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The vote took place during a closed session board meeting at DeJean Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The board will begin the search for a permanent superintendent later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The West Contra Costa Unified School District board is expected to appoint an interim superintendent on Tuesday, a day after current Superintendent Kenneth Hurst \u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/2024/09/30/wccusd-superintendent-announces-retirement/\">announced plans to step down\u003c/a> in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurst’s announcement, in which he cites family health problems as the main reason for his departure, comes as the district faces long-standing issues with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/We-are-in-a-crisis-West-Contra-Costa-17660471.php\">staffing shortages\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://richmondconfidential.org/2023/06/28/wccusd-budget-cuts-involvency-looms/\">financial solvency\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ccpulse.org/2024/03/21/wccusd-school-board-says-its-received-threats-racist-messages/\">racism\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family and faith are at the core of what I am, and I must prioritize them at this time.” Hurst, who became superintendent in 2021, said in \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/HjkVe7vSNqM\">a video announcement\u003c/a> on Monday. “I am incredibly proud of the progress we’ve made as a district, and I know that the dedicated leadership team we’ve built will continue this work to support our students and staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, the district — which serves the cities of Richmond, El Cerrito, San Pablo, Hercules and Pinole — has been hit with a series of setbacks, including a\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/lawsuit-against-west-contra-costa-schools-could-set-precedent-for-how-districts-handle-complaints/717945\"> civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> over school building conditions and teacher vacancies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that’s sort of somewhere between a Band-Aid and a suture. It’s not really the solution that we’re looking for,” Landry told KQED. They led a community rally outside the meeting to call on the district to meet a list of demands, including stricter parts-per-billion lead standards and better communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re looking for is not only accountability for why there was this complete sort of failure in communication, but also we’re looking for a comprehensive analysis of where the contamination points are at any given school site and how those will be addressed,” Landry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the longer term, the district plans to analyze how extensive the remediation will need to be, but how it will pay for the work it identifies is unclear. Thomas said further testing would help OUSD determine where repairing the fixtures got rid of lead or where larger systems, like the pipes, might be the root of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are ongoing in testing every day as we speak right now, and then we will circle back to those schools at the end of this school year to do a second round of testing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the district has installed 50 of 60 new FloWater bottle-filling systems, which routinely test extremely low for lead, Thomas said at the meeting. All of the fixtures where lead was initially detected have been repaired and are awaiting retesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD also has plans to install 88 more FloWater stations by the end of the year, aiming to have one water fountain per every 200 students on a school site. Installing the additional Flowater systems will cost an estimated $1.5 million, plus more than half a million to maintain annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The larger cost of remediation comes as Oakland and its school district are both dealing with budget deficits. School board Vice President Mike Hutchinson said there isn’t much money left unaccounted for in the budget set aside for facilities through recent bond measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District leaders at Monday’s meeting asked about using funds from a settlement initiated in 2019 between 10 cities and counties in California, including Oakland, and companies whose lead paint “poisons tens of thousands of children across California each year,” according to a press release, but Selia Warren, a deputy attorney at the Oakland city attorney’s office, said that money is required to be used for remediation efforts related to lead paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb suggested a city staffer help the district with outreach to state and local agencies and applications for grants that have funding available for lead-related remediation. But the true cost won’t be known until at least the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We greatly need help and support from everyone,” Hutchinson said. “Both to make sure this short-term solution of Flowater systems is accessible and workable, but especially for the medium and long-term fix, which probably is going to involve repairs at some of our school sites that could become more extensive. … We don’t know what the cost is, but we have to take care of this immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In her fifth grade class in a Los Angeles school, on a day when outdoor temperatures reached 116 degrees, the heat gave Lilian Chin\u003cem> \u003c/em>a headache. The air conditioner in her classroom was broken. Her fingers felt numb, and she vomited in class, according to her mother. The nurse wasn’t available, so she was sent back to her hot classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the school day was over and Lilian made it to her mother’s air-conditioned car, she was exhausted and red-faced. At home, she vomited again and got a leg cramp. Veronica Chin rushed her 11-year-old daughter to an emergency room, where she was diagnosed with heat exhaustion — a serious condition that leads to a life-threatening heat stroke if not treated promptly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Chin called the school, Haskell Elementary STEAM Magnet, to complain about the broken air conditioning, she received an email that a repair ticket had been created. The San Fernando Valley school, in the Los Angeles Unified School District, had marked the repair a “low priority.” (School officials did not respond to CalMatters’ questions when a reporter called and visited the campus.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin was furious. “I’m trusting them with my children,” she said. “I’m thinking that my children are in a safe space when they’re not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2024/09/california-extreme-heat-population-growth-inland-communities/\">As climate change intensifies heat waves\u003c/a>, California schools are unprepared to protect their students from extreme heat. Some schools don’t have air conditioning at all because they were built before hotter climates made it a necessity. Others have old systems pushed to their limits, with school districts struggling to keep up with repairs or replacements with limited staff and funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in Long Beach — which reached a \u003ca href=\"https://lbpost.com/news/record-heat-long-beach-temperature-109-heat-wave/\">record high of 109 \u003c/a>degrees last month — all or most buildings in 13 public schools with about 14,000 students have no air conditioning systems. In Oakland, as many as 2,000 classrooms don’t have them. And in Fresno, officials have been overwhelmed with more than 5,000 calls for air conditioning repairs in the past 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 15% and 20% of California’s kindergarten through 12th-grade public schools “have \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/635dbc6808cab54e82a25127/t/640f57089a49a966b5803dcb/1678726934033/Climate-Resilient+California+Schools\">no functioning heating and air conditioning systems at all\u003c/a>, and as many as another 10% of schools need major repair or replacement for their systems to function adequately,” UC Berkeley and Stanford University researchers wrote in a report last year. Some advocates say that is likely an underestimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School officials say they would need tens of billions of dollars to install and repair air conditioning. Many of the worst problems are in hot, inland school districts that serve low-income communities of color, where there are fewer financial resources to replace or repair them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s too hot, just like if you’re too hungry, it’s almost impossible to learn, so the impact on students and teachers is great,” said Paul Idsvoog, the Fresno Unified School District’s chief operations officer. “If you have multiple systems that are 20 years old, sooner or later, you’re not going to be able to keep up with the tide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in November will be asked to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2024/06/school-bond-california/\">$10 billion school infrastructure bond\u003c/a> to fund repairs and upgrades of buildings at K–12 schools and community colleges, including air conditioning systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom last month vetoed \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1182\">a bill that would have created a master plan\u003c/a> for climate-resilient schools, including an assessment of when air conditioning systems were last modernized. State officials currently do not collect data on air conditioning in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24.jpeg\" alt=\"A portable air conditioner in a classroom.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portable air conditioning unit is used in the library of the Melrose Leadership Academy in Oakland on a hot day in late September. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-494\">41% of school districts\u003c/a> need to update or replace their heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems in at least half of their schools, according to a federal study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the problems are common statewide, jeopardizing children and teachers in inland as well as coastal communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a hot mess,” said Aaron Kahlenberg, a teacher at Los Angeles Unified’s John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills\u003cem>.\u003c/em> “When it was cool out, it worked, and when it got hot, it didn’t work. It got to be very frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-absences-rise-and-learning-drops-on-hot-days\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Absences rise and learning drops on hot days\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hot classrooms lead to more student and teacher \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/07/extreme-heat-report-insurance/\">illnesses \u003c/a>and absences, and studies show that they reduce children’s ability to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent day in Oakland, when outdoor temperatures reached 88 degrees, 8th-grader Juliette Sanchez felt sticky and hot in a stuffy room at Melrose Leadership Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it’s a lot harder to focus on what I’m doing,” Sanchez said. “Like, right now, I’m sticking to the table. It’s uncomfortable to write. My arm is sticky, and I’m just hot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007306\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl with sunglasses on her forehead sits in a classroom behind a tower of small colored blocks.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18.jpeg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18-800x1000.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18-1020x1275.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18-160x200.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juliette Sanchez, 13, an eighth grader, said the heat is sometimes unbearable at the Melrose Leadership Academy in Oakland. She is a member of an environmental club that advocated for more efficient heat and air conditioning systems at her school. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Student performance on exams declines by up to 14% on hot days, according to a 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jisungpark/files/paper_nyc_aejep.pdf\">Harvard study\u003c/a> in New York City. According to another study, an increase in the average temperature of 1 degree leads to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20180612\">1% less learning\u003c/a>, measured by changes in test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Black and brown students, the learning losses are even greater, said V. Kelly Turner, a heat expert at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs who has researched hot schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re already perhaps in schools that don’t have enough teachers or enough supplies and then put on top of that, they’re going to hot homes,” she said. “Maybe they don’t have any rights to install air conditioning systems. Maybe they live in mobile homes and have even fewer rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and-topics/programs/california-schools-healthy-air-plumbing-and-efficiency-program\">called CalSHAPE\u003c/a>, helps public schools improve air conditioning and water systems. Between 2021 and 2023, more than 3,800 schools were \u003ca href=\"https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/GetDocument.aspx?tn=254791&DocumentContentId=90470\">awarded\u003c/a> $421 million to assess their systems, with 11 undertaking major repairs or replacements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in August, state legislators considered eliminating the program \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/08/california-electric-bill-legislation/\">as part of a plan to give utility ratepayers small rebates\u003c/a>. Although the bill failed, the program has been closed to new applications since July. More than a dozen school districts have \u003ca href=\"https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Lists/DocketLog.aspx?docketnumber=20-RENEW-01\">urged the state Energy Commission\u003c/a> to reopen applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attempt to gut the program worries school and environmental advocates, who say the state is failing to prioritize schools as climate change raises temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many schools, cooling is no longer just a nicety, but a necessity,” Jonathan Klein, head of UndauntedK12, an organization that supports schools transitioning to zero emissions to reduce greenhouse gasses, said in a statement. “Students and staff deserve safe, healthy, resilient school campuses that support teaching and learning amidst extreme weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-fixing-air-conditioners-9-billion-in-la-schools-alone\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Fixing air conditioners: $9 billion in LA schools alone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most students return to school in mid-August or early September, when much of the state — particularly in the Los Angeles region — suffers its most intense heat waves. Some schools also operate year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, classroom temperatures reached into the mid-90s during an early September heat wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers at several schools there told CalMatters that their requests for air conditioning repairs went unanswered or were slow to come. Portable units installed in classrooms were insufficient to keep temperatures comfortable enough for students to learn. Students were visibly lethargic from the heat. Some parents opted to keep their children home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahlenberg, who teaches high school architecture, said he had asked for the air conditioning in his classroom to be repaired for weeks. By the time a heat wave hit in early September, it still wasn’t fixed. His classroom temperature reached 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was tired,” Kahlenberg said. “I told them if they needed to take a break, that if they didn’t want to work, it was totally acceptable. I would just extend the project. But it just shouldn’t have to be like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahlenberg said teachers told him about 20 other classrooms at his school also didn’t have working air conditioning during that heat wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007308\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20.jpeg\" alt=\"Students sit in the shade on a soccer field in a schoolyard, next to basketball courts.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students sit in the shade in the schoolyard of the Melrose Leadership Academy in Oakland on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A physical education teacher in another Los Angeles school said she spent weeks before the September heat wave trying to flag air conditioning problems in her office. (The teacher wished to remain anonymous out of fear she would be disciplined for discussing the issue with CalMatters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, when the extreme heat came and the gymnasium temperature was too hot for the students, she and others informed the school. She said the school responded on the last day of the heat wave that students could sit outside in shade if they needed to. The suggestion dumbfounded her: Why would she have her students sit outside, where it was even hotter than in the gym?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All schools in Los Angeles Unified have air conditioners. But Krisztina Tokes, the district’s chief facilities executive\u003cem>, \u003c/em>said 50,000 faulty or aged units and pieces of equipment need to be replaced in the district’s more than 1,000 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA Unified, the largest school district in the state, has invested $1 billion to upgrade heating, ventilation and cooling systems in the last two decades, including $287 million for 20 projects that are currently under construction or being designed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tokes said officials work to keep students safe by following protocols when air conditioning breaks down, such as installing portable units or moving students to spare air-conditioned spaces. Outside, schools place portable misting fans and commercial-grade pop-up tents for shade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School days were cut short in schools where district officials felt they couldn’t provide a safe learning environment. Air conditioning systems are also checked at the start of summer and again just before classes start. Teachers and staff are trained to identify and respond to signs of heat related illness, a district spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under no circumstance should there be a child or parent thinking their health isn’t being addressed,” Tokes said. “There were conditions that were beyond the district’s control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replacing all air conditioners in the district’s schools would cost at least $9 billion, according to Amanda Wherritt, Los Angeles Unified’s deputy chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really about financial resources,” Tokes said. “We do not receive enough money from the state to either repair or replace our systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-even-coastal-schools-are-sweltering-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Even coastal schools are sweltering \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many classrooms throughout the state have air conditioning, those that don’t are often in coastal areas. Many of these schools were built in the 1950s or ’60s before the warming effects of climate change had worsened heat waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Long Beach, less than a decade ago, 51 out of 84 schools didn’t have air conditioning in all classrooms. Since then, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.presstelegram.com/2016/10/22/long-beach-election-2016-school-district-asking-for-15-billion-bond/\">$1.5 billion local facilities bond \u003c/a>has helped the school district upgrade many of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 13 schools, serving about a quarter of the district’s students, still \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/thirteen-long-beach-schools-braving-socal-heatwave-without-air-conditioning/3503162/\">won’t be fully air-conditioned \u003c/a>for at least another three years. One school, Polytechnic High School, which has about 4,000 students, will undergo major renovations, including adding air conditioning, that won’t be complete until 2028, said Alan Reising, Long Beach Unified School District’s facilities and operations assistant superintendent. In the meantime, officials installed portable air conditioners and outdoor shade structures in many of the schools, Reising said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some inland Long Beach neighborhoods experience five high-heat days a year when temperatures exceed 97 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Arguably, we haven’t needed it,” Reising said. But now, he said, “with the obvious signs of climate change, we have more hot days we have to deal with every year. There’s no thought that it’s going to get better in the future, so the need for air conditioning now has become very obvious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-graphics-heat-housing.netlify.app/heat-days-lookup?initialWidth=780&childId=pym_0&parentTitle=As%20heat%20rises%2C%20kids%20are%20sweltering%20in%20CA%20schools%20with%20no%20AC%20-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fenvironment%2Fclimate-change%2F2024%2F10%2Fcalifornia-schools-air-conditioning-heatwave-climate%2F\" width=\"1000\" height=\"780\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Diego Unified School District, all 175 schools now have air conditioning. The district spent $460 million between 2013 and 2019 to install systems in the 118 schools that didn’t have them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many of the systems are newer as a result, they’re still \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/hoover-high-school-hot-classroom-air-conditioning/3598054/\">breaking down, \u003c/a>with students saying some classrooms reached around 100 degrees in September. Some San Diego neighborhoods have four high-heat days a year that exceed 91 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were definitely experiencing some air conditioning issues throughout the district. We are doing our best to respond to all repair requests as quickly as possible,” said Samer Naji, a district spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Oakland Unified School District, about 2,000 classrooms in 77 schools have no air conditioners. In late September, outdoor temperatures reached 88 degrees; some Oakland neighborhoods have seven days a year that exceed 89 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equipping those schools with air conditioning would be an expensive and complicated task that would cost at least $400 million, said Preston Thomas, Oakland Unified School District’s chief systems and services officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Melrose Learning Academy in Oakland, students said the heat makes it hard to focus. Lyra Modersbach, an eighth grader who is a member of an environmental club at the school, said she has noticed temperatures getting hotter year after year. When she’s home, she can wear cool clothes and rest to beat the heat, but she can’t do that at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modersbach said her school has a few portable air conditioners, but if too many are on at once, they shut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heat “is very distracting,” she said. “I’ve noticed having a harder time getting my work done or feeling frustrated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As members of the Youth Versus Apocalypse environmental club, Modersbach and Juliette Sanchez\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/10/school-heat-pump-climate-emissions\"> advocated for their school to stop using a gas boiler\u003c/a> and invest in an energy-efficient heat pump that will provide air conditioning. The district will use funds from a 2020 $735 million bond measure to \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/12/08/oakland-middle-school-students-win-heat-pump-climate-activism/\">install heat pumps\u003c/a> at their school next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-inland-schools-have-little-money-to-invest\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inland schools have little money to invest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many inland schools are fully air-conditioned, some don’t have air conditioning in their gymnasiums, cafeterias and multi-purpose rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many inland school districts, where 100-degree days are common, have far fewer financial resources than wealthier coastal districts, said Sara Hinkley, California program manager for UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities + Schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the spending on facility upgrades is based on local bond measures, which is based on your ability to levy property taxes,” she said. “So districts that have lower levels of property values per student are able to raise less money to upgrade their facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts in the Central Valley and the Inland Empire are among those that have invested less money because of lower property values and a smaller voter base to tap into, Hinkley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no environmental justice or climate equity imperative. That would take an active regulation to change how bond disbursements are made in the state,” UCLA’s Turner said. “The state could go a long way by investing in better technical assistance to communities to apply for these funds and focusing on priority schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno Unified School District, where 90% of students are on free or reduced lunch plans, recently invested $60 million in federal funds to replace or install air conditioning systems in some of its gyms, cafeterias and multi-purpose rooms, said Alex Belanger, chief executive over the district’s operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district needs about $500 million to improve its heating and ventilation systems, Belanger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belanger said during heat waves, it’s\u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/heat-wave-central-california-fresno-unified-ac-down-courthouse/12204755/\"> “all hands on deck” \u003c/a>to keep students cool. Staff work weekends and nights to repair air conditioning systems and the school provides temporary chillers and portable air conditioning if systems break down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Idsvoog said the Fresno school district would like to invest in energy-efficient strategies such as building well-insulated schools with green space and oriented in a way that won’t absorb heat. But there’s simply no money to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is it’s not going to get any cooler and resources will always be a challenge for any school district,” Idsvoog said. “Any assistance, grants or state funding that can support those efforts is more than welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in Long Beach — which reached a \u003ca href=\"https://lbpost.com/news/record-heat-long-beach-temperature-109-heat-wave/\">record high of 109 \u003c/a>degrees last month — all or most buildings in 13 public schools with about 14,000 students have no air conditioning systems. In Oakland, as many as 2,000 classrooms don’t have them. And in Fresno, officials have been overwhelmed with more than 5,000 calls for air conditioning repairs in the past 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 15% and 20% of California’s kindergarten through 12th-grade public schools “have \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/635dbc6808cab54e82a25127/t/640f57089a49a966b5803dcb/1678726934033/Climate-Resilient+California+Schools\">no functioning heating and air conditioning systems at all\u003c/a>, and as many as another 10% of schools need major repair or replacement for their systems to function adequately,” UC Berkeley and Stanford University researchers wrote in a report last year. Some advocates say that is likely an underestimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School officials say they would need tens of billions of dollars to install and repair air conditioning. Many of the worst problems are in hot, inland school districts that serve low-income communities of color, where there are fewer financial resources to replace or repair them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s too hot, just like if you’re too hungry, it’s almost impossible to learn, so the impact on students and teachers is great,” said Paul Idsvoog, the Fresno Unified School District’s chief operations officer. “If you have multiple systems that are 20 years old, sooner or later, you’re not going to be able to keep up with the tide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in November will be asked to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2024/06/school-bond-california/\">$10 billion school infrastructure bond\u003c/a> to fund repairs and upgrades of buildings at K–12 schools and community colleges, including air conditioning systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom last month vetoed \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1182\">a bill that would have created a master plan\u003c/a> for climate-resilient schools, including an assessment of when air conditioning systems were last modernized. State officials currently do not collect data on air conditioning in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24.jpeg\" alt=\"A portable air conditioner in a classroom.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_24-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portable air conditioning unit is used in the library of the Melrose Leadership Academy in Oakland on a hot day in late September. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-494\">41% of school districts\u003c/a> need to update or replace their heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems in at least half of their schools, according to a federal study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the problems are common statewide, jeopardizing children and teachers in inland as well as coastal communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a hot mess,” said Aaron Kahlenberg, a teacher at Los Angeles Unified’s John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills\u003cem>.\u003c/em> “When it was cool out, it worked, and when it got hot, it didn’t work. It got to be very frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-absences-rise-and-learning-drops-on-hot-days\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Absences rise and learning drops on hot days\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hot classrooms lead to more student and teacher \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/07/extreme-heat-report-insurance/\">illnesses \u003c/a>and absences, and studies show that they reduce children’s ability to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent day in Oakland, when outdoor temperatures reached 88 degrees, 8th-grader Juliette Sanchez felt sticky and hot in a stuffy room at Melrose Leadership Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it’s a lot harder to focus on what I’m doing,” Sanchez said. “Like, right now, I’m sticking to the table. It’s uncomfortable to write. My arm is sticky, and I’m just hot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007306\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl with sunglasses on her forehead sits in a classroom behind a tower of small colored blocks.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18.jpeg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18-800x1000.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18-1020x1275.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18-160x200.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_18-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juliette Sanchez, 13, an eighth grader, said the heat is sometimes unbearable at the Melrose Leadership Academy in Oakland. She is a member of an environmental club that advocated for more efficient heat and air conditioning systems at her school. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Student performance on exams declines by up to 14% on hot days, according to a 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jisungpark/files/paper_nyc_aejep.pdf\">Harvard study\u003c/a> in New York City. According to another study, an increase in the average temperature of 1 degree leads to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20180612\">1% less learning\u003c/a>, measured by changes in test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Black and brown students, the learning losses are even greater, said V. Kelly Turner, a heat expert at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs who has researched hot schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re already perhaps in schools that don’t have enough teachers or enough supplies and then put on top of that, they’re going to hot homes,” she said. “Maybe they don’t have any rights to install air conditioning systems. Maybe they live in mobile homes and have even fewer rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and-topics/programs/california-schools-healthy-air-plumbing-and-efficiency-program\">called CalSHAPE\u003c/a>, helps public schools improve air conditioning and water systems. Between 2021 and 2023, more than 3,800 schools were \u003ca href=\"https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/GetDocument.aspx?tn=254791&DocumentContentId=90470\">awarded\u003c/a> $421 million to assess their systems, with 11 undertaking major repairs or replacements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in August, state legislators considered eliminating the program \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/08/california-electric-bill-legislation/\">as part of a plan to give utility ratepayers small rebates\u003c/a>. Although the bill failed, the program has been closed to new applications since July. More than a dozen school districts have \u003ca href=\"https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Lists/DocketLog.aspx?docketnumber=20-RENEW-01\">urged the state Energy Commission\u003c/a> to reopen applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attempt to gut the program worries school and environmental advocates, who say the state is failing to prioritize schools as climate change raises temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many schools, cooling is no longer just a nicety, but a necessity,” Jonathan Klein, head of UndauntedK12, an organization that supports schools transitioning to zero emissions to reduce greenhouse gasses, said in a statement. “Students and staff deserve safe, healthy, resilient school campuses that support teaching and learning amidst extreme weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-fixing-air-conditioners-9-billion-in-la-schools-alone\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Fixing air conditioners: $9 billion in LA schools alone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most students return to school in mid-August or early September, when much of the state — particularly in the Los Angeles region — suffers its most intense heat waves. Some schools also operate year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, classroom temperatures reached into the mid-90s during an early September heat wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers at several schools there told CalMatters that their requests for air conditioning repairs went unanswered or were slow to come. Portable units installed in classrooms were insufficient to keep temperatures comfortable enough for students to learn. Students were visibly lethargic from the heat. Some parents opted to keep their children home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahlenberg, who teaches high school architecture, said he had asked for the air conditioning in his classroom to be repaired for weeks. By the time a heat wave hit in early September, it still wasn’t fixed. His classroom temperature reached 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was tired,” Kahlenberg said. “I told them if they needed to take a break, that if they didn’t want to work, it was totally acceptable. I would just extend the project. But it just shouldn’t have to be like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahlenberg said teachers told him about 20 other classrooms at his school also didn’t have working air conditioning during that heat wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007308\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20.jpeg\" alt=\"Students sit in the shade on a soccer field in a schoolyard, next to basketball courts.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/092324_Oakland-Schools-AC_LA_CM_20-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students sit in the shade in the schoolyard of the Melrose Leadership Academy in Oakland on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A physical education teacher in another Los Angeles school said she spent weeks before the September heat wave trying to flag air conditioning problems in her office. (The teacher wished to remain anonymous out of fear she would be disciplined for discussing the issue with CalMatters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, when the extreme heat came and the gymnasium temperature was too hot for the students, she and others informed the school. She said the school responded on the last day of the heat wave that students could sit outside in shade if they needed to. The suggestion dumbfounded her: Why would she have her students sit outside, where it was even hotter than in the gym?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All schools in Los Angeles Unified have air conditioners. But Krisztina Tokes, the district’s chief facilities executive\u003cem>, \u003c/em>said 50,000 faulty or aged units and pieces of equipment need to be replaced in the district’s more than 1,000 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA Unified, the largest school district in the state, has invested $1 billion to upgrade heating, ventilation and cooling systems in the last two decades, including $287 million for 20 projects that are currently under construction or being designed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tokes said officials work to keep students safe by following protocols when air conditioning breaks down, such as installing portable units or moving students to spare air-conditioned spaces. Outside, schools place portable misting fans and commercial-grade pop-up tents for shade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School days were cut short in schools where district officials felt they couldn’t provide a safe learning environment. Air conditioning systems are also checked at the start of summer and again just before classes start. Teachers and staff are trained to identify and respond to signs of heat related illness, a district spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under no circumstance should there be a child or parent thinking their health isn’t being addressed,” Tokes said. “There were conditions that were beyond the district’s control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replacing all air conditioners in the district’s schools would cost at least $9 billion, according to Amanda Wherritt, Los Angeles Unified’s deputy chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really about financial resources,” Tokes said. “We do not receive enough money from the state to either repair or replace our systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-even-coastal-schools-are-sweltering-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Even coastal schools are sweltering \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many classrooms throughout the state have air conditioning, those that don’t are often in coastal areas. Many of these schools were built in the 1950s or ’60s before the warming effects of climate change had worsened heat waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Long Beach, less than a decade ago, 51 out of 84 schools didn’t have air conditioning in all classrooms. Since then, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.presstelegram.com/2016/10/22/long-beach-election-2016-school-district-asking-for-15-billion-bond/\">$1.5 billion local facilities bond \u003c/a>has helped the school district upgrade many of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 13 schools, serving about a quarter of the district’s students, still \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/thirteen-long-beach-schools-braving-socal-heatwave-without-air-conditioning/3503162/\">won’t be fully air-conditioned \u003c/a>for at least another three years. One school, Polytechnic High School, which has about 4,000 students, will undergo major renovations, including adding air conditioning, that won’t be complete until 2028, said Alan Reising, Long Beach Unified School District’s facilities and operations assistant superintendent. In the meantime, officials installed portable air conditioners and outdoor shade structures in many of the schools, Reising said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some inland Long Beach neighborhoods experience five high-heat days a year when temperatures exceed 97 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Arguably, we haven’t needed it,” Reising said. But now, he said, “with the obvious signs of climate change, we have more hot days we have to deal with every year. There’s no thought that it’s going to get better in the future, so the need for air conditioning now has become very obvious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-graphics-heat-housing.netlify.app/heat-days-lookup?initialWidth=780&childId=pym_0&parentTitle=As%20heat%20rises%2C%20kids%20are%20sweltering%20in%20CA%20schools%20with%20no%20AC%20-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fenvironment%2Fclimate-change%2F2024%2F10%2Fcalifornia-schools-air-conditioning-heatwave-climate%2F\" width=\"1000\" height=\"780\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Diego Unified School District, all 175 schools now have air conditioning. The district spent $460 million between 2013 and 2019 to install systems in the 118 schools that didn’t have them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many of the systems are newer as a result, they’re still \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/hoover-high-school-hot-classroom-air-conditioning/3598054/\">breaking down, \u003c/a>with students saying some classrooms reached around 100 degrees in September. Some San Diego neighborhoods have four high-heat days a year that exceed 91 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were definitely experiencing some air conditioning issues throughout the district. We are doing our best to respond to all repair requests as quickly as possible,” said Samer Naji, a district spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Oakland Unified School District, about 2,000 classrooms in 77 schools have no air conditioners. 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The district will use funds from a 2020 $735 million bond measure to \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/12/08/oakland-middle-school-students-win-heat-pump-climate-activism/\">install heat pumps\u003c/a> at their school next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-inland-schools-have-little-money-to-invest\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inland schools have little money to invest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many inland schools are fully air-conditioned, some don’t have air conditioning in their gymnasiums, cafeterias and multi-purpose rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many inland school districts, where 100-degree days are common, have far fewer financial resources than wealthier coastal districts, said Sara Hinkley, California program manager for UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities + Schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the spending on facility upgrades is based on local bond measures, which is based on your ability to levy property taxes,” she said. “So districts that have lower levels of property values per student are able to raise less money to upgrade their facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts in the Central Valley and the Inland Empire are among those that have invested less money because of lower property values and a smaller voter base to tap into, Hinkley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no environmental justice or climate equity imperative. That would take an active regulation to change how bond disbursements are made in the state,” UCLA’s Turner said. “The state could go a long way by investing in better technical assistance to communities to apply for these funds and focusing on priority schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno Unified School District, where 90% of students are on free or reduced lunch plans, recently invested $60 million in federal funds to replace or install air conditioning systems in some of its gyms, cafeterias and multi-purpose rooms, said Alex Belanger, chief executive over the district’s operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district needs about $500 million to improve its heating and ventilation systems, Belanger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belanger said during heat waves, it’s\u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/heat-wave-central-california-fresno-unified-ac-down-courthouse/12204755/\"> “all hands on deck” \u003c/a>to keep students cool. 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"content": "\u003cp>College is not cheap. And as the price of attending a four-year university \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/28/1172684287/families-grapple-with-the-rising-cost-of-a-college-education\">keeps increasing each year\u003c/a>, parents and caregivers are getting more creative on how to finance such a big expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One strategy that’s working: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004855/sf-narrowed-college-enrollment-gap-by-giving-kindergarteners-50-in-savings-study-finds\">Start saving early\u003c/a> — years before your kid starts filling out college applications — even if it’s in small amounts. And in California, that’s become easier to do thanks to multiple college savings options and additional financial support provided by the government and non-profit organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how effective is it to start saving early? And most importantly, for parents who have to carefully balance the family budget each year, is it worth setting aside a handful of dollars each month for such a far-off expense?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what you need to know about saving for college, or jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#k2c\">San Francisco’s Kindergarten 2 College program\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#difference\">The differences between college savings accounts\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#state\">What the state can offer\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#kids\">How to talk to kids about saving for college\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"k2c\">\u003c/a>One mom’s story\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over a decade ago, San Francisco mom of four Aisha Brown sat down with her eldest daughter, Tierra, to talk about her college goals. Tierra was just in middle school at the time but she was already deeply motivated to get a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing her daughter talk about her dreams with so much determination gave Brown a feeling of pride, but thinking about saving money to pay for college felt insurmountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that it was going to be a struggle trying to put my kids in college,” said Brown, adding that even applying to college comes with a price tag — application fees, testing fees, visiting college campuses and other related costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as Brown started to do the math, she remembered that she had \u003ci>been \u003c/i>saving for Tierra’s college costs for several years already. When Tierra was in kindergarten, the city opened a savings account in her name and deposited $50, and Brown had also added money whenever she could. Tierra, now in her second year studying nursing at Grambling State University in Louisiana, was part of the founding class of Kindergarten 2 College (K2C), \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952106/kindergarten-to-college-2023\">San Francisco’s universal college savings account program for kids enrolled in the city’s public schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked at the K2C account and I said to myself, ‘Well, that can help with [application costs],’” Brown explained. At that point, they had a little over $1,000. “That’s not tuition money, but it’s something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as Tierra grew and moved through high school, Brown kept saving and learned a few things along the way about how to make the most of what she was setting aside. For many families, even a few hundred dollars each month can make a big difference in household expenses. So if you’re planning on starting to save up for college for your little ones, here’s a few things to keep in mind to make the most of this hard-won investment in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The positive side effects of saving for college\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, researchers from the University of Michigan and Summitlab Corporation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004855/sf-narrowed-college-enrollment-gap-by-giving-kindergarteners-50-in-savings-study-finds\">presented the findings of a years-long study that tracked college enrollment data among San Francisco Unified School District students\u003c/a>. The study compares the college enrollment of students who graduated high school in 2023 — who were the first group to be part of K2C when the program began in 2011 — with those who graduated in 2022 and started kindergarten before K2C launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both groups, white and Asian students (identified in the study as “represented students”) enrolled in college at higher rates than Black, Latino, Filipino, Pacific Islander and Native students (“underrepresented students”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgov.org/k2c/media/420/download?attachment\">the gap between represented and underrepresented students was smaller in the class of 2023\u003c/a> — the first K2C group — than in the class of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_12004855\" hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65701_025_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gap between the represented and underrepresented groups narrowed by 30% relative to the gap in the comparison group,” said William Elliott, a professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work and one of the authors of the study. Elliott has been studying CSA services for years and is familiar with the various positive impacts that these accounts have on students who come from lower-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having these accounts — and using them — can give kids and their families what Elliot describes as “tangible hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tangible hope is when you have reasons in your world, in your environment, that make achieving your dream seem reasonable,” he said. “It’s not that you have all the money [for college] today, but rather the perception that you now have a strategy for how to pay for college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s critical to also pair this feeling of tangible hope with concrete steps. As your child grows up and gets closer to college, make the times you deposit into their account also an opportunity to talk to them about preparing for college. These conversations don’t have to only be about having the money to pay for school, but can also encompass other ideas like grades, tests and information about specific universities or majors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, having a college savings account (known as CSA) doesn’t mean you’ll automatically have the funds to go to college – but it gets you one step closer to figuring out some really big questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are giving families access to an institution that allows them to build wealth that’s coupled with a change in attitude and reflecting on what’s now achievable for them,” Elliot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"difference\">\u003c/a>There are many types of college savings accounts. Know the differences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all CSAs are the same. Some only serve families in specific cities or who have kids starting at a certain age. There are some options, like San Francisco’s K2C, that offer cash incentives when students take time to explore their account or learn more about personal finance. Others offer an experience that somewhat resembles having an investment portfolio, where families can see annual returns based on what they save.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, every student enrolled in the district’, regardless of their grade or academic performance, already has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952106/kindergarten-to-college-2023\">a K2C account in their name with $50 deposited in it\u003c/a>, made possible by the Office of the City Treasurer. Parents don’t have to do anything to open up their child’s account – that’s done automatically for them. But if they want to contribute to the account, see the balance, or withdraw the savings when it’s time for college, they need to \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/register-view-balance-online\">visit the K2C portal\u003c/a> and register their child’s information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nonprofit organizations that help Oakland families save for college\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit Oakland Promise manages two similar programs: \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/resources/family-resources/\">Oakland Promise Kindergarten to College\u003c/a> helps open savings accounts for families in Oakland public schools and offers scholarships for students who graduate high school, and the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/brilliant-baby/\">Brilliant Baby program\u003c/a>, opens college savings accounts with $500 already added, for families who recently had a baby and who qualify for Medi-Cal or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families in Oakland Promise’s Kindergarten to College program have two options: they can either open a college savings account with Self-Help Federal Credit Union at the West Oakland branch or open a \u003ca href=\"https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/529plan.asp\">529 plan, a college savings plan\u003c/a> that in many cases offers annual returns to the account.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"state\">\u003c/a>California-based college savings programs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wherever you live in California, you can always open up a 529 account – even years before your child starts school, thanks to the state’s own 529 plan: \u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarshare529.com/\">ScholarShare 529\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families can define their financial goals and set the length of time they want to save for. They can even choose for savings to go into bigger investment portfolios, which comes with risk, but also the possibility of annual returns.[aside postID=\"news_11988925\" hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_0524-1020x659.jpg']Another savings option California offers for families across the state is \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/need-help/\">CalKIDS\u003c/a>. Two groups of young Californians are eligible for CalKIDS: children born on or after the creation of the program on July 1, 2022 and current K–12 students enrolled in any California public school who are unhoused, enrolled in a foster youth program or are considered by the state to come from lower-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t have to be the parent or the child’s legal guardian to make a deposit into a CSA. These accounts make it very easy for relatives and friends to make deposits into these accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One option is to share your child’s CSA account details to folks who are unsure what to give as a birthday present, making sure to let them know that each dollar received can only be used for educational purposes. And that way, your community can support this goal as your child grows up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to look out for: Some CSA programs will add cash into your account if you or your child take certain online courses or participate in contests. In San Francisco’s K2C, for example, whenever students take time to explore their account or learn more about personal finances, the program rewards them by adding small amounts into their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check your student’s CSA website to learn more about specific cash incentives available for your account.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"kids\">\u003c/a>Overall, college savings is a family affair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most important piece of advice Brown has for fellow parents: “Make sure your kids understand what this program is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, it’s common for kids during kindergarten or the start of elementary school to go on a field trip to the bank where they can walk up to the teller and make a contribution to their K2C savings account. That’s a great experience, Brown says, but adds that it’s also very important for a family to sit down and talk about what that experience means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe they’re not really paying attention then to what their college future or college goals may be,” she said. “But I think having those continuous conversations will help children understand how important college is to them, their family and how they want to get there and what it takes to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, it’s normal to feel a little discouraged as a parent during these conversations, considering the overall costs of college that might feel hard to reach. But when talking to your child, Brown recommends explaining how “starting small can lead to something, and even if parents feel they don’t have anything — something is better than nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you feel your kid may be too young to focus on the complexity of college finances or savings, start off with something that feels more familiar – even if that’s just explaining the exciting concept of college itself. As chief programs officer for Oakland Promise, Veena Pawloski has spoken to hundreds of families, many of them in which both parents and children are approaching the topic of college for the first time. Her advice to get a conversation started with a family is asking, “Have you heard of college? What do you know about college?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then we start talking from there because if you just start talking about a college savings account, it’s super overwhelming,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Another savings option California offers for families across the state is \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/need-help/\">CalKIDS\u003c/a>. Two groups of young Californians are eligible for CalKIDS: children born on or after the creation of the program on July 1, 2022 and current K–12 students enrolled in any California public school who are unhoused, enrolled in a foster youth program or are considered by the state to come from lower-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t have to be the parent or the child’s legal guardian to make a deposit into a CSA. These accounts make it very easy for relatives and friends to make deposits into these accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One option is to share your child’s CSA account details to folks who are unsure what to give as a birthday present, making sure to let them know that each dollar received can only be used for educational purposes. And that way, your community can support this goal as your child grows up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to look out for: Some CSA programs will add cash into your account if you or your child take certain online courses or participate in contests. In San Francisco’s K2C, for example, whenever students take time to explore their account or learn more about personal finances, the program rewards them by adding small amounts into their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check your student’s CSA website to learn more about specific cash incentives available for your account.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"kids\">\u003c/a>Overall, college savings is a family affair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most important piece of advice Brown has for fellow parents: “Make sure your kids understand what this program is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, it’s common for kids during kindergarten or the start of elementary school to go on a field trip to the bank where they can walk up to the teller and make a contribution to their K2C savings account. That’s a great experience, Brown says, but adds that it’s also very important for a family to sit down and talk about what that experience means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe they’re not really paying attention then to what their college future or college goals may be,” she said. “But I think having those continuous conversations will help children understand how important college is to them, their family and how they want to get there and what it takes to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, it’s normal to feel a little discouraged as a parent during these conversations, considering the overall costs of college that might feel hard to reach. But when talking to your child, Brown recommends explaining how “starting small can lead to something, and even if parents feel they don’t have anything — something is better than nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you feel your kid may be too young to focus on the complexity of college finances or savings, start off with something that feels more familiar – even if that’s just explaining the exciting concept of college itself. As chief programs officer for Oakland Promise, Veena Pawloski has spoken to hundreds of families, many of them in which both parents and children are approaching the topic of college for the first time. Her advice to get a conversation started with a family is asking, “Have you heard of college? What do you know about college?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In a motion filed Thursday night, lawyers asked the court to issue a preliminary injunction, preventing the school from doing so while the case works its way through the legal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chessie Thacher, a senior attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, said the legal team felt it was important to stop the practice “as soon as possible” as students return to campus this week, expecting that there could be more protest activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are concerned that the school, if it thinks that it can use this section of penal code — 626.4 — indiscriminately, broadly, and just sort of gather everyone who’s in a spot protesting and ban them all instantly on the spot without due process, that’s a really big problem. And a lot of people will suffer,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Section 626.4 of the California Penal Code allows university officials to revoke consent for a person to be on campus for up to 14 days “whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that such person has willfully disrupted the orderly operation of such campus or facility.” Entering the campus while the ban is in place is a misdemeanor punishable by jail time or a fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988397/many-protesters-arrested-at-uc-santa-cruz-pro-palestinian-encampment\">112 protesters were arrested\u003c/a> after police in riot gear were deployed to a pro-Palestinian encampment set up in a little-used parking lot near the base of UC Santa Cruz’s mountainous campus. Some of those arrested had their permission to be on campus withdrawn under Section 626.4 and were left unable to access housing, campus resources or ways to complete their final exams and assignments, attorneys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2153861315_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two people affix a large brown sign with red text reading 'Do UCLA next' to a school sign outdoors near a busy street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2153861315_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2153861315_qut-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2153861315_qut-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2153861315_qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2153861315_qut-1536x1064.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Santa Cruz workers who are union members of UAW 4811 set up a sign in front of the university’s campus on May 20. Academic workers at UCSC walked off the job to strike in protest of the UC system’s handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thacher and a legal team representing two students and one professor who were arrested \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003855/uc-santa-cruz-students-professor-sue-over-campus-bans-after-pro-palestinian-protest\">sued the university\u003c/a> this month for what they said were illegal campus bans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters’ lawyers argue that California’s Supreme Court has previously limited the scope of the legal code so that such bans can only be imposed without a hearing if a person’s presence on campus constitutes a “substantial and material threat of significant injury to persons or property,” and the students should have had due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t present any such threat,” Rachel Lederman, another member of the legal team, told KQED earlier this month. “There was no violence or disruption caused by this protest. The only disruption was caused by these bans that instantly banished students from campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12006193 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-22-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students did have hearings, but those did not begin to take place until at least a week after the bans were issued, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for UC Santa Cruz did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day of the protest, Lederman said, many students and staff had come to stand in solidarity after they found out that police were arriving, and throughout the night, police surrounded and squeezed in on demonstrators before making the eventual arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those arrested was professor Christine Hong, who said she joined around 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past, faculty have served as a buffer between students and the police at different protests. We’ve also been there to witness what has happened, and I also went because I also was joining in the protest,” Hong, who directs the campus Center for Racial Justice, said earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She received a campus ban and was unable to access her office and personal library or record asynchronous lecture videos she needed to prepare for an upcoming summer course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students Elio Ellutzi and Laaila Irshad are also joining the suit over their bans. Both reported in declarations filed with the court that they lost access to housing when they were barred from campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irshad worked as a resident adviser, for which she was compensated with free housing and access to meal points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t really have a way to get food. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dr. Ramzi Salti met with his new students at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford-university\">Stanford University\u003c/a> earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Arabic language course he has taught at the university for 25 years, students read the news and discuss current events. Salti, an advanced lecturer in the school’s Arabic program, told KQED he’s unsure how to incorporate the most recent conflict in Lebanon into his curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t had time to process any of it,” said Salti, whose family left Lebanon and immigrated to the United States 45 years ago. “But you cannot have a course about current events in the Middle East and not go there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern and anxiety have gripped the Bay Area’s Lebanese diaspora, a community of more than 5,000 people, according to estimates from the West Coast’s \u003ca href=\"https://honoraryconsulateoflebanon-uswestcoast.org/\">Honorary Consulate of Lebanon\u003c/a>, since Israel began pummeling southern Lebanon with airstrikes on Monday. More than 500 people were reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/world/middleeast/lebanon-civilian-death-toll-israel.html\">killed\u003c/a>, including 50 children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands fled the region for Beirut, the country’s capital on the Mediterranean coast. The airstrikes follow a series of pager and other device explosions across the country facilitated by Israel. The coordinated attack on Hezbollah killed at least \u003ca href=\"https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/24/hezbollah-pager-explosions-lebanon-israel-middle-east-iran-us-policy/\">40 people\u003c/a> and injured 3,000 others. Israel and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia and political party in Lebanon, have been locked in almost daily cross-border skirmishes since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Richard Kadi’s family lives near Saida, a city in southern Lebanon. The barrages fuel constant worries about his cousins and uncles. Kadi, who lives in Belmont, checks on them daily. It’s difficult, he said, for them to escape the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240925-LEBANESE-COMMUNITY-REACTIONS-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church in Millbrae on Sept. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The roads are congested,” Kadi said. “They are really afraid that there won’t be any gas for the cars, or there won’t be any food or bread. People are worried and scared, and they don’t know how far this is going to escalate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MJ Azzi, who came to the United States as a student six years ago, is in constant communication with her parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are very scared,” she said. “They say that whatever it is that they have been dreading to happen for the past many months is happening right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salti said that the situation has spiraled more dramatically than his friends and family in Lebanon expected. They’re now afraid the country could get dragged into the worst conflict in its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there is a sense of doom, unfortunately, that has overtaken people who maybe had too rosy of a picture before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salti remembers what he calls “a beautiful childhood” in the country. Lebanon was a cultural powerhouse for much of the 20th century. It has the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14647308\">liberal media\u003c/a> in any Arab country. Lebanese artists produced Arabic-language pop music, books and movies, and Beirut was known as the “Paris of the Middle East.” Many Lebanese people speak Arabic, English and French, and the country’s many religious and ethnic minorities are guaranteed representation in government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12005195 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-018-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bordered by Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, Lebanon was stable for three decades after gaining independence from France in the early 1940s. Salti recalled the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, which began as a clash between Lebanese Christians and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Then, the U.S., Syria, Israel and Iran got involved in the 15-year conflict that displaced nearly 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waves of Lebanese have left the country since. Many fled when Israel invaded and occupied southern Lebanon in 1982 and again in 2006 during the Israel-Hezbollah war. Hezbollah was founded after Israel’s invasion in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history looms heavily over this week’s fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s been the story of Lebanon for the past 50 years,” said Kadi, who emigrated from Lebanon 24 years ago. “Every now and then, there’s been bombardment attacks or airplanes flying over our heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger Lebanese, like Azzi, have been traumatized by the periodic violence, as well as the port explosion that rocked Beirut in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never plan for the future,” said Azzi, 27. “I grew up in a climate of instability, and it just feels like it’s been the same for as long as I’ve known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is home to the second-largest Lebanese diaspora in the U.S. after Michigan. Thousands gather annually at the Bay Area Lebanese Festival held in August in downtown Redwood City. On weekends, Kadi and friends play soccer and cards together, and they meet on Sundays at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church in Millbrae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Kadi isn’t part of a political organization, he and others in the community share their opinions about the inflamed tensions in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People see things differently, from different perspectives,” Kadi said. “Of course, people blame Hezbollah. But at the end of the day, it’s the bigger power who can actually serve justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area politicians have called for an end to the violence. East Bay Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord), who voted against providing offensive weapons to Israel earlier this year, is among the elected officials urging the Biden administration to pursue a ceasefire in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to see America assert that there has to be a regional and international pressure on both sides to stop and to get to a discussion about long-term peace, which means coexistence,” DeSaulnier said. “We’re tempting World War III. Not to be over reactionary, but smaller conflicts, as history has taught us, can escalate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his final speech addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, President Joe Biden said, “Nobody wants to see full-scale war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A solution is still possible,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Salti and Kadi hoped for a stronger statement from Biden. As they wait for a ceasefire, they find hope in community and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he’s not teaching, Salti hosts a radio program and podcast called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993183/ramzi-salti-champions-indie-arab-musicians-with-arabology-podcast\">Arabology\u003c/a>. Each \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/arabology/sets/podcasts\">two-hour episode\u003c/a> is filled with facts about Arabic music and artists, woven through an array of indie-Arabic tracks and remixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s planning an episode on Lebanese music featuring, Salti said, “everything that’s beautiful about Lebanon, not the war and destruction.” Included in the mix is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb7WKF3WLV0\">I Love You, Lebanon\u003c/a>,” a song released in 1970 by Fairuz, whom he called “the Diva of Lebanon.” The nostalgic lyrics summarize the love that a lot of Lebanese have for their country, Salti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a song about peace, about loving Lebanon through its best times and worst times,” he said. “It’s the best medication I could recommend right now in terms of Lebanese music that can be healing and empowering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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