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With California’s outsized national role — it’s the most populous state and enrolls the most college students — bill backers say this legislation will serve as a necessary corrective to last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/the-supreme-court-affirmative-action-decision-left-a-head-scratching-exemption-for-military-academies-heres-why-it-matters/\">all but military colleges\u003c/a> from using race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/philip-ting-30\">Philip Ting\u003c/a>, a Democrat from San Francisco, wrote \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1780\">Assembly Bill 1780\u003c/a> to ban legacy admissions in part as a response to that Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that everyone’s getting in because of their own merit, because of their grades, their test scores, what they provide to that institution, not because of their pocketbooks, of their parents or their family members,” Ting said during\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257989?t=1647&f=0eb6d2ced3118ec8ffd612d100d008dd\"> a legislative voting session in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court undid nearly 50 years of precedent that permitted college admissions offices to consider a student’s racial or ethnic background in their \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10893\">effort to promote campus diversity\u003c/a>. In California, the ruling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/11/college-admissions/\">affected just a handful of private colleges that used affirmative action\u003c/a>; voters in 1996 changed the state constitution to forbid public schools from using race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like that court decision, Ting’s bill would affect few colleges. About a half-dozen private institutions consider legacy in admissions; none of California’s public universities do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, like the Supreme Court case, bill backers say the legislation could be a powerful force in influencing the decision of high school students who are low-income and students of color to apply for college, especially highly selective schools that are springboards for corporate and political influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Supreme Court case created doubt for students that they’re welcomed, this bill combats that in California and nationally, supporters say, especially as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/college-access-in-california/#:~:text=About%20three%20in%20five%20Californians,67%25%20in%202017%E2%80%9318.\">more high school graduates\u003c/a> avoid enrolling in college altogether, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/61-4-percent-of-recent-high-school-graduates-enrolled-in-college-in-october-2023.htm#:~:text=Of%20the%203.1%20million%20people,in%20October%20of%20that%20year.\">particularly men\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it is fair to say that there are a smaller number of colleges that will be impacted by enrollment slots that will change as a result of this legislative action,” said Jessie Ryan, president of The Campaign for College Opportunity, a California-based advocacy and research organization that co-sponsored Ting’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although relatively few enrollment slots are affected by this bill, that misses the bigger picture, Ryan said. With any effort that shows students wealth doesn’t offer a leg up in admissions, “you’re doing something bigger related to culture and (social) fabric as students are questioning the value of college altogether and whether or not they want to pursue a higher education,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as affirmative action was but one tool in increasing college access to marginalized students, so is this bill, her reasoning went.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Few colleges consider legacy in admissions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In fall 2022, only seven private universities out of about 90 in California admitted students whose family members either donated money to the school or attended it themselves. \u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240228-ting-brings-back-legislation-end-legacy-admissions-practices-make-college\">A little over 3,300 undergraduates\u003c/a> — out of an admissions class of 31,633 — were legacy admissions. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ymaws.com/aiccu.edu/resource/resmgr/publications/2024/factsheets_and_reports/ab_697_admission_report__202.pdf#page=4\">Last fall\u003c/a>, it was \u003ca href=\"https://irds.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj23826/files/media/file/2024_ab_697_report_1.pdf\">six colleges\u003c/a> and about 2,100 students admitted with legacy or donor ties as a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one school, Northeastern University Oakland, fewer than 10 students were admitted who didn’t meet the school’s admissions criteria last fall. The other campuses — Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Santa Clara University, Stanford University, University of Southern California — admitted students with legacy or donor ties who all met admissions standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data exists because of an earlier effort by Ting to end legacy admissions. \u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240228-ting-brings-back-legislation-end-legacy-admissions-practices-make-college\">That 2019 legislation\u003c/a> was significantly altered to instead require colleges to report their legacy admissions numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a lot of students, not in the whole landscape of all the students we serve,” said Kristen Soares, president of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities. The organization opposed the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior association staffer told lawmakers the group has “\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258087?t=726&f=c5ae3263aacd5d3e31f91250501ddf56\">strong reservations\u003c/a>” about legislative scrutiny of private colleges, oversight that’s typical for public colleges and universities that receive billions of dollars in direct state support to fund their education missions. Private colleges generally only receive tuition aid for low-income students in California. And while the vast majority of students at California public universities are Californians, private nonprofit colleges in the state pull many of their students from outside the state, \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=university+of+the+pacific&s=all&fv=243744+122931+122436+117946+123961+120883&cp=1&sl=122931+243744+123961+120883\">though it varies by campus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges will comply with the law if Newsom signs the bill, Soares said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other college leaders, Soares continues to worry about the “chilling impact” the ban on affirmative action may have on students. “We want to do more, and we’ll continue to do more to serve all students,” she said,\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/11/college-admissions/\"> such as increased student outreach\u003c/a>, which the group and its colleges said they’d double down on after last year’s Supreme Court ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hasn’t written an appeal to Newsom to veto the measure, she said. The governor’s Department of Finance is neutral on the bill, though it expressed concern that the bill will create the need for the state’s Department of Justice to hire two new employees to monitor the colleges at a time when the state is \u003ca href=\"https://leganalysis.dof.ca.gov/getPdf/8348\">forecasting large budget deficits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill doesn’t have the punitive teeth Ting initially sought. Gone are provisions that would have forced colleges to pay a civil penalty equal to the amount they got in Cal Grant dollars — the state’s main tuition subsidy for low-income students — if they continued to use legacy as a factor in admissions. That would have meant several million dollars for some colleges that enroll relatively high numbers of low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, the bill’s only punishment for colleges would be to appear on a list compiled by the state’s Department of Justice. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Call it a ban on affirmative action for the well-connected: California’s Legislature on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1780\">passed a bill\u003c/a> barring the state’s private nonprofit colleges from making admissions decisions based on whether family members of students donated money to the school or had attended the school themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Gov. Gavin Newsom signs it, the state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/NCSL_LegacyAdmissions_August2024-1.pdf\">would join four others\u003c/a> that also made legacy preferences in admissions illegal for either public or private institutions. With California’s outsized national role — it’s the most populous state and enrolls the most college students — bill backers say this legislation will serve as a necessary corrective to last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/the-supreme-court-affirmative-action-decision-left-a-head-scratching-exemption-for-military-academies-heres-why-it-matters/\">all but military colleges\u003c/a> from using race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/philip-ting-30\">Philip Ting\u003c/a>, a Democrat from San Francisco, wrote \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1780\">Assembly Bill 1780\u003c/a> to ban legacy admissions in part as a response to that Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that everyone’s getting in because of their own merit, because of their grades, their test scores, what they provide to that institution, not because of their pocketbooks, of their parents or their family members,” Ting said during\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257989?t=1647&f=0eb6d2ced3118ec8ffd612d100d008dd\"> a legislative voting session in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court undid nearly 50 years of precedent that permitted college admissions offices to consider a student’s racial or ethnic background in their \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10893\">effort to promote campus diversity\u003c/a>. In California, the ruling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/11/college-admissions/\">affected just a handful of private colleges that used affirmative action\u003c/a>; voters in 1996 changed the state constitution to forbid public schools from using race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like that court decision, Ting’s bill would affect few colleges. About a half-dozen private institutions consider legacy in admissions; none of California’s public universities do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, like the Supreme Court case, bill backers say the legislation could be a powerful force in influencing the decision of high school students who are low-income and students of color to apply for college, especially highly selective schools that are springboards for corporate and political influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Supreme Court case created doubt for students that they’re welcomed, this bill combats that in California and nationally, supporters say, especially as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/college-access-in-california/#:~:text=About%20three%20in%20five%20Californians,67%25%20in%202017%E2%80%9318.\">more high school graduates\u003c/a> avoid enrolling in college altogether, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/61-4-percent-of-recent-high-school-graduates-enrolled-in-college-in-october-2023.htm#:~:text=Of%20the%203.1%20million%20people,in%20October%20of%20that%20year.\">particularly men\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it is fair to say that there are a smaller number of colleges that will be impacted by enrollment slots that will change as a result of this legislative action,” said Jessie Ryan, president of The Campaign for College Opportunity, a California-based advocacy and research organization that co-sponsored Ting’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although relatively few enrollment slots are affected by this bill, that misses the bigger picture, Ryan said. With any effort that shows students wealth doesn’t offer a leg up in admissions, “you’re doing something bigger related to culture and (social) fabric as students are questioning the value of college altogether and whether or not they want to pursue a higher education,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as affirmative action was but one tool in increasing college access to marginalized students, so is this bill, her reasoning went.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Few colleges consider legacy in admissions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In fall 2022, only seven private universities out of about 90 in California admitted students whose family members either donated money to the school or attended it themselves. \u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240228-ting-brings-back-legislation-end-legacy-admissions-practices-make-college\">A little over 3,300 undergraduates\u003c/a> — out of an admissions class of 31,633 — were legacy admissions. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ymaws.com/aiccu.edu/resource/resmgr/publications/2024/factsheets_and_reports/ab_697_admission_report__202.pdf#page=4\">Last fall\u003c/a>, it was \u003ca href=\"https://irds.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj23826/files/media/file/2024_ab_697_report_1.pdf\">six colleges\u003c/a> and about 2,100 students admitted with legacy or donor ties as a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one school, Northeastern University Oakland, fewer than 10 students were admitted who didn’t meet the school’s admissions criteria last fall. The other campuses — Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Santa Clara University, Stanford University, University of Southern California — admitted students with legacy or donor ties who all met admissions standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data exists because of an earlier effort by Ting to end legacy admissions. \u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240228-ting-brings-back-legislation-end-legacy-admissions-practices-make-college\">That 2019 legislation\u003c/a> was significantly altered to instead require colleges to report their legacy admissions numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a lot of students, not in the whole landscape of all the students we serve,” said Kristen Soares, president of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities. The organization opposed the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior association staffer told lawmakers the group has “\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258087?t=726&f=c5ae3263aacd5d3e31f91250501ddf56\">strong reservations\u003c/a>” about legislative scrutiny of private colleges, oversight that’s typical for public colleges and universities that receive billions of dollars in direct state support to fund their education missions. Private colleges generally only receive tuition aid for low-income students in California. And while the vast majority of students at California public universities are Californians, private nonprofit colleges in the state pull many of their students from outside the state, \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=university+of+the+pacific&s=all&fv=243744+122931+122436+117946+123961+120883&cp=1&sl=122931+243744+123961+120883\">though it varies by campus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges will comply with the law if Newsom signs the bill, Soares said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other college leaders, Soares continues to worry about the “chilling impact” the ban on affirmative action may have on students. “We want to do more, and we’ll continue to do more to serve all students,” she said,\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/11/college-admissions/\"> such as increased student outreach\u003c/a>, which the group and its colleges said they’d double down on after last year’s Supreme Court ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hasn’t written an appeal to Newsom to veto the measure, she said. The governor’s Department of Finance is neutral on the bill, though it expressed concern that the bill will create the need for the state’s Department of Justice to hire two new employees to monitor the colleges at a time when the state is \u003ca href=\"https://leganalysis.dof.ca.gov/getPdf/8348\">forecasting large budget deficits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill doesn’t have the punitive teeth Ting initially sought. Gone are provisions that would have forced colleges to pay a civil penalty equal to the amount they got in Cal Grant dollars — the state’s main tuition subsidy for low-income students — if they continued to use legacy as a factor in admissions. That would have meant several million dollars for some colleges that enroll relatively high numbers of low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, the bill’s only punishment for colleges would be to appear on a list compiled by the state’s Department of Justice. However, Ryan said her organization is part of a coalition of groups that includes legal defense funds “that stand ready to take legal action if, in fact, campuses do not comply with the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impact of legacy admissions ban unclear\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But others say it’s still too early to declare that this bill, or the Supreme Court ban on affirmative action, will have an effect on students’ decisions to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, Ting’s bill is the Legislature’s reminder to colleges “that they do have a role in providing oversight and accountability for ensuring that higher education is accessible to those who are not just from wealthy backgrounds,” said Steve Desir, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California who studies racial equity issues in college access and admissions.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s particularly true given that private colleges receive \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/04/cal-grant-3/\">Cal Grant funding,\u003c/a> he said. Last year, more than 25,000 California students received around $230 million in partial tuition waivers to attend the private colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he doesn’t think the research is clear on whether ending legacy admissions changes student behavior “because that’s kind of a new area,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To him, other decisions, like \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/cost-of-college-california/\">more financial aid\u003c/a> or eliminating the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/03/csu-entrance-requirement/\">SAT in admissions\u003c/a>, are stronger signals to students that college is accessible because students are more directly engaged in filling out forms for grants or studying for standardized tests. The admissions process itself is “opaque” to many, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s similarly hesitant to guess how students have interpreted the affirmative action ban. “It’s just so new, and I think everyone’s still trying to make sense of what this actually means in practice,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the onus is on colleges to continue the outreach to students to tell them they’re welcome, something campuses \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/11/college-admissions/\">vowed to do even more last year\u003c/a>. Hiring more high school counselors would help students tackle the stress of picking and applying to colleges, too, Desir said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this edition of The Bay’s monthly news roundup, California politics and government senior editor Molly Solomon joins us to talk about how Kamala Harris tells her life story to a national audience — and why she might be reluctant to mention Berkeley. Also, we discuss a lead water crisis at Oakland schools, and why some journalists are dismayed with a deal Google just reached with state lawmakers to pay millions of dollars to support local news.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3489421666&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/us/politics/kamala-harris-berkeley-hometown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As Kamala Harris Claims Oakland, Berkeley Forgives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/08/29/ousd-has-failed-at-its-most-basic-job-families-teachers-demand-answers-on-lead/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘OUSD has failed at its most basic job’: Families, teachers demand answers on lead\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/california-journalism-deal-legislature-google/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California tried to make Google pay news outlets. The company cut a deal that includes funding AI\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted and welcome to our August news roundup where me and the rest of the Bay team sit down to talk about some of the other stories that we have been following this month. I am joined by our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. What’s up, Alan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hey. Hey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And we’re also joined by a very special guest today, senior editor of KQED’s California politics and government desk, Molly Solomon. What’s up, Molly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Hey, thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>My thank you so much for taking the time. You guys have been super busy over there at the Politics desk, and I know your time is very precious. Can you talk about what you all have been up to this last month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Busy is like the understatement of the year. It has been a busy, busy week slash man slash. This election has probably aged me like a decade, but this I think more recently, the excitement on our team was being able to go to Chicago to cover in person the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think clearly the big story for us has also been this really quick, sudden ascension of Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic ticket, replacing Biden. So obviously with her connections and her roots to San Francisco politics, to the Bay Area, that’s been a big story for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There are times when I go throughout my day and I realize, again, that that happened, that Biden dropped out and that Harris is the nominee. And I still kind of can’t believe that happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>And that was a month ago. Allen What is time? Yeah, it’s wild. The last two months have been have been a roller coaster ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I mean, while we are on the topic, why don’t you kick us off with the first story of our news roundup, Molly, that you’ve been watching very closely this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>The story that caught my eye. This last month is really this issue of how Kamala Harris is telling her story. And I think more specifically how she seems to be, as some people say, downplaying or even just saying the name of her hometown where she’s from, Berkeley. I just think it’s been fascinating because all of us, you know, reporters here, especially some of the local reporters on our team, have been covering her for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>So I just find it very fascinating the way she decides to tell her story, especially now that she’s on this national stage, including, you know, more recently, I was kind of watching for that when she was giving her speech at the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris: \u003c/strong>Before she could finally afford to buy a home. She rented a small apartment in the east bay. In the bay, in the bay, you either live in the hills or the flatlands. We lived in the flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>A beautiful I think I had actually sent out a tweet when we got the transcript of her speech and I was like, Hey, like, shout out to Berkeley Flatlands. And people immediately, even just in that tweet that I sent out were like, actually, she did not specifically say Berkeley in her speech. So they were already really, like keen to, like, highlight what she was and was not saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>She was actually born in a hospital in Oakland. You know, when she was younger, they did spend some time actually, and then moved to the Midwest. She did end up moving back to Berkeley when her parents divorced and she lived with her mom in this now iconic yellow duplex house on Bancroft in kind of a southwest corner of Berkeley. After that, you know, she spent some of her adolescence actually in Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Her mom had gotten a teaching research job at one of the universities there before. You know, the stage that she’s on now, like Harris has talked about growing up in Berkeley, like she wrote about it in her autobiography. She’s talked about, you know, going to protests with her parents in a stroller. Obviously, she moved back and was an adult and lived in Oakland as she was a prosecutor in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>And she was also, I think, as a young child, she was part of this integrated bussing program in Berkeley. And she was actually bussed from, you know, her home in southwest Berkeley up to the wealthier North Berkeley Hills to go to school. So it has played a part in, you know, how she’s talked about her childhood in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I just think it’s more interesting because it seems like there has been this deliberate omission of it. I mean, even in just how she referred to where she’s from in her speech, she said the bay and other times, you know, she’s called herself a daughter of Oakland. So for whatever reason and we can talk about it, it seems like she’s downplaying naming the city that she spent most of her time growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why is that? Like, why not? Claim Berkeley as much now, or even Oakland explicitly for that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think it’s pretty strategic. You know, there is a political strategy here of emphasizing, you know, Oakland over Berkeley or maybe neither and just saying East Bay, there’s this idea that it’s just a bunch of like hippies and radical leftist that are in Berkeley. It’s got the nickname, bizarrely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>So I think if she is trying to, you know, as a candidate, make herself palatable to people that don’t live in the Bay Area, especially like one of the more progressive parts of California, she might want to distance herself from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>So I think from a political strategy standpoint, I could see her either wanting to paint herself with a broader brush or just maybe not even naming that city as a way to connect herself to to this bigger audience that she’s now speaking to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>But, you know, it’s not like Harris is the first candidate to overplay or downplay certain parts of her background as someone from Berkeley. Molly, how does this make you feel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think there’s like an immense amount of pride for this place for people that have grown up in Berkeley. I mean, for people that have grown up in the Bay, I’m sure you feel this, too, from where you grew up. But, you know, to me, it’s like that is always been this thing that you claim, you know, and that you tell everybody about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I’m from Berkeley, I’m from the bay, you know, almost to the point of like annoyance from my husband or anyone else that is not grown up here. So so I think about it with with this, you know, I think this is something that’s interesting to me and sort of stood out to me because, you know, it tells me a little bit also about how Kamala Harris is choosing to show different parts of her identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I mean, not just with the hometown thing and being from Berkeley. And I’m sure that, like they were quoted in this article that I read to a lot of people in Berkeley were like, we get it. It’s fine. Our feelings are not hurt. We understand you got an election to win, whatever. But I think it’s just interesting to see the way that like what she chooses to claim and reveal about herself. You know, she’s really leaned into this law and order prosecutor role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think that has a lot to do with the current climate around crime being a mixed race woman, South Asian, black woman. I think these are parts of her identity, what she is publicly claiming and telling us who she is as a national candidate says something. So that’s why it stood out to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, Molly, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And after the break, we’ll talk about a lead crisis at Oakland schools and a deal that Google just cut with the state to help California’s struggling local news industry. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to the Bay’s Monthly News roundup, where we sit down to talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. Alan Kids are back to school and it’s been a pretty chaotic return for students in Oakland. What’s going on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, there is lead in the drinking water at dozens of Oakland public schools. You know, it has obviously kids, parents, teachers, very frustrated with the district, afraid for their kids safety. I mean, not a great start to the school year in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And how many schools are we talking about here? How bad and widespread is this problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, as of now, we know of at least 30. There’s been a lot of reporting on this from the Oakland side. KQED has done some reporting as well. 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And there are at least a dozen that have about 50 parts per million, which is, you know, ten times the district’s sort of minimum level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So how were parents and students finding out about these high levels of lead in the school’s drinking water?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So in mid-August, when almost was starting the new school year, families were getting notified that that there was lead or unsafe levels of lead in the drinking water in some of their schools. In many cases, the testing had actually been done much, much earlier. One example of this is at the Frick United Academy of Language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So on August 12th, which is, you know, the first day of school, teachers say they found out that six water fixtures at their schools tested over the safe limit of lead. But the testing was done in April. So teachers find this out on day one and they’re furious because, A, we have to now tell all of the kids on the first day of school, hey, do not drink the water from the fountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And B, kids were probably drinking it during the end of the school year during summer school. So the firestorm of anger in the district is not just about the fact that there is lead in the water. I mean, it should get fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>You know, this happens when pipes are old, but that the notification didn’t happen in an efficient way. They found out months later. And that’s something that the district has even copped to, that they did not communicate the test results fast enough to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think, like if I’m a parent and I have a kid in an Oakland school that has like, you know, maybe one of these schools that has a high amount, like you mentioned, should I be worried? I mean, is this dangerous? Is my child affected by this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, there are no safe levels of lead in drinking water. I mean, the county health department even recommended that parents who have kids at one of these schools have them tested for lead exposure and that they actually bring along the communication from the district to their primary care doctor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>The fountains that are known to have this lead in it have been shut down. But, you know, in in many cases, it’s possible that the kids have already drink the water that has led in it, because the way the district communicated this was so late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, what has the district said about why it took them so long to notify parents, students and sounds like even teachers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>As of now, we don’t totally know what went wrong here with the notification process. I should say we’re taping this before. Superintendent Kyla Johnson Tremmel is set to give a presentation to the public. The district has promised now that they will notify families within three days of testing and they will publish all of the results on a public dashboard. They say they’ll get this set up by January, but right now we don’t really know why this happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Okay. So it sounds like there’s some plans in the works a little farther off. But what’s being done now about all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, I think for the district, just in the immediate term, there’s just the basic like explaining to families what happened here and trying to reassure them. In the meantime, there’s still more testing going on as of this taping. Not all of that. Schools have been fully tested yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And in terms of just being at school, the district is also providing filtered water dispensers at schools that have been affected. I think for teachers and kids, it’s just trying to get through the first month of school with this, you know, huge inconvenience that in many cases a lot of your drinking fountains are unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, we’ll definitely continue to follow that story as it develops. Thank you so much, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And last but not least, will cap off our news roundup with a story about an effort to try and force big tech to help the state’s struggling local news industry. This is a story that I have been following this month in a deal with state lawmakers. Google has agreed to pay $55 million over five years to a fund that would be distributed to local newsrooms and also fund AA technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This deal comes after this effort by two Bay Area lawmakers to try and force the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley to really pay up essentially for the impact that some of these tech companies have had on our really I mean, faltering local news industry here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What role have they played specifically that led to some state lawmakers in California saying, hey, you guys got to pay up or at least help?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So some of the context here, I mean, the state of California has lost like about a third of its local newspapers since 2005. And as we know very well, I mean, news organizations are really trying to keep up with the changing media ecosystem. I mean, advertising has always been a huge source of revenue for newspapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>But now publishers argue that search engines and social media platforms have really harmed the journalism business by hogging up all that advertising revenue while also benefiting from news content that they don’t pay for. And so to local lawmakers in the Bay Area tried to put forward these two laws that were really set up to try and secure a cut of tech money, really to kind of help prop up California’s struggling local news industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So one of them would have forced Google and Medha to negotiate a so-called usage fee with news outlets directly. 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The original two bills that these lawmakers proposed. What’s happening instead is that the tech giant has agreed to pay $55 million over five years to support local media outlets. This money is going to be administered by UC Berkeley and kind of distributed to local news outlets from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And it’s also going to help start an artificial intelligence program. The idea is to basically give some of these outlets some financial support to see how I can help them in their work. And there are kind of two big reasons I’d say why the original plan kind of failed. One being that Google has spent a lot of money lobbying against these bills. They spent about $2.1 million in response to Buffy Wicks bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And once Buffy Wicks is, Bill actually passed it in the state Assembly. Google actually retaliated and temporarily removed some links to California news websites from its search results. So there was just a lot of concern about how willing Google would be to kind of go along with this idea. And there was concern about whether Governor Newsom would have been willing to support this idea to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Calmatters actually reported that proponents said that it was actually really unlikely that Newsom would support any one of these bills because he pledged no tax increases this year. So those are two kind of big reasons why their original idea didn’t kind of come to fruition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Where were journalists in these negotiations? I mean, you know, this is a little bit of a meta conversation. I didn’t get a call about going to talk about this bill. I assume neither of you did either. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted and welcome to our August news roundup where me and the rest of the Bay team sit down to talk about some of the other stories that we have been following this month. I am joined by our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. What’s up, Alan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hey. Hey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And we’re also joined by a very special guest today, senior editor of KQED’s California politics and government desk, Molly Solomon. What’s up, Molly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Hey, thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>My thank you so much for taking the time. You guys have been super busy over there at the Politics desk, and I know your time is very precious. Can you talk about what you all have been up to this last month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Busy is like the understatement of the year. It has been a busy, busy week slash man slash. This election has probably aged me like a decade, but this I think more recently, the excitement on our team was being able to go to Chicago to cover in person the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think clearly the big story for us has also been this really quick, sudden ascension of Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic ticket, replacing Biden. So obviously with her connections and her roots to San Francisco politics, to the Bay Area, that’s been a big story for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There are times when I go throughout my day and I realize, again, that that happened, that Biden dropped out and that Harris is the nominee. And I still kind of can’t believe that happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>And that was a month ago. Allen What is time? Yeah, it’s wild. The last two months have been have been a roller coaster ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I mean, while we are on the topic, why don’t you kick us off with the first story of our news roundup, Molly, that you’ve been watching very closely this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>The story that caught my eye. This last month is really this issue of how Kamala Harris is telling her story. And I think more specifically how she seems to be, as some people say, downplaying or even just saying the name of her hometown where she’s from, Berkeley. I just think it’s been fascinating because all of us, you know, reporters here, especially some of the local reporters on our team, have been covering her for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>So I just find it very fascinating the way she decides to tell her story, especially now that she’s on this national stage, including, you know, more recently, I was kind of watching for that when she was giving her speech at the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris: \u003c/strong>Before she could finally afford to buy a home. She rented a small apartment in the east bay. In the bay, in the bay, you either live in the hills or the flatlands. We lived in the flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>A beautiful I think I had actually sent out a tweet when we got the transcript of her speech and I was like, Hey, like, shout out to Berkeley Flatlands. And people immediately, even just in that tweet that I sent out were like, actually, she did not specifically say Berkeley in her speech. So they were already really, like keen to, like, highlight what she was and was not saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>She was actually born in a hospital in Oakland. You know, when she was younger, they did spend some time actually, and then moved to the Midwest. She did end up moving back to Berkeley when her parents divorced and she lived with her mom in this now iconic yellow duplex house on Bancroft in kind of a southwest corner of Berkeley. After that, you know, she spent some of her adolescence actually in Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Her mom had gotten a teaching research job at one of the universities there before. You know, the stage that she’s on now, like Harris has talked about growing up in Berkeley, like she wrote about it in her autobiography. She’s talked about, you know, going to protests with her parents in a stroller. Obviously, she moved back and was an adult and lived in Oakland as she was a prosecutor in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>And she was also, I think, as a young child, she was part of this integrated bussing program in Berkeley. And she was actually bussed from, you know, her home in southwest Berkeley up to the wealthier North Berkeley Hills to go to school. 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You know, there is a political strategy here of emphasizing, you know, Oakland over Berkeley or maybe neither and just saying East Bay, there’s this idea that it’s just a bunch of like hippies and radical leftist that are in Berkeley. 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What’s going on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, there is lead in the drinking water at dozens of Oakland public schools. You know, it has obviously kids, parents, teachers, very frustrated with the district, afraid for their kids safety. I mean, not a great start to the school year in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And how many schools are we talking about here? How bad and widespread is this problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, as of now, we know of at least 30. There’s been a lot of reporting on this from the Oakland side. KQED has done some reporting as well. 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Google has agreed to pay $55 million over five years to a fund that would be distributed to local newsrooms and also fund AA technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This deal comes after this effort by two Bay Area lawmakers to try and force the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley to really pay up essentially for the impact that some of these tech companies have had on our really I mean, faltering local news industry here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What role have they played specifically that led to some state lawmakers in California saying, hey, you guys got to pay up or at least help?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So some of the context here, I mean, the state of California has lost like about a third of its local newspapers since 2005. 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What groups, if any, were weighing in on behalf of journalists who would be affected by this? Well, this now new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Some groups representing journalists across California are really not happy about this deal. One really outspoken opponent is the Media Guild of the West, which represents reporters down in Southern California. The guild said that it was particularly concerned about this part of the deal involving artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And they sort of have concerns about what promoting A.I. could further do to the local news industry. They saw it as sort of a concession to the tech industry in that way that could actually lead to even more devastation to the local news industry and maybe even a further loss of of jobs among, like, reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, yeah, I mean, basically, like there are a bunch of unions and and other groups sort of representing journalists across the the state who are accusing California lawmakers of kind of settling and others who say that, you know, local media is not really in a position to say no to more money either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So there’s a lot more work to be done to kind of help local news organizations across the state to to be as healthy as we need them to be, especially in an election year. And that is it for our August news roundup. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:30 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As parents crowded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001593/sudden-shakeup-on-san-francisco-school-board-adds-another-challenge-for-district\">San Francisco school board\u003c/a> meeting on Tuesday night to push back against the district’s plans for upcoming school closures, a rally by frustrated teachers and staff called out how the district’s budget crisis is already here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000784/sf-teachers-students-face-uncertain-future-as-budget-crisis-threatens-closures\">proposed closures\u003c/a> come amid continuing enrollment declines and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906869/san-francisco-superintendent-matt-wayne-talks-about-solving-the-school-districts-budget-crisis\">$420 million budget deficit\u003c/a>, which the San Francisco Unified School District must close or risk a state takeover. Intervention from California’s Department of Education has already begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring, advisers appointed by CDE a few years ago were granted veto power over SFUSD’s financial decisions, deeming it at high risk of running out of money. Teachers say that the move is blocking hiring in their schools, leaving students without resources and available staffers without work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re glad that somebody is now watching and ensuring that the district is doing the right thing,” Cassondra Curiel, the president of United Educators of San Francisco, said during a union protest on Tuesday afternoon outside the district office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if the process is delaying our hiring, if the process and the correctness of these line items is in any way hindering the ability for our students to get what they need, then we are not centering students but centering bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel said that she has met with CDE staff multiple times and that their “priority is shared with [the union’s] priority.” The “failure lies with the system of the district not getting it right,” she said at the rally. In a press release ahead of the protest, though, the unions said, “CDE is currently blocking the hiring of critical school staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1244\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-800x498.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-1020x634.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-1536x955.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-1920x1194.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People cheer during an emergency rally and press conference held by the United Educators of San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laura Dudnick, SFUSD’s executive director of communications, said in an email that the district is continuing to work “collaboratively” with fiscal advisers and labor partners to hire for vacant positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The escalated state oversight has further highlighted the need for SFUSD to take corrective action to eliminate deficit spending and implement sustainable financial practices,” Dudnick said. “We all share the goal of returning SFUSD’s budget to local control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not entirely clear where the breakdown in the hiring process is, but Curiel told KQED that 104 student-facing positions are vacant across SFUSD, including nurses, psychologists, social workers and paraeducators. She said the number of vacancies was even higher at the start of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002005 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-OUSD-LEAD-FOLO-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has already cut nearly 900 roles, many of which were vacant, and currently has a hiring freeze on non-classroom positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The frustration shared by Curiel and protest attendees is that they say some people have been selected for many of the roles and money budgeted to pay them, but they have been unable to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work with elementary school social workers, and this school year, we were really excited because we were going to welcome at least 14 new school social workers,” said Yajaira Cuapio, who works at the district level. “We were only able to welcome four because 10 are stuck in this hiring freeze.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Vasquez, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989955/what-to-expect-when-enrolling-your-child-in-transitional-kindergarten\">transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> teacher at Junipero Serra Elementary School, told the crowd that she has been housing one paraprofessional who she said is slated for a role but isn’t hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s awesome, she’s honest, she’s smart, she’s bilingual, she’s everything you want in a paraprofessional,” Vasquez said. “She can not get an offer letter in order to get a place to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Individuals picket during an emergency rally and press conference for student support services outside of the San Francisco Unified School District administrative offices on Franklin Street on Aug. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the school board meeting that followed the protest, Superintendent Matt Wayne presented an update about the district’s plan to close several schools at the end of the academic year. Parents, meanwhile, pleaded for their children’s schools to remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne is set to announce the list of schools recommended for closures on Sept. 18. District officials said letters will be sent out to the campus communities, and staff will be on hand that day to answer questions and address concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closures will be the first in the district in 20 years despite enrollment consistently declining since 1999, leaving more than 14,000 empty seats across campuses. More than 4,000 students have left the district since the 2017–18 school year, and SFUSD could lose 4,600 more by 2032, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906869/san-francisco-superintendent-matt-wayne-talks-about-solving-the-school-districts-budget-crisis\">on KQED’s Forum\u003c/a> on Wednesday morning, Wayne argued that the closures would improve opportunities for students by concentrating resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to do this now so we’re not trying to maintain a status quo that overall is not working for our students — and particularly our students that over the years have been the most vulnerable and most underserved,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials will consider three factors in deciding which schools will close, according to the presentation: equity, excellence and effective use of resources. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has already cut nearly 900 roles, many of which were vacant, and currently has a hiring freeze on non-classroom positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The frustration shared by Curiel and protest attendees is that they say some people have been selected for many of the roles and money budgeted to pay them, but they have been unable to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work with elementary school social workers, and this school year, we were really excited because we were going to welcome at least 14 new school social workers,” said Yajaira Cuapio, who works at the district level. “We were only able to welcome four because 10 are stuck in this hiring freeze.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Vasquez, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989955/what-to-expect-when-enrolling-your-child-in-transitional-kindergarten\">transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> teacher at Junipero Serra Elementary School, told the crowd that she has been housing one paraprofessional who she said is slated for a role but isn’t hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s awesome, she’s honest, she’s smart, she’s bilingual, she’s everything you want in a paraprofessional,” Vasquez said. “She can not get an offer letter in order to get a place to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Individuals picket during an emergency rally and press conference for student support services outside of the San Francisco Unified School District administrative offices on Franklin Street on Aug. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the school board meeting that followed the protest, Superintendent Matt Wayne presented an update about the district’s plan to close several schools at the end of the academic year. Parents, meanwhile, pleaded for their children’s schools to remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne is set to announce the list of schools recommended for closures on Sept. 18. District officials said letters will be sent out to the campus communities, and staff will be on hand that day to answer questions and address concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closures will be the first in the district in 20 years despite enrollment consistently declining since 1999, leaving more than 14,000 empty seats across campuses. More than 4,000 students have left the district since the 2017–18 school year, and SFUSD could lose 4,600 more by 2032, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906869/san-francisco-superintendent-matt-wayne-talks-about-solving-the-school-districts-budget-crisis\">on KQED’s Forum\u003c/a> on Wednesday morning, Wayne argued that the closures would improve opportunities for students by concentrating resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to do this now so we’re not trying to maintain a status quo that overall is not working for our students — and particularly our students that over the years have been the most vulnerable and most underserved,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials will consider three factors in deciding which schools will close, according to the presentation: equity, excellence and effective use of resources. Equity is weighted the highest at 50%, while the other two categories split the remaining half of the score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teacher turnover, social and emotional learning development, academics, and school culture will all be factors in those composite scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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He returned to campus about a decade later to teach at the Haas School of Business, eventually becoming the school’s dean. Most recently, he led efforts to promote entrepreneurship and innovation on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons — who grew up in the South Bay and attended Los Altos High School — says the Silicon Valley spirit, rooted in the potential for start-ups to generate social good, is at the core of his vision for the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I view this next decade as among the most positively exciting, in terms of higher education, of my lifetime,” he said. “Berkeley’s undergraduates, over the last 10 years, have produced more funded start-ups than any university in the world. It’s like we’re all entrepreneurs with the way we manage our careers and our lives. So that’s a really good development for Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that optimism, being a university president is probably one of the hardest jobs in higher education right now. Just in the last year, three presidents of Ivy League universities have resigned over their responses to protests over Israel’s war in Gaza that rocked campuses across the country last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian demonstrators camped out for weeks. They echoed calls for a global cease-fire and demanded that administrators divest from companies that do business with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12001778 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions flared at some California campuses, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984636/violence-erupts-at-ucla-as-protests-over-israels-war-in-gaza-escalate-across-the-u-s\">UCLA.\u003c/a> In one incident, counter-demonstrators attacked pro-Palestinian protesters. It took police hours to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Berkeley, the home of the Free Speech Movement and 1960s anti-war protests, hundreds of students rallied peacefully and eventually dismantled their encampments after reaching an agreement with the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While UC Regents alone make investment-related decisions, Carol Christ, Lyons’ predecessor, \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/encampment_letter_051424.pdf\">said\u003c/a> she supported a review of investments in certain industries that profit from “weapons manufacturing, mass incarceration and/or surveillance industries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That discussion is actually taking place,” Lyons said. “[Christ] drew a firm line around any kind of divestment connected to Israel or Israeli companies, and that was absolutely the right thing to hold the line on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the prospect of pro-Palestinian demonstrations recommencing this semester, Michael V. 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Do you remember that being part of the culture when you were a student?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rich Lyons:\u003c/strong> And it’s still here. So we sometimes use the phrase ‘Question the status quo,’ right? This mindset — there’s got to be a better way to do this. Oh, I love people who think that way; I really do. I thrive on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conjure in your mind the president of a great private university in this country. I won’t specify anyone, but just imagine one that you’re very familiar with. And then imagine me as the president of that university standing up and saying, ‘This university, we’re all about questioning the status quo.’ Ain’t going to happen. It doesn’t mean their scholars aren’t questioning the status quo. But it’s not where they come from. It’s not their history. It’s sort of like, are you ready to say ‘question the status quo’ and stand by it? So Berkeley still says that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Activism is probably the biggest issue on college campuses right now. How are you thinking about that as this new school year, the first of your tenure as chancellor, begins?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things that’s distinguishing what we’re going through right now is if you thought about the Free Speech Movement or anti-Vietnam, a lot of those were sort of students versus the administration. Here, it’s students opposing students. It’s faculty opposing faculty. It’s staff opposing staff. And we’re up against that in society. The idea that being in Berkeley is a reflection of society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we think about how do we manage that? There’s actually an opportunity to lead. How do we get people talking to each other more and understanding a little bit better and empathizing a little bit more across these deep divisions, these identity divisions in many cases?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when people ask me, ‘What are you going to do if X happens?’ it’s sort of like, OK, if X happens, are we talking about a Berkeley student? Or is X driven by an unaffiliated person who’s on the Berkeley campus? That’s a consideration. Is it designed to be intimidating and harassing? Or is it not? There are limits to free speech in this country. Inciting lawlessness is not OK under the First Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way I think about it is there are hundreds of places on the Berkeley campus and hundreds of ways for our students to express their free speech rights. We don’t just condone that; we encourage it. So if a student is standing in front of the main gate on campus and is professing views, it’s sort of like, good on you. If they then block an opening, then the idea is you’ve just stepped into civil disobedience, which is a different thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the criticisms about the way UCLA handled its protests was that it didn’t equally protect both Jewish and pro-Palestinian students. How do you work to feel that both of those student communities feel safe on a campus like UC Berkeley?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We actually have a positive obligation under what’s called Title IX of the Civil Rights Act to make sure that students are given full access to all the educational opportunities without harassment, without intimidation. And at the same time, we have a positive obligation to allow for free speech under the First Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I think part of it is how do we do the best that we can in a content-neutral way? That’s the key idea here. If somebody says, we’re going to allow that to happen because it feels like it’s more likely to be on the right side of history, it’s like, No! We’re not going to do that anymore. I’m moving this university in the direction of institutional neutrality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='uc-berkeley']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk a little bit about housing. Construction of a new housing project has begun at People’s Park. And there’s a lot of controversy, partly due to the history of that place. This decision predates your chancellorship. But do you think it was the right call to build housing there?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We go back to the mission. I know it sounds hokey to do that, but that’s what we do. And then you start thinking about, how do we get students who can’t afford private housing to be able to come to Berkeley when we have a housing stock at Berkeley that covers so much lower a percentage of our students than a lot of other public universities? We’re not providing the access and the excellence together that we are promising people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now we have an opportunity to build 1,000 more beds, to make affordable and accessible 1,000 more living situations. And were there trade-offs? Absolutely. Was it hard on the community? Absolutely. Are we going to make sure that we codify and celebrate that part of Berkeley’s history? Absolutely. And I think Berkeley made the right decision, and I’m going to continue down that path. But I recognize that this was not the right decision for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On sports, Cal has joined the Atlantic Coast Conference. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. After years of waiting, 16 to 17 year olds in Berkeley and Oakland will get a say in their local school board races this November. And it’s taken a lot of pressure and advocacy to finally make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ixchel Arista: \u003c/strong>It’s like a relief, but also a long time coming, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It’s been eight years since Berkeley approved a measure giving students the right to vote for school board. And for years since voters did the same in Oakland. Today, how students push for the right to vote and what’s taken so long to implement it. When did people first start talking about allowing 16 and 17 year old students to vote in school board elections in the East Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Well, this is all part of sort of a long time burbling national movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Annelise Finney is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>This movement really took off in the East Bay in November of 2016. That year on the ballot, there was Berkeley’s Measure y one, which was going to allow young people to vote in school board elections and Proposition F in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Proposition F would have allowed young people to vote in all municipal elections. And it was a pretty big push. Ultimately, Proposition F in San Francisco failed. And Berkeley’s narrower ballot measure actually passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This passed in 2016 and Berkeley have 16 to 17 year olds been able to vote there since then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>No, not at all. It kind of stalled. The Berkeley measure had a provision in it that said that the city of Berkeley wasn’t going to pay at all to implement youth voting. So in a way, it’s kind of dead on arrival and it languished for a long time. I mean, it’s been eight years since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We’re talking about this now because finally Berkeley and now Oakland students as well get to vote in local school board elections. How exactly did this happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>A big part of why we’re seeing this happen this year is because Oakland pushed for this really hard. There’s an organization in Oakland called Oakland Kids First. It’s a community based organization that does a lot of organizing with young people. They’re embedded in local high schools and they work with people to figure out, you know, what kind of changes would you like to see in your school?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>And then they help them make that happen. So in 2019, that organization was working with young people and they had identified three areas they wanted to change in the school. And they all had to do with budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>There were proposed budget cuts to restorative justice coordinators, to AAPI students supports and foster youth caseworkers. And students felt like those things were super important for their peers. 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He’s the executive director of Oakland Kids First, and he was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lukas Brekke-Meisner: \u003c/strong>Picketing in front of their schools where leading marches downtown were at the rallies. And there came a point where the young people shared with union leadership like, hey, we actually are organizing some things right now to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Some of the young people said, Hey, we’re organizing with you. Can you organize with us and weave some of our demands? These three that I just mentioned about budget cuts into what the teachers were asking from the school district. 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And after the summer, student leaders got together and said, What we want to push for is youth voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ixchel Arista: \u003c/strong>Like I thought, we just keep our heads down and listen to what teachers tell us and that’s it. But know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Ixchel Arista is a graduate of Oakland High School. She started as a freshman there in 2020 and joined into this voting rights youth movement after sort of the drama I described in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ixchel Arista: \u003c/strong>I realized that it’s really important that students as young as possible get civically engaged and are aware of the change and the power they hold as constituents of a lot of different elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>For her, she said, this was all kind of common sense, that it made sense that students had been asking for this. Students are the number one constituency of the school board. They should have a say in what the school board decides to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ixchel Arista: \u003c/strong>It made sense. Again, the more I saw organizing, the more I was like, No, we should. Students have always had the ability to choose and elect the people who are going to be making the decisions that impact them every single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>At the time, a lot of young people in Oakland didn’t know that Berkeley had passed a similar measure to what they might have been envisioning. And once they figured that out, they started working with some of the young people in Berkeley who had been part of that campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>They took the bones of Berkeley’s Measure y one and incorporated that into what they were going to ask for in Oakland. And they started meeting with city council members. And what they found was that Oakland City Council members were pretty on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ixchel Arista: \u003c/strong>But it turns out it was only the beginning of a very, very long bureaucratic, just like logistical, technical process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, why it took so long to get youth voting up and running. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This measure in Oakland Measure Q. Q had some support among city councilors. It eventually got enough support from voters in Oakland to pass in 2020. But it still takes a really long time to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And then there’s still this Berkeley one from 2016 that’s like not really being fully implemented yet either. Why is that? And please, why is it taking so long for students to actually be able to finally exercise this right, even though these measures have already passed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Well, from the organizers I’ve spoken to and the young people who are part of this, they say there are really two things. The first is the technical challenge of getting this done. Young people have never voted in Alameda County before, so the county has to come up with a system for printing and processing. Youth votes have to be young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>People can only vote in this one type of election and our normal ballots have a bunch of elections. All of these kind of little questions that have to be answered about technically, how is this going to work? Right. The other part of this is the will. The Alameda County Register has had a lot going on. It’s kind of a fundamentally understaffed office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>The best example of that is that the registrar who oversees all of the county’s voting is also the IT director for the county, which means he oversees the entire county’s I.T. department. So they have a lot going on. And for a long time, this just wasn’t really a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I also imagine you have students, I mean, aging out, you know, I mean, the students who pushed for the measure in 2016 and in Berkeley, I mean, in four years are graduating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Yeah, This is something that Lukas said is is sort of a fundamental challenge of youth organizing. And, you know, I think we saw this in a different sphere, but with the pro-Palestine encampments at college campuses that, you know, there are these big breaks in the year, everybody goes home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Oftentimes they’re sort of disconnected from their friends. And then, as you mentioned, after four years, a lot of young people leave where they live and go off to do other things, whether that’s college or something else. And so there is this kind of churn and it is hard to create continuity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>But I think this is one thing that, you know, organizations like Oakland Kids First that are able to sort of stick with something and be adult allies through that gap are able to kind of help balance out and hopefully work against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So what has that look like exactly since this measure passed in Oakland in 2020? What has the Alameda County registrar been up to to kind of get this finally going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Oakland Unified School District hired an election consultant. They’re a technologist and they helped design the state’s voting system so they know how the system works and we’re able to come up with a plan for how this would work in Alameda County. But coming up with a plan is just part of it. They also have to test it and make sure it was going to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Oakland’s registrar had a series of sort of high profile mistakes in the 2022 general election. So the registrar has a lot of eyes watching it closely. And I think they are very kind of nervous about getting this right. And it was taking a long time. Initially the plan was for them to provide notice to Oakland and Berkeley about whether this was going to happen by July 12th, and they just blew past that deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>There was no word to the public about what was going on with it. At the same time, part of what the city’s had to figure out here is how this was all going to get paid for. As I remember, I talked about the Berkeley ballot measure issue where they said, you know, we’re not going to pay for this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So why is the registrar sort of coming up with the technical plan? The cities are signing a cost sharing agreement. It’s shared now between Alameda County and the city of Oakland and the city of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So how did activists find out that this is finally for real actually happening and when did they find out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Well, they found out really recently. And we’re really excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>I know a couple of weeks ago, some of the leaders of the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition, which is a number of different organizations, had the pleasure of letting some of the student activists know that this was actually going to happen this year. And they posted about it on social media. And you can hear they’re very excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, Annelise, how rare is what is happening in Berkeley and Oakland? I mean, this this right, for students to vote in a local school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>There is a growing movement around this, but this is the first time this has happened in California. And that’s in part why this is such a challenge for the registrar to get off the ground. But it is sort of becoming a growing groundswell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>I mean, we saw this in San Francisco and Berkeley in 2016. We saw Oakland in 2020, and then this year on the November ballot, Albany voters are going to vote on whether to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote not only in school board elections, but all local elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How are students being informed of their right to vote? I imagine that’s going to be its own thing to getting people to know to register, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Exactly. Yeah. This is something that Lucas also talked about that, you know, this is sort of about getting everybody to vote, but really it’s about building young people’s power and giving them a say in their schools and the way these schools are run. And that doesn’t happen just by having the right That happens when people are exercising it effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lukas Brekke-Meisner: \u003c/strong>We’re really optimistic that we can lay a certain foundation of understanding on this so that when people are young, people are voting that like they have a sense of what they’re doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>The Oakland Youth Vote Coalition designed a humanities curriculum. It’s a week long, but you can also break it up into chunks. It’s on their website. It’s free. And the hope is that teachers will take that up and during the school year teach young people about both how to register, but also how to look up who’s on the ballot and then also what it means to go vote, how you fill out all the bubbles, all the things that can get a little confusing and weird the first time that you vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what are the kind of issues that students will not have a say in that they maybe didn’t have before?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Yeah, you know, I think a lot of people don’t really know what the school board does. So that’s also part of what young people are going to have to get up to speed on. But what they’re going to now have a say on is how the district spends its money. And that’s a really big deal because it affects what types of programs the students have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>And when there’s a pinch, it affects what types of programs get cut. On top of that, they’re also going to have a say in what kind of policies shape the school. To give you an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>A lot of people remember back in 2020, there was a lot of youth organizing around the George Floyd resolution to eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department. Young people rallied around that a lot, but didn’t actually get to vote on the people who really got to make the decision on it. And now they’ll be able to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Annelise, thank you so much for breaking this down. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So if you are a 16 or 17 year old who wants to vote for school board in Oakland or Berkeley, you can fill out an online pre-registration form with the secretary of state’s office. We’ll leave a link in our show notes to that. Once it’s time to vote, you should get a ballot in the mail or you can vote in person at the county Registrar’s office located inside the Rene C Davidson Courthouse in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Annelise Finney, a reporter for KQED. This 30 minute conversation with Annelise was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. I produced this episode, scored it, and added all the tape Music courtesy of Audio Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The Bay is a listener supported production of KQED Public Media in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. After years of waiting, 16 to 17 year olds in Berkeley and Oakland will get a say in their local school board races this November. And it’s taken a lot of pressure and advocacy to finally make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ixchel Arista: \u003c/strong>It’s like a relief, but also a long time coming, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It’s been eight years since Berkeley approved a measure giving students the right to vote for school board. And for years since voters did the same in Oakland. Today, how students push for the right to vote and what’s taken so long to implement it. When did people first start talking about allowing 16 and 17 year old students to vote in school board elections in the East Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Well, this is all part of sort of a long time burbling national movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Annelise Finney is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>This movement really took off in the East Bay in November of 2016. That year on the ballot, there was Berkeley’s Measure y one, which was going to allow young people to vote in school board elections and Proposition F in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Proposition F would have allowed young people to vote in all municipal elections. And it was a pretty big push. Ultimately, Proposition F in San Francisco failed. And Berkeley’s narrower ballot measure actually passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This passed in 2016 and Berkeley have 16 to 17 year olds been able to vote there since then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>No, not at all. It kind of stalled. The Berkeley measure had a provision in it that said that the city of Berkeley wasn’t going to pay at all to implement youth voting. So in a way, it’s kind of dead on arrival and it languished for a long time. I mean, it’s been eight years since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We’re talking about this now because finally Berkeley and now Oakland students as well get to vote in local school board elections. How exactly did this happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>A big part of why we’re seeing this happen this year is because Oakland pushed for this really hard. There’s an organization in Oakland called Oakland Kids First. It’s a community based organization that does a lot of organizing with young people. They’re embedded in local high schools and they work with people to figure out, you know, what kind of changes would you like to see in your school?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>And then they help them make that happen. So in 2019, that organization was working with young people and they had identified three areas they wanted to change in the school. And they all had to do with budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>There were proposed budget cuts to restorative justice coordinators, to AAPI students supports and foster youth caseworkers. And students felt like those things were super important for their peers. Then a few months later, Oakland teachers went on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>News cast: \u003c/strong>On day one of the Oakland teachers strike kicked off with songs, rallying cries and thousands of teachers, parents, students and members of various unions gathered in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>It was the beginning of a seven day strike. If you live in Oakland. You probably remember this. And Oakland students were a big part of all of this. They participated in pickets. They spoke at rallies and they organized alongside their teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lukas Brekke-Meisner: \u003c/strong>There was a lot of young people that were out in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>To learn a little bit more about this. I spoke with a man named Lukas Brekke-Meisner. He’s the executive director of Oakland Kids First, and he was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lukas Brekke-Meisner: \u003c/strong>Picketing in front of their schools where leading marches downtown were at the rallies. And there came a point where the young people shared with union leadership like, hey, we actually are organizing some things right now to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Some of the young people said, Hey, we’re organizing with you. Can you organize with us and weave some of our demands? These three that I just mentioned about budget cuts into what the teachers were asking from the school district. Ultimately, what happened is that when the union deal came through and none of the student requests were in it, a lot of students were really mad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Student: \u003c/strong>We are here to tell you what we need, but it seems to be going in one ear and out the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>The school board decided they were going to hold a meeting. It was the day after the union reached their deal with the district. And Lucas told me that students showed up in mass. He estimates there were about 500 students there coming out here. He started giving these really passionate comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Student: \u003c/strong>But time and time again, you let us down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Student: \u003c/strong>We are tired of getting stepped on. We are tired of getting dragged through the mud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Student: \u003c/strong>Students have a voice and we will fight back. Where was our input in the strike negotiations?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Student: \u003c/strong>I’m here today speaking for all of the students of all because we deserve better than this. Then what? The student, the director have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>But the school board wasn’t really hearing it and they got a little overwhelmed. They eventually went into closed session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lukas Brekke-Meisner: \u003c/strong>I think it’s cemented for me and for a lot of the young people that like, if this is all we can do, like this isn’t good enough, like we’re not going to be able to move the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Lukas told me that there was a real realization that, you know, showing up at school board meetings and telling school board members how they felt wasn’t getting students to where they wanted to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How does this eventually lead to them pushing for the right to vote in school board elections?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>After that meeting, students kind of went back. They thought about it some more. And after the summer, student leaders got together and said, What we want to push for is youth voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ixchel Arista: \u003c/strong>Like I thought, we just keep our heads down and listen to what teachers tell us and that’s it. But know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Ixchel Arista is a graduate of Oakland High School. She started as a freshman there in 2020 and joined into this voting rights youth movement after sort of the drama I described in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ixchel Arista: \u003c/strong>I realized that it’s really important that students as young as possible get civically engaged and are aware of the change and the power they hold as constituents of a lot of different elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>For her, she said, this was all kind of common sense, that it made sense that students had been asking for this. Students are the number one constituency of the school board. They should have a say in what the school board decides to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ixchel Arista: \u003c/strong>It made sense. Again, the more I saw organizing, the more I was like, No, we should. Students have always had the ability to choose and elect the people who are going to be making the decisions that impact them every single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>At the time, a lot of young people in Oakland didn’t know that Berkeley had passed a similar measure to what they might have been envisioning. And once they figured that out, they started working with some of the young people in Berkeley who had been part of that campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>They took the bones of Berkeley’s Measure y one and incorporated that into what they were going to ask for in Oakland. And they started meeting with city council members. And what they found was that Oakland City Council members were pretty on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ixchel Arista: \u003c/strong>But it turns out it was only the beginning of a very, very long bureaucratic, just like logistical, technical process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, why it took so long to get youth voting up and running. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This measure in Oakland Measure Q. Q had some support among city councilors. It eventually got enough support from voters in Oakland to pass in 2020. But it still takes a really long time to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And then there’s still this Berkeley one from 2016 that’s like not really being fully implemented yet either. Why is that? And please, why is it taking so long for students to actually be able to finally exercise this right, even though these measures have already passed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Well, from the organizers I’ve spoken to and the young people who are part of this, they say there are really two things. The first is the technical challenge of getting this done. Young people have never voted in Alameda County before, so the county has to come up with a system for printing and processing. Youth votes have to be young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>People can only vote in this one type of election and our normal ballots have a bunch of elections. All of these kind of little questions that have to be answered about technically, how is this going to work? Right. The other part of this is the will. The Alameda County Register has had a lot going on. 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What has the Alameda County registrar been up to to kind of get this finally going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Oakland Unified School District hired an election consultant. They’re a technologist and they helped design the state’s voting system so they know how the system works and we’re able to come up with a plan for how this would work in Alameda County. But coming up with a plan is just part of it. They also have to test it and make sure it was going to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Oakland’s registrar had a series of sort of high profile mistakes in the 2022 general election. So the registrar has a lot of eyes watching it closely. And I think they are very kind of nervous about getting this right. And it was taking a long time. Initially the plan was for them to provide notice to Oakland and Berkeley about whether this was going to happen by July 12th, and they just blew past that deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>There was no word to the public about what was going on with it. At the same time, part of what the city’s had to figure out here is how this was all going to get paid for. As I remember, I talked about the Berkeley ballot measure issue where they said, you know, we’re not going to pay for this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So why is the registrar sort of coming up with the technical plan? The cities are signing a cost sharing agreement. 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I mean, this this right, for students to vote in a local school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>There is a growing movement around this, but this is the first time this has happened in California. And that’s in part why this is such a challenge for the registrar to get off the ground. But it is sort of becoming a growing groundswell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>I mean, we saw this in San Francisco and Berkeley in 2016. We saw Oakland in 2020, and then this year on the November ballot, Albany voters are going to vote on whether to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote not only in school board elections, but all local elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How are students being informed of their right to vote? I imagine that’s going to be its own thing to getting people to know to register, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Exactly. Yeah. This is something that Lucas also talked about that, you know, this is sort of about getting everybody to vote, but really it’s about building young people’s power and giving them a say in their schools and the way these schools are run. And that doesn’t happen just by having the right That happens when people are exercising it effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lukas Brekke-Meisner: \u003c/strong>We’re really optimistic that we can lay a certain foundation of understanding on this so that when people are young, people are voting that like they have a sense of what they’re doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>The Oakland Youth Vote Coalition designed a humanities curriculum. It’s a week long, but you can also break it up into chunks. It’s on their website. It’s free. And the hope is that teachers will take that up and during the school year teach young people about both how to register, but also how to look up who’s on the ballot and then also what it means to go vote, how you fill out all the bubbles, all the things that can get a little confusing and weird the first time that you vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what are the kind of issues that students will not have a say in that they maybe didn’t have before?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Yeah, you know, I think a lot of people don’t really know what the school board does. So that’s also part of what young people are going to have to get up to speed on. But what they’re going to now have a say on is how the district spends its money. And that’s a really big deal because it affects what types of programs the students have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>And when there’s a pinch, it affects what types of programs get cut. On top of that, they’re also going to have a say in what kind of policies shape the school. To give you an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>A lot of people remember back in 2020, there was a lot of youth organizing around the George Floyd resolution to eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department. Young people rallied around that a lot, but didn’t actually get to vote on the people who really got to make the decision on it. And now they’ll be able to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Annelise, thank you so much for breaking this down. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So if you are a 16 or 17 year old who wants to vote for school board in Oakland or Berkeley, you can fill out an online pre-registration form with the secretary of state’s office. We’ll leave a link in our show notes to that. Once it’s time to vote, you should get a ballot in the mail or you can vote in person at the county Registrar’s office located inside the Rene C Davidson Courthouse in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Annelise Finney, a reporter for KQED. This 30 minute conversation with Annelise was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. I produced this episode, scored it, and added all the tape Music courtesy of Audio Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The Bay is a listener supported production of KQED Public Media in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>Most Bay Area universities are back in session for the fall semester, and with the return of classes comes the return of student organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986812/some-bay-area-universities-reach-deal-to-end-encampments-but-students-say-their-fight-continues\">whose mass demonstrations and encampments \u003c/a>rocked campuses across the country last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those organizers say they haven’t given up on their demands but are shifting tactics away from the 24/7 encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, university leaders have also announced policy changes that students fear will violate their First Amendment rights and hamper their ability to organize effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susu Steyteyieh is a member of Students for Palestine at the University of San Francisco who helped organize that school’s roughly three-week-long encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after graduation ceremonies ended, campus employees cleared away the tents. The next day, 25 students, including Steyteyieh, were placed on interim suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steyteyieh said she signed a form accepting responsibility for violating student conduct rules, including failure to comply and disruptive conduct. In return, her suspension was lifted, and she and the others were placed on probation through next May. She said she doesn’t want to be suspended again, but that won’t stop her from organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that I have to be careful,” Steyteyieh said. “But I also understand that there is nothing to stop me from organizing because of my duty as a Palestinian to be able to speak because that’s the bare minimum I can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steyteyieh also echoed what several student organizers across the Bay Area said regarding the fall semester. Some of the biggest priorities now include increasing outreach efforts, growing their base of members, coordinating across different campuses and using larger numbers to push for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first week of school, Students for Palestine set up a table at USF to engage with incoming students and also called on current members to wear keffiyehs to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A large part of our idea was to be able to do something that is very low risk but still shows the presence of the Palestinian student movement here on campus,” Steyteyieh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of San Francisco campus in San Francisco on Aug. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steyteyieh said student activists plan to resume talks with the university over their demands and will organize actions based partly on how cooperative administrators are in those talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USF President Paul Fitzgerald sent a message to the campus community earlier this month where he said that the university would not allow any more encampments. But he added that the university is working to establish a task force to review the school’s investment policies, a step toward the student demand for the university to divest from Israeli companies or those who profit from Israel’s war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders of both the \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/updates-on-uc-campus-climate-efforts/\">University of California\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/transparency-accountability/Pages/campus-climate.aspx\">California State University\u003c/a> systems also announced in recent weeks that encampments will not be permitted. Both say they’re working to make rules more uniform across all campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC President Michael Drake \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Letter-from-President-Drake-Chancellors-Policies-Impacting-Expressive-Activity.pdf\">directed each campus\u003c/a> to compile a publicly available list of existing policies regarding protests. CSU leaders \u003ca href=\"https://calstate.policystat.com/policy/16412929/latest/#autoid-44r42\">issued system-wide time, place and manner policies \u003c/a>restricting protests, which are meant to supersede the policies of individual campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both cases, university administrators instructed campus leaders to establish or reaffirm bans on: protests blocking walkways or doorways, masking for the purposes of hiding one’s identity or intimidating others and setting up unauthorized structures on campus property. Drake also said that UC campuses should clarify that people on university property cannot refuse to provide identification if asked by university officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These announcements come amid pressure from state legislators. California Senate Bill 1287, first introduced in March, would require that university administrators “prohibit violent, harassing, intimidating, or discriminatory conduct that creates a hostile environment on campus.” First Amendment advocates have expressed concern that the bill could be used to crack down on student protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001855\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pro-Palestinian student encampment at The University of San Francisco on April 30. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State legislators also decided this year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/state-withholds-25m-from-uc-until-systemwide-free-speech-rules-enforced/article_7d1339d4-44db-11ef-bc87-d33ae1af64bb.html\">withhold $25 million in funding\u003c/a> from the UC until the university system creates a “systemwide framework” surrounding free speech rules for all UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley and San Francisco State are two campuses where administrators were notably hands-off and negotiated with students to end the encampments. Representatives from both campuses did not answer questions about whether the recent announcements would mean stricter enforcement of existing rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaid Yousef is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine at Berkeley and president of the campus Muslim Student Association. He called the announcement an effort to target and silence protests supporting Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that this is just another attempt to honestly make Palestinian students and their allies more vulnerable to doxing, make them easier to identify, make it easier to suppress their speech,” Yousef said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that student organizers would not be deterred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frankly, any threat and any punishment the UC can dream of pales in comparison to a single life lost in Gaza,” Yousef said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC Berkeley spokesperson said that the university still has the latitude to respond in a considered fashion to each individual demonstration or protest, but it will not tolerate violence, harassment or discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12000770,news_11989050,news_11989178\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoe Hamstead is co-chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association. Speaking personally, she described efforts by higher education institutions to tamp down on protests or equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism as a “kind of new McCarthyism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In these actions, the language of inclusion and safety and civility is being used to justify repression,” Hamstead said. “It’s being used to militarize our campuses. It’s being used to discipline and criminalize forms of protest and free speech that have been on UC Berkeley campus since at least the free speech movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Hamstead, the UC system has already disciplined more than two dozen UC staff and faculty for their involvement in campus protests, with consequences including temporary bans from campus and arrest. Hamstead said many of those disciplinary investigations are still ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Naftalin-Kelman, executive director of Berkeley Hillel, a campus Jewish organization, expressed support for the new UC directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I appreciate the clarity provided by the administration and President Drake regarding how they will support all students to ensure they can be on campus and express their whole selves without fear of intimidation and threats, including Jewish students,” Naftalin-Kelman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At San Francisco State University, student organizers said they aren’t thinking of returning anytime soon to encampments, which were resource-intensive and required lots of commitment from members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The encampments were super effective,” said Max Flynt, a member of Students for Gaza at SF State. “But one thing that we noticed was that we were kind of glued to the grass. We were glued to these tents. We weren’t able to go into different classrooms and talk. We weren’t able to table and talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of current outreach efforts there, student activists set up tables outside of student housing during move-in week with free food from a local Palestinian restaurant, information on upcoming events and free screen printing to make shirts or signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to come with open arms. We have to invite these new students to become organizers,” Flynt said. “Otherwise, we won’t get past the encampment. The encampment will be the peak, and that’s the opposite of what we want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students say they also plan to strengthen connections with other pro-Palestinian activist organizations and like-minded labor groups, and several mentioned a planned September convention in Oakland as a kick-off point for that collaboration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susu Steyteyieh is a member of Students for Palestine at the University of San Francisco who helped organize that school’s roughly three-week-long encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after graduation ceremonies ended, campus employees cleared away the tents. The next day, 25 students, including Steyteyieh, were placed on interim suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steyteyieh said she signed a form accepting responsibility for violating student conduct rules, including failure to comply and disruptive conduct. In return, her suspension was lifted, and she and the others were placed on probation through next May. She said she doesn’t want to be suspended again, but that won’t stop her from organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that I have to be careful,” Steyteyieh said. “But I also understand that there is nothing to stop me from organizing because of my duty as a Palestinian to be able to speak because that’s the bare minimum I can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steyteyieh also echoed what several student organizers across the Bay Area said regarding the fall semester. Some of the biggest priorities now include increasing outreach efforts, growing their base of members, coordinating across different campuses and using larger numbers to push for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first week of school, Students for Palestine set up a table at USF to engage with incoming students and also called on current members to wear keffiyehs to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A large part of our idea was to be able to do something that is very low risk but still shows the presence of the Palestinian student movement here on campus,” Steyteyieh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of San Francisco campus in San Francisco on Aug. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steyteyieh said student activists plan to resume talks with the university over their demands and will organize actions based partly on how cooperative administrators are in those talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USF President Paul Fitzgerald sent a message to the campus community earlier this month where he said that the university would not allow any more encampments. But he added that the university is working to establish a task force to review the school’s investment policies, a step toward the student demand for the university to divest from Israeli companies or those who profit from Israel’s war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders of both the \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/updates-on-uc-campus-climate-efforts/\">University of California\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/transparency-accountability/Pages/campus-climate.aspx\">California State University\u003c/a> systems also announced in recent weeks that encampments will not be permitted. Both say they’re working to make rules more uniform across all campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC President Michael Drake \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Letter-from-President-Drake-Chancellors-Policies-Impacting-Expressive-Activity.pdf\">directed each campus\u003c/a> to compile a publicly available list of existing policies regarding protests. CSU leaders \u003ca href=\"https://calstate.policystat.com/policy/16412929/latest/#autoid-44r42\">issued system-wide time, place and manner policies \u003c/a>restricting protests, which are meant to supersede the policies of individual campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both cases, university administrators instructed campus leaders to establish or reaffirm bans on: protests blocking walkways or doorways, masking for the purposes of hiding one’s identity or intimidating others and setting up unauthorized structures on campus property. Drake also said that UC campuses should clarify that people on university property cannot refuse to provide identification if asked by university officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These announcements come amid pressure from state legislators. California Senate Bill 1287, first introduced in March, would require that university administrators “prohibit violent, harassing, intimidating, or discriminatory conduct that creates a hostile environment on campus.” First Amendment advocates have expressed concern that the bill could be used to crack down on student protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001855\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240430-USF-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pro-Palestinian student encampment at The University of San Francisco on April 30. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State legislators also decided this year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/state-withholds-25m-from-uc-until-systemwide-free-speech-rules-enforced/article_7d1339d4-44db-11ef-bc87-d33ae1af64bb.html\">withhold $25 million in funding\u003c/a> from the UC until the university system creates a “systemwide framework” surrounding free speech rules for all UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley and San Francisco State are two campuses where administrators were notably hands-off and negotiated with students to end the encampments. Representatives from both campuses did not answer questions about whether the recent announcements would mean stricter enforcement of existing rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaid Yousef is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine at Berkeley and president of the campus Muslim Student Association. He called the announcement an effort to target and silence protests supporting Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that this is just another attempt to honestly make Palestinian students and their allies more vulnerable to doxing, make them easier to identify, make it easier to suppress their speech,” Yousef said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that student organizers would not be deterred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frankly, any threat and any punishment the UC can dream of pales in comparison to a single life lost in Gaza,” Yousef said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC Berkeley spokesperson said that the university still has the latitude to respond in a considered fashion to each individual demonstration or protest, but it will not tolerate violence, harassment or discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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