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"content": "\u003cp>The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut has opened a new national dialogue about guns and gun violence. In Oakland, where a recent violent crime surge has residents anxious, a group of committed demonstrators are pleading to be heard by the police, policymakers, and their own community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 544px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/24/oakland-residents-plead-pay-attention-to-killings/img_1496/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87108\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-87108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/IMG_1496-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland residents at a SAVE coalition rally chant to honor a man killed at this intersection last fall. Photo credit: Ingrid Becker\" width=\"544\" height=\"361\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland residents at a SAVE coalition rally chant to honor a man killed at this intersection last fall. (Ingrid Becker/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Somebody died here, we need to care! Somebody died here, we need to care!” was the cry rippling through a busy intersection near Oakland’s Lake Merritt on a recent chilly January morning. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/14/besieged-oakland-residents-rally-against-gun-violence/\">dozen people spread out \u003c/a>along East 18th Street and Park Boulevard, holding signs that read “Peace on the Streets.” They passed out flyers and postcards to anyone who would take them. The few drivers who bothered to roll down a window got a card imploring them to “say something about the murder of our youth, the suffering of our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the demonstrators was Teresa Butler, who helped organize this coalition of residents concerned about the city’s deadly violence after her 18- year-old godson was killed by a stray bullet. The group is affiliated with the local church \u003ca href=\"http://www.truevine-ministries.com/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">True Vine Ministries \u003c/a>and goes by the name SAVE, which stands for Soldiers Against Violence Everywhere. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">People that are being murdered now are not gang-related, they’re innocent bystanders, they’re collateral damage.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We have to be soldiers, the way these people come out every week, in cold and rain,” Butler said. “Every week, diligent–to me that’s a soldier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Saturday they gather at the site of a recent murder to chant and pray. They’ve been at it for two years, in hopes of jolting a community exhausted by violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new year has barely begun, and a half dozen more people are dead. In December, an Oakland grandmother was killed when gunfire erupted as she was walking home from a store. About two weeks later, a 15-year-old girl was fatally shot as she walked to a transit station. True Vine Ministries’ pastor Zachary Carey said with more than 550 murders in the last five years, Oakland’s residents are living in a war zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our numbers are just so out of proportion that it’s unimaginable the homicides and the depression that people are feeling in these communities,” he said. “It’s alarming that we’ve seen such silence from the community, the community leaders and the local and state politicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Oakland Crime\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/25/among-oaklands-dead-whats-a-typical-case/\" target=\"_blank\">Among Oakland’s Dead, What’s a ‘Typical’ Case?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/28/oaklands-gun-problem-11-firearm-crimes-a-day/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland’s Gun Problem: 11 Firearm Crimes a Day\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Oakland city leaders have vowed to address the recent crime surge in new ways. Amid budget cutbacks to the Oakland police force, they’ve hired former Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton as a consultant. Pastor Carey and his church have been asked to take a leadership role in lobbying for a new bill by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, AB 48, which would limit ammunition sales. But Carey said he believes nothing will change as long as people see deadly violence in Oakland as a local problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you hear about violence in America on the news, the tagline associated with it is gang-related,” Carey said. “Then if you’re living in Montclair, Piedmont, Walnut Creek then you’re like, ‘I’m not involved in a gang, that’ll never happen to me.’ But the reality is people that are being murdered now are not gang-related, they’re innocent bystanders, they’re collateral damage. So if they can be collateral damage, guess what, so can you and I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOPING TO BE HEARD\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87117\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 231px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/24/oakland-residents-plead-pay-attention-to-killings/309590_561186660577976_870021819_n/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87117\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87117\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/309590_561186660577976_870021819_n-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"SAVE coalition's call to rally in memory of Clifford Snead, who was murdered in October. Photo courtesy: SAVE.\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAVE coalition’s call to rally in memory of Clifford Snead, who was murdered in October. (Photo courtesy: SAVE.)The group gathered a few weeks ago, chanting for 27-year-old Clifford Snead, who was shot dead nearby shortly after getting off a bus in October:\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group gathered a few weeks ago to chant for 27-year-old Clifford Snead, who was shot dead nearby shortly after getting off a bus in October:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clifford died here, we need to care! Clifford died here, we need to care!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it makes a lot of difference that somebody cares,” Butler said. “We do care about your loss, we do, and we want you to rise above it. We want to make sure that you have hope, that people out here will not let your loved one’s death be gone in vain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snead’s grandmother Nolla Beasley, was at the rally. She said she was touched. “I thank ’em for this, I like this, at least it makes the community aware.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley said Snead, who was the father of a young son, had recently left a telemarketing job to try to get something better-paying in construction. “Two days after he passed, the construction job called. I couldn’t do nothing but cry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley has lived in West Oakland since the 1950s. She said her neighborhood has seen so much violence that in the last 10 years she’s taken to keeping to her home with the doors locked after 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m kind of leery just driving down the streets [wondering] who’s pulling up beside me,” she said. “It’s like I’m scared of the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the group gets going on a new chant, SAVE organizer Teresa Butler peered at a spreadsheet to see who they’ll be remembering next Saturday. “We’re already three months behind,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler said rallies for the six people who were murdered in the first few weeks of January aren’t even on her schedule yet. She said her group can’t keep up with the homicides. Still, they won’t give up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to do something,” Butler said. “We have to do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201301240850/a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the audio\u003c/a> from The California Report\u003c/p>\n\n",
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True Vine Ministries’ pastor Zachary Carey said with more than 550 murders in the last five years, Oakland’s residents are living in a war zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our numbers are just so out of proportion that it’s unimaginable the homicides and the depression that people are feeling in these communities,” he said. “It’s alarming that we’ve seen such silence from the community, the community leaders and the local and state politicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Oakland Crime\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/25/among-oaklands-dead-whats-a-typical-case/\" target=\"_blank\">Among Oakland’s Dead, What’s a ‘Typical’ Case?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/28/oaklands-gun-problem-11-firearm-crimes-a-day/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland’s Gun Problem: 11 Firearm Crimes a Day\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Oakland city leaders have vowed to address the recent crime surge in new ways. Amid budget cutbacks to the Oakland police force, they’ve hired former Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton as a consultant. Pastor Carey and his church have been asked to take a leadership role in lobbying for a new bill by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, AB 48, which would limit ammunition sales. But Carey said he believes nothing will change as long as people see deadly violence in Oakland as a local problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you hear about violence in America on the news, the tagline associated with it is gang-related,” Carey said. “Then if you’re living in Montclair, Piedmont, Walnut Creek then you’re like, ‘I’m not involved in a gang, that’ll never happen to me.’ But the reality is people that are being murdered now are not gang-related, they’re innocent bystanders, they’re collateral damage. So if they can be collateral damage, guess what, so can you and I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOPING TO BE HEARD\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87117\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 231px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/24/oakland-residents-plead-pay-attention-to-killings/309590_561186660577976_870021819_n/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87117\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87117\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/309590_561186660577976_870021819_n-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"SAVE coalition's call to rally in memory of Clifford Snead, who was murdered in October. Photo courtesy: SAVE.\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAVE coalition’s call to rally in memory of Clifford Snead, who was murdered in October. (Photo courtesy: SAVE.)The group gathered a few weeks ago, chanting for 27-year-old Clifford Snead, who was shot dead nearby shortly after getting off a bus in October:\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group gathered a few weeks ago to chant for 27-year-old Clifford Snead, who was shot dead nearby shortly after getting off a bus in October:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clifford died here, we need to care! Clifford died here, we need to care!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it makes a lot of difference that somebody cares,” Butler said. “We do care about your loss, we do, and we want you to rise above it. We want to make sure that you have hope, that people out here will not let your loved one’s death be gone in vain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snead’s grandmother Nolla Beasley, was at the rally. She said she was touched. “I thank ’em for this, I like this, at least it makes the community aware.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley said Snead, who was the father of a young son, had recently left a telemarketing job to try to get something better-paying in construction. “Two days after he passed, the construction job called. I couldn’t do nothing but cry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley has lived in West Oakland since the 1950s. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Peter Erikson,\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/despite-budget-woes-superintendents-pay-rises-18791\" target=\"_blank\"> California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California’s public school system facing economic uncertainties – even with the passage of a tax increase under Proposition 30 – some of the most financially troubled districts have been elevating the payroll for top administrators, a review of district data shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86834\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/23/california-school-districts-administrator-payrolls/classroom/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86834\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86834\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/classroom-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Stephen Pottage/Getty Images\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Stephen Pottage/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 2012-13 school year, a record 188 districts – with about 2.6 million students – have landed on a special California Department of Education list designed to sound the alarm on possible financial peril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest district, which has been buried under a cumulative $2.8 billion deficit for the past five years and has eliminated more than 12,000 teaching and staff positions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified pays Superintendent John Deasy $384,948 a year, about five times the salary of the average teacher. Deasy turned down an increase in his base pay, from $275,000 to $330,000, when he became superintendent in 2011, but accepted the raise in 2012. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2009, the district has raised its superintendent’s salary 32 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in the financial basement is the South Monterey County Joint Union High School District. Between 2010 and 2012, average teacher pay dropped 13.5 percent, from $86,703 to $75,018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after a takeover of the district in 2009, state officials awarded a $24,606 pay boost, also to be paid by the district, to top administrator John Bernard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting salary of $201,606, which remains in place for new State Administrator Daniel Moirao, is more than the base pay of Tom Torlakson, the state superintendent of public instruction, and Gov. Jerry Brown, who get $143,571 and $165,288, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Watch examination of 40 of the largest districts on the financial watch list revealed that 21 have raised their superintendents’ salaries since 2009. Some of the raises are modest – a small percentage. But others are more dramatic. Among them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Riverside Unified School District – which has made $100 million in cutbacks since 2008-09 – raised Superintendent Richard Miller’s total pay for the current school year from $267,208 to $314,963, including benefits, a boost of 18 percent. Since 2009, the district has raised its superintendent’s salary more than 14 percent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Lynwood Unified School District, which projects a 2012-13 operating deficit of $6.8 million, raised its superintendent’s base pay by about 23 percent, from $200,000 to $245,000, two years ago. Counting benefits, district chief Edward Velasquez makes $287,681.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Alvord Unified School District in Riverside has seen the superintendent’s pay and benefits increase from $192,375 in 2009-10 to $249,060 this fiscal year, a boost of nearly 30 percent. Teacher salaries range from $57,136 to $113,460.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Last year, voter approval of a tax increase under Prop. 30 relieved pressure from schools that were facing steep budget cuts. But the initiative, spearheaded by Brown, comes amid a national debate over high salaries for superintendents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2011, against heavy opposition, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie succeeded in tying the pay of superintendents to enrollment, with a maximum salary aligned with Christie’s pay – $175,000. Districts with more than 10,000 students can apply for a waiver to pay its superintendent slightly more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In these hard economic times, superintendent salaries in New Jersey are costing taxpayers more than $100 million per year,” the governor’s office said in announcing the reforms. The state estimated an initial savings of nearly $10 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York is pursuing similar legislation for school district superintendents across the board. Currently, the state caps the salaries, at $166,572, only of those who head the state’s 37 regional education agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No such efforts to cap salaries are under way in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given that taxpayers are the source of the incomes of superintendents, abnormally high six-figure salaries for these and other top administrators are indefensible,” said Lance Izumi, senior director of education studies at the conservative Pacific Research Institute and a Koret senior fellow. “Gov. Christie's salary cap is one very legitimate way to address the local salary issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendents may be likened to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, said Lawrence Picus, vice dean for faculty affairs and a professor at the USC Rossier School of Education. But superintendents, Picus added, are charged with something more important than simply raising money: They help shape the minds of children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As such, their duties are more essential than the chief of, say, Citibank, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Superintendents,” Picus said, “are horrendously underpaid” compared to those charged with running the same-sized organization in the private sector, adding that “beating them up over salaries seems unfair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compounding the problem is that California has slashed the amount of per-student funding to an average of $8,908 in the 2010-11 school year, compared with $11,764 for the rest of the nation, according to the California Budget Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California dramatically underinvests in schools,” Picus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Raises amid money troubles \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few school districts are in more financial trouble than the Inglewood Unified School District in Los Angeles County, which was seized by the state and given a $55 million loan in mid-September. It was the ninth district since 1990 to request such a bailout. The district’s elected school board lost its decision-making authority in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Competition from private, parochial and charter schools; declining enrollment; and a bleak local economy have impaired the district’s ability to stay afloat, according to the state Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team, an independent agency that has reviewed the budgets of more than 700 school districts, county offices of education, community colleges and charter schools since 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, for the 2011-12 school year, the district raised then-Superintendent Gary McHenry’s total compensation by $17,938, or 6 percent, to $295,187. Currently, the superintendent position is vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paso Robles Joint Unified School District also is among those in the worst financial state. The district was near insolvency last fiscal year and will be taken over by the state unless it takes “corrective action,” a San Luis Obispo County grand jury warned in a report last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2008 to 2011, during which a “perfect storm” was brewing, Paso Robles “ignored dwindling reserves for three straight years ” while continuing to fill nonessential positions, the grand jury said in its report. The district also discovered faulty accounting practices led to a “$1.58 million hit to last year’s bottom line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Superintendent Kathleen McNamara has received raises in base salary since 2009, from $161,813 to $182,500 for 2012. Factoring in the district’s 12 furlough days this school year reduces her salary to $172,767. McNamara has declined both 5 percent and 10 percent longevity increases based on years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to whether her salary is fair, McNamara said only others can make that determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However,” she added, “I do feel taking the eight furlough days for the past four years and 12 furlough days this year as part of my commitment to assist in balancing the district budget was very appropriate and the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some school boards that have struggled with finances have found allies in the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parent David Hadley, who has four school-aged children in Manhattan Beach schools and is president of an investment firm, Hadley Partners Inc., a good superintendent can make or break a district. He referred to the giant Los Angeles Unified to illustrate his point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because these institutions are big, employ lots of people and have a big impact on society … a good manager is the greatest bargain in the world,” Hadley said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadley estimated that in Los Angeles Unified, which has a 2012-13 budget of about $6 billion, even a “1 percent difference in how well that budget is spent … is arguably worth $60 million to the LAUSD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good superintendents “are worth their weight in gold,” Hadley said. “And bad ones are consuming valuable resources and delivering inferior educational outcomes even if you pay them zero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Haley, superintendent at the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District – which, like South Monterey, is among California’s bottom 12 districts – doesn’t find anything wrong with pay raises. Haley, who came on board in July 2011, when the salary was $177,043, chose to accept $140,000, “as I knew the fiscal state of the district.” He is now getting $147,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While $175,000 may seem like a high salary, and it is, perhaps it would give some context to see how many state employees in the Department of Corrections or working for the Legislature make far in excess of that without the same responsibility and risk,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Administrators’ pay outpaces teachers’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salaries for school administrators started to rise significantly in the flush early 2000s. At the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, for example, administrators saw their compensation soar by as much as 74.5 percent between June 2001, when teachers began a 10-day strike over pay, and July 2006, according to the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers received a 2 percent pay increase during the same period. For Melanie Driver, president of the local teachers association, the relatively meager increase for teachers compared with the substantial raise for administrators is unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things got out of whack,” Driver said. “As long as I can remember, administrators' salaries have been higher in proportion than teachers' salaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairfield-Suisun Superintendent Jacki Cottingim-Dias defended her pay of $321,266, counting a $15,850 giveback. She has donated $23,650 back to the district in the past two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is not anything like a teacher’s,” she said. “My job is more like the CEO of a corporation with 1,200 employees and a $75 to $80 million operating budget each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My basic work day is 10 hours – that’s a good day. Usually, I work between 12 and 16, 17, 18 hours on board meeting nights. I’m on call 24/7. For example, (in September) I have community events Saturdays and Sundays and am expected to be there as a community leader. And I work roughly seven and a half weeks longer than a teaching position does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driver credits Cottingim-Dias for rekindling trust between the administration and teachers. Still, it’s difficult to take back a raise once it’s been awarded, Driver said, adding that a disparity remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salary obligations leave districts with little wiggle room to devote money to other needs, a situation growing more pronounced as the state slashes the money it provides districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wages and benefits account for 86 percent of the total budget in a typical healthy school district,” said Paso Robles board trustee Field Gibson. “In our district, that had gotten to be a little over 91 percent. But a school district is not in the position to materially reduce that level of expenditure without the agreement of the unions and labor bargaining units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher salaries mean higher retirement contributions and pensions, adding additional financial burdens for districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts also have made big payouts when superintendents are changed. Walnut Valley Unified School District in Los Angeles County paid a total of $474,163 for its superintendents in 2010-11, buying out the contract of Cyndy Simms for $342,944 and giving incoming chief Dean Conklin $131,219.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Izumi, with the Pacific Research Institute, noted that a recent Sacramento County grand jury report found that the Sacramento city school district had an annual budget of $366 million and an unfunded retiree health benefit obligation of $560 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As bad as the salaries of top administrators might be, the real threat to district solvency is the unfunded liability that many of them face due to unfunded health benefits for retired teachers,” Izumi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Teachers’ Retirement System has a long-term unfunded liability of about $64.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State administrators’ salaries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While school district boards typically set salary levels, the state takes that over when it assumes control, at least for the superintendent’s salary. This was the case at South Monterey County when Bernard, the state administrator, came aboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernard soon concluded that the district, which had discovered a huge accounting error that left it with a deficit of $4.5 million, was dysfunctional and that the task of restoring its fiscal health amounted to a “daunting task,” according to Department of Education spokeswoman Pam Slater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state later instructed the district to increase Bernard’s pay from about $177,000 to $201,606. “Once the severity of the problems came to light,” Slater said, the state and Bernard “believed the additional compensation was appropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the state Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team found that the district had begun struggling financially as far back as 2002, partly due to “inconsistent leadership” and “ineffective governance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state continues to monitor such situations closely, said Paul Hefner, communications director of the Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if a district deep in red ink should be forced to pay a salary boost, Hefner said: “The severity of the situation made additional compensation necessary and appropriateand, despite the costs involved, created the best chance for the district to put itself back on solid financial ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Foster, president of the South Monterey board of education, did not respond to email inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New administrator Moirao said the state administrator has a tough job, requiring that he or she go it alone, often without support from the district board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They must make decisions,” he said, “that are not very popular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Watch is part of the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, the country’s largest investigative reporting team. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2009, the district has raised its superintendent’s salary 32 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in the financial basement is the South Monterey County Joint Union High School District. Between 2010 and 2012, average teacher pay dropped 13.5 percent, from $86,703 to $75,018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after a takeover of the district in 2009, state officials awarded a $24,606 pay boost, also to be paid by the district, to top administrator John Bernard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting salary of $201,606, which remains in place for new State Administrator Daniel Moirao, is more than the base pay of Tom Torlakson, the state superintendent of public instruction, and Gov. Jerry Brown, who get $143,571 and $165,288, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Watch examination of 40 of the largest districts on the financial watch list revealed that 21 have raised their superintendents’ salaries since 2009. Some of the raises are modest – a small percentage. But others are more dramatic. Among them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Riverside Unified School District – which has made $100 million in cutbacks since 2008-09 – raised Superintendent Richard Miller’s total pay for the current school year from $267,208 to $314,963, including benefits, a boost of 18 percent. Since 2009, the district has raised its superintendent’s salary more than 14 percent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Lynwood Unified School District, which projects a 2012-13 operating deficit of $6.8 million, raised its superintendent’s base pay by about 23 percent, from $200,000 to $245,000, two years ago. Counting benefits, district chief Edward Velasquez makes $287,681.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Alvord Unified School District in Riverside has seen the superintendent’s pay and benefits increase from $192,375 in 2009-10 to $249,060 this fiscal year, a boost of nearly 30 percent. Teacher salaries range from $57,136 to $113,460.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Last year, voter approval of a tax increase under Prop. 30 relieved pressure from schools that were facing steep budget cuts. But the initiative, spearheaded by Brown, comes amid a national debate over high salaries for superintendents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2011, against heavy opposition, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie succeeded in tying the pay of superintendents to enrollment, with a maximum salary aligned with Christie’s pay – $175,000. Districts with more than 10,000 students can apply for a waiver to pay its superintendent slightly more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In these hard economic times, superintendent salaries in New Jersey are costing taxpayers more than $100 million per year,” the governor’s office said in announcing the reforms. The state estimated an initial savings of nearly $10 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York is pursuing similar legislation for school district superintendents across the board. Currently, the state caps the salaries, at $166,572, only of those who head the state’s 37 regional education agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No such efforts to cap salaries are under way in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given that taxpayers are the source of the incomes of superintendents, abnormally high six-figure salaries for these and other top administrators are indefensible,” said Lance Izumi, senior director of education studies at the conservative Pacific Research Institute and a Koret senior fellow. “Gov. Christie's salary cap is one very legitimate way to address the local salary issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendents may be likened to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, said Lawrence Picus, vice dean for faculty affairs and a professor at the USC Rossier School of Education. But superintendents, Picus added, are charged with something more important than simply raising money: They help shape the minds of children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As such, their duties are more essential than the chief of, say, Citibank, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Superintendents,” Picus said, “are horrendously underpaid” compared to those charged with running the same-sized organization in the private sector, adding that “beating them up over salaries seems unfair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compounding the problem is that California has slashed the amount of per-student funding to an average of $8,908 in the 2010-11 school year, compared with $11,764 for the rest of the nation, according to the California Budget Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California dramatically underinvests in schools,” Picus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Raises amid money troubles \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few school districts are in more financial trouble than the Inglewood Unified School District in Los Angeles County, which was seized by the state and given a $55 million loan in mid-September. It was the ninth district since 1990 to request such a bailout. The district’s elected school board lost its decision-making authority in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Competition from private, parochial and charter schools; declining enrollment; and a bleak local economy have impaired the district’s ability to stay afloat, according to the state Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team, an independent agency that has reviewed the budgets of more than 700 school districts, county offices of education, community colleges and charter schools since 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, for the 2011-12 school year, the district raised then-Superintendent Gary McHenry’s total compensation by $17,938, or 6 percent, to $295,187. Currently, the superintendent position is vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paso Robles Joint Unified School District also is among those in the worst financial state. The district was near insolvency last fiscal year and will be taken over by the state unless it takes “corrective action,” a San Luis Obispo County grand jury warned in a report last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2008 to 2011, during which a “perfect storm” was brewing, Paso Robles “ignored dwindling reserves for three straight years ” while continuing to fill nonessential positions, the grand jury said in its report. The district also discovered faulty accounting practices led to a “$1.58 million hit to last year’s bottom line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Superintendent Kathleen McNamara has received raises in base salary since 2009, from $161,813 to $182,500 for 2012. Factoring in the district’s 12 furlough days this school year reduces her salary to $172,767. McNamara has declined both 5 percent and 10 percent longevity increases based on years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to whether her salary is fair, McNamara said only others can make that determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However,” she added, “I do feel taking the eight furlough days for the past four years and 12 furlough days this year as part of my commitment to assist in balancing the district budget was very appropriate and the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some school boards that have struggled with finances have found allies in the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parent David Hadley, who has four school-aged children in Manhattan Beach schools and is president of an investment firm, Hadley Partners Inc., a good superintendent can make or break a district. He referred to the giant Los Angeles Unified to illustrate his point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because these institutions are big, employ lots of people and have a big impact on society … a good manager is the greatest bargain in the world,” Hadley said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadley estimated that in Los Angeles Unified, which has a 2012-13 budget of about $6 billion, even a “1 percent difference in how well that budget is spent … is arguably worth $60 million to the LAUSD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good superintendents “are worth their weight in gold,” Hadley said. “And bad ones are consuming valuable resources and delivering inferior educational outcomes even if you pay them zero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Haley, superintendent at the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District – which, like South Monterey, is among California’s bottom 12 districts – doesn’t find anything wrong with pay raises. Haley, who came on board in July 2011, when the salary was $177,043, chose to accept $140,000, “as I knew the fiscal state of the district.” He is now getting $147,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While $175,000 may seem like a high salary, and it is, perhaps it would give some context to see how many state employees in the Department of Corrections or working for the Legislature make far in excess of that without the same responsibility and risk,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Administrators’ pay outpaces teachers’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salaries for school administrators started to rise significantly in the flush early 2000s. At the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, for example, administrators saw their compensation soar by as much as 74.5 percent between June 2001, when teachers began a 10-day strike over pay, and July 2006, according to the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers received a 2 percent pay increase during the same period. For Melanie Driver, president of the local teachers association, the relatively meager increase for teachers compared with the substantial raise for administrators is unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things got out of whack,” Driver said. “As long as I can remember, administrators' salaries have been higher in proportion than teachers' salaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairfield-Suisun Superintendent Jacki Cottingim-Dias defended her pay of $321,266, counting a $15,850 giveback. She has donated $23,650 back to the district in the past two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is not anything like a teacher’s,” she said. “My job is more like the CEO of a corporation with 1,200 employees and a $75 to $80 million operating budget each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My basic work day is 10 hours – that’s a good day. Usually, I work between 12 and 16, 17, 18 hours on board meeting nights. I’m on call 24/7. For example, (in September) I have community events Saturdays and Sundays and am expected to be there as a community leader. And I work roughly seven and a half weeks longer than a teaching position does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driver credits Cottingim-Dias for rekindling trust between the administration and teachers. Still, it’s difficult to take back a raise once it’s been awarded, Driver said, adding that a disparity remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salary obligations leave districts with little wiggle room to devote money to other needs, a situation growing more pronounced as the state slashes the money it provides districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wages and benefits account for 86 percent of the total budget in a typical healthy school district,” said Paso Robles board trustee Field Gibson. “In our district, that had gotten to be a little over 91 percent. But a school district is not in the position to materially reduce that level of expenditure without the agreement of the unions and labor bargaining units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher salaries mean higher retirement contributions and pensions, adding additional financial burdens for districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts also have made big payouts when superintendents are changed. Walnut Valley Unified School District in Los Angeles County paid a total of $474,163 for its superintendents in 2010-11, buying out the contract of Cyndy Simms for $342,944 and giving incoming chief Dean Conklin $131,219.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Izumi, with the Pacific Research Institute, noted that a recent Sacramento County grand jury report found that the Sacramento city school district had an annual budget of $366 million and an unfunded retiree health benefit obligation of $560 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As bad as the salaries of top administrators might be, the real threat to district solvency is the unfunded liability that many of them face due to unfunded health benefits for retired teachers,” Izumi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Teachers’ Retirement System has a long-term unfunded liability of about $64.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State administrators’ salaries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While school district boards typically set salary levels, the state takes that over when it assumes control, at least for the superintendent’s salary. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_82475\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 211px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/university-of-california-rebrands-itself-with-surfer-charm.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-82475\" title=\"university-of-california-rebrands-itself-with-surfer-charm\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/university-of-california-rebrands-itself-with-surfer-charm-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC's short-lived monogram\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In today's world, the success of a design can be influenced by three separate yet perhaps equally important groups: the designers who create visual brands; the online commenters who criticize them; and the reporters who write about the controversies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or rather, this is one story. And it opens with the deceased:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California's controversial monogram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, UC officials \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/14/uc-suspends-use-of-new-logo/\">suspended\u003c/a> use of a new, streamlined monogram the school had created after it became the subject of intense criticism. Many thought the image was not a fitting replacement for the stately university seal, even though the university said the two were meant to coexist. Other common complaints were that the monogram was too corporate-looking, incomprehensible, and just plain ugly. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Whole-Foods-Reviews-E422.htm\" target=\"_blank\">online petition\u003c/a> demanding that the university not use the monogram attracted more than 50,000 supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But who really killed the monogram? What created the controversy around the design, and why did the university feel it needed to respond? In the past few weeks a handful of analysts, pundits and reporters have looked back on the controversy and weighed in. The Jan. 1 episode of the KALW-produced, San Francisco-based design podcast \"\u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com/roman-mars/99-invisible-69-uc-logo\">99% Invisible\u003c/a>\" includes interviews from December with UC Creative Director Vanessa Correa and Christopher Simmons, a local designer and educator who has \u003ca href=\"http://www.aiga.org/the-uc-logo-controversy/\">blogged\u003c/a> about the dispute. (Simmons' blog post was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/That-odd-UC-logo-the-aftermath-4193190.php\">criticized\u003c/a> last week by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll.) \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's who they say are responsible for the demise of the monogram...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. It was the media.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86015\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/uc_seal.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86015 \" title=\"uc_seal\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/uc_seal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The University of California seal.\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of California seal.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simmons notes in \"99% Invisible\" that news outlets often displayed the monogram next to the UC seal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It sort of strongly implied, I think to most people, and reasonably so, that the seal was the before and the monogram was the after,\" Simmons said. \"It sort of framed the conversation completely wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monogram was not intended to replace the seal, which UC Marketing and Communications Director Jason Simon described as signifying \"the prestige and tradition of the university itself.\" The seal was to continue to appear on UC diplomas and correspondence, while the monogram was to be used in marketing and online recruitment campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we need to have the full weight and gravitas of the university behind a budget book or behind a proclamation by the president, or whatever that is, that seal gives us that gravitas,\" Correa said in \"99% Invisible.\" \"But we don't always want that gravitas. That gravitas has a place in communication. It's like having a tuxedo and being forced to wear it every single day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many believed that UC was throwing the tuxedo in the trash, and that inflamed opinions online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The long-standing UC seal has integrity and meaning and represents a philosophy and a tradition of excellence, the unwavering pursuit of new knowledge, creativity and enlightenment for the betterment of humanity. The proposed new 'seal' is not a seal,\" wrote Santa Maria resident Leslie Campbell in a comment on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NPR/posts/132455383578388\">NPR Facebook page\u003c/a>. \"It represents nothing, not even good design/art.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his blog post, Simmons also criticized the media and others for not including more context in their descriptions of the monogram and its creation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What challenges is the UC system facing? What is their long-term plan? What are other institutions doing? What is the assessment of the current identity? What audiences are they trying to reach? These are critical considerations that no doubt precipitated and drove the design process. But throughout this controversy, no one wrote about the strategy behind the new identity. In fact, no one wrote about the identity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Jon Carroll in his Chronicle column took issue with Simmons' complaints...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>First, a word of advice: The phrase \"no one wrote about\" is, in this Internet age, inevitably untrue. Somebody writes on every side of every issue... This very newspaper, for instance, in its news story on the issue, quoted university officials with regard to what the thinking was behind the new branding campaign. So did other places. Perhaps the story was not covered the way Simmons would have covered it, but the issues he brings up were discussed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Simmons also added that UC officials may have helped create some of the confusion surrounding the monogram. Which brings us to the second suspect in the monogram's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. It was the UC designers and university officials.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC \u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/53530934\">video\u003c/a> created to explain the inspiration for the monogram shows a hand wiping away most of the seal. The few elements of the seal that remain are used to create the new monogram. This may have helped turn many in the public against the monogram, Simmons writes \u003ca href=\"http://www.aiga.org/the-uc-logo-controversy/\">in his blog post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Regardless of intent, interpreting this symbolism as sweeping away the old in favor of the new is a fair inference, especially absent the context of the more explicit guidelines. Anyone already incensed by the perceived abandonment of the traditional seal would only have his or her fears confirmed by watching this video.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/53530934\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC outlets also may have been viewed as dismissive when responding to complaints. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/universityofcalifornia/posts/10151133754456923\">post\u003c/a> about the controversy over the monogram on the UC Facebook page states, in part, \"It's not replacing anything. There wasn't a logo before, and the UC seal isn't going anywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \"99% Invisible\" episode, reporter Cyrus Farivar takes one of his concerns about the monogram design to UC's Correa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first time I saw the logo I immediately thought of a computer icon of something loading,\" Farivar said. Correa said the color choices may have not been the best. \"This particular color combination is one that really pops out that loader bar reference in a way that is, again, I mean, very unfortunate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Correa's comments in the episode lay the blame on the third suspect in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. It was those who criticized the monogram online.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was the use of the rhetoric of democracy for the tyranny of the minority,\" Correa said, when describing the controversy over the monogram. \"We live in a time when everyone feels that their opinion matters. And the reality is that not all opinions are equal... When it comes to, for example, physics, my voice is not the same as Stephen Hawking's, nor should it be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Aesthetics is a very easy target because no one understands how aesthetics works and they feel that subjective opinion is the rule of the day,\" she noted. \"I would hope that people think about design in the way that one should be thinking about design rather than assuming that purely subjective response to one thing badly posted on an Internet platform is enough to base an entire judgement on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We wanted to follow up on the podcast with Correa and contacted the university. A spokesperson said nothing has changed since it issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28817\">statement\u003c/a> by Daniel M. Dooley, the university's senior vice president for external relations, announcing that use of the logo had been suspended...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In due course, we will re-evaluate this element of the visual identity system. My hope going forward is that the passion exhibited for the traditional seal can be redirected toward a broader advocacy for the University of California. For it is only with robust support from the citizens of this state that the university will be able to serve future generations of Californians as well as it has those of the past.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the \"99% Invisible\" interview, Correa said she felt some of the frustration expressed at the monogram had nothing to do with the design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has become a very simple way to express a lot of other frustrations about the university,\" she said. \"I mean, I've received that from a lot of different people. They are frustrated because they feel the administration is inaccessible. They're frustrated because their tuition is going up... they're frustrated by the privatization of the university.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correa also said the monogram was never given a chance to grow as a brand and succeed. It was killed before it could take on any real significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You build the meaning,\" she said. \"That's what building a brand is ... The same thing [goes for the logo for] Apple. Can you imagine, I mean, it's an apple. This is a computer company, why do you have an apple? Is this a grocery store?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The meaning is not baked in,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can hear more of Correa's comments in the \"\u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com/roman-mars/99-invisible-69-uc-logo\" target=\"_blank\">99% Invisible\u003c/a>\" episode below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F73204012&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true&color=000000\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Now you've read and heard the evidence. Who do you think is responsible for the demise of the UC logo? Leave a comment at the bottom of this post and let us know what you think and why.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Simmons' blog post was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/That-odd-UC-logo-the-aftermath-4193190.php\">criticized\u003c/a> last week by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll.) \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's who they say are responsible for the demise of the monogram...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. It was the media.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86015\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/uc_seal.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86015 \" title=\"uc_seal\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/uc_seal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The University of California seal.\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of California seal.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simmons notes in \"99% Invisible\" that news outlets often displayed the monogram next to the UC seal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It sort of strongly implied, I think to most people, and reasonably so, that the seal was the before and the monogram was the after,\" Simmons said. \"It sort of framed the conversation completely wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monogram was not intended to replace the seal, which UC Marketing and Communications Director Jason Simon described as signifying \"the prestige and tradition of the university itself.\" The seal was to continue to appear on UC diplomas and correspondence, while the monogram was to be used in marketing and online recruitment campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we need to have the full weight and gravitas of the university behind a budget book or behind a proclamation by the president, or whatever that is, that seal gives us that gravitas,\" Correa said in \"99% Invisible.\" \"But we don't always want that gravitas. That gravitas has a place in communication. It's like having a tuxedo and being forced to wear it every single day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many believed that UC was throwing the tuxedo in the trash, and that inflamed opinions online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The long-standing UC seal has integrity and meaning and represents a philosophy and a tradition of excellence, the unwavering pursuit of new knowledge, creativity and enlightenment for the betterment of humanity. The proposed new 'seal' is not a seal,\" wrote Santa Maria resident Leslie Campbell in a comment on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NPR/posts/132455383578388\">NPR Facebook page\u003c/a>. \"It represents nothing, not even good design/art.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his blog post, Simmons also criticized the media and others for not including more context in their descriptions of the monogram and its creation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What challenges is the UC system facing? What is their long-term plan? What are other institutions doing? What is the assessment of the current identity? What audiences are they trying to reach? These are critical considerations that no doubt precipitated and drove the design process. But throughout this controversy, no one wrote about the strategy behind the new identity. In fact, no one wrote about the identity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Jon Carroll in his Chronicle column took issue with Simmons' complaints...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>First, a word of advice: The phrase \"no one wrote about\" is, in this Internet age, inevitably untrue. Somebody writes on every side of every issue... This very newspaper, for instance, in its news story on the issue, quoted university officials with regard to what the thinking was behind the new branding campaign. So did other places. Perhaps the story was not covered the way Simmons would have covered it, but the issues he brings up were discussed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Simmons also added that UC officials may have helped create some of the confusion surrounding the monogram. Which brings us to the second suspect in the monogram's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. It was the UC designers and university officials.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC \u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/53530934\">video\u003c/a> created to explain the inspiration for the monogram shows a hand wiping away most of the seal. The few elements of the seal that remain are used to create the new monogram. This may have helped turn many in the public against the monogram, Simmons writes \u003ca href=\"http://www.aiga.org/the-uc-logo-controversy/\">in his blog post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Regardless of intent, interpreting this symbolism as sweeping away the old in favor of the new is a fair inference, especially absent the context of the more explicit guidelines. Anyone already incensed by the perceived abandonment of the traditional seal would only have his or her fears confirmed by watching this video.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/53530934\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC outlets also may have been viewed as dismissive when responding to complaints. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/universityofcalifornia/posts/10151133754456923\">post\u003c/a> about the controversy over the monogram on the UC Facebook page states, in part, \"It's not replacing anything. There wasn't a logo before, and the UC seal isn't going anywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \"99% Invisible\" episode, reporter Cyrus Farivar takes one of his concerns about the monogram design to UC's Correa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first time I saw the logo I immediately thought of a computer icon of something loading,\" Farivar said. Correa said the color choices may have not been the best. \"This particular color combination is one that really pops out that loader bar reference in a way that is, again, I mean, very unfortunate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Correa's comments in the episode lay the blame on the third suspect in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. It was those who criticized the monogram online.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was the use of the rhetoric of democracy for the tyranny of the minority,\" Correa said, when describing the controversy over the monogram. \"We live in a time when everyone feels that their opinion matters. And the reality is that not all opinions are equal... When it comes to, for example, physics, my voice is not the same as Stephen Hawking's, nor should it be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Aesthetics is a very easy target because no one understands how aesthetics works and they feel that subjective opinion is the rule of the day,\" she noted. \"I would hope that people think about design in the way that one should be thinking about design rather than assuming that purely subjective response to one thing badly posted on an Internet platform is enough to base an entire judgement on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We wanted to follow up on the podcast with Correa and contacted the university. A spokesperson said nothing has changed since it issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28817\">statement\u003c/a> by Daniel M. Dooley, the university's senior vice president for external relations, announcing that use of the logo had been suspended...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In due course, we will re-evaluate this element of the visual identity system. My hope going forward is that the passion exhibited for the traditional seal can be redirected toward a broader advocacy for the University of California. For it is only with robust support from the citizens of this state that the university will be able to serve future generations of Californians as well as it has those of the past.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the \"99% Invisible\" interview, Correa said she felt some of the frustration expressed at the monogram had nothing to do with the design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has become a very simple way to express a lot of other frustrations about the university,\" she said. \"I mean, I've received that from a lot of different people. They are frustrated because they feel the administration is inaccessible. They're frustrated because their tuition is going up... they're frustrated by the privatization of the university.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correa also said the monogram was never given a chance to grow as a brand and succeed. It was killed before it could take on any real significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You build the meaning,\" she said. \"That's what building a brand is ... 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"content": "\u003cp>Citing health concerns, University of California President Mark Yudof on Friday announced he is leaving the job at the end of the academic year and will return to teaching law on the Berkeley campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86317\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 199px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Mark-Yudof-courtesy-of-UC.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86317\" title=\"Mark Yudof courtesy of UC\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Mark-Yudof-courtesy-of-UC-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Yudof (University of California)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yudof took the helm of the 10-campus system on June 16, 2008, as it faced budget cutbacks triggered by the nationwide recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He campaigned vigorously to restore the budget, but came under criticism from student groups for tuition hikes. One of his responses was the \u003ca href=\"http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/financial-aid/grants/blue-gold/index.html\">Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan \u003c/a>that guarantees student can attend the system for free if their families earn less than $80,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also under his tenure the university launched \u003ca href=\"http://youcan.universityofcalifornia.edu/\">Project You Can\u003c/a>, a fundraising campaign in which the money goes directly to students. In June 2012, the project announced it was half way to its goal of raising $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University said it would form a search committee to replace Yudof, who earns an annual base salary of $591,084.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time of his appointment in 2008, the salary was below the median salary ($644,900) of leaders of similar public and private universities used by the California Postsecondary Education Commission for comparison purposes,\" according to a university news release.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Deborah Solomon of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27fob-q4-t.html?_r=0\">The New York Times \u003c/a>asked if university presidents shouldn't make less than the $400,000 a year earned by the president of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will you throw in Air Force One and the White House?\" Yudoff responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yudoof issued the following statement about his retirement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">I have decided to bring to a close my tenure as President of the University of California, effective August 31, 2013. While the decision is my own, the moment comes with a mixture of emotions. For a transplant from Texas, by way of Philadelphia and Minnesota, every day at the University of California has brought new wonders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">UC remains the premier public university system in the world, and I was both honored and humbled to serve as its president for what has been nearly five years now. I will miss my daily interactions across the system with so many dedicated, capable, and intellectually stimulating people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">Over the past few months, however, and after careful consultation with my family, it has become clear to me that the time has come for me to step away and return to the teaching of law on the Berkeley campus. The prior 18 months brought a spate of taxing health issues. Though these challenges have been largely overcome, I feel it is time to make a change in my professional lifestyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">Beyond personal considerations, this also appears to be an apt time for the University to bring in fresh leadership. When I arrived in 2008, the economy had begun to unravel and state coffers were tumbling deep into the red. With its budget slashed, the University was presented with one of the most severe challenges in its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">Now, it appears the storm has been weathered. We are not fully in the clear, but we are much closer than we were even a few months ago. I look forward to working closely in the months ahead with Governor Brown, Assembly Speaker Perez, Senate President Pro Tem Steinberg and other state leaders to ensure that the University is positioned to continue on this forward course, which ultimately will benefit all Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">It is important to note that we – members of the entire UC community—have made it through this rough passage with our fundamental attributes intact. We have preserved excellence in our academics, research and health care. We have kept our doors open to all worthy students, regardless of family income levels, embracing the Blue and Gold financial aid program for low and middle income students and raising more than $671 million through the Project You Can scholarship program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">Many, many people contributed to this remarkable achievement: employees, including tenured faculty, who accepted without complaint a furlough program that cut into their paychecks; students and their families, who endured rising tuition rates; administrators and staff, who worked with great vigor and creativity to carve out savings through improved efficiencies, and California voters, who finally agreed that the cuts needed to stop and brought relief last November by approving Proposition 30. I applaud and am thankful for all of these contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">I also would be remiss not to express my gratitude to the Regents. Throughout, they have provided the leadership and unwavering support needed for the University to face down this crisis. I was privileged to serve under three gifted Board chairs: Richard Blum, Russell Gould, and Sherry Lansing. I will leave it to others to judge what difference my leadership made, if any, but I will say that I entered each day with a laser focus on preserving this great public treasure, not just in the present day, but for generations of Californians to come. And in the end, what matters most is what still remains: a vibrant public university system, the envy of the world, providing California with the beacon of hope and steady infusion of new thinking that are necessary for any society to flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yudof's official biography:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mark G. Yudof was named the 19th president of the University of California on March 27, 2008, and took office June 16, 2008. He leads a university system with 10 campuses, five medical centers, three affiliated national laboratories, and a statewide agriculture and natural resources program. The UC system has 220,000 students, 180,000 faculty and staff, more than 1.6 million alumni, and an $18 billion annual operating budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yudof served as chancellor of the University of Texas System from August 2002 to May 2008 and as president of the four-campus University of Minnesota from 1997 to 2002. Before that, he was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Texas at Austin for 26 years, serving as dean of the law school from 1984 to 1994 and as the university's executive vice president and provost from 1994 to 1997. His career at UT Austin began in 1971, when he was appointed an assistant professor of law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While on the UT law faculty, he also was a visiting professor at the law schools at the University of Michigan and UC Berkeley, and conducted research as a visiting fellow at the University of Warwick in England.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yudof is a distinguished authority on constitutional law, freedom of expression and education law who has written and edited numerous publications on free speech and gender discrimination, including \"Educational Policy and the Law.\" He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Law Institute. He served a two-year term on the U.S. Department of Education's Advisory Board of the National Institute for Literacy and has served on the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Philadelphia native, he earned an LL.B. degree (cum laude) in 1968 from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned a B.A. degree (cum laude with honors in political science) in 1965. He was awarded the Alumni Award of Merit (2001) and the prestigious James Wilson Award (2004) by the University of Pennsylvania Law School for his many years of service and contributions to the legal community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife, Judy, is the immediate past international president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. She also serves on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council and the international board of Hillel. In 1993, Mark and Judy Yudof were co-recipients of the Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:40 p.m.\u003c/strong> In the wake of the Newtown massacre, a shooting incident at a Kern Co. high school this morning is adding to already jangled nerves about gun violence in schools. A 16-year-old student is in custody for allegedly shooting a classmate and firing but missing at another student. Details from the Kern County Sheriff's Department press conference...\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The alleged shooter was a 16-year-old student at the school, Taft Union High School in Kern Co., who did not show up to science class this morning. But in the middle of that class, he appeared with a 12-gauge shotgun and fired at a fellow student, also 16, who is now in critical but stable condition. Another student is being checked for hearing damage sustained from the sound of the gunshot. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The shooter then named another student he intended to shoot, fired at that student and missed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It's believed that two to four shots total were fired. The suspect had about 20 rounds of ammunition on him.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After the initial shots, the class teacher and the campus supervisor who had arrived engaged the suspect in conversation, allowing for the class to evacuate. The suspect then put the shotgun down and was taken into custody. At some point, the suspect told the teacher he didn't want to shoot him. From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x1055276200/Taft-High-site-of-shooting-Thursday\" target=\"_blank\">Bakersfield Californian\u003c/a>: \"The suspect pointed the gun in several directions while the teacher and campus supervisor talked to him.\" Congressman Kevin McCarthy, who was at the press conference, said \"I want to commend the teacher. I think he saved many lives today.\" \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x1055276200/Taft-High-site-of-shooting-Thursday\">Bakersfield Californian\u003c/a>: \"Family identified that teacher, who officials said suffered a pellet gun wound to the head, as Ryan Heber. His father, David Heber, said he had heard rumors of a shooting at the school but wasn't initially worried that his son was a target. \"His students like him a whole bunch,\" said Heber, 70. \"He's not the kind of teacher a student would try to hurt. He's definitely someone who could talk a kid down in an emergency.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Someone saw the student enter the school campus with the gun had called 911, allowing for law enforcement to quickly arrive on the scene.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>From the Sheriff's Department: \"We have not confirmed that [bullying] was an issue at this point. But obviously something occurred for this student to come in with a shotgun... There had been a dialogue that’s critical between the victim and suspect before this morning.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There is normally an armed Taft Police Dept officer on campus who was not at school today.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reporters kept asking about an alleged \"hit list\" that the suspect had been suspended for last year. Authorities could not confirm that.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Congressman McCarthy was asked whether he thought this would add fuel to a gun control push, but he said all the facts needed to be determined first.\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>More from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x1055276200/Taft-High-site-of-shooting-Thursday\" target=\"_blank\">Bakersfield Californian\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Map of the area...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=taft+union+high+school&fb=1&gl=us&hq=taft+union+high+school&cid=0,0,5449479079195448321&t=m&ll=35.146863,-119.454346&spn=3.143953,4.669189&z=7&iwloc=A&output=embed\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\u003ca href=\"https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=taft+union+high+school&fb=1&gl=us&hq=taft+union+high+school&cid=0,0,5449479079195448321&t=m&ll=35.146863,-119.454346&spn=3.143953,4.669189&z=7&iwloc=A&source=embed\">View Larger Map\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:15 p.m\u003c/strong>. 23ABC Bakersfield is reporting that one of the shooting victims was a student and one a teacher. A suspect is in custody as is the weapon allegedly used -- a shotgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An update by the Sheriff's Department is now scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Watch it here...\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.turnto23.com/video/live_video\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Live coverage from 23ABC News\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two people were shot in \u003ca href=\"http://www.taft.k12.ca.us/site/default.aspx?PageID=1\" target=\"_blank\">Taft Union High School\u003c/a> in Kern County around 9 a.m. Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.turnto23.com/video/live_video\" target=\"_blank\">Live coverage\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (23ABC News)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kern County sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt says a suspect is in custody and is believed to be a student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local station\u003ca href=\"http://www.kget.com/news/local/story/10-15-a-m-UPDATE-Victim-airlifted-from-Taft-High/kRmx9keo9Eej_M1cMh7ASg.cspx\" target=\"_blank\"> KGET reports\u003c/a> that Kern County Fire officials say one victim received only minor injuries, and refused treatment, and the other was airlifted with unknown injuries. The Associated Press confirms that a wounded student was flown to a hospital in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/embed/iframe?aspect_ratio=3x2&auto_next=1&auto_start=0&page_count=5&pf_id=9200&pl_id=21515&rel=3&show_title=0&tags=9597&va_id=3897531&volume=8&windows=1\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" height=\"330\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several news organizations are \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2013/01/10/breaking_shooting_at_california_high_school/\" target=\"_blank\">reporting\u003c/a> that the school is not yet secure. Police are going room-to-room and SWAT teams are evacuating students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruitt says it's believed a shotgun was used in the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taft is a community of about 7,000 some 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles. \u003ca href=\"http://projects.latimes.com/schools/school/taft/taft-union-high/\" target=\"_blank\">Taft Union High School\u003c/a> had 935 students enrolled in 2010, and 64 faculty members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Huffington Post reporter says that the high school does have a deputy sheriff monitoring the campus normally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/samsteinhp/status/289440272088199169\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the Channel 23 report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Officials have said that at least two people were shot at Taft High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting happened at about 9 a.m., and reports indicate that at least two people were shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooter was taken into custody at about 9:20 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>23ABC news received phone calls from people inside the school who were hiding in closets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County Sheriff's Department officials are going room-by-room to secure the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports indicate that the first person shot was airlifted to Kern Medical Center and the second person denied medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents need to pickup their students at the football field.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Among those that will now press Duncan to move forward with the idea are the eight unified districts that have come together under the umbrella of the nonprofit California Office to Reform Education (CORE). Its members include Long Beach, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento City and Fresno. Fresno Unified Superintendent Michael Hanson said last night, “We’re hopeful the Department of Education will consider NCLB waivers at the district level through consortiums like CORE.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/forum-logo.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-62589\" title=\"forum-logo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/forum-logo-300x57.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"57\">\u003c/a>On the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum\u003c/a> radio show, we’re constantly analyzing our performance. After each day’s show we gather and discuss what worked, what didn’t, and what \u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/KQEDForum/why-we-did-a-show-on-petraeus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listener feedback we received\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an end-of-the-year exercise, we decided to take some time to look back in a less critical way, recalling shows that we’re especially proud of or left an impression on us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the team’s picks…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Krasny, Host \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201203281000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In My Experience: Incarceration\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“I was affected by the show we did under the rubric of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.publicinsightnetwork.org/form/kqed/5df07693f4fa/have-you-served-time-in-prison-if-so-kqed-would-like-to-hear-about-your-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In My Experience\u003c/a>” on incarceration. A compelling story was told by one of the guests about the struggles he had faced as an African American with a prison record. What struck me was his willingness to accept responsibility for the bar brawl that got him sent away to be incarcerated and the pain and hurt he felt over the assumptions others made about him being a criminal, even a thief or a pedophile, simply because he had been incarcerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201203221000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Dropout Crisis\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“I felt a good deal of impact with the series we did from \u003ca href=\"http://www.castlemontknights.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Castlemont High School\u003c/a> on the dropout crisis — realizing in a singular and unique way the kinds of challenges many of these impressive young people face simply trying to stay in school and complete their high school education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201204101000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shakespeare’s Enduring Relevance\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Finally — let me throw in an hour we did on Shakespeare and why his work continues to matter across cultures, which was great fun and especially meaningful to a one-time would-be Elizabethan scholar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>And one from 2011…\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"A%20Step%20Closer%20to%20Curing%20Alzheimer's?\">A Step Closer to Curing Alzheimer’s?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We did a show on Alzheimer’s that included \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2012/08/17/developer-rosenberg-steps-up-his.html?page=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Douglas Rosenberg\u003c/a>, who had pledged millions of dollars to Alzheimer’s research, specifically to the\u003ca href=\"http://www.buckinstitute.org/history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Buck Institute for Research on Aging\u003c/a>. He challenged others listening to pledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone high up at Bechtel heard the broadcast and pledged a million dollars. It revealed to me the kind of extraordinary and unexpected impact that radio can have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Iverson, Friday Host\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201208081000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco’s New Archbishop\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“I was raised Catholic and how you contend with church teachings you find challenging has personal resonance for me. But beyond that, it did what I hope a good interview does. I think I asked what needed to be asked and I think the Archbishop did his best to answer. It was a tough but fair, interview. And interestingly, the Archbishop felt the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Zoll, Senior Producer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201206191000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco in The Movies\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of memorable shows in 2012, many on critical social and political issues, but my pick is a lighter one that I had a blast working on. With its exhibit “San Francisco and the Movies,” the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfhistory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Museum and Historical Society\u003c/a> gave us a good excuse to look at the city’s role in cinema history. How often do you get to play a clip of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039302/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dark Passage\u003c/a> and then talk about the Moderne-style \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Malloch-building-suave-delight-on-storied-hill-3295785.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malloch Building\u003c/a> on Montgomery Street, which served as the location for Bacall’s apartment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three guests were excellent, as I knew they would be, but what surprised me was the level of listener knowledge and interest. We received a flood of calls and emails and more than 75 online comments, recalling films ranging from the famous \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wD64vlMxLA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bullitt car chase\u003c/a> featuring Steve McQueen to less well known films like Wayne Wang’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083728/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chan is Missing\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Irene Noguchi, Producer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201212210900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Living with Gun Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“I was going to pick “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201210091000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radio Ambulante\u003c/a>” or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201208091000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glynn Washington\u003c/a> from “\u003ca href=\"http://snapjudgment.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snap Judgment\u003c/a>” as my favorite for 2012, and then we did Friday’s show looking at how violence can impact a community. No offense to my previous choices (I heart you, \u003ca href=\"http://radioambulante.org/es/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radio Ambulante\u003c/a>!), but I liked this show for its very real, truthful voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We often talk about issues from an outsider’s perspective, with experts who are well-informed but sometimes distanced from what people are going through on the ground. But Friday, we heard from people in the thick of it: a young woman who talked about hearing gunshots in her neighborhood, and another woman who lost two sons to shootings. They were so fired up and passionate about their community, and the show got really intense. I’m glad we heard from them. It’s these voices that take issues and crystallize them into reality… and keep me riveted to the radio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Judy Campbell, Producer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201203281000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In My Experience: Incarceration\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In setting up this show I had many long conversations with a lot of people about their personal experiences in prison and about their crimes and their lives. As a producer or reporter we sometimes get the opportunity to hear stories like this, complicated and nuanced, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes funny. But to fit them into a story or a program, we usually need to boil them down to the issues that help illustrate a point or argue for a policy change. In this show we heard four people with very different experiences who were willing to share intensely personal parts of their lives at length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were remarkably candid and well-spoken and I think the show gave a rare glimpse into the life experiences of people we often talk about but don’t regularly hear from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amanda Stupi, Engagement Producer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201208011000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A (Mostly) Plastic-Free Life\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“I love shows with clear takeaways — calls to action that people can actually implement. One show that changed my behavior was the show with \u003ca href=\"http://myplasticfreelife.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beth Terry\u003c/a> about reducing one’s plastic footprint. Her passion and pragmatic tips have stayed with me — I’ve begun using reusuable sandwich wraps, saying no to drinking straws and asking myself, “Do I really need to buy this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, as Forum’s engagement producer, I find myself experimenting with new ways to involve our audience and testing just how much my coworkers will reveal about themselves online. I couldn’t believe it when the other producers and guest host Scott Shafer \u003ca href=\"http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collected the plastic they used for an entire day\u003c/a>, bringing it in for me to photograph. That’s dedication!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you’re a Forum listener, we’re curious what program from 2012 stuck with you. Tell us in the comments below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Working in a more compressed time frame was a challenge for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board member Noel Gallo, who has pushed for more oversight of the funding, said he will work to “address publicly the corrections that we have made and be able to monitor that on an ongoing basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts are allowed to use the federal money to pay private school teachers to provide services like additional tutoring, but the teachers must be independent of the private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The education department’s review stated that Oakland Unified inappropriately paid $21,000 to a St. Andrew teacher who was not independent of the family-run school and that the district must “recover” those funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the district is at fault for the problem, Flint said, it will have to compensate the federal program with other district money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also cited the district for hiring the administrator of a Nation of Islam-affiliated K-12 school, Muhammad University of Islam, to provide services at her own school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint said the district has “philosophical differences” with the California Department of Education over its interpretation of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a differing interpretation, but obviously, we’re compelled to follow the judgment of the CDE and we’ll do that,” he said. “But we just want to make sure that we have clarity on what the parameters are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some private schools have objected to the requirements now being enforced by state officials, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because there’s been more scrutiny as a result of the investigation related to St. Andrew, I guess they feel that some autonomy has been compromised,” he said. “The district, the state and the private schools need to reach a common understanding so that everyone can be satisfied that the law’s being upheld.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state review also singled out $3,600 in inappropriate payments to Robert Lacy Jr., a St. Andrew teacher whose father runs the school and church. 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Therefore, I have instructed the communications team to suspend further use of the monogram. For certain applications, this process could require a measure of time to complete. In due course, we will re-evaluate this element of the visual identity system. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gavin Newsom, for one, approves of the decision...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/279649148469399553\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the logo began to gain widespread notice this week, \u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/lanow/new-uc-logo-prompts-criticism-petition\">criticism\u003c/a> was swift and brutal. Many thought that the image was not a fitting replacement for the stately university seal, even though the university said the two were meant to coexist. Other common complaints ranged from a perception that the monogram was too corporate-looking to a sense it was incomprehensible and just plain ugly. The university defended it for a few days, but has now relented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28817\">Full announcement from UC\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Daniel M. Dooley, senior vice president for external relations at the University of California Office of the President, made the following statement today (Dec. 14):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A controversy has developed over an element of an integrated visual identity designed for use by the University of California's systemwide office. This controversy has created a major distraction for the UCOP External Relations Division as it pursues its broader mission: communicating to all Californians the vital contributions UC makes to the quality of their lives and the prosperity of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy has been fueled in large part by an unfortunate and false narrative, which framed the matter as an either-or choice between a venerated UC seal and a newly designed monogram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the graphic element in question was never intended to replace the official seal that still graces diplomas and other appropriate documents. Rather, it was to provide a graphic cue to distinguish systemwide communications materials from those of individual campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monogram was only a piece of the visual identity system — a new approach to typography, photography, colors and the like — that was developed by UCOP design staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it debuted in the past year, this new \"look\" has served the UC system well, replacing what was a clutter of dated materials that varied from UCOP department to department. And it has received praise from an array of accomplished design experts not affiliated with the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, while I believe the design element in question would win wide acceptance over time, it also is important that we listen to and respect what has been a significant negative response by students, alumni and other members of our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therefore, I have instructed the communications team to suspend further use of the monogram. For certain applications, this process could require a measure of time to complete. In due course, we will re-evaluate this element of the visual identity system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My hope going forward is that the passion exhibited for the traditional seal can be redirected toward a broader advocacy for the University of California. For it is only with robust support from the citizens of this state that the university will be able to serve future generations of Californians as well as it has those of the past.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"simon\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Update 3 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Simon, UC's director of marketing and communications, spoke with KQED's Joshua Johnson this morning about l'affaire monogram. 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