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The program also relies heavily on peer-to-peer education, with more experienced students teaching those who are new to the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SDnOjqusgA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students at McClymonds work during their free periods for up to eight hours a week during the school year. The district also operates repair hubs at Oakland High School and Fremont High School. According to OUSD, the hubs have repaired over 800 devices so far this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, interns David Anderson and Gavin Armstrong, along with Colleen Piper, a college readiness manager, and Samantha Nuñez, an IT program manager, organize stacks of Chromebooks that need to be repaired. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1348\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1920x1294.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, interns and high school juniors Gavin Armstrong and David Anderson look at a broken Chromebook during their free period. This internship programs helps reduce OUSD’s carbon footprint in addition to saving the district money with each repair. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the summer, the program employs 15 interns who work 30 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We always thought that this was something that students would be able to do, and it frees up OUSD’s Tech Services to do more complicated repairs,” said Sam Berg, OUSD’s computer science coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berg estimates the program saves OUSD about $240 for every Chromebook repair. The program also helps reduce OUSD’s carbon footprint. When a Chromebook breaks, the interns harvest reusable parts to be used to keep other Chromebooks in service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028960 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1235\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1536x948.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1920x1186.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California is one of several states that have passed “right-to-repair” legislation in recent years. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson says his internship with the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OUSD Tech Repair Hub\u003c/span> “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gives people the skills to actually repair their own things.”\u003c/span> \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last June, California joined a small but growing list of states that have passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976367/bay-areas-fix-it-culture-thrives-as-right-to-repair-law-takes-effect-soon\">“right-to-repair” legislation\u003c/a>. The law is boosting programs like OUSD’s by requiring manufacturers of appliances and electronics to provide consumers with parts, tools, and information needed for repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nehemiah Cody, a senior at McClymonds, will be the school’s eighth intern to graduate from the program. He said the internship has inspired him to consider pursuing biomedical engineering in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This internship opened a lot of doors for me,” Cody, 17, said. “ Anytime I see something broken, I feel like I can fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is one of three paid student interns at McClymonds High School who help repair and maintain the 41,000 Chromebooks used by more than 33,000 Oakland Unified School District students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, called OUSD Tech Repair Hub, started in the summer of 2021 as the district navigated remote learning in response to COVID-19, which the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864254/march-11-2020-the-day-everything-changed\">declared a global pandemic\u003c/a> five years ago Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Anderson, a junior at McClymonds High School, works through a stack of broken Chromebooks at his job as one of three paid interns at his high school under Oakland Unified’s student-led Chromebook repair program, where students are hired to repair the devices during the school year. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The district maintains 41,000 Chromebooks, many of them repaired by students. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028933\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chromebook with a removed bezel is ready to be repaired by one of the students who work up to eight hours a week during the school year and receive $18/hr. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>OUSD’s Technology Services teach the student interns, who are paid $18 an hour, to repair keyboards, screens and batteries. The program also relies heavily on peer-to-peer education, with more experienced students teaching those who are new to the program.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4SDnOjqusgA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4SDnOjqusgA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The students at McClymonds work during their free periods for up to eight hours a week during the school year. The district also operates repair hubs at Oakland High School and Fremont High School. According to OUSD, the hubs have repaired over 800 devices so far this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, interns David Anderson and Gavin Armstrong, along with Colleen Piper, a college readiness manager, and Samantha Nuñez, an IT program manager, organize stacks of Chromebooks that need to be repaired. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1348\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1920x1294.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, interns and high school juniors Gavin Armstrong and David Anderson look at a broken Chromebook during their free period. This internship programs helps reduce OUSD’s carbon footprint in addition to saving the district money with each repair. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the summer, the program employs 15 interns who work 30 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We always thought that this was something that students would be able to do, and it frees up OUSD’s Tech Services to do more complicated repairs,” said Sam Berg, OUSD’s computer science coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berg estimates the program saves OUSD about $240 for every Chromebook repair. The program also helps reduce OUSD’s carbon footprint. 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We will not yield on this commitment,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0\">in a statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the allegations, The PhD Project told NPR, “Our vision is to create a broader talent pipeline of current and future business leaders…” The organization added, “This year, we have opened our membership application to anyone who shares that vision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools under investigation include dozens of state schools and two Ivy Leagues, namely Cornell and Yale. A number of private schools are also facing scrutiny, include Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Rice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and New York University. 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The Department of Education did not respond to NPR’s request to clarify which school is being accused of segregation.[aside postID=news_12030028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Lynn Pasquerella, the president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, told NPR that she has been talking to administrators from schools named in the inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re feeling beleaguered. 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The directive specifically accused American educational institutions of discriminating against white and Asian students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the country’s largest teacher unions — the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers — have filed separate federal lawsuits against the Education Department memo, arguing that it was unfounded and vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter and the onslaught of investigations are all part of the Trump administration’s aim to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the name of fighting “wokeness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Education Department has also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment\">investigating 60 universities\u003c/a> over allegations of antisemitic discrimination. A handful of schools are involved in both sets of investigations, including Cornell, George Mason, Rutgers, Yale, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and University of Washington-Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, the department warned that universities could face “potential enforcement actions” if officials determine that schools failed to protect Jewish students on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing number of investigations against higher education institutions also comes as the Education Department faces drastic cuts in staff. 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Combined with nearly 600 employees who have accepted voluntary buy-outs or resignations since President Trump took office, that constitutes a cut of almost 50% of the department’s workforce — what Education Secretary Linda McMahon \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369901522112\">told Fox News\u003c/a> was the first step to shutting down the department entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This en masse firing exceeds any statutory authority granted by Congress,” Bonta said at a press conference announcing the suit, joined by 20 other Democratic attorneys general on Thursday morning. “Alongside numerous other actions the Trump administration has taken, this sweeping mass firing is, simply put, illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created by Congress in 1979, the Department of Education administers federal education programs for K–12 schools and provides grants to local education agencies, including for special and early education services, among other duties. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65178/what-does-the-us-department-of-education-do-some-facts-about-its-role-in-schools\">Unwinding it fully\u003c/a> would almost certainly require an act of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s lawsuit alleges that the mass firings will impede the department’s ability to carry out those statutory functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reductions will also gut the department’s civil rights division, which enforces anti-discrimination laws in school districts. 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You can call it whatever you want,” said Koerner, vice president of the San Rafael City Schools’ Board of Education, a day after a throng of district parents vociferously panned his resolution during \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/live/Vxy9H6zhMxI\">a school board meeting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Offensive,” “embarrassing,” ridiculous,” “tone deaf,” “insensitive at best.” Those were just some of the jabs in the nearly hourlong fusillade of admonishments, mostly from district moms, of Koerner and his ill-fated resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure in question, titled “Recognition of the Essential Role and Needs of Young Men in Society,” sought to officially “recognize and support the needs of young men, promoting their mental, emotional, and physical health” and recognize that “the current emotional, educational, and financial state of young men is in critical condition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most controversially, it also criticized the use of the term “toxic masculinity,” arguing it “does not reflect the vast majority of men and can detract from constructive dialogues,” while also saying “language that implies young men need to be ‘fixed’ by women undermines mutual respect and equality and is not conducive to constructive discourse on gender dynamics in our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koerner, a tech investor and father of two teenage boys, who was previously co-CEO of Dictionary.com, said he introduced the resolution to underscore “the need to recognize young men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was was intended to highlight boys’ lower rates of academic achievement and higher rates of suicide and mental health issues, he said, noting that, on average, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/high-school-graduation-rate-boys-c7b8dff33221e0ded2d1369397d96455\">high school graduation rates for boys\u003c/a> are, on average, lower than they are for girls and that boys are \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5848397/#:~:text=In%20early%20adolescence%2C%20the%20onset,are%20still%20not%20fully%20understood.\">less likely \u003c/a>to seek support for mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to ban any words. 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"content": "\u003cp>Since 2021, Alameda County has collected roughly $500 million in sales tax revenue to improve access to child care and pediatric health care for lower-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not a single dollar has been spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.first5alameda.org/our-work/strategies-initiatives/the-childrens-health-child-care-initiative-for-alameda-county/\">Voters approved\u003c/a> a half-cent sales tax increase in March 2020 to help address a growing shortage of child care, but a legal challenge by the Alameda County Taxpayers’ Association tied up the funds until last year when\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984169/state-court-upholds-alameda-county-tax-measure-yielding-hundreds-of-millions-for-child-care\"> the state Supreme Court upheld the measure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated child care providers were hoping county officials would release the first batch of funds after approving spending $165.8 million in emergency funding so they could finally apply for thousands of dollars in relief grants. However, the money appears to be caught up in another legal fight by the taxpayers’ group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this doesn’t pass, I don’t even know that I will open by the end of the year,” said Lisa Zarodney, who has provided child care out of her home in Livermore for 27 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney talks to Ryden, 1, Kane, 2, and Hudson, 3, at her home in Livermore, where she runs a childcare operation, on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zarodney said she has always operated her small business on thin margins and didn’t have much of a financial cushion when the pandemic hit and fewer kids came to her home. She received $5000 in federal pandemic recovery aid, she said, but rising costs for food, electricity and other expenses have only deepened her financial troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When temperatures rise in Livermore, and she turns on the air conditioning to keep the kids cool, for example, her electricity bill almost doubles to $600 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t do this business for the money because it’s not a profitable business,” she said. “You have to do it for the love of children, and that’s the whole reason why I do it, to give children and families the help that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030543\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney speaks to Hudson, 3, at her home in Livermore, where she runs a childcare operation, on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After paying off her bills last month, Zarodney said she had just $200 to cover her own food and other expenses. She’s been drawing from her late husband’s retirement savings to get by, but she said the high taxes and penalties on those withdrawals are unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the county Board of Supervisors tentatively approved spending\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_02_25_25/HEALTH%20CARE%20SERVICES/Set%20Matter%20Calendar/First%205%20Alameda%20County_383009.pdf\"> some of the Measure C funds\u003c/a> to prop up the county’s early childhood education and care system. Small family child care providers who serve low-income families, like Zarodney, can each qualify for $40,000 in relief grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A category of caregivers, known as license-exempt Friends, Family and Neighbors, can qualify for $4,000 grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030549\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gretchen Hernandez poses for a photo at her home in Oakland on March 7, 2025. Hernandez has taken time off of her warehouse job to care for her 2-year-old granddaughter with special needs, Ava. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That could help Gretchen Hernandez, who has taken time off her job at a warehouse to look after her 2-year-old granddaughter at her home in Oakland. Hernandez said she’s been living off her savings while she cares for the toddler, who requires one-on-one care because she was born with a rare form of Down syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have six months left of money, and that’s it, so I have to go back to work because I have no choice,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s unclear exactly when caregivers can apply for the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for the taxpayer’s group told the supervisors at the Feb. 25 meeting that by rule, they couldn’t release the emergency funds without approving a 5-year spending plan for Measure C, which is still in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030550\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Gretchen Hernandez’s granddaughter, Ava, and communication cards posted on the refrigerator at her home in Oakland on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Voters were promised a 5-year plan and budget before expenditure of funds,” attorney Jason Bezis said. “It’s like placing the proverbial cart in front of the horse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said a proposal by First 5 Alameda County to spend 15% of the emergency funds to administer the money was “exorbitantly high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County supervisors tentatively approved the emergency fund as the first phase of the 5-year spending plan but will decide when to distribute the money pending a legal review by the county Counsel Donna Ziegler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028709 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250224_Mills-Children-School_DMB_00007-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziegler told the board she would offer her opinion at its next meeting on Tuesday, but the topic does not appear on the agenda. Voicemail messages to the counsel have not been returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an opportunity to transform the child care ecosystem in Alameda County,” said Mary Hekl, CEO of Hively, a referral agency with offices in Pleasanton, Livermore, Oakland, Fremont and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emergency funds would include $1.5 million in grants for agencies like Hekl’s to help income-eligible families enroll in state-subsidized child care programs and to train the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her agency has maxed out the state funding it received this budget year for child care vouchers, but about 1,000 income-eligible families are still on its waitlist for subsidized child care. With more funding from Measure C, she said her agency can refer more families to licensed providers like Zarodney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is what people voted for in the first place, so a lot more people can have access to child care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zarodney said the longer she has to wait for funding, the harder it will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, or you see it and it gets turned off, it’s very discouraging, it’s really hard to try and keep going,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated child care providers were hoping county officials would release the first batch of funds after approving spending $165.8 million in emergency funding so they could finally apply for thousands of dollars in relief grants. However, the money appears to be caught up in another legal fight by the taxpayers’ group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this doesn’t pass, I don’t even know that I will open by the end of the year,” said Lisa Zarodney, who has provided child care out of her home in Livermore for 27 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney talks to Ryden, 1, Kane, 2, and Hudson, 3, at her home in Livermore, where she runs a childcare operation, on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zarodney said she has always operated her small business on thin margins and didn’t have much of a financial cushion when the pandemic hit and fewer kids came to her home. She received $5000 in federal pandemic recovery aid, she said, but rising costs for food, electricity and other expenses have only deepened her financial troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When temperatures rise in Livermore, and she turns on the air conditioning to keep the kids cool, for example, her electricity bill almost doubles to $600 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t do this business for the money because it’s not a profitable business,” she said. “You have to do it for the love of children, and that’s the whole reason why I do it, to give children and families the help that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030543\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney speaks to Hudson, 3, at her home in Livermore, where she runs a childcare operation, on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After paying off her bills last month, Zarodney said she had just $200 to cover her own food and other expenses. She’s been drawing from her late husband’s retirement savings to get by, but she said the high taxes and penalties on those withdrawals are unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the county Board of Supervisors tentatively approved spending\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_02_25_25/HEALTH%20CARE%20SERVICES/Set%20Matter%20Calendar/First%205%20Alameda%20County_383009.pdf\"> some of the Measure C funds\u003c/a> to prop up the county’s early childhood education and care system. Small family child care providers who serve low-income families, like Zarodney, can each qualify for $40,000 in relief grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A category of caregivers, known as license-exempt Friends, Family and Neighbors, can qualify for $4,000 grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030549\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gretchen Hernandez poses for a photo at her home in Oakland on March 7, 2025. Hernandez has taken time off of her warehouse job to care for her 2-year-old granddaughter with special needs, Ava. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That could help Gretchen Hernandez, who has taken time off her job at a warehouse to look after her 2-year-old granddaughter at her home in Oakland. Hernandez said she’s been living off her savings while she cares for the toddler, who requires one-on-one care because she was born with a rare form of Down syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have six months left of money, and that’s it, so I have to go back to work because I have no choice,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s unclear exactly when caregivers can apply for the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for the taxpayer’s group told the supervisors at the Feb. 25 meeting that by rule, they couldn’t release the emergency funds without approving a 5-year spending plan for Measure C, which is still in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030550\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Gretchen Hernandez’s granddaughter, Ava, and communication cards posted on the refrigerator at her home in Oakland on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Voters were promised a 5-year plan and budget before expenditure of funds,” attorney Jason Bezis said. “It’s like placing the proverbial cart in front of the horse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said a proposal by First 5 Alameda County to spend 15% of the emergency funds to administer the money was “exorbitantly high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County supervisors tentatively approved the emergency fund as the first phase of the 5-year spending plan but will decide when to distribute the money pending a legal review by the county Counsel Donna Ziegler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziegler told the board she would offer her opinion at its next meeting on Tuesday, but the topic does not appear on the agenda. Voicemail messages to the counsel have not been returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an opportunity to transform the child care ecosystem in Alameda County,” said Mary Hekl, CEO of Hively, a referral agency with offices in Pleasanton, Livermore, Oakland, Fremont and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emergency funds would include $1.5 million in grants for agencies like Hekl’s to help income-eligible families enroll in state-subsidized child care programs and to train the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her agency has maxed out the state funding it received this budget year for child care vouchers, but about 1,000 income-eligible families are still on its waitlist for subsidized child care. With more funding from Measure C, she said her agency can refer more families to licensed providers like Zarodney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is what people voted for in the first place, so a lot more people can have access to child care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zarodney said the longer she has to wait for funding, the harder it will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, or you see it and it gets turned off, it’s very discouraging, it’s really hard to try and keep going,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jaylon Tyson, a former basketball guard at UC Berkeley, gets $390,000 from a group of private donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Chiles, a UCLA gymnast and Olympic gold-medal winner, is paid $3,000 by Grammarly, an AI writing company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mekhi Mays, a former Cal State Long Beach sprinter, makes $390 from a local barbecue joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These payments — derived from data that public universities provided to CalMatters — were part of “name, image and likeness deals” requiring students to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=271783325357651&id=100075779560692&_rdr\">favorable posts\u003c/a> on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such sponsorship deals were unheard of just four years ago. In 2021, California enacted a law allowing athletes to make these kinds of brand deals. It was the first state to pass such a law, prompting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/10/name-image-likeness/\">similar changes\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first-ever look at what many California athletes have actually made. University records show that money is flowing, but how much college athletes earn depends largely on the popularity of the sport, the gender and star power of its players and the fanbase of the university. While UCLA gymnasts earned over $2 million in the last three school years, university records show that players on the UCLA women’s water polo team earned just $152 during the same time frame, despite winning the national championship last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For companies, these name, image and likeness deals are akin to paying any other celebrity or professional athlete to promote a product. University alumni and sports fans can’t give money directly to a student athlete — at least not yet — but they are allowed to make name, image and likeness deals. Many universities have private donor groups, known as collectives or booster clubs, that offer athletes money, sometimes more than $400,000 in a single transaction, in exchange for an autograph or participation in a brief charity event. Often, those deals are a pretext to send money to top-tier players and discourage them from seeking better deals at other colleges.[aside postID=news_12029450 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/BoxingGetty-1020x701.jpg']CalMatters reached out to every public and private university in the state with Division 1 teams, where the potential for profit is typically highest, and requested data that shows how much money each of its student athletes have made since 2021. State law requires all student athletes to report to their school any compensation they receive from their name, image and likeness, and public universities are required to disclose certain kinds of data upon request. Private universities, such as Stanford University and the University of Southern California, are not required to disclose any data about their students’ earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the public Division 1 universities responded to CalMatters’ inquiry, though they did not all provide the same degree of transparency. San Jose State and Cal State Northridge said they had no records of any deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no consequence for students who fail to report what are known as NIL deals, so the data from public institutions may be incomplete. Still, certain trends emerge:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>College athletes at the state’s public universities received millions of dollars from collectives or booster clubs. At four University of California schools, around 70% or more of all compensation came from these collectives, according to university records. That’s just below national trends, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/The_Annual_Opendorse_Report_-Version-2.pdf#page=3\">a report (PDF)\u003c/a> by Opendorse, a tech company that tracks students’ deals.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Male basketball players earned the most. While football is more popular and lucrative, nationally, many public Division 1 schools in California lack a football team. The football data may also be incomplete. For instance, all football players at UC Berkeley reported making a total of just over $113,000 since 2021 — less than what all San Diego State players made — even though Berkeley is in a more prominent conference.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For high-profile football or basketball players in particular, it’s becoming more common for students to transfer multiple times, often in search of better name, image and likeness deals. Some California institutions, such as UC Davis and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, have seen top athletes transfer colleges or threaten to transfer in order to attain better compensation elsewhere.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Except for a few star players, such as Chiles, most female college athletes made very little, according to the data provided to CalMatters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Collectively, athletes at UCLA and UC Berkeley earned more than double what those attending other UC and California State University campuses made. Some donors, such as those supporting Sacramento State and UC San Diego, have rapidly raised money to compete, while at other schools, athletic directors say they’ll never be able to guarantee such high-dollar deals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Schools often removed any information that could identify an individual student. While UCLA generally did not provide the individual names of its athletes, the school was more transparent than most and shared the date of each transaction, the name of the brand or company, the amount of money it gave, and the sport. In February, a UCLA gymnast reported receiving $250,000 from the beverage company Bubbl’r. Since then, Chiles has \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jordanchiles/reel/C9TAj5XRfwa/\">promoted\u003c/a> that brand, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@jordanchiles/video/7420501352352058654\">repeatedly\u003c/a>. In May, a UCLA gymnast reported receiving $210,000 from the cosmetic brand Milani for “social media” — just a few months before Chiles posted a video on Instagram, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jordanchiles/reel/C9gUkFYxOZ7/?hl=en\">promoting its makeup\u003c/a>. One or more members of the UCLA gymnastics team have also reported deals with the food company Danone for $300,000 and with the health care company Sanofi for $285,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno State shared less information. In the 2021–22 academic year, the Fresno State women’s basketball team raked in over $1.1 million from multiple name, image and likeness deals, but the university did not disclose which players were involved or how many were paid. After influencers and former basketball players \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/haleycavinder/?hl=en\">Haley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hanna.cavinder/?hl=en\">Hanna Cavinder\u003c/a> transferred to the University of Miami in April 2022, the number and dollar amount of deals for the Fresno team diminished. In the 2023–24 academic year, the team made just over $1,000 from 10 different deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two women college basketball players from different teams vie for the ball during a game with other players and full bleachers around and behind them.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno State Bulldogs forward Mia Jacobs #23 attempts to block the shot of an Arizona State Sun Devils forward during a game in Phoenix on Dec. 20, 2023. During their most lucrative year to date, Fresno women on the team collected over $1.1 million in NIL deals. \u003ccite>(Christopher Hook/Icon Sportswire via AP Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Money from boosters or collectives is the hardest to trace. In May, for example, a group of UCLA donors gave an undisclosed football player $450,000 for “social media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While private universities are not required to disclose students’ earnings, market estimates from \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/nil/rankings/player/nil-valuations/\">On3\u003c/a>, a media and technology company focused on college sports, say the highest-earning Stanford University athlete, basketball player \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/db/maxime-raynaud-152092/\">Maxime Raynaud\u003c/a>, could collect $1.5 million in the next 12 months. The top USC athlete, football player \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/db/jayden-maiava-58668/\">Jayden Maiava\u003c/a>, could make $603,000 in the next year, according to the same estimates. These numbers are based on an algorithm that uses aggregate deals from college athletes across the country. Nationwide, the Opendorse report estimates that college athletes will earn $1.65 billion in the 2024–25 academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, college athletes may make even more. A high-profile \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-v.-NCAA-Original-Complaint.pdf\">class-action lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> will likely allow schools to pay athletes directly, while still classifying them as students, not employees. If the proposed settlement agreement goes into effect, students could see payouts as early as this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a school pays a student directly, the money should be divided roughly proportional to the number of male and female athletes, the Biden administration said in a U.S. Department of Education \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ocr-factsheet-benefits-student-athletes.pdf\">fact sheet (PDF)\u003c/a> issued in January. The page \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/media/document/ocr-factsheet-benefits-student-athletes\">no longer exists\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last few months, attorneys have rescinded federal labor petitions asking that USC and Dartmouth College student athletes be reclassified as employees, but new cases are likely on the horizon, said Mit Winter, an attorney who specializes in name, image and likeness law: “I do think at some point — two years, five years, whatever it is — at least some college athletes will be employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Times Square billboard reads: NIL has begun\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, college sports have been a big business, though most of the money flowed to universities, not students. Nationally, Division 1 universities reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/10/14/finances-of-intercollegiate-athletics-division-i-dashboard.aspx\">$17.5 billion in athletic revenue\u003c/a> in 2022, according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). That’s more than the gross domestic product of \u003ca href=\"https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD\">83 countries\u003c/a>. For schools with top-performing football programs, such as UCLA and Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/research/Finances/2023RES_DI-RevExpReport_FINAL.pdf\">broadcast deals (PDF)\u003c/a> and other kinds of marketing represent over a third of total revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before California’s law went into effect, college athletes weren’t allowed to profit off their sport, though they frequently received scholarships equal to the cost of college tuition. On July 1, 2021 the new law took effect, and Haley and Hanna Cavinder were the first to benefit, \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/ncaa-name-image-likeness-nil-student-athletes/10849337/\">signing deals \u003c/a>with Boost Mobile, a cell phone company, and Sixstar, a nutrition company, just after the stroke of midnight. A\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CavinderHanna/status/1410636794908057604\"> Times Square billboard\u003c/a> proclaimed they were the first such deals in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Student athletes have reported at least $11.9 million in name, image and likeness compensation\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-1xezO\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/1xezO/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"517\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, other California college athletes have signed advertising deals with clothing brands such as Crocs, Heelys and Aeropostale and food brands such as Liquid I.V. and Jack in the Box. FTX, the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, signed contracts with \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DominiqueOnu/status/1468324467533234176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1468324467533234176%7Ctwgr%5Ea9a79c13c1bc7d717d0e88e987e66747e6b4989d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fcollege%2Fucla%2Fnews%2Ftracking-every-ucla-student-athlete-name-image-likeness-nil-deal\">at least six players\u003c/a> on the UCLA women’s basketball team in 2021. In 2022, the Biden campaign gave a UCLA gymnast $7,000, but public records did not disclose the purpose of the transaction. No other politicians appeared in any university’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Visit Fresno County, a nonprofit that promotes tourism, paid former Fresno State football players \u003ca href=\"https://gobulldogs.com/sports/football/roster/dean-clark/14671\">Dean Clark\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://gobulldogs.com/sports/football/roster/kosi-agina/14651\">Kosi Agina\u003c/a> just under $10,000 to post Instagram videos about \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kosiaagina/reel/C5hEuyxv3uh/\">a local farmer’s market\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Hjh9oSDVG/\">a minor league baseball team\u003c/a>, according to President and CEO Lisa Oliveira. She said the posts were so successful that she asked Agina to make another video, promoting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kosiaagina/reel/C51uJhfPs67/\">hiking trail in the Sierra National Forest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But much of the money for students’ name, image and likeness doesn’t come from brands at all — it’s from private donors. Philanthropist and entertainment lawyer Mark Kalmansohn has given nearly $150,000 in 12 different transactions to athletes on UCLA’s volleyball, softball and women’s basketball teams since 2022, according to the data, which runs through May of last year. In an interview with CalMatters, Kalmansohn said he’s given more than $175,000 since May. “Women’s sports were almost always treated in a second-hand nature and given inferior resources,” he said, adding that his philanthropy is about “women’s rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for money, he asks each recipient to issue a free license of their name, image and likeness to a nonprofit organization that’s relevant to the athlete’s sport. But he said that’s not the norm. “In men’s football and men’s basketball, it’s pretty obvious that money is not for an ‘appearance.’” Instead, he explained that it’s a way to support the player and keep the team competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most donors give money to specific athletes through a collective, where the donors’ identities are largely hidden. At UCLA, public data through the 2023–24 academic year shows that a collective known as the Men of Westwood channeled nearly $2 million in private donations to the football, basketball and baseball teams. At Berkeley, collectives gave over $1.3 million to athletes since the 2022–23 academic year — the vast majority of which went to the men’s basketball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Supporting ‘elite talent’ at UC and Cal State\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For years, NCAA rules made it difficult for college athletes to transfer schools, but in 2021, right around the time that California started to allow name, image and likeness deals, the NCAA eased \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2021/4/15/di-council-adopts-new-transfer-legislation.aspx\">those rules\u003c/a>. The number of students who transfer suddenly \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20220425163915/https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/4/25/transfer-portal-data-division-i-student-athlete-transfer-trends.aspx\">jumped in 2021\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/4/25/transfer-portal-data-division-i-student-athlete-transfer-trends.aspx\">has ticked up each year since\u003c/a>, according to NCAA data. In practice, the new rules means that a well-endowed collective can lure athletes who want to make more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, over 11% of all Division 1 football players have tried to transfer colleges, an increase from the previous year, said Matt Kraemer, whose organization, \u003ca href=\"https://theportalreport.com/about/#\">The Portal Report\u003c/a>, uses social media posts and tips from insiders to gauge college athletes’ transfer activity. Quarterbacks are even more likely to try to transfer, Kraemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For institutions like UC Davis, the threat of losing a top athlete can be costly. Late in the 2023–24 academic year, donors from other universities promised top athletes lucrative deals if they agreed to transfer, so UC Davis formed a collective, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aggieedge.com/\">Aggie Edge\u003c/a>, to make counter-offers, said Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca. “It’s a means to retain elite talent here at Davis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLuca said the collective gave men’s basketball guard \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/ty-johnson/18342\">TY Johnson\u003c/a> $50,000 and UC Davis running back \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/football/roster/lan-larison/18128\">Lan Larison\u003c/a> $25,000. Those transactions were for “social media, appearances, autographs,” according to the university’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A male basketball player dribbles toward a player from the opposing team during a game.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-800x560.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1076.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Davis Aggies guard TY Johnson dribbles up the court during a game against Cal State Bakersfield in Bakersfield on Jan. 26, 2023. The UC Davis athletic director said a collective gave Johnson $50,000 for what university records describe as ‘social media, appearances, autographs.’ \u003ccite>(David Dennis/Icon Sportswire via AP Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, all other UC Davis athletes — more than 700 students over 25 sports — have reported just under $19,000 in deals since 2021. A few other athletes received products, such as a free cryotherapy session or a commission based on sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, former UC Berkeley quarterback Fernando Mendoza transferred to Indiana University, where he later signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hoosiersconnect/p/DFNwwqQuWAP/\">a name, image and likeness deal\u003c/a> with a collective for an undisclosed amount. UC Berkeley then recruited former Ohio State quarterback Devin Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/college-football/ohio-state-quarterback-transfers-acc-program-after-national-title\">the day after he won a national championship.\u003c/a> It’s not clear if the Berkeley collective offered Brown a deal, since the university’s data doesn’t name Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin DiTolla, Berkeley’s associate athletic director, said the university is “not affiliated with the collective” and that the university provides “equal support to all student athletes.” “We recognize that there is a difference in NIL support,” he said, “But it isn’t under our scope or umbrella.” The Berkeley collective, California Legends, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, some football players sought more money through a name, image and likeness deal by transferring to another school, but they didn’t all succeed, said Don Oberhelman, the university’s athletic director. “That’s the dirty little secret of all of this: the number of kids who blow an opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, nine football players at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo announced their intention to transfer, he said. Six of them found a new university, he said, including University of Texas El Paso, San Diego State, Stanford, and Washington State — but three of them never received an offer from another school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said that his football coach begins recruiting a replacement the moment a player announces his intention to transfer. If that student doesn’t end up transferring, he may lose his spot on the football team and the entirety of his athletic scholarship, which can be up to $30,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s raw emotion involved in these kinds of decisions,” he said. “I don’t think that’s how we would operate, but I can see a lot of people say, ‘You broke up with us.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said he doesn’t know what happened to the three players from the football team who failed to transfer. “For me, it would boil down to: Did we promise that money to someone else? Did we find another transfer or a high school person to replace you? If we did, that would put your future financial aid with us in jeopardy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Small-town name, image and likeness deals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of top football and men’s basketball programs, many of California’s college athletes vie for smaller name, image and likeness deals, often with local businesses, lesser-known clothing or athletic brands, or anything else they can find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Berkeley softball player \u003ca href=\"https://georgiadogs.com/sports/softball/roster/randi-roelling/8621\">Randi Roelling\u003c/a> got $50 from one woman to give a pitching lesson to her daughter. In July 2023, chiropractor Lance Casazza started giving out free sessions to at least one Sacramento State football player in exchange for social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gopoly.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/annika-shah/9572\">Annika Shah\u003c/a>, a basketball player at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, got her first deal through a local restaurant, Jewel of India, which occasionally has a pop-up tent outside the college gym. “I just said, ‘Hey I can market you. Let’s think of a cool slogan to put out.’” Customers who ask to “swish with Shah” at the checkout counter get a discount on their meal, she said. Shah doesn’t get any money, she said, but she does get free food whenever she visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a cool relationship and connection that I made with this family and the owners of Jewel of India, where they just want to help me out and I want to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A woman of South Asian ethnicity wearing a green basketball outfit looks at the camera.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annika Shah, a senior business administration student and basketball player, at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walking around campus, friends jokingly refer to Shah as their own “Jewel of India” and she likes it. “It’s such a marketable slogan now, and it kind of identifies who I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Division 1 schools have their own websites where customers can buy gear with an athlete’s name on it, but last fall, no such platform existed at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, said Shah, so she created her own. She partnered with a company, Cloud 9 Sports, and launched her own apparel brand. It’s brought in about $2,000 in sales so far, but after the university and Cloud 9 Sports take a cut, Shah said she’s left with about $800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said she was never told to report any of her monetary or in-kind contributions. After CalMatters asked, Oberhelman, the athletic director, said the school is now requiring it. “We haven’t done a great job following up because we’re just not going to have student athletes that are getting even five-figure deals,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said he only knew of eight deals, each for $2,000, all to the men’s football team from a group of private donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno State provided more data than Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, but it did not designate which deals came from its collective, known as Bulldog Bread. On \u003ca href=\"https://bulldogbread.com/\">its website\u003c/a> the collective says it has raised more than $690,000 in corporate donations for Fresno State. At the top tier, that includes money from former Fresno State quarterbacks David and Derek Carr, property developer Lance Kashian, and construction company Tarlton and Son, Inc. The collective recently launched a vodka brand in partnership with a distillery, where a portion of all proceeds support students’ name, image and likeness deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletes at UC Santa Barbara have reported $1,800 from their collective, Gold & Blue, but many other transactions reported by the school provide few details. According to the school’s data, an unnamed person or group made 15 deals with one or more members of the UC Santa Barbara men’s basketball team, totaling over $50,000 in “appearance fees” for an event last August associated with Heal the Ocean, a local environmental nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s executive director, Hillary Hauser, said the nonprofit made no such contribution and had no events in August. University spokesperson Kiki Reyes said it’s “possible” that a collective made those payments, but she refused to respond to CalMatters’ questions regarding Hauser’s statement the event never occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From August 2023 to August 2024, male basketball and baseball athletes at UC Santa Barbara reported roughly $500,000 in compensation for appearance fees related to various charities. Over the same time frame, all other athletes reported receiving free products, sales referrals, and cash payments totaling about $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UCLA, the CEO of the Men of Westwood collective, Ken Graiwer, is listed in university records as the “point of contact” for a $450,000 contribution, distributed over six transactions in the 2023–24 academic year, to the men’s basketball team for “public appearances.” For each of those transactions, the university’s data lists the Team First Foundation, a sports nonprofit, as the vendor. Neither UCLA nor the Team First Foundation responded to questions about who made the payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months before those transactions, the Men of Westwood posted a few photos on its Instagram account, showing UCLA men’s basketball players on the court with smiling children from the Team First Foundation programs. In the post, the Men of Westwood said it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/menofwestwood/p/CvY5lpZO-Ab/?img_index=2\">“NIL outreach.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California universities try to ‘stay competitive’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since becoming legal in 2021, the market for name, image and likeness compensation has exploded. Sports commentators, attorneys, and athletic directors say the landscape is a kind of “wild West” or “gold rush”: The money is pouring in, but the regulations are sparse or evolving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters has partial data from the 2024–25 academic year, but early indicators suggest that even more cash will soon flow to players. In September, a group of Sacramento State alumni, including some state lawmakers, said they \u003ca href=\"https://sactownsports.com/ncaa-sacramento-state-football-nil-funds-pac-12-mountain-west/\">raised over $35 million in one day\u003c/a> for name, image and likeness deals. Cal State Bakersfield and UC San Diego recently formed their own collectives too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, former Democratic Sen. Nancy Skinner of Berkeley — one of the co-authors of the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206\">watershed name, image and likeness law\u003c/a> — proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sb906?slug=CA_202320240SB906\">a new bill\u003c/a> to gather more data about spending by collectives and its impact on women’s sports. Newsom vetoed the bill, saying “Further changes to this dynamic should be done nationally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Basketball, women’s gymnastics and football lead name, image and likeness compensation\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-6HWwF\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/6HWwF/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"622\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, the NCAA tried to prevent colleges from directly assisting athletes with deals, but the association has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2024/4/22/media-center-division-i-board-of-directors-ratifies-transfer-nil-rule-changes.aspx\">eased those regulations recently\u003c/a>, blurring the lines between universities and the private collectives that support them. Many states have passed laws explicitly allowing universities to make deals directly with students. In October, Skinner and former Democratic Sen. Steven Bradford wrote \u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd09.senate.ca.gov/files/pdf/10-9-24%20Open%20Letter%20to%20Stakeholders%20about%20California%20NIL%20Law.pdf\">a letter (PDF)\u003c/a> to California universities, encouraging them to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I strongly urge California schools to make full use of (the watershed law) to stay competitive in college sports, especially now that other states are copying California and allowing their schools to make direct NIL deals with their student athletes,” said Skinner in a press release about the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spring, California District Judge Claudia Wilken is expected to approve a settlement between athletes and the NCAA that would further expand the ways universities can pay their players. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2024/7/26/media-center-settlement-documents-filed-in-college-athletics-class-action-lawsuits.aspx\">the proposed settlement\u003c/a>, a college could directly spend up to a combined $20.5 million per year on payments to all of its athletes. The spending limit would grow over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the settlement, athletic directors at many of California’s public institutions, such as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Cal State Bakersfield, said they don’t plan on giving any more money directly to students because their athletic programs lack the cash. “They’re already on full scholarship, so there aren’t any more existing dollars we can really offer that person,” said Oberhelman, with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Even if the university did have the money, he said he’s concerned about the legal implications of paying students directly. “Are they going to get a W-2 now? Are we paying workers comp? Nobody seems to have answered a lot of these questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy.jpg\" alt='An empty basketball court with a banner behind the hoop that reads \"Cal Poly\"' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mott Athletics Center at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DiTolla, at Berkeley, said the university will start paying its athletes once the settlement is finalized. UC San Diego joined Division 1 sports last year, and Athletic Director Earl Edwards said it is “seriously considering” paying its athletes too “if that’s what we need to do to be competitive.” UCLA refused to comment on the proposed settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USC Senior Associate Athletic Director Cody Worsham said the university will “invest the full permissible $20.5 million in 2025–26.” Stanford refused to answer any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no Division 1 school in California has shared details about how it plans to pay its athletes, experts, such as attorney Mit Winter, say the proposed settlement is unlikely to change the current disparities in college sports, especially within the four most lucrative and dominant athletic conferences, known as the Power Four. Stanford, USC, UC Berkeley and UCLA are all in the Power Four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For female rowers like \u003ca href=\"https://uclabruins.com/sports/womens-rowing/roster/anaiya-singer/15078\">Anaiya Singer\u003c/a>, a freshman at UCLA, the disparities among men’s and women’s sports — and between football, basketball and everyone else — are no surprise. “Those big sports do bring in the most revenue, and they’re the most watched,” she said, while acknowledging that other athletes, such as fellow rowers, “deserve much more than we’re getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singer said she’s been working on building her social media brand and has nearly 3,000 followers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@anaiya_singer\">TikTok\u003c/a> and just over 1,300 on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/anaiya_singer/\">Instagram\u003c/a>. A few “very small companies” reached out to her through TikTok about promoting beauty products, but none of the brands felt like a good fit, she said. She has yet to agree to any deals or receive any funding from a collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither have most of her peers. The UCLA women’s rowing team has reported less than $500 in name, image and likeness compensation since 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the proposed settlement, each school will each be able to independently determine how to distribute their funds, but Winter said universities will likely follow their peers. “If you’re in UCLA, Berkeley … you’re in the Power Four and you’re going to have to stay competitive in recruiting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the Power Four schools have all sort of landed on a similar way they’re going to pay that money out,” he added: 75% to the football team, 15% to the basketball team, around 5% to women’s basketball, and 5% to all other sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>CalMatters reached out to every public and private university in the state with Division 1 teams, where the potential for profit is typically highest, and requested data that shows how much money each of its student athletes have made since 2021. State law requires all student athletes to report to their school any compensation they receive from their name, image and likeness, and public universities are required to disclose certain kinds of data upon request. Private universities, such as Stanford University and the University of Southern California, are not required to disclose any data about their students’ earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the public Division 1 universities responded to CalMatters’ inquiry, though they did not all provide the same degree of transparency. San Jose State and Cal State Northridge said they had no records of any deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no consequence for students who fail to report what are known as NIL deals, so the data from public institutions may be incomplete. Still, certain trends emerge:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>College athletes at the state’s public universities received millions of dollars from collectives or booster clubs. At four University of California schools, around 70% or more of all compensation came from these collectives, according to university records. That’s just below national trends, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/The_Annual_Opendorse_Report_-Version-2.pdf#page=3\">a report (PDF)\u003c/a> by Opendorse, a tech company that tracks students’ deals.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Male basketball players earned the most. While football is more popular and lucrative, nationally, many public Division 1 schools in California lack a football team. The football data may also be incomplete. For instance, all football players at UC Berkeley reported making a total of just over $113,000 since 2021 — less than what all San Diego State players made — even though Berkeley is in a more prominent conference.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For high-profile football or basketball players in particular, it’s becoming more common for students to transfer multiple times, often in search of better name, image and likeness deals. Some California institutions, such as UC Davis and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, have seen top athletes transfer colleges or threaten to transfer in order to attain better compensation elsewhere.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Except for a few star players, such as Chiles, most female college athletes made very little, according to the data provided to CalMatters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Collectively, athletes at UCLA and UC Berkeley earned more than double what those attending other UC and California State University campuses made. Some donors, such as those supporting Sacramento State and UC San Diego, have rapidly raised money to compete, while at other schools, athletic directors say they’ll never be able to guarantee such high-dollar deals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Schools often removed any information that could identify an individual student. While UCLA generally did not provide the individual names of its athletes, the school was more transparent than most and shared the date of each transaction, the name of the brand or company, the amount of money it gave, and the sport. In February, a UCLA gymnast reported receiving $250,000 from the beverage company Bubbl’r. Since then, Chiles has \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jordanchiles/reel/C9TAj5XRfwa/\">promoted\u003c/a> that brand, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@jordanchiles/video/7420501352352058654\">repeatedly\u003c/a>. In May, a UCLA gymnast reported receiving $210,000 from the cosmetic brand Milani for “social media” — just a few months before Chiles posted a video on Instagram, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jordanchiles/reel/C9gUkFYxOZ7/?hl=en\">promoting its makeup\u003c/a>. One or more members of the UCLA gymnastics team have also reported deals with the food company Danone for $300,000 and with the health care company Sanofi for $285,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno State shared less information. In the 2021–22 academic year, the Fresno State women’s basketball team raked in over $1.1 million from multiple name, image and likeness deals, but the university did not disclose which players were involved or how many were paid. After influencers and former basketball players \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/haleycavinder/?hl=en\">Haley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hanna.cavinder/?hl=en\">Hanna Cavinder\u003c/a> transferred to the University of Miami in April 2022, the number and dollar amount of deals for the Fresno team diminished. In the 2023–24 academic year, the team made just over $1,000 from 10 different deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two women college basketball players from different teams vie for the ball during a game with other players and full bleachers around and behind them.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno State Bulldogs forward Mia Jacobs #23 attempts to block the shot of an Arizona State Sun Devils forward during a game in Phoenix on Dec. 20, 2023. During their most lucrative year to date, Fresno women on the team collected over $1.1 million in NIL deals. \u003ccite>(Christopher Hook/Icon Sportswire via AP Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Money from boosters or collectives is the hardest to trace. In May, for example, a group of UCLA donors gave an undisclosed football player $450,000 for “social media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While private universities are not required to disclose students’ earnings, market estimates from \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/nil/rankings/player/nil-valuations/\">On3\u003c/a>, a media and technology company focused on college sports, say the highest-earning Stanford University athlete, basketball player \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/db/maxime-raynaud-152092/\">Maxime Raynaud\u003c/a>, could collect $1.5 million in the next 12 months. The top USC athlete, football player \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/db/jayden-maiava-58668/\">Jayden Maiava\u003c/a>, could make $603,000 in the next year, according to the same estimates. These numbers are based on an algorithm that uses aggregate deals from college athletes across the country. Nationwide, the Opendorse report estimates that college athletes will earn $1.65 billion in the 2024–25 academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, college athletes may make even more. A high-profile \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-v.-NCAA-Original-Complaint.pdf\">class-action lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> will likely allow schools to pay athletes directly, while still classifying them as students, not employees. If the proposed settlement agreement goes into effect, students could see payouts as early as this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a school pays a student directly, the money should be divided roughly proportional to the number of male and female athletes, the Biden administration said in a U.S. Department of Education \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ocr-factsheet-benefits-student-athletes.pdf\">fact sheet (PDF)\u003c/a> issued in January. The page \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/media/document/ocr-factsheet-benefits-student-athletes\">no longer exists\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last few months, attorneys have rescinded federal labor petitions asking that USC and Dartmouth College student athletes be reclassified as employees, but new cases are likely on the horizon, said Mit Winter, an attorney who specializes in name, image and likeness law: “I do think at some point — two years, five years, whatever it is — at least some college athletes will be employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Times Square billboard reads: NIL has begun\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, college sports have been a big business, though most of the money flowed to universities, not students. Nationally, Division 1 universities reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/10/14/finances-of-intercollegiate-athletics-division-i-dashboard.aspx\">$17.5 billion in athletic revenue\u003c/a> in 2022, according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). That’s more than the gross domestic product of \u003ca href=\"https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD\">83 countries\u003c/a>. For schools with top-performing football programs, such as UCLA and Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/research/Finances/2023RES_DI-RevExpReport_FINAL.pdf\">broadcast deals (PDF)\u003c/a> and other kinds of marketing represent over a third of total revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before California’s law went into effect, college athletes weren’t allowed to profit off their sport, though they frequently received scholarships equal to the cost of college tuition. On July 1, 2021 the new law took effect, and Haley and Hanna Cavinder were the first to benefit, \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/ncaa-name-image-likeness-nil-student-athletes/10849337/\">signing deals \u003c/a>with Boost Mobile, a cell phone company, and Sixstar, a nutrition company, just after the stroke of midnight. A\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CavinderHanna/status/1410636794908057604\"> Times Square billboard\u003c/a> proclaimed they were the first such deals in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Student athletes have reported at least $11.9 million in name, image and likeness compensation\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-1xezO\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/1xezO/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"517\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, other California college athletes have signed advertising deals with clothing brands such as Crocs, Heelys and Aeropostale and food brands such as Liquid I.V. and Jack in the Box. FTX, the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, signed contracts with \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DominiqueOnu/status/1468324467533234176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1468324467533234176%7Ctwgr%5Ea9a79c13c1bc7d717d0e88e987e66747e6b4989d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fcollege%2Fucla%2Fnews%2Ftracking-every-ucla-student-athlete-name-image-likeness-nil-deal\">at least six players\u003c/a> on the UCLA women’s basketball team in 2021. In 2022, the Biden campaign gave a UCLA gymnast $7,000, but public records did not disclose the purpose of the transaction. No other politicians appeared in any university’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Visit Fresno County, a nonprofit that promotes tourism, paid former Fresno State football players \u003ca href=\"https://gobulldogs.com/sports/football/roster/dean-clark/14671\">Dean Clark\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://gobulldogs.com/sports/football/roster/kosi-agina/14651\">Kosi Agina\u003c/a> just under $10,000 to post Instagram videos about \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kosiaagina/reel/C5hEuyxv3uh/\">a local farmer’s market\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Hjh9oSDVG/\">a minor league baseball team\u003c/a>, according to President and CEO Lisa Oliveira. She said the posts were so successful that she asked Agina to make another video, promoting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kosiaagina/reel/C51uJhfPs67/\">hiking trail in the Sierra National Forest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But much of the money for students’ name, image and likeness doesn’t come from brands at all — it’s from private donors. Philanthropist and entertainment lawyer Mark Kalmansohn has given nearly $150,000 in 12 different transactions to athletes on UCLA’s volleyball, softball and women’s basketball teams since 2022, according to the data, which runs through May of last year. In an interview with CalMatters, Kalmansohn said he’s given more than $175,000 since May. “Women’s sports were almost always treated in a second-hand nature and given inferior resources,” he said, adding that his philanthropy is about “women’s rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for money, he asks each recipient to issue a free license of their name, image and likeness to a nonprofit organization that’s relevant to the athlete’s sport. But he said that’s not the norm. “In men’s football and men’s basketball, it’s pretty obvious that money is not for an ‘appearance.’” Instead, he explained that it’s a way to support the player and keep the team competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most donors give money to specific athletes through a collective, where the donors’ identities are largely hidden. At UCLA, public data through the 2023–24 academic year shows that a collective known as the Men of Westwood channeled nearly $2 million in private donations to the football, basketball and baseball teams. At Berkeley, collectives gave over $1.3 million to athletes since the 2022–23 academic year — the vast majority of which went to the men’s basketball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Supporting ‘elite talent’ at UC and Cal State\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For years, NCAA rules made it difficult for college athletes to transfer schools, but in 2021, right around the time that California started to allow name, image and likeness deals, the NCAA eased \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2021/4/15/di-council-adopts-new-transfer-legislation.aspx\">those rules\u003c/a>. The number of students who transfer suddenly \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20220425163915/https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/4/25/transfer-portal-data-division-i-student-athlete-transfer-trends.aspx\">jumped in 2021\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/4/25/transfer-portal-data-division-i-student-athlete-transfer-trends.aspx\">has ticked up each year since\u003c/a>, according to NCAA data. In practice, the new rules means that a well-endowed collective can lure athletes who want to make more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, over 11% of all Division 1 football players have tried to transfer colleges, an increase from the previous year, said Matt Kraemer, whose organization, \u003ca href=\"https://theportalreport.com/about/#\">The Portal Report\u003c/a>, uses social media posts and tips from insiders to gauge college athletes’ transfer activity. Quarterbacks are even more likely to try to transfer, Kraemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For institutions like UC Davis, the threat of losing a top athlete can be costly. Late in the 2023–24 academic year, donors from other universities promised top athletes lucrative deals if they agreed to transfer, so UC Davis formed a collective, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aggieedge.com/\">Aggie Edge\u003c/a>, to make counter-offers, said Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca. “It’s a means to retain elite talent here at Davis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLuca said the collective gave men’s basketball guard \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/ty-johnson/18342\">TY Johnson\u003c/a> $50,000 and UC Davis running back \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/football/roster/lan-larison/18128\">Lan Larison\u003c/a> $25,000. Those transactions were for “social media, appearances, autographs,” according to the university’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A male basketball player dribbles toward a player from the opposing team during a game.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-800x560.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1076.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Davis Aggies guard TY Johnson dribbles up the court during a game against Cal State Bakersfield in Bakersfield on Jan. 26, 2023. The UC Davis athletic director said a collective gave Johnson $50,000 for what university records describe as ‘social media, appearances, autographs.’ \u003ccite>(David Dennis/Icon Sportswire via AP Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, all other UC Davis athletes — more than 700 students over 25 sports — have reported just under $19,000 in deals since 2021. A few other athletes received products, such as a free cryotherapy session or a commission based on sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, former UC Berkeley quarterback Fernando Mendoza transferred to Indiana University, where he later signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hoosiersconnect/p/DFNwwqQuWAP/\">a name, image and likeness deal\u003c/a> with a collective for an undisclosed amount. UC Berkeley then recruited former Ohio State quarterback Devin Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/college-football/ohio-state-quarterback-transfers-acc-program-after-national-title\">the day after he won a national championship.\u003c/a> It’s not clear if the Berkeley collective offered Brown a deal, since the university’s data doesn’t name Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin DiTolla, Berkeley’s associate athletic director, said the university is “not affiliated with the collective” and that the university provides “equal support to all student athletes.” “We recognize that there is a difference in NIL support,” he said, “But it isn’t under our scope or umbrella.” The Berkeley collective, California Legends, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, some football players sought more money through a name, image and likeness deal by transferring to another school, but they didn’t all succeed, said Don Oberhelman, the university’s athletic director. “That’s the dirty little secret of all of this: the number of kids who blow an opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, nine football players at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo announced their intention to transfer, he said. Six of them found a new university, he said, including University of Texas El Paso, San Diego State, Stanford, and Washington State — but three of them never received an offer from another school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said that his football coach begins recruiting a replacement the moment a player announces his intention to transfer. If that student doesn’t end up transferring, he may lose his spot on the football team and the entirety of his athletic scholarship, which can be up to $30,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s raw emotion involved in these kinds of decisions,” he said. “I don’t think that’s how we would operate, but I can see a lot of people say, ‘You broke up with us.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said he doesn’t know what happened to the three players from the football team who failed to transfer. “For me, it would boil down to: Did we promise that money to someone else? Did we find another transfer or a high school person to replace you? If we did, that would put your future financial aid with us in jeopardy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Small-town name, image and likeness deals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of top football and men’s basketball programs, many of California’s college athletes vie for smaller name, image and likeness deals, often with local businesses, lesser-known clothing or athletic brands, or anything else they can find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Berkeley softball player \u003ca href=\"https://georgiadogs.com/sports/softball/roster/randi-roelling/8621\">Randi Roelling\u003c/a> got $50 from one woman to give a pitching lesson to her daughter. In July 2023, chiropractor Lance Casazza started giving out free sessions to at least one Sacramento State football player in exchange for social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gopoly.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/annika-shah/9572\">Annika Shah\u003c/a>, a basketball player at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, got her first deal through a local restaurant, Jewel of India, which occasionally has a pop-up tent outside the college gym. “I just said, ‘Hey I can market you. Let’s think of a cool slogan to put out.’” Customers who ask to “swish with Shah” at the checkout counter get a discount on their meal, she said. Shah doesn’t get any money, she said, but she does get free food whenever she visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a cool relationship and connection that I made with this family and the owners of Jewel of India, where they just want to help me out and I want to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A woman of South Asian ethnicity wearing a green basketball outfit looks at the camera.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annika Shah, a senior business administration student and basketball player, at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walking around campus, friends jokingly refer to Shah as their own “Jewel of India” and she likes it. “It’s such a marketable slogan now, and it kind of identifies who I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Division 1 schools have their own websites where customers can buy gear with an athlete’s name on it, but last fall, no such platform existed at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, said Shah, so she created her own. She partnered with a company, Cloud 9 Sports, and launched her own apparel brand. It’s brought in about $2,000 in sales so far, but after the university and Cloud 9 Sports take a cut, Shah said she’s left with about $800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said she was never told to report any of her monetary or in-kind contributions. After CalMatters asked, Oberhelman, the athletic director, said the school is now requiring it. “We haven’t done a great job following up because we’re just not going to have student athletes that are getting even five-figure deals,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said he only knew of eight deals, each for $2,000, all to the men’s football team from a group of private donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno State provided more data than Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, but it did not designate which deals came from its collective, known as Bulldog Bread. On \u003ca href=\"https://bulldogbread.com/\">its website\u003c/a> the collective says it has raised more than $690,000 in corporate donations for Fresno State. At the top tier, that includes money from former Fresno State quarterbacks David and Derek Carr, property developer Lance Kashian, and construction company Tarlton and Son, Inc. The collective recently launched a vodka brand in partnership with a distillery, where a portion of all proceeds support students’ name, image and likeness deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletes at UC Santa Barbara have reported $1,800 from their collective, Gold & Blue, but many other transactions reported by the school provide few details. According to the school’s data, an unnamed person or group made 15 deals with one or more members of the UC Santa Barbara men’s basketball team, totaling over $50,000 in “appearance fees” for an event last August associated with Heal the Ocean, a local environmental nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s executive director, Hillary Hauser, said the nonprofit made no such contribution and had no events in August. University spokesperson Kiki Reyes said it’s “possible” that a collective made those payments, but she refused to respond to CalMatters’ questions regarding Hauser’s statement the event never occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From August 2023 to August 2024, male basketball and baseball athletes at UC Santa Barbara reported roughly $500,000 in compensation for appearance fees related to various charities. Over the same time frame, all other athletes reported receiving free products, sales referrals, and cash payments totaling about $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UCLA, the CEO of the Men of Westwood collective, Ken Graiwer, is listed in university records as the “point of contact” for a $450,000 contribution, distributed over six transactions in the 2023–24 academic year, to the men’s basketball team for “public appearances.” For each of those transactions, the university’s data lists the Team First Foundation, a sports nonprofit, as the vendor. Neither UCLA nor the Team First Foundation responded to questions about who made the payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months before those transactions, the Men of Westwood posted a few photos on its Instagram account, showing UCLA men’s basketball players on the court with smiling children from the Team First Foundation programs. In the post, the Men of Westwood said it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/menofwestwood/p/CvY5lpZO-Ab/?img_index=2\">“NIL outreach.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California universities try to ‘stay competitive’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since becoming legal in 2021, the market for name, image and likeness compensation has exploded. Sports commentators, attorneys, and athletic directors say the landscape is a kind of “wild West” or “gold rush”: The money is pouring in, but the regulations are sparse or evolving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters has partial data from the 2024–25 academic year, but early indicators suggest that even more cash will soon flow to players. In September, a group of Sacramento State alumni, including some state lawmakers, said they \u003ca href=\"https://sactownsports.com/ncaa-sacramento-state-football-nil-funds-pac-12-mountain-west/\">raised over $35 million in one day\u003c/a> for name, image and likeness deals. Cal State Bakersfield and UC San Diego recently formed their own collectives too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, former Democratic Sen. Nancy Skinner of Berkeley — one of the co-authors of the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206\">watershed name, image and likeness law\u003c/a> — proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sb906?slug=CA_202320240SB906\">a new bill\u003c/a> to gather more data about spending by collectives and its impact on women’s sports. Newsom vetoed the bill, saying “Further changes to this dynamic should be done nationally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Basketball, women’s gymnastics and football lead name, image and likeness compensation\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-6HWwF\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/6HWwF/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"622\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, the NCAA tried to prevent colleges from directly assisting athletes with deals, but the association has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2024/4/22/media-center-division-i-board-of-directors-ratifies-transfer-nil-rule-changes.aspx\">eased those regulations recently\u003c/a>, blurring the lines between universities and the private collectives that support them. Many states have passed laws explicitly allowing universities to make deals directly with students. In October, Skinner and former Democratic Sen. Steven Bradford wrote \u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd09.senate.ca.gov/files/pdf/10-9-24%20Open%20Letter%20to%20Stakeholders%20about%20California%20NIL%20Law.pdf\">a letter (PDF)\u003c/a> to California universities, encouraging them to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I strongly urge California schools to make full use of (the watershed law) to stay competitive in college sports, especially now that other states are copying California and allowing their schools to make direct NIL deals with their student athletes,” said Skinner in a press release about the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spring, California District Judge Claudia Wilken is expected to approve a settlement between athletes and the NCAA that would further expand the ways universities can pay their players. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2024/7/26/media-center-settlement-documents-filed-in-college-athletics-class-action-lawsuits.aspx\">the proposed settlement\u003c/a>, a college could directly spend up to a combined $20.5 million per year on payments to all of its athletes. The spending limit would grow over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the settlement, athletic directors at many of California’s public institutions, such as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Cal State Bakersfield, said they don’t plan on giving any more money directly to students because their athletic programs lack the cash. “They’re already on full scholarship, so there aren’t any more existing dollars we can really offer that person,” said Oberhelman, with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Even if the university did have the money, he said he’s concerned about the legal implications of paying students directly. “Are they going to get a W-2 now? Are we paying workers comp? Nobody seems to have answered a lot of these questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy.jpg\" alt='An empty basketball court with a banner behind the hoop that reads \"Cal Poly\"' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mott Athletics Center at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DiTolla, at Berkeley, said the university will start paying its athletes once the settlement is finalized. UC San Diego joined Division 1 sports last year, and Athletic Director Earl Edwards said it is “seriously considering” paying its athletes too “if that’s what we need to do to be competitive.” UCLA refused to comment on the proposed settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USC Senior Associate Athletic Director Cody Worsham said the university will “invest the full permissible $20.5 million in 2025–26.” Stanford refused to answer any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no Division 1 school in California has shared details about how it plans to pay its athletes, experts, such as attorney Mit Winter, say the proposed settlement is unlikely to change the current disparities in college sports, especially within the four most lucrative and dominant athletic conferences, known as the Power Four. Stanford, USC, UC Berkeley and UCLA are all in the Power Four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For female rowers like \u003ca href=\"https://uclabruins.com/sports/womens-rowing/roster/anaiya-singer/15078\">Anaiya Singer\u003c/a>, a freshman at UCLA, the disparities among men’s and women’s sports — and between football, basketball and everyone else — are no surprise. “Those big sports do bring in the most revenue, and they’re the most watched,” she said, while acknowledging that other athletes, such as fellow rowers, “deserve much more than we’re getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singer said she’s been working on building her social media brand and has nearly 3,000 followers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@anaiya_singer\">TikTok\u003c/a> and just over 1,300 on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/anaiya_singer/\">Instagram\u003c/a>. A few “very small companies” reached out to her through TikTok about promoting beauty products, but none of the brands felt like a good fit, she said. She has yet to agree to any deals or receive any funding from a collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither have most of her peers. The UCLA women’s rowing team has reported less than $500 in name, image and likeness compensation since 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the proposed settlement, each school will each be able to independently determine how to distribute their funds, but Winter said universities will likely follow their peers. “If you’re in UCLA, Berkeley … you’re in the Power Four and you’re going to have to stay competitive in recruiting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the Power Four schools have all sort of landed on a similar way they’re going to pay that money out,” he added: 75% to the football team, 15% to the basketball team, around 5% to women’s basketball, and 5% to all other sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-state\">San Francisco State\u003c/a> announced Thursday that it will eliminate three sports teams at the end of the semester, making it the latest California State University campus to make deep spending cuts this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025961/sonoma-state-1st-csu-slash-programs-likely-wont-be-last\">schools across the system suffer\u003c/a> from budget cuts and enrollment declines, UC Berkeley education professor Jennifer Delaney said that experts are watching “the rich get richer” both at the institutional and student level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re certainly seeing an increased stratification across institutions,” said Delaney. “We’re getting more intense clustering of low-income students at lower-resourced institutions, and then more intense clustering of wealthy students at highly-resourced institutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State’s plans to eliminate men’s soccer, baseball, and women’s indoor track and field teams in July come after university President Lynn Mahoney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">declared a fiscal emergency\u003c/a> last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University spokesperson Bobby King told KQED in February that he expects the campus to have to make $25 million in reductions for next year due to declining enrollment, and even deeper cuts to account for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s nearly 8% cut to CSU budgets. According to a report from an athletics task force in October, the program was projecting a nearly $360,000 budget deficit this year, and had raked up $1.2 million in debt on its scholarships account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school said that cutting three of its 13 athletic teams will save up to $1 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a message to staff last fall, Mahoney said that the fiscal emergency policy allows programs to “be reduced, phased out, reorganized or discontinued,” and that the university was cutting back on hiring staff and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, a number of faulty lecturers were informed they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">wouldn’t be assigned classes\u003c/a> this spring, and next year some general education courses like introductory writing will have significantly fewer class sections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I know other difficult decisions lie ahead, I also believe we can do this work and ensure SF State continues to be a vibrant, expansive university with a mission that is essential to the success of our students and alumni, as well as the economic and social well-being of our region and state,” Mahoney wrote in Thursday’s announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State’s enrollment has been decreasing since 2019, and this year, its freshman class is 20% to 25% smaller than anticipated. Tuition makes up a significant portion of the school’s overall budget.[aside postID=news_12025961 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-41-1020x680.jpg']Sonoma State, where enrollment is down nearly 40% from a decade ago, announced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">largest cuts the system has seen\u003c/a> so far in January, eliminating 20 degree programs, six departments and all NCAA Division II athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State East Bay is also considering cuts after 11 degree programs were identified for discontinuation at the beginning of the academic year and women’s water polo was cut last spring. In the last 18 months, 165 lecturers who taught part-time or up to four classes in a semester at the Hayward campus lost their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State East Bay and Sonoma State officials have said they are prioritizing high demand and career-focused majors, which Delaney said marks one of the biggest growing divides in available educational experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re increasingly seeing a trend where it is those folks that perhaps come from wealthier backgrounds that can afford college that maybe don’t have to be so career-focused,” she told KQED. “Particularly at the undergraduate stage, they can engage in a broad liberal arts curriculum and other individuals that maybe need to work to support themselves or support their families get more directed at institutions or programs that are much more vocationally focused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re sort of getting a narrower education in that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercedes Arenas is a first-year Sonoma State student. She is studying creative writing and hoped to double major in criminology before it got cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted a double major and I was really, really excited for that,” she told KQED in January. “Now the opportunity is going to be taken away from me, and I’m also the first generation to go to college, especially to a university like this, a liberal arts one. So I feel like I’m going to just lose all of it and then it’s just going to go to waste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Butler had his theater tech major at Sonoma State cut in January. He told KQED at the time that he was likely going to transfer because his goal is to study theater, but wasn’t sure where he would go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either I can take a semester off and see where I end up or go to [junior college] for a year and then transfer to a CSU,” Butler said. “I can’t really afford [a UC]. 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It’s the only Bay Area campus that has Division 1 athletics and the school boasts more than \u003ca href=\"https://catalog.sjsu.edu/content.php?catoid=13&navoid=4973#undergraduate\">140 undergraduate majors\u003c/a>, compared to the \u003ca href=\"https://future.sfsu.edu/academics#:~:text=San%20Francisco%20State%20University%20offers,D.\">77 that San Francisco State offers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/academics\">45 at Sonoma State\u003c/a> and over \u003ca href=\"https://www.csueastbay.edu/futurestudents/majors/index.html#:~:text=We%20are%20proud%20to%20offer,please%20visit%20our%20University%20Catalog.\">40 at Cal State East Bay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJSU spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald said in February that the state’s financial outlook was challenging for the university, but that the school only expects to see a net reduction of 2.5%–4% in its budget. Over the last few years, it has gotten funding boosts from the state for meeting its enrollment targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also the most difficult to gain admission to of the four Bay Area schools — and the most expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spread between the really well-resourced campuses and those that aren’t so well-resourced is increasing and the stratification among students within those institutions is also increasing,” according to Delaney from UC Berkeley. “And that’s a reverse trend from where we were with Baby Boomers and opening up education opportunities for women — there was much more of a democratization where there was more access across the sectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Individuals don’t have control over when they’re born … and ideally, as a state, we don’t want to have these moments where we’re restricting access or reshaping individuals’ future trajectories just because we’re in a difficult budget moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the amount of San Francisco State University athletics’ projected budget deficit. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chanting “defend science, defend democracy,” hundreds of UC Berkeley scientists and their students emerged from their labs on Friday afternoon to protest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">the Trump administration’s \u003c/a>sweeping cuts to scientific research institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally on Sproul Plaza was part of a string of one-day demonstrations dubbed \u003ca href=\"https://standupforscience2025.org/\">Stand Up For Science\u003c/a> and held on university campuses across the country. 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