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Sweet also grew alarmed, she said, after seeing the soliciting continue day after day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But BART staff responded to the board in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372850-bart-memo.html\" target=\"_blank\">December memo\u003c/a> that \"the speech activities are protected on the grounds that the Church is a religious organization engaged in charitable solicitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew students have been raising money for years, but it's \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">unclear\u003c/a> where the money is going. The pastor drives a Cadillac Escalade while the school building needs repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch recently uncovered \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/oakland-school-accused-abuse-overbilling-taxpayers-records-show-16428\" target=\"_blank\">allegations of abuse\u003c/a> at the hands of Robert Lacy Jr., who teaches at the school and sometimes takes students to solicit at BART stations. Former students said he hit and threw things at children in his classes. Lacy Jr. has said he doesn't have \"any history\" of hitting children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweet said the staff decision to keep monthly permits flowing to St. Andrew was \"the wrong thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It didn’t appear that they were raising money for a legitimate cause,\" she said. \"It also appeared that they were out there too long – they were being abused.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Luna Salaver said that as a public agency, BART has to issue the permits \"on a level playing field.\" She said BART police monitored the situation and did not observe any violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"BART takes children’s safety very seriously,\" Salaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372852-bart-permit-june-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">this month's permit\u003c/a> to Andrew Lacy, another son of the pastor. The permit allows fundraising every day from 5 to 7 p.m. at seven BART stations in Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy has a history of illegal activity. He pleaded guilty to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366460-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">felony welfare fraud\u003c/a> in 2004, according to court records. And, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372858-andrew-lacy-2002-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\">police records\u003c/a> newly obtained by California Watch, he was also arrested in 2002 on charges of injuring his girlfriend with a club. He was convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in that case, which was later dismissed after he satisfied the conditions of his probation, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART does not conduct a criminal background check before issuing permits, Salaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>In a separate custody court case this year, the father of Andrew Lacy's stepdaughter – then a student at St. Andrew – accused Lacy of threatening to slap the girl if she didn't solicit at BART stations. The girl’s mother denied the allegations in court filings, but the judge gave primary custody to the father, specifying that the girl not engage in soliciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, state officials plan to investigate whether the Oakland Unified School District mismanaged federal funds as it distributed money to St. Andrew teachers. California Watch found that the school's reported enrollment numbers, used to determine its level of federal funding, far exceeded the number of students who actually attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified distributes Title I money based on the number of low-income students and Title II money based on total enrollment. The district uses enrollment figures reported to the state to allocate Title II funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew reported to the state it had 195 students this year, including 61 low-income students, while former students said fewer than 30 attended. An Oakland fire inspector observed 15 to 20 students and determined that the classrooms could fit no more than 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a federal program to improve teaching and help struggling students at both public and private schools, Oakland Unified allocated at least $50,000 to benefit St. Andrew this school year and paid out $173,500 over the previous four years. Most of the money went to Lacy Jr. and Carrie Banks, a St. Andrew teacher who married the pastor in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified spokesman Troy Flint said the state is responsible for making sure the numbers are accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just makes common sense,\" Flint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state Education Department spokesman Paul Hefner said the state does not check the enrollment figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local school districts, he said, “need to take steps to verify those numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hefner said the state is moving up a planned routine review of the district's distribution of Title I and II funds from January\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to September because of the controversy. The review, he said, will also look into whether the money should have gone to Lacy Jr. and Banks, since the law requires it be used for consultants who are \"independent\" of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district could be on the hook for refunding any misspent money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, the district allocated $1.2 million to benefit Oakland private school students and teachers during the 2011-12 school year, according to district records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will Evans is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now it sounds like it’s getting into harassing individuals that aren’t bothering anyone,\" he said in an interview. \"It sounds like you’re trying to defame the character of the school and the church and everything that has to do with St. Andrew.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART has routinely granted permits allowing St. Andrew to solicit donations, and staff previously defended that action to its board citing free speech rights. But Sweet and Director Robert Raburn now are asking BART's lawyers to determine what leeway the agency has to restrict the soliciting activities of St. Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By all accounts, this is not a group that we want to promote on public property,\" Raburn wrote in an email to California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raburn said he became concerned last year when he saw unsupervised St. Andrew students asking for money at the Fruitvale BART after dark. Sweet also grew alarmed, she said, after seeing the soliciting continue day after day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But BART staff responded to the board in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372850-bart-memo.html\" target=\"_blank\">December memo\u003c/a> that \"the speech activities are protected on the grounds that the Church is a religious organization engaged in charitable solicitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew students have been raising money for years, but it's \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">unclear\u003c/a> where the money is going. The pastor drives a Cadillac Escalade while the school building needs repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch recently uncovered \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/oakland-school-accused-abuse-overbilling-taxpayers-records-show-16428\" target=\"_blank\">allegations of abuse\u003c/a> at the hands of Robert Lacy Jr., who teaches at the school and sometimes takes students to solicit at BART stations. Former students said he hit and threw things at children in his classes. Lacy Jr. has said he doesn't have \"any history\" of hitting children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweet said the staff decision to keep monthly permits flowing to St. Andrew was \"the wrong thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It didn’t appear that they were raising money for a legitimate cause,\" she said. \"It also appeared that they were out there too long – they were being abused.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Luna Salaver said that as a public agency, BART has to issue the permits \"on a level playing field.\" She said BART police monitored the situation and did not observe any violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"BART takes children’s safety very seriously,\" Salaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372852-bart-permit-june-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">this month's permit\u003c/a> to Andrew Lacy, another son of the pastor. The permit allows fundraising every day from 5 to 7 p.m. at seven BART stations in Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy has a history of illegal activity. He pleaded guilty to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366460-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">felony welfare fraud\u003c/a> in 2004, according to court records. And, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372858-andrew-lacy-2002-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\">police records\u003c/a> newly obtained by California Watch, he was also arrested in 2002 on charges of injuring his girlfriend with a club. He was convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in that case, which was later dismissed after he satisfied the conditions of his probation, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART does not conduct a criminal background check before issuing permits, Salaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>In a separate custody court case this year, the father of Andrew Lacy's stepdaughter – then a student at St. Andrew – accused Lacy of threatening to slap the girl if she didn't solicit at BART stations. The girl’s mother denied the allegations in court filings, but the judge gave primary custody to the father, specifying that the girl not engage in soliciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, state officials plan to investigate whether the Oakland Unified School District mismanaged federal funds as it distributed money to St. Andrew teachers. California Watch found that the school's reported enrollment numbers, used to determine its level of federal funding, far exceeded the number of students who actually attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified distributes Title I money based on the number of low-income students and Title II money based on total enrollment. The district uses enrollment figures reported to the state to allocate Title II funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew reported to the state it had 195 students this year, including 61 low-income students, while former students said fewer than 30 attended. An Oakland fire inspector observed 15 to 20 students and determined that the classrooms could fit no more than 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a federal program to improve teaching and help struggling students at both public and private schools, Oakland Unified allocated at least $50,000 to benefit St. Andrew this school year and paid out $173,500 over the previous four years. Most of the money went to Lacy Jr. and Carrie Banks, a St. Andrew teacher who married the pastor in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified spokesman Troy Flint said the state is responsible for making sure the numbers are accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just makes common sense,\" Flint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state Education Department spokesman Paul Hefner said the state does not check the enrollment figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local school districts, he said, “need to take steps to verify those numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hefner said the state is moving up a planned routine review of the district's distribution of Title I and II funds from January\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to September because of the controversy. The review, he said, will also look into whether the money should have gone to Lacy Jr. and Banks, since the law requires it be used for consultants who are \"independent\" of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district could be on the hook for refunding any misspent money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, the district allocated $1.2 million to benefit Oakland private school students and teachers during the 2011-12 school year, according to district records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will Evans is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Erica Perez, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/accrediting-agency-questions-culinary/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the agencies that accredits San Francisco's California Culinary Academy is questioning the veracity of the college's reported job placement rates – ordering the school's parent company to provide audited placement data by September in order to maintain its accreditation status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/BayCitizenLogo3.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-68693\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/BayCitizenLogo3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>The Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges issued the order to Career Education Corp., a Schaumburg, Ill.-based for-profit college company, earlier this month. California Culinary Academy is one of 10 schools included in the directive, according to a recent company filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move marks another round of scrutiny of the claims Career Education makes about job opportunities students have after attending its schools. Career Education agreed in 2010 to pay $40 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in which former students said the California Culinary Academy had misled them with its claim that 97 percent of graduates got jobs in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also claimed that California Culinary Academy deceived students by promising robust career placement services that never materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68730\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/chef.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-68730\" title=\"chef\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/chef-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thinkstock\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the New York attorney general issued a subpoena requesting information on several aspects of the company's operations, including its employment outcomes. Also last year, another accrediting agency, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, issued a show cause order \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/accreditor-seeks-more-accurate-job-placement-data-profits-14644\" target=\"_blank\">demanding\u003c/a> that the company provide more accurate job placement data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of that inquiry and the new data submitted by Career Education, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools \u003ca href=\"http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046568/000119312512225693/d323889d10q.htm\" target=\"_blank\">determined\u003c/a> earlier this year that 85 percent of the Career Education schools it accredits – 60 out of 71 campuses – fell below the agency's 65 percent placement rate standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools did not revoke the schools' accreditation but is implementing additional oversight of the 60 campuses. The agency placed four of these campuses on probation for posting job placement rates of 40 percent or below. Those campuses are Sanford-Brown College in Indianapolis; Sanford-Brown College in Milwaukee; Sanford-Brown Institute in Landover, Md.;and the online campus of the International Academy of Design & Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also as a result of that probe, Career Education plans to post its revised job placement rates on each school's website in the next couple of weeks, company spokesman Tony Mitchell said. Mitchell said he did not know whether the California Culinary Academy's rates would be revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the current show cause order could lead the accrediting agency to revoke the colleges' accreditation, such actions are relatively rare. From May 2011 to May 2012, the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges issued 41 show cause orders and revoked accreditation at seven schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michale S. 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But he did say prospective students should be aware that in many cases, the company's reported job placement rates were wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that students should certainly look at and be cognizant of the data that the schools are providing, and that my agency or another agency has been looking into the accuracy of that,\" McComis said. \"That's an important part of their decision, in making choices about enrolling at any institution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell, the Career Education Corp. spokesman, said the company is confident it will maintain accreditation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not in a position to guarantee the outcome of the ACCSC show cause action, but ... we were able to successfully resolve the matter with a prior accreditor, and we have taken a number of steps in addition to just verifying the placement data,\" he said. \"It leaves us feeling confident about our policies and practices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, lawmakers are debating \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml;jsessionid=fb26709e73be6c01b8866926a8e2?bill_id=201120120AB2296\" target=\"_blank\">AB 2296\u003c/a>, which would put in place more stringent criteria for calculating job placement rates. Currently, the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education allows colleges to count graduates as \"employed in the field\" if the skills they got through their education provided a \"significant advantage\" in obtaining the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has allowed some colleges to overstate the number of graduates who are putting their education to good use, said Elisabeth Voigt, senior staff attorney at Public Advocates, a nonprofit law firm and advocacy group in San Francisco that supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 2296, by Assemblyman Marty Block, D-Lemon Grove, would push the bureau to tighten the requirements for counting a student as employed in the field. It passed the Senate Education Committee last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under current law, students can easily get misleading information about two of the most important sources of data,\" Voigt said. \"The purpose of the bill is to make sure that students are not misled on the state-required form.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Under one scenario, in-state tuition would increase by 6 percent to $12,923, roughly double what students paid five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a substantial boost in state funding, UC will need to find other ways to raise revenue or cut costs to pay for promised retirement benefits, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``This is a very significant challenge to the UC system,'' said UC Executive Vice President Nathan Brostrom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials want the state to make pension contributions, as it does for the California State University and California Community Colleges systems. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Corey G. Johnson, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/audit-seismic-regulator-must-improve-building-plan-oversight-16551\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/school.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64778\" title=\"school\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>The office that oversees the seismic safety of California's public schools can't show that it has approved all building plan changes, heightening the risk that some schools don't meet standards and are unsafe, according to a state auditor's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Division of the State Architect is required to ensure that all school building plans meet earthquake safety standards. But a review by the California State Auditor's office found that\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>changes in plans frequently aren't approved and that the regulatory office lacks processes to track the alterations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report urges regulators to improve their handling of school \"change documents\" to lessen the possibility of contractors erecting an unsafe building. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/367681-2011-116-2-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Regulations require that the school districts’ design professionals submit plan changes to the division for review and approval before undertaking related construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several holes in the plan change process create a situation where the division cannot demonstrate that it has approved all plan changes before the start of related construction, risking construction that does not meet building standards and that may be unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the division’s Project Certification Guide states that there have been many instances where the field change process was not followed and change orders did not receive division approval, yet construction was completed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003cp>In a letter to the auditor, Fred Klass, director of the Department of General Services, pledged that new rules would be implemented by the end of the year that would assure \"all relevant plan changes are received, reviewed, approved and documented by the division.\" The general services department is the parent body of the state architect's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law requires the state architect's office to enforce the Field Act – seismic regulations for schools that were enacted nearly 80 years ago. The law is considered a gold standard of construction, and it requires oversight from state regulators to ensure professional engineering and quality control from the early design phase to the first day of classes. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Field Act grants these regulators \"the police power of the state\" over the construction of public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The (department) is firmly committed to effectively and efficiently overseeing the plan review functions performed by the (state architect's office),\" Klass wrote. \"As part of its continuing efforts to improve that process, the (department) will take appropriate actions to address the issues presented in the report.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor's report, released May 31, concluded a two-part review requested last year by Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, and other state legislators. The legislators made the request in response to a California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/earthquakes\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> last year that found that more than 16,000 school projects don't meet Field Act standards, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/83255-02-proposal-leg-certification-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">at least 59,000 more\u003c/a> have yet to be fully reviewed by the state architect’s office. Roughly 42,000 students attend schools with \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/thousands-students-attending-schools-unresolved-safety-issues-14142\" target=\"_blank\">unresolved safety issues\u003c/a>, California Watch found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, auditors issued the first part of its review – a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/audit-sloppy-oversight-increases-risk-unsafe-school-buildings-13964\" target=\"_blank\">scathing report\u003c/a> that concluded that regulator oversight was “neither effective nor comprehensive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The May audit found other weaknesses at the agency, including no proof of employee training on rule changes, inaccurate and unreliable data about the agency's workload, and missing documentation concerning agency actions and decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state architect's office should set goals to make certain its building plan reviews are done efficiently and seek outside contracting help during workload peaks, the report suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbett, who has proposed legislation that would form a panel of experts to devise fixes to the broken oversight system, said the latest audit raises new questions and highlights the need for reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The auditor makes clear that changes in construction plans in the past have not been adequately reviewed and documented,” Corbett said in a statement. “Although I am encouraged by the progress being made by the new state architect, this audit underscores the need for legislation that I have authored to make sure the job is being done to certify that school buildings are seismically safe and that we protect our California school children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Corey G. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Corey G. Johnson, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/audit-seismic-regulator-must-improve-building-plan-oversight-16551\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/school.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64778\" title=\"school\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>The office that oversees the seismic safety of California's public schools can't show that it has approved all building plan changes, heightening the risk that some schools don't meet standards and are unsafe, according to a state auditor's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Division of the State Architect is required to ensure that all school building plans meet earthquake safety standards. But a review by the California State Auditor's office found that\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>changes in plans frequently aren't approved and that the regulatory office lacks processes to track the alterations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report urges regulators to improve their handling of school \"change documents\" to lessen the possibility of contractors erecting an unsafe building. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/367681-2011-116-2-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Regulations require that the school districts’ design professionals submit plan changes to the division for review and approval before undertaking related construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several holes in the plan change process create a situation where the division cannot demonstrate that it has approved all plan changes before the start of related construction, risking construction that does not meet building standards and that may be unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the division’s Project Certification Guide states that there have been many instances where the field change process was not followed and change orders did not receive division approval, yet construction was completed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003cp>In a letter to the auditor, Fred Klass, director of the Department of General Services, pledged that new rules would be implemented by the end of the year that would assure \"all relevant plan changes are received, reviewed, approved and documented by the division.\" The general services department is the parent body of the state architect's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law requires the state architect's office to enforce the Field Act – seismic regulations for schools that were enacted nearly 80 years ago. The law is considered a gold standard of construction, and it requires oversight from state regulators to ensure professional engineering and quality control from the early design phase to the first day of classes. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Field Act grants these regulators \"the police power of the state\" over the construction of public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The (department) is firmly committed to effectively and efficiently overseeing the plan review functions performed by the (state architect's office),\" Klass wrote. \"As part of its continuing efforts to improve that process, the (department) will take appropriate actions to address the issues presented in the report.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor's report, released May 31, concluded a two-part review requested last year by Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, and other state legislators. The legislators made the request in response to a California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/earthquakes\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> last year that found that more than 16,000 school projects don't meet Field Act standards, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/83255-02-proposal-leg-certification-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">at least 59,000 more\u003c/a> have yet to be fully reviewed by the state architect’s office. Roughly 42,000 students attend schools with \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/thousands-students-attending-schools-unresolved-safety-issues-14142\" target=\"_blank\">unresolved safety issues\u003c/a>, California Watch found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, auditors issued the first part of its review – a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/audit-sloppy-oversight-increases-risk-unsafe-school-buildings-13964\" target=\"_blank\">scathing report\u003c/a> that concluded that regulator oversight was “neither effective nor comprehensive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The May audit found other weaknesses at the agency, including no proof of employee training on rule changes, inaccurate and unreliable data about the agency's workload, and missing documentation concerning agency actions and decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state architect's office should set goals to make certain its building plan reviews are done efficiently and seek outside contracting help during workload peaks, the report suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbett, who has proposed legislation that would form a panel of experts to devise fixes to the broken oversight system, said the latest audit raises new questions and highlights the need for reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The auditor makes clear that changes in construction plans in the past have not been adequately reviewed and documented,” Corbett said in a statement. “Although I am encouraged by the progress being made by the new state architect, this audit underscores the need for legislation that I have authored to make sure the job is being done to certify that school buildings are seismically safe and that we protect our California school children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Corey G. Johnson is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/audit-seismic-regulator-must-improve-building-plan-oversight-16551\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Oakland School Accused of Abuse is Also Overbilling Taxpayers",
"title": "Oakland School Accused of Abuse is Also Overbilling Taxpayers",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Will Evans, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/oakland-school-accused-abuse-overbilling-taxpayers-records-show-16428\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A West Oakland church school that makes its students ask for money at BART stations appears to have vastly inflated its enrollment numbers to collect extra taxpayer funding, some of which goes to a teacher who former students say physically abused them and other children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_67187\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/St.Andrew_08_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-67187 \" title=\"St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church in West Oakland. Tuesday May 29th, 2012\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/St.Andrew_08_web-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church in West Oakland (Michael Short/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And for years, St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church and \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/899/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">private school\u003c/a> has operated with virtually no government oversight despite repeated red flags. The K-12 school is run by \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/51212.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Lacy\u003c/a>, 79, a pastor who pleaded guilty in 2007 to theft of government money for taking his deceased father’s Social Security payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents and interviews show St. Andrew has inflated its enrollment numbers, allowing school officials to reap tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funding they might not have deserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District – which oversees federal funding to aid the education of low-income students and others in private schools – allocated $50,000 this school year to St. Andrew. The funding was based on the school’s claim that it had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357631-2011-12-affidavit.html\" target=\"_blank\">195\u003c/a> students, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/365536-title-i-students.html\" target=\"_blank\">61\u003c/a> low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the previous four school years, Oakland Unified paid a total of $173,500 in federal funds to benefit St. Andrew based on its enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet former students and their parents said the school had no more than 30 students, and sometimes much fewer. An Oakland fire inspector said the school isn’t allowed to have more than 58 people in its classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents said they paid up to $400 per month for tuition, while others said the school was free – as long as their children raised funds at BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate interviews, several former students said the pastor's son Robert Lacy Jr., and a teacher and church leader, would hit, kick and throw things at students. Nine-year-old Corey Butler said Lacy Jr. hit him with a belt on his behind and across his hand. Butler said he saw Lacy Jr. abuse other students, too. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He kicks people. He kicked the big kids,” Butler said. Butler’s mother took him and his siblings out of St. Andrew this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t like it at all,” said Genius Wesley, a 9-year-old whose father pulled him out of the school this year. “The teacher was mean, and he always yelled at people. He hit this little kid all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KalNvN\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a> declined to answer questions about inflated enrollment numbers and said the students’ statements about abuse are not credible, calling them hearsay. He said the students represent a small sample of those who attended St. Andrew and indicated that their families may be disgruntled for other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we just didn’t give everything that they wanted us to give, money and stuff like that. Maybe that’s the problem,” he said. “Maybe we wouldn’t excuse their unexcused absences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked directly whether he hits children, Lacy Jr. said, “I don’t have any history of ever doing anything like that.” Asked whether he does it currently, Lacy Jr. again responded, “I don’t have a history of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local officials are careful to note that the federal funding doesn’t go directly to the school, but rather to “independent” consultants to provide services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage. I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--Troy Flint, Oakland Unified School District spokesman\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of the federal money for St. Andrew went to contracts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357636-banks-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Banks\u003c/a> – who married the elder pastor in 1999 and teaches kindergarten through third grade – and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357635-lacy-jr-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thalia Brown, a former kindergarten teacher at St. Andrew, said the church is more like a cult, where everyone fears and obeys the pastor. Brown has two children with Lacy Jr., but said about the school: “The nicest thing I can say is my son will never go there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have God in your ear telling you that Rev. Lacy is your spiritual leader and you should listen to him,” said Brown, who is divorced from Lacy Jr. “No one ever is going to step up to that man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the federal funding, Brown said, “Rev. Lacy, he knows how to work it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the money is doled out based on the number of low-income students at the school, and the rest is based on total enrollment. Since 2003, with one exception, the school \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/si/ps/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a> to the state Department of Education that it had 195 students – 15 in each grade. The exception was the 2008-09 school year, when the school reported 265 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the school reported to the state a low number of graduates: only 12 over the past four school years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite claiming nearly 200 attendees, an inspection by the state Department of Social Services in March – to determine whether the school was also running a day care center – \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357625-dept-of-social-services-inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a> 14 children at the school one day and 12 the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning last month, from 7:45 to 9:45, California Watch observed about six children trickle into the church and nine more who were dropped off in the school van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, one boy showed up at 8:20 and got into the van, which then left. The church doors remained locked – an adult who showed up couldn’t get in – until the van returned at 9:45 a.m. with half a dozen children. School starts at 8 a.m., according to a packet of school rules provided to one parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Gervasoni, an Oakland Fire Department inspector, visited the school last month in response to a citizen complaint. He said Lacy Jr. told him the school had 23 students but fluctuates up to 40. Gervasoni observed 15 to 20 students, he said, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366330-fire-inspection-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">determined\u003c/a> that the fire code would allow no more than 58 people for all of the classrooms combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt, a 12-year-old whose mother took her out of the school in February, counted a total of 25 classmates by name, including several who were later pulled out by concerned parents and a few who are young children of the elder pastor. Corbitt said the students were lumped together into three classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discrepancy between reported numbers and reality appears to go back for years. Gervasoni remembers seeing very few students at the school when he inspected it in 2007. As part of a bankruptcy proceeding in 2004, a church representative said the school had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357633-bankruptcy-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">no more than 20 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to say how many students attend St. Andrew. “That’s private information,” he said. “It’s disclosed to individuals that send a valid request.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can tell you is I teach here every day,” he said. “And I give my time for the students and I care for these students that are here, and I give the education that I’ve gained so that these students can have an education and opportunities that these students didn’t have in the schools that they went to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no authorities have taken the school to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesman with Oakland Unified, said the district is a “pass-through” organization for federal funds and isn’t provided the resources to check on every school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these allegations are true, then obviously, that’s something we would put an end to because that would be an abuse of public funds,” Flint said in an interview with CBS 5 and California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint said someone should do an investigation, but the district doesn’t have the authority or capacity to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage,” Flint said. “I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint suggested that the state Department of Education would have jurisdiction. But the state doesn’t verify the numbers either, said Jane Ross, education programs consultant for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are filing with the superintendent of public instruction under penalty of perjury, but we don’t have the authority to challenge the information,” Ross said. She said she didn’t know who would have that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the district’s Board of Education has approved contracts paying Banks $100 per hour to conduct teacher training and Lacy Jr. $40 per hour to provide additional instruction for struggling students. Neither Banks nor Lacy Jr. has a teaching credential, and none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2010-11 school year, Banks received a $19,500 contract and Lacy Jr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357640-lacy-jr-2010-11-ousd-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">earned\u003c/a> $12,440. Last year, Lacy Jr. also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366453-computers-invoice.html\" target=\"_blank\">invoiced\u003c/a> the district for $100 per hour for 30 hours to fix computers for student use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Nownes, who oversees private school funding for Oakland Unified, said he accepts the enrollment numbers provided by the school without further investigation. Nownes said he reviews the school’s funding plan in meetings with Lacy Jr. and visited the school more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They run a compliant program to the best of my knowledge,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nownes defers to each school to pick its preferred instructors. Nownes said he looks to make sure the instructors have a college degree, though none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Former students claim abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six former students agreed to talk to California Watch about their experiences at St. Andrew. Accompanied by their parents in separate interviews, they described a pattern of verbal and physical abuse at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s 14-year-old brother, Le’Gerrius Holt, said Lacy Jr. – who goes by Rev. Robert at school – hit him over the head with a book in class because he had called the teacher a “fool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rev. Robert said when we die – he already know we’re going to die before him – at our funeral, he’s going to go up to our parents and tell them not to cry because we’re going to go to hell,” Holt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s 13-year-old sister, La’asia Holt, said the elder Lacy told her, “If I go home and tell another lie to my mother, he gonna beat me himself,” she said. “I felt threatened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The siblings traded stories of abuse at St. Andrew as they sat with their mother, Yolanda Bailey, in their West Oakland home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bailey pulled her children out of the school this year because she said the Lacys insulted her children and didn’t send home report cards, among other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd59PR0r99U&feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">The elder Lacy\u003c/a> did not respond to an e-mail and letter sent to the school requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt said she witnessed Lacy Jr. throw objects – like a roll of duct tape – at other students, telling her once, “You might want to duck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genius Wesley said he saw Lacy Jr. strike other students on their heads with his hand. Wesley also said he saw Lacy Jr. throw things at students, including a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He threw it at someone else, and it almost hit me,” Wesley said, on the phone with his father. “He said, ‘I got good aim; it wasn’t going to hit you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, when Lacy Jr. wouldn’t let Wesley go to the bathroom, Wesley ended up urinating on himself in class, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Charlos Stewart Jr., now 12, said Lacy Jr. locked him in a room upstairs in the church as punishment for talking. Stewart had to go to the bathroom and banged on the door, but nobody came. Stewart said he broke the lock but was caught and put inside with a bigger padlock, despite begging to go to the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart went to the window, sat on the ledge and contemplated jumping from the second story, he said. Fearing that he would die, the boy turned around but slipped and fell to the ground, breaking a foot in several places, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother, Catherine Joiner, took him out of the school after the incident. “I felt so bad,” Joiner said. “I couldn’t even look at the church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has no record of any complaints about the school, said spokeswoman Lea Rubio. The Alameda County Social Services Agency, which investigates allegations of child abuse, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Lacy Jr. took issue with critical questions about the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is there any reason you don’t post the positives about this school,” he asked, “in terms of its longevity in the community and all the families that have received aid from this school, food and clothes? Why don’t you ask about that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of benefits fraud\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former students said Lacy Jr. often left his class for hours or showed up very late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, he wasn’t there,” Corbitt said. “Like, he wouldn’t get there till, like, 11 o’clock, so we would just be waiting for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said they hardly ever got to go outside and play or use the computers that were fixed with federal money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357639-lacy-jr-resume.html\" target=\"_blank\">résumé\u003c/a> Lacy Jr. provided the district states that he has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and was a candidate for a master’s degree, though it also lists a 2010 doctorate. It doesn’t specify any schools where he earned the degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ex-wife, Thalia Brown, said Lacy Jr. attended CSU Hayward and received subsequent degrees from St. Andrew Theological & Academic University – which is run by the Lacys out of the church building. CSU Hayward, now called CSU East Bay, confirmed that a Robert Lacy attended from 1996 to 2000 but showed no records of a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to answer questions about his education. California Watch asked Lacy Jr. on two occasions to provide names of St. Andrew supporters who could speak to the school’s positive attributes. He did not provide any names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are discrediting the institution that’s in a community where they don’t receive any help that they need to have,” he said. “In the West Oakland area, if the (public) school system was in any way helping the students, we wouldn’t have the problems we have in West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s university advertises a \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/13401/15343.html\" target=\"_blank\">cornucopia\u003c/a> of degrees but does not have authorization to operate from the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education, said Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs. After learning about the university from California Watch, the bureau is investigating whether it is violating the law, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacy family has a history of benefits fraud, records show. The elder Lacy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357644-lacy-amended-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in 2007 to a misdemeanor for taking $17,000 in Social Security payments sent to his father, who had died. The pastor also received $22,000 in other government assistance for which he was ineligible, according to the proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357645-lacy-plea-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\">plea agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy, the pastor’s 37-year-old son who helps with the school and soliciting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366460-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to felony welfare fraud in 2004, according to court records. County authorities found that he made false statements and withheld information about his income to receive $13,500 in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2007, the state Employment Development Department obtained a $3,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357646-edd-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">judgment\u003c/a> against him for receiving excess benefits due to fraud or misrepresentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KYtu9f\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Andrew\u003c/a>, as he is known by students, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lacys called smooth talkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most weekday evenings, St. Andrew’s smartly dressed students politely ask for donations at BART stations, while \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">some say\u003c/a> they are made to beg under threat of punishment or bad grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the pastor owns a Cadillac Escalade Platinum Edition, which retailed for about $70,000 in 2006, the year he bought it. Wearing a suit and fedora, the elder Lacy sometimes waits in the background as the children ask for money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some parents objected to the street soliciting, others went along with it after school officials told them it was required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents described the Lacys as smooth talkers who persuaded them to enroll their children. They were drawn to St. Andrew because they thought a small, Christian private school would be better than Oakland public schools. Some said their children were struggling and needed an alternative school environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Andrew (Lacy) was telling me it was one of the most accredited schools in Oakland and the grades were the highest,” said Yolanda Bailey. “It’s like they go out there and recruit people, mostly single women with children having trouble, who live in the bad neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew had claimed on its website to be accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International. An association official said the school was a member – not accredited. After questions from California Watch, the association contacted the school, and St. Andrew then changed its website. Another part of the website still \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/899/13848.html\" target=\"_blank\">claims\u003c/a> the school is accredited but doesn’t specify by whom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1978, the Lacys have run St. Andrew out of a historically black church built in 1920 and declared an Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357649-landmark-designation.html\" target=\"_blank\">landmark\u003c/a>. The striking orange-and-white façade contrasts with the dilapidated side and back of the building, marked by peeling, discolored paint and boarded windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gervasoni, the fire inspector, said the building is “very old and run-down,” and that the Lacys appear to lack the money to do much about it. He said the school needs a fire alarm system and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357650-fire-inspection-reports.html\" target=\"_blank\">other fixes\u003c/a>, but doesn’t pose serious safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poor condition of the school shocked Rachel Elginsmith, executive director of The BASIC Fund, a San Francisco organization that funds scholarships for low-income students to attend private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group provided a few small scholarships to students at St. Andrew until Elginsmith visited in June 2010. “It was a difficult visit, frankly. It’s hard to envision children in an environment like that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacys wouldn’t let her inside, she said. The organization immediately cut off funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Soliciting at BART stations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But BART commuters continue to hand over money to the children who ask in almost robotic repetition, “Would you like to make a donation?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The street soliciting has been going on for many years, with children of all ages. Marilyn Lawson said she took her 5-year-old granddaughter out of the school a few years ago after the pastor told her she’d have to start asking for money when she turned 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt remembers being packed in a van with other students – crammed in on each other’s laps, without seat belts – as Lacy Jr. drove them to BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlos Stewart Jr. said he was robbed while collecting donations in downtown Oakland. A man took the money and ran, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared. It was very fast,” he said. “You had to be out there for a long time. I wouldn’t want to be out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father of another student, Mekhi Nosakhare, was alarmed to read in a previous \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch story\u003c/a> that the 9-year-old was asking for donations at the Downtown Berkeley BART station late last year. At the time, the girl – whose mother is married to Andrew Lacy – said she would get in trouble if she didn’t solicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Gabriel Osakhare, filed for custody of the girl because he was concerned she was being forced to “panhandle” and was receiving poor instruction at St. Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her step-father threatened her that she will be slapped, curses at her and calls her names if she says that she does not want to go on the nightly donations which last for at least 3 hours Mon-Fri from 5-8PM,” he wrote in a court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court records, the girl’s mother denied the allegations and said her daughter willingly went out fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a judge gave the father primary custody of the girl, ordering that she not engage in soliciting during weekends with her mother and that no corporal punishment be allowed by either parent. The judge also specified that she stay in a public elementary school where her father has enrolled her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will Evans is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Will Evans, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/oakland-school-accused-abuse-overbilling-taxpayers-records-show-16428\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A West Oakland church school that makes its students ask for money at BART stations appears to have vastly inflated its enrollment numbers to collect extra taxpayer funding, some of which goes to a teacher who former students say physically abused them and other children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_67187\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/St.Andrew_08_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-67187 \" title=\"St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church in West Oakland. Tuesday May 29th, 2012\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/St.Andrew_08_web-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church in West Oakland (Michael Short/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And for years, St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church and \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/899/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">private school\u003c/a> has operated with virtually no government oversight despite repeated red flags. The K-12 school is run by \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/51212.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Lacy\u003c/a>, 79, a pastor who pleaded guilty in 2007 to theft of government money for taking his deceased father’s Social Security payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents and interviews show St. Andrew has inflated its enrollment numbers, allowing school officials to reap tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funding they might not have deserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District – which oversees federal funding to aid the education of low-income students and others in private schools – allocated $50,000 this school year to St. Andrew. The funding was based on the school’s claim that it had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357631-2011-12-affidavit.html\" target=\"_blank\">195\u003c/a> students, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/365536-title-i-students.html\" target=\"_blank\">61\u003c/a> low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the previous four school years, Oakland Unified paid a total of $173,500 in federal funds to benefit St. Andrew based on its enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet former students and their parents said the school had no more than 30 students, and sometimes much fewer. An Oakland fire inspector said the school isn’t allowed to have more than 58 people in its classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents said they paid up to $400 per month for tuition, while others said the school was free – as long as their children raised funds at BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate interviews, several former students said the pastor's son Robert Lacy Jr., and a teacher and church leader, would hit, kick and throw things at students. Nine-year-old Corey Butler said Lacy Jr. hit him with a belt on his behind and across his hand. Butler said he saw Lacy Jr. abuse other students, too. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He kicks people. He kicked the big kids,” Butler said. Butler’s mother took him and his siblings out of St. Andrew this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t like it at all,” said Genius Wesley, a 9-year-old whose father pulled him out of the school this year. “The teacher was mean, and he always yelled at people. He hit this little kid all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KalNvN\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a> declined to answer questions about inflated enrollment numbers and said the students’ statements about abuse are not credible, calling them hearsay. He said the students represent a small sample of those who attended St. Andrew and indicated that their families may be disgruntled for other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we just didn’t give everything that they wanted us to give, money and stuff like that. Maybe that’s the problem,” he said. “Maybe we wouldn’t excuse their unexcused absences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked directly whether he hits children, Lacy Jr. said, “I don’t have any history of ever doing anything like that.” Asked whether he does it currently, Lacy Jr. again responded, “I don’t have a history of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local officials are careful to note that the federal funding doesn’t go directly to the school, but rather to “independent” consultants to provide services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage. I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--Troy Flint, Oakland Unified School District spokesman\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of the federal money for St. Andrew went to contracts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357636-banks-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Banks\u003c/a> – who married the elder pastor in 1999 and teaches kindergarten through third grade – and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357635-lacy-jr-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thalia Brown, a former kindergarten teacher at St. Andrew, said the church is more like a cult, where everyone fears and obeys the pastor. Brown has two children with Lacy Jr., but said about the school: “The nicest thing I can say is my son will never go there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have God in your ear telling you that Rev. Lacy is your spiritual leader and you should listen to him,” said Brown, who is divorced from Lacy Jr. “No one ever is going to step up to that man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the federal funding, Brown said, “Rev. Lacy, he knows how to work it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the money is doled out based on the number of low-income students at the school, and the rest is based on total enrollment. Since 2003, with one exception, the school \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/si/ps/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a> to the state Department of Education that it had 195 students – 15 in each grade. The exception was the 2008-09 school year, when the school reported 265 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the school reported to the state a low number of graduates: only 12 over the past four school years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite claiming nearly 200 attendees, an inspection by the state Department of Social Services in March – to determine whether the school was also running a day care center – \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357625-dept-of-social-services-inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a> 14 children at the school one day and 12 the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning last month, from 7:45 to 9:45, California Watch observed about six children trickle into the church and nine more who were dropped off in the school van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, one boy showed up at 8:20 and got into the van, which then left. The church doors remained locked – an adult who showed up couldn’t get in – until the van returned at 9:45 a.m. with half a dozen children. School starts at 8 a.m., according to a packet of school rules provided to one parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Gervasoni, an Oakland Fire Department inspector, visited the school last month in response to a citizen complaint. He said Lacy Jr. told him the school had 23 students but fluctuates up to 40. Gervasoni observed 15 to 20 students, he said, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366330-fire-inspection-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">determined\u003c/a> that the fire code would allow no more than 58 people for all of the classrooms combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt, a 12-year-old whose mother took her out of the school in February, counted a total of 25 classmates by name, including several who were later pulled out by concerned parents and a few who are young children of the elder pastor. Corbitt said the students were lumped together into three classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discrepancy between reported numbers and reality appears to go back for years. Gervasoni remembers seeing very few students at the school when he inspected it in 2007. As part of a bankruptcy proceeding in 2004, a church representative said the school had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357633-bankruptcy-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">no more than 20 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to say how many students attend St. Andrew. “That’s private information,” he said. “It’s disclosed to individuals that send a valid request.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can tell you is I teach here every day,” he said. “And I give my time for the students and I care for these students that are here, and I give the education that I’ve gained so that these students can have an education and opportunities that these students didn’t have in the schools that they went to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no authorities have taken the school to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesman with Oakland Unified, said the district is a “pass-through” organization for federal funds and isn’t provided the resources to check on every school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these allegations are true, then obviously, that’s something we would put an end to because that would be an abuse of public funds,” Flint said in an interview with CBS 5 and California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint said someone should do an investigation, but the district doesn’t have the authority or capacity to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage,” Flint said. “I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint suggested that the state Department of Education would have jurisdiction. But the state doesn’t verify the numbers either, said Jane Ross, education programs consultant for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are filing with the superintendent of public instruction under penalty of perjury, but we don’t have the authority to challenge the information,” Ross said. She said she didn’t know who would have that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the district’s Board of Education has approved contracts paying Banks $100 per hour to conduct teacher training and Lacy Jr. $40 per hour to provide additional instruction for struggling students. Neither Banks nor Lacy Jr. has a teaching credential, and none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2010-11 school year, Banks received a $19,500 contract and Lacy Jr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357640-lacy-jr-2010-11-ousd-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">earned\u003c/a> $12,440. Last year, Lacy Jr. also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366453-computers-invoice.html\" target=\"_blank\">invoiced\u003c/a> the district for $100 per hour for 30 hours to fix computers for student use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Nownes, who oversees private school funding for Oakland Unified, said he accepts the enrollment numbers provided by the school without further investigation. Nownes said he reviews the school’s funding plan in meetings with Lacy Jr. and visited the school more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They run a compliant program to the best of my knowledge,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nownes defers to each school to pick its preferred instructors. Nownes said he looks to make sure the instructors have a college degree, though none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Former students claim abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six former students agreed to talk to California Watch about their experiences at St. Andrew. Accompanied by their parents in separate interviews, they described a pattern of verbal and physical abuse at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s 14-year-old brother, Le’Gerrius Holt, said Lacy Jr. – who goes by Rev. Robert at school – hit him over the head with a book in class because he had called the teacher a “fool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rev. 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Wesley also said he saw Lacy Jr. throw things at students, including a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He threw it at someone else, and it almost hit me,” Wesley said, on the phone with his father. “He said, ‘I got good aim; it wasn’t going to hit you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, when Lacy Jr. wouldn’t let Wesley go to the bathroom, Wesley ended up urinating on himself in class, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Charlos Stewart Jr., now 12, said Lacy Jr. locked him in a room upstairs in the church as punishment for talking. Stewart had to go to the bathroom and banged on the door, but nobody came. Stewart said he broke the lock but was caught and put inside with a bigger padlock, despite begging to go to the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart went to the window, sat on the ledge and contemplated jumping from the second story, he said. Fearing that he would die, the boy turned around but slipped and fell to the ground, breaking a foot in several places, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother, Catherine Joiner, took him out of the school after the incident. “I felt so bad,” Joiner said. “I couldn’t even look at the church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has no record of any complaints about the school, said spokeswoman Lea Rubio. The Alameda County Social Services Agency, which investigates allegations of child abuse, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Lacy Jr. took issue with critical questions about the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is there any reason you don’t post the positives about this school,” he asked, “in terms of its longevity in the community and all the families that have received aid from this school, food and clothes? Why don’t you ask about that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of benefits fraud\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former students said Lacy Jr. often left his class for hours or showed up very late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, he wasn’t there,” Corbitt said. “Like, he wouldn’t get there till, like, 11 o’clock, so we would just be waiting for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said they hardly ever got to go outside and play or use the computers that were fixed with federal money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357639-lacy-jr-resume.html\" target=\"_blank\">résumé\u003c/a> Lacy Jr. provided the district states that he has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and was a candidate for a master’s degree, though it also lists a 2010 doctorate. It doesn’t specify any schools where he earned the degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ex-wife, Thalia Brown, said Lacy Jr. attended CSU Hayward and received subsequent degrees from St. Andrew Theological & Academic University – which is run by the Lacys out of the church building. CSU Hayward, now called CSU East Bay, confirmed that a Robert Lacy attended from 1996 to 2000 but showed no records of a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to answer questions about his education. California Watch asked Lacy Jr. on two occasions to provide names of St. Andrew supporters who could speak to the school’s positive attributes. He did not provide any names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are discrediting the institution that’s in a community where they don’t receive any help that they need to have,” he said. “In the West Oakland area, if the (public) school system was in any way helping the students, we wouldn’t have the problems we have in West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s university advertises a \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/13401/15343.html\" target=\"_blank\">cornucopia\u003c/a> of degrees but does not have authorization to operate from the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education, said Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs. After learning about the university from California Watch, the bureau is investigating whether it is violating the law, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacy family has a history of benefits fraud, records show. The elder Lacy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357644-lacy-amended-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in 2007 to a misdemeanor for taking $17,000 in Social Security payments sent to his father, who had died. The pastor also received $22,000 in other government assistance for which he was ineligible, according to the proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357645-lacy-plea-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\">plea agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy, the pastor’s 37-year-old son who helps with the school and soliciting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366460-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to felony welfare fraud in 2004, according to court records. County authorities found that he made false statements and withheld information about his income to receive $13,500 in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2007, the state Employment Development Department obtained a $3,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357646-edd-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">judgment\u003c/a> against him for receiving excess benefits due to fraud or misrepresentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KYtu9f\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Andrew\u003c/a>, as he is known by students, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lacys called smooth talkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most weekday evenings, St. Andrew’s smartly dressed students politely ask for donations at BART stations, while \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">some say\u003c/a> they are made to beg under threat of punishment or bad grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the pastor owns a Cadillac Escalade Platinum Edition, which retailed for about $70,000 in 2006, the year he bought it. Wearing a suit and fedora, the elder Lacy sometimes waits in the background as the children ask for money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some parents objected to the street soliciting, others went along with it after school officials told them it was required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents described the Lacys as smooth talkers who persuaded them to enroll their children. They were drawn to St. Andrew because they thought a small, Christian private school would be better than Oakland public schools. Some said their children were struggling and needed an alternative school environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Andrew (Lacy) was telling me it was one of the most accredited schools in Oakland and the grades were the highest,” said Yolanda Bailey. “It’s like they go out there and recruit people, mostly single women with children having trouble, who live in the bad neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew had claimed on its website to be accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International. An association official said the school was a member – not accredited. After questions from California Watch, the association contacted the school, and St. Andrew then changed its website. Another part of the website still \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/899/13848.html\" target=\"_blank\">claims\u003c/a> the school is accredited but doesn’t specify by whom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1978, the Lacys have run St. Andrew out of a historically black church built in 1920 and declared an Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357649-landmark-designation.html\" target=\"_blank\">landmark\u003c/a>. The striking orange-and-white façade contrasts with the dilapidated side and back of the building, marked by peeling, discolored paint and boarded windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gervasoni, the fire inspector, said the building is “very old and run-down,” and that the Lacys appear to lack the money to do much about it. He said the school needs a fire alarm system and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357650-fire-inspection-reports.html\" target=\"_blank\">other fixes\u003c/a>, but doesn’t pose serious safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poor condition of the school shocked Rachel Elginsmith, executive director of The BASIC Fund, a San Francisco organization that funds scholarships for low-income students to attend private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group provided a few small scholarships to students at St. Andrew until Elginsmith visited in June 2010. “It was a difficult visit, frankly. It’s hard to envision children in an environment like that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacys wouldn’t let her inside, she said. The organization immediately cut off funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Soliciting at BART stations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But BART commuters continue to hand over money to the children who ask in almost robotic repetition, “Would you like to make a donation?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The street soliciting has been going on for many years, with children of all ages. Marilyn Lawson said she took her 5-year-old granddaughter out of the school a few years ago after the pastor told her she’d have to start asking for money when she turned 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt remembers being packed in a van with other students – crammed in on each other’s laps, without seat belts – as Lacy Jr. drove them to BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlos Stewart Jr. said he was robbed while collecting donations in downtown Oakland. A man took the money and ran, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared. It was very fast,” he said. “You had to be out there for a long time. I wouldn’t want to be out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father of another student, Mekhi Nosakhare, was alarmed to read in a previous \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch story\u003c/a> that the 9-year-old was asking for donations at the Downtown Berkeley BART station late last year. At the time, the girl – whose mother is married to Andrew Lacy – said she would get in trouble if she didn’t solicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Gabriel Osakhare, filed for custody of the girl because he was concerned she was being forced to “panhandle” and was receiving poor instruction at St. Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her step-father threatened her that she will be slapped, curses at her and calls her names if she says that she does not want to go on the nightly donations which last for at least 3 hours Mon-Fri from 5-8PM,” he wrote in a court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court records, the girl’s mother denied the allegations and said her daughter willingly went out fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a judge gave the father primary custody of the girl, ordering that she not engage in soliciting during weekends with her mother and that no corporal punishment be allowed by either parent. The judge also specified that she stay in a public elementary school where her father has enrolled her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The federal agency rarely blocks such transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 16 months after KUSF was sold, the FCC still has not signed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely unusual,” said Michael Couzens, an Oakland-based communications lawyer and former FCC staffer. “The mentality of the staff is shaped by the fact that commercial entities lose their financing if they dink and dunk around for months and years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC declined to comment, besides acknowledging that the case was still under review. There is no deadline for issuing a ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radio network KUSC, based at the University of Southern California, bought KUSF for $3.75 million and replaced it with a San Francisco classical music station. Besides the sale itself, the FCC might be weighing some larger issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, in response to a petition filed by \u003ca href=\"http://fokusf.org/\">Friends of KUSF\u003c/a>, a group that has raised money to fight the sale, the FCC wrote a letter to USC and University of San Francisco officials asking pointed questions about many details of the sale\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>– particularly, the operating agreement that governed how the station works while waiting on FCC approval. University officials responded with hundreds of pages of e-mails and other correspondence related to the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC has not commented on the documents it received in response to its letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kusf.org/\">Listen to KUSF\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://savekusf.org/\">Listen to 'KUSF in Exile'\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The FCC’s silence has bolstered Friends of KUSF, which hopes the commission calls for hearings to debate current regulation regarding noncommercial radio. The sale of KUSF is only one of many college radio station\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>sales over the past few years, as cash-strapped colleges now see a revenue opportunity by selling their licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To those working to halt the sale of KUSF, the sale of community radio stations to classical or religious networks (the primary buyers) presents a grave threat to the radio ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No news is still good news,” said Kenya Lewis, a volunteer for Save KUSF, another group working to keep the station alive. “It speaks to the complexity of the issues raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the San Francisco classical station KDFC – which was facing closure as a commercial property – the fact that USF wanted to sell its license was a positive thing. In almost every big commercial radio market, classical stations have either shifted to a nonprofit fundraising model or have died all together, leaving local classical fans, as well as institutions like the symphony and opera, without a powerful outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">While the deal remains unconsummated, federal rules prohibit KDFC from conducting on-air pledge drives – a huge loss as it attempts to remake itself as a nonprofit.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But while the deal remains unconsummated, federal rules prohibit KDFC from conducting on-air pledge drives – a huge loss as it attempts to remake itself as a nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The KUSF delay has definitely impacted us, and we hope the FCC will come to a decision soon,” said Brenda Barnes, president of KUSC, which owns most of the San Francisco classical station. “The primary impact is that we have not been able to fundraise on the station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, fans of both KUSF and KDFC can only watch and wait. However, Couzens said the “train wreck” of bad publicity and legal arguments engendered by the shuttering of KUSF already represents a win for those seeking to stave off further college radio station sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m optimistic that the KUSF brouhaha will make some other university licensees think long and hard before going down this path,” he said. “Even if the transfer is finally approved, they’ve done a great thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"disqusTitle": "CSU Spends $2M on Presidential Home Renovations Over 10 Years",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Erica Perez, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/csu-spends-2m-presidential-home-renovations-16322\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State University campuses have in the last 10 years spent more than $2 million renovating eight university-owned presidential residences – rehabbing kitchens, expanding garages and even hiring interior designers, according to figures provided by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_66578\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/El-Dorado-Ranch-Before-015.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-66578\" title=\"El Dorado Ranch Before 015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/El-Dorado-Ranch-Before-015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old kitchen at CSU Fullerton's El Dorado Ranch had deteriorating cabinetry and 1951 appliances. (CSU Fullerton)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least half of the spending came from state funding sources, and the figure does not include annual maintenance and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU Fullerton took heat earlier this month for providing incoming President Mildred Garcia with a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/csu-fullerton-spends-300000-remodel-presidents-house-15952\" target=\"_blank\">$300,000 remodel\u003c/a> to the historic El Dorado Ranch, which is the president's residence, while CSU Northridge received criticism for spending \u003ca href=\"http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/05/15/renovations-to-csun-presidents-home-and-office-cost-over-350k/\" target=\"_blank\">$115,000\u003c/a> to rehab the home of newly named President Dianne Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garcia and Harrison are among five campus leaders in the past 10 years whose appointment as a CSU president came with a six-figure renovation to their university-owned residences. Presidential homes often double as the location of official university functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly Pomona spent $167,000 in state funds to replace the plumbing, renovate the kitchen and install new windows at the Manor House in 2004, the year after inaugurating President J. Michael Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the year President Elliot Hirshman was appointed, San Diego State University spent $257,000 on kitchen upgrades, new windows, pool replastering and other projects to spruce up University House – about $100,000 more than was \u003ca href=\"http://www.10news.com/news/28628822/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Cal Poly San Luis Obispo shelled out $230,000 in 2011 on lighting replacements, kitchen upgrades, new wood flooring and more for its University House when the campus welcomed President Jeffrey Armstrong. That came on top of $200,000 in renovations the university had completed in 2010 – including repairs to the event tent, termite tenting and a new roof for the family room. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $430,000 spent over two years was also about $100,000 more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/05/05/1590323/move-in-day-for-cal-poly-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't realize it was that much money,\" said Glen Thorncroft, a mechanical engineering professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and president of the campus faculty union chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorncroft said that when faculty heard initial figures on how much was spent to renovate the house, the reaction was mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some people who felt like maybe it costs that much to refurbish,\" Thorncroft said. \"The problem is, it's just so disjointed from the budget realities that it's hard to fathom that we're spending these kinds of monies on things that aren't paying for classes for our students or going to hire faculty to teach the classes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the Central Coast campus has spent more money on renovations for its on-campus presidential residence than any other campus with CSU-owned properties in the past decade. Projects performed since 2004 have cost Cal Poly San Luis Obispo $831,000, and 99 percent of that came from state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's former President Warren J. Baker moved out of the presidential residence in 2004, when he opted for a $60,000 annual housing allowance afforded by CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 11 university presidents and the system chancellor live in university-owned residences, leaders at 12 campuses receive the $60,000 annual housing allowance instead, including San Francisco State University and CSU East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Baker moved out, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo repurposed University House as an event center and spent $384,000 from 2004 to 2008 on renovation projects. More than half of that spending went toward making the space compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, while the rest went to patio resurfacing, a new stucco wall, deck repairs, plumbing and heating repairs, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2010 upgrades, the university turned the house back into a residence for Armstrong. The university used about $6,200 in foundation funds to pay an interior designer. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357386-kriste-judd-interior-design-photo-gallery-shell.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photographs\u003c/a> on the designer's website show new maple and cherry flooring and a remodeled kitchen with granite countertops and maple cabinetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorncroft said some faculty members credited Armstrong for not taking the annual stipend that Baker had received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One could make the argument that the money at least stayed in house,\" Thorncroft said. \"It's just still – $400,000 seems excessive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six-figure renovations are not standard for every new CSU president, however. California Maritime Academy President William Eisenhardt saw no major remodeling projects when he arrived at his new home, a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house on the Vallejo campus. The same went for Dianne Harrison when she started at CSU Monterey Bay in 2006 and for Mohammad Qayoumi when he began work at San Jose State University in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After President F. King Alexander landed at CSU Long Beach, the university spent $68,000 to add a bedroom and expand the one-car garage to fit two vehicles. Alexander has since donated $43,500 to the Miller House Fund, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU Dominguez Hills spent about $32,000 installing hardwood floors and painting its three-bedroom Carson house when Mildred Garcia took the reins there in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not all presidential residence renovations are created equal. Cal Poly Pomona spent about $26,000 to renovate the kitchen, including new appliances, at the Manor House, a historical four-bedroom home on campus that was built in 1926. At CSU Fullerton's El Dorado Ranch, the kitchen rehab cost $147,000 and included the repositioning of drains and supply lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list below provides details on all of the university-owned homes where presidents reside. It does not include the universities that provide only a housing allowance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CSU-owned presidential houses:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1.\u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=275+GRANADA+AVE+LONG+BEACH,+CA+90803-5521&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=54.137829,121.376953&t=h&hnear=275+Granada+Ave,+Long+Beach,+California+90803&z=17\" target=\"_blank\"> CSU System Office\u003c/a>: \u003c/strong>CSU Chancellor Charles Reed lives in the State University House in the Belmont Shore neighborhood of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet:\u003c/strong> 6,000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms:\u003c/strong> 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built:\u003c/strong> 1930\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Assessed value:\u003c/strong> $642,573 (in 2008)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> No major renovations over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17622+Acacia+Drive+Carson,+CA&hl=en&sll=33.766067,-118.134255&sspn=0.0052,0.010257&t=h&hnear=17622+Acacia+Dr,+Carson,+California+90746&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">CSU Dominguez Hills:\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>Until she moves to CSU Fullerton in a few weeks, President Mildred Garcia lives in the university-owned house in Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet:\u003c/strong> 2,296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms:\u003c/strong> 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms:\u003c/strong> 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built:\u003c/strong> 1999\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales price:\u003c/strong> $392,500 (in 2000)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations: \u003c/strong>The year Garcia arrived in 2007, CSU spent $32,155 on renovations using foundation funding. Garcia also paid for several upgrades to the home herself, including stainless steel appliances, new baseboards and window coverings, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003ca href=\"https://maps.google.com/maps?q=4411+N+Van+Ness+Blvd,+Fresno,+California+93704&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hnear=4411+N+Van+Ness+Blvd,+Fresno,+California+93704&gl=us&t=m&geocode=FVF9MQIdge_b-A&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Fresno:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> University House is on Christmas Tree Lane in the Old Fig Garden neighborhood of Fresno. John D. Welty has been president of CSU Fresno since 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 7,300\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 6\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1941\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: In the last decade, the university has spent $76,010 on renovations using state funding. The biggest chunk of that spending occurred in 2004, when CSU spent $24,000 on landscaping, including new trees, lamps, posts and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=225+Union+Street,+fullerton+ca&hl=en&sll=37.801345,-122.402759&sspn=0.006672,0.014817&t=h&gl=us&hnear=225+W+Union+Ave,+Fullerton,+California+92832&z=17\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Fullerton:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The presidential residence, El Dorado Ranch, is a few miles from campus. After renovations are complete, newly appointed President Mildred Garcia will move in this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet:\u003c/strong> 6,991\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1919\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> The university is spending $300,000 in surplus revenue from its auxiliary organizations to renovate the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1430+el+mirador,+long+beach+ca&hl=en&ll=33.785443,-118.126116&spn=0.010397,0.020514&sll=33.785479,-118.126116&sspn=0.010397,0.020514&gl=us&hnear=1430+El+Mirador+Ave,+Long+Beach,+California+90815&t=m&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Long Beach:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The Miller House, in Long Beach's Park Estates, is home to President F. King Alexander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 5,150\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1964\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> In 2007, the year after Alexander came to CSU Long Beach, the university spent $68,000 to add a bedroom and study area to the house and expand the garage from one- to two-car capacity. The university did not provide information as to whether the funding came from state or non-state sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2+faculty+drive,+vallejo+ca&hl=en&sll=38.072008,-122.231659&sspn=0.009848,0.020514&gl=us&hnear=Faculty+Dr,+Vallejo,+Solano,+California+94590&t=m&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">California Maritime Academy\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> The on-campus house is home to President William Eisenhardt, who is stepping down this summer. A presidential search is under way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 2,111\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 2\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1945\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> None in the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. \u003cstrong>CSU Monterey Bay: \u003c/strong>The on-campus house is a converted duplex consisting of a separate private residence and an adjoining public space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 3,848, including 2,825 for the private residence side\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 3.5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1990\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: None in the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=18946+TUBA+ST+NORTHRIDGE,+CA&hl=en&sll=34.249725,-118.537005&sspn=0.026641,0.059266&t=h&gl=us&hnear=18946+Tuba+St,+Northridge,+California+91324&z=17\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Northridge\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: The presidential residence is about two miles from campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 3,400\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 3.5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1966\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> The University Corporation is paying $115,000 this year for renovations aimed at improving guest services and accommodations, including rehabbing the kitchen and upgrading a bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.csupomona.edu/maps/static/index.php?structureID=Bg-111\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Poly Pomona:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> The Manor House, a historical Mediterranean home on campus, was constructed by W.K. Kellogg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 4,000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1926\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: The university has spent $360,112 in state funds in the last decade renovating Manor House. Improvements included replacing plumbing and electrical, remodeling the kitchen, replacing windows, extending the garage, and adding an accessible restroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4545+YERBA+SANTA+DR+san+diego+ca&hl=en&ll=32.77701,-117.096598&spn=0.003719,0.005128&sll=38.072008,-122.231659&sspn=0.009848,0.020514&gl=us&hnear=4545+Yerba+Santa+Dr,+San+Diego,+California+92115&t=h&z=18\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>San Diego State University\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: President Elliot Hirshman lives in University House in Alvarado Estates, not far from campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 5,216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1962\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales price\u003c/strong>: $1.2 million (in 2000)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: The university spent $257,000 using a combination of donor funds, lease revenue and catering revenue to renovate University House, including interior and exterior painting, replacement of large windows, a kitchen renovation, new carpet, pool replastering, a catering kitchen and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1690+university+ave+san+jose+ca&hl=en&ll=37.332256,-121.93069&spn=0.009947,0.020514&sll=32.77701,-117.096598&sspn=0.003719,0.005128&t=m&gl=us&hnear=1690+University+Ave,+San+Jose,+California+95126&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>San Jose State University:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> President Mohammad Qayoumi lives in this house near the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 4,500\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1926\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: There have been no renovations since the house was acquired by the university in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=University+House,+San+Luis+Obispo,+CA&hl=en&sll=37.332256,-121.93069&sspn=0.009947,0.020514&oq=university+house+san+luis&gl=us&hnear=University+House,+San+Luis+Obispo,+California+93405&t=m&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> President Jeffrey Armstrong moved into the on-campus University House in 2011. For seven years before that, the building had served as an event space only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 5,089\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 3.5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1928\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: The university has spent $831,000 on \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/359909-cal-poly-slo-university-house-info-5-20121.html\" target=\"_blank\">renovations\u003c/a> in the past decade, largely using state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erica Perez is an investigative journalist at \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>by Erica Perez, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/csu-spends-2m-presidential-home-renovations-16322\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State University campuses have in the last 10 years spent more than $2 million renovating eight university-owned presidential residences – rehabbing kitchens, expanding garages and even hiring interior designers, according to figures provided by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_66578\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/El-Dorado-Ranch-Before-015.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-66578\" title=\"El Dorado Ranch Before 015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/El-Dorado-Ranch-Before-015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old kitchen at CSU Fullerton's El Dorado Ranch had deteriorating cabinetry and 1951 appliances. (CSU Fullerton)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least half of the spending came from state funding sources, and the figure does not include annual maintenance and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU Fullerton took heat earlier this month for providing incoming President Mildred Garcia with a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/csu-fullerton-spends-300000-remodel-presidents-house-15952\" target=\"_blank\">$300,000 remodel\u003c/a> to the historic El Dorado Ranch, which is the president's residence, while CSU Northridge received criticism for spending \u003ca href=\"http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/05/15/renovations-to-csun-presidents-home-and-office-cost-over-350k/\" target=\"_blank\">$115,000\u003c/a> to rehab the home of newly named President Dianne Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garcia and Harrison are among five campus leaders in the past 10 years whose appointment as a CSU president came with a six-figure renovation to their university-owned residences. Presidential homes often double as the location of official university functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly Pomona spent $167,000 in state funds to replace the plumbing, renovate the kitchen and install new windows at the Manor House in 2004, the year after inaugurating President J. Michael Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the year President Elliot Hirshman was appointed, San Diego State University spent $257,000 on kitchen upgrades, new windows, pool replastering and other projects to spruce up University House – about $100,000 more than was \u003ca href=\"http://www.10news.com/news/28628822/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Cal Poly San Luis Obispo shelled out $230,000 in 2011 on lighting replacements, kitchen upgrades, new wood flooring and more for its University House when the campus welcomed President Jeffrey Armstrong. That came on top of $200,000 in renovations the university had completed in 2010 – including repairs to the event tent, termite tenting and a new roof for the family room. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $430,000 spent over two years was also about $100,000 more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/05/05/1590323/move-in-day-for-cal-poly-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't realize it was that much money,\" said Glen Thorncroft, a mechanical engineering professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and president of the campus faculty union chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorncroft said that when faculty heard initial figures on how much was spent to renovate the house, the reaction was mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some people who felt like maybe it costs that much to refurbish,\" Thorncroft said. \"The problem is, it's just so disjointed from the budget realities that it's hard to fathom that we're spending these kinds of monies on things that aren't paying for classes for our students or going to hire faculty to teach the classes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the Central Coast campus has spent more money on renovations for its on-campus presidential residence than any other campus with CSU-owned properties in the past decade. Projects performed since 2004 have cost Cal Poly San Luis Obispo $831,000, and 99 percent of that came from state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's former President Warren J. Baker moved out of the presidential residence in 2004, when he opted for a $60,000 annual housing allowance afforded by CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 11 university presidents and the system chancellor live in university-owned residences, leaders at 12 campuses receive the $60,000 annual housing allowance instead, including San Francisco State University and CSU East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Baker moved out, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo repurposed University House as an event center and spent $384,000 from 2004 to 2008 on renovation projects. More than half of that spending went toward making the space compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, while the rest went to patio resurfacing, a new stucco wall, deck repairs, plumbing and heating repairs, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2010 upgrades, the university turned the house back into a residence for Armstrong. The university used about $6,200 in foundation funds to pay an interior designer. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357386-kriste-judd-interior-design-photo-gallery-shell.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photographs\u003c/a> on the designer's website show new maple and cherry flooring and a remodeled kitchen with granite countertops and maple cabinetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorncroft said some faculty members credited Armstrong for not taking the annual stipend that Baker had received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One could make the argument that the money at least stayed in house,\" Thorncroft said. \"It's just still – $400,000 seems excessive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six-figure renovations are not standard for every new CSU president, however. California Maritime Academy President William Eisenhardt saw no major remodeling projects when he arrived at his new home, a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house on the Vallejo campus. The same went for Dianne Harrison when she started at CSU Monterey Bay in 2006 and for Mohammad Qayoumi when he began work at San Jose State University in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After President F. King Alexander landed at CSU Long Beach, the university spent $68,000 to add a bedroom and expand the one-car garage to fit two vehicles. Alexander has since donated $43,500 to the Miller House Fund, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU Dominguez Hills spent about $32,000 installing hardwood floors and painting its three-bedroom Carson house when Mildred Garcia took the reins there in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not all presidential residence renovations are created equal. Cal Poly Pomona spent about $26,000 to renovate the kitchen, including new appliances, at the Manor House, a historical four-bedroom home on campus that was built in 1926. At CSU Fullerton's El Dorado Ranch, the kitchen rehab cost $147,000 and included the repositioning of drains and supply lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list below provides details on all of the university-owned homes where presidents reside. It does not include the universities that provide only a housing allowance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CSU-owned presidential houses:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1.\u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=275+GRANADA+AVE+LONG+BEACH,+CA+90803-5521&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=54.137829,121.376953&t=h&hnear=275+Granada+Ave,+Long+Beach,+California+90803&z=17\" target=\"_blank\"> CSU System Office\u003c/a>: \u003c/strong>CSU Chancellor Charles Reed lives in the State University House in the Belmont Shore neighborhood of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet:\u003c/strong> 6,000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms:\u003c/strong> 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built:\u003c/strong> 1930\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Assessed value:\u003c/strong> $642,573 (in 2008)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations:\u003c/strong> No major renovations over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17622+Acacia+Drive+Carson,+CA&hl=en&sll=33.766067,-118.134255&sspn=0.0052,0.010257&t=h&hnear=17622+Acacia+Dr,+Carson,+California+90746&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">CSU Dominguez Hills:\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>Until she moves to CSU Fullerton in a few weeks, President Mildred Garcia lives in the university-owned house in Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet:\u003c/strong> 2,296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms:\u003c/strong> 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms:\u003c/strong> 3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built:\u003c/strong> 1999\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales price:\u003c/strong> $392,500 (in 2000)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations: \u003c/strong>The year Garcia arrived in 2007, CSU spent $32,155 on renovations using foundation funding. Garcia also paid for several upgrades to the home herself, including stainless steel appliances, new baseboards and window coverings, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003ca href=\"https://maps.google.com/maps?q=4411+N+Van+Ness+Blvd,+Fresno,+California+93704&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hnear=4411+N+Van+Ness+Blvd,+Fresno,+California+93704&gl=us&t=m&geocode=FVF9MQIdge_b-A&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Fresno:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> University House is on Christmas Tree Lane in the Old Fig Garden neighborhood of Fresno. John D. Welty has been president of CSU Fresno since 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 7,300\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 6\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1941\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: In the last decade, the university has spent $76,010 on renovations using state funding. The biggest chunk of that spending occurred in 2004, when CSU spent $24,000 on landscaping, including new trees, lamps, posts and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=225+Union+Street,+fullerton+ca&hl=en&sll=37.801345,-122.402759&sspn=0.006672,0.014817&t=h&gl=us&hnear=225+W+Union+Ave,+Fullerton,+California+92832&z=17\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>CSU Fullerton:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The presidential residence, El Dorado Ranch, is a few miles from campus. 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Kellogg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 4,000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1926\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: The university has spent $360,112 in state funds in the last decade renovating Manor House. Improvements included replacing plumbing and electrical, remodeling the kitchen, replacing windows, extending the garage, and adding an accessible restroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4545+YERBA+SANTA+DR+san+diego+ca&hl=en&ll=32.77701,-117.096598&spn=0.003719,0.005128&sll=38.072008,-122.231659&sspn=0.009848,0.020514&gl=us&hnear=4545+Yerba+Santa+Dr,+San+Diego,+California+92115&t=h&z=18\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>San Diego State University\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: President Elliot Hirshman lives in University House in Alvarado Estates, not far from campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 5,216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1962\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales price\u003c/strong>: $1.2 million (in 2000)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: The university spent $257,000 using a combination of donor funds, lease revenue and catering revenue to renovate University House, including interior and exterior painting, replacement of large windows, a kitchen renovation, new carpet, pool replastering, a catering kitchen and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1690+university+ave+san+jose+ca&hl=en&ll=37.332256,-121.93069&spn=0.009947,0.020514&sll=32.77701,-117.096598&sspn=0.003719,0.005128&t=m&gl=us&hnear=1690+University+Ave,+San+Jose,+California+95126&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>San Jose State University:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> President Mohammad Qayoumi lives in this house near the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square feet\u003c/strong>: 4,500\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bedrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bathrooms\u003c/strong>: 5\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Built\u003c/strong>: 1926\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renovations\u003c/strong>: There have been no renovations since the house was acquired by the university in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12. \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=University+House,+San+Luis+Obispo,+CA&hl=en&sll=37.332256,-121.93069&sspn=0.009947,0.020514&oq=university+house+san+luis&gl=us&hnear=University+House,+San+Luis+Obispo,+California+93405&t=m&z=16\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> President Jeffrey Armstrong moved into the on-campus University House in 2011. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Joanna Lin, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/oakland-schools-chronic-absence-derail/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High rates of chronic absence, suspension and poor academic performance signal that more than half of African-American male students in the Oakland Unified School District are at risk of dropping out, according to new research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/school.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/school.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"school\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64778\">\u003c/a>The Urban Strategies Council, an Oakland-based community advocacy organization, found significant disparities between African-American boys and their peers: Fifty-five percent of black boys in the 2010-11 school year were falling off course from graduation or were at risk of doing so, compared with 37.5 percent of students overall in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From kindergarten through 12th grade, researchers found that black boys struggled with regular attendance and suspensions and scoring proficiently on standardized tests or maintaining grades above a C average – warning signs that they might drop out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among African-American males who were not on track to graduate, 73 percent in elementary school were chronically absent, missing 10 percent or more of school days for any reason, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbanstrategies.org/aamai/\" target=\"_blank\">findings\u003c/a> released this week. In middle school, the same percentage had been suspended at least once. Nearly two-thirds of high schoolers were chronically absent and had less than a C average; 41 percent had been suspended at least once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to understand what's going on if we're going to effectively intervene and improve outcomes and graduation and success of African-American males,\" said Junious Williams, chief executive officer of the council. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council's reports on dropout indicators are part of Oakland Unified's African-American Male Achievement Initiative, an effort launched in 2010 to improve academic and social equity for black boys. The findings provide \"a sense of urgency\" for the district, said Chris Chatmon, executive director of the district's Office of African-American Male Achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/05/24/95054/oakland_unified_considers_worrisome_absenteeism_suspensions?source=oakland+local&category=bay+area\">Oakland Unified Considers Absenteeism, Suspensions Stats for African-American Males\u003c/a> (Oakland Local)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Chatmon, who plans to hold a community meeting next month to discuss the council's findings, said improving attendance among black boys requires working with other agencies and the community and presents different challenges in different age groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In kindergarten and first grade, African-American boys in the district were more than four times as likely as their white peers to be chronically absent, the council found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Five-year-olds don't miss school without an adult knowing at home,\" said Hedy Chang, director of Attendance Works, an initiative that seeks to improve student success by reducing chronic absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families might face hurdles, such as transportation or health problems, in getting their young children to school, or they might not understand the importance of kindergarten, said Chang, who has worked with Oakland Unified to address chronic absenteeism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once you miss a month or more of school, and you miss a month or more in kindergarten and first, you're not on track for reading in third grade,\" she said. \"We've got to make sure kids have a chance to start on the right track.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way the district has tried to target chronic absenteeism among young black students is by working with the Oakland Housing Authority. Forty percent of students at four West Oakland schools live in public housing; 30 percent of those students were chronically absent in 2010-11. Chatmon said the district saw an uptick in school registration by reaching out to West Oakland families living in public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time black boys reach middle and high school, different factors begin to undermine attendance, Chatmon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Street culture becomes more attractive than learning and school culture,\" he said. \"How do we define school culture? What is it? What would get our students getting up at 5 in the morning, running to school? … You get school culture right, then you will produce African-American boys that produce high academic outcomes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural clashes and misunderstandings also factor into high rates of suspension among black boys, Chatmon and Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still have a teaching and administrative body that doesn't … understand the cultural context of where our students come from,\" Chatmon said. \"We have to do a lot of work with our adults to authentically engage with our boys, with our families, to understand our community context.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-American boys made up 17 percent of Oakland Unified students in 2010-11, yet they represented 42 percent of students suspended. Disruption or defiance of authority was the most common reason for discipline, accounting for 38 percent of their suspensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subjective standards for disruption and defiance – the reason behind \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/07/defiance-seen-as-cause-of_n_1409982.html?ref=topbar&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009\" target=\"_blank\">more than 40 percent of suspensions\u003c/a> in California and the recent target of criticism and \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/bills-reform-school-suspensions-advance-15763\" target=\"_blank\">legislative action\u003c/a> – could be contributing to high suspension rates among black boys, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council recommended that Oakland Unified carefully monitor such offenses and clearly define what constitutes impermissible behavior. The district also needs strategies for prevention and intervention so students are not suspended for single incidents, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, Chatmon said, that work already has started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a 'we' problem,\" he said. \"We are taking this on with the frame of full-service community schools that call out everybody, humbly. We can't do it in isolation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The findings provide \"a sense of urgency\" for the district, said Chris Chatmon, executive director of the district's Office of African-American Male Achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/05/24/95054/oakland_unified_considers_worrisome_absenteeism_suspensions?source=oakland+local&category=bay+area\">Oakland Unified Considers Absenteeism, Suspensions Stats for African-American Males\u003c/a> (Oakland Local)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Chatmon, who plans to hold a community meeting next month to discuss the council's findings, said improving attendance among black boys requires working with other agencies and the community and presents different challenges in different age groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In kindergarten and first grade, African-American boys in the district were more than four times as likely as their white peers to be chronically absent, the council found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Five-year-olds don't miss school without an adult knowing at home,\" said Hedy Chang, director of Attendance Works, an initiative that seeks to improve student success by reducing chronic absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families might face hurdles, such as transportation or health problems, in getting their young children to school, or they might not understand the importance of kindergarten, said Chang, who has worked with Oakland Unified to address chronic absenteeism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once you miss a month or more of school, and you miss a month or more in kindergarten and first, you're not on track for reading in third grade,\" she said. \"We've got to make sure kids have a chance to start on the right track.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way the district has tried to target chronic absenteeism among young black students is by working with the Oakland Housing Authority. 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