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"content": "\u003cp>For Oakland High School senior Soliyana Dawit, one thing is clear: To get her vote, a school board candidate needs to have deep ties to Oakland schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone who knows how schooling in Oakland is,” Dawit said on a gray October morning in her U.S. Government class. “Someone who’s gone to school here and knows what the problems are and understands it at a personal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A first for California, Dawit is one of an estimated 3,500 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002068/in-oakland-and-berkeley-16-and-17-year-olds-can-now-vote-for-school-board\">16- and 17-year-olds in Oakland now able to cast a vote in local school board races\u003c/a>. Teens in Berkeley will also be voting in school board elections for the first time this November. The city overwhelmingly passed youth voting in 2016, and Oakland followed suit in 2020. Delays in the county registrar’s office to implement the new system postponed the first vote until this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008778\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soliyana Dawit and other students raise their hands in Isabel Toscano’s class at Oakland High School in Oakland on Oct. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S., some smaller cities in Vermont, Maryland and New Jersey already allow youth voting in some local elections, but Oakland is the largest American city to give young people this right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the results come in from the Nov. 5 election, we’ll see how many young people in Oakland took advantage of this new power and what impact that had on four school board seats up for grabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading up to the election, an alliance of organizations forming the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition created \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandyouthvote.org/civic-engagement-curriculum/\">a curriculum for teachers\u003c/a> to help prepare young Oaklanders to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During KQED’s recent visit to Oakland High School, Dawit’s teacher, Isabel Toscano, was using the curriculum to help students fill out voter registration forms and familiarize them with Oakland’s school board candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toscano, who grew up in the Fremont suburbs and came of age in the 1970s, wished voting had been a part of her high school experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if I would have gotten a lesson like this, I think I would have been a stronger activist,” Toscano said. “It’s exciting to see young people are registering now and getting that habit of not just registering but hopefully voting. They will be lifelong voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12008777\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabel Toscano teaches (top) at Oakland High School in Oakland on Oct. 9, 2024. She brings candidate promotional material to the classroom (bottom left) and shows students how to fill out a voter registration form (bottom right). \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A recent study from \u003ca href=\"https://uccs.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk12071/files/inline-files/White%20Paper%202024%20FINAL.pdf\">the University of California, Los Angeles,\u003c/a> found it’s easier to initiate voting habits in high schoolers before barriers such as work and moving to new places separate them from civic institutions. Another\u003ca href=\"https://alexandercoppock.com/coppock_green_2016.pdf\"> 2016 study\u003c/a> found that people who start voting regularly early in life are more likely to vote consistently throughout their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These findings help explain why more jurisdictions are granting voting rights to minors. Oakland’s youth vote is part of a trend across Bay Area cities that have recently voted on or are considering legislation to give young people more say in how their schools — and, in some cases, cities — work. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/12/california-teens-voting-rights-00173719\">Albany\u003c/a>, residents will vote on whether to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all municipal races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, voters rejected a law similar to the one under consideration in Albany in 2016 and in 2020, though the measure saw growing support. Youth organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sf-youth-3rd-attempt-lower-voting-age-16-years-old-city-elections/\">are now pushing to bring the issue back\u003c/a> to voters for a third vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008785\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students on campus at Oakland High School in Oakland on Oct. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Oakland High School, seniors Ojiugo Egeonu and Chiagozim Chima are part of a group of student organizers drumming up enthusiasm about the election on campus. They put up youth vote posters in the school’s hallways, presented in classrooms, posted on the school’s social media channels and tabled in the cafeteria at lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like there’s still a long way to go,” Egeonu said. “Now people know what it is, but they’re still asking questions, like, ‘Who are the candidates? What district do I live in?’ And they know the basics. They need to go further in depth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chima said talking with her peers about what changes they want at Oakland schools and explaining what the school board does and doesn’t have power over can help motivate the students to engage with candidates and fill out their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top issues she wants to see addressed are bathroom cleanliness and teacher retention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our AP teachers quit in the middle of Thanksgiving break, and she made us write a 10-page paper that she never graded,” Chima said. “Then we had no World History teacher until like January, which I was like, ‘So what’s the point of having a teacher if the school year is almost over?’” She added that she has asthma and students smoking in the bathrooms sometimes makes it hard to breathe after using the restroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ojiugo Egeonu (left) at Oakland High School in Oakland on Oct. 9, 2024, and Chiagozin Chima (right). \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The push for the youth vote in Oakland started in 2019. Oakland Unified School District was facing budget cuts and students were fighting to save foster student caseworker positions and restorative justice and AAPI student support programs. Despite student protests, cuts to those services and programs were made anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley sophomore Natalie Gallegos Chavez was a student in OUSD at the time and helped kick off the fight for youth voting in the aftermath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference organized by the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition on Oct. 16, Chavez reflected on why students wanted this right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We initiated this movement because we observed our school board directors making decisions without adequately considering student perspectives,” Chavez said from the steps of the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse by Oakland’s Lake Merritt. “We were losing valuable programs and witnessing our school board directors make decisions that weren’t in the interest of our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximus Simmons, a student representative on the Oakland Board of Education, asked his peers what it felt like to be a part of history at a youth-led press conference at the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse on Oct. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chavez was there along with a handful of other students to mark the moment and cheer on students dropping their completed ballots in an Alameda County ballot drop box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, Oakland Youth Vote Coalition said they registered more than 1,000 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in Tuesday’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maximus Simmons, a junior at Oakland High and one of two nonvoting student representatives on OUSD’s Board of Education, said this election marks a real change for student power in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a seat at the table,” Simmons said to the students assembled around him and the gaggle of journalists looking up at him from the courthouse’s stone steps. “We’re not at the kiddie table anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2094-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2094-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2094-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2094-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2094-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2094-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2094-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castlemont High School senior Tommy Lemasney celebrates submitting his ballot at the Rene C. Davidson courthouse in Oakland on Oct. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Student votes, he said, are “not just a recommendation to old leaders, but a way to make sure that our input actually counts and matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s vote is just the beginning, he added. “We’re not gonna stop until everything, and I mean everything, we know we deserve and we know will help us thrive in schools becomes a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For Oakland High School senior Soliyana Dawit, one thing is clear: To get her vote, a school board candidate needs to have deep ties to Oakland schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone who knows how schooling in Oakland is,” Dawit said on a gray October morning in her U.S. Government class. “Someone who’s gone to school here and knows what the problems are and understands it at a personal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A first for California, Dawit is one of an estimated 3,500 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002068/in-oakland-and-berkeley-16-and-17-year-olds-can-now-vote-for-school-board\">16- and 17-year-olds in Oakland now able to cast a vote in local school board races\u003c/a>. Teens in Berkeley will also be voting in school board elections for the first time this November. The city overwhelmingly passed youth voting in 2016, and Oakland followed suit in 2020. Delays in the county registrar’s office to implement the new system postponed the first vote until this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008778\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soliyana Dawit and other students raise their hands in Isabel Toscano’s class at Oakland High School in Oakland on Oct. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S., some smaller cities in Vermont, Maryland and New Jersey already allow youth voting in some local elections, but Oakland is the largest American city to give young people this right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the results come in from the Nov. 5 election, we’ll see how many young people in Oakland took advantage of this new power and what impact that had on four school board seats up for grabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading up to the election, an alliance of organizations forming the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition created \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandyouthvote.org/civic-engagement-curriculum/\">a curriculum for teachers\u003c/a> to help prepare young Oaklanders to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During KQED’s recent visit to Oakland High School, Dawit’s teacher, Isabel Toscano, was using the curriculum to help students fill out voter registration forms and familiarize them with Oakland’s school board candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toscano, who grew up in the Fremont suburbs and came of age in the 1970s, wished voting had been a part of her high school experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if I would have gotten a lesson like this, I think I would have been a stronger activist,” Toscano said. “It’s exciting to see young people are registering now and getting that habit of not just registering but hopefully voting. They will be lifelong voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12008777\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-4-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabel Toscano teaches (top) at Oakland High School in Oakland on Oct. 9, 2024. She brings candidate promotional material to the classroom (bottom left) and shows students how to fill out a voter registration form (bottom right). \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A recent study from \u003ca href=\"https://uccs.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk12071/files/inline-files/White%20Paper%202024%20FINAL.pdf\">the University of California, Los Angeles,\u003c/a> found it’s easier to initiate voting habits in high schoolers before barriers such as work and moving to new places separate them from civic institutions. Another\u003ca href=\"https://alexandercoppock.com/coppock_green_2016.pdf\"> 2016 study\u003c/a> found that people who start voting regularly early in life are more likely to vote consistently throughout their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These findings help explain why more jurisdictions are granting voting rights to minors. Oakland’s youth vote is part of a trend across Bay Area cities that have recently voted on or are considering legislation to give young people more say in how their schools — and, in some cases, cities — work. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/12/california-teens-voting-rights-00173719\">Albany\u003c/a>, residents will vote on whether to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all municipal races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, voters rejected a law similar to the one under consideration in Albany in 2016 and in 2020, though the measure saw growing support. Youth organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sf-youth-3rd-attempt-lower-voting-age-16-years-old-city-elections/\">are now pushing to bring the issue back\u003c/a> to voters for a third vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008785\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students on campus at Oakland High School in Oakland on Oct. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Oakland High School, seniors Ojiugo Egeonu and Chiagozim Chima are part of a group of student organizers drumming up enthusiasm about the election on campus. They put up youth vote posters in the school’s hallways, presented in classrooms, posted on the school’s social media channels and tabled in the cafeteria at lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like there’s still a long way to go,” Egeonu said. “Now people know what it is, but they’re still asking questions, like, ‘Who are the candidates? What district do I live in?’ And they know the basics. They need to go further in depth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chima said talking with her peers about what changes they want at Oakland schools and explaining what the school board does and doesn’t have power over can help motivate the students to engage with candidates and fill out their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top issues she wants to see addressed are bathroom cleanliness and teacher retention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our AP teachers quit in the middle of Thanksgiving break, and she made us write a 10-page paper that she never graded,” Chima said. “Then we had no World History teacher until like January, which I was like, ‘So what’s the point of having a teacher if the school year is almost over?’” She added that she has asthma and students smoking in the bathrooms sometimes makes it hard to breathe after using the restroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-3-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ojiugo Egeonu (left) at Oakland High School in Oakland on Oct. 9, 2024, and Chiagozin Chima (right). \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The push for the youth vote in Oakland started in 2019. Oakland Unified School District was facing budget cuts and students were fighting to save foster student caseworker positions and restorative justice and AAPI student support programs. Despite student protests, cuts to those services and programs were made anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley sophomore Natalie Gallegos Chavez was a student in OUSD at the time and helped kick off the fight for youth voting in the aftermath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference organized by the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition on Oct. 16, Chavez reflected on why students wanted this right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We initiated this movement because we observed our school board directors making decisions without adequately considering student perspectives,” Chavez said from the steps of the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse by Oakland’s Lake Merritt. “We were losing valuable programs and witnessing our school board directors make decisions that weren’t in the interest of our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/IMG_2084-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximus Simmons, a student representative on the Oakland Board of Education, asked his peers what it felt like to be a part of history at a youth-led press conference at the Rene C. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been about a year since Angela Vergara anxiously opened an email in her Oakland Tech guidance counselor’s office that would change her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was venting to her counselor about the stress of waiting for college decisions when the message from Northeastern University Oakland arrived in her inbox — she had gotten into a new partner program between the university and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a> offering admission and funding for four years of college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cried when I saw it. I had to take a lap around the school; I could not believe it,” Vergara said this week, walking past her dorm room and the grassy, secluded campus’ mental health center. “I called my mom right away, like, ‘Mom, you won’t believe it,’ and she also cried — we all cried. It was just a really, really amazing opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara, who moved to Oakland from the Philippines in middle school, is one of seven OUSD students who started at Northeastern’s Bay Area campus this fall through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program. They are the first class to enroll in the scholarship program since Northeastern University opened on the former site of Mills College in 2022 after the two merged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara applied to many schools, but she was considering going to a community college for two years to lessen the financial burden on her parents, who are already putting her two sisters — all of them first-generation college students — through school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program, she will be able to graduate without debt or straining her parents’ finances. Students — who must qualify for a Pell Grant, which is awarded to students with \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/grants/pell\">great financial need\u003c/a> — receive free tuition, room and board for four years of education, which comes out to more than $340,000 each, according to OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The campus of Northeastern University, formerly Mills College, on Oct. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program is an extension of a similar one on Northeastern University’s Boston campus. Officials hope to expand the Oakland program from seven to 10 students in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seemed natural when we came to Oakland to bring that kind of program here, where we’re equally invested in growing and supporting the greater Oakland community,” Northeastern Oakland Dean Daniel Sachs told KQED. “One of those ways, of course, is by supporting the youth and the students in the public school system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland public schools have had more than their share of problems. Amid steadily declining enrollment, the district faces a huge budget deficit that could lead to a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011731/oakland-school-closures-are-back-on-the-table-less-than-2-years-after-plan-was-axed\">shutter some campuses\u003c/a>, and a persistent lead contamination issue plaguing many of its schools is likely to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007326/lead-problems-in-oakland-schools-drinking-water-could-cost-over-50-million-to-fix\">cost tens of millions of dollars to fix\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students who come up through the embattled Oakland school district don’t end up in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, only about 44% of OUSD graduates enrolled in a four-year university or community college. That’s far below the 72% of Bay Area graduates who went to college that year, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011731 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1382772776.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s figures showed improvement, with about 35% of OUSD’s graduating seniors enrolling in four-year universities and 20% more in two-year programs, but Oakland is still behind the curve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scholarship model like the Oakland Opportunity program, though, helps students not only get into college but earn a degree, said Tolani Britton, a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what the research tells us is that it’s not simply that students need more information to get to and through college. They need wraparound services,” she said. “Students are actually guaranteed housing, food, tuition and fees so that they can put their energies in many ways towards succeeding in that environment as opposed to trying to figure out how they stay there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scholarship students applied through the general Northeastern application and selected the Oakland campus as their top choice for their first year. Most were nominated by a counselor or another staff member at their high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the OUSD students complete their first year in Oakland, they can choose to stay in the Bay Area or transfer to any of Northeastern’s 13 campuses in three countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If more local students attend college close to home and potentially join the workforce there after they graduate, it benefits the whole community economically, Britton said. But whether they stay in the area or not, it can also affect future generations of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to the resources you’re bringing after you graduate to your family, there’s also, I absolutely believe, a role model factor, particularly if you’re still local,” Britton said. “You may have that younger cousin who didn’t necessarily see four-year college as a possibility. That younger cousin then sees you graduate and the opportunity that you had. It means something about what is possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011587\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Vergara is one of seven OUSD students who started at Northeastern’s Bay Area campus this fall through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vergara, who is studying politics, philosophy and economics, plans to transfer to Boston next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m definitely making the most out of my opportunity,” she said. “My plan is [that] after this year, I’m going to transition to Boston and then hopefully London and as many campuses as I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s most excited about the opportunity to do one of Northeastern’s cooperative education programs, which connect students with semester-long, full-time work experiences. Vergara isn’t 100% sure what she wants to pursue after graduation, but she said she hopes to explore law during her co-op semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The campus is in the heart of Boston, which opens you up to so many opportunities,” she said. “There’s lots of law firms there that [Northeastern] has connections with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she’s in Oakland, though, she’s already taking full advantage of the school’s resources. She’s a part of the campus’ Trailblazer Program, which connects first-generation students before they begin their first year and provides them with additional advising and monthly meetings to learn about campus resources.[aside postID=news_12007326 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-OUSD-LEAD-FOLO-MD-03-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara took a school-sponsored trip to Lake Tahoe this fall and has joined clubs on campus, like the Women’s Interdisciplinary Society of Entrepreneurship, whose tech networking event she was headed to with her roommate Tuesday afternoon. 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The specifics are still being decided, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost 85% of our funds go to pay teachers, school staff, and all support staff across the district,” Sasaki said via email. “Because so much of the budget is dedicated to people, there are limited other options for closing the gap, which is one reason this situation is so challenging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility of closing schools isn’t new for Oakland Unified. In 2021, a plan to close 11 campuses \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">spurred a hunger strike\u003c/a> and led to outrage from many parents and educators, who believed it would have disproportionately affected low-income and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942006/reversal-of-oakland-school-closures-renews-hope-of-reparations-for-black-students\">underrepresented student\u003c/a>s. The plan was approved in February 2022 but overturned by a newly elected school board — led by then-President Hutchinson — in January 2023. Davis and Board Director Clifford Thompson voted against rescinding the closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district ended up closing two schools, merging one and eliminating middle-school grades at another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD’s budget challenges are also ongoing. The district was taken over by the state in 2003, though it is expected to regain full local control in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials have said it needs to “reduce its footprint” because it has far fewer students than it used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrollment has been declining in Oakland schools since 2002 when the district had more than 50,000 students. It now has just over 34,000, and earlier this month, the district projected it could lose 20% of its students between 2022 and 2032.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007326 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-OUSD-LEAD-FOLO-MD-03-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the board approved a budget-balancing resolution, which called for the development of possible cuts as well as “restructuring schools” in alignment with a new state law that requires districts facing financial challenges to perform an equity impact analysis before proposing any possible closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said this analysis was requested by the board in June and is still underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very first time it was on our agenda was actually my first meeting as president [at the start of the year],” he told KQED. “It’s been something we’ve been talking about all year long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district currently has 77 school sites. 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Democratic elected officials warned those gathered of the conservative policies gaining traction in Huntington Beach: flag bans, voter ID law and lawsuits over transgender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re lucky to live in Irvine, where we don’t have the craziness,” Dave Min, the Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009870/dave-min-scott-baugh-vie-for-competitive-orange-county-house-seat\">running for Congress in the 47th District\u003c/a>, told the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Democrats and Republicans are evenly registered in the 47th District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008793/how-the-diploma-divide-is-shaping-a-toss-up-house-race-in-orange-county\">a stark political divide exists between its two largest cities\u003c/a>. In the 2022 election, incumbent Democrat Katie Porter carried Irvine by a margin of 63% to 37% on her way to victory over Republican Scott Baugh, a former state legislator. But in Huntington Beach, Baugh won 55% to 45%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To win the district this year, Min and Baugh will need to find a way to bridge the gap — or increase their margins in the polarized communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide,Learn everything you need to cast an informed ballot for the 2024 general election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irvine, like Orange County as a whole, has moved leftward since the emergence of Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s standard bearer — reflecting suburban opposition to the former president and the GOP’s rightward move on issues like abortion. Huntington Beach appears to be moving in the opposite direction: the city is a hub for conservative activism and local voters have recently backed conservative councilmembers and ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘This tale of two cities’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The split between the two cities could be explained by a gap in educational attainment, which Jon Gould, dean of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine, called the most important demarcation in OC politics. Over 72% of Irvine residents hold college degrees, compared to around 44% in Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing happening here in Orange County is the real divide of left to right, Democrat to Republican, is college education versus non-college education,” said Gould, who heads the UC Irvine poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The so-called “diploma divide” has helped shift Orange County from a GOP stronghold to a political battleground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be that the college-educated would typically be more Republican,” Gould added. “What we’re seeing right now in the Trump era is the college-educated are much more strongly Democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polling conducted by Gould shows the education trend beginning to extend across racial and ethnic groups in a county where just 37% of residents are white. A UC Irvine poll of county voters in April found support for President Joe Biden’s reelection stood at 41% with both white and non-white voters without a college degree. Meanwhile, support for Biden among white and non-white voters with a diploma stood at 55% and 54%, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing this diploma divide actually overtake, in many instances, race and ethnicity as driving behavior,” said Mike Madrid, a longtime California political consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This education gap, along with divergent trends in population growth and housing policy, has left Irvine and Huntington Beach at loggerheads: two communities embodying a larger divide in national politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why you’ve got this tale of two cities,” said Tammy Kim, an Irvine city council member.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>With growth, Irvine moves to the left\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Irvine’s story is one of rapid growth. A master-planned community built on the Irvine Company Ranch, the city wasn’t officially incorporated until 1971. Since 1990, the city’s population has nearly tripled as city leaders have approved ambitious developments to house new residents, including many arriving from Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are building the most, not in terms of just market priced homes, but we are actually the regional leader in affordable housing,” said Kim, a native of Korea who is running to be Irvine’s next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we are growing, we’re growing to be more diverse and more progressive,” Kim added. “We have the largest Persian community anywhere in Orange County. We have the largest Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean communities here in Irvine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2024-08-16/the-nations-hottest-housing-market-irvine\">According to the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Irvine has added more residents than any other California city in the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those new arrivals is Ren Kondo, who moved from Austin this summer to a house just down the street from the Turtle Rock fundraiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I chose Irvine because I think Irvine is a very advanced and chill community for Asians,” said Kondo, who met the hosts of the Democratic gathering at his own housewarming party the week before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kim, what unites Irvine’s diverse residents is their shared emphasis on education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very highly educated people that make their way to Irvine,” she added. “They choose to have their home in Irvine, and they come here because of the education system so their children can also have access to the best education system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011656\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011656 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students wait in line to cast their ballot at a polling station on the campus of the University of California, Irvine, on Nov. 6, 2018, in Irvine, California, on Election Day. (Robyn Beck/Getty Contributor)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine is the political heart of the congressional district for Democrats. Both Porter and Min were UC Irvine professors before launching campaigns for office. And Democratic success in the area can often hinge on whether candidates are able to drive a large enough turnout among student voters on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Irvine is this hot spot of youth voters who are really, really passionate about politics,” said Khushi Patel, activism director for the Orange County Young Democrats. “A lot of the voter percentage here is Democratic, so it’s really important that we’re making sure not only that everyone is registered to vote, but they’re educated on where to vote and also how to vote and all the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans see Huntington Beach as their counterweight to Irvine in the 47th District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to offset the votes that go against Scott Baugh in Irvine, that we make sure we win dramatically here in Huntington Beach to get him across the finish line,” said Tony Strickland, a Huntington Beach city councilmember.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A working-class beach community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Huntington Beach was Surf City, it was Oil City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century ago, oil derricks lined the coastline and drew workers from petroleum states like Texas and Oklahoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s working-class roots are still visible, from the oil drilling platforms on the horizon to the city’s high school mascot: the Oilers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a working-class community,” Strickland said. “It’s different than any other beach community, especially here in Orange County. It’s not Newport Beach. It’s not overwhelmingly wealthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12009870,news_12008793\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huntington Beach was once one of the fastest-growing cities in California. In the 1960s, it expanded from 11,492 to 115,962 residents after the city annexed surrounding farmland and greenlit housing projects in seaside wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Ali arrived in town in the late ’60s. He came with “a few thousand dollars and a ‘65 Impala and a young wife,” and for years has run a beachside concession stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I moved to Huntington Beach, 95% of the population were middle-class working white people,” Ali said. “A lot of the people who came down here and bought houses in the ‘60s and the ‘70s are dying or selling their home, and [they] go somewhere else, and the kids take over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more recent population growth has brought racial diversity to cities like Irvine, white residents still make up a majority in Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Huntington Beach’s population growth has leveled off, city leaders have vehemently resisted efforts to plan for new housing. That has resulted in a series of legal clashes with Gov. Gavin Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943154/they-asked-for-this-california-sues-huntington-beach-for-flouting-laws-meant-to-ease-housing-crisis\">who has called the city “Exhibit A” among municipalities\u003c/a> failing to address housing affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like a small town where people know each other, they watch for each other, there’s Neighborhood Watch,” Strickland said. “And even though we have 200,000 people, it has a suburban coastal community and kind of a neighborhood feel, unlike Irvine, which is…a lot of high-rise, high-density apartment buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A hub for conservative activism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Decades ago, Huntington Beach developed a reputation for right-wing extremism. A 1993\u003cem> Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-25-me-16750-story.html\">headline asked whether\u003c/a> it was the “Skinhead Capital of the County” and described the city as a gathering place for groups of white supremacists. Just last month, a man accused of leading a white supremacist group in the city pled guilty to a charge of inciting a riot during a political rally in the city in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many locals point to the pandemic as an inflection point for its role as a hub for conservative activism. The Huntington Beach waterfront and pier became a gathering spot for protests against beach and business closures and curfews that often doubled as rallies in support of Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011663\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011663 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huntington Beach, California, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. As COVID-19 cases reached record numbers in the U.S. and California, hundreds gathered at the pier and Pacific Coast Highway to protest a State-mandated curfew of 10 p.m. (Robert Gauthier/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As opposed to, say, Newport Beach, where the Republicans there are what we would have previously called the ‘business Republicans’ or the ‘country club Republicans,’ there is a larger percentage of the Republicans in Huntington Beach who would be the Trump true believers who want to own the libs, who want to focus on particular social issues,” Gould said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cecilia Garcia joined the protests in Huntington Beach after losing her job as a cook during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After four months of waiting for the restaurant to reopen, she gathered her savings and started something new: a Trump merchandise stand with homemade hats and T-shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her stand now is a fixture at local rallies and Republican meetings — where she sells shirts like “MAGA Fight Club,” “Felon and Hillbilly 2024,” and her favorite, which depicts the biblical angel Gabriel draped over Trump during this year’s assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My values are family, marriage between a woman and a man, having kids, no abortion,” she said. “And I believe in God, so [Trump] represents everything that I believe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spirit of MAGA activism has infused the Huntington Beach city council. In 2022, conservatives won a majority on the local board and made headlines for laws \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/health/covid-mandate-ban\">banning local vaccine and mask requirements\u003c/a> — and more recently a \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/huntington-beach-sues-the-state-over-parental-notification-ban\">“notification” ordinance requiring city staff to alert parents\u003c/a> about a child’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Competing for the 47th District\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many local Democrats believe the rightward swing in Huntington Beach is more fleeting than the consolidation of liberal strength in Irvine. They point to the close divide on the Huntington Beach city council (split four to three in favor of conservatives) and the Republican turnout edge in the 2022 midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Strickland is confident the council majority has the backing of Surf City residents. After all, when proposals to restrict flags such as the Pride flag from city buildings and enact a local requirement for voter ID were put before voters in March, they both were approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people said we were out of step with our city, we put it to the vote,” Strickland said. “And overwhelmingly, the flag ordinance passed, I believe, by 14%. And even after all the money and everything was spent on the other side, voter ID passed by, I think, a healthy 7%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid predicts the diploma divide between communities like Irvine and Huntington Beach will continue to push cultural issues to the forefront of political campaigns, intensifying fights over changing gender and identity norms that “Democrats, in large part because of a function of the college education, are more comfortable with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024 and beyond, Madrid said he is watching to see if these education dividing lines begin to chip away at the longstanding ethnic, partisan loyalties that have defined politics in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This becomes the existential battle that you’re seeing in the 47th District or Orange County more broadly,” Madrid said. “And the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irvine, like Orange County as a whole, has moved leftward since the emergence of Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s standard bearer — reflecting suburban opposition to the former president and the GOP’s rightward move on issues like abortion. Huntington Beach appears to be moving in the opposite direction: the city is a hub for conservative activism and local voters have recently backed conservative councilmembers and ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘This tale of two cities’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The split between the two cities could be explained by a gap in educational attainment, which Jon Gould, dean of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine, called the most important demarcation in OC politics. Over 72% of Irvine residents hold college degrees, compared to around 44% in Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing happening here in Orange County is the real divide of left to right, Democrat to Republican, is college education versus non-college education,” said Gould, who heads the UC Irvine poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The so-called “diploma divide” has helped shift Orange County from a GOP stronghold to a political battleground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be that the college-educated would typically be more Republican,” Gould added. “What we’re seeing right now in the Trump era is the college-educated are much more strongly Democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polling conducted by Gould shows the education trend beginning to extend across racial and ethnic groups in a county where just 37% of residents are white. A UC Irvine poll of county voters in April found support for President Joe Biden’s reelection stood at 41% with both white and non-white voters without a college degree. Meanwhile, support for Biden among white and non-white voters with a diploma stood at 55% and 54%, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing this diploma divide actually overtake, in many instances, race and ethnicity as driving behavior,” said Mike Madrid, a longtime California political consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This education gap, along with divergent trends in population growth and housing policy, has left Irvine and Huntington Beach at loggerheads: two communities embodying a larger divide in national politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why you’ve got this tale of two cities,” said Tammy Kim, an Irvine city council member.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>With growth, Irvine moves to the left\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Irvine’s story is one of rapid growth. A master-planned community built on the Irvine Company Ranch, the city wasn’t officially incorporated until 1971. Since 1990, the city’s population has nearly tripled as city leaders have approved ambitious developments to house new residents, including many arriving from Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are building the most, not in terms of just market priced homes, but we are actually the regional leader in affordable housing,” said Kim, a native of Korea who is running to be Irvine’s next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we are growing, we’re growing to be more diverse and more progressive,” Kim added. “We have the largest Persian community anywhere in Orange County. We have the largest Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean communities here in Irvine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2024-08-16/the-nations-hottest-housing-market-irvine\">According to the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Irvine has added more residents than any other California city in the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those new arrivals is Ren Kondo, who moved from Austin this summer to a house just down the street from the Turtle Rock fundraiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I chose Irvine because I think Irvine is a very advanced and chill community for Asians,” said Kondo, who met the hosts of the Democratic gathering at his own housewarming party the week before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kim, what unites Irvine’s diverse residents is their shared emphasis on education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very highly educated people that make their way to Irvine,” she added. “They choose to have their home in Irvine, and they come here because of the education system so their children can also have access to the best education system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011656\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011656 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students wait in line to cast their ballot at a polling station on the campus of the University of California, Irvine, on Nov. 6, 2018, in Irvine, California, on Election Day. (Robyn Beck/Getty Contributor)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine is the political heart of the congressional district for Democrats. Both Porter and Min were UC Irvine professors before launching campaigns for office. And Democratic success in the area can often hinge on whether candidates are able to drive a large enough turnout among student voters on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Irvine is this hot spot of youth voters who are really, really passionate about politics,” said Khushi Patel, activism director for the Orange County Young Democrats. “A lot of the voter percentage here is Democratic, so it’s really important that we’re making sure not only that everyone is registered to vote, but they’re educated on where to vote and also how to vote and all the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans see Huntington Beach as their counterweight to Irvine in the 47th District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to offset the votes that go against Scott Baugh in Irvine, that we make sure we win dramatically here in Huntington Beach to get him across the finish line,” said Tony Strickland, a Huntington Beach city councilmember.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A working-class beach community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Huntington Beach was Surf City, it was Oil City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century ago, oil derricks lined the coastline and drew workers from petroleum states like Texas and Oklahoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s working-class roots are still visible, from the oil drilling platforms on the horizon to the city’s high school mascot: the Oilers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a working-class community,” Strickland said. “It’s different than any other beach community, especially here in Orange County. 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He came with “a few thousand dollars and a ‘65 Impala and a young wife,” and for years has run a beachside concession stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I moved to Huntington Beach, 95% of the population were middle-class working white people,” Ali said. “A lot of the people who came down here and bought houses in the ‘60s and the ‘70s are dying or selling their home, and [they] go somewhere else, and the kids take over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more recent population growth has brought racial diversity to cities like Irvine, white residents still make up a majority in Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Huntington Beach’s population growth has leveled off, city leaders have vehemently resisted efforts to plan for new housing. That has resulted in a series of legal clashes with Gov. Gavin Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943154/they-asked-for-this-california-sues-huntington-beach-for-flouting-laws-meant-to-ease-housing-crisis\">who has called the city “Exhibit A” among municipalities\u003c/a> failing to address housing affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like a small town where people know each other, they watch for each other, there’s Neighborhood Watch,” Strickland said. “And even though we have 200,000 people, it has a suburban coastal community and kind of a neighborhood feel, unlike Irvine, which is…a lot of high-rise, high-density apartment buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A hub for conservative activism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Decades ago, Huntington Beach developed a reputation for right-wing extremism. A 1993\u003cem> Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-25-me-16750-story.html\">headline asked whether\u003c/a> it was the “Skinhead Capital of the County” and described the city as a gathering place for groups of white supremacists. Just last month, a man accused of leading a white supremacist group in the city pled guilty to a charge of inciting a riot during a political rally in the city in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many locals point to the pandemic as an inflection point for its role as a hub for conservative activism. The Huntington Beach waterfront and pier became a gathering spot for protests against beach and business closures and curfews that often doubled as rallies in support of Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011663\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011663 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huntington Beach, California, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. As COVID-19 cases reached record numbers in the U.S. and California, hundreds gathered at the pier and Pacific Coast Highway to protest a State-mandated curfew of 10 p.m. (Robert Gauthier/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As opposed to, say, Newport Beach, where the Republicans there are what we would have previously called the ‘business Republicans’ or the ‘country club Republicans,’ there is a larger percentage of the Republicans in Huntington Beach who would be the Trump true believers who want to own the libs, who want to focus on particular social issues,” Gould said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cecilia Garcia joined the protests in Huntington Beach after losing her job as a cook during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After four months of waiting for the restaurant to reopen, she gathered her savings and started something new: a Trump merchandise stand with homemade hats and T-shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her stand now is a fixture at local rallies and Republican meetings — where she sells shirts like “MAGA Fight Club,” “Felon and Hillbilly 2024,” and her favorite, which depicts the biblical angel Gabriel draped over Trump during this year’s assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My values are family, marriage between a woman and a man, having kids, no abortion,” she said. “And I believe in God, so [Trump] represents everything that I believe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spirit of MAGA activism has infused the Huntington Beach city council. In 2022, conservatives won a majority on the local board and made headlines for laws \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/health/covid-mandate-ban\">banning local vaccine and mask requirements\u003c/a> — and more recently a \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/huntington-beach-sues-the-state-over-parental-notification-ban\">“notification” ordinance requiring city staff to alert parents\u003c/a> about a child’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Competing for the 47th District\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many local Democrats believe the rightward swing in Huntington Beach is more fleeting than the consolidation of liberal strength in Irvine. They point to the close divide on the Huntington Beach city council (split four to three in favor of conservatives) and the Republican turnout edge in the 2022 midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Strickland is confident the council majority has the backing of Surf City residents. After all, when proposals to restrict flags such as the Pride flag from city buildings and enact a local requirement for voter ID were put before voters in March, they both were approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people said we were out of step with our city, we put it to the vote,” Strickland said. “And overwhelmingly, the flag ordinance passed, I believe, by 14%. And even after all the money and everything was spent on the other side, voter ID passed by, I think, a healthy 7%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid predicts the diploma divide between communities like Irvine and Huntington Beach will continue to push cultural issues to the forefront of political campaigns, intensifying fights over changing gender and identity norms that “Democrats, in large part because of a function of the college education, are more comfortable with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024 and beyond, Madrid said he is watching to see if these education dividing lines begin to chip away at the longstanding ethnic, partisan loyalties that have defined politics in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This becomes the existential battle that you’re seeing in the 47th District or Orange County more broadly,” Madrid said. “And the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or every 10 babies in Napa County, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://crcnapa.org/child-care-expansion-report/\">just one licensed infant care slot\u003c/a>. The demand for day care is so high that parents get on waitlists as soon as they’re pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenae Royal found that out the hard way when she went back to work as a vineyard operations manager two months after giving birth to her son, King. She needed to oversee an event, and her partner couldn’t afford to take time off his job as chef of a hotel restaurant. So she brought her baby to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were warned that finding child care could be challenging, but I just didn’t give it the weight it deserved,” Royal said. “I had no idea it was to that degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the harvest season, Royal paid a nanny $30 an hour to care for King while she worked long hours to oversee the grape picking. However, the nanny eventually left for a higher-paying job as a night nurse, leaving the couple to juggle work and caregiving until they found an opening at Le Petit Elephant, the largest nursery and preschool in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le Petit Elephant’s owner, Milli Pintacsi, has a plan to move into a bigger facility and double her capacity, allowing her to serve more families like Royal’s, but a lawsuit from neighbors is threatening the expansion. The story playing out in this small Napa neighborhood highlights just how difficult it is to tackle the child care shortage that is putting the squeeze on families across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le Petit Elephant cares for 128 children out of a former Christian school in a densely packed neighborhood of apartment buildings, businesses and homes. The lease for this property will end in December 2025. Last year, Pintacsi was awarded $2.8 million in federal and state grants, meant to help the child care industry recover from the pandemic, to move into a bigger, more permanent space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pintacsi found a vacant church in Alta Heights, a hillside neighborhood of single-family homes, and outbid a few developers to buy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a property that is perfect for this,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20,000-square-foot church has a large parking lot, a lawn that could become a play yard and 18 rooms that could be converted into infant- and toddler-care rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">15 Chapel Hill Dr., the site of a city-approved proposal to convert a Mormon church to the town’s largest childcare center in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The church also has a multipurpose room, complete with a basketball court, stage and kitchen. Pintacsi wants to rent it out for after-school care, day camps, birthday parties, puppet shows and other kid-oriented activities. The revenue would help cover child care costs for some families who receive financial aid and provide a livable wage for their teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be able to have things for families to do in Napa, and we’d be able to raise money for more scholarships and teachers to be paid better so they can afford to live in Napa,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, longtime residents of Alta Heights oppose the project, saying that having such a big day care with multiple uses would increase noise and traffic, which may affect evacuations during a wildfire. They packed a planning commission meeting to voice their concerns, and after the panel approved the project, they appealed the decision to the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the council meeting, they waved signs that said, “Safety First Alta Heights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the preschool waved their own signs that declared: “Babies Over NIMBYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council rejected their appeal in May after finding that it wouldn’t significantly impact traffic and placing a limit on the types and size of events that would be allowed in the multipurpose room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milli Pintacsi, Founder of Le Petit Elephant Nursery and Preschool, shows KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen a blueprint for 15 Chapel Hill Dr. in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the project has been held up since three neighbors filed a lawsuit under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, demanding the city rescind approval of the project until a more thorough environmental impact review is conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs declined to be interviewed, citing ongoing settlement talks and being the target of disparaging remarks. They were singled out in a website created by a group of parents who are supporters of both Le Petit Elephant and It Takes A Village, a nonprofit group raising funds for the preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers established CEQA in 1970 to better protect the environment from development. But in recent years, the statute has drawn criticism as it’s been used as a tool to block housing and infrastructure projects. Developers are often compelled to do costly environmental impact studies, scale back their projects or face long delays, said Chris Elmendorf, a land use and housing expert at UC Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve got the ability to force a delay of a couple of years at an expense of a couple hundred thousand dollars onto a project, you have a lot of leverage to negotiate for any kind of side arrangement that you’d like,” Elmendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited a lawsuit that delayed the construction of a much-needed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989237/uc-berkeley-can-start-building-on-peoples-park-california-supreme-court-rules\">student housing project at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> for three years and ignited a fierce debate over CEQA. Two neighborhood groups sought to argue under the environmental law that noise generated by future student residents would be a form of pollution and demanded that the university study the impacts on neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pintacsi hopes to reach a deal so she can begin renovating the classrooms. Already, the legal fees have drained her financial aid fund, and she’s running out of time to renovate the classrooms or find another facility before her lease ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the church is the best option she found in her yearslong search for a suitable and affordable site for her preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no buildings that I can just jump to if this neighborhood doesn’t accept us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not easy to find a facility in a high-rent and well-developed city like Napa that meets zoning and licensing requirements for child care, said Daniel Sanchez, who’s in charge of Napa County’s distribution of federal pandemic aid to child care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a huge amount of buildings turning over or going for sale, much less a huge amount of appropriate buildings that could be used for child care,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Burton, a small business consultant who helped Pintacsi look for another site for Le Petit Elephant, said the only other viable location was near two cannabis businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infant care is sorely lacking in the county because it’s not financially viable: providers have to meet tougher requirements than they do for toddler care, including a ratio of one adult for every four babies and a limit of four infants per home-based day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008443\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008443\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milli Pintacsi, Founder of Le Petit Elephant Nursery and Preschool, wipes an infant’s nose at the school in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez cited a 2022 study of the region’s child care market, which found that providers also had a hard time hiring and retaining workers. Their median salaries of $20 to $25 per hour weren’t enough to cover Napa’s high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are some of the reasons why larger [child care] chains won’t come here,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that after-hours child care was also badly needed for hospitality and restaurant employees who work night or weekend shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Royal said the full-time child care her son receives from Le Petit Elephant amounts to 25% of her salary, but she couldn’t do without it because she doesn’t have relatives close by to help her. If the preschool closes, she said she may have to move out of the region and leave behind her career in the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Napa would not be Napa without the labor and the livelihoods of people who need child care,” she said. “We are raising the next generation of citizens that are going to be growing up in Napa, and Milli’s school is providing this amazing foundation [for children] who are going to contribute positively when they become young adults. And you need that to sustain a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the total amount of the government grants awarded to Pintacsi, and the group behind the website that singled out plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Last year, Pintacsi was awarded $2.8 million in federal and state grants, meant to help the child care industry recover from the pandemic, to move into a bigger, more permanent space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pintacsi found a vacant church in Alta Heights, a hillside neighborhood of single-family homes, and outbid a few developers to buy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a property that is perfect for this,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20,000-square-foot church has a large parking lot, a lawn that could become a play yard and 18 rooms that could be converted into infant- and toddler-care rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">15 Chapel Hill Dr., the site of a city-approved proposal to convert a Mormon church to the town’s largest childcare center in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The church also has a multipurpose room, complete with a basketball court, stage and kitchen. Pintacsi wants to rent it out for after-school care, day camps, birthday parties, puppet shows and other kid-oriented activities. The revenue would help cover child care costs for some families who receive financial aid and provide a livable wage for their teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be able to have things for families to do in Napa, and we’d be able to raise money for more scholarships and teachers to be paid better so they can afford to live in Napa,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, longtime residents of Alta Heights oppose the project, saying that having such a big day care with multiple uses would increase noise and traffic, which may affect evacuations during a wildfire. They packed a planning commission meeting to voice their concerns, and after the panel approved the project, they appealed the decision to the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the council meeting, they waved signs that said, “Safety First Alta Heights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the preschool waved their own signs that declared: “Babies Over NIMBYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council rejected their appeal in May after finding that it wouldn’t significantly impact traffic and placing a limit on the types and size of events that would be allowed in the multipurpose room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milli Pintacsi, Founder of Le Petit Elephant Nursery and Preschool, shows KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen a blueprint for 15 Chapel Hill Dr. in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the project has been held up since three neighbors filed a lawsuit under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, demanding the city rescind approval of the project until a more thorough environmental impact review is conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs declined to be interviewed, citing ongoing settlement talks and being the target of disparaging remarks. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited a lawsuit that delayed the construction of a much-needed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989237/uc-berkeley-can-start-building-on-peoples-park-california-supreme-court-rules\">student housing project at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> for three years and ignited a fierce debate over CEQA. Two neighborhood groups sought to argue under the environmental law that noise generated by future student residents would be a form of pollution and demanded that the university study the impacts on neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pintacsi hopes to reach a deal so she can begin renovating the classrooms. Already, the legal fees have drained her financial aid fund, and she’s running out of time to renovate the classrooms or find another facility before her lease ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the church is the best option she found in her yearslong search for a suitable and affordable site for her preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no buildings that I can just jump to if this neighborhood doesn’t accept us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not easy to find a facility in a high-rent and well-developed city like Napa that meets zoning and licensing requirements for child care, said Daniel Sanchez, who’s in charge of Napa County’s distribution of federal pandemic aid to child care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a huge amount of buildings turning over or going for sale, much less a huge amount of appropriate buildings that could be used for child care,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Burton, a small business consultant who helped Pintacsi look for another site for Le Petit Elephant, said the only other viable location was near two cannabis businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infant care is sorely lacking in the county because it’s not financially viable: providers have to meet tougher requirements than they do for toddler care, including a ratio of one adult for every four babies and a limit of four infants per home-based day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008443\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008443\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milli Pintacsi, Founder of Le Petit Elephant Nursery and Preschool, wipes an infant’s nose at the school in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez cited a 2022 study of the region’s child care market, which found that providers also had a hard time hiring and retaining workers. Their median salaries of $20 to $25 per hour weren’t enough to cover Napa’s high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are some of the reasons why larger [child care] chains won’t come here,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that after-hours child care was also badly needed for hospitality and restaurant employees who work night or weekend shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Royal said the full-time child care her son receives from Le Petit Elephant amounts to 25% of her salary, but she couldn’t do without it because she doesn’t have relatives close by to help her. If the preschool closes, she said she may have to move out of the region and leave behind her career in the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Napa would not be Napa without the labor and the livelihoods of people who need child care,” she said. “We are raising the next generation of citizens that are going to be growing up in Napa, and Milli’s school is providing this amazing foundation [for children] who are going to contribute positively when they become young adults. And you need that to sustain a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The supervisors, who have become increasingly involved with the district’s functions this fall, requested the hearing to learn how staff could still be affected by the closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators San Francisco, said educators were left out of the loop on the closure plan, and called on Su to include them in future discussions about possible consolidations — and significant budget cuts expected in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need our families to know this information from the source,” Curiel said at the hearing. “We’re often the first point of contact around any information, and when we did not have it [about school closures], we couldn’t answer for what was going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking the helm, Su has said that her first priority will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006395/sf-school-district-should-focus-on-budget-before-deciding-on-campus-closures-breed-says\">closing a $113 million deficit\u003c/a> by the end of the year to avoid a state takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel said that the shelved closure plan revealed that the district is likely planning to do that partially through staffing cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no indication from us that the plan to make deep cuts is paused,” Curiel said. “We know that the district’s plans for making cuts to balance its budget have been in the works for months, and we finally got a glimpse into that when they published their [school closure] proposal. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking the helm, Su has said that her first priority will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006395/sf-school-district-should-focus-on-budget-before-deciding-on-campus-closures-breed-says\">closing a $113 million deficit\u003c/a> by the end of the year to avoid a state takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel said that the shelved closure plan revealed that the district is likely planning to do that partially through staffing cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no indication from us that the plan to make deep cuts is paused,” Curiel said. “We know that the district’s plans for making cuts to balance its budget have been in the works for months, and we finally got a glimpse into that when they published their [school closure] proposal. And while the proposal wasn’t determined or voted on, how else are they going to make those cuts?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State-appointed fiscal advisors from the California Department of Education have had veto power over the district’s budget decisions since May after SFUSD’s interim budget received a negative certification in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meredith Dodson, the president of the San Francisco Parent Coalition, said in September that the state has already indicated that there aren’t any “easy cuts left” for the district to make and that any money-saving efforts they carry out will have a considerable impact on schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/D6KSLH732809/%24file/Exhibit%20A_Modified_Fiscal%20Stabilization%20Plan%2C%2025-26_26-27%20summary_20240625.pdf\">fiscal stabilization plan\u003c/a>, which was released under Wayne’s leadership in June, projected cuts of more than 600 full-time equivalent teacher and staff positions in the next two school years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the school closures were called off, Wayne had been saying in meetings with affected campus communities that the budget cuts the district planned to make would leave the school sites under-resourced if they were not reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple schools might have to share a librarian, or a counselor might have to service multiple campuses and not be onsite every day of the week. It’s unclear if all of the teachers at the school sites that could have merged were going to move with their students to the new school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel said that the district was vague when asked about how it planned to move entire school communities onto the site of another school and how many classrooms or classes per grade level the merged schools would have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the proposal clarified that the district “was proposing to move schools not to set up an either-or situation. They were proposing to merge schools while in the context of further cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/24/470710747/more-teachers-cant-afford-to-live-where-they-teach\">years\u003c/a>, Bay Area teachers have said one of their biggest concerns is finding affordable housing close to where they work. For some teachers, the fact that their salaries \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/better-pay-would-keep-teachers-from-quitting-but-theres-more-to-it/2022/07\">can’t keep up with the increased cost of living\u003c/a> has some considering leaving the profession altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more school districts across California are taking matters into their own hands by getting into the business of building housing for their teachers and staff on empty parking lots, unused office buildings and other excess land. And, in the Bay Area, two districts are turning to bond measures to help pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two bonds — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/santaclara/measures#measure-r\">Measure R in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanmateo/measures#measure-k\">Measure K in San Mateo County\u003c/a> — would raise $1.15 billion and $153 million, respectively, to pay for upgrades to school district facilities. Both measures include building affordable housing for teachers and staff in their descriptions for what the bond could fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures come as state leaders ask voters to consider a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-2\">$10 billion bond measure\u003c/a> to upgrade school facilities across California. And, as state leaders are faced with a lofty goal to plan for 2.5 million new homes statewide by 2030, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">they are encouraging school districts to be more proactive\u003c/a> about building housing for their staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, a group of parents and teachers at the Cabrillo Unified School District saw other school districts develop housing for their employees and were inspired to campaign to get Measure K on the ballot. If approved by voters, most of the $153 million will be used to fix classrooms, according to members of the board. Some of the money can also be used to construct educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Unified School District’s Measure R anticipates dedicating approximately $283 million of the total $1.15 billion bond to build housing for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010731\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brochure supporting Measure R In San José. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renata Sanchez, president of the San José Teachers Union, said the district has seen employee vacancy rates rise, especially among instructional associates, the staff who support special education teachers, and who are often paid less than teachers. She said the bond could help keep those associates from leaving the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody here wants to be in the business of developing land for housing,” Sanchez said. “We just feel that we’re cornered into it. We have to do something because nobody else is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, opponents of local bond measures say school districts should focus on educating their students, and that bond measures are often proposed too lightly, without thought to how they will impact future residents who have to pay back the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who owns a home is going to pay more for that home every year,” said Mark Hinkle, president of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, which is opposed to both measures R and K. “And even if you’re a renter, guess where the landlord gets the money to pay these taxes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, only a handful of school districts across the state have successfully completed construction on new workforce housing. Santa Clara Unified School District was the first district to build housing for its staff, according to the California School Board Association. The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. Another would move a magnet school to a larger campus and use the existing land to build approximately 120 apartments and townhomes. Their third site would build educator housing on what is currently a special education school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010729\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed site for educator housing on Lenzen Avenue, currently used as an employee parking lot for the San José Unified School District in San José. If approved, the project would create 75 studio and one-bedroom units. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest project would transform an open field on a technical education campus into an estimated 300 two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Sanchez said funds from Measure R could fund two of the smaller projects or the one with 300 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the bond measures are approved, the projects will have to go through each city’s complicated and often costly permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in Half Moon Bay, the proposed housing has already caused consternation amongst neighbors who worry the new development could be “out of character” with the existing homes. Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. But she said she didn’t want to wait any longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are losing teachers across the state, but in this area, at an alarming rate,” she said. “Our kids will suffer if we don’t do something soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What housing questions do you have for KQED? \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\">Let us know\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. 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If approved, the project would create 75 studio and one-bedroom units. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest project would transform an open field on a technical education campus into an estimated 300 two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Sanchez said funds from Measure R could fund two of the smaller projects or the one with 300 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the bond measures are approved, the projects will have to go through each city’s complicated and often costly permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in Half Moon Bay, the proposed housing has already caused consternation amongst neighbors who worry the new development could be “out of character” with the existing homes. Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a sunny Friday morning in San José, students and teachers at Alpha: José Hernández School stream into their cafeteria. With smiles everywhere, the excitement is palpable: Students are about to meet the person that their school — a TK–8 public charter school in the city’s Eastside — is named for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few minutes later, wearing his blue NASA uniform, astronaut and engineer José Hernández walks in — immediately greeted by cheers. He walks over to a lunch table with students from all different grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What grade are you guys in?” he asks. “Third!” “First!” “Fourth!” students shout back all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s in fifth?” Hernández asks, and several hands shoot up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ah, you know that’s when I decided to be an astronaut,” he replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández poses for a portrait at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Yo pienso que lo puedes lograr’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Hernández was a crew member on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-128/\">STS-128 space shuttle Discovery mission\u003c/a>, which traveled to the International Space Station (ISS.) The mission, which lasted almost two weeks and covered a total of 5.7 million miles, brought crucial maintenance supplies and scientific equipment to the ISS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández’s journey to becoming an astronaut was not easy. He was born in the small agricultural community of French Camp in San Joaquin County to a family of Mexican migrant farmworkers — and during his childhood, his family traveled back and forth between California and Michoacan, Mexico, to follow the different growing seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the school year, Hernández worked in the fields alongside his parents, picking produce on the weekends and seven days a week during the summer. But his parents always emphasized the importance of education to better oneself, he told the students assembled \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/jose-hernandez-migrant-astronaut-alpha-middle-school-reach-stars/70966/\">at the school named after him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students listen to former NASA astronaut José Hernández speaks at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I told [my father] that I wanted to be an astronaut, he did two things,” Hernández said. “The first thing he did was empower my dream. He said to me, ‘Yo pienso que lo puedes lograr’ — ‘I know you can do it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second thing Hernández’s father did, he said, was to give him tangible advice on how to achieve that dream. “He told me, ‘You know that effort you put out picking fruits and vegetables Saturdays and Sundays, seven days during the summer?’ … and he pointed to my books on the kitchen table, and he said, ‘You put that effort there.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘It’s actually a gift’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Books — and his love of reading — accompanied Hernández as he moved first through college and then the complex process of applying and training to be an astronaut. And his visit on Friday to the school that bears his name also came with good news: Gordon Philanthropies, a nonprofit organization that works to provide free books to schools in underserved communities, is donating 6,700 books to the school, alongside Hernández’s own Reaching for the Stars Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández hands out backpacks to students at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the donated books are completely bilingual in English and Spanish so that students can take them home and read them together with their families. “En la casa hablábamos puro español — at home, we only spoke Spanish — and what helped me learn English era leer libros — reading books is what helped me learn English,” Hernández said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of students at the school come from Spanish-speaking families and are learning English as a second language, said Alpha: José Hernández School principal Julianna Parra. “We let students take books from our school … not all of our families live near a library, so that opportunity has been really important for our students,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really want to make sure that our students and our families know that having a different primary language is not a bad thing. It’s actually a gift — a skill they can leverage,” Parra said. “Being able to provide books that come in both languages allows for our families to see that in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández poses for photos with students at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reading in both English and the language spoken at home has been found \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/ae_fall2015goldenberg_wagner.pdf\">to help bilingual students retain and improve their home language\u003c/a> as they mature. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.scopus.com/results/citedbyresults.uri?sort=plf-f&cite=2-s2.0-0001674036&src=s&imp=t&sid=e708f65c0daed7fa25e58b397450427c&sot=cite&sdt=a&sl=0&origin=inward&editSaveSearch=&txGid=f03603ba7f558fd52def372d5c6605bd\">decades of research within education\u003c/a>, students from homes where the primary language is not English tend to lose their fluency in that language over time if only English is prioritized at school, something known as “language attrition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while not all students at Alpha: José Hernández School may not have the desire to follow in Hernández’s exact footsteps to become an astronaut, many of them still share his love of reading. After hearing Hernández speak, seventh grader Vernon Paul Pineda said that he especially loves reading true crime and thrillers — and when he grows up, he wants to become a photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get really interested in what the book is talking about,” he said. “You just keep reading, and the book gets more interesting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a sunny Friday morning in San José, students and teachers at Alpha: José Hernández School stream into their cafeteria. With smiles everywhere, the excitement is palpable: Students are about to meet the person that their school — a TK–8 public charter school in the city’s Eastside — is named for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few minutes later, wearing his blue NASA uniform, astronaut and engineer José Hernández walks in — immediately greeted by cheers. He walks over to a lunch table with students from all different grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What grade are you guys in?” he asks. “Third!” “First!” “Fourth!” students shout back all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s in fifth?” Hernández asks, and several hands shoot up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ah, you know that’s when I decided to be an astronaut,” he replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández poses for a portrait at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Yo pienso que lo puedes lograr’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Hernández was a crew member on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-128/\">STS-128 space shuttle Discovery mission\u003c/a>, which traveled to the International Space Station (ISS.) The mission, which lasted almost two weeks and covered a total of 5.7 million miles, brought crucial maintenance supplies and scientific equipment to the ISS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández’s journey to becoming an astronaut was not easy. He was born in the small agricultural community of French Camp in San Joaquin County to a family of Mexican migrant farmworkers — and during his childhood, his family traveled back and forth between California and Michoacan, Mexico, to follow the different growing seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the school year, Hernández worked in the fields alongside his parents, picking produce on the weekends and seven days a week during the summer. But his parents always emphasized the importance of education to better oneself, he told the students assembled \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/jose-hernandez-migrant-astronaut-alpha-middle-school-reach-stars/70966/\">at the school named after him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students listen to former NASA astronaut José Hernández speaks at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I told [my father] that I wanted to be an astronaut, he did two things,” Hernández said. “The first thing he did was empower my dream. He said to me, ‘Yo pienso que lo puedes lograr’ — ‘I know you can do it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second thing Hernández’s father did, he said, was to give him tangible advice on how to achieve that dream. “He told me, ‘You know that effort you put out picking fruits and vegetables Saturdays and Sundays, seven days during the summer?’ … and he pointed to my books on the kitchen table, and he said, ‘You put that effort there.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘It’s actually a gift’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Books — and his love of reading — accompanied Hernández as he moved first through college and then the complex process of applying and training to be an astronaut. And his visit on Friday to the school that bears his name also came with good news: Gordon Philanthropies, a nonprofit organization that works to provide free books to schools in underserved communities, is donating 6,700 books to the school, alongside Hernández’s own Reaching for the Stars Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández hands out backpacks to students at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the donated books are completely bilingual in English and Spanish so that students can take them home and read them together with their families. “En la casa hablábamos puro español — at home, we only spoke Spanish — and what helped me learn English era leer libros — reading books is what helped me learn English,” Hernández said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of students at the school come from Spanish-speaking families and are learning English as a second language, said Alpha: José Hernández School principal Julianna Parra. “We let students take books from our school … not all of our families live near a library, so that opportunity has been really important for our students,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really want to make sure that our students and our families know that having a different primary language is not a bad thing. It’s actually a gift — a skill they can leverage,” Parra said. “Being able to provide books that come in both languages allows for our families to see that in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández poses for photos with students at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reading in both English and the language spoken at home has been found \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/ae_fall2015goldenberg_wagner.pdf\">to help bilingual students retain and improve their home language\u003c/a> as they mature. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.scopus.com/results/citedbyresults.uri?sort=plf-f&cite=2-s2.0-0001674036&src=s&imp=t&sid=e708f65c0daed7fa25e58b397450427c&sot=cite&sdt=a&sl=0&origin=inward&editSaveSearch=&txGid=f03603ba7f558fd52def372d5c6605bd\">decades of research within education\u003c/a>, students from homes where the primary language is not English tend to lose their fluency in that language over time if only English is prioritized at school, something known as “language attrition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while not all students at Alpha: José Hernández School may not have the desire to follow in Hernández’s exact footsteps to become an astronaut, many of them still share his love of reading. After hearing Hernández speak, seventh grader Vernon Paul Pineda said that he especially loves reading true crime and thrillers — and when he grows up, he wants to become a photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get really interested in what the book is talking about,” he said. “You just keep reading, and the book gets more interesting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s new superintendent is officially on the job — and already fielding questions from some tough critics: grade school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Su, who has been co-leading a team of city administrators sent to help stabilize the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a>, was appointed its new superintendent of schools on Tuesday night when the board approved her contract in a 6–1 vote. She joins at a tumultuous time for the district, which has paused its chaotic school closure process as it looks to close a massive budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday at Yick Wo Elementary School in North Beach, which was on the district’s list of schools that could have closed this spring, fourth- and fifth-graders gathered for a visit by the superintendent were pleased when Su, accompanied by Mayor London Breed, assured them school would remain open. But they also asked hard questions — like had Su been to their school before, and why were closures being considered in the first place?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answers? No, and there are some financial troubles in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were some people who were working for the school district who were looking at school closures as an option, but they didn’t have all the information to make an informed decision,” Breed told the class, likening it to solving a math equation without doing or showing your work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010830\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students listen to teacher Katie Dorset in their class at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons why we pulled back on that plan is because we needed to have clear communication, and we needed to make sure we understood what was actually going on and what we need to do,” Breed said. “We’re not sure what we need to do until we get to the bottom of it and get to the facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday night’s school board meeting, only Commissioner Kevine Boggess voted against Su’s appointment, but many speakers raised concerns about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">quick timeline\u003c/a> of her selection and her lack of public education experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su has headed the city’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families for 19 years — and though she became the district’s chief officer on Tuesday, she’ll remain a city employee through an agreement between the city and district through June 2026. The city will also have the authority to fire or replace Su, breaking from the normal chain of command, in which the superintendent is responsible to the Board of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents at the board meeting weren’t all pleased with the city’s heightened influence over San Francisco Unified’s matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie Dorset teaches a class at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When one of the mayor’s direct reports is appointed as superintendent two weeks before an election, this creates the appearance of and potential for favoritism, corruption and political patronage,” parent Noah Sloss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12010349 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To appoint Su, the board also had to approve that she serve without the regular requirements of a teaching and administrative credential and five years of experience in California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the board members, along with California’s state superintendent and local government leaders, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010349/sf-school-closures-halted-for-now-but-districts-new-leader-will-be-tested\">thrown their support\u003c/a> behind Su, saying she’s the kind of leader who will meet the district’s tough moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I can promise to the community, as well as to the school community here, is that I’m going to focus really hard to balance a budget, present a budget that makes sense, that is acceptable to the state of California so that we can continue to maintain and retain our local control,” Su said after the classroom visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parent Hee Seung Kim, who goes by Caroline, poses for a portrait outside of Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said she’s meeting with the district’s chief business officer on Wednesday and would be looking at the “gaps and deficiencies” in operational systems where changes could be made. Su will also be focused on “re-establishing a relationship” with California Department of Education fiscal advisors, who were assigned to the district in 2022 and given elevated veto power after SFUSD received a negative budget report in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repairing relationships with school communities will also be a top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more clear communication,” Yick Wo parent Hee Seung Kim said while hanging a “Panda Pride” banner outside the school. “The composite score the last superintendent did was very unclear. If the new superintendent is willing to communicate with parents, that would be great so we can support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether schools could close or merge in the future — and what schools will look like next year after significant budget cuts — is still unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answers? No, and there are some financial troubles in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were some people who were working for the school district who were looking at school closures as an option, but they didn’t have all the information to make an informed decision,” Breed told the class, likening it to solving a math equation without doing or showing your work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010830\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-13-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students listen to teacher Katie Dorset in their class at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons why we pulled back on that plan is because we needed to have clear communication, and we needed to make sure we understood what was actually going on and what we need to do,” Breed said. “We’re not sure what we need to do until we get to the bottom of it and get to the facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday night’s school board meeting, only Commissioner Kevine Boggess voted against Su’s appointment, but many speakers raised concerns about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">quick timeline\u003c/a> of her selection and her lack of public education experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su has headed the city’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families for 19 years — and though she became the district’s chief officer on Tuesday, she’ll remain a city employee through an agreement between the city and district through June 2026. The city will also have the authority to fire or replace Su, breaking from the normal chain of command, in which the superintendent is responsible to the Board of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents at the board meeting weren’t all pleased with the city’s heightened influence over San Francisco Unified’s matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie Dorset teaches a class at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When one of the mayor’s direct reports is appointed as superintendent two weeks before an election, this creates the appearance of and potential for favoritism, corruption and political patronage,” parent Noah Sloss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To appoint Su, the board also had to approve that she serve without the regular requirements of a teaching and administrative credential and five years of experience in California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the board members, along with California’s state superintendent and local government leaders, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010349/sf-school-closures-halted-for-now-but-districts-new-leader-will-be-tested\">thrown their support\u003c/a> behind Su, saying she’s the kind of leader who will meet the district’s tough moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I can promise to the community, as well as to the school community here, is that I’m going to focus really hard to balance a budget, present a budget that makes sense, that is acceptable to the state of California so that we can continue to maintain and retain our local control,” Su said after the classroom visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-56-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parent Hee Seung Kim, who goes by Caroline, poses for a portrait outside of Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said she’s meeting with the district’s chief business officer on Wednesday and would be looking at the “gaps and deficiencies” in operational systems where changes could be made. Su will also be focused on “re-establishing a relationship” with California Department of Education fiscal advisors, who were assigned to the district in 2022 and given elevated veto power after SFUSD received a negative budget report in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repairing relationships with school communities will also be a top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more clear communication,” Yick Wo parent Hee Seung Kim said while hanging a “Panda Pride” banner outside the school. “The composite score the last superintendent did was very unclear. If the new superintendent is willing to communicate with parents, that would be great so we can support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether schools could close or merge in the future — and what schools will look like next year after significant budget cuts — is still unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 8:20 p.m. Oct. 18.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s superintendent of schools resigned Friday after a botched school closure rollout, hiring fiasco and worsening budget crisis have spurred mounting questions about his ability to lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Education accepted Matt Wayne’s resignation at an emergency closed-door meeting Friday night. Wayne led \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> for less than two years, and had two years remaining in his contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Education President Matt Alexander announced a new superintendent will be appointed next week, and school closures will be halted. On Tuesday, the board plans to appoint Maria Su, the co-leader of the rescue team Mayor London Breed appointed to aid the district earlier this month. Su has been the director of the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families since 2009, and previously worked in senior management roles at multiple nonprofits, including Vietnamese Youth Development Center in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board plans to direct Su to stop the current school closure process, which Alexander said had gotten too rocky to continue at this time. He said the district’s primary focus will be cutting more than $110 million from the budget before mid-December in order to avoid a state takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The school merger and closure process has been chaotic,” Alexander said after the meeting. “We’ve heard that from families. We’ve heard that from educators. We’ve even heard that from school district staff. The board believes that we need a reset, and we’re going to ask Superintendent Maria Su to assess the situation and determine appropriate next steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes days after Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009509/mayor-breed-demands-halt-sf-school-closures-citing-chaos-confusion\">called on the district to halt its school closure plan\u003c/a>, saying she had lost confidence in Wayne’s ability to carry it out — joining numerous elected officials and school board members who have questioned his capability to usher the district through the difficult year ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has been\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000784/sf-teachers-students-face-uncertain-future-as-budget-crisis-threatens-closures\"> in turmoil\u003c/a> since before the school year began. It’s already under state oversight amid a massive budget shortfall, and it could face a full takeover if it can’t cut $113 million from an already tight spending plan by December. Chronic declining enrollment has left 14,000 empty seats across San Francisco campuses, and the district continues to deal with vacant positions as it recovers from a multi-year payroll fiasco that cost tens of millions of dollars and resulted in wrong and missed paychecks for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">But questions about Wayne’s effectiveness began cropping up more frequently about a month ago when he announced the highly anticipated list of schools slated to close or merge after this academic year — part of a “resource alignment initiative” to cut down costs and decrease empty seats — would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004831/anxious-waiting-game-drags-on-as-sfusd-delays-list-of-school-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delayed\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the week, former school board president \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001593/sudden-shakeup-on-san-francisco-school-board-adds-another-challenge-for-district\">Lainie Motamedi\u003c/a> said that Wayne’s leadership failures were directly correlated with her abrupt decision to resign days after classes started, the board held its closed-door weekend meeting, and Breed sent in a rescue team of city administrators to aid the struggling district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since, Wayne has been blamed for failing to budget enough money for 252 special education workers, costing the district tens of millions of dollars. The eventual roll-out of the school closure list has not instilled confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12008524 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240916-UnionSFSchoolClosures-38-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Friday earlier this month, \u003cem>Mission Local \u003c/em>reported that the list, already pushed back to October, could be delayed yet again — to after the November election. The district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008286/is-san-franciscos-school-closure-list-delayed-again-district-offers-little-clarity\">didn’t offer much clarity\u003c/a> until the following week, when in a video message, Wayne said he would make an announcement naming schools that met the district’s criteria for closure but weren’t necessarily on the chopping block yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008405/these-san-francisco-schools-could-close-list-isnt-final\"> list came out\u003c/a> the following day, Oct. 8, hours earlier than expected after \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Mission Local obtained \u003cem>it\u003c/em>\u003c/span>. It included inaccurate “composite scores” — which SFUSD is using to rate schools on factors including equity, academic performance, school culture and effective use of resources to determine which should close — that had to be updated the same day. 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Every leading mayoral candidate, including Peskin, has indicated their opposition to Wayne’s plan, and Tuesday, Breed issued a statement calling for the closures process to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009509/mayor-breed-demands-halt-sf-school-closures-citing-chaos-confusion\">halted\u003c/a> amid the confusion, saying it was distracting from the crucial need to balance the budget by year’s end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School Board President Matt Alexander told KQED on Tuesday that Breed had made “some valid points.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Board of Education … [has] one employee, which is the superintendent, and so we’re monitoring it, holding him accountable and we understand that as a governance team, it’s our responsibility to ensure that we stabilize the situation and that we provide our students and our educators with the schools they deserve,” he said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems they plan to do just that on Friday when the board is expected to vote on whether to accept Wayne’s resignation. 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