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In his work with \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandunite.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Unite\u003c/a>, Grant intervenes in retaliatory violence and works to keep parolees from going back to jail. He was awarded the California Peace Prize last November. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny\u003c/a> talked to Grant as part of its First Person series. Here are some highlights from the interview. Edited transcript …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Grant on the Availability of Guns\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a hundred oak trees fell in Oakland, they would have federal dollars trying to find out what Rocky Mountain Spider Fever Tick was eating them. If a hundred spears of broccoli went bad, they’d trail it all the way back to the store it was sold at and the plantation it grew from and everything else. A hundred kids are dropping. We need to find out where these guns are coming from while we’re doing our thing, because without the tools, the kids would have to go back to what I grew up with: fighting, and that’s much safer and healthier than laying each other down with these long weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[They’re] shooting 223’s—these are military style ammunition that they’re getting down with today … Somebody needs to put some dollars into trailing these guns, because these kids are buying guns on the street for amounts of dollars you wouldn’t believe, and that means that the supply is grand. [My] kids is getting… what they call “long things” for two, three hundred dollars off the street…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cstrong>On Race:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>If a hundred spears of broccoli went bad, they’d trail it all the way back to the store. A hundred kids are dropping. We need to find out where these guns are coming from.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n–Kevin Grant\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I was a black man, and when I was getting arrested in Oakland, every cop who arrested me was white, right? So I had that, and then I grew up in the system that helped feed that [concept of racism]. It wasn’t ‘What’d you do to get back here,’ it was, ‘Who arrested you?’ You know, ‘My parole agent.’ It was everybody else’s fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So then I had to—for me, this is what helped me—I had to start taking ownership… ‘Okay, but wait, maybe it was that pistol and me shooting at that dude, maybe it was that half a kilo of dope I had in my trunk when the police pulled me over…’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what we do [is] we address the [level of racism] and let them know “A,” it’s a real problem, and it’s gonna affect you in this way. But let’s not feed a “B” into it so you end up getting caught up with a “C.” So we say a) racism and jobs and differentiating on all that stuff is real—yeah, we ain’t gonna fake that, but b), you don’t wanna add to that a parolee, another number, another this… so we push it there but don’t let them feed off it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Oakland Police Department Hiring Consultant Bill Bratton: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, me and Oakland P.D., [HoJo], my guy— we have a gangster relationship; he lets me stay in my lane, and I let him do his thing. I don’t know [Bratton], right? I don’t know his history. I stay on the flatlands and keep my view, oftentimes, out of that atmosphere up there because really, honestly: a) I can’t do nothing about it, b) it ain’t none of my business as long as Jordan told me it’s not gonna affect what we’re doing… [Bratton’s] gonna eat well. I ain’t mad, I try and eat well too— so I ain’t mad at him for eating well, but I’m not gonna confuse what I gotta do with some politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Stopping the Cycle of Retaliation:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve gotten good at stopping shootings two and three because shooting one has happened. And one of the things in Oakland and many other flatland communities like Oakland [is] there’s a retaliation factor that you can pretty much bank on with the youngsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we are pretty successful, but there are times when a loved one will be like, ‘Kev, I respect what you do, and I always respect, but dude shot my sister. When I see him, I’m gonna do him.’ And so there’s times when the lay has been too fat for us to redirect it, but oftentimes we’re able to get in, and what we find is it’s very important to buy some time as their cooler heads prevail.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Trey Bundy and Shane Shifflett, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/controversial-school-bonds-create-debt-next-generation-18795\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herb Calderon stood on the campus of Hillcrest High School, staring at a wall that cost $10 million to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mile-long barrier was constructed to prevent the hillside above from sliding into the new school during a heavy storm. The state-of-the-art campus with its extravagant sculpted concrete wall, he said, has helped upgrade the image of the downtrodden district.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/30/borrowing-millions-paying-many-times-more-school-districts-take-heat-for-risky-bonds/\">\u003cstrong>More on Bay Area schools using the controversial bonds\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“They wanted a beautiful high school, and we gave them a beautiful high school,” said Calderon, assistant superintendent for business services of the Alvord Unified School District in Riverside. “If people knew how much it cost, I’m sure we’d get some flak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school, including the wall, cost $110 million to build, but by 2046, when it is finally paid for, it will have cost taxpayers at least $485 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ec2P3EQhWmM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvord is one of at least 1,350 school districts and government agencies across the nation that have turned to a controversial form of borrowing called capital appreciation bonds to finance major projects, a California Watch analysis of bond financing data in the U.S. shows. Relying on these bonds has allowed districts to borrow billions of dollars while postponing payments in some cases for decades. \u003c!--more-->This form of borrowing has created billions of dollars in debt for taxpayers and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for financial advisers and underwriters. Voters are usually unaware of the bonds’ high interest. At least one state, Michigan, has banned their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, where rules governing the loans are among the loosest, more than 400 school districts and other agencies have racked up greater capital appreciation bond debt in the past six years than in any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have borrowed $9 billion that will cost taxpayers $36 billion to repay over the next 40 years, according to data compiled by California Treasurer Bill Lockyer. He called it “debt for the next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The average tenure of a school superintendent is about three and a half years, so they aren’t going to be around in most instances to worry about paying that off,” Lockyer said in an interview. “Nor will the voters, probably, that enacted it in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The capital appreciation bond business in California has been lucrative for dozens of private financial advisers, banks and credit rating firms that have charged government entities nearly $400 million for financial services since 2007, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bonds are unusual in public finance because they postpone debt far into the future. Typical school bonds require borrowers to begin making payments immediately and cost two to three times the principal amount to repay. But with deferred payments, districts have ended up paying as much as 23 times the amount borrowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to issue these bonds instead of traditional bonds typically is made by district officials after voters have approved bond measures, and the public usually has no knowledge of how much they will cost to repay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Lockyer and Tom Torlakson, the state superintendent of public instruction, called for a statewide moratorium on capital appreciation bonds until new legislation limiting their use is in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue first came to light last year after the Voice of San Diego and a Michigan blogger reported on a questionable capital appreciation bond issued by the Poway Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a California Watch analysis shows that the issue is not unique to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2007, school districts and government agencies in at least 27 states and Puerto Rico have financed projects with capital appreciation bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Texas, 590 districts and other government entities have issued these bonds over the past six years – more than any other state, according to a California Watch review of a database maintained by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, a federal regulatory agency that oversees the municipal bond market. California was second, with 404, followed by Ohio, with 202.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the total amount of debt generated by these bonds is unclear. States rely on varying methods for reporting, and in some cases the data is incomplete. Many capital appreciation bonds were issued in packages with other types of bonds, and national databases do not tally their independent values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, some of the most dubious deals occurred in San Diego County, where the Poway Unified School District in 2011 used the bonds to borrow $105 million that will cost $982 million to pay back, a repayment rate of about 9.4 to 1. The same year, the Santee School District borrowed $3.5 million that must be repaid at $58.6 million, or 16.6 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides school districts, four agencies that receive tobacco-company payments from a court settlement have issued these bonds to construct health care facilities and operate programs. The largest was issued by the Inland Empire Tobacco Securitization Authority – a $206.4 million bond that will cost $3.8 billion to pay back, or more than 18 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To finish building Hillcrest High School, the Alvord district issued a $57 million bond in 2011. By 2046, when the loan is paid off, Calderon said, it will have cost taxpayers $375 million – 6.6 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, who joined the Alvord district as chief business officer in July, called the deal “a necessary evil” and said falling property tax revenue and dwindling state funding had left districts with no choice but to engage in risky borrowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this was a mortgage, you would run,” he said. “But this type of creative financing is what we’re forced to do.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBypassing state tax cap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California districts, including Alvord, have used the bonds to get around a state limit on property taxes. To pay off bonds, unified school districts are allowed to tax residents no more than $60 per $100,000 of their assessed property value each year. By issuing capital appreciation bonds, districts that have reached that limit can push the tax burdens of new bonds far into the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When districts issue these bonds, they are betting that property values will increase enough over time to pay their debts. They often hire private firms to calculate property value projections and structure the deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The private firms are paid to determine how much money is safe for districts to borrow, but Lockyer said some financial advisers appear to have exaggerated property value growth projections to get the deals approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although private firms are not obligated to report their fees to state regulators, the state treasurer’s office has compiled some fee information found in official bond statements. At least 42 financial firms have charged school districts and other agencies in California a total of $389 million since 2007, Lockyer’s office reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data available to the treasurer, Caldwell Flores Winters, a California-based company specializing in public finance, made the most money advising on California’s capital appreciation bonds – $6.8 million on 84 deals. Second was Dale Scott & Co. in San Francisco, with 55 deals worth $4.6 million. California Financial Services, a financial planning firm, was third with $3.5 million on 28 deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial advisers have been meeting with Lockyer and state legislators to discuss a measure that would limit repayment rates to as little as four times the amount borrowed with capital appreciation bonds, also known as CABs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though CABs can be a useful tool in managing a district's debt, it appears there have been a number of abuses,” said Dale Scott, whose firm was hired by Alvord last year to help manage the district’s debt. “That's why we strongly support the proposed legislation that would provide significant taxpayer protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While financial advisers help districts structure the bonds, underwriters – typically large banks and investment firms – broker the deals for a commission, selling the bonds whole or breaking them into smaller pieces and selling them to multiple investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to state records, Piper Jaffray was the busiest underwriter since 2007, brokering 165 capital appreciation bonds for a price of $638,045. Goldman Sachs made the most money as an underwriter during the same time period – $1.6 million on a single deal with the San Diego Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both firms declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Highly leveraged deals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, falling property values have hurt districts’ tax revenues, prompting some to turn to long-term bonds. Outside California, however, tighter regulations helped curb their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ohio, for instance, prohibits the type of ballooning debt structures found in many California deals by requiring bonds to maintain a flat debt service. That means the annual payment must remain roughly the same each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California removed its flat debt service requirement on long-term bonds in 2009 with the passage of AB 1388. The bill was sponsored by the California Public Securities Association, which lobbies state lawmakers on behalf of financial consultants and underwriters. An association official declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While districts have been relying on capital appreciation bonds for more than a decade, there was a slight increase in their use after the bill took effect, state data shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking back, the Legislature's decision to eliminate the flat debt service requirement in 2009 is what led to a lot of these highly leveraged deals,” said Scott, the financial adviser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts that issued these bonds fall into two categories: those that could not issue standard bonds because they had reached the $60 state tax cap, like Alvord, and others, like the Napa Valley Unified School District, that simply promised voters they would keep their tax rates low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa issued its bonds in 2009 and 2010, in part, because officials had pledged to keep the tax rate well below the state limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our promise to the voters of Napa was to keep their tax bill at or below $36, and we were able to accomplish that,” said Jose Hurtado, a Napa school board member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, Napa voters authorized $183 million to repair old school buildings and build a new high school in American Canyon, a rapidly growing area in southern Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2009, when the high school was nearly completed, property values had dropped and the district suddenly found itself short of cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the advice of KNN Public Finance, an Oakland firm, Napa issued a nearly $22 million capital appreciation bond. The loan will cost $154 million – seven times the principal – when it is paid off in 2049.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months later, the district issued another bond for $7 million that will have cost $28 million by 2033.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado said the board did not explain to voters the high cost of repaying the bonds, as far as he knows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t recall any of those conversations going on,” he said. “It doesn’t mean they didn’t happen, I just don’t recall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KNN charged the district $156,000 for advising on the deals, according to state records. Advisers at KNN declined to be interviewed, but Dave Olson, a managing director for the firm, said in a statement to California Watch that, ultimately, districts set their own fiscal policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The role of the financial advisor is to present the full range of reasonable alternatives to implement that policy,” the statement said. “We hope that the district feels we did so in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some officials have criticized districts like Napa for shifting debt to future taxpayers instead of asking voters to pay now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re trying to stay under a tax rate promised to the voters, that’s completely egregious,” said Glenn Byers, assistant treasurer of Los Angeles County, who has been critical of capital appreciation bonds that take longer than 25 years to repay.“If they’re not at the tax rate’s legal limit, it’s a slam dunk: They shouldn’t be doing (it).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Complex finance plans\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Napa’s school board understood the long-term implications when it approved the deal remains unclear. When California Watch first asked school board member Joe Schunk about the deal in November, he said Napa had not issued any capital appreciation bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, he called back and said he had been mistaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow board member Hurtado said that KNN had explained the deal but that “it was hard to understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re trying to have discussions about CABs versus traditional (bonds) and tax rates, occasionally it all runs together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lockyer said the inability of district leaders to grasp complex municipal finance is a problem around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen materials that went to a school board when they authorized the original issuance and there were blanks where the interest rate amount was to be determined someday,” he said. “But that’s what they saw when they agreed to a deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Johnson, a longtime school board member in Alvord, said he could not remember how the district’s $57 million deal was explained to the board when members approved it 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the thought process was that housing prices would increase,” he said. “If you’re asking me if I would do it in the future, I would not, but you can’t go back in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Jaffray charged the district $569,416 to underwrite the bond, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, Alvord’s chief business officer, lamented the lack of financial expertise that leaves many districts unqualified to navigate complex bond deals – or to do business with high-powered financial advisers and Wall Street investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re swimming with the big sharks,” said Calderon, who likened running a school district to heading up a large corporation. “These are principals and assistant superintendents of curriculum, and they’re being promoted in the role of a chief business officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Napa, Alvord had reached the $60 tax cap at the time it decided to issue its capital appreciation bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Hillcrest High School opened in 2012, Calderon said, Alvord’s other two high schools were bursting at the seams. Postponing construction on the new school would have meant holding classes in portable structures, “like a tent city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the district unable to borrow more money with traditional bonds and voters demanding a new school, district leaders began to feel the political heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of those situations that people are forced into when there’s a lot of pressure put on by either boards or superintendents, that they want this building finished and they want it today,” Calderon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cycle of borrowing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvord’s financial troubles date back at least five years, when the district got stuck in a cycle of borrowing money to pay off previous loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our whole issue is that, technically, the district is bankrupt,” said Scott Andrews, an Alvord district resident who has led opposition to the district’s borrowing practices, which according to district officials have left taxpayers $500 million in debt. “No one has been able to explain to me how they’re going to pay this back in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson brushed off criticism that the district had dug a hole for itself by spending more than it could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alvord at times has been secondary in some people’s minds in the county of Riverside,” Johnson said. “We want to make sure our students don’t go without any opportunities, not just educational but in terms of facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hence the extravagant design of Hillcrest High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Built into the side of a hill, the campus features state-of-the-art facilities, including a stadium, aquatic center and air-conditioned gym. But even after issuing the $57 million bond to complete the school’s construction, parts of the campus remain unfinished because the district ran out of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the stadium has no seats. The district could not afford them, so families bring lawn chairs to watch the school’s football games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was supposed to be an Olympic-size swimming pool was scaled down by half to 25 meters when construction money ran out, leaving a large concrete deck where the rest of the pool was meant to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Calderon first toured the aquatic center after joining the district last summer, he was shocked. “The first words out of my mouth were, ‘Where is the rest of the pool?’ ” he recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Hillcrest originally was designed to serve 2,500 students, the district had to scratch an entire wing of classrooms from the building plans due to budget shortages. The school now has space for 1,600 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each classroom cost $10,000 to furnish with hardware and technology, including digital blackboards that likely will be obsolete when the district’s first bond payment comes due in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school sat empty for a year after it was built because the district did not have enough money to operate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Calderon insists that Alvord didn’t overreach. Although the district is $500 million in debt, he said, it’s “good debt” put toward facilities that will enhance learning for generations of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe one of these years or one of these decades,” he said, “if we ever get to sell another bond or do fundraising, maybe we can break open that concrete and build ourselves a true 50-meter, Olympic-size pool.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Trey Bundy and Shane Shifflett, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/controversial-school-bonds-create-debt-next-generation-18795\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herb Calderon stood on the campus of Hillcrest High School, staring at a wall that cost $10 million to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mile-long barrier was constructed to prevent the hillside above from sliding into the new school during a heavy storm. The state-of-the-art campus with its extravagant sculpted concrete wall, he said, has helped upgrade the image of the downtrodden district.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/30/borrowing-millions-paying-many-times-more-school-districts-take-heat-for-risky-bonds/\">\u003cstrong>More on Bay Area schools using the controversial bonds\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“They wanted a beautiful high school, and we gave them a beautiful high school,” said Calderon, assistant superintendent for business services of the Alvord Unified School District in Riverside. “If people knew how much it cost, I’m sure we’d get some flak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school, including the wall, cost $110 million to build, but by 2046, when it is finally paid for, it will have cost taxpayers at least $485 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ec2P3EQhWmM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvord is one of at least 1,350 school districts and government agencies across the nation that have turned to a controversial form of borrowing called capital appreciation bonds to finance major projects, a California Watch analysis of bond financing data in the U.S. shows. Relying on these bonds has allowed districts to borrow billions of dollars while postponing payments in some cases for decades. \u003c!--more-->This form of borrowing has created billions of dollars in debt for taxpayers and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for financial advisers and underwriters. Voters are usually unaware of the bonds’ high interest. At least one state, Michigan, has banned their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, where rules governing the loans are among the loosest, more than 400 school districts and other agencies have racked up greater capital appreciation bond debt in the past six years than in any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have borrowed $9 billion that will cost taxpayers $36 billion to repay over the next 40 years, according to data compiled by California Treasurer Bill Lockyer. He called it “debt for the next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The average tenure of a school superintendent is about three and a half years, so they aren’t going to be around in most instances to worry about paying that off,” Lockyer said in an interview. “Nor will the voters, probably, that enacted it in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The capital appreciation bond business in California has been lucrative for dozens of private financial advisers, banks and credit rating firms that have charged government entities nearly $400 million for financial services since 2007, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bonds are unusual in public finance because they postpone debt far into the future. Typical school bonds require borrowers to begin making payments immediately and cost two to three times the principal amount to repay. But with deferred payments, districts have ended up paying as much as 23 times the amount borrowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to issue these bonds instead of traditional bonds typically is made by district officials after voters have approved bond measures, and the public usually has no knowledge of how much they will cost to repay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Lockyer and Tom Torlakson, the state superintendent of public instruction, called for a statewide moratorium on capital appreciation bonds until new legislation limiting their use is in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue first came to light last year after the Voice of San Diego and a Michigan blogger reported on a questionable capital appreciation bond issued by the Poway Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a California Watch analysis shows that the issue is not unique to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2007, school districts and government agencies in at least 27 states and Puerto Rico have financed projects with capital appreciation bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Texas, 590 districts and other government entities have issued these bonds over the past six years – more than any other state, according to a California Watch review of a database maintained by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, a federal regulatory agency that oversees the municipal bond market. California was second, with 404, followed by Ohio, with 202.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the total amount of debt generated by these bonds is unclear. States rely on varying methods for reporting, and in some cases the data is incomplete. Many capital appreciation bonds were issued in packages with other types of bonds, and national databases do not tally their independent values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, some of the most dubious deals occurred in San Diego County, where the Poway Unified School District in 2011 used the bonds to borrow $105 million that will cost $982 million to pay back, a repayment rate of about 9.4 to 1. The same year, the Santee School District borrowed $3.5 million that must be repaid at $58.6 million, or 16.6 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides school districts, four agencies that receive tobacco-company payments from a court settlement have issued these bonds to construct health care facilities and operate programs. The largest was issued by the Inland Empire Tobacco Securitization Authority – a $206.4 million bond that will cost $3.8 billion to pay back, or more than 18 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To finish building Hillcrest High School, the Alvord district issued a $57 million bond in 2011. By 2046, when the loan is paid off, Calderon said, it will have cost taxpayers $375 million – 6.6 times the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, who joined the Alvord district as chief business officer in July, called the deal “a necessary evil” and said falling property tax revenue and dwindling state funding had left districts with no choice but to engage in risky borrowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this was a mortgage, you would run,” he said. “But this type of creative financing is what we’re forced to do.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBypassing state tax cap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California districts, including Alvord, have used the bonds to get around a state limit on property taxes. To pay off bonds, unified school districts are allowed to tax residents no more than $60 per $100,000 of their assessed property value each year. By issuing capital appreciation bonds, districts that have reached that limit can push the tax burdens of new bonds far into the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When districts issue these bonds, they are betting that property values will increase enough over time to pay their debts. They often hire private firms to calculate property value projections and structure the deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The private firms are paid to determine how much money is safe for districts to borrow, but Lockyer said some financial advisers appear to have exaggerated property value growth projections to get the deals approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although private firms are not obligated to report their fees to state regulators, the state treasurer’s office has compiled some fee information found in official bond statements. At least 42 financial firms have charged school districts and other agencies in California a total of $389 million since 2007, Lockyer’s office reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data available to the treasurer, Caldwell Flores Winters, a California-based company specializing in public finance, made the most money advising on California’s capital appreciation bonds – $6.8 million on 84 deals. Second was Dale Scott & Co. in San Francisco, with 55 deals worth $4.6 million. California Financial Services, a financial planning firm, was third with $3.5 million on 28 deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial advisers have been meeting with Lockyer and state legislators to discuss a measure that would limit repayment rates to as little as four times the amount borrowed with capital appreciation bonds, also known as CABs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though CABs can be a useful tool in managing a district's debt, it appears there have been a number of abuses,” said Dale Scott, whose firm was hired by Alvord last year to help manage the district’s debt. “That's why we strongly support the proposed legislation that would provide significant taxpayer protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While financial advisers help districts structure the bonds, underwriters – typically large banks and investment firms – broker the deals for a commission, selling the bonds whole or breaking them into smaller pieces and selling them to multiple investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to state records, Piper Jaffray was the busiest underwriter since 2007, brokering 165 capital appreciation bonds for a price of $638,045. Goldman Sachs made the most money as an underwriter during the same time period – $1.6 million on a single deal with the San Diego Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both firms declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Highly leveraged deals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, falling property values have hurt districts’ tax revenues, prompting some to turn to long-term bonds. Outside California, however, tighter regulations helped curb their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ohio, for instance, prohibits the type of ballooning debt structures found in many California deals by requiring bonds to maintain a flat debt service. That means the annual payment must remain roughly the same each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California removed its flat debt service requirement on long-term bonds in 2009 with the passage of AB 1388. The bill was sponsored by the California Public Securities Association, which lobbies state lawmakers on behalf of financial consultants and underwriters. An association official declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While districts have been relying on capital appreciation bonds for more than a decade, there was a slight increase in their use after the bill took effect, state data shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking back, the Legislature's decision to eliminate the flat debt service requirement in 2009 is what led to a lot of these highly leveraged deals,” said Scott, the financial adviser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts that issued these bonds fall into two categories: those that could not issue standard bonds because they had reached the $60 state tax cap, like Alvord, and others, like the Napa Valley Unified School District, that simply promised voters they would keep their tax rates low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa issued its bonds in 2009 and 2010, in part, because officials had pledged to keep the tax rate well below the state limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our promise to the voters of Napa was to keep their tax bill at or below $36, and we were able to accomplish that,” said Jose Hurtado, a Napa school board member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, Napa voters authorized $183 million to repair old school buildings and build a new high school in American Canyon, a rapidly growing area in southern Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2009, when the high school was nearly completed, property values had dropped and the district suddenly found itself short of cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the advice of KNN Public Finance, an Oakland firm, Napa issued a nearly $22 million capital appreciation bond. The loan will cost $154 million – seven times the principal – when it is paid off in 2049.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months later, the district issued another bond for $7 million that will have cost $28 million by 2033.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado said the board did not explain to voters the high cost of repaying the bonds, as far as he knows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t recall any of those conversations going on,” he said. “It doesn’t mean they didn’t happen, I just don’t recall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KNN charged the district $156,000 for advising on the deals, according to state records. Advisers at KNN declined to be interviewed, but Dave Olson, a managing director for the firm, said in a statement to California Watch that, ultimately, districts set their own fiscal policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The role of the financial advisor is to present the full range of reasonable alternatives to implement that policy,” the statement said. “We hope that the district feels we did so in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some officials have criticized districts like Napa for shifting debt to future taxpayers instead of asking voters to pay now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re trying to stay under a tax rate promised to the voters, that’s completely egregious,” said Glenn Byers, assistant treasurer of Los Angeles County, who has been critical of capital appreciation bonds that take longer than 25 years to repay.“If they’re not at the tax rate’s legal limit, it’s a slam dunk: They shouldn’t be doing (it).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Complex finance plans\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Napa’s school board understood the long-term implications when it approved the deal remains unclear. When California Watch first asked school board member Joe Schunk about the deal in November, he said Napa had not issued any capital appreciation bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, he called back and said he had been mistaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow board member Hurtado said that KNN had explained the deal but that “it was hard to understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re trying to have discussions about CABs versus traditional (bonds) and tax rates, occasionally it all runs together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lockyer said the inability of district leaders to grasp complex municipal finance is a problem around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen materials that went to a school board when they authorized the original issuance and there were blanks where the interest rate amount was to be determined someday,” he said. “But that’s what they saw when they agreed to a deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Johnson, a longtime school board member in Alvord, said he could not remember how the district’s $57 million deal was explained to the board when members approved it 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the thought process was that housing prices would increase,” he said. “If you’re asking me if I would do it in the future, I would not, but you can’t go back in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Jaffray charged the district $569,416 to underwrite the bond, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, Alvord’s chief business officer, lamented the lack of financial expertise that leaves many districts unqualified to navigate complex bond deals – or to do business with high-powered financial advisers and Wall Street investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re swimming with the big sharks,” said Calderon, who likened running a school district to heading up a large corporation. “These are principals and assistant superintendents of curriculum, and they’re being promoted in the role of a chief business officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Napa, Alvord had reached the $60 tax cap at the time it decided to issue its capital appreciation bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Hillcrest High School opened in 2012, Calderon said, Alvord’s other two high schools were bursting at the seams. Postponing construction on the new school would have meant holding classes in portable structures, “like a tent city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the district unable to borrow more money with traditional bonds and voters demanding a new school, district leaders began to feel the political heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of those situations that people are forced into when there’s a lot of pressure put on by either boards or superintendents, that they want this building finished and they want it today,” Calderon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cycle of borrowing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvord’s financial troubles date back at least five years, when the district got stuck in a cycle of borrowing money to pay off previous loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our whole issue is that, technically, the district is bankrupt,” said Scott Andrews, an Alvord district resident who has led opposition to the district’s borrowing practices, which according to district officials have left taxpayers $500 million in debt. “No one has been able to explain to me how they’re going to pay this back in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson brushed off criticism that the district had dug a hole for itself by spending more than it could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alvord at times has been secondary in some people’s minds in the county of Riverside,” Johnson said. “We want to make sure our students don’t go without any opportunities, not just educational but in terms of facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hence the extravagant design of Hillcrest High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Built into the side of a hill, the campus features state-of-the-art facilities, including a stadium, aquatic center and air-conditioned gym. But even after issuing the $57 million bond to complete the school’s construction, parts of the campus remain unfinished because the district ran out of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the stadium has no seats. The district could not afford them, so families bring lawn chairs to watch the school’s football games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was supposed to be an Olympic-size swimming pool was scaled down by half to 25 meters when construction money ran out, leaving a large concrete deck where the rest of the pool was meant to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Calderon first toured the aquatic center after joining the district last summer, he was shocked. “The first words out of my mouth were, ‘Where is the rest of the pool?’ ” he recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Hillcrest originally was designed to serve 2,500 students, the district had to scratch an entire wing of classrooms from the building plans due to budget shortages. The school now has space for 1,600 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each classroom cost $10,000 to furnish with hardware and technology, including digital blackboards that likely will be obsolete when the district’s first bond payment comes due in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school sat empty for a year after it was built because the district did not have enough money to operate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Calderon insists that Alvord didn’t overreach. Although the district is $500 million in debt, he said, it’s “good debt” put toward facilities that will enhance learning for generations of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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You can zoom in by double clicking or clicking on the plus sign in the map\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col7+from+1BPseekC08mUM7cziWnnhO2S0Zr5n_OnuOGiYZ3g&h=false&lat=37.79920474721051&lng=-122.20946932919918&z=12&t=1&l=col7&y=2&tmplt=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"575\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Click on each dot to see the date and time, case number, short description and address associated with each case. Click and drag to move the map. You can zoom in by double clicking or clicking on the plus sign in the map\u003c/em>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>Oakland gun crimes in 2012\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>4,174 gun-related crimes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2,091 robberies involving firearms\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>957 assaults with a firearm\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>783 reported shootings\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>200 felons or prohibited persons with firearms or illegal ammunition\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>True Vine Ministries pastor Zachary Carey says Oakland residents are living in a war zone, and he disputes the notion that most of those dying on the city’s streets have some tie to gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you hear about violence in America on the news, the tagline associated with it is gang-related,” Carey told KQED’s Mina Kim during a rally to bring attention to recent homicides. “But the reality is, people that are being murdered now are not gang-related, they’re innocent bystanders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tracking the Violence\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/preliminary-semiannual-uniform-crime-report-january-june-2012/data-tables/table-4-cuts/table_4_offenses_reported_to_law_enforcement_by_state_alabama_through_california_2012.xls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI crime data\u003c/a> shows Oakland had more homicides, robberies and other violent crimes during the first half of 2012 than San Francisco and San Jose–cities with more than double the population of Oakland. FBI crime data, the city’s only “official” record, according to Oakland Police Chief of Staff Sgt. 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The map draws from a raw database of crimes from those reports. KQED filtered for violations involving firearms, ammunition, shootings, armed robberies and homicides. These reports do not indicate whether any charges were brought for the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87372\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/guns201301141.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87372\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/guns201301141-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"(Scott Olson/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Scott Olson/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each dot on the map represents one case, although each case may consist of several crimes. For instance, a convicted felon with a firearm who committed an armed robbery could involve two reported crimes – one for illegal possession of a firearm and another for robbery with a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This map doesn’t represent all of Oakland’s gun-related homicides in 2012 because of how the Oakland Police Department filed its cases. (Some gun-related crimes are classified as simply “homicides,” and thus do not show up in the data.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some cases also have what may appear to be contradictory or redundant charges. A single case may involve a violation listed as “shoot at unoccupied dwelling/vehicle/etc” and a separate listing of “shoot at an occupied dwelling/vehicle/etc” for the same case. In an email response to a KQED query about such case reports, the Oakland Police Department wrote that “these are all valid, and accurately categorized because of the nature of incident. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86772\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 263px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/23/oakland-city-council-votes-to-hire-william-bratton-as-police-consultant/bratton20130123/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86772\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86772 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/bratton20130123-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"William Bratton in 2010. Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Conde Nast\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Bratton in 2010. Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Conde Nast\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former Los Angeles and New York City police chief William Bratton is officially on his way to Oakland to help advise the city’s struggling police force, which is contending with a sharp rise in homicides and other crimes. Bratton’s hire, part of a $250,000 contract retaining him and his consulting firm, was finalized by the Oakland City Council 7-1 after a nine-hour meeting plus four hours of public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bratton is a policing superstar who is widely credited with achieving sharp crime reductions in New York and LA, the country’s two most populous cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some civil rights groups have criticized his reliance on “stop-and-frisk,” in which officers detain individuals they deem to be suspicious and search them for guns, and which has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=stop+and+frisk+racial+profiling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linked to racial profiling\u003c/a> by critics. Some opponents of the consultancy also worry Bratton will push for anti-gang injunctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bratton’s supporters, including Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, have said they would not support a move toward “stop-and-frisk.” \u003c!--more-->KQED’s Stephanie Martin interviewed Bratton on Wednesday. Bratton was in Detroit, where he is also currently consulting. Edited transcript…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephanie Martin\u003c/strong>: Last night’s council meeting was emotionally charged and a lot of the anger had to do with the mistrust that many Oakland residents feel when it comes to law enforcement. How does the police department begin to change that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>William Bratton\u003c/strong>: Well, one of the issues we had to deal with in Los Angeles when I was appointed chief in 2002 was a pretty deteriorating relationship between the department and the city’s African-American community. Actually it was described as open warfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>You have to ensure that it’s being done compassionately and always remember you are dealing with human beings\u003c/strong>.”\n\u003cp>–William Bratton on stop-and-frisk\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I left seven years later, all of the policies, procedures and changes that had been put in place resulted in not only crime declines every year, but polling indicated more than two-thirds of the city’s African American community and its growing Latino population thought the department was doing a good to very good job. I understand those numbers have actually increased since I left several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the situation in Oakland, which is well-known, is about the distrust of a large part of the population and the feeling of many members of the police department that they are not respected or trusted. That was successfully addressed in Los Angeles and I see no reason why the leadership in Oakland, the mayor, the city manager, the council and the police chief would not be able to address it by reducing crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin\u003c/strong>: The stop-and-frisk policies that you’ve promoted in the past are of course controversial. And some Oakland residents are saying this tactic invites racial profiling. What do you say to them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bratton\u003c/strong>: The issue of stop-and-frisk is certainly of great concern in Oakland and I’m not familiar enough with the city at this stage to really comment on your specific issue. I’m certainly aware of it in New York, where it has been a very contentious the last year or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop-and-frisk is an area where the police have to be very, very careful to ensure that they’re in compliance with the constitutional guidelines that authorize it, in \u003ca href=\"http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0392_0001_ZS.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terry v. Ohio. \u003c/a>And in dealing with the use of stop-and-frisk it is very important to address it in much the same way as the racial profiling issues of the 90s had to be addressed by police. Stop-and- frisk is the racial profiling issue, if you will, of the 21st century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to ensure you are always using that tool constitutionally, meaning you have to comply with the very stringent guidelines. That can be done through training and supervision. You have to ensure that it’s being done compassionately and always remember you are dealing with human beings. And you want to ensure that it’s done consistently, that you don’t apply it separately in a poor neighborhood and a rich neighborhood, you don’t interact with blacks differently than you do with whites or Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues in Oakland — I’ve not been there, I will soon be there. But stop-and-frisk is I think an issue that can be addressed in a way in which both sides are mollified. The police need it as a tool. The community just wants to ensure that the tool is not used in an inappropriate way.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>You can gripe and groan as much as you want; it is a fact of life\u003c/strong>.”\n\u003cp>–Bratton on the consent decree OPD must comply with \u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin\u003c/strong>: Violent crime is getting the most attention in Oakland right now but many other types of offenses have spiked too. For example, auto burglaries have nearly doubled last year. Is there a quick way for the city to get a handle on that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bratton\u003c/strong>: We’re being asked to do two things: look at the crime problem and develop crime strategies with the Oakland police department based on the priorities they feel need to be addressed. So if the issue of car burglaries is one of those then we’ll certainly be willing to add expertise to that of the Oakland PD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second area that we’re being asked to concentrate on is the enhancement of the CompStat process. This is a system I created in New York in the 90s, the management data accountability system, in which you use crime stats to identify very quickly where you need to put your cops. You use it as an accountability tool to ensure that your leaders and your managers know what’s going on in their respective areas and are dealing with them effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if not — why not? It’s a system that has been used extraordinarily effectively in New York and Los Angeles. New York is now into its twentieth year of crime decline, with about an 80 percent decline. And LA is into its tenth year, with a 55-60 percent decline. We’re hopeful that the system can be applied in a very similar, successful way in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin\u003c/strong>: Right now Oakland’s police force has about 25 percent fewer officers than it did a couple of years ago. How big a factor do you think that reduction might be playing in the crime problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bratton\u003c/strong>: Well, there’s no denying that a loss of 25 percent of your force is going to have an impact. Whether it’s in visibility, response to calls, or in the ability to have specialized units that can focus on specialized crime problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the reality is you have what you have and to try and use them to the best effect possible. That’s where prioritization and focus come into play. The importance of the CompStat system is it really gives you a sense of where you’re getting the biggest bang for the buck with the personnel you do have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, some of my colleagues did a study there in 2006, some of which has just recently been implemented by Chief Jordan: the geographic distribution system with five police precincts. Part of our challenge will be coming in to very quickly get a sense of what the current circumstances are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin\u003c/strong>: Oakland police are making far fewer stops and arrests than they did a few years ago. Some officers say that that’s because of all the paperwork and recordkeeping required and because every stop they make is under careful scrutiny by a federal court. Is that concern legitimate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bratton\u003c/strong>: Well it’s exactly the same concern that was voiced in 2002, when I went to the LAPD. And we got the federal consent decree implemented and we got crime down by about 60 percent. We got the cops out of their cars and motivated once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So hopefully working with Chief Jordan gives me the opportunity to provide some thoughts about experiences elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is what it is. You have a federal consent decree that was brought about because of the sense that the department was not performing appropriately. It’s not going to go away until certain elements are complied with. And you can gripe and groan as much as you want; it is a fact of life. Once you face that reality … in L.A., we made it one of the top three priorities to get it done, get it over with and move on. 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I understand those numbers have actually increased since I left several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the situation in Oakland, which is well-known, is about the distrust of a large part of the population and the feeling of many members of the police department that they are not respected or trusted. That was successfully addressed in Los Angeles and I see no reason why the leadership in Oakland, the mayor, the city manager, the council and the police chief would not be able to address it by reducing crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin\u003c/strong>: The stop-and-frisk policies that you’ve promoted in the past are of course controversial. And some Oakland residents are saying this tactic invites racial profiling. What do you say to them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bratton\u003c/strong>: The issue of stop-and-frisk is certainly of great concern in Oakland and I’m not familiar enough with the city at this stage to really comment on your specific issue. I’m certainly aware of it in New York, where it has been a very contentious the last year or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop-and-frisk is an area where the police have to be very, very careful to ensure that they’re in compliance with the constitutional guidelines that authorize it, in \u003ca href=\"http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0392_0001_ZS.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terry v. Ohio. \u003c/a>And in dealing with the use of stop-and-frisk it is very important to address it in much the same way as the racial profiling issues of the 90s had to be addressed by police. Stop-and- frisk is the racial profiling issue, if you will, of the 21st century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to ensure you are always using that tool constitutionally, meaning you have to comply with the very stringent guidelines. That can be done through training and supervision. You have to ensure that it’s being done compassionately and always remember you are dealing with human beings. And you want to ensure that it’s done consistently, that you don’t apply it separately in a poor neighborhood and a rich neighborhood, you don’t interact with blacks differently than you do with whites or Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues in Oakland — I’ve not been there, I will soon be there. But stop-and-frisk is I think an issue that can be addressed in a way in which both sides are mollified. The police need it as a tool. The community just wants to ensure that the tool is not used in an inappropriate way.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>You can gripe and groan as much as you want; it is a fact of life\u003c/strong>.”\n\u003cp>–Bratton on the consent decree OPD must comply with \u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin\u003c/strong>: Violent crime is getting the most attention in Oakland right now but many other types of offenses have spiked too. For example, auto burglaries have nearly doubled last year. 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It’s a system that has been used extraordinarily effectively in New York and Los Angeles. New York is now into its twentieth year of crime decline, with about an 80 percent decline. And LA is into its tenth year, with a 55-60 percent decline. We’re hopeful that the system can be applied in a very similar, successful way in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin\u003c/strong>: Right now Oakland’s police force has about 25 percent fewer officers than it did a couple of years ago. How big a factor do you think that reduction might be playing in the crime problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bratton\u003c/strong>: Well, there’s no denying that a loss of 25 percent of your force is going to have an impact. Whether it’s in visibility, response to calls, or in the ability to have specialized units that can focus on specialized crime problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the reality is you have what you have and to try and use them to the best effect possible. 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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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 ... 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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 ... 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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. The Yudofs have two grown children — a son, Seth, and a daughter, Samara.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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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. 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