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Students were admitted to the exam around 7:45 a.m. After nearly three hours of Wi-Fi issues, which failed to connect students to the exam, students were sent home around 11:15 a.m., she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she started the petition to host a make-up test at her own school because finding access to a testing site has been incredibly difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The test is seemingly not going to be rescheduled, which I believe is quite unfair, and it will be …extremely difficult for most of those students to find a testing center to take the SAT at the next available date, August 24,” Wagner wrote in an email sharing the petition with school peers over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition is so far limited to students at Livermore and Granada high schools, and as of Monday morning, one day after it went live, it had 30 signatures, according to Jennafer Wagner, Emily’s parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students across the Bay Area are scrambling to secure SAT and ACT test seats this year as the number of testing sites in California dropped significantly after the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s due to several factors, including the test being entirely online for the first time this year and some sites have struggled to transition to the digital format.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campuses like the University of California also no longer require the standardized test to apply, making some high schools less incentivized to host it. However, some private schools and Ivy League universities, such as Harvard, have since reversed their stance on standardized testing and are now requiring it again for applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With around half of the number of testing sites operating this year compared to just before the pandemic, students who do still wish to take the test have had to travel hours to find open seats at testing centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The combination of being unable to offer enough seats to students and then failing to successfully administer the exam is directly harmful to Bay Area students,” Nate Slater, whose 11th-grade son was at the Oakland Marriott exam, wrote in an email. “It puts them at a disadvantage when applying to any university that requires the SAT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue has been particularly challenging for students who say they can’t afford to stay in a nearby hotel to get a good night’s sleep before an early morning test or who have to wake up hours before the exam to drive there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Education Coverage' tag='education']The College Board, which administers the SAT, acknowledges that demand for the test is outstripping capacity across the Bay Area this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Student demand has exceeded capacity for SAT Weekend administrations in California’s Bay Area because of a shortage of high schools and other institutions willing to serve as SAT Weekend test centers,” a spokesperson for the College Board said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address the issue, the College Board contracted with an outside vendor this year to set up exams at high-capacity test centers such as hotels and convention centers, adding approximately 6,000 seats in the Bay Area. That included the canceled test at the Oakland Marriott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know this was an incredibly difficult situation for students who worked hard to prepare for the test. We deeply apologize to all affected students,” the spokesperson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students impacted by Saturday’s exam cancellation will receive a full refund for the test, according to the College Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, limited spaces to take the test continue to be an issue. 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"content": "\u003cp>A fight over control of the local school board has gripped the Bay Area community of Sunol, a small town of fewer than 1,000 people tucked in the hills between Fremont and Pleasanton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large banner \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979555/two-sunol-school-board-members-to-face-recall-in-july\">supporting the recall of two board members in a July 2 special election\u003c/a> hangs across the street from the district’s only school. Up Kilkare Road, opposing blue and yellow lawn signs for and against the recall face off on opposite sides of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push for a recall in this rural corner of Alameda County followed a September vote by board members Linda Hurley and Ryan Jergensen to enact a ban on flying flags other than the U.S. and California flags — after the district’s superintendent had flown the LGBTQ+ pride flag earlier in the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunol Glen School in Sunol on May 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The flag dustup was just one skirmish in a year of fights over LGBTQ+ inclusion and identity, along with disputes over board management and decorum, that sparked raucous meetings and staff turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Sylvester, a parent who is organizing to recall Hurley and Jergensen, likened the upcoming election to a “civil war” that has divided the community and reduced his relationships with his neighbors to a simple litmus test: whether they support or oppose the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these things just keep adding up, and it just creates this turmoil,” Sylvester said. “This wonderful, peaceful school that was here once upon a time, not too long ago — we’re trying to get that back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar fights over conservative school board policies are heading to the ballot in communities across California. On Tuesday, the board president of the Temecula Valley Unified School District in Riverside County faces a recall election over policies akin to those passed in Sunol. In March, two conservative board members in Orange County were recalled — along with another trustee in Woodland, outside of Sacramento, who was criticized for anti-trans remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The string of recalls testing the gains of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965684/amidst-backlash-conservative-groups-target-south-bay-school-board-seats\">California conservatives on local school boards\u003c/a> represents a pivot from the recent spate of high-profile recall efforts across California — which have mostly targeted elected officials on the left: from Gov. Gavin Newsom to San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and three progressive school board members in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These school board recalls are mostly powered by groups of parents, disgruntled by combative rhetoric and policies they view as too socially conservative, along with teachers and, in some cases, the powerful unions who represent them. Conservatives, meanwhile, see the recall elections as a series of power grabs meant to restore the supremacy of teacher unions in school politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recalls are the latest act in a pandemic-era saga that has transformed previously sleepy school board seats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\">into some of the most bitterly-contested political ground\u003c/a> in California — home to fights over distanced learning, mask requirements and curriculum. Melissa Melendez, a former state senator and Assembly member representing the area in and around Temecula from 2012 to 2022, pointed to the San Francisco school board recall as an early flashpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people looked at that and said, ‘You know, I think I see an opportunity here,’” said Melendez, who is now the state director of the America First Policy Institute, a think tank aligned with former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as easy to recall someone, perhaps, in state elected office,” Melendez said. “But we’ve seen some success with school boards, and I think that it has gotten people on both sides of the aisle to look at it a little differently, hence the number of recall elections we’ve seen just in the past couple of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Recalls in Yolo, Orange Counties in March\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the board members recalled in March, Woodland Joint Unified High School trustee Emily MacDonald, came under fire following comments she made during a June 2023 board discussion about a resolution recognizing Pride Month. MacDonald questioned why transgender Americans were grouped with gays and lesbians under the banner of LGBTQ, and she warned that “social contagion” is causing children to undergo gender-affirming surgeries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald was recalled with 63.6% of the vote in a special election that was consolidated with the state’s presidential primary. That same day, recalls against two trustees in the Orange Unified School District, Rick Ledesma and Madison Miner, passed with over 53% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988220 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A yard sign says, ‘Vote No’ in Sunol on May 29, 2024, referring to a July 2 school board recall vote for 2 Sunol Glen school board members. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ledesma and Miner had \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/orange-unified-becomes-sixth-california-district-to-adopt-transgender-parental-notification-policy/697122\">voted to ban flags other than the U.S. and California flags \u003c/a>from flying on district flag poles — a move seen by opponents as targeting the LBGTQ+ pride flag. They also approved a local transgender reporting law, requiring teachers and school staff to notify parents when their child asks to be identified as a gender other than the one listed on their birth certificate.[aside postID=news_11965684 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-010-qut-1020x678.jpg']Such policies have been actively shopped to districts by right-wing activists and Republican lawmakers. The state GOP, locked out of power at the state capitol, has turned its attention toward school boards, holding trainings for candidates and investing in their campaigns. Meanwhile, the state Democratic Party has historically had less interest in school board elections, in which candidates don’t run with a party affiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the conservative policies spread across school districts last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865045/local-school-boards-have-a-lot-of-power-will-the-pandemic-change-that\">California’s decentralized system of school governance\u003c/a> created hurdles for opponents to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to create financial penalties against school districts for banning books was watered down amid objections from the statewide association representing school districts. And while Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued local districts to overturn transgender reporting policies, legislation to ban the policies was only introduced in the legislature a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, these conservative policies face an uphill battle in a reliably Democratic bastion like California. A ballot measure campaign to enshrine transgender reporting along with bans on transgender sports participation and gender-affirming surgeries failed to gather enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. Similar proposals authored by Republicans in the legislature have had no success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those same issues — inclusive curriculum, transgender protections and parental involvement — are at play locally in the recall elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conservative policies backlash meet in Temecula\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Joseph Komrosky is facing removal less than two years after he was elected to the five-member governing board of the Temecula Valley Unified School District — part of a wave of victorious school board members in Riverside County backed by a political committee organized by a local Christian pastor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988446\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Temecula school board president Joseph Komrosky (center), who is facing a recall election on June 4, is joined by supporters at a rally on a busy street corner in Temecula on Saturday, May 18. \u003ccite>(Madison Aument/KVCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Komrosky led a board majority that enacted a transgender reporting policy, banned critical race theory (which was never taught in the district) and removed a supplemented curriculum that referenced gay rights icon Harvey Milk, who Komrosky referred to as a “pedophile.”[aside postID=news_11962571 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-CHINO-TRANSGENDER-SCHOOL-BOARD-Getty-DM-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Parents, teachers and community members with a political committee called One Temecula Valley have spent months knocking on doors to get people to mark “yes” on their recall ballots, arguing that Komrosky’s policies have had a chilling effect on classroom instruction and discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worry for my teacher friends, my high school teacher friends that are looking over their shoulder or they’re afraid of what to say in their classroom,” said Susan Allen, an elementary school teacher in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Komrosky and his supporters have argued that the board’s conservative members have simply followed through on the vision of public education they laid out in their campaigns. When Komrosky ran for office in 2022, he openly criticized critical race theory, transgender expression, and what he described as inappropriate discussion of sex in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve just done what I said I was going to do,” Komrosky said. “I’m a man of my word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Assessing the role of statewide teacher unions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fred Whitaker, chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County, said the recall elections in Orange and elsewhere are an attempt by teacher unions to orchestrate a do-over of recent school board votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They lost regular elections and as soon as they got majorities that didn’t want what they wanted, they put a lot of money into special elections,” Whitaker said. “In a special election, you can actually motivate a targeted voter base better than you can in a general election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People listen at the Sunol Glen Unified School District governing board meeting in Sunol on March 12, 2024. The meeting went for at least 4 hours. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unions representing educators have played a key role in financially backing the recall campaigns. The Orange Unified Education Association, a local affiliate of the California Teachers Association, was the top contributor to the recall in Orange, shelling out $58,636 in donations, supplies, office space and consultants. The CTA also contributed $38,400 to the Temecula Valley Educators political committee that is supporting the recall of Komrosky — and $1,500 toward the recall of MacDonald in Woodland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sunol, the California Federation of Teachers has contributed the majority of the resources to remove Jergensen and Hurley, spending $22,915 on banners, signs and voter data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CTA president David Goldberg called the campaign in Orange County a “great example” of educators and parents launching grassroots organizing against board members they felt had gone too far to the right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CTA’s role is there, I mean we have a statewide infrastructure,” Goldberg said. “But these local campaigns are run by the locals themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldberg said too much is at stake, both for the educators who make up the union membership and the students they teach, to wait until the next election to challenge policies they vehemently oppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Elections] happen every four years, right? If you’re a student in high school and you have policies actively targeting you and your humanity, that’s your entire high school career,” Goldberg said. “You don’t get to wait another four years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I don’t know if our town will ever recover’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sunol school board president Ryan Jergensen said the outcry in the small Bay Area community had been misplaced. The restrictions he approved on flags were simply an attempt to avoid future fights, and even legal action, over giving preference to a specific flag, he said. Now, voting is underway in the election that could remove the father of six from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979211\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"School officials are sitting behind desks with a microphone in front of them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trustee Ryan Jergensen (center) listens to public comment during a Sunol Glen Unified School District governing board meeting in Sunol on March 12, 2024. Jergensen and Trustee Linda Hurley (right) will face a recall election in July. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if our town will ever recover from the all-out attacks and war that’s being thrown by the recall side, the tens of thousands of dollars thrown in by the teachers union to kind of squash two small-town community members, one who has kids in the school,” Jergensen said. “It’s going to be hard for people to want to support a school, to support the town, [to] come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the results in Temecula and Sunol, California’s school board fights appear unlikely to die down. Republican officials and conservative activists are determined to continue recruiting candidates and investing in school board races in hopes of regaining momentum in the fall. Many Democrats, union leaders and recall organizers said the four recall campaigns have been a wake-up call, a reminder to vigorously contest school board seats in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Crosbie, a Democratic activist and former school board member in Fremont, spent the last year traveling to meetings of the state Democratic party and its local central committees, where she implored party stalwarts to pay attention to the races at the bottom of the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats need to be aware because recall campaigns are very expensive, and they take a lot of time and effort that could be spent on supporting students,” Crosbie said. “We all need to be paying attention the first time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story included reporting from KVCR’s Madison Aument.\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>“All these things just keep adding up, and it just creates this turmoil,” Sylvester said. “This wonderful, peaceful school that was here once upon a time, not too long ago — we’re trying to get that back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar fights over conservative school board policies are heading to the ballot in communities across California. On Tuesday, the board president of the Temecula Valley Unified School District in Riverside County faces a recall election over policies akin to those passed in Sunol. In March, two conservative board members in Orange County were recalled — along with another trustee in Woodland, outside of Sacramento, who was criticized for anti-trans remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The string of recalls testing the gains of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965684/amidst-backlash-conservative-groups-target-south-bay-school-board-seats\">California conservatives on local school boards\u003c/a> represents a pivot from the recent spate of high-profile recall efforts across California — which have mostly targeted elected officials on the left: from Gov. Gavin Newsom to San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and three progressive school board members in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These school board recalls are mostly powered by groups of parents, disgruntled by combative rhetoric and policies they view as too socially conservative, along with teachers and, in some cases, the powerful unions who represent them. Conservatives, meanwhile, see the recall elections as a series of power grabs meant to restore the supremacy of teacher unions in school politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recalls are the latest act in a pandemic-era saga that has transformed previously sleepy school board seats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\">into some of the most bitterly-contested political ground\u003c/a> in California — home to fights over distanced learning, mask requirements and curriculum. Melissa Melendez, a former state senator and Assembly member representing the area in and around Temecula from 2012 to 2022, pointed to the San Francisco school board recall as an early flashpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people looked at that and said, ‘You know, I think I see an opportunity here,’” said Melendez, who is now the state director of the America First Policy Institute, a think tank aligned with former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as easy to recall someone, perhaps, in state elected office,” Melendez said. “But we’ve seen some success with school boards, and I think that it has gotten people on both sides of the aisle to look at it a little differently, hence the number of recall elections we’ve seen just in the past couple of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Recalls in Yolo, Orange Counties in March\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the board members recalled in March, Woodland Joint Unified High School trustee Emily MacDonald, came under fire following comments she made during a June 2023 board discussion about a resolution recognizing Pride Month. MacDonald questioned why transgender Americans were grouped with gays and lesbians under the banner of LGBTQ, and she warned that “social contagion” is causing children to undergo gender-affirming surgeries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald was recalled with 63.6% of the vote in a special election that was consolidated with the state’s presidential primary. That same day, recalls against two trustees in the Orange Unified School District, Rick Ledesma and Madison Miner, passed with over 53% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988220 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240529-SunolSchoolBoard-18-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A yard sign says, ‘Vote No’ in Sunol on May 29, 2024, referring to a July 2 school board recall vote for 2 Sunol Glen school board members. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ledesma and Miner had \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/orange-unified-becomes-sixth-california-district-to-adopt-transgender-parental-notification-policy/697122\">voted to ban flags other than the U.S. and California flags \u003c/a>from flying on district flag poles — a move seen by opponents as targeting the LBGTQ+ pride flag. They also approved a local transgender reporting law, requiring teachers and school staff to notify parents when their child asks to be identified as a gender other than the one listed on their birth certificate.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Such policies have been actively shopped to districts by right-wing activists and Republican lawmakers. The state GOP, locked out of power at the state capitol, has turned its attention toward school boards, holding trainings for candidates and investing in their campaigns. Meanwhile, the state Democratic Party has historically had less interest in school board elections, in which candidates don’t run with a party affiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the conservative policies spread across school districts last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865045/local-school-boards-have-a-lot-of-power-will-the-pandemic-change-that\">California’s decentralized system of school governance\u003c/a> created hurdles for opponents to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to create financial penalties against school districts for banning books was watered down amid objections from the statewide association representing school districts. And while Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued local districts to overturn transgender reporting policies, legislation to ban the policies was only introduced in the legislature a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, these conservative policies face an uphill battle in a reliably Democratic bastion like California. A ballot measure campaign to enshrine transgender reporting along with bans on transgender sports participation and gender-affirming surgeries failed to gather enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. Similar proposals authored by Republicans in the legislature have had no success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those same issues — inclusive curriculum, transgender protections and parental involvement — are at play locally in the recall elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conservative policies backlash meet in Temecula\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Joseph Komrosky is facing removal less than two years after he was elected to the five-member governing board of the Temecula Valley Unified School District — part of a wave of victorious school board members in Riverside County backed by a political committee organized by a local Christian pastor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988446\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_4079-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Temecula school board president Joseph Komrosky (center), who is facing a recall election on June 4, is joined by supporters at a rally on a busy street corner in Temecula on Saturday, May 18. \u003ccite>(Madison Aument/KVCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Komrosky led a board majority that enacted a transgender reporting policy, banned critical race theory (which was never taught in the district) and removed a supplemented curriculum that referenced gay rights icon Harvey Milk, who Komrosky referred to as a “pedophile.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Parents, teachers and community members with a political committee called One Temecula Valley have spent months knocking on doors to get people to mark “yes” on their recall ballots, arguing that Komrosky’s policies have had a chilling effect on classroom instruction and discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worry for my teacher friends, my high school teacher friends that are looking over their shoulder or they’re afraid of what to say in their classroom,” said Susan Allen, an elementary school teacher in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Komrosky and his supporters have argued that the board’s conservative members have simply followed through on the vision of public education they laid out in their campaigns. When Komrosky ran for office in 2022, he openly criticized critical race theory, transgender expression, and what he described as inappropriate discussion of sex in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve just done what I said I was going to do,” Komrosky said. “I’m a man of my word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Assessing the role of statewide teacher unions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fred Whitaker, chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County, said the recall elections in Orange and elsewhere are an attempt by teacher unions to orchestrate a do-over of recent school board votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They lost regular elections and as soon as they got majorities that didn’t want what they wanted, they put a lot of money into special elections,” Whitaker said. “In a special election, you can actually motivate a targeted voter base better than you can in a general election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-18-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People listen at the Sunol Glen Unified School District governing board meeting in Sunol on March 12, 2024. The meeting went for at least 4 hours. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unions representing educators have played a key role in financially backing the recall campaigns. The Orange Unified Education Association, a local affiliate of the California Teachers Association, was the top contributor to the recall in Orange, shelling out $58,636 in donations, supplies, office space and consultants. The CTA also contributed $38,400 to the Temecula Valley Educators political committee that is supporting the recall of Komrosky — and $1,500 toward the recall of MacDonald in Woodland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sunol, the California Federation of Teachers has contributed the majority of the resources to remove Jergensen and Hurley, spending $22,915 on banners, signs and voter data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CTA president David Goldberg called the campaign in Orange County a “great example” of educators and parents launching grassroots organizing against board members they felt had gone too far to the right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CTA’s role is there, I mean we have a statewide infrastructure,” Goldberg said. “But these local campaigns are run by the locals themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldberg said too much is at stake, both for the educators who make up the union membership and the students they teach, to wait until the next election to challenge policies they vehemently oppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Elections] happen every four years, right? If you’re a student in high school and you have policies actively targeting you and your humanity, that’s your entire high school career,” Goldberg said. “You don’t get to wait another four years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I don’t know if our town will ever recover’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sunol school board president Ryan Jergensen said the outcry in the small Bay Area community had been misplaced. The restrictions he approved on flags were simply an attempt to avoid future fights, and even legal action, over giving preference to a specific flag, he said. Now, voting is underway in the election that could remove the father of six from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979211\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"School officials are sitting behind desks with a microphone in front of them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-SUNOL-RECALL-KSM-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trustee Ryan Jergensen (center) listens to public comment during a Sunol Glen Unified School District governing board meeting in Sunol on March 12, 2024. Jergensen and Trustee Linda Hurley (right) will face a recall election in July. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if our town will ever recover from the all-out attacks and war that’s being thrown by the recall side, the tens of thousands of dollars thrown in by the teachers union to kind of squash two small-town community members, one who has kids in the school,” Jergensen said. “It’s going to be hard for people to want to support a school, to support the town, [to] come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the results in Temecula and Sunol, California’s school board fights appear unlikely to die down. Republican officials and conservative activists are determined to continue recruiting candidates and investing in school board races in hopes of regaining momentum in the fall. Many Democrats, union leaders and recall organizers said the four recall campaigns have been a wake-up call, a reminder to vigorously contest school board seats in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Crosbie, a Democratic activist and former school board member in Fremont, spent the last year traveling to meetings of the state Democratic party and its local central committees, where she implored party stalwarts to pay attention to the races at the bottom of the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats need to be aware because recall campaigns are very expensive, and they take a lot of time and effort that could be spent on supporting students,” Crosbie said. “We all need to be paying attention the first time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story included reporting from KVCR’s Madison Aument.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly 3.7 million students and 667,000 newborns in California have money invested in a savings account to help pay for college. But most families don’t know the money is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citlali Lopez, a second-year psychology student at Sacramento State, found out a few months ago she had $500 sitting in a California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program (CalKIDS) account. Although she’s been eligible to use the funds since she graduated high school in 2022, she had no idea until her sister, who works at a nonprofit that supports lower-income students with scholarships and financial aid, told her to check her eligibility. Lopez was skeptical at first, but found she was eligible and registered her account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just really surprised that I was able to get some extra help,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial aid had been top of mind for her and guided her decision to go to Sacramento State. She plans on using the money to finish general education classes over the summer if financial aid will not cover it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citlali Lopez is a 2nd-year student at Sacramento State University and a beneficiary of the state’s CalKIDS program. May 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So who gets money? Under CalKIDS, all babies born in California receive a sum. Babies born between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023 received $25 deposits, and all babies born after July 1, 2023 receive $100 deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the program, all first grade students with low-income receive a onetime deposit of $500. First graders who are in foster care receive an extra $500 and homeless first graders receive $500 more, totaling $1500 for some students. All the accounts are tax-free, and the money is invested whether or not families claim their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the state spent $1.8 billion in the 2021–22 budget to provide a onetime deposit to all lower-income students in grades 1 through 12 in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, of the 4.3 million student accounts created, only 313,445 accounts have been claimed by families, meaning they have \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/get-started/\">registered online\u003c/a> and seen the amount in their accounts. Only 6.3% of newborn accounts have been claimed and 7.4% of student accounts have been claimed as of March 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-the-state-is-slowly-building-awareness-about-college-savings\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The state is slowly building awareness about college savings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CalKIDS is run by a three-person team led by Julio Martinez, the executive director of the Scholarshare Investment Board, an agency within the State Treasurer’s Office. It administers the state’s 529 college savings accounts, which allow families to invest money tax free to cover education related expenses in the future. The team is responsible for creating the accounts, notifying families about the accounts and explaining what CalKIDS can provide to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With these programs, it takes time to kind of build brand awareness, and also to break down the skepticism that often exists when you get a letter in the mail that says you have free money,” Martinez said. CalKIDS staffers go to college fairs and financial aid nights and host \u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarshare529.com/events\">online informational sessions\u003c/a> to reach families and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state allocated \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/sub-3-may-7-agenda-final.pdf\">$22 million (PDF)\u003c/a> in the 2022 and 2023 budgets to market the program. In Los Angeles, Riverside, Fresno, and Sonoma counties, CalKIDS program info is sent to all families that request a birth certificate, according to Joe DeAnda, the director of communication at the State Treasurer’s Office. During the first three months of this year, registration in the newborn program has more than doubled, from 20,608 to 42,312 newborns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, CalKIDS began targeting high school seniors, through social media, email and direct mail, according to DeAnda. By May, the number of claims among high school seniors increased by 74%. They have partnered with school districts, such as Hawthorne School District in Los Angeles County, where 87% of seniors have claimed their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, most of the funds for marketing CalKIDS remain unused. The 2023–24 California state budget reappropriated $8 million to CalKIDS for a statewide media campaign, and the Scholarshare Investment Board is currently soliciting proposals for marketing services, which were anticipated to start on April 1, but have not begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If families are not aware of this program, then it’s not going to have the impact that we think it’s going to have,” Martinez said.[aside label=\"More Stories\" tag=\"financial-aid\"]The fact that many families don’t start thinking about college until high school is one cultural obstacle that college savings programs like CalKIDS run up against, says Willie Elliott, a professor of social work and founder of the Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion at the University of Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we can’t expect that we put one of these programs in place, and, instantly, people get it and start functioning in that way,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott has helped develop state and local college savings programs in Pennsylvania, New York City and Washington, D.C. He says that enrollment is not the best measure of success of programs like CalKIDS, especially this early on in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have in place in California is the infrastructure and now you have to do the work of making communities aware,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggests that creating a culture around college savings through programs like CalKIDs will lead to positive outcomes. Those include increased account enrollment, more family conversations about going to college, and generally less stress for families who will be hopeful for their children’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversations about college are as important as the amount of money actually in the account, Elliott said. Elliott’s research has shown that lower-income students with a college savings account are three times more likely to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740912004379?via%3Dihub\">attend college\u003c/a> and four times more likely to graduate than students without an account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988480\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the CalKIDS website. \u003ccite>(CalKIDS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amanda Cook, a mother of six who has four children eligible for CalKIDS, is the homeless student advocate at Marysville Joint Unified School District in Yuba County, where she works to support homeless students and help them graduate. She said a lot of the families she works with don’t have college at the top of their mind because they’re thinking about urgent concerns like where they will sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if schools were able to register students, it would be helpful for the families she supports. She also said training for school staff and counselors on the program as well as outreach from California Health and Human Services would help build awareness for schools and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-calkids-joins-local-programs-investing-in-students-education-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">CalKIDS joins local programs investing in students’ education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many students, CalKIDS can be coupled with one of more than a dozen local child’s savings account programs in California. Launched in 2010 by then-mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newson, Kindergarten to College was the first program in the country to include automatic and universal enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 14 years, the program has been able to refine its outreach efforts to meet the needs of San Franciscans, said Amanda Fried, the chief of policy and communications at the San Francisco Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector. Students are eligible no matter their documentation status and can easily make cash deposits into their accounts.[aside label=\"Higher Education Stories\" tag=\"california-colleges\"]“People have so many things on their plate, and so many competing priorities, and I think a huge mistrust of the financial system, which is totally warranted,” Fried said. “So this program just kind of eliminates so many barriers for families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program’s five-person team hosts weekly \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/help-center\">online office hours\u003c/a> in English and Spanish, texts resources and reminders to parents and trains teachers and counselors as school ambassadors to explain the program and answer questions. Students take field trips to Citibank to make deposits into their accounts, so they can physically contribute to their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really have an intentional focus on schools where typically students are much less likely to go to college. That’s where we focus our in-person resources,” Fried said. “We’re on the ground at those schools, talking to families constantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/\">Oakland Promise\u003c/a> has a child’s savings program that starts in kindergarten, also called Kindergarten to College, alongside a program for newborns for Medi-Cal eligible families called Brilliant Baby. Veena Pawloski, the chief program officer at Oakland Promise, said they use community-based organizations to act as enrolling partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-can-college-savings-accounts-help-combat-poverty-nbsp-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can college savings accounts help combat poverty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The aim of college savings programs like CalKIDS is not for money deposited by the state to grow enough to pay for college entirely. Rather, the program intends to ease some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/when-is-a-california-college-degree-worth-the-cost-a-new-study-has-answers/\">burden of college costs\u003c/a> and help students create a college-bound identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, UCLA \u003ca href=\"https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty-and-research/CalKids-Institute\">opened\u003c/a> the CalKIDS Institute in partnership with the state to boost outreach as well as research the program’s reach and which demographics they should be targeting based on enrollment. The institute’s director, Nayiri Nahabedian, said that, ultimately, the point of all these programs is to make college seem like an attainable goal for students and show them that the state, their community and their family believe that they can pursue higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalKIDS made me realize more how much people are willing to help students,” said Lopez, the Sacramento State student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a lot of students [the money] can make the difference between deciding to go and not deciding to go. It can be the difference between having a laptop and not having a laptop, having WiFi at home and not having WiFi at home,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to registering, students can connect their CalKIDS account to a ScholarShare 529 account where families can contribute their own money, which is invested. Six percent of claimed student accounts and 35% of claimed newborn accounts have been connected to a ScholarShare 529 account. According to Martinez, families have, on average, $2,890 in their Scholarshare 529 account connected via their CalKIDS account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evelyn Garcia Romero, a senior at Calistoga Junior-Senior High School, did not know before talking to CalMatters that she could add her own money into a Scholarshare 529 that has accrued $32 in addition to the original $500 deposit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like every cent counts and makes a difference,” said Garcia Romero, who plans on using her CalKIDS money and future savings to go to law school. “So, having an extra $500 would be so helpful and will definitely encourage me to attend college even more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly 3.7 million students and 667,000 newborns in California have money invested in a savings account to help pay for college. But most families don’t know the money is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citlali Lopez, a second-year psychology student at Sacramento State, found out a few months ago she had $500 sitting in a California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program (CalKIDS) account. Although she’s been eligible to use the funds since she graduated high school in 2022, she had no idea until her sister, who works at a nonprofit that supports lower-income students with scholarships and financial aid, told her to check her eligibility. Lopez was skeptical at first, but found she was eligible and registered her account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just really surprised that I was able to get some extra help,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial aid had been top of mind for her and guided her decision to go to Sacramento State. She plans on using the money to finish general education classes over the summer if financial aid will not cover it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citlali Lopez is a 2nd-year student at Sacramento State University and a beneficiary of the state’s CalKIDS program. May 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So who gets money? Under CalKIDS, all babies born in California receive a sum. Babies born between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023 received $25 deposits, and all babies born after July 1, 2023 receive $100 deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the program, all first grade students with low-income receive a onetime deposit of $500. First graders who are in foster care receive an extra $500 and homeless first graders receive $500 more, totaling $1500 for some students. All the accounts are tax-free, and the money is invested whether or not families claim their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the state spent $1.8 billion in the 2021–22 budget to provide a onetime deposit to all lower-income students in grades 1 through 12 in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, of the 4.3 million student accounts created, only 313,445 accounts have been claimed by families, meaning they have \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/get-started/\">registered online\u003c/a> and seen the amount in their accounts. Only 6.3% of newborn accounts have been claimed and 7.4% of student accounts have been claimed as of March 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-the-state-is-slowly-building-awareness-about-college-savings\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The state is slowly building awareness about college savings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CalKIDS is run by a three-person team led by Julio Martinez, the executive director of the Scholarshare Investment Board, an agency within the State Treasurer’s Office. It administers the state’s 529 college savings accounts, which allow families to invest money tax free to cover education related expenses in the future. The team is responsible for creating the accounts, notifying families about the accounts and explaining what CalKIDS can provide to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With these programs, it takes time to kind of build brand awareness, and also to break down the skepticism that often exists when you get a letter in the mail that says you have free money,” Martinez said. CalKIDS staffers go to college fairs and financial aid nights and host \u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarshare529.com/events\">online informational sessions\u003c/a> to reach families and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state allocated \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/sub-3-may-7-agenda-final.pdf\">$22 million (PDF)\u003c/a> in the 2022 and 2023 budgets to market the program. In Los Angeles, Riverside, Fresno, and Sonoma counties, CalKIDS program info is sent to all families that request a birth certificate, according to Joe DeAnda, the director of communication at the State Treasurer’s Office. During the first three months of this year, registration in the newborn program has more than doubled, from 20,608 to 42,312 newborns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“People have so many things on their plate, and so many competing priorities, and I think a huge mistrust of the financial system, which is totally warranted,” Fried said. “So this program just kind of eliminates so many barriers for families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program’s five-person team hosts weekly \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/help-center\">online office hours\u003c/a> in English and Spanish, texts resources and reminders to parents and trains teachers and counselors as school ambassadors to explain the program and answer questions. Students take field trips to Citibank to make deposits into their accounts, so they can physically contribute to their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really have an intentional focus on schools where typically students are much less likely to go to college. That’s where we focus our in-person resources,” Fried said. “We’re on the ground at those schools, talking to families constantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/\">Oakland Promise\u003c/a> has a child’s savings program that starts in kindergarten, also called Kindergarten to College, alongside a program for newborns for Medi-Cal eligible families called Brilliant Baby. Veena Pawloski, the chief program officer at Oakland Promise, said they use community-based organizations to act as enrolling partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-can-college-savings-accounts-help-combat-poverty-nbsp-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can college savings accounts help combat poverty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The aim of college savings programs like CalKIDS is not for money deposited by the state to grow enough to pay for college entirely. Rather, the program intends to ease some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/when-is-a-california-college-degree-worth-the-cost-a-new-study-has-answers/\">burden of college costs\u003c/a> and help students create a college-bound identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, UCLA \u003ca href=\"https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty-and-research/CalKids-Institute\">opened\u003c/a> the CalKIDS Institute in partnership with the state to boost outreach as well as research the program’s reach and which demographics they should be targeting based on enrollment. The institute’s director, Nayiri Nahabedian, said that, ultimately, the point of all these programs is to make college seem like an attainable goal for students and show them that the state, their community and their family believe that they can pursue higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalKIDS made me realize more how much people are willing to help students,” said Lopez, the Sacramento State student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a lot of students [the money] can make the difference between deciding to go and not deciding to go. It can be the difference between having a laptop and not having a laptop, having WiFi at home and not having WiFi at home,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to registering, students can connect their CalKIDS account to a ScholarShare 529 account where families can contribute their own money, which is invested. Six percent of claimed student accounts and 35% of claimed newborn accounts have been connected to a ScholarShare 529 account. According to Martinez, families have, on average, $2,890 in their Scholarshare 529 account connected via their CalKIDS account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evelyn Garcia Romero, a senior at Calistoga Junior-Senior High School, did not know before talking to CalMatters that she could add her own money into a Scholarshare 529 that has accrued $32 in addition to the original $500 deposit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like every cent counts and makes a difference,” said Garcia Romero, who plans on using her CalKIDS money and future savings to go to law school. “So, having an extra $500 would be so helpful and will definitely encourage me to attend college even more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:35 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police in riot gear arrested about 80 protesters at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UC Santa Cruz early Friday after the demonstrators had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988039/pro-palestinian-protests-block-uc-santa-cruz-entrances-pushing-classes-back-online\">blocked campus entrances\u003c/a>, according to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 11 p.m. Thursday, officers gathered near the encampment. Video \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/police-israel-hamas-war-protesters-uc-santa-cruz/3553482/\">shot by NBC Bay Area\u003c/a> shows the protesters standing in line, linking arms across the campus and facing a line of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Hindery, a student negotiator for the UC Santa Cruz Palestine Solidarity Encampment, estimated there were hundreds of protesters outnumbering the police. Within the first few hours, officers started arresting protesters, Hindery included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt unheard by our administration; our demands are still unmet,” Hindery said. “We see all of the attacks in Rafah over the last week, and we felt a need to make our voices a little louder in calling for divestment, boycott and disclosure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrests capped a chaotic few weeks for UC Santa Cruz, which was the first University of California campus to see its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987173/uc-academic-workers-strike-is-limited-to-santa-cruz-so-far-heres-why\">unionized academic workers go on strike\u003c/a> May 20. 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The forecasted deficit could change — legislators and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/gavin-newsom/\">Newsom\u003c/a> have until late June to finalize a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/california-budget/\">state budget\u003c/a> that could include more money for the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protecting Cal State, community college and University of California ongoing funding from cuts \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-no-3-education-finance-20240522?time%5bmedia-element-3548%5d=2205.027925\">“wherever possible” is a priority\u003c/a>, said \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/david-alvarez-112993\">David Alvarez\u003c/a>, a Democratic assembly member from Chula Vista and chair of the Assembly’s budget subcommittee on education, last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got to stick with the commitments we’re making to the students of California \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257992?t=932&f=4e3a5b720eefa3f44944e5f34b23a31c\">in the budget\u003c/a>,” said \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/greg-wallis-165439\">Greg Wallis\u003c/a>, a Republican assembly member from Rancho Mirage, at the same hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Newsom’s May budget update becomes law, Cal State would face a three-year operating deficit of $831 million through 2025–26 — more than $500 million greater than what was estimated last September, said Ryan Storm, an assistant vice chancellor at Cal State overseeing the system’s finances, at a trustees meeting last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Budget math\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The yawning gap is the result of two forces: Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/california-budget/\">heavily scaling back his promises of growing financial support\u003c/a> for Cal State due to the state’s multibillion-dollar deficit and ever-increasing labor costs fueled by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/02/cal-state-faculty-contract/\">recent 5% pay hikes\u003c/a> to much of the system’s roughly 60,000 unionized workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other expenses include nearly $80 million in higher health care premiums to provide insurance to its employees in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s May spending plans for Cal State, the UC and other state agencies are complex, prompting the Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/may-22-sub-3-agenda-and-memo.pdf#page=14\"> to call them\u003c/a> “opaque and unnecessarily complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a mix of cuts in 2024–25 and far less new spending in 2025–26 than initially promised, Cal State would see new state revenues that are $470 million less than they anticipated last fall, according to \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/US5QqNnXhac?si=IzY2Y7gLmiTmGRW8&t=2257\">summary tables Storm showed the trustees\u003c/a>. A promise to backfill faculty raises to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2024/01/cal-state-strike/\">end a strike\u003c/a> earlier this year added roughly $30 million to the system’s budget gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State was already projecting a three-year budget gap of more than $300 million last September. That was even with the assumption of nearly $500 million more in state support through 2026 and roughly $200 million more in new tuition revenue after the board approved tuition hikes of 34% across five years starting this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half a billion dollars is equivalent to the entire operating budget of San Diego State University, among the system’s largest campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Campus strategies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Presidents of the 23 campuses at Cal State gathered in April to quantify what the budget shortfall of more than $800 million would mean for student learning and hiring decisions. 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Other potential cost-cutting measures include leaving various positions unfilled, not replacing staff and faculty who retire and early-retirement programs at some campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the system is not recommending layoffs, but it expects the various hiring freezes and unfilled vacancies will lead to “a reduction of about 450 faculty and staff positions through 25–26,” Storm said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campuses also intend to use more than $500 million in reserves through 2025–26, depleting 22% of the system’s one-time funds intended for emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The April meeting also calculated a projected 2026–27 systemwide deficit of more than $200 million — the cost equivalent of 12,500 classes taught, 1,500 faculty or 1,100 managers, representing a quarter of all the managers at Cal State.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Effect on classes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal State trustees in March learned that campuses cut or suspended 137 academic programs and other areas of study in 2024 — a huge jump compared to 2023 and 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2024/Documents/EDPOL-binder-Mar-24-27-2024.pdf#page=28\">when only a combined 47 were cut or put on pause\u003c/a>. 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A promise to backfill faculty raises to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2024/01/cal-state-strike/\">end a strike\u003c/a> earlier this year added roughly $30 million to the system’s budget gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State was already projecting a three-year budget gap of more than $300 million last September. That was even with the assumption of nearly $500 million more in state support through 2026 and roughly $200 million more in new tuition revenue after the board approved tuition hikes of 34% across five years starting this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half a billion dollars is equivalent to the entire operating budget of San Diego State University, among the system’s largest campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Campus strategies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Presidents of the 23 campuses at Cal State gathered in April to quantify what the budget shortfall of more than $800 million would mean for student learning and hiring decisions. It was more of a thought exercise than an implementation plan. The presidents and \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/US5QqNnXhac?si=Yel-gg1AimqvN0Zg&t=2491\">system leadership assumed\u003c/a> no new state spending in the next two years — despite Newsom’s May plans. It also assumed workers would get raises in 2024–25 but not in 2025–26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campuses\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/US5QqNnXhac?si=4rNELs6nduiwNJlr&t=2655\"> are considering\u003c/a> increasing class sizes, reducing the number of available courses to reflect student demand and bringing down the number of part-time faculty and lecturers — actions that \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/SK22GFX2Kkk?si=fXw8wXV-Q0LO7mol&t=3041\">some campuses undertook\u003c/a> this spring to close a combined $138 million budget gap. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly a third of the academic and graduate student workers of the University of California are on strike after the union of 48,000 members escalated its labor standoff by walking off the job at UCLA and UC Davis this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With as many as 2,000 UC Santa Cruz graduate students and academic workers picketing since last Monday, Tuesday’s job action brings 12,000 more out of classrooms and laboratories, potentially crippling the university’s mission of educating the roughly 80,000 undergraduates at the three campuses, just two weeks before students begin to take their end-of-quarter finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers, including teaching assistants, academic researchers and graders, are striking not over pay and benefits \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike-protests/\">but instead over the UC’s response\u003c/a> to pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested by police or suspended from their campuses. Some union members were arrested or suspended for their role in the protests. Core to the union’s demands is that the UC offer “amnesty for those who experienced arrest or are facing University discipline,” the union’s public writings state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 60 academic workers began picketing at Royce Quad at UCLA by 9 a.m., where just weeks ago, students at a large pro-Palestinian encampment were attacked by counterprotesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC, UC you’re no good, treat your workers like you should,” the picketing academic workers chanted, their ranks gradually growing as more striking workers arrived under a gray sky. “When free speech is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back,” went another chant, the rhythmic pulses of a snare drum accompanying the picketers, who grew to more than 200 by 10:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Origins of strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC’s Office of the President \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-statement-uaw-vote-conduct-unlawful-strike\">calls the strike illegal\u003c/a>, saying that its contract with the union — itself the result of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">a six-week-long strike in late 2022\u003c/a> — includes a no-strike provision. The union, UAW 4811, vehemently disagrees with that analysis, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=20\">citing legal precedent\u003c/a> that a union can strike over unfair labor practices that fall outside the scope of a union contract. It’s a view shared \u003ca href=\"https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/16/op-ed-uc-offers-deceptive-claims-about-illegality-of-strike-in-letter-to-union-members\">by at least one UCLA law professor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides have leaned heavily on the state’s Public Employment Relations Board to adjudicate their disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11987737,news_11987499,news_11986910\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Two days after police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/ucla-protest-palestine-police/\">swept the encampments at UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/\">arrested scores of protesters\u003c/a>, the union \u003ca href=\"https://www.uaw4811.org/2024-ulp-charges\">filed an unfair labor practice violation\u003c/a> with the labor relations board. The union then filed similar violations after police cleared encampments at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2024/05/06/chp-raids-ucsd-gaza-solidarity-encampment\">UC San Diego\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/police-converge-on-pro-palestinian-protest-at-uc-irvine-students-are-told-to-shelter-in-place\">UC Irvine, which \u003c/a>also led to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/\">arrests of protesters\u003c/a> — and \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">another alleging\u003c/a> that the UC changed its disciplinary rules unilaterally to punish academic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By summoning the police to forcibly arrest and/or issuing interim suspensions to these employees, the University has violated their employee rights,“ the union wrote in one of its submissions to the labor relations board. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=3\">The union said\u003c/a> its workers were not only rallying against the war in Gaza but also seeking ways to remove academic research funding sources \u003ca href=\"https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2024/05/how-uc-researchers-began-saying-no-military-work\">tied to the U.S. military\u003c/a>. Workers also oppose “the discrimination and hostile work environment directed towards Palestinian, Muslim, and pro-Palestine Jewish employees and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike a systemwide strike, this “stand up” strike will pursue labor stoppages at certain campuses, a strategy employed by Detroit autoworkers in their \u003ca href=\"https://labornotes.org/2023/10/big-3-buckled-stand-strike-spread\">successful campaign for higher compensation last year\u003c/a>. The approach is meant to apply gradual pressure to management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the strike is technically distinct from the larger protest movement against the war, the two movements are related. Last Thursday, several hundred UCLA members of the UAW 4811 held a rally in support of their impending strike. Moments later, they joined a student-led protest demanding that the UC call for a cease-fire and divest from weapons manufacturers and the Israeli economy. That same day, protesters erected a short-lived encampment and temporarily took \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/#:~:text=Meanwhile%2C%20also%20in,class%C2%A0%20from%20entering.\">over a campus building before being pushed out by police\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a clear sign that, despite hundreds of arrests in May, thousands of students, union members and some faculty remain passionate about their pro-Palestinian advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legality of strike debated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost 20,000 of the union’s 48,000 members voted on whether to strike two weeks ago and nearly 80% of those who did vote approved the strike authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC sought an injunction to legally halt the strike, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_IR_Denial.pdf\">but the labor relations board wrote\u003c/a> last week that UC hadn’t established that an injunction is “just and proper.” The union hailed the ruling. However, the board wrote that it was leaving UC’s request open in the event the university provided better evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a partial victory for the university, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_CC1.pdf\">the board issued a complaint that the union\u003c/a> “failed to provide adequate advance notice of its work stoppage, and failed and refused to meet and confer in good faith.” The UC press office, in announcing the board’s response, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor-news/uaw-news-and-updates-2/#:~:text=PERB%20issues%20complaint%20against%20UAW%C2%A0\">wrote that the labor board\u003c/a> “found enough evidence to suggest that a violation may have occurred, and further examination is warranted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues in its latest unfair labor practice violation that the UC unilaterally implemented a disciplinary policy that affects UAW 4811 workers. The union \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">seeks an order\u003c/a> telling the UC to “cease and desist from unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of employment related to discipline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the UC Office of the President disputes that characterization, writing that these policies aren’t new and reaffirm existing rules. The spokesperson, Heather Hansen, sought to invalidate the central thrust of the union’s demands, writing to CalMatters last week: “By requesting amnesty, UAW is asking the University not to follow its processes but rather to make an exception for its members so that they are not subject to the same accountability measures applicable to all other members of the UC community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Effect on student learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all unionized workers have jobs with labor to withhold. Some are paid with fellowships to advance their own research. But most perform a job duty that’s integral to the academic mission of the university. Systemwide, about 20,000 workers are graduate student teaching assistants, tutors or other instructional assistants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate students teach classes, especially introductory courses, run discussion sections and grade student work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, about 60% to 70% of UC Santa Cruz workers who could withhold their labor did, estimated Rebecca Gross, the unit chair of the union at the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the social media platform Reddit, individuals identifying themselves as UCLA students wrote that some of their discussion sessions are \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/1d1g2rq/classes_affected_by_the_strike/\">being canceled\u003c/a> and that some of their courses are moving online. It “is tragic for me bc I learn 80% of the material from discussion and problem-solving sessions,” wrote one poster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’ll pick up the work that the striking workers won’t do is an open question. The governing body of UCLA faculty \u003ca href=\"https://senate.ucla.edu/news/academic-senate-guidance-uaw-strike\">sent a message to professors that\u003c/a> “faculty members cannot be required to take on additional responsibilities for teaching related to a work stoppage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Graduate worker anger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most protesters, including UAW 4811 members, who were arrested, were cited for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/210-people-arrested-from-ucla-police-chief-confirms/3403435/#:~:text=LAPD%20Interim%20Chief%20Dominic%20Choi,in%20a%20social%20media%20posting.\">failing to follow police orders to disperse\u003c/a>. At UCLA, administrators sent a notice to students and protesters on April 30, a day before police cleared the encampment, that “the established encampment is unlawful and violates university policy” and asked the participants to leave the area or face sanctions. The notice also said that “law enforcement is prepared to arrest individuals, in accordance with applicable law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice added that “for students, those sanctions could include disciplinary measures such as interim suspension that, after proper due process through the student conduct process, could lead to dismissal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the encampment replied the same day, writing in part, “We will continue to remain here steadfast in our demands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, counterprotesters attacked those in the encampment with pepper spray, wooden sticks and at least one firework as police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/#:~:text=Counterprotesters%20had%20set%20off%20fireworks%20around%2010%3A30%20p.m.%20Tuesday%2C%20and%20later%2C%20armed%20with%20pepper%20and%20bear%20spray%2C%20physically%20attacked%20those%20residing%20in%20the%20pro%2DPalestinian%20encampment.\">stood by for hours\u003c/a> and made no arrests. Local and national news outlets brought around-the-clock coverage of the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next afternoon, police ordered members of the encampment to disperse. Hours after those orders, police arrested more than 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In contrast to the lack of police response to the violent attack by anti-Palestine counterprotesters on April 30, 2024, the University summoned a massive number of police officers on the evening of May 1, 2024, for the purpose of ejecting and arresting the employees engaged in peaceful protest in the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment,” union lawyers wrote in one of the unfair labor practice violations \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=5\">submitted to the state labor relations board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kye Shi, a mathematics doctoral student at UCLA, pushed back on the reason to call the police in the first place. “Just because the police say it’s unlawful doesn’t mean that they’re right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unlawful assembly is an excuse by the university to shut us down,” Shi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego issued at least 40 suspensions in the middle of May related to the pro-Palestinian protests, the union wrote in one of its unfair labor practice violations. “Such extreme disciplinary measures in response to peaceful protest activity suppress free expression of ideas and violate the First Amendment,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=11\">it read\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are standing up for justice in the workplace, in a way that directly affects not just us, but our students,” said Anny Viloria Winnett, the unit chair of the local UCLA union chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the union is taking on a “fight for our ability to be safe on campus, our ability to have free speech and protest on our campus, but it’s also a fight that our students led … and we’re just a continuation of that.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly a third of the academic and graduate student workers of the University of California are on strike after the union of 48,000 members escalated its labor standoff by walking off the job at UCLA and UC Davis this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With as many as 2,000 UC Santa Cruz graduate students and academic workers picketing since last Monday, Tuesday’s job action brings 12,000 more out of classrooms and laboratories, potentially crippling the university’s mission of educating the roughly 80,000 undergraduates at the three campuses, just two weeks before students begin to take their end-of-quarter finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers, including teaching assistants, academic researchers and graders, are striking not over pay and benefits \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike-protests/\">but instead over the UC’s response\u003c/a> to pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested by police or suspended from their campuses. Some union members were arrested or suspended for their role in the protests. Core to the union’s demands is that the UC offer “amnesty for those who experienced arrest or are facing University discipline,” the union’s public writings state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 60 academic workers began picketing at Royce Quad at UCLA by 9 a.m., where just weeks ago, students at a large pro-Palestinian encampment were attacked by counterprotesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC, UC you’re no good, treat your workers like you should,” the picketing academic workers chanted, their ranks gradually growing as more striking workers arrived under a gray sky. “When free speech is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back,” went another chant, the rhythmic pulses of a snare drum accompanying the picketers, who grew to more than 200 by 10:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Origins of strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC’s Office of the President \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-statement-uaw-vote-conduct-unlawful-strike\">calls the strike illegal\u003c/a>, saying that its contract with the union — itself the result of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">a six-week-long strike in late 2022\u003c/a> — includes a no-strike provision. The union, UAW 4811, vehemently disagrees with that analysis, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=20\">citing legal precedent\u003c/a> that a union can strike over unfair labor practices that fall outside the scope of a union contract. It’s a view shared \u003ca href=\"https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/16/op-ed-uc-offers-deceptive-claims-about-illegality-of-strike-in-letter-to-union-members\">by at least one UCLA law professor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two days after police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/ucla-protest-palestine-police/\">swept the encampments at UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/\">arrested scores of protesters\u003c/a>, the union \u003ca href=\"https://www.uaw4811.org/2024-ulp-charges\">filed an unfair labor practice violation\u003c/a> with the labor relations board. The union then filed similar violations after police cleared encampments at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2024/05/06/chp-raids-ucsd-gaza-solidarity-encampment\">UC San Diego\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/police-converge-on-pro-palestinian-protest-at-uc-irvine-students-are-told-to-shelter-in-place\">UC Irvine, which \u003c/a>also led to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/\">arrests of protesters\u003c/a> — and \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">another alleging\u003c/a> that the UC changed its disciplinary rules unilaterally to punish academic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By summoning the police to forcibly arrest and/or issuing interim suspensions to these employees, the University has violated their employee rights,“ the union wrote in one of its submissions to the labor relations board. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=3\">The union said\u003c/a> its workers were not only rallying against the war in Gaza but also seeking ways to remove academic research funding sources \u003ca href=\"https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2024/05/how-uc-researchers-began-saying-no-military-work\">tied to the U.S. military\u003c/a>. Workers also oppose “the discrimination and hostile work environment directed towards Palestinian, Muslim, and pro-Palestine Jewish employees and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike a systemwide strike, this “stand up” strike will pursue labor stoppages at certain campuses, a strategy employed by Detroit autoworkers in their \u003ca href=\"https://labornotes.org/2023/10/big-3-buckled-stand-strike-spread\">successful campaign for higher compensation last year\u003c/a>. The approach is meant to apply gradual pressure to management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the strike is technically distinct from the larger protest movement against the war, the two movements are related. Last Thursday, several hundred UCLA members of the UAW 4811 held a rally in support of their impending strike. Moments later, they joined a student-led protest demanding that the UC call for a cease-fire and divest from weapons manufacturers and the Israeli economy. That same day, protesters erected a short-lived encampment and temporarily took \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/#:~:text=Meanwhile%2C%20also%20in,class%C2%A0%20from%20entering.\">over a campus building before being pushed out by police\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a clear sign that, despite hundreds of arrests in May, thousands of students, union members and some faculty remain passionate about their pro-Palestinian advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legality of strike debated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost 20,000 of the union’s 48,000 members voted on whether to strike two weeks ago and nearly 80% of those who did vote approved the strike authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC sought an injunction to legally halt the strike, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_IR_Denial.pdf\">but the labor relations board wrote\u003c/a> last week that UC hadn’t established that an injunction is “just and proper.” The union hailed the ruling. However, the board wrote that it was leaving UC’s request open in the event the university provided better evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a partial victory for the university, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_CC1.pdf\">the board issued a complaint that the union\u003c/a> “failed to provide adequate advance notice of its work stoppage, and failed and refused to meet and confer in good faith.” The UC press office, in announcing the board’s response, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor-news/uaw-news-and-updates-2/#:~:text=PERB%20issues%20complaint%20against%20UAW%C2%A0\">wrote that the labor board\u003c/a> “found enough evidence to suggest that a violation may have occurred, and further examination is warranted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues in its latest unfair labor practice violation that the UC unilaterally implemented a disciplinary policy that affects UAW 4811 workers. The union \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">seeks an order\u003c/a> telling the UC to “cease and desist from unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of employment related to discipline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the UC Office of the President disputes that characterization, writing that these policies aren’t new and reaffirm existing rules. The spokesperson, Heather Hansen, sought to invalidate the central thrust of the union’s demands, writing to CalMatters last week: “By requesting amnesty, UAW is asking the University not to follow its processes but rather to make an exception for its members so that they are not subject to the same accountability measures applicable to all other members of the UC community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Effect on student learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all unionized workers have jobs with labor to withhold. Some are paid with fellowships to advance their own research. But most perform a job duty that’s integral to the academic mission of the university. Systemwide, about 20,000 workers are graduate student teaching assistants, tutors or other instructional assistants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate students teach classes, especially introductory courses, run discussion sections and grade student work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, about 60% to 70% of UC Santa Cruz workers who could withhold their labor did, estimated Rebecca Gross, the unit chair of the union at the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the social media platform Reddit, individuals identifying themselves as UCLA students wrote that some of their discussion sessions are \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/1d1g2rq/classes_affected_by_the_strike/\">being canceled\u003c/a> and that some of their courses are moving online. It “is tragic for me bc I learn 80% of the material from discussion and problem-solving sessions,” wrote one poster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’ll pick up the work that the striking workers won’t do is an open question. The governing body of UCLA faculty \u003ca href=\"https://senate.ucla.edu/news/academic-senate-guidance-uaw-strike\">sent a message to professors that\u003c/a> “faculty members cannot be required to take on additional responsibilities for teaching related to a work stoppage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Graduate worker anger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most protesters, including UAW 4811 members, who were arrested, were cited for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/210-people-arrested-from-ucla-police-chief-confirms/3403435/#:~:text=LAPD%20Interim%20Chief%20Dominic%20Choi,in%20a%20social%20media%20posting.\">failing to follow police orders to disperse\u003c/a>. At UCLA, administrators sent a notice to students and protesters on April 30, a day before police cleared the encampment, that “the established encampment is unlawful and violates university policy” and asked the participants to leave the area or face sanctions. The notice also said that “law enforcement is prepared to arrest individuals, in accordance with applicable law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice added that “for students, those sanctions could include disciplinary measures such as interim suspension that, after proper due process through the student conduct process, could lead to dismissal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the encampment replied the same day, writing in part, “We will continue to remain here steadfast in our demands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, counterprotesters attacked those in the encampment with pepper spray, wooden sticks and at least one firework as police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/#:~:text=Counterprotesters%20had%20set%20off%20fireworks%20around%2010%3A30%20p.m.%20Tuesday%2C%20and%20later%2C%20armed%20with%20pepper%20and%20bear%20spray%2C%20physically%20attacked%20those%20residing%20in%20the%20pro%2DPalestinian%20encampment.\">stood by for hours\u003c/a> and made no arrests. Local and national news outlets brought around-the-clock coverage of the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next afternoon, police ordered members of the encampment to disperse. Hours after those orders, police arrested more than 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In contrast to the lack of police response to the violent attack by anti-Palestine counterprotesters on April 30, 2024, the University summoned a massive number of police officers on the evening of May 1, 2024, for the purpose of ejecting and arresting the employees engaged in peaceful protest in the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment,” union lawyers wrote in one of the unfair labor practice violations \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=5\">submitted to the state labor relations board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kye Shi, a mathematics doctoral student at UCLA, pushed back on the reason to call the police in the first place. “Just because the police say it’s unlawful doesn’t mean that they’re right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unlawful assembly is an excuse by the university to shut us down,” Shi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego issued at least 40 suspensions in the middle of May related to the pro-Palestinian protests, the union wrote in one of its unfair labor practice violations. “Such extreme disciplinary measures in response to peaceful protest activity suppress free expression of ideas and violate the First Amendment,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=11\">it read\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are standing up for justice in the workplace, in a way that directly affects not just us, but our students,” said Anny Viloria Winnett, the unit chair of the local UCLA union chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 42,000 fewer students in California applied for federal student aid in 2024 than last year after a major overhaul of the application process resulted in serious technical problems for would-be college applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than half of California high school seniors completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid — or FAFSA — form this year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncan.org/page/FAFSAtracker\">May 17 data from the National College Attainment Network\u003c/a> (NCAN), a nonprofit that aims to increase postsecondary degree access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to NCAN’s latest available figures, which are still being updated as more forms are processed, the California class of 2024 saw a 14% decrease in FAFSA completions compared to the same time last year. (Due to the delayed launch of the 2024-25 FAFSA the data for that year starts in January, as shown in the graph below, rather than in October as in previous years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extended deadline for California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957693/applying-for-fafsa-in-2023-will-be-different-what-to-know-including-deadlines\">state aid was May 2\u003c/a>, although \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/fafsa-deadlines#fafsa-deadlines-2024-25\">students can still apply to FAFSA to assess their potential eligibility\u003c/a> for other types of aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California's total FAFSA Completions since 2017\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Uon0q\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Zp4Bd/4\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the drop in FAFSA applications was even higher: A 16% decrease compared to the class of 2023. California was ranked ninth in highest among U.S. states and territories for FAFSA completion, a position that has nonetheless improved in the past two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"High school seniors' FAFSA completions in 2024\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Uon0q\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/vX50o/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NCAN measured FAFSA completion data rather than just submissions, meaning the application has been submitted \u003cem>and \u003c/em>not sent back to the student for any corrections. The nonprofit’s data comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office and includes both public and private high schools. As it continues to report the submission numbers that are still coming in, NCAN also mounted \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncan.org/page/DoTheFAFSA\">a social campaign to highlight the national FAFSA statistics lagging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill DeBaun, NCAN’s senior director, said the submission data “really raises the question about how many students actually started the application but didn’t finish, because of the glitches in the application — or because of whatever complication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s applying for financial aid — and who’s not?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>NCAN’s data also reveals demographic disparities in who’s applying for financial aid in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income schools, defined as schools where at least half of the students are qualified for free or reduced-priced lunch, saw a FAFSA completion rate of 47%. This means, over 165,000 lower-income students did not complete the FAFSA this year compared to 2023 — a 15% decrease. By comparison, higher-income schools saw a 56% completion rate among their students and a 13% decrease from last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data is similar when examining completions among students of color in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than half of seniors in “high-minority” schools (which NCAN defines as enrolling 40% or more Black and/or Hispanic students) completed the FAFSA for 2024 — a 15% drop in this same group from last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, a higher percentage of seniors in “low-minority schools” — 56% — completed the FAFSA this year, with a smaller decrease of 12% in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monitoring the relative levels of FAFSA completion matters, DeBaun said, because the numbers give an idea of how many young people intend to enroll in college in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we see FAFSA completion go up, we see immediate college enrollment also go up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For mixed-status students, a particular burden\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As school counselors like Piedmont Hills’ Jill Shoopman can attest, applying to the FAFSA is already a dreaded process for most high school seniors who aim to attend postsecondary institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">the bungled rollout\u003c/a> had Shoopman fearing that many high school students would give up trying to complete the form entirely and miss out on aid they could be qualified for, especially those who need it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many in similar positions, Shoopman saw the particular impact on students from California’s mixed-status families. Mixed-status students \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">found themselves blocked from completing the FAFSA application\u003c/a> if one of their parents didn’t have a Social Security number due to their immigration status. Shoopman recalled how one of her favorite students, a senior from a mixed-status family, would stop by her office each week to anxiously ask, “Is there a fix? Is there a fix?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understands, even at her young age, how important this is,” Shoopman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counselors, high schools and college-prep organizations say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957693/applying-for-fafsa-in-2023-will-be-different-what-to-know-including-deadlines\">the delayed rollout of the relaunched FAFSA\u003c/a> — a revamp intended to streamline and simplify the process for students — was no big surprise. Further complicating the process were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63005/exclusive-the-education-department-says-it-will-fix-its-1-8-billion-fafsa-mistake\">glitches \u003c/a>with Social Security numbers and instances where students could not create accounts entirely, which created real panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The application launched on Dec. 30, 2023, but students from mixed-status families could only complete the application starting March 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t know how they didn’t anticipate that [mixed-status families not being able to apply] was going to be a concern,” Shoopman said — especially in a state like California, where \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantdataca.org/indicators/mixed-status-families?breakdown=by-age-group\">20% of Californians under 18 are either undocumented or living with undocumented family members\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Families, support staff and schools under pressure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For David Alvarez, the director of college readiness and success at Alpha Public Schools in San José, it was “the worst financial aid application season that I’ve ever experienced” in his 15 years in education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that us as a team, as well as fellow educators, tried our absolute best to improve completion rates from years to the next,” Alvarez said. “But the system [this year] didn’t really allow for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez’s school has a large number of first-generation and Latino students, he explained. In preparation for the application season, the school prepared FAFSA workshops and early morning hours for seniors to work on their application to provide specialized attention to students — trying to work around the complications of the form.[aside postID=news_11984551 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-SAT-III-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg']During those workshops, Alvarez managed the growing frustrations of students and their parents. He said some had taken time off work to attend a workshop and faced unanswered questions exacerbated by FAFSA glitches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience has become a nightmare when you realize that applications weren’t working properly, that you didn’t always have the answers when you were troubleshooting things … and that created a lot of distrust from students and parents,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, they might see it as, ‘Hey, you don’t have the answers. You might be incompetent. You don’t know what you’re talking about,’” Alvarez said. “And the reality is: It’s so much bigger than us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community is losing out on both the time and the money that, let’s be real, we didn’t really have in the first place to begin with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oftentimes, students would question the purpose of even doing the application, Alvarez said. Some four-year eligible students instead planned to go to community college, potentially overloading the community college system, which is unsure who will be attending in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With a delay in FAFSA, it delayed the ability for schools to present financial aid award letters,” Alvarez said. The FAFSA delays also delayed schools’ ability to present financial aid award letters, Alvarez said — meaning that “ultimately, students and parents can’t confidently select the institution that they want to go to — because they’re just unaware of how much money they will receive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many states extended their college application deadlines, this led to institutions not knowing who would attend their school in the fall. According to DeBaun, this impacts course schedules, staffing and residential halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a limit to how far back institutions can push these deadlines and still be prepared to receive students for the fall semester,” he said. Shoopman also said it can keep students on college waitlists in limbo as others consider if they can afford to enroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For students in California, or anywhere in America right now, we should be concerned about what full enrollment would look like based on the FAFSA completion declines that we’re seeing,” DeBaun said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Examining the reasons behind FAFSA declines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One factor to consider in this year’s sharp fall in FAFSA submissions is the record number of applications the state saw last year, according to California State Aid Commission (CSAC) spokesperson Shelveen Ratnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the agency’s widespread \u003ca href=\"https://campussuite-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/1558523/0672826e-a84b-11e7-9779-0ae3e1d9783c/2627890/325d1d6e-1cfb-11ee-b757-02b0137163b1/file/all_in_for_fafsa_ca_dream_act_fact_sheet.pdf\">“All in for FAFSA/CA Dream” campaign\u003c/a> promoted awareness of FAFSA, encouraging California high schools to have all students fill out an application or actively opt out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like every state that also implemented this policy, California saw a large jump in FAFSA completion numbers last year, DeBaun said. By September 2023, 62% of the class of 2023 had completed the FAFSA — compared to 58% of the class of 2022 in the same period that year.[aside postID=news_11982354 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240408-UCLAWSF-014-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']States that have traditionally done well with FAFSA completion, like California and Texas, are also seeing major drops this year, DeBaun said. However, for him, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fafsa\">the delay in this year’s FAFSA application\u003c/a> is at least partly responsible for these marked decreases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think about it this way: Every day, [successful states] are relatively more effective at getting more students to complete a FAFSA than their peers,” DeBaun said. “So when you take 90 days out of the FAFSA cycle … every single one of those days, relatively speaking, costs that state more in terms of FAFSA completion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The class of 2024 [has] just had a much smaller window in which to complete the FAFSA,” DeBaun said — and all the while — “the fall semester isn’t getting pushed back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratnam described the trend in data — and the technical difficulties that students faced — as “definitely alarming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Financial aid is] one of the most important things that students or families think about when it comes to deciding if they want to pursue higher education,” Ratnam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alvarez noted that FAFSA submission numbers have increased in the last weeks, likely helped by the fact that the previous glitches with the form had been fixed, he said that distrust of the process among students and their families is still noticeable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As this winter’s initial FAFSA errors might have been resolved, “tell that to someone who’s come to the high school five, six, seven, eight times already,” Alvarez said. “And that’s really what we’re facing: Just re-energizing the students and the parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As difficult as it is, it has long-term impacts, and we want to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do students still have time to apply?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the May 2 deadline for in-state aid has passed, CSAC is encouraging students to still apply to the FAFSA to see if they qualify for other types of financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/cal-grant-community-college-entitlement-award\">Cal Grant Community College Entitlement Award FAFSA application\u003c/a> is due on Sept. 2\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez said the FAFSA is often the first college-related struggle students face. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s applying for financial aid — and who’s not?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>NCAN’s data also reveals demographic disparities in who’s applying for financial aid in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income schools, defined as schools where at least half of the students are qualified for free or reduced-priced lunch, saw a FAFSA completion rate of 47%. This means, over 165,000 lower-income students did not complete the FAFSA this year compared to 2023 — a 15% decrease. By comparison, higher-income schools saw a 56% completion rate among their students and a 13% decrease from last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data is similar when examining completions among students of color in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than half of seniors in “high-minority” schools (which NCAN defines as enrolling 40% or more Black and/or Hispanic students) completed the FAFSA for 2024 — a 15% drop in this same group from last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, a higher percentage of seniors in “low-minority schools” — 56% — completed the FAFSA this year, with a smaller decrease of 12% in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monitoring the relative levels of FAFSA completion matters, DeBaun said, because the numbers give an idea of how many young people intend to enroll in college in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we see FAFSA completion go up, we see immediate college enrollment also go up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For mixed-status students, a particular burden\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As school counselors like Piedmont Hills’ Jill Shoopman can attest, applying to the FAFSA is already a dreaded process for most high school seniors who aim to attend postsecondary institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">the bungled rollout\u003c/a> had Shoopman fearing that many high school students would give up trying to complete the form entirely and miss out on aid they could be qualified for, especially those who need it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many in similar positions, Shoopman saw the particular impact on students from California’s mixed-status families. Mixed-status students \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">found themselves blocked from completing the FAFSA application\u003c/a> if one of their parents didn’t have a Social Security number due to their immigration status. Shoopman recalled how one of her favorite students, a senior from a mixed-status family, would stop by her office each week to anxiously ask, “Is there a fix? Is there a fix?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understands, even at her young age, how important this is,” Shoopman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counselors, high schools and college-prep organizations say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957693/applying-for-fafsa-in-2023-will-be-different-what-to-know-including-deadlines\">the delayed rollout of the relaunched FAFSA\u003c/a> — a revamp intended to streamline and simplify the process for students — was no big surprise. Further complicating the process were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63005/exclusive-the-education-department-says-it-will-fix-its-1-8-billion-fafsa-mistake\">glitches \u003c/a>with Social Security numbers and instances where students could not create accounts entirely, which created real panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The application launched on Dec. 30, 2023, but students from mixed-status families could only complete the application starting March 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t know how they didn’t anticipate that [mixed-status families not being able to apply] was going to be a concern,” Shoopman said — especially in a state like California, where \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantdataca.org/indicators/mixed-status-families?breakdown=by-age-group\">20% of Californians under 18 are either undocumented or living with undocumented family members\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Families, support staff and schools under pressure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For David Alvarez, the director of college readiness and success at Alpha Public Schools in San José, it was “the worst financial aid application season that I’ve ever experienced” in his 15 years in education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that us as a team, as well as fellow educators, tried our absolute best to improve completion rates from years to the next,” Alvarez said. “But the system [this year] didn’t really allow for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez’s school has a large number of first-generation and Latino students, he explained. In preparation for the application season, the school prepared FAFSA workshops and early morning hours for seniors to work on their application to provide specialized attention to students — trying to work around the complications of the form.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During those workshops, Alvarez managed the growing frustrations of students and their parents. He said some had taken time off work to attend a workshop and faced unanswered questions exacerbated by FAFSA glitches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience has become a nightmare when you realize that applications weren’t working properly, that you didn’t always have the answers when you were troubleshooting things … and that created a lot of distrust from students and parents,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, they might see it as, ‘Hey, you don’t have the answers. You might be incompetent. You don’t know what you’re talking about,’” Alvarez said. “And the reality is: It’s so much bigger than us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community is losing out on both the time and the money that, let’s be real, we didn’t really have in the first place to begin with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oftentimes, students would question the purpose of even doing the application, Alvarez said. Some four-year eligible students instead planned to go to community college, potentially overloading the community college system, which is unsure who will be attending in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With a delay in FAFSA, it delayed the ability for schools to present financial aid award letters,” Alvarez said. The FAFSA delays also delayed schools’ ability to present financial aid award letters, Alvarez said — meaning that “ultimately, students and parents can’t confidently select the institution that they want to go to — because they’re just unaware of how much money they will receive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many states extended their college application deadlines, this led to institutions not knowing who would attend their school in the fall. According to DeBaun, this impacts course schedules, staffing and residential halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a limit to how far back institutions can push these deadlines and still be prepared to receive students for the fall semester,” he said. Shoopman also said it can keep students on college waitlists in limbo as others consider if they can afford to enroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For students in California, or anywhere in America right now, we should be concerned about what full enrollment would look like based on the FAFSA completion declines that we’re seeing,” DeBaun said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Examining the reasons behind FAFSA declines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One factor to consider in this year’s sharp fall in FAFSA submissions is the record number of applications the state saw last year, according to California State Aid Commission (CSAC) spokesperson Shelveen Ratnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the agency’s widespread \u003ca href=\"https://campussuite-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/1558523/0672826e-a84b-11e7-9779-0ae3e1d9783c/2627890/325d1d6e-1cfb-11ee-b757-02b0137163b1/file/all_in_for_fafsa_ca_dream_act_fact_sheet.pdf\">“All in for FAFSA/CA Dream” campaign\u003c/a> promoted awareness of FAFSA, encouraging California high schools to have all students fill out an application or actively opt out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like every state that also implemented this policy, California saw a large jump in FAFSA completion numbers last year, DeBaun said. By September 2023, 62% of the class of 2023 had completed the FAFSA — compared to 58% of the class of 2022 in the same period that year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>States that have traditionally done well with FAFSA completion, like California and Texas, are also seeing major drops this year, DeBaun said. However, for him, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fafsa\">the delay in this year’s FAFSA application\u003c/a> is at least partly responsible for these marked decreases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think about it this way: Every day, [successful states] are relatively more effective at getting more students to complete a FAFSA than their peers,” DeBaun said. “So when you take 90 days out of the FAFSA cycle … every single one of those days, relatively speaking, costs that state more in terms of FAFSA completion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The class of 2024 [has] just had a much smaller window in which to complete the FAFSA,” DeBaun said — and all the while — “the fall semester isn’t getting pushed back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratnam described the trend in data — and the technical difficulties that students faced — as “definitely alarming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Financial aid is] one of the most important things that students or families think about when it comes to deciding if they want to pursue higher education,” Ratnam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alvarez noted that FAFSA submission numbers have increased in the last weeks, likely helped by the fact that the previous glitches with the form had been fixed, he said that distrust of the process among students and their families is still noticeable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As this winter’s initial FAFSA errors might have been resolved, “tell that to someone who’s come to the high school five, six, seven, eight times already,” Alvarez said. “And that’s really what we’re facing: Just re-energizing the students and the parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As difficult as it is, it has long-term impacts, and we want to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do students still have time to apply?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the May 2 deadline for in-state aid has passed, CSAC is encouraging students to still apply to the FAFSA to see if they qualify for other types of financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/cal-grant-community-college-entitlement-award\">Cal Grant Community College Entitlement Award FAFSA application\u003c/a> is due on Sept. 2\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez said the FAFSA is often the first college-related struggle students face. But he tells his students to apply for financial aid to keep the door open to college enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to parents, Alvarez said his message on the importance of financial aid’s role in getting a student to college often comes when their children are graduating: “They’re literally transcending their circumstances; they’re narrowing that achievement gap,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re breaking barriers for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At 16, Katya Kondragunta has already lived through two disasters amped by climate change. First came \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fires-us-news-ap-top-news-ca-state-wire-climate-change-523a1c3e4a792972e0c5c2f4c59c07d0\">wildfires in California in 2020\u003c/a>. Ash and smoke forced her family to stay inside their Bay Area home in Fremont for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they moved to Prosper, Texas, where she dealt with \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/summer-heat-wave-fd19c3995992c93121ef4baedcbcf07e\">record-setting heat last summer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had horrible heat waves, and they’ve impacted my everyday life,” the high school junior said. “I’m in cross country … I’m supposed to go outside and run every single day to get my mileage in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kondragunta said that she hasn’t learned about how climate change is intensifying these events in school, and she hopes that will change when she gets to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, U.S. colleges are creating climate change programs to meet the demand of students who want to apply their firsthand experience to what they do after high school and help find solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lots of centers and departments have renamed themselves or been created around these climate issues, in part because they think it will attract students and faculty,” said Kathy Jacobs, director of the University of Arizona Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions. It launched a decade ago and connects several climate programs at the school in Tucson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other early movers that created programs, majors, minors and certificates dedicated to climate change include the \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://pcc.uw.edu/about/history/\">University of Washington\u003c/a>, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/the-program/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA84CvBhCaARIsAMkAvkIZRIIi-ex30GD2D0GZaPNTujb2gtkylPjqmkfQEBzPf_ZtebCk2YMaAvTDEALw_wcB\">Yale University\u003c/a>, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://www.usu.edu/degrees-majors/climate-science_bs\">Utah State University\u003c/a>, the \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://www.umt.edu/news/2021/07/071621crea.php\">University of Montana,\u003c/a> \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://www.northernvermont.edu/degree-programs/climate-change-science/\">Northern Vermont University\u003c/a> and the \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://atmos.ucla.edu/aos-announces-new-climate-science-major/\">University of California, Los Angeles\u003c/a>. Columbia, the private university in New York City, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://president.columbia.edu/news/columbia-climate-school-announcement\">opened its Climate School in 2020\u003c/a> with a graduate degree in climate and society and has related undergraduate programs in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11987693 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Conger, from left, all of Utah State University, Casey Olson, climate data analyst, Ashley Lewis and Maya Cottam stand with Kaitlyn Linford, a high school student and her mother, Cherisse Linford, while being shown a wind-shielded precipitation gauge during a tour on April 1, 2024, in Logan, Utah. \u003ccite>(Rick Bowmer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just in the past four years, the public \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-cb46114feef6304e3c99e6455e0459ff\">Plymouth State University in New Hampshire\u003c/a>, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://news.las.iastate.edu/2022/08/04/new-climate-science-degree-at-isu-offers-interdisciplinary-training/\">Iowa State\u003c/a>, Nashville private university \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2022/03/30/vanderbilt-offers-new-climate-and-environmental-studies-major/\">Vanderbilt\u003c/a>, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://sustainability.stanford.edu/news/new-certificates-offer-sustainability-education-graduate-students\">Stanford University\u003c/a>, the \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://news.mit.edu/2023/3-questions-new-mit-major-and-its-role-fighting-climate-change-0420\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003c/a> and others have started climate-related studies. Hampton University, a private, historically Black university in Virginia, is \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://home.hamptonu.edu/blog/2024/01/12/hu-receives-4-9m-from-u-s-department-of-education-to-establish-an-interdisciplinary-climate-science-degree-program/\">building one now\u003c/a>, and the University of Texas at Austin will offer \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2024/03/jackson-schools-new-climate-system-science-bachelors-degree-debuting-in-fall-2024/\">theirs this fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-poll-opinions-attitudes-extreme-weather-993c392ee57d023ca55600431a39a4be\">climate change is affecting more\u003c/a> people is one factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration’s \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-climate-health-tax-law-economy-inflation-f112d7c78abaa724d22964317d213deb\">Inflation Reduction Act\u003c/a>, the largest climate investment in U.S. history, plus growth \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/clean-energy-jobs-inflation-reduction-act-7003abd46f1e540d483a9adfcc45262a\">in climate-focused jobs,\u003c/a> are also increasing interest, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these programs, students learn how the atmosphere is changing as a result of burning coal, oil and gas, along with the way crops will shift with the warming planet and the role of renewable energy in cutting the use of fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They dive into how to communicate about climate with the public, ethical and environmental justice aspects of climate solutions and the roles lawmakers and businesses play in cutting greenhouse gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students also cover disaster response and ways communities can prepare and adapt before climate change worsens. The offerings require biology, chemistry, physics, and social sciences faculty, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708514095.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708514095.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708514095-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708514095-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708514095-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708514095-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate Data Analyst Casey Olson, center left, of Utah State University, stands with students during a tour of the climate reference station on April 1, 2024, in Logan, Utah. \u003ccite>(Rick Bowmer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just ‘Oh, yeah, climate, global warming, environmental stuff,’” said Lydia Conger, a senior who enrolled at Utah State specifically for its climate science studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has these interesting technical parts in math and physics, but then also has this element of geology,” she said, “and oceanography and ecology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When higher education institutions put their programs together, they often draw on existing meteorology and atmospheric sciences studies. Some house climate under sustainability or environmental science departments. However, climate tracks need to go beyond those to satisfy some incoming students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kennebunk, Maine, high school junior Will Eagleson has lived through storms that caused coastal destruction. The sea level is rising in his hometown. As the 17-year-old considers college, he said to get his attention, schools must “narrow it down from environmental and Earth science as a whole to more climate change-focused programs.”[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='environment']For Lucia Everist, a senior at Edina High School in Minnesota who is frustrated at her lack of climate education so far, schools need to go deeper into the human impact of climate change. She cited a disproportionate impact on Black, Latino, Indigenous and low-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked a lot into the curriculum itself,” the 18-year-old said of her college search. Everywhere she applied, “I made sure had the social aspect just as much as the science aspect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate students need to learn everything from health care to how to store clean solar and wind energy, said Megan Latshaw, who runs Johns Hopkins University’s master’s programs in its Environmental Health and Engineering department. The school has a graduate degree in energy policy and climate and offers two certificates that include climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the flooding. It’s the heat waves. It’s the wildfires. It’s the air pollution that’s generated when we’re burning fossil fuels. It’s allergies. It’s water scarcity, and people who may have to flee where they’ve lived for their entire life,” Latshaw said. She noted that the university is looking into weaving climate change into its schools of public health, engineering, education, medicine, nursing and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor may be that many colleges nationwide face \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://sheeo.org/shef_report_22/\">declining enrollment\u003c/a> and less public funding, pushing them to market new degrees to stay relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many small, private colleges have \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_317.50.asp\">had to shut down\u003c/a> over the last decade, with fewer students graduating from high school and more \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/skipping-college-student-loans-trade-jobs-efc1f6d6067ab770f6e512b3f7719cc0\">opting for career-oriented training\u003c/a>. The same pressures affect large public university systems, which have \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/west-virginia-university-academic-faculty-cuts-245527c044cc2cfe80bcbe8c2eda7e98\">cut academic programs and faculty\u003c/a> to close budget gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is definitely some part of academia that just simply responds to consumer demand,” said John Knox, undergraduate coordinator for the University of Georgia’s Atmospheric Sciences program, who is considering whether the school should offer a climate certificate. “In the end, I’m worried more about our students succeeding than marketing something to somebody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It launched a decade ago and connects several climate programs at the school in Tucson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other early movers that created programs, majors, minors and certificates dedicated to climate change include the \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://pcc.uw.edu/about/history/\">University of Washington\u003c/a>, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/the-program/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA84CvBhCaARIsAMkAvkIZRIIi-ex30GD2D0GZaPNTujb2gtkylPjqmkfQEBzPf_ZtebCk2YMaAvTDEALw_wcB\">Yale University\u003c/a>, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://www.usu.edu/degrees-majors/climate-science_bs\">Utah State University\u003c/a>, the \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://www.umt.edu/news/2021/07/071621crea.php\">University of Montana,\u003c/a> \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://www.northernvermont.edu/degree-programs/climate-change-science/\">Northern Vermont University\u003c/a> and the \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://atmos.ucla.edu/aos-announces-new-climate-science-major/\">University of California, Los Angeles\u003c/a>. Columbia, the private university in New York City, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://president.columbia.edu/news/columbia-climate-school-announcement\">opened its Climate School in 2020\u003c/a> with a graduate degree in climate and society and has related undergraduate programs in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11987693 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24142708383197-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Conger, from left, all of Utah State University, Casey Olson, climate data analyst, Ashley Lewis and Maya Cottam stand with Kaitlyn Linford, a high school student and her mother, Cherisse Linford, while being shown a wind-shielded precipitation gauge during a tour on April 1, 2024, in Logan, Utah. \u003ccite>(Rick Bowmer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just in the past four years, the public \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-cb46114feef6304e3c99e6455e0459ff\">Plymouth State University in New Hampshire\u003c/a>, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://news.las.iastate.edu/2022/08/04/new-climate-science-degree-at-isu-offers-interdisciplinary-training/\">Iowa State\u003c/a>, Nashville private university \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2022/03/30/vanderbilt-offers-new-climate-and-environmental-studies-major/\">Vanderbilt\u003c/a>, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://sustainability.stanford.edu/news/new-certificates-offer-sustainability-education-graduate-students\">Stanford University\u003c/a>, the \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://news.mit.edu/2023/3-questions-new-mit-major-and-its-role-fighting-climate-change-0420\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003c/a> and others have started climate-related studies. 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