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The revelation, sparked by errors in state data identified by California Watch, means the state has been using an incorrect baseline as it measures progress at its lowest-performing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misassignments, as they’re known, have decreased dramatically since the state agreed to give the problem greater attention at low-performing schools. Unlike higher-performing schools, which are monitored every four years, the lowest-performing schools are monitored annually.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The action was one of many stemming from the settlement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/400494-williams-v-california-first-amended-complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Williams v. 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It will also explain the erroneous data from 2005-06, said Erin Sullivan, an assistant consultant in the commission’s office of governmental relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch alerted the commission in July to thousands of duplicate records in six years of misassignment data it received through a public records request. The commission responded last month that all records in 2005-06 were duplicated; it could not determine how the error occurred and was unable to reproduce it. Sullivan said that while there were some duplicate records in subsequent years, those duplicates were intentional because of how data was reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has made changes to its online reporting system “that we expect will seriously mediate if not block the possibility of duplicate reporting by counties and provide us with additional tools for identifying potential duplicate reporting on a more detailed level,” Sullivan said in an email. In an interview, she said a warning message will pop up if a county enters duplicate data and will ask if the entry was intentional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission provided California Watch with revised data last week, and Sullivan said it would correct previously published reports as well. While the figures show an overall decline in misassignments, they also highlight the problem’s persistence. In 2010-11, the most recent year of data available, 13 percent of certificated staff – more than 12,000 in all, most of whom were teachers – at the lowest-performing schools did not have the appropriate credentials for their assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers without the credentials to teach core academic subject areas – English, math, science and social science – composed 20 percent of misassignments in 2010-11. About 13 percent of teachers serving English language learners were not authorized to do so. Seventeen percent of misassignments were for nonteaching program coordinators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overall misassignment rates in prior years, based on a different cohort of low-performing schools, were even higher: 18 percent in 2007-08, 14 percent in 2008-09 and 19 percent in 2009-10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is it that there seems to be this persistent and stubborn … floor at 12, 13, 14 percent that we don’t seem to be able to break through?” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an issue the Legislature and the commission should address, said John Affeldt, who served as lead counsel on the Williams lawsuit and is a managing attorney at Public Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be thinking about ways to really get that number down,” he said. “If not 0, 1 or 2 or 3 percent should be exception, not the rule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affeldt said the misassignment rate was “especially frustrating” in light of the thousands of teachers, many of whom were fully credentialed for their assignments, laid off from California schools in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s an issue of just saying times are tough, fiscal budgets are tight, because we’ve actually created an opportunity where there’s a bigger supply that maybe didn’t exist before,” he said. “It seems we should have made more of a dent in the number.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, the state reported that the same low-performing schools had pushed misassignments down to 12 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that it dropped off that quickly, that far … it seemed really dramatic,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the initial scope of the problem is half as large as reported, it still “indicates there was a gigantic problem, and that there was substantial progress made once attention was paid to it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Commission on Teacher Credentialing, which collects and reports misassignment data from counties, will present the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ctc.ca.gov/commission/agendas/2012-09/2012-09-5B.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest figures\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ctc.ca.gov/commission/agendas/2012-09/2012-09-5B.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> [PDF]\u003c/a> at its monthly meeting today. It will also explain the erroneous data from 2005-06, said Erin Sullivan, an assistant consultant in the commission’s office of governmental relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch alerted the commission in July to thousands of duplicate records in six years of misassignment data it received through a public records request. The commission responded last month that all records in 2005-06 were duplicated; it could not determine how the error occurred and was unable to reproduce it. Sullivan said that while there were some duplicate records in subsequent years, those duplicates were intentional because of how data was reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has made changes to its online reporting system “that we expect will seriously mediate if not block the possibility of duplicate reporting by counties and provide us with additional tools for identifying potential duplicate reporting on a more detailed level,” Sullivan said in an email. In an interview, she said a warning message will pop up if a county enters duplicate data and will ask if the entry was intentional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission provided California Watch with revised data last week, and Sullivan said it would correct previously published reports as well. While the figures show an overall decline in misassignments, they also highlight the problem’s persistence. In 2010-11, the most recent year of data available, 13 percent of certificated staff – more than 12,000 in all, most of whom were teachers – at the lowest-performing schools did not have the appropriate credentials for their assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers without the credentials to teach core academic subject areas – English, math, science and social science – composed 20 percent of misassignments in 2010-11. About 13 percent of teachers serving English language learners were not authorized to do so. Seventeen percent of misassignments were for nonteaching program coordinators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overall misassignment rates in prior years, based on a different cohort of low-performing schools, were even higher: 18 percent in 2007-08, 14 percent in 2008-09 and 19 percent in 2009-10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is it that there seems to be this persistent and stubborn … floor at 12, 13, 14 percent that we don’t seem to be able to break through?” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an issue the Legislature and the commission should address, said John Affeldt, who served as lead counsel on the Williams lawsuit and is a managing attorney at Public Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be thinking about ways to really get that number down,” he said. “If not 0, 1 or 2 or 3 percent should be exception, not the rule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affeldt said the misassignment rate was “especially frustrating” in light of the thousands of teachers, many of whom were fully credentialed for their assignments, laid off from California schools in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s an issue of just saying times are tough, fiscal budgets are tight, because we’ve actually created an opportunity where there’s a bigger supply that maybe didn’t exist before,” he said. “It seems we should have made more of a dent in the number.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Jennifer Gollan, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/government/story/governor-signs-law-requiring-more/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/BayCitizenLogo3.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76940 alignleft\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/BayCitizenLogo3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>California’s private vocational schools must disclose critical details about the quality of their programs, including their accreditation status and graduation rates, under a bill signed yesterday by Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, will require vocational schools offering associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees to indicate in their course catalogs whether they are accredited. Schools that are not accredited must inform students of any drawbacks to their degrees, such as whether certifying agencies would prohibit them from taking licensing exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/College-Diploma.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76942\" title=\"College Diploma\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/College-Diploma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition, schools will have to post job placement and graduation rates, and how much graduates earn, among other data. The law also requires vocational schools to post annual reports, student brochures and course catalogues on their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation was sponsored by Assemblyman Marty Block, D-San Diego, in response to a series of stories by The Bay Citizen, which revealed California regulators’ lax oversight of for-profit vocational schools and diploma mills.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Citizen found that the state agency responsible for oversight, the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, had \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/state-regulators-let-vocational-1/\" target=\"_blank\">allowed dozens of unaccredited schools to operate for years without state approval or inspections\u003c/a>. In addition, the agency \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/vocational-schools-complaints-mount-lags/\" target=\"_blank\">did not investigate some complaints against schools\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/california-leads-nation-unaccredited/\" target=\"_blank\">shut down illegal diploma mills\u003c/a> – schools that offer dubious degrees for little coursework and that lack accreditation by a recognized government agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau was launched in January 2010 to strengthen protections for students attending private vocational schools. It replaced a regulatory agency that was disbanded in 2007 because lawmakers deemed it ineffective. State regulators said budget cuts and hiring freezes had prevented the current bureau from holding more schools accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Block said the new law improves protections for the 400,000 vocational students in California, many of whom are from low-income backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At these schools, students are often spending $40,000 or more,” said Block, who is chairman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee. “They are often doing so without sufficient information, and this will give them the information they need to make a smart consumer choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notably, graduates of unaccredited institutions face limited job prospects. They are barred from many civil service jobs in states such as California, Michigan and Oregon, as well as most jobs requiring professional licenses and teaching certificates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite past problems, bureau officials say they are prepared to enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of it will be on the schools to comply,” said Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs, which oversees the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education. “If schools don’t follow the law, it will be on the bureau to take enforcement actions. It is not like it is creating additional work for us, except that we will be checking to make sure the schools are making their additional disclosures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following The Bay Citizen's series, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/regulators-investigate-institute-medical/\" target=\"_blank\">state shut down a medical school\u003c/a> that made false claims about its accreditation status and \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/more-75-vocational-schools-under-investigation-16462\" target=\"_blank\">regulators pledged to investigate 77 schools\u003c/a> operating without state approval. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by demonstrators who were pepper-sprayed during an Occupy protest at UC Davis last fall, according to a preliminary settlement filed Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nov. 18, 2011, incident prompted national outrage, angry campus protests and calls for the resignation of Chancellor Linda Katehi after online videos shot by witnesses went viral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/6AdDLhPwpp4\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Images of a police officer casually spraying orange pepper-spray in the faces of nonviolent protesters became a rallying symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement. The demonstrators had been protesting steep tuition hikes and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposed settlement, UC would pay $30,000 to each of 21 plaintiffs named in the complaint and an additional $250,000 for their attorneys to split. \u003c!--more-->Katehi, who has publicly apologized for the incident, would be required to issue a formal written apology to each of the plaintiffs, who are current students or recent alumni\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC and plaintiffs represented by the American Civil Liberties Union filed the preliminary settlement in U.S. District Court in Sacramento. The agreement, which was approved by the UC Board of Regents in mid-September, is subject to the approval of a federal judge, and parties have the right to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement also calls for UC to set aside $100,000 to pay other individuals who can prove they were arrested or pepper-sprayed. The university would give the ACLU up to $20,000 for its work reviewing free speech and protest policies at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was felt that the proposed settlement was in the best interest of the university,\" said UC spokesman Steve Montiel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials believe the cost of going to trial would be more expensive than the cost of settling the lawsuit, Montiel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiff Fatima Sbeih, who recently graduated with an international studies degree, said she suffered panic attacks and nightmares after she was pepper-sprayed on the UC Davis Quad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to make sure that nothing like this happens again,\" Sbeih said in a statement. \"The university still needs to work to rebuild students' trust and this settlement is a step in the right direction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A task force report released in April blamed the incident on poor communication and planning throughout the campus chain of command, from the chancellor to the pepper-spraying officers, and concluded the situation could have been prevented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The settlement should be a wake-up call for other universities and police departments,\" said Michael Risher, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California. \"If the First Amendment means anything, it's that you should be able to demonstrate without being afraid of police violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Yolo County prosecutors said the UC Davis officers who fired the pepper-spray won't face criminal charges because there is not enough evidence to prove the use of force was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Katharine Mieszkowsk, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/parks/story/citys-worst-park-acre-tenderloin/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/BayCitizenLogo2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-76770\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/BayCitizenLogo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>It was recess in the Tenderloin, and students from \u003ca href=\"http://sfcityacademy.com/\">San Francisco City Academy\u003c/a> swarmed the playground at Father Alfred E. Boeddeker Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They slid down the rusting slide and hung from monkey bars held aloft by old beams that shed slivers of wood and green paint chips. After recess, bits of paint sometimes dot their clothes, said Vanessa Brakey, administrator for the private Christian school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of kids get a lot of splinters from the wood around here,” said Brakey, who was supervising recess last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76771\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/Boeddeker-Park.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76771\" title=\"Boeddeker Park\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/Boeddeker-Park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boeddeker Park in San Francisco (Katharine Mieszkowski/The Bay Citizen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The playground at Boeddeker Park was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfparksalliance.org/the-alliance/policy-planning/playground-report-card\">ranked the worst\u003c/a> in San Francisco this month in a survey by the San Francisco Parks Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group, and the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neglected acre of green space at the corner of Jones and Eddy streets was one of 16 that scored a “D” or “F” on this year’s Playground Report Card. Others on the list include Stern Grove, Lafayette Park and Golden Gate Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the children from San Francisco City Academy, the only thing worse than playing on the dilapidated structure is not getting any recess at all, an event that occurs almost weekly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boeddeker Park is supposed to be open weekdays from noon to 3 p.m. But even with such limited hours, Brakey said the gates remain locked as often as once a week because no one comes to open them. The park is operated by San Francisco Recreation and Park Department.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone doesn’t show up, the kids don’t get any recess,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2010 U.S. Census reported that 2,749 children live in the Tenderloin, which is roughly bounded by Market Street, Post Street and Van Ness Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin has just three small parks. Boeddeker is the only one open to everyone; the other two, Sgt. 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The old play structure will be demolished, along with the imposing black fences that wall off different sections of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a new park,” said Betty Traynor, coordinator of \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/friendsofboeddekerpark\">Friends of Boeddeker Park\u003c/a>, a local group that is involved in the plans to transform Boeddeker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction is due to begin at the end of October or beginning of November; the park will be closed for 13 to 16 months. During the renovation, San Francisco City Academy students will have recess at Tenderloin Recreation Center Park a few blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan for Boeddeker calls for a much more open design, including eliminating the fences that divide the park. The fences were intended to keep park-goers safe, but they instead limit visibility, which once helped make it a haven for drug users and prostitutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police, for one, welcome the new plan. “It will have great view corridors so we can see through there,” said Capt. Joe Garrity of the Tenderloin Station, which sits diagonally across the street from the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state will provide more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.tpl.org/publications/land-and-people-magazine/archive/landpeople-fallwinter-2011/parks-reborn.html\">$4.5 million for the renovation\u003c/a>. Private donors, such as Banana Republic and Levi Strauss Foundation, have also contributed to the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the renovation, the park department has pledged to expand the park’s hours and keep Boeddeker open from dawn to dusk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traynor said Friends of Boeddeker Park is hoping to mobilize volunteers from neighborhood community groups to serve as “eyes on the park.” Community groups plan to keep the renovated park bustling with activities, such as tai chi and after-school programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/bondoutreach.aspx\">$195 million park bond\u003c/a> on the ballot this November in San Francisco includes $15.5 million for the renovation of the city’s failing playgrounds, such as those dinged in the recent Playground Report Card. The bond would fund capital improvements in parks, not operational expenses, such as staffing. 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Johnson, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/assembly-kills-school-seismic-reform-measure-17825\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74627\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 285px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/capitol-dome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-74627\" title=\"capitol dome\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/capitol-dome-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO – A proposal to study seismic safety improvements for public schools – which won initial legislative support – quietly died in an Assembly committee during the last weeks of the legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, SB 1271, focused on whether schools should allow staff and students to occupy unsafe structures and\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>whether the state can penalize officials for evading California's seismic safety law, known as the Field Act. Under the bill, independent experts would have proposed improvements for the Division of the State Architect, which regulates school construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Despite early support, the bill stalled in committee, failed to get out of the 'suspense file'\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Legislature went home without approving the measure, written by Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We did all we could do,\" Corbett said, \"and we will continue to monitor (the state architect's office) to make sure it is fulfilling its mission to protect California’s schoolchildren and certify the seismic safety of new school buildings in a timely fashion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts pay the state architect to approve school building plans, monitor construction in the field and then certify the work has met strict quality control standards. Such certification is mandatory under state law, to ensure the structures can withstand an earthquake's violent shaking.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation by The Bay Citizen's sister site \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org\">California Watch\u003c/a> last year found the office routinely allowed children and teachers to occupy buildings with structural flaws and potential safety hazards reported during construction. More than 16,000 school projects across the state lack the required certification, with roughly 42,000 students in buildings with \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/thousands-students-attending-schools-unresolved-safety-issues-14142\" target=\"_blank\">unresolved safety issues\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Auditor's Office has concluded that the office's oversight flaws had increased the safety risk to schools. One report slammed the agency's enforcement of building standards, calling its supervision neither comprehensive nor effective\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their defense, officials in the state architect's office blamed the seismic safety law itself, which they argue doesn't give them the authority to stop children and teachers from entering unsafe structures. The state auditor's report urged the state architect to push for legal changes to prevent occupancy of unsafe schools, and SB 1271 would have asked experts to recommend ways to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year the state Senate approved SB 1271, which had garnered broad support from the school construction community. But the bill stalled in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Last month, outgoing Chairman Felipe Fuentes, D-Arleta, moved the measure to the committee's \"suspense file,\" which is an internal process used by Assembly leaders to privately review expensive legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the review, Fuentes' successor, Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, declined to move SB 1271 out of the suspense file, effectively killing the bill without taking a public vote. The bill was among several measures killed by the committee Aug. 16 without a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No reason was given for the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gatto has not told Corbett why the measure died, said Andrew LaMar, Corbett's spokesman. Gatto's office also did not respond to California Watch's questions about the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before its defeat, the proposal sailed through the state Senate and the Assembly Education Committee, supported by school inspectors and the Coalition for Adequate School Housing – an influential lobbying group that advocates for schools, architects, builders, developers and financial representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the measure reached the Assembly Appropriations Committee, committee staff member Kimberly Rodriguez questioned whether the bill was needed. Rodriguez's Aug. 8 bill analysis states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is unclear how a statutory requirement to submit a report will further this process,\" she wrote. \"If the Legislature is interested on the status and recommendations of the internal process conducted by the (state architect's office), it is within its purview to request the (state architect's office) to report to policy or budget subcommittees on these issues without a statutory requirement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters questioned how the bill landed in the suspense file in the first place. To qualify for suspense, a legislative proposal must have implementation costs of $150,000 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate estimate for Corbett's bill was between $70,000 and $100,000. Two Department of Finance analyses calculated costs of approximately $142,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expenses to implement the panel would have been paid by the state architect's office, which has a budget of more than $15 million. The office is predominantly financed by fees from school districts and not the state's general fund. To drive down costs further, however, Corbett tweaked the proposal so an existing state architect advisory panel could do the work, LaMar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Aug. 8 hearing, committee members heard arguments from Corbett and supporters of the bill. In the end, none of those arguments made a difference. Rodriguez's estimates for the bill placed costs at \"approximately $150,000\" – the minimum cut-off for the suspense file. According to the Assembly's rules, Fuentes was required to send the legislation to the suspense file once it reached that dollar amount\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> said Fuentes' spokesman Ben Golombek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaMar said the committee settled upon a higher figure than the Senate and Finance\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>estimates by factoring the actual cost of experts reporting their final work to three separate legislative committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbett's office questions the accuracy of those calculations, however, and to date, the committee has not provided any data or documentation that would support Rodriguez's conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am disappointed the Assembly Appropriations Committee did not approve this legislation,\" Corbett told California Watch\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\"I think we showed clearly that the costs associated were minimal, and below the committee’s threshold, and the issue\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>important enough to require the additional oversight called for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez didn't respond to questions from California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bill was killed, State Architect Chester Widom said in an interview with California Watch that he and his staff are working to fix the agency's problems. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Erica Perez, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/trailer-bill-seeks-shorter-sanctions-cal-grants-eligibility-17744\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A controversial last-minute provision inserted last week into an education trailer bill could help the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and a handful of other sanctioned schools regain eligibility for Cal Grants next fall instead of having to wait until the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74627\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 436px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/capitol-dome.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74627\" title=\"capitol dome\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/capitol-dome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"246\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The academy’s students are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/Colleges-battle-Cal-Grant-ineligibility-3758785.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">losing access\u003c/a> to Cal Grants this fall because the institution’s 2010-11 graduation rate dipped below the minimum required by state law. Its newest graduation rate cleared the hurdle, however, meaning it could regain the grants in fall 2013 instead of fall 2014 if the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1451-1500/ab_1476_cfa_20120823_134301_sen_floor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trailer bill\u003c/a> passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is current language in the Education Code that says a sanctioned school “may regain its eligibility for the academic year following an academic year in which it satisfies the requirements.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Education Code, the California Student Aid Commission determines a school’s Cal Grant eligibility for the 2012-13 year based on October 2011 data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission and state Department of Finance interpreted that language to mean that the Academy of Art University and other schools would have to meet state requirements in October 2012 and October 2013 to get back into the Cal Grants program in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a hearing last week, state Sen. 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The academy was one of at least three colleges to appeal its sanction in recent weeks, but its appeal was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of the proposed change, and we support it because our current graduation rate is at 34 percent, which I believe is above the threshold,” said Sue Rowley, executive vice president of educational services for the academy. “And because we are moving in the right direction, it’s unfair that students can’t get their grants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a hearing of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee last week, Cohen, of the state Department of Finance, said an agreement on the law clearly included a two-year penalty period and the state had estimated savings based on that timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitely, a key fact for us in this debate is that when we set the targets in terms of savings amounts, we were assuming that these institutions were sitting out of the program for the longer period,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno said that he did not agree to a two-year period and that such a penalty was too punitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It almost sounds counterintuitive that you fall out of compliance, you do the good and necessary work, which we’re incentivizing to get into compliance, and then you meet the thresholds that we set, and then we say, ‘No, you have to sit out another year,’ ” Leno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen countered that at a time when financial aid dollars are limited, it’s reasonable to focus dollars on colleges that consistently meet requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those that aren’t able to meet the criteria, unfortunately, given the state of the General Fund, we can’t afford to let them back into the program right away,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Heiman, an analyst with the state Legislative Analyst’s Office, said the proposed change is helpful because of the confusion about whether the intent of law was to penalize schools for one or two years. She said it is reasonable to let colleges that meet the state’s expectations regain Cal Grants the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new language says a sanctioned school “shall regain its eligibility for the academic year for which it satisfies these requirements,” which Heiman said makes clear the punishment period is one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the Academy of Art University, at least four other sanctioned colleges have pushed their graduation rates above the required threshold in 2011-12 and could regain eligibility as a result: South Coast College, the Art Institute of California in Los Angeles, Bryan College and West Coast University, Heiman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their ability to bounce back will depend on their default rates. Draft versions of the rates have been provided to the colleges but will not be posted publicly by the U.S. Department of Education until the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At sanctioned schools, including the academy, continuing students will see their Cal Grant awards reduced by 20 percent. New students will not get Cal Grants at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rowley said the academy will provide scholarships to all affected students to make up for the Cal Grant funds in 2012-13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Grants, which do not have to be repaid, can provide up to $9,223 per year for students with financial need at non-public colleges.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>By Will Evans, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/troubled-oakland-school-padded-enrollment-district-finds-17594\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A controversial West Oakland private school, now reportedly drawing FBI scrutiny, has padded its roster sheets with public school students, according to an Oakland Unified School District investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73459\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/oaklandschool_0.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/oaklandschool_0-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"oaklandschool_0\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73459\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Andrew pastor Robert Lacy and son Robert Lacy Jr. declined to speak with reporters outside a June school board meeting. 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Of the five that responded, each said they did not have children attending St. Andrew last year, according to Flint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The findings are concerning,\" Flint said. \"We are eager to hear how these discrepancies can be explained.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marc Guillory, an attorney representing St. Andrew, said some of the district's initial findings were not entirely accurate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also presented numerous explanations for cross-over between St. Andrew and public school students: Students could have started the year at St. Andrew and moved to a district school later. Or they could have signed up at St. Andrew, never actually attended the school, yet still remain listed on the roster sheet. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Erica Perez, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/senate-report-finds-large-cost-gap/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BayCitizenLogo2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-72594\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BayCitizenLogo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>Among the findings of a U.S. Senate committee’s recently released investigation of the nation’s for-profit college industry is a stark assessment of the huge gap between what it costs to get a degree or certificate from a career college and the price tag of a comparable program at a public college or university in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-year \u003ca href=\"http://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/for_profit_report/Contents.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">investigation [PDF]\u003c/a> by the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee took a sweeping look at 30 for-profit education institutions nationwide, combing through financial statements, internal company documents and other data to create a picture of a sector that it says fails to provide adequate return on investment for students and taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72592\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/College-Diploma.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-72592\" title=\"College Diploma\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/College-Diploma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Republicans on the committee criticized the report as biased, as did organizations representing the for-profit sector. Steve Gunderson, president of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, said in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.career.org/iMISPublic/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=25566&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> that the report \"twists the facts to fit a narrative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high price of tuition was one piece of the committee's report. Overall, the investigation found that bachelor’s degree programs at career colleges cost 20 percent more, on average, than comparable programs at flagship public universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associate degree programs at for-profits averaged four times the price tag of community college programs.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a medical assistant diploma at the for-profit Heald College in Fresno costs $22,275. A comparable program at Fresno City College costs $1,650, according to the Senate report. An associate degree in paralegal studies at the for-profit Everest College in Ontario costs $41,149, compared with $2,392 for the same degree at Santa Ana College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Heald and Everest are owned by Santa Ana-based Corinthian Colleges Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At American Career College in Anaheim, the medical assistant program costs $17,068 – more than eight times the cost at Orange Coast College, where a certificate of achievement in medical assisting would cost $2,046.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, those costs are not fully disclosed or easily understood by students who take on loans to foot the bills, the report claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For-profit colleges reaped $32 billion in federal financial aid last year. Meanwhile, more than half of students who enrolled in a for-profit college in 2008-09 left without a degree by the middle of 2010. The report claims that high-priced degrees, high withdrawal rates, poor job placement services and questionable academic rigor combine to leave students saddled with formidable debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Leggitt, 38, chose to go to Heald College's Roseville campus in fall 2011 for a degree in medical office administration – a two-year program that costs an estimated $30,000 in tuition alone. She opted for Heald rather than the local community college because she thought Heald offered a quicker, more efficient way to earn an associate degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have the education behind me. I have the work experience behind me,” Leggitt said. “I wanted to get a degree to be able to show my kids, it doesn’t matter how old you are, you can still go to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leggitt ended up withdrawing from the program because of personal issues, as well as an ongoing disagreement with the college administration. She's not sure how much she owes the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former Heald student, Sandra Muñiz, filed a class-action lawsuit against Corinthian Colleges Inc. in February 2011, accusing the company of fraud, breach of contract, and violations of California’s Unfair Competition Law, False Advertisement Law and Consumers Legal Remedies Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406806-muniz-suit.html\" target=\"_blank\">complaint\u003c/a>, Muñiz enrolled at Heald's Rancho Cordova campus in 2007. After completing a business skills program certificate in 2008, she couldn't find work, so she went back to Heald for the paralegal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She withdrew from that program, dissatisfied because there were no assignments or homework. She transferred to Heald's Roseville campus to study criminal justice. Overall, she took out $19,000 in loans, the complaint states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit contends that Corinthian deceives students about the true cost of attendance by quoting tuition rates for only part of a full degree program, not disclosing hidden administrative fees and omitting attendance costs from college websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corinthian spokesman Kent Jenkins Jr. said that the allegations in the complaint were \"simply wrong\" and that Corinthian clearly discloses the costs of its programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge David O. Carter last year denied a motion by Corinthian to force the case into arbitration. Corinthian is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406807-corinthian-brief-in-muniz-case.html\" target=\"_blank\">appealing\u003c/a> that motion in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said the for-profit programs cost more because they are not getting the state and local subsidies that community colleges receive. For-profits pass that cost along to students, who choose to pay the price because they can get their degree or certificate faster than they could at a public institution, Jenkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People come to us not because they’re being fooled or being exploited, but because they make a very informed and intelligent choice,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also cited \u003ca href=\"http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012280.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">data [PDF]\u003c/a> from the National Center for Education Statistics showing that nationwide, 62 percent of students at two-year for-profit colleges graduated with a degree or certificate, compared with 23 percent of students at two-year public institutions. The data looked at students who completed programs within 150 percent of the time necessary to complete the degree requirements according to the college's catalog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debbie Cochrane, research director for The Institute for College Access and Success, said the comparison isn't quite apples to apples because most career college graduates get short-term certificates, while most community college graduates get degrees. Plus, the figures don't include transfers, which are a big part of community colleges' mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For-profit college students also leave with more debt. More than 1 out of 5 for-profit college students default on student loan debt within three years, compared with 1 out of 11 students at public and nonprofit colleges, the Senate committee report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cochrane pointed to the for-profit college sector's spending on marketing and recruitment to help explain why some students end up choosing career colleges over less expensive options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think a big reason why students will opt to go to a for-profit college rather than a lower-cost public or nonprofit option is that the for-profits do a bang-up job with getting students in the door and enrolled in the classes, and they do it because their bottom line depends on it,\" Cochrane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate committee's report found that some for-profit colleges spend more on marketing and advertising than they do on instruction. 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An associate degree in paralegal studies at the for-profit Everest College in Ontario costs $41,149, compared with $2,392 for the same degree at Santa Ana College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Heald and Everest are owned by Santa Ana-based Corinthian Colleges Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At American Career College in Anaheim, the medical assistant program costs $17,068 – more than eight times the cost at Orange Coast College, where a certificate of achievement in medical assisting would cost $2,046.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, those costs are not fully disclosed or easily understood by students who take on loans to foot the bills, the report claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For-profit colleges reaped $32 billion in federal financial aid last year. Meanwhile, more than half of students who enrolled in a for-profit college in 2008-09 left without a degree by the middle of 2010. The report claims that high-priced degrees, high withdrawal rates, poor job placement services and questionable academic rigor combine to leave students saddled with formidable debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Leggitt, 38, chose to go to Heald College's Roseville campus in fall 2011 for a degree in medical office administration – a two-year program that costs an estimated $30,000 in tuition alone. She opted for Heald rather than the local community college because she thought Heald offered a quicker, more efficient way to earn an associate degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have the education behind me. I have the work experience behind me,” Leggitt said. “I wanted to get a degree to be able to show my kids, it doesn’t matter how old you are, you can still go to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leggitt ended up withdrawing from the program because of personal issues, as well as an ongoing disagreement with the college administration. 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Corinthian is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406807-corinthian-brief-in-muniz-case.html\" target=\"_blank\">appealing\u003c/a> that motion in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said the for-profit programs cost more because they are not getting the state and local subsidies that community colleges receive. 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