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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Defending Education said the Latino Men and Boys program offers services that aren’t offered to white students, and the Latinx Mentoring and Achievement program for female-identifying and nonbinary students discriminates based on gender. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Unity Council, which helps operate the Latino student programs, did not respond to a request for comment, nor did the school district. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/program/youth-achievement-programs/\">its website\u003c/a>, the Unity Council said the programs “significantly increase” graduation rates and promote healthy lifestyles. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028442/san-leandro-schools-tried-uplift-black-boys-now-they-face-discrimination-complaint\">Advocates, including those in the Bay Area, say\u003c/a> such programs are necessary to level the playing field for students. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12080868\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students play a game during recess at Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland on April 28, 2022. 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Last year, only 37% of students in California met grade-level math standards, an increase from the previous year but still well below the pre-pandemic level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill will help more kids so they don’t get stuck at the starting line in math,” said Marshall Tuck, chief executive officer of EdVoice, a nonprofit advocacy group that’s among the bill’s sponsors. “There’s still a lot more to do, but this is an important step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb1067\">Senate Bill 1067\u003c/a>, schools will be required to test students for basic math skills and provide individual or small-group tutoring or other support for those who need help catching up to their peers. The tests are expected to be fairly straightforward. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/whatmatters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatMatters\u003c/a> to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>’s community colleges have been trying for several years to offer more bachelor’s degrees. This year, they put their hopes in two sweeping bills designed to help them do that. But lawmakers made massive, last-minute changes that prompted the state’s community colleges to now oppose the legislation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The abrupt change of heart, spurred by new limits on how much the colleges could grow their bachelor’s programs, didn’t influence the outcomes of the bills: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb960\">Senate Bill 960\u003c/a> by Sen. Christopher Cabaldon, a Democrat from Napa, and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2694\">Assembly Bill 2694\u003c/a> by David Alvarez, also a Democrat from Chula Vista. Both passed this week by wide margins in the Legislature and now head to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In recent years, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/01/community-colleges-california-2/#:~:text=While%20Newsom%20supports\">vetoed bills\u003c/a> that sought to expand the community colleges’ ability to issue more bachelor’s degrees. Still, Newsom’s office was involved in the revision of the latest bills, Cabaldon said in a Senate floor speech Monday.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“This is the first time that we’ve been able to engage in productive conversation between the houses and the executive branch,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/280027#t=1158&f=4f607eb330ef5178f50fba4551edfb0e\">he said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a college campus with people walking around.\" class=\"wp-image-12023068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Santiago Canyon College campus in Orange, California. In recent years, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed bills that sought to expand the community colleges’ ability to issue more bachelor’s degrees. (Courtesy of Santiago Canyon College)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Combined, the bills introduce new mechanisms for determining when colleges can create bachelor’s degrees and how many they can offer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new approach has accountability metrics — colleges would be able to offer an additional two to 12 bachelor’s degrees starting in 2028 depending on their students’ certificate, degree and transfer-completion rates.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>No college district could propose more than three new degrees per year, and districts would need to prove that there’s a workforce need in their region to justify the creation of a bachelor’s degree.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s a claim the state’s labor secretary would step in to validate if the California State University system objects, as has regularly occurred in the pitched policy disputes \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/08/bachelors-degrees/\">between the community colleges and the university\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The rules would apply to new degrees offered after 2028; existing community college bachelor’s degrees are grandfathered in. Today, 49 colleges \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/Educational-Services-and-Support/What-we-do/Curriculum-and-Instruction-Unit/Curriculum/Baccalaureate-Degree-Program\">either offer or will soon\u003c/a> offer 66 bachelor’s degrees.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cabaldon called the bills a breakthrough that would bring long-sought clarity. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This will give us peace,” he said in a phone interview. “That doesn’t mean everybody’s going to agree all of the time, but it does mean the endless war and bickering and fighting and more and more legislation will come to an end.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Community college leaders said the amendments are too last-minute, too unclear and too complicated, even if they appreciate the effort by the Legislature to wrangle the thorny issues.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re being asked to … support a process that is not completely understood or vetted at the last minute, and so that’s just not great policymaking,” said Larry Galizio, president and CEO of the Community College League of California, an association representing community college presidents and board leaders. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-bachelor-s-degrees-have-been-so-contentious\">Why bachelor’s degrees have been so contentious\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The community colleges’ sudden shift is another turn in an effort that has produced near-constant turmoil. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Historically, the community colleges and Cal State have clashed over which bachelor’s degrees the colleges can teach. A 2021 state law was supposed to establish peace in the realm, but the colleges and Cal State regularly disagreed on a key concept — degree duplication. That law said the colleges couldn’t create bachelor’s degrees that are already offered by any Cal State or University of California campus, even if a community college is hundreds of miles from the nearest public university. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Colleges and several lawmakers called that an unfair arrangement, since many community college students can’t relocate to a distant university. In some instances, community colleges created those degrees anyway, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2026/california-community-colleges-approve-3-new-bachelors-degrees-over-california-state-university-objections/751678\">over the objections of the Cal State system\u003c/a>, EdSource reported.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211.jpg\" alt=\"When researchers took a close look at transcripts for thousands of California community college students, they discovered an encouraging trend in enrollment for undocumented students.\" class=\"wp-image-11714155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The community colleges are generally barred from duplicating a degree a UC campus offers. (Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images for UCLA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Backers and foes of more bachelor’s degrees at community colleges point to competing data.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A recent report found that \u003ca href=\"https://rpgroup.org/Portals/0/Documents/Projects/Exploring_Geographic_Isolation_Barrier_Equitable_Transfer_Outcomes/DistanceMatters_ExploringGeographicBarriers_November2024.pdf?ver=2024-12-20-201519-053\">29 of the state’s 116 community colleges\u003c/a> are located at least 25 miles from a public university. Their students are “place-bound” or can’t easily move from the area their community colleges serve. 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Or it may demonstrate that colleges \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/01/community-colleges-california-2/#:~:text=Community%20colleges%20have,college%20system%20chancellor.\">aren’t ready\u003c/a> to widen their academic offerings because most also post low certificate and associate degree completion rates.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-the-bills-address-duplication\">How the bills address duplication\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In response, Alvarez and Cabaldon wrote comprehensive bills this year to allow colleges to create bachelor’s degrees, even if they resemble degrees already offered by Cal State campuses. The community colleges were on board with those versions while the Cal State system was opposed; the system instead wanted more streamlined pathways for students to start their studies at a community college and earn a bachelor’s at a Cal State campus. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Others in the system have feared that an expansion of community college bachelor’s degrees would siphon away students and crucial tuition revenue at a time when some Cal States \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/03/cal-state-enrollment/\">are battling enrollment declines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12088396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California State University, Northridge, on Aug. 22, 2025. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new combined bills allow community colleges to propose bachelor’s degrees even if a nearby Cal State offers a similar program, but only if that Cal State program admits fewer than 75% of applicants from that nearby community college for three consecutive years. The community college would still need to submit a workforce needs report and be governed by the degree caps also spelled out in the bills. That workforce need could be that employers are having difficulty filling positions that require a bachelor’s degree, the two bills say.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>And unlike the current policy, in which there’s no arbiter to settle an impasse between community colleges and the Cal States over duplication, a review by the state’s secretary of labor siding with the colleges would remove the Cal State system’s challenge to the degree. But districts face consequences for being wrong: If the labor secretary sides with Cal State, the district is barred from submitting an application for a similar program for five years.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The community colleges are generally barred from duplicating a degree a UC campus offers. Only written consent from a UC would clear the way for duplication, the bills say.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-community-colleges-are-now-opposed\">Why community colleges are now opposed \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The newly created caps on the number of degrees community college districts can offer are a problem for the community college system. Districts will be judged by their student completion rates and how those rates compare to the statewide average.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The bills “would make a district’s eligibility depend partly on how its performance\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>compares with every other district in the state,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/SB-960-CCCCO-Letter-of-Opposition-August-26-2026.pdf\">a letter of opposition\u003c/a> to Cabaldon reads from Sonya Christian, chancellor of California Community Colleges. “A district could improve its own student outcomes” but still have the same caps apply to them, “or even see its eligibility change simply because the statewide average changed,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person walks toward a building labeled "Creative Arts" on a campus with trees, sidewalks and the street in view.\" class=\"wp-image-11968734\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A student walks through the City College of San Francisco community college campus in San Francisco on Aug. 22, 2023. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Galizio of the Community College League also takes issue with the caps on degree creation. He said in an interview that campuses with low graduation rates typically serve more low-income students, the same students who need more bachelor’s degrees to get a leg up in the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But not all community college leaders think the bills are bad for their campuses, including Jose Fierro, president/superintendent of the Cerritos Community College District. Based on his college’s completion rates, he thinks he’ll be permitted to add a total of six to eight new bachelor’s degrees starting in 2028. That’s plenty for now, he said. The school has two now and plans to launch more in 2027.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“We are not trying to become a university. It’s not our mission. We’re trying to align with industry and provide pathways for social and economic mobility for our students,” he said in an interview. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But just because the bills aren’t a problem for him doesn’t mean it’s not a problem for the system. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“For some of us this is workable,” he said. For other colleges, “this is going to bring some additional challenges.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/whatmatters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatMatters\u003c/a> to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>’s community colleges have been trying for several years to offer more bachelor’s degrees. This year, they put their hopes in two sweeping bills designed to help them do that. But lawmakers made massive, last-minute changes that prompted the state’s community colleges to now oppose the legislation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The abrupt change of heart, spurred by new limits on how much the colleges could grow their bachelor’s programs, didn’t influence the outcomes of the bills: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb960\">Senate Bill 960\u003c/a> by Sen. Christopher Cabaldon, a Democrat from Napa, and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2694\">Assembly Bill 2694\u003c/a> by David Alvarez, also a Democrat from Chula Vista. Both passed this week by wide margins in the Legislature and now head to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In recent years, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/01/community-colleges-california-2/#:~:text=While%20Newsom%20supports\">vetoed bills\u003c/a> that sought to expand the community colleges’ ability to issue more bachelor’s degrees. Still, Newsom’s office was involved in the revision of the latest bills, Cabaldon said in a Senate floor speech Monday.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“This is the first time that we’ve been able to engage in productive conversation between the houses and the executive branch,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/280027#t=1158&f=4f607eb330ef5178f50fba4551edfb0e\">he said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a college campus with people walking around.\" class=\"wp-image-12023068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0207SSC200203437-2048x1365-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Santiago Canyon College campus in Orange, California. In recent years, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed bills that sought to expand the community colleges’ ability to issue more bachelor’s degrees. (Courtesy of Santiago Canyon College)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Combined, the bills introduce new mechanisms for determining when colleges can create bachelor’s degrees and how many they can offer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new approach has accountability metrics — colleges would be able to offer an additional two to 12 bachelor’s degrees starting in 2028 depending on their students’ certificate, degree and transfer-completion rates.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>No college district could propose more than three new degrees per year, and districts would need to prove that there’s a workforce need in their region to justify the creation of a bachelor’s degree.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s a claim the state’s labor secretary would step in to validate if the California State University system objects, as has regularly occurred in the pitched policy disputes \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/08/bachelors-degrees/\">between the community colleges and the university\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The rules would apply to new degrees offered after 2028; existing community college bachelor’s degrees are grandfathered in. Today, 49 colleges \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/Educational-Services-and-Support/What-we-do/Curriculum-and-Instruction-Unit/Curriculum/Baccalaureate-Degree-Program\">either offer or will soon\u003c/a> offer 66 bachelor’s degrees.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cabaldon called the bills a breakthrough that would bring long-sought clarity. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This will give us peace,” he said in a phone interview. “That doesn’t mean everybody’s going to agree all of the time, but it does mean the endless war and bickering and fighting and more and more legislation will come to an end.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Community college leaders said the amendments are too last-minute, too unclear and too complicated, even if they appreciate the effort by the Legislature to wrangle the thorny issues.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re being asked to … support a process that is not completely understood or vetted at the last minute, and so that’s just not great policymaking,” said Larry Galizio, president and CEO of the Community College League of California, an association representing community college presidents and board leaders. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-bachelor-s-degrees-have-been-so-contentious\">Why bachelor’s degrees have been so contentious\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The community colleges’ sudden shift is another turn in an effort that has produced near-constant turmoil. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Historically, the community colleges and Cal State have clashed over which bachelor’s degrees the colleges can teach. A 2021 state law was supposed to establish peace in the realm, but the colleges and Cal State regularly disagreed on a key concept — degree duplication. That law said the colleges couldn’t create bachelor’s degrees that are already offered by any Cal State or University of California campus, even if a community college is hundreds of miles from the nearest public university. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Colleges and several lawmakers called that an unfair arrangement, since many community college students can’t relocate to a distant university. In some instances, community colleges created those degrees anyway, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2026/california-community-colleges-approve-3-new-bachelors-degrees-over-california-state-university-objections/751678\">over the objections of the Cal State system\u003c/a>, EdSource reported.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211.jpg\" alt=\"When researchers took a close look at transcripts for thousands of California community college students, they discovered an encouraging trend in enrollment for undocumented students.\" class=\"wp-image-11714155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-494862297-e1545347957211-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The community colleges are generally barred from duplicating a degree a UC campus offers. (Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images for UCLA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Backers and foes of more bachelor’s degrees at community colleges point to competing data.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A recent report found that \u003ca href=\"https://rpgroup.org/Portals/0/Documents/Projects/Exploring_Geographic_Isolation_Barrier_Equitable_Transfer_Outcomes/DistanceMatters_ExploringGeographicBarriers_November2024.pdf?ver=2024-12-20-201519-053\">29 of the state’s 116 community colleges\u003c/a> are located at least 25 miles from a public university. Their students are “place-bound” or can’t easily move from the area their community colleges serve. Roughly 157,000 students attend these colleges.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/01/community-colleges-california-2/#:~:text=Southwestern%20College%20student%20Marilynn%20Palomino%20is\">Some students say\u003c/a> they need their local community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees because local employers want those — certificates or associate degrees aren’t enough. But under existing law, those colleges cannot provide them because a Cal State 500 miles away offers that degree already.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>On the other hand, community colleges post low transfer rates — just 21% of students who wanted to transfer do so after four years, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2023-123/\">state auditor reported\u003c/a>. This may indicate a broken transfer system that could be remedied if more colleges could offer bachelor’s. Or it may demonstrate that colleges \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/01/community-colleges-california-2/#:~:text=Community%20colleges%20have,college%20system%20chancellor.\">aren’t ready\u003c/a> to widen their academic offerings because most also post low certificate and associate degree completion rates.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-the-bills-address-duplication\">How the bills address duplication\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In response, Alvarez and Cabaldon wrote comprehensive bills this year to allow colleges to create bachelor’s degrees, even if they resemble degrees already offered by Cal State campuses. The community colleges were on board with those versions while the Cal State system was opposed; the system instead wanted more streamlined pathways for students to start their studies at a community college and earn a bachelor’s at a Cal State campus. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Others in the system have feared that an expansion of community college bachelor’s degrees would siphon away students and crucial tuition revenue at a time when some Cal States \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/03/cal-state-enrollment/\">are battling enrollment declines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12088396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2230923952-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California State University, Northridge, on Aug. 22, 2025. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new combined bills allow community colleges to propose bachelor’s degrees even if a nearby Cal State offers a similar program, but only if that Cal State program admits fewer than 75% of applicants from that nearby community college for three consecutive years. The community college would still need to submit a workforce needs report and be governed by the degree caps also spelled out in the bills. That workforce need could be that employers are having difficulty filling positions that require a bachelor’s degree, the two bills say.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>And unlike the current policy, in which there’s no arbiter to settle an impasse between community colleges and the Cal States over duplication, a review by the state’s secretary of labor siding with the colleges would remove the Cal State system’s challenge to the degree. But districts face consequences for being wrong: If the labor secretary sides with Cal State, the district is barred from submitting an application for a similar program for five years.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The community colleges are generally barred from duplicating a degree a UC campus offers. Only written consent from a UC would clear the way for duplication, the bills say.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-community-colleges-are-now-opposed\">Why community colleges are now opposed \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The newly created caps on the number of degrees community college districts can offer are a problem for the community college system. Districts will be judged by their student completion rates and how those rates compare to the statewide average.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The bills “would make a district’s eligibility depend partly on how its performance\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>compares with every other district in the state,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/SB-960-CCCCO-Letter-of-Opposition-August-26-2026.pdf\">a letter of opposition\u003c/a> to Cabaldon reads from Sonya Christian, chancellor of California Community Colleges. “A district could improve its own student outcomes” but still have the same caps apply to them, “or even see its eligibility change simply because the statewide average changed,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person walks toward a building labeled "Creative Arts" on a campus with trees, sidewalks and the street in view.\" class=\"wp-image-11968734\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230822-CCSFCampus-01-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A student walks through the City College of San Francisco community college campus in San Francisco on Aug. 22, 2023. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Galizio of the Community College League also takes issue with the caps on degree creation. He said in an interview that campuses with low graduation rates typically serve more low-income students, the same students who need more bachelor’s degrees to get a leg up in the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But not all community college leaders think the bills are bad for their campuses, including Jose Fierro, president/superintendent of the Cerritos Community College District. Based on his college’s completion rates, he thinks he’ll be permitted to add a total of six to eight new bachelor’s degrees starting in 2028. That’s plenty for now, he said. The school has two now and plans to launch more in 2027.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“We are not trying to become a university. It’s not our mission. We’re trying to align with industry and provide pathways for social and economic mobility for our students,” he said in an interview. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But just because the bills aren’t a problem for him doesn’t mean it’s not a problem for the system. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“For some of us this is workable,” he said. For other colleges, “this is going to bring some additional challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>Smokestacks sit idly in Benicia as the city awaits nearly $40 million in grant funding, following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011785/bay-area-air-district-hits-valeros-benicia-refinery-with-historic-82-million-fine\">2024 settlement\u003c/a> between the Bay Area Air District, the California Air Resources Board and Valero. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After nearly 26 years in Benicia, a Solano County town of roughly 26,000, Valero \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036242/oil-giant-valero-announces-plans-to-shutter-troubled-benicia-refinery\">shuttered\u003c/a> operations there in April. The decision to close shop came after Texas-based Valero was slapped with $82 million in fines, on the grounds that it exceeded toxic emissions standards for over a decade before regulators intervened.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As city officials have noted, meanwhile, the closure left a hole in Benicia’s budget and removed hundreds of high-paying jobs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The penalty against Valero is the largest that the Bay Area Air District ever levied, said Emi Wang, a community investments officer with the air district, and it is the first time it is sending settlement money directly to communities that have been polluted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12055464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Valero Benicia Refinery in Benicia, California, on May 8, 2025. 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The decision to close shop came after Texas-based Valero was slapped with $82 million in fines, on the grounds that it exceeded toxic emissions standards for over a decade before regulators intervened.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As city officials have noted, meanwhile, the closure left a hole in Benicia’s budget and removed hundreds of high-paying jobs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The penalty against Valero is the largest that the Bay Area Air District ever levied, said Emi Wang, a community investments officer with the air district, and it is the first time it is sending settlement money directly to communities that have been polluted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12055464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Valero Benicia Refinery in Benicia, California, on May 8, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The $40 million would go toward updating school buildings and investing in clean energy infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>City Councilmember Kari Birdseye said that the next five years — the time period they have allotted for implementing the grants — will be pivotal for Benicia, which Birdseye said “can be a model for future towns that have lost their refineries.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As of May there are still \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/california-refineries\">eight refineries\u003c/a> operating in California, according to CARB. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wang said 80% of the Valero settlement would go directly to the local communities most affected by the air quality violations, with 20% to a regional fund through the new Local Community Benefits Fund. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Obviously we didn’t appreciate the 15 years of secret, toxic emissions,” Birdseye said. “But these funds will help us recover from that and transition away from depending on Valero and their tax money.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In May, KQED reported that about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084374/can-benicia-be-the-poster-child-of-a-just-transition-away-from-fossil-fuels\">10%\u003c/a> of Benicia’s tax money came from Valero. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Benicia Mayor Steve Young said that, while the grants cannot support general fund services like police and parks, they could help the overall budget by giving room to purchase new electric vehicles and repair solar infrastructure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If the board approves the projects, $30 million could go to the city of Benicia to invest in clean-energy upgrades for government facilities, in electric-vehicle infrastructure, in bike and pedestrian safety, in community health, and in a just-transition roadmap. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The other $10 million would go to the school district. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Benicia Unified School District Superintendent Chris Calabrese said the funds would be used to update school facilities by installing heat pumps equipped with air filters, replacing windows for better insulation and planting trees. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We have several schools that have the highway going right by them,” Calabrese said, explaining that the city will plant trees between the highways and the schools to absorb carbon and act as buffers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-CHILD-CARE-PRICES-MD-05-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12061772\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-CHILD-CARE-PRICES-MD-05-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-CHILD-CARE-PRICES-MD-05-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-CHILD-CARE-PRICES-MD-05-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A mother and her daughter play at City Park in Benicia on Oct. 27, 2025. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Calabrese noted that 10% of preschoolers in the district have been diagnosed with asthma — that’s more than three times the national average of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/asthma-data/about/most-recent-asthma-data.html\">3%\u003c/a> of children under 4. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Although Valero exited Benicia in April, it still owns the refinery land, Young noted. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> science bond measure to counter the Trump administration’s research cuts is back from the dead after state lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a deal last week to place the $7.5 billion request to voters on the March 2028 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb895\">Senate Bill 895\u003c/a> by Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, passed the Legislature with minimal opposition and bipartisan support on Monday and now awaits Newsom’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been in the works for more than a year and began as a $23 billion bond proposal but got a steep haircut mid-year, down to $12 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After failing to clear a June legislative deadline to get on this year’s ballot, the bond proposal appeared moribund — and was slashed to $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiener and a united front led by the University of California and the union representing graduate students, two forces that are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/12/uc-strike-civil-disobedience/\">often\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike/\">loggerheads\u003c/a>, continued working to restore the bill. Both significantly benefit, as the money fuels scientific discovery while also supplementing the pay of graduate students conducting essential research for professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer hustle paid off: For the first time, leaders of the Assembly, Senate and Newsom are all backing the measure, which was heavily amended in the past two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during his State of the State address on Jan. 8, 2026, in Sacramento, California. \u003ccite>(Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have performed a ritual legislative resurrection of the bill,” Wiener quipped at a press conference Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would allocate $1 billion to the UC and California State University to build more science facilities and create a system of scientific panels to review research proposals based on their scientific merits. The bulk of the funding would pay for a wide array of priorities such as biomedical research, wildfire prevention and water supply. Portions of the bond would also support science breakthroughs that can be commercialized and provide opportunities for early-career researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds are a kind of debt that government agencies issue and then pay down over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public or private research companies, universities, academic medical centers, institutes, and organizations would be eligible for the grants or loans under this bond measure. A newly formed California Foundation for Science and Health Research Council would write more specific rules on how the money can be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why backers say the bond is needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiener and the coalition in support of the measure view it as a backstop against the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to terminate existing and new research funding for the UC and other campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s Department of Justice has argued in courts that grants the administration canceled violated his prohibitions on research into diversity issues and climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the grants sought to better understand diseases, and focused on new disease-fighting drugs, cancer and dementia. About half of the UC system’s spending on research comes from the federal government — in 2024-25 that totaled \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2026-27-budget-detail.pdf#page=21\">around $3 billion in federal grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12097112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12097112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year the White House suspended or cancelled more than 1,000 California science grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration admitted in court filings that it used \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/research-grants-california-2/\">bulk keyword searches\u003c/a> for terms related to DEI and climate change to target grants to cancel. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/newsom-uc-cal-state-billion-dollars-more/#:~:text=At%20one%20point%20last%20year%20the%20Trump%20administration%20froze%20or%20terminated%20more%20than%201%2C000%20California%20science%20grants%20from%20the%20National%20Institutes%20of%20Health%20and%20National%20Science%20Foundation.\">Most of those\u003c/a> have been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/09/ucla-research-grants/\">restored\u003c/a> for now through various court orders \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/11/uc/\">after professors\u003c/a> sued last year. But at least one major case is unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration seeks to further expand control over federal research by proposing to require political appointees to decide \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/well/omb-scientific-grant-proposal.html?eafs_enabled=false\">which science grants are funded\u003c/a>, departing from a practice in which peer-review scientific committees select the worthiest grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s desire to bring federal science increasingly under his control spurred esteemed U.S. scientists to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/world/canada/canada-universities-hire-us-researchers.html\">move to other countries\u003c/a> that recently passed budgets to entice researchers to relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Harold R. Collard, vice chancellor for research at research powerhouse UC San Francisco, said at Friday’s press event that the Wiener bond measure could keep more researchers in California and attract new ones. Experts say every dollar of NIH spending amounts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-economic-report/\">$2.57 of economic activity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the measure came back from dead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The measure initially sped through the Senate but stalled in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political insiders \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/newsom-uc-cal-state-billion-dollars-more/#:~:text=Several%20legislative%20and%20political%20insiders%20told%20CalMatters%20that%20another%20reason%20the%20science%20research%20bond\">suspected\u003c/a> that the holdup was over worry it would compete with the Assembly’s priority bond, an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/08/california-rhna-housing-affordable-progress/#:~:text=Affordable%20developers%20and%20other%20housing%20advocates%20are%20hoping%20voters%20will%20back%20an%20%2411.25%20billion%20state%20bond%20in%20November%20to%20replenish%20the%20coffers.%C2%A0\">$11.25 billion ballot measure\u003c/a> for this November to expand housing construction and affordability in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of that measure feared it might be defeated if another large bond was on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s some legitimate political concerns about placing something competing with the housing bond,” said Chris Micheli, a veteran lobbyist and law professor, in an interview in June when Wiener’s bill was derailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085954\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during an election night event at his campaign headquarters in San Francisco on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener validated that suspicion on Friday. “We already placed a housing bond on the ballot. There are a lot of items on the state ballot, and you know I understand why some people were concerned about placing yet additional items on the ballot for November, and that’s why we were able to, after the deadline passed, work collaboratively towards March of 2028.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing bond experienced a similar journey: It got skipped over by political leaders in 2024 to make room \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/propositions/\">for two\u003c/a> $10 billion bonds for school construction and to combat the effects of climate change.[aside postID=news_12097632 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-183300309.jpg']This November voters will see another science research bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That measure, Proposition 38, is backed by a billionaire funder and would approve $8.4 billion for research into immunology and immunotherapies, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of that funding appears to benefit \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/07/proposition-38-california/\">just one institute\u003c/a> that is significantly supported by that billionaire funder, CalMatters reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener doesn’t think that Prop. 38 will compete with his bond effort some two years later. “That ballot measure primarily funds one particular institute. It’s not a broad science policy funding measure, and so it’s just very different,” he said on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The onus will be on the coalition backing the bond to convince voters to pass it in 2028, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/09/science-research-california-2/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After failing to clear a June legislative deadline to get on this year’s ballot, the bond proposal appeared moribund — and was slashed to $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiener and a united front led by the University of California and the union representing graduate students, two forces that are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/12/uc-strike-civil-disobedience/\">often\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike/\">loggerheads\u003c/a>, continued working to restore the bill. Both significantly benefit, as the money fuels scientific discovery while also supplementing the pay of graduate students conducting essential research for professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer hustle paid off: For the first time, leaders of the Assembly, Senate and Newsom are all backing the measure, which was heavily amended in the past two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during his State of the State address on Jan. 8, 2026, in Sacramento, California. \u003ccite>(Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have performed a ritual legislative resurrection of the bill,” Wiener quipped at a press conference Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would allocate $1 billion to the UC and California State University to build more science facilities and create a system of scientific panels to review research proposals based on their scientific merits. The bulk of the funding would pay for a wide array of priorities such as biomedical research, wildfire prevention and water supply. Portions of the bond would also support science breakthroughs that can be commercialized and provide opportunities for early-career researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds are a kind of debt that government agencies issue and then pay down over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public or private research companies, universities, academic medical centers, institutes, and organizations would be eligible for the grants or loans under this bond measure. A newly formed California Foundation for Science and Health Research Council would write more specific rules on how the money can be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why backers say the bond is needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiener and the coalition in support of the measure view it as a backstop against the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to terminate existing and new research funding for the UC and other campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s Department of Justice has argued in courts that grants the administration canceled violated his prohibitions on research into diversity issues and climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the grants sought to better understand diseases, and focused on new disease-fighting drugs, cancer and dementia. About half of the UC system’s spending on research comes from the federal government — in 2024-25 that totaled \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2026-27-budget-detail.pdf#page=21\">around $3 billion in federal grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12097112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12097112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year the White House suspended or cancelled more than 1,000 California science grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration admitted in court filings that it used \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/research-grants-california-2/\">bulk keyword searches\u003c/a> for terms related to DEI and climate change to target grants to cancel. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/newsom-uc-cal-state-billion-dollars-more/#:~:text=At%20one%20point%20last%20year%20the%20Trump%20administration%20froze%20or%20terminated%20more%20than%201%2C000%20California%20science%20grants%20from%20the%20National%20Institutes%20of%20Health%20and%20National%20Science%20Foundation.\">Most of those\u003c/a> have been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/09/ucla-research-grants/\">restored\u003c/a> for now through various court orders \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/11/uc/\">after professors\u003c/a> sued last year. But at least one major case is unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration seeks to further expand control over federal research by proposing to require political appointees to decide \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/well/omb-scientific-grant-proposal.html?eafs_enabled=false\">which science grants are funded\u003c/a>, departing from a practice in which peer-review scientific committees select the worthiest grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s desire to bring federal science increasingly under his control spurred esteemed U.S. scientists to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/world/canada/canada-universities-hire-us-researchers.html\">move to other countries\u003c/a> that recently passed budgets to entice researchers to relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Harold R. Collard, vice chancellor for research at research powerhouse UC San Francisco, said at Friday’s press event that the Wiener bond measure could keep more researchers in California and attract new ones. Experts say every dollar of NIH spending amounts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-economic-report/\">$2.57 of economic activity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the measure came back from dead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The measure initially sped through the Senate but stalled in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political insiders \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/newsom-uc-cal-state-billion-dollars-more/#:~:text=Several%20legislative%20and%20political%20insiders%20told%20CalMatters%20that%20another%20reason%20the%20science%20research%20bond\">suspected\u003c/a> that the holdup was over worry it would compete with the Assembly’s priority bond, an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/08/california-rhna-housing-affordable-progress/#:~:text=Affordable%20developers%20and%20other%20housing%20advocates%20are%20hoping%20voters%20will%20back%20an%20%2411.25%20billion%20state%20bond%20in%20November%20to%20replenish%20the%20coffers.%C2%A0\">$11.25 billion ballot measure\u003c/a> for this November to expand housing construction and affordability in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of that measure feared it might be defeated if another large bond was on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s some legitimate political concerns about placing something competing with the housing bond,” said Chris Micheli, a veteran lobbyist and law professor, in an interview in June when Wiener’s bill was derailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085954\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during an election night event at his campaign headquarters in San Francisco on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener validated that suspicion on Friday. “We already placed a housing bond on the ballot. There are a lot of items on the state ballot, and you know I understand why some people were concerned about placing yet additional items on the ballot for November, and that’s why we were able to, after the deadline passed, work collaboratively towards March of 2028.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing bond experienced a similar journey: It got skipped over by political leaders in 2024 to make room \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/propositions/\">for two\u003c/a> $10 billion bonds for school construction and to combat the effects of climate change.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This November voters will see another science research bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That measure, Proposition 38, is backed by a billionaire funder and would approve $8.4 billion for research into immunology and immunotherapies, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of that funding appears to benefit \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/07/proposition-38-california/\">just one institute\u003c/a> that is significantly supported by that billionaire funder, CalMatters reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener doesn’t think that Prop. 38 will compete with his bond effort some two years later. “That ballot measure primarily funds one particular institute. It’s not a broad science policy funding measure, and so it’s just very different,” he said on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The onus will be on the coalition backing the bond to convince voters to pass it in 2028, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/09/science-research-california-2/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The district has not provided details about the incident, which the Chronicle’s May report attributed to inside sources.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last week, the San Francisco Academic Athletic Conference informed school administrators that its investigation of the incident found that Lowell baseball violated multiple bylaws having to do with sportsmanship expectations, rooting section requirements and hazing policy.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a result of the findings, the school district’s governing body for sports determined that Lowell will forfeit the first game of each of three double-headers next spring against local rivals Lincoln High School, Galileo Academy and Washington High School — teams that finished second through fourth in the league last season.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The forfeited games were chosen based on the standings last season and the impact it will have on standings in the 2026-2027 season,” commissioner Gail Barksdale wrote in message to school administrators. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Forfeiting the selected games will likely hurt the team, which has historically dominated its division.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lowell won nine more games than second-place Lincoln in 2026 and snagged the vast majority of section championship titles over the last decade, including last year’s, just days after the purported taunting incident.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An interim coach will be put in place for this year as the school searches for a permanent replacement for first-year head coach Michael Sera, who also taught physical education at Lowell before he was put on leave. Sera was only the third head coach of the team in the last four decades.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We want to emphasize that there is no place for racism, discrimination, or racialized harm in the Lowell community or anywhere in SFUSD,” a district spokesperson said via email. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SFUSD said that after the incident was initially reported, Lowell administrators were in contact with the Lincoln team and affected students and families “to ensure that they worked to repair any harm done.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-09-MC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-09-MC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-09-MC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-09-MC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during Jose Ortega Elementary School’s first morning circle of the school year on Aug. 17, 2026, in San Francisco. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">\u003cem>KQED\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/newsletters/dispatches\">\u003cem>Sign up for Dispatches\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California lawmakers unanimously passed legislation last week to ensure that school administrators are informed about past accusations of misconduct against teachers as part of their hiring process.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The legislation follows a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/california-fired-teacher-sexual-harassment\">KQED-ProPublica investigation\u003c/a> revealing how delays and inaction, combined with a lack of transparency, allowed educators to get new jobs after school districts reported them to the state teacher licensing agency for sexual harassment or other misconduct. Our reporting found that new schools hired at least 14 educators after their former employers determined they had sexually harassed students or committed other sexual misconduct. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1381/id/3456504\">bill\u003c/a>, authored by Democratic Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, is an attempt to make sure that doesn’t happen again, adding teeth to background check mandates in place since 2025. Under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2534\">that law\u003c/a>, applicants for jobs at public schools are supposed to list every teaching position they have ever held. The requirement \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB848\">expanded to private school\u003c/a> teaching applicants this year. Top school administrators are required to check with applicants’ previous employers to see if they had ever been reported to the state for credible or substantiated complaints of egregious misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the existing law relies on schools and teachers to follow the mandates without clear penalties for those who fail to do so. Muratsuchi’s bill specifies that the state’s teacher licensing agency may discipline teachers and administrators; that can include issuing public reprimands or suspending or revoking their credentials if they don’t comply. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12028517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students complete an outdoor assignment activity in the schoolyard at an elementary school in San Leandro, California, on June 1, 2023. California lawmakers unanimously passed legislation last week to ensure that schools are informed about past accusations of teacher misconduct as part of their hiring process. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If there aren’t any penalties, there are no consequences,” Muratsuchi said in an interview with KQED and ProPublica after the legislation passed. “The bill makes sure that school districts prioritize this by putting in consequences for failing to do so.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the legislation. A spokesperson for Newsom said the governor does not typically comment on bills awaiting his signature.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The measure is dramatically different from the bill Muratsuchi originally proposed in June, which would have gone further, creating a searchable database that would allow schools to see if applicants for public school teaching positions had been reported to the state after they were fired or had resigned over claims of misconduct. California is set to launch such a database by next summer for school support staff, such as bus drivers and janitors, with substantiated claims of egregious misconduct. 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Our reporting found that new schools hired at least 14 educators after their former employers determined they had sexually harassed students or committed other sexual misconduct. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1381/id/3456504\">bill\u003c/a>, authored by Democratic Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, is an attempt to make sure that doesn’t happen again, adding teeth to background check mandates in place since 2025. Under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2534\">that law\u003c/a>, applicants for jobs at public schools are supposed to list every teaching position they have ever held. The requirement \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB848\">expanded to private school\u003c/a> teaching applicants this year. Top school administrators are required to check with applicants’ previous employers to see if they had ever been reported to the state for credible or substantiated complaints of egregious misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the existing law relies on schools and teachers to follow the mandates without clear penalties for those who fail to do so. Muratsuchi’s bill specifies that the state’s teacher licensing agency may discipline teachers and administrators; that can include issuing public reprimands or suspending or revoking their credentials if they don’t comply. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12028517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230601-MindShift-33-BL_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students complete an outdoor assignment activity in the schoolyard at an elementary school in San Leandro, California, on June 1, 2023. California lawmakers unanimously passed legislation last week to ensure that schools are informed about past accusations of teacher misconduct as part of their hiring process. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If there aren’t any penalties, there are no consequences,” Muratsuchi said in an interview with KQED and ProPublica after the legislation passed. “The bill makes sure that school districts prioritize this by putting in consequences for failing to do so.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the legislation. A spokesperson for Newsom said the governor does not typically comment on bills awaiting his signature.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The measure is dramatically different from the bill Muratsuchi originally proposed in June, which would have gone further, creating a searchable database that would allow schools to see if applicants for public school teaching positions had been reported to the state after they were fired or had resigned over claims of misconduct. California is set to launch such a database by next summer for school support staff, such as bus drivers and janitors, with substantiated claims of egregious misconduct. But public school teachers are not included.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration had singled out teachers unions as obstructions to legislative reforms to protect children when it announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-teacher-sexual-misconduct-crackdown-linda-mcmahon\">national crackdown this summer\u003c/a> on how school districts handle accusations of sexual misconduct by teachers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California’s powerful teachers unions, the California Federation of Teachers and California Teachers Association, had \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/california-teacher-misconduct-database-bill-failed-al-muratsuchi\">criticized Muratsuchi’s database proposal\u003c/a> for public school educators, arguing it would violate teachers’ privacy and subject them to employment consequences if allegations are later determined to be unfounded. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Commission on Teacher Credentialing, California’s educator licensing agency, also warned that complying with the proposed legislation to add teachers to the database would “require Commission staff to commit crimes” and expose the agency to liability because state law restricts what information it is allowed to share. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After the pushback, Muratsuchi amended the proposed bill and scrapped the database idea. The revamped legislation ultimately received support from the California Federation of Teachers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>School administrators, though, say the legislation does not address the burden on school districts to reach out to every previous employer for any reports they made to the state about a teacher applicant.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Many of us in this state have been faced with budget cuts and reduced staffing. We need a better system,” said Chris Calabrese, superintendent of Benicia Unified, a 4,500-student district in the San Francisco Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said a database for employers to check whether a teacher had ever been reported would be a more efficient way to vet applicants, allowing schools easy access to critical information that would keep students safe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Currently, a red flag shows up next to a teacher’s name in the state’s public database of credentialed educators if the licensing agency has ever disciplined the person. But the state disciplinary process typically takes one year, according to the agency, giving educators who have been reported a window to apply for new teaching jobs without any warning to potential employers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2023, Benicia Unified reported former elementary teacher Matthew Shelton to the state after \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/four-more-victims-accuse-former-benicia-teacher-of-sexual-abuse/\">students accused him of touching them inappropriately\u003c/a>. Shelton resigned and weeks later was hired as an assistant principal at a nearby middle school in West Contra Unified. A red flag did not appear next to his name until the following year, after his teaching license was suspended because he was charged with five felony counts of lewd acts on a Benicia student. The number of victims and charges has since grown, and Shelton, whose license has been revoked, is scheduled to go to trial in September.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shelton, who has pleaded not guilty to all charges, did not respond to requests for comment, and his attorney declined to comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Calabrese, who started as superintendent last year, declined to comment on specific questions about Shelton.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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That’s according to new data from UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A recent report from the Public Policy Institute of California is linking a voter-backed proposition to a rise in homelessness.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096573/under-proposed-trump-rule-head-start-would-be-english-only\">Advocates Say Education For Dual-Language Speakers Will Be Undermined\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lok Yuen Early Learning Center is a preschool in San Francisco’s Chinatown that serves low-income families who qualify for Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The children enrolled here come from households that speak a variety of languages: Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish and Arabic. So to connect with the kids and get them accustomed to the classroom, teacher Jennifer Lee Yuen tries to speak a few words in their home languages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Even if we don’t know their language, being able to learn one or two words like, saying good morning, ‘Hola, como estas?’ or in Chinese greeting them in their language, it can make them feel welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But these practices could end under a proposal to reform the 61-year-old program led by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy. Earlier this month, he unveiled a plan that would remove federal requirements for class sizes, staff qualifications and other standards with the goal of cutting administrative costs and increasing access to Head Start. Within that plan to eliminate “unnecessary bureaucracy,” however, is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/07/2026-16134/reducing-federal-burden-for-head-start-programs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new requirement\u003c/a> that programs teach only in English.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It worried me a lot because every single year there are children who are bilingual or learning English,” said Yuen when she heard that the Trump administration wants her to teach only in English. “If they go through with it, it’s gonna be very difficult to connect with the children and meet their needs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Head Start \u003ca href=\"https://headstart.gov/program-data/article/head-start-program-facts-fiscal-year-2024\">has long supported English learners\u003c/a> and even has a rule requiring programs to hire bilingual teachers or aides when a majority of kids enrolled speak another language. But Trump administration officials say that kind of rule is “at odds” with the president’s executive order, declaring English as the nation’s official language. And that learning English would open economic opportunities for kids.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This creates a false choice between learning English and maintaining the child’s home language.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Martha Hernandez is executive director of Californians Together, an organization in Long Beach that advocates for multilingual education.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Education experts like her say there’s good evidence that children learn English faster when they get access to a dual language education that supports their home language.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We absolutely want children to develop strong English. The question is whether we have to ask a 3- or 4-year-old to give up the language they already know in order to do that,” said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates for Head Start say this proposal, if it goes through, could especially affect Head Start programs in California that serve babies and toddlers, who are just learning to talk and often in a non-English language. And it would impact Migrant Head Start, which serves the children of farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An English-only federal requirement would take a decision away from local educators and communities, including communities that have really successfully built programs around the languages of the families that they serve.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The administration says programs can apply for waivers to specific requirements under the proposed rules, which are open to public comments until October 6th.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Back at the preschool, Jennifer Lee Yuen says recognizing children’s home language in the classroom lets them know their teachers care.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The important thing is that we are helping children learn how to regulate their emotions and feel safe in an environment. And it’s my job to help children feel comfortable and safe and build that trust.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She says when children feel that way, then they’re open to learning.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">Northern California ICE Arrests Surged This Summer\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">surged all over the nation\u003c/a> – even as the Trump administration has backed off high-profile raids.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Across Northern California, ICE arrested nearly 900 people in July. That’s 60% more than in February.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077656/how-a-bay-area-attorney-aims-to-hold-us-agents-accountable-for-violence-in-minneapolis\">Immigration lawyers\u003c/a> say arrests are happening at\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\"> airports\u003c/a> and green-card interviews, mostly at ICE check-ins.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lourdes Martinez is with Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland. She says people should call a rapid response hotline to assess their risk before ICE appointments.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In particular, parents with small children. If they are going to take a risk of being detained and not coming home that evening, what is plan B if the parent doesn’t get to come home to the children?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But arrests are much higher in Texas and Florida than in California, where the law prevents local police from conducting immigration arrests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Angela Chan is with San Francisco’s public defender’s office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California has the highest number of immigrants compared to any other state. And we’re not leading in terms of the number of ICE arrests. And that’s likely largely due to our sanctuary laws.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE says anyone in the country illegally is a target for arrest.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2026/08/ppic-prop-47-study-drugs-homelessness/\">Prop 47 Reduced Prison Overcrowding, But May have Increased Homelessness \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 passed in 2014. It reduced certain drug crimes from felonies down to misdemeanors. The idea was to keep people out of jails and prison. But researchers say they may be winding up on the streets instead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/homelessness-and-drug-use-in-california/\">PPIC is reporting \u003c/a>Proposition 47 likely led to an estimated increase in street homelessness of about 10% between 2015 and 2019. The study suggests the measure increased drug use (as measured by overdose deaths and hospitalizations) by between 7% and 8%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Researchers also found evidence that Prop 47 led to a 20% reduction in the number of Californians receiving drug treatment, because the courts referred fewer people into treatment programs after it passed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Ever since Prop. 47 was passed in 2014, there’s been a lot of critics of that particular reform,” said Magnus Lofstrom, the PPIC report’s lead author. “It’s important to have a sense of what are those potential impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This appears to be the first study to show a direct link between Prop. 47 and homelessness. The findings are sure to add fuel to an already raging debate over the causes and best ways to fight homelessness: with proponents of a tough-on-crime approach on one side arguing addiction is a primary driver of homelessness and police should crack down on drug use and encampments, and homeless advocates on the other arguing the state’s sky-high cost of living is to blame and building more housing is the answer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While the researchers couldn’t determine exactly why homelessness increased, Lofstrom said it’s likely a result of a combination of increased drug use and people who used to be sleeping in jails now sleeping on the street instead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The report was met with skepticism by some experts in the field. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacific.edu/campus-directory/ron-hochbaum\">Ron Hochbaum\u003c/a>, a law professor at the University of the Pacific and director of the Buccola Family Homeless Advocacy Clinic, said while the researchers may have found a correlation between Prop. 47 and an increase in homelessness, saying the two were directly linked appears to be a stretch.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think it is more likely that two phenomena happened at the same time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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And it would impact Migrant Head Start, which serves the children of farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An English-only federal requirement would take a decision away from local educators and communities, including communities that have really successfully built programs around the languages of the families that they serve.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The administration says programs can apply for waivers to specific requirements under the proposed rules, which are open to public comments until October 6th.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Back at the preschool, Jennifer Lee Yuen says recognizing children’s home language in the classroom lets them know their teachers care.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The important thing is that we are helping children learn how to regulate their emotions and feel safe in an environment. And it’s my job to help children feel comfortable and safe and build that trust.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She says when children feel that way, then they’re open to learning.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">Northern California ICE Arrests Surged This Summer\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">surged all over the nation\u003c/a> – even as the Trump administration has backed off high-profile raids.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Across Northern California, ICE arrested nearly 900 people in July. 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The study suggests the measure increased drug use (as measured by overdose deaths and hospitalizations) by between 7% and 8%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Researchers also found evidence that Prop 47 led to a 20% reduction in the number of Californians receiving drug treatment, because the courts referred fewer people into treatment programs after it passed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Ever since Prop. 47 was passed in 2014, there’s been a lot of critics of that particular reform,” said Magnus Lofstrom, the PPIC report’s lead author. “It’s important to have a sense of what are those potential impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This appears to be the first study to show a direct link between Prop. 47 and homelessness. The findings are sure to add fuel to an already raging debate over the causes and best ways to fight homelessness: with proponents of a tough-on-crime approach on one side arguing addiction is a primary driver of homelessness and police should crack down on drug use and encampments, and homeless advocates on the other arguing the state’s sky-high cost of living is to blame and building more housing is the answer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While the researchers couldn’t determine exactly why homelessness increased, Lofstrom said it’s likely a result of a combination of increased drug use and people who used to be sleeping in jails now sleeping on the street instead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The report was met with skepticism by some experts in the field. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacific.edu/campus-directory/ron-hochbaum\">Ron Hochbaum\u003c/a>, a law professor at the University of the Pacific and director of the Buccola Family Homeless Advocacy Clinic, said while the researchers may have found a correlation between Prop. 47 and an increase in homelessness, saying the two were directly linked appears to be a stretch.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think it is more likely that two phenomena happened at the same time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ucla\">UCLA\u003c/a> is launching the nation’s first digital humanities department and bachelor’s degree this fall. The new discipline combines classical humanities with technical know-how to examine a digitized and increasingly AI-enhanced world.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The major fuses technological tools for statistical analysis, coding, 3D mapping and data visualization with traditional humanities subjects like history, literature and global cultures. It’s a multidisciplinary approach to education that capitalizes on employers’ growing desire for recent graduates to think critically while also being able to harness new technology. And the major requires a great deal of teamwork among students, another skill hiring managers seek. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Students will learn how new technologies shape culture and the human biases that enter into the use of these new tools. Top of mind is the rise of generative artificial intelligence and training students to use it ethically while also understanding how easily it can produce misleading content.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12051530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students walk past Royce Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus in Los Angeles, on Aug. 15, 2024. (Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Todd Presner is a UCLA professor of European languages and transcultural studies, and co-led the effort to create the digital humanities department. He said contemporary culture has witnessed a rift between computational subjects and the traditional humanities, and both are enhanced by merging the two. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s actually at our own peril when scientists are not speaking to folks in the humanities with historical knowledge, ethical knowledge, cultural knowledge, right?” he said. “And at the same time, I’d say when the humanities are not understanding the technologies in the world today, they also could be seen as irrelevant.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Presner has taught a course showing students how to get under the hood of large language models, which store the reading material generative AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT use to spit out answers. “Students can essentially upload their own training data to some of these smaller models and see how easily they can be manipulated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New major, old discipline\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>UCLA students will be able to declare digital humanities as a major this year, but campus professors have taught courses in the discipline for more than two decades. It’s the second most popular minor at UCLA, which was one reason the school decided to transform it into a major, said Alexandra Minna Stern, dean of the UCLA College Division of Humanities where digital humanities is based. Last academic year, 750 UCLA undergraduate students took a course in digital humanities. Stern expects 50 to 100 students to eventually declare the major, and would be thrilled if 40 signed up this year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The department will launch with 23 faculty, including lecturers, plus four staff members. Stern eventually wants a few more faculty, but UCLA’s currently under a hiring freeze. No academic unit at the university was cut to make way for the new digital humanities. Faculty hail from multiple humanities fields as well as information studies and data science, so classes will occur across several campus buildings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1319\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2227778784-scaled-e1787859357158.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12051319\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People walk on the plaza outside Royce Hall on the UCLA campus on July 30, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said at least one museum will provide internship opportunities. Based in the Los Angeles area, the Wende Museum specializes in collecting artifacts and oral histories of refugees as well as other dissident groups and digitizing them — a key aspect of digital humanities training. She aims to secure similar arrangements with other museums so students can further apply what they learn in professional settings. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The major’s introductory courses are \u003ca href=\"https://catalog.registrar.ucla.edu/major/2026/DigitalHumanitiesBA\">clustered around\u003c/a> data networks, such as statistical reasoning, and courses on culture, such as the symbolic history of Jerusalem or film depictions of antiquity. Upper division courses can center on how contemporary technology is shaped by political, cultural, and social forces or a class on social media data analysis.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One student’s experience\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kedaar Sridhar, 26, graduated from UCLA in 2022 with a computer science major and a minor in digital humanities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The social media data analysis course was his favorite in the minor. For a class project, he and a team of students analyzed the hashtag “facemask” on social media while much of the world was still in the throes of COVID-19. He relied on the coding language Python as well as sentiment analysis tools to classify how different countries felt about face masks in public based on the social media posts featuring that hashtag. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If he could do college all over, he’d major in the new digital humanities program because it combines the application of contemporary data software with the probing analytical questions that the humanities embody.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12050663\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty-1536x982.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People walk on the UCLA campus on July 30, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think computer science is the what, digital humanities is the how and the why, and how do you actually apply it, and why is it important to be applied,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sridhar credits the minor with landing him an internship at Microsoft. All the applicants knew computer science, but digital humanities distinguished him, he said. An interviewer asked what the minor entailed, and he said “it’s human-centered data storytelling, working with groups, working in projects, getting a tangible outcome.”\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The interviewer said that’s what they’re looking for.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the past year he co-founded his own company, Grantlytics, an AI-based platform focused on helping nonprofits fundraise by writing proposals, finding funding opportunities and identifying promising donors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As an employer, he’s looking for much of what the digital humanities major offers. Without it, Sridhar would prefer a candidate with a humanities and coding or math background. But digital humanities “automatically is that interdisciplinary nature because it combines those two worlds together.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What employers want\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sridhar’s preference for someone well-rounded appears to be backed by recent survey data.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hiring managers who recruit recent college graduates indicated this year that these workers are mostly employable, but with caveats. The \u003ca href=\"https://naceweb.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2026/publication/research-report/2026-job-outlook-report-spring-update.pdf\">annual survey\u003c/a> by the National Association of Colleges and Employers shows that the skills recent graduates are most proficient in aren’t what employers prioritize most. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For example, 99% of hiring managers say oral and written communication and persuasion skills are important. But the same hiring managers indicated \u003ca href=\"https://naceweb.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2026/publication/research-report/2026-job-outlook-report-spring-update.pdf#page=26\">that just 55%\u003c/a> of recent college graduates score well in communication skills. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The same goes for critical thinking: Around 94% of hiring managers rate \u003ca href=\"https://www.naceweb.org/career-readiness/competencies/career-readiness-defined#competencies\">this competency\u003c/a> highly, but they report that just half of recent graduates are able to gather data from diverse sources and draw conclusions or work well in a fast-paced setting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Where recent graduates do better is in technology, but hiring managers care slightly less about those. About 75% of employers place high importance on adapting to new technology or using tech to achieve company goals; they say that about 65% of recent grads are competent in that skill set. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stern, the dean, is careful not to overstate the promise of digital humanities to halt the freefall of the broader humanities as a major students want. The share of U.S. college students majoring in fields such as literature, history, philosophy and foreign languages is at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amacad.org/humanities-indicators/higher-education/bachelors-degrees-humanities\">historic nadir\u003c/a> — just 8% of degrees conferred were in the humanities, down from nearly 15% nearly two decades ago. The trend at UCLA is similar.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>She knows things are tough for humanities departments, but “an art history grad is more likely to get a job these days than a computer science grad,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:explore:outcomes-by-major\">citing data tracked\u003c/a> by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “There are ebbs and flows across time” in which degrees lead to jobs and that students gravitate toward.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/08/ucla-digital-humanities/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Top of mind is the rise of generative artificial intelligence and training students to use it ethically while also understanding how easily it can produce misleading content.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12051530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students walk past Royce Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus in Los Angeles, on Aug. 15, 2024. (Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Todd Presner is a UCLA professor of European languages and transcultural studies, and co-led the effort to create the digital humanities department. He said contemporary culture has witnessed a rift between computational subjects and the traditional humanities, and both are enhanced by merging the two. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s actually at our own peril when scientists are not speaking to folks in the humanities with historical knowledge, ethical knowledge, cultural knowledge, right?” he said. “And at the same time, I’d say when the humanities are not understanding the technologies in the world today, they also could be seen as irrelevant.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Presner has taught a course showing students how to get under the hood of large language models, which store the reading material generative AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT use to spit out answers. “Students can essentially upload their own training data to some of these smaller models and see how easily they can be manipulated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New major, old discipline\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>UCLA students will be able to declare digital humanities as a major this year, but campus professors have taught courses in the discipline for more than two decades. It’s the second most popular minor at UCLA, which was one reason the school decided to transform it into a major, said Alexandra Minna Stern, dean of the UCLA College Division of Humanities where digital humanities is based. Last academic year, 750 UCLA undergraduate students took a course in digital humanities. Stern expects 50 to 100 students to eventually declare the major, and would be thrilled if 40 signed up this year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The department will launch with 23 faculty, including lecturers, plus four staff members. Stern eventually wants a few more faculty, but UCLA’s currently under a hiring freeze. No academic unit at the university was cut to make way for the new digital humanities. Faculty hail from multiple humanities fields as well as information studies and data science, so classes will occur across several campus buildings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1319\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2227778784-scaled-e1787859357158.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12051319\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People walk on the plaza outside Royce Hall on the UCLA campus on July 30, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said at least one museum will provide internship opportunities. Based in the Los Angeles area, the Wende Museum specializes in collecting artifacts and oral histories of refugees as well as other dissident groups and digitizing them — a key aspect of digital humanities training. She aims to secure similar arrangements with other museums so students can further apply what they learn in professional settings. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The major’s introductory courses are \u003ca href=\"https://catalog.registrar.ucla.edu/major/2026/DigitalHumanitiesBA\">clustered around\u003c/a> data networks, such as statistical reasoning, and courses on culture, such as the symbolic history of Jerusalem or film depictions of antiquity. Upper division courses can center on how contemporary technology is shaped by political, cultural, and social forces or a class on social media data analysis.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One student’s experience\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kedaar Sridhar, 26, graduated from UCLA in 2022 with a computer science major and a minor in digital humanities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The social media data analysis course was his favorite in the minor. For a class project, he and a team of students analyzed the hashtag “facemask” on social media while much of the world was still in the throes of COVID-19. He relied on the coding language Python as well as sentiment analysis tools to classify how different countries felt about face masks in public based on the social media posts featuring that hashtag. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If he could do college all over, he’d major in the new digital humanities program because it combines the application of contemporary data software with the probing analytical questions that the humanities embody.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12050663\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty-1536x982.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People walk on the UCLA campus on July 30, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think computer science is the what, digital humanities is the how and the why, and how do you actually apply it, and why is it important to be applied,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sridhar credits the minor with landing him an internship at Microsoft. All the applicants knew computer science, but digital humanities distinguished him, he said. An interviewer asked what the minor entailed, and he said “it’s human-centered data storytelling, working with groups, working in projects, getting a tangible outcome.”\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The interviewer said that’s what they’re looking for.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the past year he co-founded his own company, Grantlytics, an AI-based platform focused on helping nonprofits fundraise by writing proposals, finding funding opportunities and identifying promising donors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As an employer, he’s looking for much of what the digital humanities major offers. Without it, Sridhar would prefer a candidate with a humanities and coding or math background. But digital humanities “automatically is that interdisciplinary nature because it combines those two worlds together.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What employers want\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sridhar’s preference for someone well-rounded appears to be backed by recent survey data.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hiring managers who recruit recent college graduates indicated this year that these workers are mostly employable, but with caveats. The \u003ca href=\"https://naceweb.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2026/publication/research-report/2026-job-outlook-report-spring-update.pdf\">annual survey\u003c/a> by the National Association of Colleges and Employers shows that the skills recent graduates are most proficient in aren’t what employers prioritize most. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For example, 99% of hiring managers say oral and written communication and persuasion skills are important. But the same hiring managers indicated \u003ca href=\"https://naceweb.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2026/publication/research-report/2026-job-outlook-report-spring-update.pdf#page=26\">that just 55%\u003c/a> of recent college graduates score well in communication skills. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The same goes for critical thinking: Around 94% of hiring managers rate \u003ca href=\"https://www.naceweb.org/career-readiness/competencies/career-readiness-defined#competencies\">this competency\u003c/a> highly, but they report that just half of recent graduates are able to gather data from diverse sources and draw conclusions or work well in a fast-paced setting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Where recent graduates do better is in technology, but hiring managers care slightly less about those. About 75% of employers place high importance on adapting to new technology or using tech to achieve company goals; they say that about 65% of recent grads are competent in that skill set. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stern, the dean, is careful not to overstate the promise of digital humanities to halt the freefall of the broader humanities as a major students want. The share of U.S. college students majoring in fields such as literature, history, philosophy and foreign languages is at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amacad.org/humanities-indicators/higher-education/bachelors-degrees-humanities\">historic nadir\u003c/a> — just 8% of degrees conferred were in the humanities, down from nearly 15% nearly two decades ago. The trend at UCLA is similar.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>She knows things are tough for humanities departments, but “an art history grad is more likely to get a job these days than a computer science grad,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:explore:outcomes-by-major\">citing data tracked\u003c/a> by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “There are ebbs and flows across time” in which degrees lead to jobs and that students gravitate toward.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/08/ucla-digital-humanities/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>Last year, Suki Reddy started to enter her third-grader’s bedroom to find him, face \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/66537/the-school-year-begins-in-la-with-one-big-change-limited-screen-time\">lit up behind the glow of a computer\u003c/a>, watching YouTube. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This didn’t seem possible, she thought; she had put controls on his iPad and closely monitored his screen time. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Reddy’s son didn’t have to use his personal tablet to watch videos in bed. He could open YouTube on his school-issued Chromebook. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They had less controls on their school computer than families have,” Reddy said. “There’s families who don’t have any phones or iPads for their kids. The only access that their kids are getting is through the school computer.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Reddy’s two children are in the San Mateo–Foster City School District, which includes 21 elementary and middle schools across the two cities. For years, the district has issued each child a Chromebook and integrated them into students’ learning, using them for access to textbooks, class handouts and homework as early as transitional kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-09-MC_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095056\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-09-MC_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-09-MC_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-09-MC_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bowditch Middle School on Wednesday, Aug.12, 2026, in Foster City. (Miles Cull/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Last year, as Reddy became concerned about the amount of screen time her children had through school, she started to speak with other parents who were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/66517/families-and-teachers-are-questioning-ed-tech-are-schools-and-districts-starting-to-listen\">growing worried\u003c/a>. They saw their kids getting distracted by entertainment apps, noticed their attention spans deteriorating and their mental health suffering from the effects of spending hours online. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While many parents already had their own rules for their kids’ use of social media and personal devices, educational technology had opened up a new front. Even when guardrails were put in place to limit the school devices’ usage, parents learned that children had found tricks to bypass protections.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SMFCSD spokesperson Diego Perez said via email that the district has “a ton of restrictions” on its Chromebooks but did not respond to direct questions about whether YouTube was blocked on the devices.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It really made me realize it’s time to look at schools,” Reddy said. “That’s when I started asking questions directly to them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1386\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/StudentsTabletsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/StudentsTabletsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/StudentsTabletsGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/StudentsTabletsGetty-1536x1064.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students explore the possibilities with their new LAUSD-provided iPads on Aug. 27, 2013. (Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Over the last 15 years, classroom technology use has increased rapidly in districts across the country. Most now have 1:1 device programs, sending children as young as 5 and 6 home with personal tablets or computers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But as more research emerges about the potential harms of screen use for children, while test scores in schools across the U.S. struggle to rebound after the COVID-19 pandemic, districts are at an inflection point. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California has mandated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12094226/ousd-cellphone-ban-for-students-takes-effect-on-the-first-day-of-the-school-year\">school cellphone restrictions\u003c/a> across the state, and parents in the Bay Area are pushing their school boards and administrators to pass new policies that limit screen time and institute content guardrails for students — following in the footsteps of the Los Angeles Unified School District, whose board passed a landmark resolution this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re not anti-technology,” Reddy said. “We’re very much a group in the Bay Area. Many parents work in the tech industry and work for the very companies who produce these tech tools. But because of that, we have a very unique stance where we recognize that there’s not just an upside to this — there are actually a lot of potential problems.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The rise of ed tech\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One-to-one device programs are now in 88% of public schools across the U.S., according to \u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/learn/press-release/more-half-public-school-leaders-say-cell-phones-hurt-academic-performance\">data from the National Center for Education Statistics\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>They gained traction throughout the 2010s, according to neuroscientist and former teacher Jared Cooney Horvath, who said education technology companies pitched their products as an unrivaled opportunity to individualize learning and, later, as the great equalizer for students across demographic groups.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Put a Chromebook in the hand of every child, and that’s how you’re going to close the equity gap,” said Anya Meksin, the deputy director of parent organization Schools Beyond Screens, which advocated for the LAUSD policy. “This idea was sold to school districts without really any data to back it up. It was really a sales pitch.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-566010757.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097074\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-566010757.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-566010757-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-566010757-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students in Karen Finkel’s class at Broadacres Elementary School in Carson explore the possibilities with their new LAUSD-provided iPads on Aug. 27, 2013. (Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>While 1:1 device programs first jumped significantly in 2010, Horvath said, they became pervasive during the COVID-19 pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Many school districts used federal grants to buy and distribute technology to their students at home, which allowed teachers to continue connecting with their classes and provide some instruction — if limited.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a Band-Aid,” Horvath said. “The problem is, [districts] invested so much in the tech infrastructure that when COVID ended, rather than pulling the Band-Aid off and going back to what we know works, we just stuck with it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Schools Beyond Screens\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2025, after California passed statewide legislation restricting students’ cellphone use in school, a group of Los Angeles parents founded Schools Beyond Screens, asking LAUSD to rethink its technology policies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When I toured 10 local public elementary schools to decide where my kid was going to go, I was completely appalled to see kindergartners on almost every single school tour sitting on computers with headphones on in a darkened room,” Meksin said. They were “not looking at the teacher, not looking at each other. A lot of times, the kids were just scrolling on YouTube.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meksin and other parents spent months rallying supporters on dozens of district campuses, flooded the public comment period of school board meetings, lobbied district representatives and board members, and redlined draft legislation before passing a slate of historic policies in June. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-14-MC_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095057\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-14-MC_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-14-MC_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-14-MC_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Audubon Elementary School on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, in Foster City. (Miles Cull/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Beginning this fall, the country’s second-largest school district banned the use of student digital devices in early education through first-grade classrooms, and put strict minute caps on older students’ screen time. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>LAUSD also rolled back its 1:1 device program, no longer making it the default for a student entering the district to be issued a personal tablet or laptop to use in the classroom and at home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We have to acknowledge that we now know more,” said LAUSD board member Nick Melvoin, who put forward the district’s “Using Technology With Intention” resolution that passed in April. “Yes, we’ve seen some academic benefits, but we’ve also seen a lot of the harms with kids on screens and the addictive nature of things like YouTube algorithms and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When you know better, you need to do better,” he continued. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘A hard Pandora’s box to close’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Parents in the Bay Area said they also started to question school device use after seeing declines in their children’s learning outcomes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nationally, standardized reading and math test scores were lower in 2025 than they were in 2015 in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/upshot/test-scores-school-districts-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iFA.G_Ub.cXbz5_-EC4R3&smid=url-share\">83% and 70% of school districts\u003c/a>, respectively. School districts have cited the pandemic as one of the main causes for a dip in the early 2020s, but scores haven’t rebounded since then as education professionals had hoped. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Mateo–Foster City’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/upshot/look-up-district-test-scores.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iFA.zJm-.fi1gEuALEaT6&smid=url-share\">reading scores declined\u003c/a> by 1.2 grade levels over the 10-year period, with the sharpest drop coming between 2022 and 2025. Math scores followed a similar trend. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-02-MC_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-02-MC_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-02-MC_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-02-MC_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Suki Reddy poses for a portrait in Leo J. Ryan Park on Aug. 12, 2026, in San Mateo. (Miles Cull/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“It made me look at their curriculum more closely, look at the materials they had and the distractions they were up against,” Reddy said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There was no textbook where [students] could go back and forth between pages to see how to do something and where [they’re] getting things wrong,” she continued. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite growing anecdotal concern and research revealing the pitfalls of ed tech, Meksin said rolling it back “was a hard Pandora’s box to close.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During the 2014-15 school year, California public school districts transitioned statewide standardized testing online with the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), eliminating the need for Scantron forms and #2 pencils. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In some districts, digital testing software is also used to track student benchmarks throughout the year and determine which students are placed into advanced courses or receive extra support. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Last year, Suki Reddy started to enter her third-grader’s bedroom to find him, face \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/66537/the-school-year-begins-in-la-with-one-big-change-limited-screen-time\">lit up behind the glow of a computer\u003c/a>, watching YouTube. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This didn’t seem possible, she thought; she had put controls on his iPad and closely monitored his screen time. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Reddy’s son didn’t have to use his personal tablet to watch videos in bed. He could open YouTube on his school-issued Chromebook. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They had less controls on their school computer than families have,” Reddy said. “There’s families who don’t have any phones or iPads for their kids. The only access that their kids are getting is through the school computer.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Reddy’s two children are in the San Mateo–Foster City School District, which includes 21 elementary and middle schools across the two cities. For years, the district has issued each child a Chromebook and integrated them into students’ learning, using them for access to textbooks, class handouts and homework as early as transitional kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-09-MC_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095056\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-09-MC_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-09-MC_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-09-MC_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bowditch Middle School on Wednesday, Aug.12, 2026, in Foster City. (Miles Cull/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Last year, as Reddy became concerned about the amount of screen time her children had through school, she started to speak with other parents who were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/66517/families-and-teachers-are-questioning-ed-tech-are-schools-and-districts-starting-to-listen\">growing worried\u003c/a>. They saw their kids getting distracted by entertainment apps, noticed their attention spans deteriorating and their mental health suffering from the effects of spending hours online. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While many parents already had their own rules for their kids’ use of social media and personal devices, educational technology had opened up a new front. Even when guardrails were put in place to limit the school devices’ usage, parents learned that children had found tricks to bypass protections.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SMFCSD spokesperson Diego Perez said via email that the district has “a ton of restrictions” on its Chromebooks but did not respond to direct questions about whether YouTube was blocked on the devices.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It really made me realize it’s time to look at schools,” Reddy said. “That’s when I started asking questions directly to them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1386\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/StudentsTabletsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/StudentsTabletsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/StudentsTabletsGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/StudentsTabletsGetty-1536x1064.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students explore the possibilities with their new LAUSD-provided iPads on Aug. 27, 2013. (Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Over the last 15 years, classroom technology use has increased rapidly in districts across the country. Most now have 1:1 device programs, sending children as young as 5 and 6 home with personal tablets or computers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But as more research emerges about the potential harms of screen use for children, while test scores in schools across the U.S. struggle to rebound after the COVID-19 pandemic, districts are at an inflection point. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California has mandated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12094226/ousd-cellphone-ban-for-students-takes-effect-on-the-first-day-of-the-school-year\">school cellphone restrictions\u003c/a> across the state, and parents in the Bay Area are pushing their school boards and administrators to pass new policies that limit screen time and institute content guardrails for students — following in the footsteps of the Los Angeles Unified School District, whose board passed a landmark resolution this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re not anti-technology,” Reddy said. “We’re very much a group in the Bay Area. Many parents work in the tech industry and work for the very companies who produce these tech tools. But because of that, we have a very unique stance where we recognize that there’s not just an upside to this — there are actually a lot of potential problems.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The rise of ed tech\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One-to-one device programs are now in 88% of public schools across the U.S., according to \u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/learn/press-release/more-half-public-school-leaders-say-cell-phones-hurt-academic-performance\">data from the National Center for Education Statistics\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>They gained traction throughout the 2010s, according to neuroscientist and former teacher Jared Cooney Horvath, who said education technology companies pitched their products as an unrivaled opportunity to individualize learning and, later, as the great equalizer for students across demographic groups.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Put a Chromebook in the hand of every child, and that’s how you’re going to close the equity gap,” said Anya Meksin, the deputy director of parent organization Schools Beyond Screens, which advocated for the LAUSD policy. “This idea was sold to school districts without really any data to back it up. It was really a sales pitch.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-566010757.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097074\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-566010757.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-566010757-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-566010757-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students in Karen Finkel’s class at Broadacres Elementary School in Carson explore the possibilities with their new LAUSD-provided iPads on Aug. 27, 2013. (Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>While 1:1 device programs first jumped significantly in 2010, Horvath said, they became pervasive during the COVID-19 pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Many school districts used federal grants to buy and distribute technology to their students at home, which allowed teachers to continue connecting with their classes and provide some instruction — if limited.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a Band-Aid,” Horvath said. “The problem is, [districts] invested so much in the tech infrastructure that when COVID ended, rather than pulling the Band-Aid off and going back to what we know works, we just stuck with it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Schools Beyond Screens\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2025, after California passed statewide legislation restricting students’ cellphone use in school, a group of Los Angeles parents founded Schools Beyond Screens, asking LAUSD to rethink its technology policies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When I toured 10 local public elementary schools to decide where my kid was going to go, I was completely appalled to see kindergartners on almost every single school tour sitting on computers with headphones on in a darkened room,” Meksin said. They were “not looking at the teacher, not looking at each other. A lot of times, the kids were just scrolling on YouTube.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meksin and other parents spent months rallying supporters on dozens of district campuses, flooded the public comment period of school board meetings, lobbied district representatives and board members, and redlined draft legislation before passing a slate of historic policies in June. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-14-MC_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095057\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-14-MC_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-14-MC_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081226-SchoolTechBans-14-MC_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Audubon Elementary School on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, in Foster City. 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