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Students, in turn, would plan and carry out investigations, conduct experiments and build models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tammy Cook-Endres, a teacher and coordinator at the Exploratorium's Teacher Institute, said the new standards would mean more work for educators but the lessons would be more engaging for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>“This is really hard to do. These [standards] are ambitious … and we’re going to need to support teachers … and I think that is why we’re starting to have these conversations.” Cook-Endres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>California is not alone. Twenty-five other states are also making the switch. National test scores show students across the country are performing poorly in science and math. That's bad news for California, considering a large part of the state's economy is based on science, technology and engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, the teachers who are training here at the Exploratorium say they are eager to get a firm grasp of the new standards so they can mentor their fellow educators. One way they're doing that is by taking on the kind of activities their students would do in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One lab activity required teachers to mix salt, baking soda and water in a plastic baggy to show how a chemical reaction involving two solid materials can produce a gas. The teachers busily filled out a report documenting the process. The result was a kind of mini-research paper that students will have to produce with almost every activity they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ariel Owens teaches earth and life sciences in Walnut Creek. She said students will have to think more critically, but they learn best when they see something, feel it and hear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the engineering standards demonstrate that not only is (engineering) not too hard to do, it’s fascinating. It’s the best part of science … that’s the heart of it.” Owens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone is as enthusiastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some education policy experts say the new standards omit important core science content. 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City College staff and administrators have scrambled to get on better financial footing, streamline decision-making and better track student outcomes since the commission slapped the school with its most \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/ACC/Commission%20Letter%20July%202%2C%202012.pdf\">serious sanction a year ago\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t agree with all the recommendations,” City College Trustee Chris Jackson said. “Some we agreed with, some we didn’t. But we all united around the fact that we wanted our college to stay accredited and open, so we gritted our teeth and did it. And now to see that none of it really mattered – I think that’s the jarring part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->If City College’s loss of accreditation becomes final, it would disrupt the school’s funding and mean an end to federal financial aid for students. Credit for classes would no longer transfer to other accredited universities. Theoretically, the college could be absorbed by another neighboring district, but its size makes that option improbable. Therefore, losing accreditation would likely mean one of the largest public education institutions in the nation would close, and some 85,000 students would be displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and City College’s other elected trustees were stripped of all governance power Monday when the chancellor of California Community Colleges, Brice Harris, and the board of governors \u003ca href=\"http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/videoblog.aspx\">transferred oversight\u003c/a> to a state-appointed special trustee, Robert Agrella, who has been advising the college since the accreditation crisis began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Special Trustee Bob Agrella gets paid $1,000 a day,” City College Student Trustee Shanell Williams said. “He’s been with our college since we first heard of the accreditation. But what has he done to help the college?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Argella did not return calls or emails seeking comment, but Harris said the “extraordinary powers” granted to the special trustee were necessary to reform City College before next July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This allows, I think, for a single individual with a real clarity of focus to get an awful lot of changes made in a very short period of time,\" Harris said. He added that finding a permanent replacement for interim City College Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman is a high priority for the school’s new leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano voiced an angry view of the state and accrediting commission’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have not the right to say to us that the people we elected, whether we love them or not, are not our representatives,” he told the crowd outside the Department of Education. “That is tyranny. That encourages a revolution here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal intervention is possible, although the Department of Education has made no public steps challenging the ACCJC’s authority. The accrediting commission is itself up for review by the department late this year. The California Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 filed a complaint against the commission with federal authorities in late April, alleging conflicts of interest and abuses of authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Education spokeswoman confirmed that the ACCJC was directed to respond to the \u003ca href=\"http://cft.org/images/cc/docs/Third_Party_Comment.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a> by July 8, but she did not confirm by press time whether the department had actually received a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Chancellor Harris said colleges in other parts of the country have gone through similar periods of widespread sanctions, and he doesn’t believe the ACCJC is running wild. State intervention, he said, is intended to save the school, not “preside over its closure” or force the college to “turn its back on the populations that need it the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It won’t surprise me if there is a narrowing of some of the options that the college is currently able to provide simply to ensure that at some point the college’s expenses line up with their revenues,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Rizzo, the now powerless president of the City College Board of Trustees, said the school had a plan to fully fund reserves for nine years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“City College is really in a fiscally good place,” he said. “The books are balanced. There’s extra money for a fully funded, ample reserve. These liabilities are being paid back. There’s no charges or allegations of corruption, no defaulting of payments or loans, nothing like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson, Ammiano and others at the rally no longer think accreditation is about standards at City College. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Barbara Grady, Jon Leckie, and Irene Florez, \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/\">Oakland Local\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahmaria Adams, 15, listens to gospel music on her commute to school through the harrowing streets of East Oakland. She takes two city buses to get from home to Piedmont High School. She’s got the hour-long routine down, but there’s one stretch of the bus ride that gets to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101691\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/desks.jpg.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-101691\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/desks.jpg-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Jupiterimages)\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Jupiterimages)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I always have the feeling that something will happen. On the bus I feel like I need to stay alert and watch out for troublesome people around me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Williams, 15, always carries mace with him \u003ca href=\"http://https://soundcloud.com/ireneflorez/education-voices-jordan-safe-routes-to-school\" target=\"_blank\">wherever he goes\u003c/a>. “I don’t really feel any danger,” he starts when asked to describe his daily commute. “But, you know, the kidnappings and things like that. That’s kind of scary. So, you know, I keep an eye out, looking back every couple times to make sure, like, nothing strange is going on around me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He travels from his home on Seminary Avenue in East Oakland to Arroyo High School in San Lorenzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I keep my mace just in case something happens, like someone tries to come up and do a sneak attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marisa Jolivette, 16, lives only a few blocks from her school, but nonetheless she \u003ca href=\"http://https://soundcloud.com/ireneflorez/education-voices-marisa-safe-routes-to-school\" target=\"_blank\">takes the bus instead of walking because of safety fears\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a lot of registered sex offenders in my neighborhood and they’re creepy, so I stay away from them. So I catch a bus, and if I miss the bus, I catch another bus,” she explains. Still, she doesn’t always feel safe. “Sometimes a car will follow me to the bus stop,” she said. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life in “Deep East” Oakland is dangerous for anybody. In a city that FBI data ranks as having the third-highest violent crime rate in the nation, this neighborhood has the highest incidence of homicide, gunshots and forced prostitution, according to City of Oakland crime reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the month of April, for instance, the area that stretches southward from 73rd Avenue along International Boulevard to beyond Oakland’s borders into San Leandro, and east to the other side of MacArthur Boulevard, had the highest number of reported gunshots and Shot Spotter detection of gunshots. Within that area, the zone between 82nd and 98th Avenues had the highest number of gunshots. Citywide, there were 10 homicides during April and 52 assaults with deadly weapons, according to the City’s Shot Spotter Report. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For teenagers coming of age in this neighborhood, the constant threat of violent crime means they must check the freedom that comes with being 16, 17 and 18 with the reality of the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Around my neighborhood, it is kind of dangerous,” says Marisa, citing robberies, hold-ups, sex trafficking, and the road accidents that come with being near a freeway. But she feels no safer once she is on the bus to or from school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/oaklandlocallogo.jpg\">\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>“It’s hard, because it’s like I want to go to sleep, but I know I can’t go to sleep on the bus because I don’t want somebody to take my purse, or anything to happen,” Marisa said about her commute to an after-school program at the East Oakland Youth Development Center from school at San Lorenzo High School. “There could be a shooting on the bus or some kid robbed on the bus, or something could happen. I just accept the fact and watch my surroundings as I go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahmaria, \u003ca href=\"http://https://soundcloud.com/ireneflorez/education-voices-jordan-safe-routes-to-school\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://https://soundcloud.com/ireneflorez/education-voices-marisa-safe-routes-to-school\" target=\"_blank\">Marisa\u003c/a>, along with \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/ireneflorez/education-voices-lakiesha-safe-routes-to-school\" target=\"_blank\">Lakiesha Harris,\u003c/a> are Oakland Local’s partners in its Educational Voices project funded by the \u003ca title=\"The California Endowment\" href=\"http://www.calendow.org\">California Endowment\u003c/a>. They’ve helped us explore violence in the lives of teenagers while we’ve helped them learn some journalism skills. We gathered twice a week at the \u003ca title=\"East Oakland Youth Development Center\" href=\"http://eoydc.org/%E2%80%8E\">East Oakland Youth Development Center\u003c/a> (EOYDC) from from mid-April to the end of May. They will tell their stories on these pages. Look for their bylines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a teenager, by definition, means dealing with stresses: friendship dramas, pimples, homework, raging hormones, getting into college, boyfriend-girlfriend stuff. Add to those pressures the worry that the route to school might involve life or death decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahmaria recalls one of those decisions. “I saw a gun in a young man’s jacket, inside his pants, but he had his jacket over it,” Kahmaria said of her scariest bus ride yet. “He had one hand holding the bottom of it.” She had to decide how to stay safe. “Part of me was telling me ‘get off the bus! get off the bus!’ but I had to be somewhere and I was running late. So I stayed on the bus,” she said. Luckily nothing happened. “I moved to the front with the driver,” she said. “My heart was beating really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, LaKeisha burst into the East Oakland Youth Development Center flushed and nervous. There had been a fight on her bus. When she calmed down, she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got on the bus and there was this lady in about her 50s and this young teenager. She had accidentally stepped on his shoes. He hit her in the mouth and her mouth was bleeding,” LaKeisha said. She described a lot of “screaming and yelling” adding that “a lot of people were scared. I was scared, too.” LaKeisha got off the bus and waited for another one.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>For teenagers in 'Deep East' Oakland, a constant threat of violent crime\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>These teenagers have all become habitually wary. They are active students: all are participants in the Pathways to College program at the EOYDC, while many of them also play sports or hold down after-school jobs. They need to travel around Oakland and its surrounding towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan interviewed several of his friends about their routes to school and whether they feel safe. The boys he interviewed all said they feel safe, and the girls said they do not. But each described changing their route, from time to time, as a safety strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you feel safe walking to school?” Jordan asked his friends. “Yes,” said Devante Morris who attends Lighthouse Community School. Asked if anybody helps him feel safe, Devante said no, he relies on himself. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-100133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Berkeley-composting.jpg\" alt=\"Students at John Muir Elementary sort for composting and recycling. (Courtesy of Green Schools Initiative)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at John Muir Elementary sort for composting and recycling. (Courtesy of Green Schools Initiative)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Mary Flaherty, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/06/17/berkeley-school-recycling-gets-back-on-track/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley schools are making a renewed commitment to recycling and composting after efforts slacked off over the past five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, a local nonprofit, \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenschools.net/\">Green Schools Initiative\u003c/a>, has worked with eight Berkeley schools, revitalizing recycling and composting programs. Green Schools was just awarded a grant for next year, so it can work with another eight schools in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Deborah Moore, executive director of Green Schools Initiative, recycling and composting not only are good for reducing landfill and greenhouse gases but also can reduce the district’s spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley school district has potential to be saving $50,000 a year out of about $350,000 spent on trash pickup,” Moore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">How could it be that the Berkeley school district isn’t at the head of the class when it comes to recycling?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“In general, schools pay less money if they put out less trash, because recyclables have a dollar value,” said Mark Spencer of \u003ca href=\"http://www.stopwaste.org/\">StopWaste\u003c/a>, the combined Alameda County Waste Management Authority and Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Green Schools’ work, the Berkeley school board \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/06-12-13_packet.pdf\">approved a resolution\u003c/a> at its June 12 meeting to become a “priority partner” with Alameda County Waste Management. That will secure educational programs for students in exchange for the district’s commitment to recycle and compost 90 percent of what can be recycled and composted by 2020 – the same goal, by the way, that’s been set for cities countywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district will have to work to meet that goal, because as of June 2012 Berkeley schools were diverting – that is recycling and composting — just 36 percent of their total waste (including waste that is not recyclable or compostable). \u003c!--more-->\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-100002\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Berkeleyside-logo-small.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeleyside-logo-small\" width=\"163\" height=\"38\">Neighboring school districts were doing far better last year: Alameda schools diverted 64 percent of trash, Albany 57 percent and Oakland nearly 50 percent. A typical school’s waste is estimated at about 95 percent recyclable or compostable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How could it be that the Berkeley school district isn’t at the head of the class when it comes to recycling? After all, the city was the \u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/recycling/about/\">first in the nation to offer curbside recycling pickup \u003c/a>back in 1973, and today the residential diversion rate is 76 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly ironic,” agreed StopWaste’s Spencer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But five and 10 years ago, the schools were actually doing a better job with waste – recycling and composting about half of it, estimate several people involved. That was above average at the time for schools in the county, Spencer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EARLY EFFORTS PAY OFF\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1998, then-Berkeley High parent Beebo Turman volunteered to promote recycling. Securing a grant, she started with five schools the first year, getting bins and signs and visiting every classroom to teach kids, she said. She got composting going in schools where a garden or science teacher would make compost – this was before curbside collection. Turman added five schools a year until she had them all covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a nuisance to some principals,” she said. It was hard work, she said. “After five years I said, ‘That’s it, I’ve done what I can do.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turman passed the job on to another parent, Marcy Greenhut. The city’s waste management department had been paying first Turman, then Greenhut a small salary. When the city decided to cut the position, Greenhut said she asked the school district to pay her $25,000 a year, showing that recycling efforts were saving the schools $100,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district didn’t or couldn’t offer Greenhut pay – she doesn’t know why — and she, too, moved on to another job in early 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SYSTEM DECAYS FROM NEGLECT, LACK OF LEADERSHIP\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the recycling systems in place, it would seem like the program would continue to run. Not so, say the waste experts. Every year, “trained” students graduate, replaced by kindergartners. Staff and custodians turn over with time. And there is no one to keep the momentum going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenhut said that even summer vacation –when custodians scrub the bins and store them away – can break down the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Longfellow Middle School parent Anushka Drescher launched new composting and recycling efforts this year, recycling was almost nonexistent at the school, she said. Some teachers had classroom bins for paper, most not clearly marked – and didn’t realize those were getting put in the trash, not recycled, by the custodian. There was no recycling at all in the lunchroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, said Spencer at StopWaste, “I would hesitate to blame the schools. They have the same challenges as elsewhere: not enough resources for teaching. It’s understandable that recycling has gone by the wayside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turman added, “It’s sad to say you need a coordinator, but you do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A NEW PUSH FOR SCHOOL RECYCLING\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where the Berkeley-based Green Schools Initiative comes in. Two years ago, the group ran a pilot program at Rosa Parks Elementary School, which now diverts more than 50 percent of its trash. Then Green Schools got grants from the \u003ca href=\"http://altamonteab.org/\">Altamont Education Advisory Board\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.clifbarfamilyfoundation.org/\">Clif Bar Family Foundation\u003c/a>, and last year the group formed “green teams” of teachers, administrators and parents at Washington, Jefferson, Oxford, John Muir and Rosa Parks elementary schools, Longfellow and King middle schools, and Berkeley High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Schools also organized a districtwide symposium on recycling and composting for custodians last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most schools had some amount of recycling going on, Moore said. But at many of them, for example, “the compost containers had turned into another trash can,” she said. The group’s goals were to increase recycling and composting, and also to reduce contamination (for example, no recyclables in compost, no food in trash).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An audit was done at each school, and the green teams, including students, then improved composting and recycling efforts with signs, education and monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not enough to put out the bins and expect sorting to follow. At Oxford School, during one recent lunch, third-grade monitors Kovas and Lev were on duty to help kids sort trash. Some kids were careful, some were clueless. And try “educating” 6-year olds in a noisy lunchroom; what Kovas and Lev spent most of the time doing was moving food and plastics from the wrong bins to the right ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those efforts have produced results. Oxford teacher Jackie Omania, who heads up the school’s Green Team, pointed to an entry in her class’s log for the cafeteria – March 15: compost, 64 gallons; landfill (trash), 16 gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MAKING PROGRESS WITH NEW FOCUS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a number of the schools are now showing improvement, Spencer said. John Muir, Rosa Parks and Jefferson are all diverting more than 50 percent of their trash. At King, where paper towels in the bathrooms are being composted, the diversion rate is 63 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Longfellow, Drescher and her student team of “Green Tigers” got composting going in the lunchroom and collection of paper recycling from classrooms. Pickup for one of the school’s three trash dumpsters was canceled. At Berkeley High students have collected about 640 pounds of bottles and cans this year and improved composting in the cafeteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spencer expects Berkeley’s 36 percent diversion rate will go up when all numbers are tallied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, StopWaste provides another set of services to the schools. The agency offers free field trips (bus included) to the\u003ca href=\"http://www.dsgardencenter.com/\"> Davis Street transfer station in San Leandro\u003c/a>, where the kids see a machine sort recyclables and then visit “the pit” – all the garbage destined for landfill – and see how much of that trash is recyclable and compostable. From Berkeley, eight fourth-grade classes and one high school group took the field trip this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>StopWaste also sends educators to fifth-grade classrooms to work on waste-related projects. Students identify a problem at their school (such as not composting or using only one side of paper), create a plan, implement it and analyze the results. Eight Berkeley fifth-grade classes used this service this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of anticipated budget cuts, StopWaste decided it couldn’t provide these programs to every school in the county in the future. So it’s prioritizing committed districts by asking them to sign the agreement. That means they’ll aim for the 90 percent recycling and composting goal, create a policy and keep statistics. This is the agreement the school board passed last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 10, Green Schools heard that it would get a grant for $32,000 from the Altamont Education Advisory Board to work with the remaining K-12 schools in Berkeley next year: Cragmont, Berkeley Arts Magnet, Malcolm X, Emerson, LeConte and Thousand Oaks elementary schools, Willard Middle School, Berkeley Independent Study and the Berkeley Technology Academy. They’ll continue to work with this year’s schools, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge, recent history shows, will be making the programs sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to figure out how the district can do this on their own,” Moore said. “We want our schools to live up to Berkeley’s values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve seen in other districts,” said StopWaste’s Spencer, “is recycling doesn’t work if you say it’s the custodians' job. 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That will secure educational programs for students in exchange for the district’s commitment to recycle and compost 90 percent of what can be recycled and composted by 2020 – the same goal, by the way, that’s been set for cities countywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district will have to work to meet that goal, because as of June 2012 Berkeley schools were diverting – that is recycling and composting — just 36 percent of their total waste (including waste that is not recyclable or compostable). \u003c!--more-->\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-100002\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Berkeleyside-logo-small.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeleyside-logo-small\" width=\"163\" height=\"38\">Neighboring school districts were doing far better last year: Alameda schools diverted 64 percent of trash, Albany 57 percent and Oakland nearly 50 percent. A typical school’s waste is estimated at about 95 percent recyclable or compostable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How could it be that the Berkeley school district isn’t at the head of the class when it comes to recycling? After all, the city was the \u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/recycling/about/\">first in the nation to offer curbside recycling pickup \u003c/a>back in 1973, and today the residential diversion rate is 76 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly ironic,” agreed StopWaste’s Spencer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But five and 10 years ago, the schools were actually doing a better job with waste – recycling and composting about half of it, estimate several people involved. That was above average at the time for schools in the county, Spencer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EARLY EFFORTS PAY OFF\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1998, then-Berkeley High parent Beebo Turman volunteered to promote recycling. 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