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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Joanna Lin, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/california-thousands-teachers-missing-needed-credentials-18814\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89854\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 332px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/CharlieParker.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-89854\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/CharlieParker-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"CharlieParker\" width=\"332\" height=\"212\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime LAUSD biology teacher Charlie Parker was assigned for two years to teach history and social studies – subjects he’s not licensed to teach. (Daniel Anderson/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last time Charlie Parker took a social studies class, he was a teenager with an Afro and Jimmy Carter was president of the United States. Yet here he was, standing at the front of a classroom, trying to teach dozens of high schoolers subjects that never appealed to him when he learned them more than 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his first day teaching U.S. history, world history and economics at McAlister High School in Los Angeles nearly four years ago, Parker struggled to keep his course materials straight and handed a student the wrong textbook. Some days, his students’ questions went unanswered or were directed to the Internet. Later, Parker said, when his students took state tests, their scores were low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After school, Parker said, “I was doing homework, just like the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were not the troubles of a rookie teacher. In fact, Parker had taught for more than 20 years, including 11 at McAlister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem for Parker, who taught social studies at McAlister for two years and now teaches at another Los Angeles high school, was that he should not have taught history to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year in California, public school administrators assign thousands of teachers to classes for which they lack the credentials or legal authorization to teach. Untrained teachers have been assigned to a variety of difficult classes, including those filled with English-language learners and others with special intellectual and physical needs. Or, in Parker’s case, to teach social studies when they’re credentialed for biology. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 1 in 10 teachers or certificated personnel – more than 32,000 school employees – did not have the credentials or authorization for their positions from 2007 through 2011, according to data compiled by the state Commission on Teacher Credentialing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Every year in California, public school administrators assign thousands of teachers to classes for which they lack the credentials or legal authorization to teach.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The problem is greater at low-performing schools, where students are overwhelmingly low-income and Latino. The average rate of improperly assigned teachers at these schools was 16 percent over the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That isn’t something that should be acceptable to anybody,” said Brooks Allen, director of education advocacy at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2010-11 school year, more than 12,000 teachers and certificated personnel at more than 1,000 low-performing schools served in positions they should not have held. On average at these schools, 82 percent of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals, and more than three-quarters were Latino, a California Watch analysis found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research and interviews with state and local education officials suggest that staffing turnover and shortages, insufficient resources, poor planning and mismanagement contribute to assigning teachers to classes for which they lack specialized training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This problem of “misassignments,” as they’re known, has improved dramatically since the 2005-06 school year, when the state began giving greater attention to teacher assignments at low-performing schools. At the time, 29 percent of teachers at these schools lacked licenses for their positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers gaining authorization to instruct English-language learners have driven much of that progress. The extra scrutiny – a product of Williams v. 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(It’s unclear how California ranks nationally; states have different standards and policies for employing teachers, making comparisons difficult.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The persistence of misassignments, year over year, even with annual monitoring, certainly suggests that it’s something that needs to be looked at,” said Allen, the attorney assigned to implement the Williams settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Advocates, which represented students in the Williams lawsuit, has called for the Legislature to hold a hearing on the problem and for the credentialing commission to push the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alamo Democrat Joan Buchanan, chairwoman of the Assembly Education Committee, said that while she is open to holding a hearing, she is “not sure passing a law is going to be like waving a magic wand and solve the problem there.” She said she hoped the State Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson would also look into the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ensuring teachers are appropriately licensed “is very important back-office work that nobody ever sees and can pay huge dividends and, in some instances, be very harmful to kids,” said Michael Hanson, superintendent of the Fresno Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, at the public Berkeley Technology Academy, a student failed the California High School Proficiency Examination after enrolling in a class intended to prepare her and other credit-deficient students for the test. The student later told her mother that the class included nothing she encountered on the exam, which allows students to receive the equivalent of a high school diploma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I paid good money for my daughter to participate (in) this CHSPE experiment only to find out that the teacher may have been unqualified to teach it, and that she did not adequately prepare the students to take the final exam,” the student’s mother wrote in a June 2011 complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Unified School District acknowledged in a letter to the mother that a noncredentialed staff member had taught the course. It offered her daughter 20 hours of private instruction and the option to enroll at the high school for a fifth year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lengthy process\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While credentials and legal authorization do not guarantee effective teachers, they represent the baseline qualifications that educators must have. If a teacher has been assigned to the wrong class, his or her performance evaluation is nullified under state law, making it more difficult to identify bad – and good – teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Commission on Teacher Credentialing typically needs to work with only a handful of school districts that struggle to resolve improper assignments on their own, said Roxann Purdue, a consultant in the agency’s professional services division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the lengthy, laborious and often paper-heavy process of monitoring assignments means that teachers and other staff can remain in the wrong positions for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County offices of education typically begin compiling paperwork from school districts in late fall or winter. Once they identify teachers who lack necessary credentials or authorization and notify the district, the district has 30 days to address the problems. By the time it’s all resolved – teachers must be reassigned, get the appropriate credentials, receive emergency or short-term permits or local authorizations, obtain waivers or resign – the school year could be nearly over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2011-12 school year, for example, Alameda County notified the Oakland Unified School District on May 15 to correct any remaining teacher assignment problems by June 30 – 15 days after the school year ended, records show. A letter listed 50 teachers whose qualifications were unclear or who held inappropriate assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we had a whole bunch of people working on it, we could identify the misassignment sooner. You’re talking about one manager, one analyst – that’s all we are,” said Stephanie Tomasi, Alameda’s credentials manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said there’s little they can do to expedite the monitoring process. School schedules and staffing tend to shift during the first month or two of school, so counties don’t begin monitoring until classes are settled. Schools, too, need time to gather their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like we want to catch it (improperly assigned teachers) really early in the school year so you don’t have a student going all year without services or whatever they need,” said Teresa Ussery, a credential analyst for Stanislaus County, which requests district documents in October and reports assignment problems in March and April. “But just because of timelines and processes, it’s very hard to do that – especially if it’s a large district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Ussery said, problems identified late in one school year pay off the following school year. Schools learn to not repeat the same mistakes, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Berkeley case, for example, the district said that the class led by an uncredentialed staff member would no longer be offered and that credentialed teachers would teach all courses at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Success with English-learner authorization\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Improper assignments often are the result of school administrators who do not know that even elective or short-term courses require appropriate certification, said Purdue of the credentialing commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middle and high schools in particular, she said, are offering more experimental courses that are less straightforward to staff than, say, a physics class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, nearly 2,400 teachers in low-performing schools were assigned to teach core academic subjects – English, math, science and social science – without the appropriate credentials or authorization during the 2010-11 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, teachers lacking authorization to teach English-language learners – which numbered more than 22,200 in the 2005-06 school year – plummeted to 1,575.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a success story,” said Allen of the ACLU. “So the question is, what is it that needs to be done to have that similar trend across the board?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California teachers of all subjects must have authorization to teach English learners, even if they have just one student in their class who is learning the language. But Purdue said what worked to increase authorizations for teaching English-language learners does not apply to other subjects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an isolated problem with a permanent solution, whereas the other subjects areas, it’s a new opportunity to misassign them every semester and every year,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission tackled the problem with English-learner authorization by first offering training opportunities to existing credentialed teachers. It then phased in English-learner training at educator preparation programs so that all new teachers would automatically have the authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d keep closing the circle until it becomes smaller and smaller,” Purdue said. “But you can’t do that for math, because if someone’s misassigned in math, we have to have all teachers authorized in every subject to close every loophole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson, of Fresno Unified, said assigning teachers outside of what their credentials allow is sometimes the best solution to a Rubik’s cube of teachers, students, courses and schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last school year, for example, scheduling conflicts led to a high school algebra teacher instructing one period of geometry, a course the teacher’s credential did not permit. “I’m not going to find a geometry teacher who can work one period during the day,” Hanson said. “Here’s the only way I can get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Teacher shortages add to problems\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In certain locations and subjects, such as math, science and special education, incorrect assignments could reflect teacher shortages. These shortages are most critical in schools concentrated with low-income and minority students and in districts with fewer resources, a state task force reported in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t leave it up to local principals to find good teachers and well-prepared teachers if they don’t exist,” said Linda Darling-Hammond, chairwomanof the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, who also co-ledthe task force. “Ultimately, you have to invest in getting enough teachers in shortage fields and invest in getting enough teachers who will teach in shortage locations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teacher layoffs – California schools cut about 32,000 teachers between 2007-08 and 2010-11 – ought to have produced a larger supply of qualified teachers, said John Affeldt, who served as lead counsel on the Williams lawsuit and is a managing attorney at Public Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most districts have policies that allow them to hold on to teachers in high-need areas, even when layoffs are required, said Sharon Robison, the Association of California School Administrators’ liaison to the credentialing commission. Teachers who are laid off are not always qualified in the subjects or available in the locations that schools need, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Oakland Unified five months to find a permanent teacher for a class of 12 severely disabled children at Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy. Seven substitutes led the class before a teacher from Washington state could take over Nov. 1, more than two months after the start of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 30 to 40 applications Principal Charles Wilson saw prior to the teacher’s hiring, seven applicants had appropriate credentials and three were interviewed. None was a good fit for the position, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-performing schools like his are sometimes accused of “intentionally trying to hire young, kind of throwaway teachers because they’re cheap,” Wilson said. “But the reality of it is those kinds of (qualified, experienced) teachers don’t apply to these kinds of schools. They don’t take an interview.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though his elementary school has a positive reputation as being supportive of teachers, Wilson said, “people are scared. … It’s too much of a stress they don’t want to take on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Revamping a school\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education officials and critics agree that much progress has been made in reducing the number of incorrect assignments. Among nearly 300 low-performing schools that had improper assignments for six consecutive years, 79 percent had fewer instances of the problem in 2010-11 than they did in 2005-06.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years ago, Huntington Park Senior High School, south of downtown Los Angeles, had more improper assignments than any other school in the state. In fact, it had more misassignments than it had teachers – 477 in all, indicating that staff members lacked more than one necessary credential or authorization for their positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of poor student performance, Huntington Park underwent a dramatic district-ordered transformation in 2011 that switched it from a year-round calendar to traditional school year and required teachers to reinterview for their jobs. The school replaced about 70 percent of its staff in less than two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School administrators, themselves newcomers, saw the process as an opportunity to ensure all teachers had the credentials for a predictable stable of classes that mirror those required for admittance to California universities, said Freddy Lara, the school’s assistant principal. Lara said the Los Angeles Unified School District referred the school only qualified, credentialed candidates for each position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the school’s principal, Lupe Hernandez, reports that the campus has no incorrect assignments. But Huntington Park may be an outlier. Most schools cannot require all their teachers to reapply for jobs, and doing so would not necessarily prevent future assignment problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really about the tension between what students need every year and the adults that we’ve already hired in the system and probably have permanent (tenured) status,”said Hanson of Fresno Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools should always strive to have no improperly assigned teachers, Hanson and other education officials said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem for Parker, who taught social studies at McAlister for two years and now teaches at another Los Angeles high school, was that he should not have taught history to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year in California, public school administrators assign thousands of teachers to classes for which they lack the credentials or legal authorization to teach. Untrained teachers have been assigned to a variety of difficult classes, including those filled with English-language learners and others with special intellectual and physical needs. Or, in Parker’s case, to teach social studies when they’re credentialed for biology. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 1 in 10 teachers or certificated personnel – more than 32,000 school employees – did not have the credentials or authorization for their positions from 2007 through 2011, according to data compiled by the state Commission on Teacher Credentialing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Every year in California, public school administrators assign thousands of teachers to classes for which they lack the credentials or legal authorization to teach.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The problem is greater at low-performing schools, where students are overwhelmingly low-income and Latino. The average rate of improperly assigned teachers at these schools was 16 percent over the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That isn’t something that should be acceptable to anybody,” said Brooks Allen, director of education advocacy at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2010-11 school year, more than 12,000 teachers and certificated personnel at more than 1,000 low-performing schools served in positions they should not have held. On average at these schools, 82 percent of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals, and more than three-quarters were Latino, a California Watch analysis found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research and interviews with state and local education officials suggest that staffing turnover and shortages, insufficient resources, poor planning and mismanagement contribute to assigning teachers to classes for which they lack specialized training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This problem of “misassignments,” as they’re known, has improved dramatically since the 2005-06 school year, when the state began giving greater attention to teacher assignments at low-performing schools. At the time, 29 percent of teachers at these schools lacked licenses for their positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers gaining authorization to instruct English-language learners have driven much of that progress. The extra scrutiny – a product of Williams v. California, a landmark class-action lawsuit that in 2004 charged the state with ensuring all students had qualified, credentialed teachers – also has helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the rate of improperly assigned teachers at low-performing schools has hovered above a persistent 12 percent. (It’s unclear how California ranks nationally; states have different standards and policies for employing teachers, making comparisons difficult.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The persistence of misassignments, year over year, even with annual monitoring, certainly suggests that it’s something that needs to be looked at,” said Allen, the attorney assigned to implement the Williams settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Advocates, which represented students in the Williams lawsuit, has called for the Legislature to hold a hearing on the problem and for the credentialing commission to push the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alamo Democrat Joan Buchanan, chairwoman of the Assembly Education Committee, said that while she is open to holding a hearing, she is “not sure passing a law is going to be like waving a magic wand and solve the problem there.” She said she hoped the State Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson would also look into the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ensuring teachers are appropriately licensed “is very important back-office work that nobody ever sees and can pay huge dividends and, in some instances, be very harmful to kids,” said Michael Hanson, superintendent of the Fresno Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, at the public Berkeley Technology Academy, a student failed the California High School Proficiency Examination after enrolling in a class intended to prepare her and other credit-deficient students for the test. The student later told her mother that the class included nothing she encountered on the exam, which allows students to receive the equivalent of a high school diploma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I paid good money for my daughter to participate (in) this CHSPE experiment only to find out that the teacher may have been unqualified to teach it, and that she did not adequately prepare the students to take the final exam,” the student’s mother wrote in a June 2011 complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Unified School District acknowledged in a letter to the mother that a noncredentialed staff member had taught the course. It offered her daughter 20 hours of private instruction and the option to enroll at the high school for a fifth year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lengthy process\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While credentials and legal authorization do not guarantee effective teachers, they represent the baseline qualifications that educators must have. If a teacher has been assigned to the wrong class, his or her performance evaluation is nullified under state law, making it more difficult to identify bad – and good – teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Commission on Teacher Credentialing typically needs to work with only a handful of school districts that struggle to resolve improper assignments on their own, said Roxann Purdue, a consultant in the agency’s professional services division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the lengthy, laborious and often paper-heavy process of monitoring assignments means that teachers and other staff can remain in the wrong positions for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County offices of education typically begin compiling paperwork from school districts in late fall or winter. Once they identify teachers who lack necessary credentials or authorization and notify the district, the district has 30 days to address the problems. By the time it’s all resolved – teachers must be reassigned, get the appropriate credentials, receive emergency or short-term permits or local authorizations, obtain waivers or resign – the school year could be nearly over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2011-12 school year, for example, Alameda County notified the Oakland Unified School District on May 15 to correct any remaining teacher assignment problems by June 30 – 15 days after the school year ended, records show. A letter listed 50 teachers whose qualifications were unclear or who held inappropriate assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we had a whole bunch of people working on it, we could identify the misassignment sooner. You’re talking about one manager, one analyst – that’s all we are,” said Stephanie Tomasi, Alameda’s credentials manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said there’s little they can do to expedite the monitoring process. School schedules and staffing tend to shift during the first month or two of school, so counties don’t begin monitoring until classes are settled. Schools, too, need time to gather their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like we want to catch it (improperly assigned teachers) really early in the school year so you don’t have a student going all year without services or whatever they need,” said Teresa Ussery, a credential analyst for Stanislaus County, which requests district documents in October and reports assignment problems in March and April. “But just because of timelines and processes, it’s very hard to do that – especially if it’s a large district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Ussery said, problems identified late in one school year pay off the following school year. Schools learn to not repeat the same mistakes, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Berkeley case, for example, the district said that the class led by an uncredentialed staff member would no longer be offered and that credentialed teachers would teach all courses at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Success with English-learner authorization\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Improper assignments often are the result of school administrators who do not know that even elective or short-term courses require appropriate certification, said Purdue of the credentialing commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middle and high schools in particular, she said, are offering more experimental courses that are less straightforward to staff than, say, a physics class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, nearly 2,400 teachers in low-performing schools were assigned to teach core academic subjects – English, math, science and social science – without the appropriate credentials or authorization during the 2010-11 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, teachers lacking authorization to teach English-language learners – which numbered more than 22,200 in the 2005-06 school year – plummeted to 1,575.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a success story,” said Allen of the ACLU. “So the question is, what is it that needs to be done to have that similar trend across the board?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California teachers of all subjects must have authorization to teach English learners, even if they have just one student in their class who is learning the language. But Purdue said what worked to increase authorizations for teaching English-language learners does not apply to other subjects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an isolated problem with a permanent solution, whereas the other subjects areas, it’s a new opportunity to misassign them every semester and every year,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission tackled the problem with English-learner authorization by first offering training opportunities to existing credentialed teachers. It then phased in English-learner training at educator preparation programs so that all new teachers would automatically have the authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d keep closing the circle until it becomes smaller and smaller,” Purdue said. “But you can’t do that for math, because if someone’s misassigned in math, we have to have all teachers authorized in every subject to close every loophole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson, of Fresno Unified, said assigning teachers outside of what their credentials allow is sometimes the best solution to a Rubik’s cube of teachers, students, courses and schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last school year, for example, scheduling conflicts led to a high school algebra teacher instructing one period of geometry, a course the teacher’s credential did not permit. “I’m not going to find a geometry teacher who can work one period during the day,” Hanson said. “Here’s the only way I can get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Teacher shortages add to problems\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In certain locations and subjects, such as math, science and special education, incorrect assignments could reflect teacher shortages. These shortages are most critical in schools concentrated with low-income and minority students and in districts with fewer resources, a state task force reported in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t leave it up to local principals to find good teachers and well-prepared teachers if they don’t exist,” said Linda Darling-Hammond, chairwomanof the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, who also co-ledthe task force. “Ultimately, you have to invest in getting enough teachers in shortage fields and invest in getting enough teachers who will teach in shortage locations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teacher layoffs – California schools cut about 32,000 teachers between 2007-08 and 2010-11 – ought to have produced a larger supply of qualified teachers, said John Affeldt, who served as lead counsel on the Williams lawsuit and is a managing attorney at Public Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most districts have policies that allow them to hold on to teachers in high-need areas, even when layoffs are required, said Sharon Robison, the Association of California School Administrators’ liaison to the credentialing commission. Teachers who are laid off are not always qualified in the subjects or available in the locations that schools need, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Oakland Unified five months to find a permanent teacher for a class of 12 severely disabled children at Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy. Seven substitutes led the class before a teacher from Washington state could take over Nov. 1, more than two months after the start of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 30 to 40 applications Principal Charles Wilson saw prior to the teacher’s hiring, seven applicants had appropriate credentials and three were interviewed. None was a good fit for the position, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-performing schools like his are sometimes accused of “intentionally trying to hire young, kind of throwaway teachers because they’re cheap,” Wilson said. “But the reality of it is those kinds of (qualified, experienced) teachers don’t apply to these kinds of schools. They don’t take an interview.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though his elementary school has a positive reputation as being supportive of teachers, Wilson said, “people are scared. … It’s too much of a stress they don’t want to take on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Revamping a school\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education officials and critics agree that much progress has been made in reducing the number of incorrect assignments. Among nearly 300 low-performing schools that had improper assignments for six consecutive years, 79 percent had fewer instances of the problem in 2010-11 than they did in 2005-06.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years ago, Huntington Park Senior High School, south of downtown Los Angeles, had more improper assignments than any other school in the state. In fact, it had more misassignments than it had teachers – 477 in all, indicating that staff members lacked more than one necessary credential or authorization for their positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of poor student performance, Huntington Park underwent a dramatic district-ordered transformation in 2011 that switched it from a year-round calendar to traditional school year and required teachers to reinterview for their jobs. The school replaced about 70 percent of its staff in less than two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School administrators, themselves newcomers, saw the process as an opportunity to ensure all teachers had the credentials for a predictable stable of classes that mirror those required for admittance to California universities, said Freddy Lara, the school’s assistant principal. Lara said the Los Angeles Unified School District referred the school only qualified, credentialed candidates for each position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the school’s principal, Lupe Hernandez, reports that the campus has no incorrect assignments. But Huntington Park may be an outlier. Most schools cannot require all their teachers to reapply for jobs, and doing so would not necessarily prevent future assignment problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really about the tension between what students need every year and the adults that we’ve already hired in the system and probably have permanent (tenured) status,”said Hanson of Fresno Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools should always strive to have no improperly assigned teachers, Hanson and other education officials said. But they doubted that was a realistic possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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On Monday, he acknowledged he went too far trying to get his star player out of a funk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I made a mistake,\" he said in an interview with Pac-12 Networks. \"There's no question about that. Allen is so important to us. There's a lot of pressure on Allen. He's got to perform for us. People are holding him, they're pushing for him, they're physical with him. It's very difficult for him. He, like everybody else, I'm sure he gets tired of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes he tends to take himself out a little bit. Yet for us, he's our leader. We can't play if Allen is not engaged. To his credit, he generally has been but in this particular game I thought he was a little bit out of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbe had to be forcibly restrained by teammates and briefly left the court before coming back and leading a comeback victory for the Golden Bears (16-9, 8-5 Pac-12).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletic Director Sandy Barbour said in a statement late Sunday night that she understood the game was emotional but Montgomery's actions were inappropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is unacceptable for our coaches to have physical contact with student-athletes regardless of the circumstances,\" she said. \"The second-half incident was certainly out of character for Mike Montgomery, and I am confident that something like this will not happen again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montgomery tried to make light of the controversy in the postgame news conference, smiling and saying the move motivated Crabbe. He also said he would do it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Worked, didn't it?\" Montgomery said of the exchange with Crabbe. \"Allen had come down twice went to the wrong side of the court and his guy shot two 3s. I was trying to get him going. Probably overdid it a little bit but Allen's my guy. We can't win if he is not ready to play.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbe, the leading scorer in the Pac-12 with an average of 19.8 points, scored 14 points after the shove and led the Bears back from a 15-point deficit to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montgomery later apologized in a statement released by the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have great passion for this game and tonight, I let my emotions get away from me in the heat of the moment,\" Montgomery said. \"While my intent was to motivate our student-athletes, my behavior was inappropriate and I apologize for my actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbe said after the game that emotions were high at the time and Montgomery was just trying to motivate him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything's fine,\" Crabbe said. \"It's under the bridge. He's my coach, no hard feelings. 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I urge the university to take swift disciplinary action of at least a one-game suspension and I wish the Cal basketball program the very best as they enter the final games of the season.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The confrontation happened during a timeout early in the second half of Cal's 76-68 win over Southern California on Sunday night when Montgomery yelled at star guard Allen Crabbe for nonchalant play and then shoved him in the chest with both hands. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montgomery downplayed the run-in immediately after the game but later issued an apology through the school. On Monday, he acknowledged he went too far trying to get his star player out of a funk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I made a mistake,\" he said in an interview with Pac-12 Networks. \"There's no question about that. Allen is so important to us. There's a lot of pressure on Allen. He's got to perform for us. People are holding him, they're pushing for him, they're physical with him. It's very difficult for him. He, like everybody else, I'm sure he gets tired of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes he tends to take himself out a little bit. Yet for us, he's our leader. We can't play if Allen is not engaged. To his credit, he generally has been but in this particular game I thought he was a little bit out of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbe had to be forcibly restrained by teammates and briefly left the court before coming back and leading a comeback victory for the Golden Bears (16-9, 8-5 Pac-12).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletic Director Sandy Barbour said in a statement late Sunday night that she understood the game was emotional but Montgomery's actions were inappropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is unacceptable for our coaches to have physical contact with student-athletes regardless of the circumstances,\" she said. \"The second-half incident was certainly out of character for Mike Montgomery, and I am confident that something like this will not happen again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montgomery tried to make light of the controversy in the postgame news conference, smiling and saying the move motivated Crabbe. He also said he would do it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Worked, didn't it?\" Montgomery said of the exchange with Crabbe. \"Allen had come down twice went to the wrong side of the court and his guy shot two 3s. I was trying to get him going. Probably overdid it a little bit but Allen's my guy. We can't win if he is not ready to play.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbe, the leading scorer in the Pac-12 with an average of 19.8 points, scored 14 points after the shove and led the Bears back from a 15-point deficit to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montgomery later apologized in a statement released by the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have great passion for this game and tonight, I let my emotions get away from me in the heat of the moment,\" Montgomery said. \"While my intent was to motivate our student-athletes, my behavior was inappropriate and I apologize for my actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbe said after the game that emotions were high at the time and Montgomery was just trying to motivate him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything's fine,\" Crabbe said. \"It's under the bridge. He's my coach, no hard feelings. We're just going to keep moving on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, \u003ca href=\"http://sd08.senate.ca.gov/news/2013-02-18-senator-yee-calls-cal-suspend-coach-shoving-student-athlete\" target=\"_blank\">State Sen. Leland Yee called for Montgomery to be suspended\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I have a lot of respect for Coach Montgomery and I appreciate his apology, his actions at last night’s game are completely unacceptable,\" Yee said in a statement. \"As a psychologist, I can assure the university and Coach Montgomery that physically pushing a student-athlete does nothing to motivate them. We do not accept such behavior by our professors and administrators, and we should not tolerate it with our coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The game was an emotional one, but representatives of UC – especially adults – need to be able to control their emotions and refrain from physical altercations with students. I urge the university to take swift disciplinary action of at least a one-game suspension and I wish the Cal basketball program the very best as they enter the final games of the season.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you missed it, here's the \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/9RQ74cAZT1M\" target=\"_blank\">video\u003c/a> of Cal coach Mike Montgomery shoving star scorer Allen Crabbe on Sunday in the Bears' 76-68 comeback victory over USC. Cal was down 44-32 at the time, and Montgomery didn't like the way Crabbe was playing ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/9RQ74cAZT1M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/Cal-rallies-from-15-down-to-top-USC-4286635.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reports today\u003c/a> ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A shove to the chest from Cal head coach Mike Montgomery 3 1/2 minutes into the second half served its desired intent, to motivate his swingman and rally the troops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbe, the Pac-12 Conference's leading scorer, had 14 of his team-high 23 points after being shoved by his head coach as he led the surging Bears to their fifth conference win in the last six games. At 8-5, Cal is tied for fourth in the Pac-12 with Arizona State ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident took place during a timeout with 16:31 remaining at Haas Pavilion and the Bears down 44-32. Surprised and upset at being shoved, Crabbe was bear-hugged by teammate Justin Cobbs and walked off the court to cool down. Teammate and friend Richard Solomon then went over to speak to Crabbe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, Crabbe was off the court for 19 seconds' of elapsed time, during which he paced back and forth by the bleachers on the west side before re-entering the game at 16:19. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/Cal-rallies-from-15-down-to-top-USC-4286635.php\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's Montgomery after the game discussing what was going on ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/o3lldv3V3Oc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We were standing around. No one was ready to play. We were just standing. Allen had come down twice and went to the wrong side of the court and his guy shot two threes and I was trying to get him going. What got over exaggerated was everybody jumping up and grabbing a hold of him like it was a big deal. Probably overdid it a little bit but Allen is my guy. I need him to be going. We can't win if he is not ready to play. USC's physical play took us out of the game mentally. I thought we were soft. They were very physical with us. We were frustrated and standing and not doing what we needed to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked him if we wanted to play. He's really important to us. Late, he got blocks and rebounds and he was shooting the ball in. Mentally, he just needed a wakeup call.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's Crabbe talking about it after the game ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/RrIoEc9TgEU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Coach used his way to motivate me,\" Crabbe said. \"There's nothing wrong with it; spur of the moment. He was trying to motivate me. Everything is fine. He's my coach.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone was so enthused about the coach's motivational technique. From a statement by Athletic Director Sandy Barbour after the game ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sunday's game was an emotional one for everyone who cares deeply about our men's basketball program, and the Bears certainly showed tremendous resolve coming back to earn a win over USC. However, it is unacceptable for our coaches to have physical contact with student-athletes regardless of the circumstances. The second-half incident was certainly out of character for Mike Montgomery, and I am confident that something like this will not happen again.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Montgomery later apologized ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I have great passion for this game and tonight, I let my emotions get away from me in the heat of the moment. While my intent was to motivate our student-athletes, my behavior was inappropriate and I apologize for my actions.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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He says a contractor renovating a house in East Oakland gave Dobbz a shotgun and some money and told him to keep an eye on the property. One night, Murphy says, Dobbz spotted a man who appeared to be stealing from the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And a confrontation ensued, wherein my client discharged a shotgun, and shooting the individual at close range in the stomach. …” Murphy trails off. The individual shot during the confrontation was Lonnie Turbin, 35, the older brother of Seattle Seahawks running back \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Robert-Turbin-sees-NFL-as-means-to-help-at-home-3393546.php#ixzz1os5eO4cv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Turbin\u003c/a>. 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Click on markers for details of each case. Link: \u003ca title=\"Oakland Homicides: Cleared Cases\" href=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1xzpD8TzW5dnNQr-Lp_KZdAWHnB8Dh2Ms4eZlXgU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Homicides 2012: Cleared Cases\u003c/a>)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col5+from+1xzpD8TzW5dnNQr-Lp_KZdAWHnB8Dh2Ms4eZlXgU&h=false&lat=37.785674977177266&lng=-122.21466765019528&z=12&t=1&l=col5&y=2&tmplt=2\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is Oakland’s rate so low?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Capt. Johnny Davis says years of budget cuts have hurt the department’s ability to solve crimes. 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But Davis says the Number One factor stopping investigators from solving homicides … is a lack of cooperation from witnesses in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge that we have is a lot of people who know what actually happened out there, and know these individuals because they’re in their communities, are failing to come forward or are afraid to come forward for some reason,” Davis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ellabakercenter.org/about/staff-and-board/jakada-imani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jakada Imani\u003c/a> of Oakland’s Ella Baker Center for Human Rights says that reason shouldn’t be a mystery. 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The number of California students who applied for admission as freshmen grew by 6.2 percent over last year for a total of 99,129, a new record, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28952\">school reported in January.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yudof doesn’t envision new classrooms for all these students, he told the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/02/local/la-me-yudof-20130203\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The days of building new brick-and-mortar campuses may well be over. The new avenues to the University of California may be more online, more from community colleges. Actually investing a billion dollars and erecting a campus — I don’t know where the money would come from even if you could justify it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And he thinks some other kinds of consolidation may be necessary, he told the Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It’s a very tough issue and we haven’t done nearly enough. I’ve even suggested joint departments where one department can cover two campuses. But it has to be done very carefully. We do need to have a physics department and an English department virtually everywhere and we probably need multiple nursing schools…. Part of the problem is the local effect of people saying we want to be Berkeley or UCLA. We want a big engineering college, we want a law school or we want a medical school. You have to be very circumspect since those are very expensive things.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Tuition went up sharply during Yudof’s tenure, which began in 2008. 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In his work with \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandunite.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Unite\u003c/a>, Grant intervenes in retaliatory violence and works to keep parolees from going back to jail. He was awarded the California Peace Prize last November. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny\u003c/a> talked to Grant as part of its First Person series. Here are some highlights from the interview. Edited transcript …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Grant on the Availability of Guns\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a hundred oak trees fell in Oakland, they would have federal dollars trying to find out what Rocky Mountain Spider Fever Tick was eating them. If a hundred spears of broccoli went bad, they’d trail it all the way back to the store it was sold at and the plantation it grew from and everything else. A hundred kids are dropping. We need to find out where these guns are coming from while we’re doing our thing, because without the tools, the kids would have to go back to what I grew up with: fighting, and that’s much safer and healthier than laying each other down with these long weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[They’re] shooting 223’s—these are military style ammunition that they’re getting down with today … Somebody needs to put some dollars into trailing these guns, because these kids are buying guns on the street for amounts of dollars you wouldn’t believe, and that means that the supply is grand. [My] kids is getting… what they call “long things” for two, three hundred dollars off the street…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cstrong>On Race:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>If a hundred spears of broccoli went bad, they’d trail it all the way back to the store. A hundred kids are dropping. We need to find out where these guns are coming from.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n–Kevin Grant\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I was a black man, and when I was getting arrested in Oakland, every cop who arrested me was white, right? So I had that, and then I grew up in the system that helped feed that [concept of racism]. It wasn’t ‘What’d you do to get back here,’ it was, ‘Who arrested you?’ You know, ‘My parole agent.’ It was everybody else’s fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So then I had to—for me, this is what helped me—I had to start taking ownership… ‘Okay, but wait, maybe it was that pistol and me shooting at that dude, maybe it was that half a kilo of dope I had in my trunk when the police pulled me over…’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what we do [is] we address the [level of racism] and let them know “A,” it’s a real problem, and it’s gonna affect you in this way. But let’s not feed a “B” into it so you end up getting caught up with a “C.” So we say a) racism and jobs and differentiating on all that stuff is real—yeah, we ain’t gonna fake that, but b), you don’t wanna add to that a parolee, another number, another this… so we push it there but don’t let them feed off it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Oakland Police Department Hiring Consultant Bill Bratton: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, me and Oakland P.D., [HoJo], my guy— we have a gangster relationship; he lets me stay in my lane, and I let him do his thing. I don’t know [Bratton], right? I don’t know his history. I stay on the flatlands and keep my view, oftentimes, out of that atmosphere up there because really, honestly: a) I can’t do nothing about it, b) it ain’t none of my business as long as Jordan told me it’s not gonna affect what we’re doing… [Bratton’s] gonna eat well. I ain’t mad, I try and eat well too— so I ain’t mad at him for eating well, but I’m not gonna confuse what I gotta do with some politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Stopping the Cycle of Retaliation:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve gotten good at stopping shootings two and three because shooting one has happened. And one of the things in Oakland and many other flatland communities like Oakland [is] there’s a retaliation factor that you can pretty much bank on with the youngsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we are pretty successful, but there are times when a loved one will be like, ‘Kev, I respect what you do, and I always respect, but dude shot my sister. When I see him, I’m gonna do him.’ And so there’s times when the lay has been too fat for us to redirect it, but oftentimes we’re able to get in, and what we find is it’s very important to buy some time as their cooler heads prevail.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Relying on these bonds has allowed districts to borrow billions of dollars while postponing payments in some cases for decades. \u003c!--more-->This form of borrowing has created billions of dollars in debt for taxpayers and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for financial advisers and underwriters. Voters are usually unaware of the bonds’ high interest. At least one state, Michigan, has banned their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, where rules governing the loans are among the loosest, more than 400 school districts and other agencies have racked up greater capital appreciation bond debt in the past six years than in any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have borrowed $9 billion that will cost taxpayers $36 billion to repay over the next 40 years, according to data compiled by California Treasurer Bill Lockyer. He called it “debt for the next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The average tenure of a school superintendent is about three and a half years, so they aren’t going to be around in most instances to worry about paying that off,” Lockyer said in an interview. “Nor will the voters, probably, that enacted it in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The capital appreciation bond business in California has been lucrative for dozens of private financial advisers, banks and credit rating firms that have charged government entities nearly $400 million for financial services since 2007, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bonds are unusual in public finance because they postpone debt far into the future. Typical school bonds require borrowers to begin making payments immediately and cost two to three times the principal amount to repay. But with deferred payments, districts have ended up paying as much as 23 times the amount borrowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to issue these bonds instead of traditional bonds typically is made by district officials after voters have approved bond measures, and the public usually has no knowledge of how much they will cost to repay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Lockyer and Tom Torlakson, the state superintendent of public instruction, called for a statewide moratorium on capital appreciation bonds until new legislation limiting their use is in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue first came to light last year after the Voice of San Diego and a Michigan blogger reported on a questionable capital appreciation bond issued by the Poway Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a California Watch analysis shows that the issue is not unique to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2007, school districts and government agencies in at least 27 states and Puerto Rico have financed projects with capital appreciation bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Texas, 590 districts and other government entities have issued these bonds over the past six years – more than any other state, according to a California Watch review of a database maintained by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, a federal regulatory agency that oversees the municipal bond market. California was second, with 404, followed by Ohio, with 202.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the total amount of debt generated by these bonds is unclear. States rely on varying methods for reporting, and in some cases the data is incomplete. Many capital appreciation bonds were issued in packages with other types of bonds, and national databases do not tally their independent values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, some of the most dubious deals occurred in San Diego County, where the Poway Unified School District in 2011 used the bonds to borrow $105 million that will cost $982 million to pay back, a repayment rate of about 9.4 to 1. The same year, the Santee School District borrowed $3.5 million that must be repaid at $58.6 million, or 16.6 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides school districts, four agencies that receive tobacco-company payments from a court settlement have issued these bonds to construct health care facilities and operate programs. The largest was issued by the Inland Empire Tobacco Securitization Authority – a $206.4 million bond that will cost $3.8 billion to pay back, or more than 18 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To finish building Hillcrest High School, the Alvord district issued a $57 million bond in 2011. By 2046, when the loan is paid off, Calderon said, it will have cost taxpayers $375 million – 6.6 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, who joined the Alvord district as chief business officer in July, called the deal “a necessary evil” and said falling property tax revenue and dwindling state funding had left districts with no choice but to engage in risky borrowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this was a mortgage, you would run,” he said. “But this type of creative financing is what we’re forced to do.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBypassing state tax cap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California districts, including Alvord, have used the bonds to get around a state limit on property taxes. To pay off bonds, unified school districts are allowed to tax residents no more than $60 per $100,000 of their assessed property value each year. By issuing capital appreciation bonds, districts that have reached that limit can push the tax burdens of new bonds far into the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When districts issue these bonds, they are betting that property values will increase enough over time to pay their debts. They often hire private firms to calculate property value projections and structure the deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The private firms are paid to determine how much money is safe for districts to borrow, but Lockyer said some financial advisers appear to have exaggerated property value growth projections to get the deals approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although private firms are not obligated to report their fees to state regulators, the state treasurer’s office has compiled some fee information found in official bond statements. At least 42 financial firms have charged school districts and other agencies in California a total of $389 million since 2007, Lockyer’s office reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data available to the treasurer, Caldwell Flores Winters, a California-based company specializing in public finance, made the most money advising on California’s capital appreciation bonds – $6.8 million on 84 deals. Second was Dale Scott & Co. in San Francisco, with 55 deals worth $4.6 million. California Financial Services, a financial planning firm, was third with $3.5 million on 28 deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial advisers have been meeting with Lockyer and state legislators to discuss a measure that would limit repayment rates to as little as four times the amount borrowed with capital appreciation bonds, also known as CABs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though CABs can be a useful tool in managing a district's debt, it appears there have been a number of abuses,” said Dale Scott, whose firm was hired by Alvord last year to help manage the district’s debt. “That's why we strongly support the proposed legislation that would provide significant taxpayer protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While financial advisers help districts structure the bonds, underwriters – typically large banks and investment firms – broker the deals for a commission, selling the bonds whole or breaking them into smaller pieces and selling them to multiple investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to state records, Piper Jaffray was the busiest underwriter since 2007, brokering 165 capital appreciation bonds for a price of $638,045. Goldman Sachs made the most money as an underwriter during the same time period – $1.6 million on a single deal with the San Diego Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both firms declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Highly leveraged deals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, falling property values have hurt districts’ tax revenues, prompting some to turn to long-term bonds. Outside California, however, tighter regulations helped curb their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ohio, for instance, prohibits the type of ballooning debt structures found in many California deals by requiring bonds to maintain a flat debt service. That means the annual payment must remain roughly the same each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California removed its flat debt service requirement on long-term bonds in 2009 with the passage of AB 1388. The bill was sponsored by the California Public Securities Association, which lobbies state lawmakers on behalf of financial consultants and underwriters. An association official declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While districts have been relying on capital appreciation bonds for more than a decade, there was a slight increase in their use after the bill took effect, state data shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking back, the Legislature's decision to eliminate the flat debt service requirement in 2009 is what led to a lot of these highly leveraged deals,” said Scott, the financial adviser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts that issued these bonds fall into two categories: those that could not issue standard bonds because they had reached the $60 state tax cap, like Alvord, and others, like the Napa Valley Unified School District, that simply promised voters they would keep their tax rates low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa issued its bonds in 2009 and 2010, in part, because officials had pledged to keep the tax rate well below the state limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our promise to the voters of Napa was to keep their tax bill at or below $36, and we were able to accomplish that,” said Jose Hurtado, a Napa school board member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, Napa voters authorized $183 million to repair old school buildings and build a new high school in American Canyon, a rapidly growing area in southern Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2009, when the high school was nearly completed, property values had dropped and the district suddenly found itself short of cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the advice of KNN Public Finance, an Oakland firm, Napa issued a nearly $22 million capital appreciation bond. The loan will cost $154 million – seven times the principal – when it is paid off in 2049.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months later, the district issued another bond for $7 million that will have cost $28 million by 2033.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado said the board did not explain to voters the high cost of repaying the bonds, as far as he knows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t recall any of those conversations going on,” he said. “It doesn’t mean they didn’t happen, I just don’t recall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KNN charged the district $156,000 for advising on the deals, according to state records. Advisers at KNN declined to be interviewed, but Dave Olson, a managing director for the firm, said in a statement to California Watch that, ultimately, districts set their own fiscal policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The role of the financial advisor is to present the full range of reasonable alternatives to implement that policy,” the statement said. “We hope that the district feels we did so in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some officials have criticized districts like Napa for shifting debt to future taxpayers instead of asking voters to pay now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re trying to stay under a tax rate promised to the voters, that’s completely egregious,” said Glenn Byers, assistant treasurer of Los Angeles County, who has been critical of capital appreciation bonds that take longer than 25 years to repay.“If they’re not at the tax rate’s legal limit, it’s a slam dunk: They shouldn’t be doing (it).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Complex finance plans\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Napa’s school board understood the long-term implications when it approved the deal remains unclear. When California Watch first asked school board member Joe Schunk about the deal in November, he said Napa had not issued any capital appreciation bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, he called back and said he had been mistaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow board member Hurtado said that KNN had explained the deal but that “it was hard to understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re trying to have discussions about CABs versus traditional (bonds) and tax rates, occasionally it all runs together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lockyer said the inability of district leaders to grasp complex municipal finance is a problem around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen materials that went to a school board when they authorized the original issuance and there were blanks where the interest rate amount was to be determined someday,” he said. “But that’s what they saw when they agreed to a deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Johnson, a longtime school board member in Alvord, said he could not remember how the district’s $57 million deal was explained to the board when members approved it 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the thought process was that housing prices would increase,” he said. “If you’re asking me if I would do it in the future, I would not, but you can’t go back in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Jaffray charged the district $569,416 to underwrite the bond, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, Alvord’s chief business officer, lamented the lack of financial expertise that leaves many districts unqualified to navigate complex bond deals – or to do business with high-powered financial advisers and Wall Street investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re swimming with the big sharks,” said Calderon, who likened running a school district to heading up a large corporation. “These are principals and assistant superintendents of curriculum, and they’re being promoted in the role of a chief business officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Napa, Alvord had reached the $60 tax cap at the time it decided to issue its capital appreciation bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Hillcrest High School opened in 2012, Calderon said, Alvord’s other two high schools were bursting at the seams. Postponing construction on the new school would have meant holding classes in portable structures, “like a tent city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the district unable to borrow more money with traditional bonds and voters demanding a new school, district leaders began to feel the political heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of those situations that people are forced into when there’s a lot of pressure put on by either boards or superintendents, that they want this building finished and they want it today,” Calderon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cycle of borrowing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvord’s financial troubles date back at least five years, when the district got stuck in a cycle of borrowing money to pay off previous loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our whole issue is that, technically, the district is bankrupt,” said Scott Andrews, an Alvord district resident who has led opposition to the district’s borrowing practices, which according to district officials have left taxpayers $500 million in debt. “No one has been able to explain to me how they’re going to pay this back in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson brushed off criticism that the district had dug a hole for itself by spending more than it could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alvord at times has been secondary in some people’s minds in the county of Riverside,” Johnson said. “We want to make sure our students don’t go without any opportunities, not just educational but in terms of facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hence the extravagant design of Hillcrest High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Built into the side of a hill, the campus features state-of-the-art facilities, including a stadium, aquatic center and air-conditioned gym. But even after issuing the $57 million bond to complete the school’s construction, parts of the campus remain unfinished because the district ran out of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the stadium has no seats. The district could not afford them, so families bring lawn chairs to watch the school’s football games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was supposed to be an Olympic-size swimming pool was scaled down by half to 25 meters when construction money ran out, leaving a large concrete deck where the rest of the pool was meant to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Calderon first toured the aquatic center after joining the district last summer, he was shocked. “The first words out of my mouth were, ‘Where is the rest of the pool?’ ” he recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Hillcrest originally was designed to serve 2,500 students, the district had to scratch an entire wing of classrooms from the building plans due to budget shortages. The school now has space for 1,600 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each classroom cost $10,000 to furnish with hardware and technology, including digital blackboards that likely will be obsolete when the district’s first bond payment comes due in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school sat empty for a year after it was built because the district did not have enough money to operate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Calderon insists that Alvord didn’t overreach. Although the district is $500 million in debt, he said, it’s “good debt” put toward facilities that will enhance learning for generations of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe one of these years or one of these decades,” he said, “if we ever get to sell another bond or do fundraising, maybe we can break open that concrete and build ourselves a true 50-meter, Olympic-size pool.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvord is one of at least 1,350 school districts and government agencies across the nation that have turned to a controversial form of borrowing called capital appreciation bonds to finance major projects, a California Watch analysis of bond financing data in the U.S. shows. Relying on these bonds has allowed districts to borrow billions of dollars while postponing payments in some cases for decades. \u003c!--more-->This form of borrowing has created billions of dollars in debt for taxpayers and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for financial advisers and underwriters. Voters are usually unaware of the bonds’ high interest. At least one state, Michigan, has banned their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, where rules governing the loans are among the loosest, more than 400 school districts and other agencies have racked up greater capital appreciation bond debt in the past six years than in any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have borrowed $9 billion that will cost taxpayers $36 billion to repay over the next 40 years, according to data compiled by California Treasurer Bill Lockyer. He called it “debt for the next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The average tenure of a school superintendent is about three and a half years, so they aren’t going to be around in most instances to worry about paying that off,” Lockyer said in an interview. “Nor will the voters, probably, that enacted it in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The capital appreciation bond business in California has been lucrative for dozens of private financial advisers, banks and credit rating firms that have charged government entities nearly $400 million for financial services since 2007, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bonds are unusual in public finance because they postpone debt far into the future. Typical school bonds require borrowers to begin making payments immediately and cost two to three times the principal amount to repay. But with deferred payments, districts have ended up paying as much as 23 times the amount borrowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to issue these bonds instead of traditional bonds typically is made by district officials after voters have approved bond measures, and the public usually has no knowledge of how much they will cost to repay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Lockyer and Tom Torlakson, the state superintendent of public instruction, called for a statewide moratorium on capital appreciation bonds until new legislation limiting their use is in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue first came to light last year after the Voice of San Diego and a Michigan blogger reported on a questionable capital appreciation bond issued by the Poway Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a California Watch analysis shows that the issue is not unique to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2007, school districts and government agencies in at least 27 states and Puerto Rico have financed projects with capital appreciation bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Texas, 590 districts and other government entities have issued these bonds over the past six years – more than any other state, according to a California Watch review of a database maintained by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, a federal regulatory agency that oversees the municipal bond market. California was second, with 404, followed by Ohio, with 202.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the total amount of debt generated by these bonds is unclear. States rely on varying methods for reporting, and in some cases the data is incomplete. Many capital appreciation bonds were issued in packages with other types of bonds, and national databases do not tally their independent values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, some of the most dubious deals occurred in San Diego County, where the Poway Unified School District in 2011 used the bonds to borrow $105 million that will cost $982 million to pay back, a repayment rate of about 9.4 to 1. The same year, the Santee School District borrowed $3.5 million that must be repaid at $58.6 million, or 16.6 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides school districts, four agencies that receive tobacco-company payments from a court settlement have issued these bonds to construct health care facilities and operate programs. The largest was issued by the Inland Empire Tobacco Securitization Authority – a $206.4 million bond that will cost $3.8 billion to pay back, or more than 18 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To finish building Hillcrest High School, the Alvord district issued a $57 million bond in 2011. By 2046, when the loan is paid off, Calderon said, it will have cost taxpayers $375 million – 6.6 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, who joined the Alvord district as chief business officer in July, called the deal “a necessary evil” and said falling property tax revenue and dwindling state funding had left districts with no choice but to engage in risky borrowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this was a mortgage, you would run,” he said. “But this type of creative financing is what we’re forced to do.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBypassing state tax cap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California districts, including Alvord, have used the bonds to get around a state limit on property taxes. To pay off bonds, unified school districts are allowed to tax residents no more than $60 per $100,000 of their assessed property value each year. By issuing capital appreciation bonds, districts that have reached that limit can push the tax burdens of new bonds far into the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When districts issue these bonds, they are betting that property values will increase enough over time to pay their debts. They often hire private firms to calculate property value projections and structure the deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The private firms are paid to determine how much money is safe for districts to borrow, but Lockyer said some financial advisers appear to have exaggerated property value growth projections to get the deals approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although private firms are not obligated to report their fees to state regulators, the state treasurer’s office has compiled some fee information found in official bond statements. At least 42 financial firms have charged school districts and other agencies in California a total of $389 million since 2007, Lockyer’s office reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data available to the treasurer, Caldwell Flores Winters, a California-based company specializing in public finance, made the most money advising on California’s capital appreciation bonds – $6.8 million on 84 deals. Second was Dale Scott & Co. in San Francisco, with 55 deals worth $4.6 million. California Financial Services, a financial planning firm, was third with $3.5 million on 28 deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial advisers have been meeting with Lockyer and state legislators to discuss a measure that would limit repayment rates to as little as four times the amount borrowed with capital appreciation bonds, also known as CABs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though CABs can be a useful tool in managing a district's debt, it appears there have been a number of abuses,” said Dale Scott, whose firm was hired by Alvord last year to help manage the district’s debt. “That's why we strongly support the proposed legislation that would provide significant taxpayer protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While financial advisers help districts structure the bonds, underwriters – typically large banks and investment firms – broker the deals for a commission, selling the bonds whole or breaking them into smaller pieces and selling them to multiple investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to state records, Piper Jaffray was the busiest underwriter since 2007, brokering 165 capital appreciation bonds for a price of $638,045. Goldman Sachs made the most money as an underwriter during the same time period – $1.6 million on a single deal with the San Diego Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both firms declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Highly leveraged deals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, falling property values have hurt districts’ tax revenues, prompting some to turn to long-term bonds. Outside California, however, tighter regulations helped curb their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ohio, for instance, prohibits the type of ballooning debt structures found in many California deals by requiring bonds to maintain a flat debt service. That means the annual payment must remain roughly the same each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California removed its flat debt service requirement on long-term bonds in 2009 with the passage of AB 1388. The bill was sponsored by the California Public Securities Association, which lobbies state lawmakers on behalf of financial consultants and underwriters. An association official declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While districts have been relying on capital appreciation bonds for more than a decade, there was a slight increase in their use after the bill took effect, state data shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking back, the Legislature's decision to eliminate the flat debt service requirement in 2009 is what led to a lot of these highly leveraged deals,” said Scott, the financial adviser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts that issued these bonds fall into two categories: those that could not issue standard bonds because they had reached the $60 state tax cap, like Alvord, and others, like the Napa Valley Unified School District, that simply promised voters they would keep their tax rates low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa issued its bonds in 2009 and 2010, in part, because officials had pledged to keep the tax rate well below the state limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our promise to the voters of Napa was to keep their tax bill at or below $36, and we were able to accomplish that,” said Jose Hurtado, a Napa school board member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, Napa voters authorized $183 million to repair old school buildings and build a new high school in American Canyon, a rapidly growing area in southern Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2009, when the high school was nearly completed, property values had dropped and the district suddenly found itself short of cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the advice of KNN Public Finance, an Oakland firm, Napa issued a nearly $22 million capital appreciation bond. The loan will cost $154 million – seven times the principal – when it is paid off in 2049.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months later, the district issued another bond for $7 million that will have cost $28 million by 2033.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado said the board did not explain to voters the high cost of repaying the bonds, as far as he knows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t recall any of those conversations going on,” he said. “It doesn’t mean they didn’t happen, I just don’t recall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KNN charged the district $156,000 for advising on the deals, according to state records. Advisers at KNN declined to be interviewed, but Dave Olson, a managing director for the firm, said in a statement to California Watch that, ultimately, districts set their own fiscal policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The role of the financial advisor is to present the full range of reasonable alternatives to implement that policy,” the statement said. “We hope that the district feels we did so in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some officials have criticized districts like Napa for shifting debt to future taxpayers instead of asking voters to pay now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re trying to stay under a tax rate promised to the voters, that’s completely egregious,” said Glenn Byers, assistant treasurer of Los Angeles County, who has been critical of capital appreciation bonds that take longer than 25 years to repay.“If they’re not at the tax rate’s legal limit, it’s a slam dunk: They shouldn’t be doing (it).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Complex finance plans\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Napa’s school board understood the long-term implications when it approved the deal remains unclear. When California Watch first asked school board member Joe Schunk about the deal in November, he said Napa had not issued any capital appreciation bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, he called back and said he had been mistaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow board member Hurtado said that KNN had explained the deal but that “it was hard to understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re trying to have discussions about CABs versus traditional (bonds) and tax rates, occasionally it all runs together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lockyer said the inability of district leaders to grasp complex municipal finance is a problem around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen materials that went to a school board when they authorized the original issuance and there were blanks where the interest rate amount was to be determined someday,” he said. “But that’s what they saw when they agreed to a deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Johnson, a longtime school board member in Alvord, said he could not remember how the district’s $57 million deal was explained to the board when members approved it 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the thought process was that housing prices would increase,” he said. “If you’re asking me if I would do it in the future, I would not, but you can’t go back in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Jaffray charged the district $569,416 to underwrite the bond, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, Alvord’s chief business officer, lamented the lack of financial expertise that leaves many districts unqualified to navigate complex bond deals – or to do business with high-powered financial advisers and Wall Street investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re swimming with the big sharks,” said Calderon, who likened running a school district to heading up a large corporation. “These are principals and assistant superintendents of curriculum, and they’re being promoted in the role of a chief business officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Napa, Alvord had reached the $60 tax cap at the time it decided to issue its capital appreciation bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Hillcrest High School opened in 2012, Calderon said, Alvord’s other two high schools were bursting at the seams. Postponing construction on the new school would have meant holding classes in portable structures, “like a tent city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the district unable to borrow more money with traditional bonds and voters demanding a new school, district leaders began to feel the political heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of those situations that people are forced into when there’s a lot of pressure put on by either boards or superintendents, that they want this building finished and they want it today,” Calderon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cycle of borrowing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvord’s financial troubles date back at least five years, when the district got stuck in a cycle of borrowing money to pay off previous loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our whole issue is that, technically, the district is bankrupt,” said Scott Andrews, an Alvord district resident who has led opposition to the district’s borrowing practices, which according to district officials have left taxpayers $500 million in debt. “No one has been able to explain to me how they’re going to pay this back in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson brushed off criticism that the district had dug a hole for itself by spending more than it could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alvord at times has been secondary in some people’s minds in the county of Riverside,” Johnson said. “We want to make sure our students don’t go without any opportunities, not just educational but in terms of facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hence the extravagant design of Hillcrest High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Built into the side of a hill, the campus features state-of-the-art facilities, including a stadium, aquatic center and air-conditioned gym. 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The map draws from a raw database of crimes from those reports. KQED filtered for violations involving firearms, ammunition, shootings, armed robberies and homicides. These reports do not indicate whether any charges were brought for the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87372\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/guns201301141.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87372\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/guns201301141-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"(Scott Olson/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Scott Olson/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each dot on the map represents one case, although each case may consist of several crimes. 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