules and regulations. Many of the changes Agrella has made, particularly salary increases for administration and a student payment plan, have come under criticism by staff and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate rally had previously been planned for 4:15 p.m. today at City College's Chinatown campus, followed by a 5 p.m. forum on the school's master plan for the next five years. It is unclear how those events will continue in light of the afternoon's demonstration. This story will be updated with more information as it arrives.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think anytime there’s any economic downturn, private forces try to sell our most important institutions for scrap,\" Pippenger said after returning home from jail this morning. \"I’m committed to try to keep it open in the way that it has been. I’m a dedicated participant in the fight to save City College.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/10/timeline-of-ccsfs-accreditation-woes/\" target=\"_blank\">-year battle\u003c/a> between City College and the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges has drawn charges of conflict of interest in the private regulatory body, a state audit of the commission and three lawsuits, including one brought by the city of San Francisco. An \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/122601/judge-blocks-closure-City-College-San-Francisco\" target=\"_blank\">injunction granted in that case\u003c/a> put the school's closure on hold indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students and teachers with the Save CCSF Coalition say much of the damage is already done. The school \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/content/dam/Organizational_Assets/Department/Research_Planning_Grants/EnrollmentManagement/EnrollmentReport/DailyEnrollmentReportSP2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">shed more than 5,000 students\u003c/a> since last year. Chairs of diversity-related departments, like African American or LGBT studies, say their departments are under siege as programs are being cut. In addition, students who pay nonresident tuition, including noncitizen students, are angry about thousands of dollars in fees now being charged at the beginning of the semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, I was not able to register this semester,\" Itzel Calvo said at yesterday's rally. \"I pay out-of-state tuition because I'm undocumented, and so for me that's about $3,000 for only two classes.\" Calvo also said the school's payment plan requiring 20 percent down is also \"completely unaffordable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College Chancellor Arthur Tyler said the college has an obligation to be stricter about collecting fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've instituted a payment plan to try to help students as much as we possibly can, but we've also got a fiscal crisis and I have a fiduciary responsibility to the state and to the taxpayers to ensure that we are collecting fees in a timely way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters gathered yesterday afternoon and listened to students and teachers decry the policy and other changes imposed by Agrella, who replaced the elected board of trustees last summer by order of state Community Colleges Chancellor Brice Harris. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Neighborhood Safety and Services Committee is considering a resolution today that would urge Harris to restore the elected Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From my perspective the board should have been restored months ago,\" Supervisor David Campos said. \"I came here as an undocumented student, to the U.S., and I think education is not a privilege, it's a right. Part of that right is that you're allowed to have a reasonable way of paying for something as basic as education, and the fact that they're not giving these students that opportunity is actually shameful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violence erupted yesterday after the crowd tried to get into City College's main administration building at the Ocean campus in southern San Francisco. The protesters said they wanted to take their demands directly to Agrella and the school's administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129467\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 269px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9420.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-129467 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9420-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Police from the San Francisco and City College campus police departments block the majority of protesters from entering Conlan Hall after a rally calling for the resignation of special trustee Robert Agrella on March 13, 2014. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"269\" height=\"179\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police from the San Francisco and City College campus police departments block the majority of protesters from entering Conlan Hall after a rally calling for the resignation of special trustee Robert Agrella. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campus and San Francisco police blocked the entrance, but some students already inside the building opened two sets of doors in the front, and more than a dozen students pushed past campus Police Chief Andre Barnes and other officers. A melee ensued, and Peppinger was thrown to the ground face-down, with officers pulling his wrists behind his back to handcuff him. An SFPD officer punched Peppinger in the back of his head, bouncing his face off the concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He disputes that he assaulted any officers or resisted arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pippenger's first appearance in San Francisco Superior Court is scheduled for Wednesday, his mother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pippenger, who said he's an intern with the AFT 2121, the local teacher's union, said he attended the rally for five points of extra credit for a labor studies class. His instructor was one of the people who delivered his bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second arrested student, Dimitrious Philliou, also said he was treated roughly by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They threw me to the ground, choked me, twisted my arm, and maced me,\" he said while in custody from the back of an ambulance. \"They pepper-sprayed me in the eyes for several seconds. The pain is still excruciating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether Philliou was talking about San Francisco or campus police, which were both on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philliou said he wants Agrella to have a face-to-face meeting with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College student and Save CCSF organizer Eric Blanc stayed at a sit-in with about 12 students in the administration building overnight. He said many students cried and were very upset about the violent clash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it’s shocking that this administration would incite police on peaceful protesters,\" he said. \"The reason there was violence yesterday was there was a decision to bring in massive amounts of police and lock a public building. It shows that they’re scared, the fact that they had to use excessive force against students, that our two demands are widely shared and this administration is increasingly isolated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chancellor Tyler said campus police had a responsibility to lock down the building to ensure the safety of students and staff inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm never happy to see someone get hurt,\" he said. \"There is always a challenge when people are exercising their rights. The idea of civil discourse starts with being civil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyler said the inside of the building, Conlan Hall, is not one of the three designated free-speech zones on campus. He didn't think coming down from his office to address the protesters would have diffused the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did have my staff down there talking to the crowd. That didn't seem to help,\" Tyler said. \"I did have business that I had to conduct and continued to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-- Alex Emslie\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 5 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Save CCSF Coalition has issued a statement saying that the students who entered the administrative building at the Ocean campus intend to continue their sit-in until Agrella steps down and the payment policy is reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement reads: \"The students are demanding that the Special Trustee With Extraordinary Powers (STWEP), Robert Agrella, step down. Ever since the democratically elected Board of Trustees were stripped of their powers students, faculty and staff have endured a series of destructive decisions and policies. One such policy the students are demanding be reversed is the aggressive payment policy that has forced many students out of school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Itzel Calvo, an undocumented student, is also quoted in the release explaining how the payment policy was hurtful to low-income and undocumented students. \"I was not able to enroll in classes this semester unless I paid thousands of dollars in tuition up front, even before the classes started. I can't afford that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agrella and other school officials are expected at the Chinatown campus right now for a previously scheduled meeting on the controversial policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 3:15 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dimitrious Philliou, the student who was pepper-sprayed and arrested, spoke with KQED reporter Alex Emslie as he was in the back of an ambulance. According to Philliou, he was trying to enter the building \"that is public for students\" when he was stopped by officers during the scrum. After asking why he was being detained, he said that police pushed him to the ground and pepper-sprayed him in the eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129377\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-129377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9254_IMG_9397-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"City College student Otto Pippenger is detained by SFPD officers outside an administration building. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City College student Otto Pippenger is detained by SFPD officers outside an administration building. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It was extremely painful. The pain is still excruciating and they still aren't giving me a reason for my arrest,\" said Philliou, although he was told that he was being held for trespassing and resisting arrest. The officer in the ambulance confirmed that he was under arrest, but couldn't confirm the charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief of campus police said it's too early to know for sure, but it appears two students have been detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students remaining in sit-ins both inside and outside the building have made two demands: the immediate resignation of special trustee Robert Agrella and ending the student payment plan, which requires that out-of-state students pay all tuition upfront at the beginning of the semester. This has been difficult for low-income students and undocumented students, who typically don't have California residency and are considered out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley Garabato, a San Francisco resident and student at CCSF, is one of about 18 students now inside the lobby of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I pushed my way through,\" she said. She also reported seeing students being hit by batons and that officers, at one point, arrived on the scene in full riot gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, who have been inside the building for nearly an hour and a half now, are making posters with slogans on them and snacking on whatever food they have in their bags, said Garabato. There are no serious injuries among the group inside and they intend to stay there \"all night if we have to,\" she said, until their demands are met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rally at City College of San Francisco turned violent this afternoon when protesters attempted to enter the school's administration building, Conlan Hall, to present a petition to special trustee Robert Agrella calling for his resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to KQED reporter Alex Emslie, who was on campus covering the rally organized by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.saveccsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Save CCSF Coalition\u003c/a>, the event became chaotic around 1:30 p.m. when students and teachers tried to enter Conlan Hall. Campus police blocked the entrances to the building, said Emslie, forcing the 250 or so marchers to circle the building looking for an open door. Protesters eventually pushed aside San Francisco Community College Police Chief Andre Barnes and forced their way inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, said Emslie, \"it was a melee.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus police were promptly joined by officers from the San Francisco Police Department, who attempted to physically stop the protesters from entering the building. According to Emslie, batons were used to push back the crowd, and there was at least one detention of a student. Emslie said that while that student was being held on the ground in the process of being detained, he was hit by an officer, slamming his head into the concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AFT Local 2121 President and CCSF English teacher Alisa Messer also reported a student being pepper-sprayed and receiving medical attention. \"This has never happened at City College,\" said Messer of the physical altercation with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been no official word on the number of detainees or any charges that may be brought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, a relative standoff has been reached, with about a dozen students inside the lobby of the administration building conducting a sit-in and the remainder of the protesters holding a sit-in outside the building. There are approximately 20 officers outside, monitoring the crowd, and about that many inside, said Emslie, but the administration has said it is going to release the SFPD officers and continue to oversee the scene with just CCSF officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, who was scheduled to hold a symposium this evening on the CCSF accreditation issues, arrived after the incident and helped to negotiate with both Barnes and school officials. Campos has introduced a resolution calling for the restoration of the City College Board of Trustees and is holding a hearing on the issue at City Hall on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The negotiated standoff will allow the students, both inside and outside, to continue their peaceful sit-ins, but no one else will be allowed to enter the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group was protesting the scope of powers of \u003ca title=\"Controversy Rages Over Possible Closure of City College of San Francisco\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/10/103173/\" target=\"_blank\">Agrella\u003c/a>, who was appointed after \u003ca title=\"Timeline: CCSF’s Fight to Retain Accreditation\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/10/timeline-of-ccsfs-accreditation-woes/\" target=\"_blank\">CCSF lost its accreditation last summer\u003c/a>. Last July, the California Community Colleges Board of Governors stripped the elected City College Board of Trustees of its powers after the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges announced that the school would have its accreditation revoked because of financial and governance issues. The board of governors replaced the trustees with Agrella, who has unilateral power over decisions on the school's rules and regulations. Many of the changes Agrella has made, particularly salary increases for administration and a student payment plan, have come under criticism by staff and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Educators and health professionals are seeing kids dating earlier than ever — and along with that new reality a need to teach middle-school students about the dangers of dating violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trend has prompted creation of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/DatingMatters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dating Matters, a nationwide pilot program\u003c/a> developed and funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and currently being tested in four cities nationwide, including Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dating Matters cycles through Oakland schools, and this month, students at Lighthouse Community Charter School in East Oakland are participating in Dating Matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent school day in the Lighthouse school library, Kirstie Mah teaches a lesson from the Safe Dates curriculum about abusive relationships. The class discusses the behavior of a hypothetical abusive boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Our middle school students are dating. I know we often think that, ‘Maybe by eighth grade, high school definitely.’ But I would say they’re dating earlier and earlier.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He emotionally hurt her. He called her a slut and mean stuff,” one student offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right,” Mah responds. “And why did he do that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’Cause of the way she was dressed,” another student says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mah continues the thought: “So he thought she wasn’t dressed appropriately. Do you think he should be able to tell her what to do and what to wear?” A handful of students answer: “No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in class, students split up into small groups, taking turns placing themselves in the shoes of a victim of dating violence. As the day wraps up, they discuss gender expectations. Mah draws a box on the whiteboard, and the class free-associates ideas about women and girls. Mah writes down words like “cooking” and “makeup” in red ink. “Spectacular” and “smell good” also make the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are these expectations fair?” Mah asks. “Where do you think we get these expectations from?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students agree that the expectations aren’t fair, and segue into a discussion of where these perceptions come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136776334&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/DatingMatters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dating Matters\u003c/a> classes cover issues from why abuse happens, to identifying red flags and talking about gender roles. The initiative is funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Oakland is one of four U.S. cities with a grant for the Dating Matters classes, and the only city on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is in its third year in Oakland, part of a five-year pilot. The 10 schools participating in Dating Matters implement one of two approaches. Half the schools feature instruction for eighth-grade students—this is the Safe Dates curriculum that Kirstie Mah teaches at Lighthouse. The other five schools feature classes for sixth through eighth-grade students, and also outreach to parents and educators. After five years, the CDC will review the results from both approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our middle school students are dating,” says Caroline Miller, who manages Dating Matters for the Alameda County Public Health Department. “I know we often think that ‘maybe by eighth grade, high school definitely.’ But I would say they’re dating earlier and earlier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the digital age, teens can easily bully and stalk one another. Miller says that classes remind teens that “anything that we put online or that we share, it’s almost like a tattoo. It’s forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller says that “associated risk factors” — such as drug abuse and bullying — suggest that “teen dating violence may be occurring more” in Oakland than in other cities. Nationally, the CDC estimates that physical, verbal and emotional abuse affect a quarter of adolescents every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>February marks National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, which seeks to bring attention to the issue. President Barack Obama recognized the month in a proclamation, writing that “dating violence can affect anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dating Matters focuses on dating violence and healthy relationships, but other issues in teens’ lives sometimes surface. Miller says that violence, substance abuse and teen prostitution have come up in classes. “They’ve been really honest about their reality and what they see,” Miller says of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valeria Corona, 13, is an eighth-grade student at Lighthouse Charter School, taking Dating Matters this month. Corona says that the subject of teen dating violence “was new to me, and it surprised me how much that happens and how people don’t stand up for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corona says she’s not dating anyone right now, but that some of her classmates are. She’s glad that she and her friends are learning about dating violence. “We’re going to go into high school, and people are going to change,” Corona says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the classes came later, she says, it might be too late.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As if sending one’s child to public or private school were not a tough enough decision, parents now face issues related to the time and money they donate. Is it fair to focus your efforts only on the school your child attends? Should you only be concerned about other schools where parents lack the time and money to fundraise effectively? Do PTAs and booster clubs now contribute to education inequality ?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126598\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 293px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/14/ptasandthewideninggapineducation/rs7870_img_2615/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126598\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-126598 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS7870_IMG_2615-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy sits at a desk, drawing a chart.\" width=\"293\" height=\"219\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A study by San Francisco Public Press found that the PTA budgets of San Francisco Public Schools quadrupled in the past five years. Photo: Francesca Segrè\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A feature in the \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/public-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a> by Jeremy Adam Smith lays out the difference between the haves and have nots very well — faced with severe funding cutbacks during the last five years, parents stepped in to help fill the need. But as Smith pointed out during a conversation on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201402140900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s “Forum\u003c/a>, not all schools anted up equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Fundraising Gap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found that over the course of the recession, over the course of all these budget cuts, (San Francisco public schools’) PTA budgets approximately quadrupled. … But we also found that just 10 schools raised half that money, as much as the other 61 combined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how do those fundraising differences actually play out on school campuses? Smith cited two of the schools he reported on: Grattan Elementary School in San Francisco’s Haight district and Junipero Serra Elementary School in the city’s Bernal Heights neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grattan raised about $275,000, and that money “supports all or part of the salaries of about six staff,” Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says that during the five years of cuts, instead of laying off employees, Grattan was “able to expand their staffing. They invested very wisely in academics, they were able to improve their standardized test scores and they created a school that people are really proud to be a part of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the city, Junipero Serra Elementary School, which has a predominantly Latino student population and where 90 percent of students qualify for free and reduced lunch “simply didn’t have the capacity to raise funds at the same level,” said Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s research “found that a school’s poverty predicted its PTA budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One listener described the concrete benefits of PTA fundraising:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without our PTA my kids would not have a music teacher, a PE teacher, a computer lab teacher, or new library books – hardly luxury items. So yes, I suppose PTA money does widen education inequality gap – by making some schools less dismal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strong opinions on either side\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the guests applauded parents’ support for their children’s schools. Time and time again, the “Forum” conversation returned to the idea that all schools in California are underfunded and that ideally, parents would not be in the position of making up for state funding. 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Smith said that was “something so fundamental and direct that we can do right now, which is to build bridges between these different PTAs, with these different cultures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Two commenters who identified themselves as having children at schools that raise a lot of money supported this buddy system of funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">A commenter named Mark cited the ability of a few parents at his school to rally and lead the fundraising charge. He said, “We should be helping more parents at more schools learn this kind of leadership, because we will never be completely able to rely on city or state support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Another listener said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">“Just a half-hour walk away from my son’s school is one of the schools with no PTA at all, and a very low-income population. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As if sending one’s child to public or private school were not a tough enough decision, parents now face issues related to the time and money they donate. Is it fair to focus your efforts only on the school your child attends? Should you only be concerned about other schools where parents lack the time and money to fundraise effectively? Do PTAs and booster clubs now contribute to education inequality ?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126598\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 293px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/14/ptasandthewideninggapineducation/rs7870_img_2615/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126598\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-126598 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS7870_IMG_2615-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy sits at a desk, drawing a chart.\" width=\"293\" height=\"219\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A study by San Francisco Public Press found that the PTA budgets of San Francisco Public Schools quadrupled in the past five years. Photo: Francesca Segrè\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A feature in the \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/public-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a> by Jeremy Adam Smith lays out the difference between the haves and have nots very well — faced with severe funding cutbacks during the last five years, parents stepped in to help fill the need. But as Smith pointed out during a conversation on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201402140900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s “Forum\u003c/a>, not all schools anted up equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Fundraising Gap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found that over the course of the recession, over the course of all these budget cuts, (San Francisco public schools’) PTA budgets approximately quadrupled. … But we also found that just 10 schools raised half that money, as much as the other 61 combined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how do those fundraising differences actually play out on school campuses? Smith cited two of the schools he reported on: Grattan Elementary School in San Francisco’s Haight district and Junipero Serra Elementary School in the city’s Bernal Heights neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They invested very wisely in academics, they were able to improve their standardized test scores and they created a school that people are really proud to be a part of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the city, Junipero Serra Elementary School, which has a predominantly Latino student population and where 90 percent of students qualify for free and reduced lunch “simply didn’t have the capacity to raise funds at the same level,” said Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s research “found that a school’s poverty predicted its PTA budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One listener described the concrete benefits of PTA fundraising:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without our PTA my kids would not have a music teacher, a PE teacher, a computer lab teacher, or new library books – hardly luxury items. 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However, listeners’ opinions differed greatly on how big of a problem the difference in fundraising abilities were — especially the idea of sharing funds with a districtwide pot, as occurs in \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2014-02/albany-school-district-levels-parent-fundraising-playing-field\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Albany Unified School District\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/14/ptas-reveal-widening-gap-in/picture-340/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126549\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126549 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Picture-340.png\" alt=\"Picture 340\" width=\"354\" height=\"72\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/14/ptas-reveal-widening-gap-in/picture-337/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126552\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126552 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Picture-337.png\" alt=\"Picture 337\" width=\"355\" height=\"103\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/14/ptas-reveal-widening-gap-in/picture-339/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126550\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126550 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Picture-339.png\" alt=\"Picture 339\" width=\"403\" height=\"123\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/14/ptas-reveal-widening-gap-in/picture-341/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126548\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126548 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Picture-341.png\" alt=\"Picture 341\" width=\"359\" height=\"66\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Empowering All Parents\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Several possible solutions outside of increased state funding did surface throughout “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201402140900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum’s” conversation\u003c/a>. Carol Kocivar, the immediate past president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.capta.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California State Parent Teacher Association,\u003c/a> mentioned an effort called \u003ca href=\"http://www.capta.org/sections/school-smarts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Smarts\u003c/a> to educate parents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">“One of the things the state PTA has been involved in is creating parent academies, where parents are invited into the school and are given skills and resources to understand how the school system works. Because, as we know, we have a lot of parents who are new to the United States, or didn’t finish high school or go to college and give those parents the skills and resources to be advocates for their kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Another possible solution proposed was having well-to-do, more established PTAs partner with those at schools with lower-income families. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126493\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/girl-640x447.jpeg\" alt=\"A child buys tickets at the Halloween-Día de los Muertos fundraiser for Junipero Serra Elementary in Bernal Heights. The event netted $3,000 for the PTA. (Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child buys tickets at the Halloween Dia de los Muertos fundraiser for Junipero Serra Elementary in Bernal Heights. The event netted $3,000 for the PTA. (Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This photo essay was originally published on \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/publicschools\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>, a KQED News Associate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By: Jeremy Adam Smith, Luke Thomas and Tearsa Joy Hammock, \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana Hernandez and Barry Schmell come from very different backgrounds, but they have at least one thing in common: They both lead their schools’ parent-teacher associations — Ana Hernandez at Junipero Serra Elementary in Bernal Heights, Barry Schmell at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once upon a time, PTAs held bake sales to pay for field trips and annual gifts for the teachers. Those days are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, after five years of severe budget cuts in the San Francisco Unified School District, PTAs are being asked to pay for teachers, reading specialists, social workers and school psychologists, computers, basic school supplies, staff training and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all PTAs can afford those things. Parents at just 10 elementary schools raise more than half the PTA money that all 71 elementary schools in the district take in. Many of the rest raise nothing, or almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents at some schools have personal wealth and other advantages, such as better language and organizational skills. Fundraising has become an essential part of public school finance in San Francisco — and that is triggering far-reaching changes in the culture of the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellDaughter.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellDaughter-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barry Schmell’s daughter, Jonesy, attends fourth grade at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, which raised more than any other elementary school in the district in 2011 — but in subsequent years lost funding. Schmell is divorced from his adopted daughter’s other father, and works from his home in the Castro as Google’s senior technical instructor and course developer. The job gives him flexibility to be deeply involved in his daughter’s life and education. Schmell was raised in Baltimore, the youngest of five in an Orthodox Jewish family, and studied at the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins. “I grew up in a home where my mother was the PTA president,” Schmell said. “I grew up stuffing envelopes in our living room, and so I kind of feel like that’s part of school. I was surprised that public schools in San Francisco required so much fundraising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezFamily.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezFamily-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas/ San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/ San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ana Hernandez, seated second from left, is PTA chapter president at Junipero Serra Elementary in Bernal Heights, where her daughter, Jasmine, (far right, next to her big sister) goes to school. Hernandez emigrated from Guatemala in 2004, fleeing poverty and a society shattered by 50 years of civil war. Today, she supports the entire family working 42 hours a week as a cook in Burlingame. Her husband, Byron, lost one of his fingers in an accident on his job as a laundry mechanic, and as a result he is out of work. Despite her inflexible and demanding schedule, Hernandez said she stays involved with the PTA because it gives her life meaning and community. But for the family to make ends meet, she needs a second job. If she succeeds in finding one, she said she would have to quit leading the PTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyMilk.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyMilk-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During “morning circle” at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, Schmell shows off invitations to a roller-skating party fundraiser. He and members of the Parent-Faculty Club aim to raise $50,000 for supplies, field trips and arts programs this year. “It isn’t just the fundraising — this is my community,” Schmell said. “I have amazing relationships and experiences through the school.” The families are diverse, and Schmell and daughter Jonesy know others who are like theirs: multiracial, with gay parents and adopted children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoSerra.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoSerra-640x426.jpeg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ana Hernandez serves food at a monthly dinner party hosted by Junipero Serra’s PTA. She first got involved by working on the school’s food bank, distributing food to hungry families. This school year, the PTA aims to raise around $7,000 to support field trips, buy computers, get gifts for the teachers and underwrite the fifth-grade graduation project. The PTA also sets aside part of that fund to support Junipero Serra families facing economic emergencies. Because almost all the school’s families live in poverty, their financial contributions tend to be modest. “They can help with $1, $2,” Hernandez said. “Even when they have no money, people help in different ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyLibrary.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyLibrary-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schmell shows off the school library to a group of parents who are considering sending their children to Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy. By giving tours and organizing frequent “fun raisers,” Schmell is working to revitalize a school that has struggled around issues of funding equity, race and social class, as well as management. A nonprofit organization, Friends of Harvey Milk, was one of the top fundraisers in the city, spending $380,000 a year, almost exclusively on before-school and after-school enrichment programs. But that collapsed in 2011 after key supporters withdrew, leaving the school with little fundraising infrastructure. “If we had everyone at Harvey Milk give $250 for the year, then we wouldn’t have to do severe fundraising,” he said. “I’m very concerned about technology. I’d love for us to have a computer lab, and we need to do a targeted fundraising campaign for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoLibrary.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126482\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoLibrary-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Tearsa Joy Hammock/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After years of cuts, the Junipero Serra library now has an annual budget of just $500. Many parents said the library has actually improved in recent years, thanks to book donations and volunteer efforts. Even so, the shelves feel underpopulated, and the room underused. With a limited budget, Principal Evelyn Cheung had to make hard choices, so she prioritized the computer lab and technology training for the kids ahead of other costs. Hernandez supports Cheung’s priorities, and the PTA has been able to buy computers for the lab. “Some people think the government pays for everything at school, but it’s not like that,” she said. “I try to explain to the parents: We have to make fundraising, because that is how we can help the school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellMural.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellMural-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I waited tables in college, and I hated pooling the tips,” Schmell said. This memory makes him reluctant to support a system in which San Francisco schools would share the money raised by parents and redistribute some of it to lower-income schools. His connection to Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy and to the Castro is strong, and that is what motivates him to give. The same is true for Castro businesses that support the school. They might not give as much if they thought their money was going to children in other communities. “But maybe it would be better for us,” he said. “If other people are able to do more, then we’ll benefit from that as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezDaughter.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126485\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezDaughter-640x414.jpg\" alt=\"(Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Tearsa Joy Hammock/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, at the Italian restaurant where Hernandez works, a customer comes to the kitchen to give a tip directly to her, in appreciation for a delicious meal. She always shares the tip with the other line cooks. “Everybody’s working hard,” she said, “so we share.” Waiters also pool their tips, she said, because “the busboy, the person working at the bar, the cooks, they are all working hard.” All the families at Junipero Serra Elementary School work hard, she added, even if they make very little money. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all PTAs can afford those things. Parents at just 10 elementary schools raise more than half the PTA money that all 71 elementary schools in the district take in. Many of the rest raise nothing, or almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents at some schools have personal wealth and other advantages, such as better language and organizational skills. Fundraising has become an essential part of public school finance in San Francisco — and that is triggering far-reaching changes in the culture of the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellDaughter.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellDaughter-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barry Schmell’s daughter, Jonesy, attends fourth grade at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, which raised more than any other elementary school in the district in 2011 — but in subsequent years lost funding. Schmell is divorced from his adopted daughter’s other father, and works from his home in the Castro as Google’s senior technical instructor and course developer. The job gives him flexibility to be deeply involved in his daughter’s life and education. Schmell was raised in Baltimore, the youngest of five in an Orthodox Jewish family, and studied at the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins. “I grew up in a home where my mother was the PTA president,” Schmell said. “I grew up stuffing envelopes in our living room, and so I kind of feel like that’s part of school. I was surprised that public schools in San Francisco required so much fundraising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezFamily.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezFamily-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas/ San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/ San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ana Hernandez, seated second from left, is PTA chapter president at Junipero Serra Elementary in Bernal Heights, where her daughter, Jasmine, (far right, next to her big sister) goes to school. Hernandez emigrated from Guatemala in 2004, fleeing poverty and a society shattered by 50 years of civil war. Today, she supports the entire family working 42 hours a week as a cook in Burlingame. Her husband, Byron, lost one of his fingers in an accident on his job as a laundry mechanic, and as a result he is out of work. Despite her inflexible and demanding schedule, Hernandez said she stays involved with the PTA because it gives her life meaning and community. But for the family to make ends meet, she needs a second job. If she succeeds in finding one, she said she would have to quit leading the PTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyMilk.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyMilk-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During “morning circle” at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, Schmell shows off invitations to a roller-skating party fundraiser. He and members of the Parent-Faculty Club aim to raise $50,000 for supplies, field trips and arts programs this year. “It isn’t just the fundraising — this is my community,” Schmell said. “I have amazing relationships and experiences through the school.” The families are diverse, and Schmell and daughter Jonesy know others who are like theirs: multiracial, with gay parents and adopted children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoSerra.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoSerra-640x426.jpeg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ana Hernandez serves food at a monthly dinner party hosted by Junipero Serra’s PTA. She first got involved by working on the school’s food bank, distributing food to hungry families. This school year, the PTA aims to raise around $7,000 to support field trips, buy computers, get gifts for the teachers and underwrite the fifth-grade graduation project. The PTA also sets aside part of that fund to support Junipero Serra families facing economic emergencies. Because almost all the school’s families live in poverty, their financial contributions tend to be modest. “They can help with $1, $2,” Hernandez said. “Even when they have no money, people help in different ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyLibrary.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyLibrary-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schmell shows off the school library to a group of parents who are considering sending their children to Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy. By giving tours and organizing frequent “fun raisers,” Schmell is working to revitalize a school that has struggled around issues of funding equity, race and social class, as well as management. A nonprofit organization, Friends of Harvey Milk, was one of the top fundraisers in the city, spending $380,000 a year, almost exclusively on before-school and after-school enrichment programs. But that collapsed in 2011 after key supporters withdrew, leaving the school with little fundraising infrastructure. “If we had everyone at Harvey Milk give $250 for the year, then we wouldn’t have to do severe fundraising,” he said. “I’m very concerned about technology. I’d love for us to have a computer lab, and we need to do a targeted fundraising campaign for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoLibrary.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126482\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoLibrary-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Tearsa Joy Hammock/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After years of cuts, the Junipero Serra library now has an annual budget of just $500. Many parents said the library has actually improved in recent years, thanks to book donations and volunteer efforts. Even so, the shelves feel underpopulated, and the room underused. With a limited budget, Principal Evelyn Cheung had to make hard choices, so she prioritized the computer lab and technology training for the kids ahead of other costs. Hernandez supports Cheung’s priorities, and the PTA has been able to buy computers for the lab. “Some people think the government pays for everything at school, but it’s not like that,” she said. “I try to explain to the parents: We have to make fundraising, because that is how we can help the school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellMural.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellMural-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I waited tables in college, and I hated pooling the tips,” Schmell said. This memory makes him reluctant to support a system in which San Francisco schools would share the money raised by parents and redistribute some of it to lower-income schools. His connection to Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy and to the Castro is strong, and that is what motivates him to give. The same is true for Castro businesses that support the school. They might not give as much if they thought their money was going to children in other communities. “But maybe it would be better for us,” he said. “If other people are able to do more, then we’ll benefit from that as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezDaughter.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126485\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezDaughter-640x414.jpg\" alt=\"(Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Tearsa Joy Hammock/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, at the Italian restaurant where Hernandez works, a customer comes to the kitchen to give a tip directly to her, in appreciation for a delicious meal. 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