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"content": "\u003cp>Charter school students in California significantly outperformed similar students in nearby traditional public schools in reading and scored about the same in math, according to a comprehensive study of pre-pandemic test results of charter schools nationwide, released earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gap between California charter and district schools in reading achievement has widened since the first report 14 years ago by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University. There has been steady progress in math as well; charter schools’ scores were significantly behind in the first study in 2009.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/5z9Z1/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nThis was particularly true when the difference in test scores was translated into learning gains or losses for multisite charter management organizations operating in California. For example, when compared with similar students in district schools, students in Los Angeles-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.laalliance.org/\">Alliance College-Ready Public Schools\u003c/a> gained the equivalent of 107 days in additional learning, about 40% of a year. Students in Bay Area-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.rocketshipschools.org/\">Rocketship Public Schools\u003c/a> gained three-quarters of a year in additional learning days in math, based on CREDO’s methodology.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PP0UM/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nCREDO designated 32 California charter management organizations as “gap-busters,” whose average achievement exceeded the state average, and whose historically marginalized students showed growth that was strong or stronger than their non-marginalized peers in the same schools; 22 CMOs excelled in both math and reading, including\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.acecharter.org/\"> ACE Charter Schools\u003c/a> in San José, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://paralosninos.org/education-community/\">Para Los Niños\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://kingchavez.org/\">King-Chavez Neighborhood of Schools\u003c/a> in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter schools are independently run public schools. Managed by nonprofit boards of trustees, they are not bound by some requirements of the state education code while being held to many of the same accountability, teacher credentialing and testing mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 9 California public school students — 685,000 out of 5.85 million students — attended one of about 1,300 charter schools in 2022-23. Although California has the largest number of charter schools and students in the nation, CREDO found their performance gains, relative to similar district school students, were smaller than charter students in a dozen of the 29 states covered by the study, plus Washington, D.C., and New York City. Charter school students in a dozen states also outperformed their peers in math; in California, the difference was not significant. The differential was biggest in Massachusetts, Illinois, Rhode Island and New York state charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter school and similar district students in all other states performed about the same, except for one state where charter school students performed worse in reading (Oregon) and three states where they performed worse in math (Oregon, South Carolina and Ohio).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Progress over time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CREDO’s report, released earlier this month, is its third tracking charter school students since 2009. The latest covered 2014–2019 and included four years of test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between the 2009 and 2023 studies, against a backdrop of flat performance for the nation, the trend of learning gains for students enrolled in charter schools is both large and positive,” the report said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/2EyOp/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nAs in its past studies, CREDO’s analysis found wide differences in which students benefited from attending a charter school in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and Hispanic students and students from lower-income families excelled relative to similar students in typical district schools in reading and math, while white students and especially students with disabilities did significantly worse in both math and reading than their peers. English language learners in California charter schools did slightly better than district school peers in reading but significantly better in math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pleased to see that California’s charter schools are performing particularly well with historically underserved students and improving over time,” said Elizabeth Robitaille, chief schools officer for the California Charter Schools Association.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with charter management organizations, students attending homegrown, standalone charter schools showed more modest results, doing significantly better, though to a smaller degree, than similar students in traditional public schools in reading and about the same in math. Granada Hills Charter High School, a popular charter school in Los Angeles, is also the nation’s largest charter school, with 4,600 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As centrally run organizations, CMOs usually have uniform curriculums and instructional practices, and share a common educational philosophy as well as administrative costs. CMOs like \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://aspirepublicschools.org/\">Aspire Public Schools\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.kipp.org/\">KIPP\u003c/a>, and \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://greendot.org/\">Green Dot Public Schools\u003c/a> have located mainly in urban areas and targeted underachieving students of color from lower-income families. In California, CMOs comprise 38% of charter school students — about the same proportion of students as the nation. (California Charter Schools Association’s data put the number of students closer to 50%.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, CMOs “are producing much of the learning gains we observed,” the report said. The ability of CMOs to scale up their success “puts dozens of CMOs at the forefront of efforts to provide education that is both equitable and effective in moving student achievement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, however, some charter management organizationss have \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/parents-want-to-stop-santa-clara-county-sunnyvale-charter-school-closure-summit-denali/\">scaled back their operations\u003c/a> or shifted their growth to the Inland Empire and other states because of declining student enrollment in urban areas, a difficulty hiring teachers and stiff resistance from authorizing school districts to further charter school expansions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Premack, founder and CEO of the Charter Schools Development Center in Sacramento, which advises primarily standalone charter schools, said he disagrees with CREDO’s “unstated assumption that test scores are everything.”[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Eric Premack, founder and CEO, Charter Schools Development Center\"]‘Many (other) charter schools, however, are formed by folks who hate standardized testing and aren’t particularly concerned about their scores. Thus, the generally high relative scores are all the more remarkable.’[/pullquote]“Many charter schools, especially CMO-managed ones, care a lot about test scores and focus on instructional methods designed to boost them,” he said. “Many (other) charter schools, however, are formed by folks who hate standardized testing and aren’t particularly concerned about their scores. Thus, the generally high relative scores are all the more remarkable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robitaille had a different take, saying, “We’ve done reports looking at ways charter schools support students’ socioemotional needs and redefine college and career readiness. Test scores are not the only determining factor of effectiveness, but certainly are important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other studies of academic performance have compared test scores of charter schools and neighboring schools or compared charter school students with those students who were denied admission through a lottery. For its comparison, CREDO paired more than 1.8 million charter school students with “virtual twins” — students with similar racial, ethnic, income, grade and other student characteristics at district schools that charter school students would have attended. CREDO said that more than 80% of tested public school students were included in its data set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a former researcher/methodologist,” Premack said, “I appreciate their novel approach. The ‘virtual twin’ methodology is creative and presumably helps to significantly reduce the potential for selection bias and other comparability issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics in California and other states have discounted comparisons, charging that charter schools weed out poor-performing students or discourage low-performing students from enrolling. CREDO said if there were cherry-picking, then charter school students would show higher academic performance when they enroll. By following students’ growth over time, CREDO’s analysis “found the opposite is true: charter schools enroll students who are disproportionately lower achieving than the students in their former traditional public school,” it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, by measuring individual students’ growth over time — a method of accountability that California has not yet adopted, unlike most states — CREDO is providing “critical information to help us understand the relative effectiveness of schools in helping students grow,” Robitaille said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Losses and gains in days of learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CREDO converted the differences in scores on standardized test scores between charter and district school students in each state into gained or lost days of learning, based on a 180-day school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, charter school students outpaced their peers in district schools by 16 additional learning days in reading and six days in math in this year’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California charter schools outpaced their peers in district schools by 11 days in reading and four days in math; the latter gain was not statistically significant, CREDO said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hispanic students in California charter schools showed the largest growth, relative to district school peers. Special education students showed the most learning loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California CMOs showed 19 days of additional learning in reading; standalone charter schools achieved seven extra learning days. CMOs’ 10 days of growth in math were not statistically significant, CREDO said; nor was the one day of extra learning by standalone charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11953429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4.jpg\" alt=\"Showing the growth and decline in learning days of charter schools students in California by race. \" width=\"1020\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macke Raymond, CREDO’s founder and director, suggested that how charter schools are authorized in states could be one factor in variations of performance. 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There has been steady progress in math as well; charter schools’ scores were significantly behind in the first study in 2009.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/5z9Z1/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nThis was particularly true when the difference in test scores was translated into learning gains or losses for multisite charter management organizations operating in California. For example, when compared with similar students in district schools, students in Los Angeles-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.laalliance.org/\">Alliance College-Ready Public Schools\u003c/a> gained the equivalent of 107 days in additional learning, about 40% of a year. 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Managed by nonprofit boards of trustees, they are not bound by some requirements of the state education code while being held to many of the same accountability, teacher credentialing and testing mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 9 California public school students — 685,000 out of 5.85 million students — attended one of about 1,300 charter schools in 2022-23. Although California has the largest number of charter schools and students in the nation, CREDO found their performance gains, relative to similar district school students, were smaller than charter students in a dozen of the 29 states covered by the study, plus Washington, D.C., and New York City. Charter school students in a dozen states also outperformed their peers in math; in California, the difference was not significant. The differential was biggest in Massachusetts, Illinois, Rhode Island and New York state charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter school and similar district students in all other states performed about the same, except for one state where charter school students performed worse in reading (Oregon) and three states where they performed worse in math (Oregon, South Carolina and Ohio).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Progress over time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CREDO’s report, released earlier this month, is its third tracking charter school students since 2009. The latest covered 2014–2019 and included four years of test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between the 2009 and 2023 studies, against a backdrop of flat performance for the nation, the trend of learning gains for students enrolled in charter schools is both large and positive,” the report said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/2EyOp/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nAs in its past studies, CREDO’s analysis found wide differences in which students benefited from attending a charter school in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and Hispanic students and students from lower-income families excelled relative to similar students in typical district schools in reading and math, while white students and especially students with disabilities did significantly worse in both math and reading than their peers. 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For its comparison, CREDO paired more than 1.8 million charter school students with “virtual twins” — students with similar racial, ethnic, income, grade and other student characteristics at district schools that charter school students would have attended. CREDO said that more than 80% of tested public school students were included in its data set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a former researcher/methodologist,” Premack said, “I appreciate their novel approach. The ‘virtual twin’ methodology is creative and presumably helps to significantly reduce the potential for selection bias and other comparability issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics in California and other states have discounted comparisons, charging that charter schools weed out poor-performing students or discourage low-performing students from enrolling. CREDO said if there were cherry-picking, then charter school students would show higher academic performance when they enroll. By following students’ growth over time, CREDO’s analysis “found the opposite is true: charter schools enroll students who are disproportionately lower achieving than the students in their former traditional public school,” it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, by measuring individual students’ growth over time — a method of accountability that California has not yet adopted, unlike most states — CREDO is providing “critical information to help us understand the relative effectiveness of schools in helping students grow,” Robitaille said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Losses and gains in days of learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CREDO converted the differences in scores on standardized test scores between charter and district school students in each state into gained or lost days of learning, based on a 180-day school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, charter school students outpaced their peers in district schools by 16 additional learning days in reading and six days in math in this year’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California charter schools outpaced their peers in district schools by 11 days in reading and four days in math; the latter gain was not statistically significant, CREDO said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hispanic students in California charter schools showed the largest growth, relative to district school peers. Special education students showed the most learning loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California CMOs showed 19 days of additional learning in reading; standalone charter schools achieved seven extra learning days. CMOs’ 10 days of growth in math were not statistically significant, CREDO said; nor was the one day of extra learning by standalone charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11953429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4.jpg\" alt=\"Showing the growth and decline in learning days of charter schools students in California by race. \" width=\"1020\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macke Raymond, CREDO’s founder and director, suggested that how charter schools are authorized in states could be one factor in variations of performance. In California, school districts are charged with approving charter schools and overseeing their performance. Until \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/new-era-for-charter-schools-newsom-signs-bill-with-compromises-he-negotiated/618099\">Gov. Gavin Newsom revised the approval and renewal process through legislation in 2019\u003c/a>, the State Board of Education heard all appeals of denials. In other states, like Massachusetts, the state or other entities besides districts, such as universities, play a more active role in working with and holding charters accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was surprised when I looked at California’s results. There is still a proportion that is doing worse than the local district school option,” Raymond said. “That says to me that authorizers are not doing their job or are cognizant of low-performing schools and choose not to act.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After three years, the pandemic-era \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/student-loans-repayment-a6560bab75419007049cba34a30d6657\">freeze on student loan payments\u003c/a> will end soon. Student loan interest will start accruing on September 1 and payments are starting in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might seem tempting to just keep not making payments, but the consequences can be severe, including a hit to your credit score and exclusion from future aid and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 million Americans will have to start making \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-payment-pause-end-642276f724b30890669a60ea2c0bbfd5\">federal student loan payments\u003c/a> again at the end of the summer under the terms of a debt ceiling deal approved by Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions are also waiting to find out \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-forgiveness-supreme-court-hearing-2128da75fc27ff3bcc0c3804ebd98aa7\">whether the Supreme Court will allow President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan\u003c/a> to go ahead. But payments will resume regardless of what justices decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means tough decisions for many borrowers, especially those in already-difficult financial situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say that delinquency and bankruptcy should be options of last resort and that deferment and forbearance — which pause payments, though interest may continue to accrue — are often better in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens if I don’t make student loan payments?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once the moratorium ends, borrowers who can’t or don’t pay risk delinquency and eventually default. That can badly \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-0a536993ce494fc8d6fe2c5d637da5b5\">hurt your credit rating\u003c/a> and make you ineligible for additional aid and government benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re struggling to pay, advisers first encourage you to check whether you qualify for an income-driven repayment plan, which determines your payments by looking at your expenses. You can determine this by \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-driven\">visiting the Federal Student Aid website\u003c/a>. If you’ve worked for a government agency or a nonprofit organization, you could also be eligible for the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/pslf-public-service-loan-forgiveness-program-student-loans-e840af29f8879512199ed6fce226c722\">Public Service Loan Forgiveness program\u003c/a>, which forgives student debt after 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolina Rodriguez, director of the Education Debt Consumer Assistance Program at the Community Service Society of New York, emphasizes that anyone temporarily unemployed should be able to qualify for a $0 payment plan. And many others qualify based on income and family size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The repercussions of falling into delinquency can be pretty severe,” Rodriguez said. “The federal government can administratively intercept tax refunds and garnish wages. And it can affect Social Security, retirement and disability benefits. Does it make financial sense at that point? Probably not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Carolina Rodriguez, director, Education Debt Consumer Assistance Program\"]‘The federal government can administratively intercept tax refunds and garnish wages. And it can affect Social Security, retirement and disability benefits.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez says her organization always advises against deferment or forbearance except once a borrower has exhausted all other options. In the long term, those financial choices offer little benefit, as some loans will continue to accrue interest while deferred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby Shafroth, senior attorney and director of the Student Loan Borrowers Assistance Project at the National Consumer Law Center, said that, of the two, deferment is generally a better option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because interest generally does not accrue on direct subsidized loans, the subsidized portion of direct consolidation loans, subsidized federal Stafford loans, the subsidized portion of federal family education (FFEL) consolidation loans, and federal Perkins loans. All other federal student loans that are deferred will continue to accrue interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Forbearance allows you to postpone payments without it being held against you, but interest does accrue. So you’re going to see your balance increase every month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about declaring bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For most student loan borrowers, it’s still very difficult to have loans discharged, or canceled, through bankruptcy. Borrowers must prove a very hard standard of financial circumstances, called “undue hardship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t look into it,” Rodriguez said. “But they may not be successful at discharging their loans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For borrowers who show that level of financial strain, chances are they have other options, Rodriguez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11946600 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS34524_GettyImages-494862297-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She advises that borrowers make sure they are speaking to a bankruptcy attorney who understands student loan bankruptcy, which requires a different proceeding from other types of bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shafroth, of the NCLC, says that new guidance on student loan bankruptcy has been coming out in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though it is difficult to get your loans discharged through the bankruptcy process, an increasing number of borrowers are eligible to get their loans discharged that way,” she said. “A lot of people write that off as, ‘There’s no way, it’s impossible.’ But it’s increasingly possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens when a loan goes into default?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When you fall behind on a loan by 270 days — roughly nine months — the loan appears on your credit report as being in default.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that point, it’s not just behind, it’s in collections,” Shafroth said. “That’s when you become ineligible to take out new federal student aid. A lot of people go into default because they weren’t able to complete their degree the first time. This prevents them from going back to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a loan is in default, it’s subject to the collections processes mentioned above. That means the government can garnish wages (without a court order) to go toward paying back the loan, intercept tax refunds and seize portions of Social Security checks and other benefit payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are other options if I can’t make payments?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shafroth said that many borrowers may still be eligible to have loans canceled via a patchwork of programs outside the Biden administration’s proposed debt relief program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your school closed before you could complete your program, you’re eligible for relief. If your school lied to you or misrepresented the outcome of what your enrolling would be, you can file a borrower defense application and request your loan be canceled on that basis,” she said. “If you have a disability, you can sometimes have your loans canceled on that basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shafroth encourages borrowers to look at the\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/\"> Federal Student Aid website\u003c/a> to see what their options might be before missing payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if my loans were in default before March 2020?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Under the Biden administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/default-fresh-start\">Fresh Start program\u003c/a>, borrowers with federal student loans who were in default before the pause have a chance to become current.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label='More Stories on Education' tag='college-students']\u003c/span>Borrowers who were in default will not be subject to collections processes or have wages garnished through about August 2024, or roughly one year after the payment freeze ends. These borrowers have also been granted permission to apply for federal student loans again, to complete degrees. Lastly, these defaulted loans are now being reported to credit bureaus as current.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, borrowers must take action if they want to stay out of default after this year-long leniency period ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To eliminate your record of default, you should contact the Education Department’s Default Resolution Group online, by phone or by mail, and ask the group to take the loans out of default via the Fresh Start policy. In four to six weeks, any record of default will be removed from your credit report, and the loans will be placed with a loan servicer. 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"content": "\u003cp>A music teacher at a TK–8 school in San José had a history of complaints roughly a decade before he was criminally charged with sexually abusing students last year, records obtained by KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel Santiago, 43, was arrested in November under suspicion of sexually abusing 10 students beginning in 2021 at Adelante Dual Language Academy. He faces 12 charges, including multiple counts of molestation and lewd acts on a child by force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year was not the first time a student reported being inappropriately touched by Santiago, according to the records provided by the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24512265/response-to-pra-request-w-documents-05-17-2023-1-3.pdf\">in response to a Public Records Act request\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at two other schools in the district, Sheppard Middle School and Painter Elementary, had reported concerns about Santiago’s behavior to school staff from 2012 through 2014, records show. The district did not provide records of any complaints made to the school in the years that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student said Santiago put his hand on her back and rubbed her back while he praised her. Another said Santiago repeatedly hugged her, asked her for hugs and “picked her up, putting his arms under her legs and carrying her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Santiago has failed to practice good judgment regarding physical contact with students, in particular, females, and I find that conduct to be inappropriate and unprofessional,” former Sheppard Middle School Principal Imee Almazan wrote at the conclusion of a personnel investigation in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alum Rock Union Elementary School District didn’t fire Santiago in 2014, despite the investigation documenting multiple complaints of Santiago inappropriately touching students after repeated warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the district issued a letter of reprimand, and determined he should be transferred to another school in the district.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lauren Cerri, attorney, Corsiglia McMahon and Allard\"]‘These complaints are being made, and he’s moved to another school. What are those administrators told? Are they even told about the prior complaints?’[/pullquote]Santiago started teaching at Adelante in 2015, according to Cesar Torrico, assistant superintendent of human resources at Alum Rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district superintendent, Hilaria Bauer, declined to answer any questions about past complaints against Santiago and how they were handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bauer wrote that the district has since adopted “a clearer and stronger process to prevent these incidents from happening and to encourage any other victims to come forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We provided extra training during our monthly safety meeting on Dec. 7 and directed all site administrators to retake the mandated reporter training from the beginning of the year. This also included all staff,” Bauer wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almazan, who is currently director of social and emotional learning at Alum Rock Union School District, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We don’t feel safe’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Records from the school district’s 2014 investigation include some documentation of prior complaints against Santiago from students at Painter Elementary and Sheppard Middle School in 2012 and 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Hernandez, 22, said she was in Santiago’s band class at Sheppard Middle School in 2012 and had reported his behavior to the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her friends had been passionate about band and loved playing instruments together, forming a whole community inside the small band room. She mainly played flute, but would dabble in the clarinet and the saxophone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over time, she said, she became increasingly alarmed by her band teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Santiago asked her to stay in the band room during a break between classes to practice a piece she could already play with her eyes closed.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Natalie Hernandez, former student, Sheppard Middle School\"]‘I just remember being so angry, and even to this day, I’m so angry. It’s almost as if they forgot that we were kids.’[/pullquote]“He kept adjusting his chair and my chair so our knees could be touching and we’d be really close to each other,” Hernandez said. “I remember I just felt a really big rush of anxiety. I just did not feel comfortable at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said she told the principal, Almazan, how Santiago would only ask female students to stay after class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I strictly remember telling her we don’t feel safe,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santiago remained at the school until 2014. When Hernandez learned he had been transferred to another school in the district, she was furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember being so angry, and even to this day, I’m so angry,” Hernandez said. “It’s almost as if they forgot that we were kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A father’s written sexual harassment complaint prompts investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The records show that Santiago had been instructed in 2012 not to touch students, particularly female students. But he allegedly continued, and a father filed a written complaint that Santiago sexually harassed his daughter in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s investigation prompted by that complaint included interviews with 15 students, and found “an overall discomfort and/or feeling of insecurity in Mr. Santiago’s band class among female students that were interviewed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of nine female students interviewed, seven said they were not comfortable in the classroom with Santiago, and one female student said she had been touched inappropriately by him on multiple occasions. Two students said Santiago walked in on them during a dress fitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The male students interviewed did not report similar discomfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Not sufficiently severe and pervasive’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almazan also wrote in the report that she had called Child Protective Services to report Santiago in 2014, but was told the allegations against a teacher were “not a reportable CPS case.” CPS offered to take a “courtesy report” that would be forwarded to law enforcement, according to the records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Motta, chief of staff at the Santa Clara County Social Services Agency, declined to comment on any specific cases, but said the agency reports information to law enforcement to pursue criminal investigations when allegations do not involve caregivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José Police Department declined to immediately comment on the past complaints. A police spokesperson previously told \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/south-bay/san-jose-music-teacher-sexual-assault/3085337/\">NBC Bay Area\u003c/a> that an allegation of inappropriate touching was made against Santiago in 2014, but that no charges were filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately Almazan and the school district found that the conduct was not “sufficiently severe and pervasive” to amount to sexual harassment. In the letter of reprimand, the district instructed Santiago again not to touch students and to take a minimum of two hours of training related to sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on Principal Almazan’s recommendation to Human Resources and to the Superintendent we have decided to transfer you out of Sheppard Middle School,” the March 10, 2014, letter of reprimand from the district’s chief human resources officer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santiago worked at Adelante until he was placed on leave last November soon before his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prosecutors investigate recent allegations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://countyda.sccgov.org/news/news-release/sj-music-teacher-charged-touching-students\">According to Santa Clara County prosecutors, at the beginning of the 2021–2022 school year\u003c/a>, Santiago would take children into his office, hold girls on his lap and hug them tightly to his body. Prosecutors say he cupped female students’ buttocks while hugging them on his lap, and stroked the bare skin of a fourth grader’s back.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11911375,news_11935859,news_11928350\"]Santiago, who has not yet entered a plea, remains in custody in Santa Clara County. His next court hearing is scheduled for July 14. Santiago’s defense attorney, Steven Clark, declined to comment on the criminal case or records showing past complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s decision to transfer Santiago may have emboldened his behavior, said Lauren Cerri, an attorney with Corsiglia McMahon and Allard who specializes in childhood sexual abuse cases, and who reviewed the records provided by the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These complaints are being made, and he’s moved to another school,” Cerri said. “What are those administrators told? Are they even told about the prior complaints? Are they told to keep an extra eye on him and supervise him more closely?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cerri is currently representing three women suing the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District for allegedly failing to report abuse by a first grade teacher in the 1970s to authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it appears that this is still happening today in the same district,” Cerri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district disputes the allegations in their court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The community seeks answers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Santiago was arrested, the Alum Rock school board passed a resolution “reaffirming the critical role of school personnel as mandated reporters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution outlines that the district must “provide a hard copy of the mandated reporter training presentation to all staff and the school board” and encourage all district staff to attend annual mandated reporter training in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A children and adults circulate beside a playground behind a chainlink fence.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and staff walk through the playground at Adelante Dual Language Academy in San José on June 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, some in the Alum Rock community have voiced frustration during recent school board meetings about a lack of transparency and poor communication by district leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three substitute principals are currently working at Adelante, according to \u003ca href=\"https://adelante.arusd.org/about-us/new-page\">the district’s website\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rosalinda Marquez, former employee, Alum Rock Union Elementary School District\"]‘It just seems par for the course for Alum Rock. They aren’t listening. They don’t know how to listen.’[/pullquote]The principal who reported Santiago, Maria Gutierrez, has been on paid leave since December for an unrelated issue, according to her attorney, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hbblaw.com/dvelez/\">Donald A. Velez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one person doing the right thing is being targeted,” Velez said. “You have all these complaints over all this time. It comes to a head. And the person who has only been there a year is the one who is taking the brunt of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velez declined to describe the specifics of why the principal is on leave but said it stems from an incident between two students, including a school board member’s family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District superintendent Bauer declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosalinda Marquez, who worked for the district until this year, said Alum Rock must begin to take concerns from parents seriously. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A music teacher at a TK–8 school in San José had a history of complaints roughly a decade before he was criminally charged with sexually abusing students last year, records obtained by KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel Santiago, 43, was arrested in November under suspicion of sexually abusing 10 students beginning in 2021 at Adelante Dual Language Academy. He faces 12 charges, including multiple counts of molestation and lewd acts on a child by force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year was not the first time a student reported being inappropriately touched by Santiago, according to the records provided by the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24512265/response-to-pra-request-w-documents-05-17-2023-1-3.pdf\">in response to a Public Records Act request\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at two other schools in the district, Sheppard Middle School and Painter Elementary, had reported concerns about Santiago’s behavior to school staff from 2012 through 2014, records show. The district did not provide records of any complaints made to the school in the years that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student said Santiago put his hand on her back and rubbed her back while he praised her. Another said Santiago repeatedly hugged her, asked her for hugs and “picked her up, putting his arms under her legs and carrying her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Santiago has failed to practice good judgment regarding physical contact with students, in particular, females, and I find that conduct to be inappropriate and unprofessional,” former Sheppard Middle School Principal Imee Almazan wrote at the conclusion of a personnel investigation in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alum Rock Union Elementary School District didn’t fire Santiago in 2014, despite the investigation documenting multiple complaints of Santiago inappropriately touching students after repeated warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the district issued a letter of reprimand, and determined he should be transferred to another school in the district.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Santiago, who has not yet entered a plea, remains in custody in Santa Clara County. His next court hearing is scheduled for July 14. Santiago’s defense attorney, Steven Clark, declined to comment on the criminal case or records showing past complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s decision to transfer Santiago may have emboldened his behavior, said Lauren Cerri, an attorney with Corsiglia McMahon and Allard who specializes in childhood sexual abuse cases, and who reviewed the records provided by the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These complaints are being made, and he’s moved to another school,” Cerri said. “What are those administrators told? Are they even told about the prior complaints? Are they told to keep an extra eye on him and supervise him more closely?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cerri is currently representing three women suing the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District for allegedly failing to report abuse by a first grade teacher in the 1970s to authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it appears that this is still happening today in the same district,” Cerri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district disputes the allegations in their court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The community seeks answers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Santiago was arrested, the Alum Rock school board passed a resolution “reaffirming the critical role of school personnel as mandated reporters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution outlines that the district must “provide a hard copy of the mandated reporter training presentation to all staff and the school board” and encourage all district staff to attend annual mandated reporter training in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A children and adults circulate beside a playground behind a chainlink fence.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and staff walk through the playground at Adelante Dual Language Academy in San José on June 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, some in the Alum Rock community have voiced frustration during recent school board meetings about a lack of transparency and poor communication by district leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three substitute principals are currently working at Adelante, according to \u003ca href=\"https://adelante.arusd.org/about-us/new-page\">the district’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Saw Yunn Nwe, 18, attends the University of Pennsylvania as a freshman this fall, she will be the first person in her family to go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/educationnews\">college in the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also part of San Francisco’s graduating senior class of 2023 — the first group of students to complete the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/\">Kindergarten to College program\u003c/a> (K2C), which, back in 2011, was the first universal college savings program in the country. It started with a limited number of kindergartners before expanding to include every student from that generation. Twelve years later, at the time of their high school graduation, the class of 2023 have been able to save $755,281 overall, which will go to cover college tuition and other education expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when Nwe was in eighth grade, her homeroom teacher passed out envelopes to all the kids in her class. Nwe and her family had just settled in San Francisco after migrating from Myanmar, and she was just getting adjusted to her new classes at James Denman Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People sit and watch a video in a conference hall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a video during the ceremony. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The envelopes carried a message from the school district, reminding them about their accounts and letting them know the city had already deposited $50 in each. As she saw her classmates read their letters, Nwe assumed she didn’t qualify for the program — she had arrived in San Francisco only a few months prior and hadn’t gone to kindergarten in here.[aside label='Guides from KQED' tag='audience-news']But a few weeks later, her teacher gave her an envelope from K2C. “It was kind of shocking … I don’t think this would have been possible back in my country,” she said. “I was really encouraged to save for college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2011, K2C has continued to grow and now opens accounts for every student currently enrolled in an SFUSD school, regardless of when they entered the district. If you add up every account, the total savings amounts to roughly $15 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nwe says that one of her dreams, ever since she emigrated to the U.S., has been to attend an American university. However, when she learned how expensive it is in this country, she became nervous because her parents were already working multiple jobs to support her and her siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952123 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian youth and a white youth smile with dyed orange hair sit behind a podium and smile at an unseen audience.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nwe (left) speaks alongside fellow student Yadira Vazquez. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whenever my parents tried to set money aside for me to go to college, I would feel bad because they couldn’t use it for themselves — like I was putting a burden on them,” she explained, and said that there were times it felt like going to college was not going to be financially possible. “But then my parents reassured me that it was going to be worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nwe and her parents decided they were going to make the most of the K2C account. Her parents would deposit small amounts whenever they had the chance, and Nwe found out that the program also offered cash incentives: Whenever students take time to explore their account or learn more about savings and personal finances, K2C rewards them by adding small amounts into their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my K2C comes from scholarships I earned and from summer jobs,” Nwe explained. “Instead of giving me a check, they put it in [my account].” By the end of her senior year, Nwe was able to save a little over $1,400, which she says isn’t enough to cover tuition at UPenn, but it can cover other necessary expenses, like fees and books for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having young people learn how savings accounts work and talking about personal finances with their families are some of the goals of the K2C program, says San Francisco City Treasurer José Cisneros, who helped design the program with then-Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2011. “It’s not about saving thousands of dollars necessarily,” Cisneros said. “If we give [students] 12 or 13 years to save money, they’re going to have something real there when they graduate high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man with a suit and tie speaks from behind a dais with a university emblem behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros speaks about the first class of graduates from San Francisco high schools using the K2C savings. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re currently an SFUSD student — or a parent or guardian of one — and are heading into summer thinking about college, here’s a quick breakdown of how Kindergarten to College works and how to make the most of your account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can I access my Kindergarten to College account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K2C opens an account for a student automatically, as soon as they enroll in an SFUSD school and regardless of what grade they enroll in or whether they transfer in partway through the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents or guardians do not need to do anything; however, they do need to \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/register-view-balance-online\">visit the K2C portal\u003c/a> and register their student’s information so they can see their account balance and start depositing. To register an account, you will need your student’s K2C account number. SFUSD mails families a letter with their student’s account number several times during elementary and middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if I can’t find my K2C account number?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No worries — K2C has \u003ca href=\"https://newbusiness.sfgov.org/k2cAccountLookup/\">a tool that can help track down your account number\u003c/a>. All you need is your student’s full name, birth date and ZIP code. Once you have the number handy, go back to the K2C portal to register, create a password and check out your account. You should already have $50 dollars in there — that starting amount comes from the city and is allocated from the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you have your account set up, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/how-make-deposit\">there are several ways you can make a deposit\u003c/a>, including through direct deposit, making a deposit in person or mailing a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much is my family expected to save?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each family can engage with their K2C account as much or as little as they see fit. There is no obligation from the city to use the account. Each account already comes with $50, and if you log in to your account at least once a year, the city will add another $20. There are many different types of cash incentives available: Some you can receive by learning more about your account; others are available through special student contests where students can submit original art pieces they created at school; and some are automatically available to students at select elementary schools. \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/earn-incentives\">You can review a more detailed list of incentives on the K2C website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people sit inside a large conference room and look away from the camera. Behind them, a large monitor reads out, \"Congratulations graduates!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a video during the ceremony. Every kindergartner who attends public school in San Francisco receives a college savings account automatically with a $50 incentive. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m a high school senior right now. How can I withdraw what I have in my account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing out your account is pretty straightforward. If you have an automatic direct deposit set up, first make sure you stop these transfers. Then, complete a \u003ca href=\"https://etaxstatement.sfgov.org/K2COnlineForm/\">K2C Account Withdrawal Request Form\u003c/a>, where you will be asked to confirm your personal information, whether you are graduating high school and what you will be using the money for. You have several ways to receive it, including through a Zelle account transfer, a check or a transfer to a ScholarShare 529 account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have not yet graduated high school, but are transferring out of an SFUSD school (for example, you are transferring to a private school in the city or to another school district), you can also request to withdraw your funds. And if you never deposited your own money into your account, you can still request to withdraw the money the city deposited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are students enrolled in charter schools included in the K2C program? What about students in private or parochial schools?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most charter schools in San Francisco are included in K2C. Students at any of these schools qualify for the program:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Creative Arts Charter School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Thomas Edison Charter Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gateway Middle School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP Bayview Academy (middle school)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP San Francisco College Preparatory\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gateway High School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leadership High School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City Arts and Tech High School\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Something important to keep in mind: According to city officials, students at KIPP Bayview Elementary (separate from KIPP Bayview Academy, the middle school) and the New School of San Francisco, a K–8 school, are not included in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K2C does not open accounts for students enrolled in private or parochial schools. Additionally, those currently enrolled in learning institutions affiliated with the San Francisco County Office of Education also are not eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about students who are not enrolled in a San Francisco public school? Are there programs similar to K2C in other parts of California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the creation of K2C, other cities in California have worked with school districts and nonprofit organizations to create their own versions of a universal college savings program. In Oakland, the nonprofit Oakland Promise manages two similar programs, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/kindergarten-to-college/\">Oakland Promise Kindergarten to College\u003c/a>, which helps open savings accounts for families in Oakland public schools and offers scholarships for students who graduate high school, and the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/brilliant-baby/\">Brilliant Baby program\u003c/a>, which opens college savings accounts with $500 already added, for families who recently had a baby and who qualify for Medi-Cal or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://communityinvestmentforfamilies.org/opportunity-la-0\">Opportunity L.A.\u003c/a> opens savings accounts for eligible LAUSD students, with a $50 seed deposit. And in 2022, California launched a statewide college savings initiative, \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/the-basics/what-is-calkids/\">CalKIDS\u003c/a>. Two groups of young Californians are eligible for CalKIDS: children born on or after the creation of the program on July 1, 2022; and current K–12 students enrolled in any California public school who are either unhoused, enrolled in a foster youth program or are considered by the state to come from lower-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families who open an account for their newborn can receive a seed deposit from the state of up to $100, and eligible K–12 students qualify for a $500 deposit. \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/the-basics/who-is-eligible/\">You can check whether your newborn or student qualifies on the CalKIDS website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Saw Yunn Nwe, 18, attends the University of Pennsylvania as a freshman this fall, she will be the first person in her family to go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/educationnews\">college in the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also part of San Francisco’s graduating senior class of 2023 — the first group of students to complete the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/\">Kindergarten to College program\u003c/a> (K2C), which, back in 2011, was the first universal college savings program in the country. It started with a limited number of kindergartners before expanding to include every student from that generation. Twelve years later, at the time of their high school graduation, the class of 2023 have been able to save $755,281 overall, which will go to cover college tuition and other education expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when Nwe was in eighth grade, her homeroom teacher passed out envelopes to all the kids in her class. Nwe and her family had just settled in San Francisco after migrating from Myanmar, and she was just getting adjusted to her new classes at James Denman Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People sit and watch a video in a conference hall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a video during the ceremony. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The envelopes carried a message from the school district, reminding them about their accounts and letting them know the city had already deposited $50 in each. As she saw her classmates read their letters, Nwe assumed she didn’t qualify for the program — she had arrived in San Francisco only a few months prior and hadn’t gone to kindergarten in here.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But a few weeks later, her teacher gave her an envelope from K2C. “It was kind of shocking … I don’t think this would have been possible back in my country,” she said. “I was really encouraged to save for college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2011, K2C has continued to grow and now opens accounts for every student currently enrolled in an SFUSD school, regardless of when they entered the district. If you add up every account, the total savings amounts to roughly $15 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nwe says that one of her dreams, ever since she emigrated to the U.S., has been to attend an American university. However, when she learned how expensive it is in this country, she became nervous because her parents were already working multiple jobs to support her and her siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952123 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian youth and a white youth smile with dyed orange hair sit behind a podium and smile at an unseen audience.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nwe (left) speaks alongside fellow student Yadira Vazquez. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whenever my parents tried to set money aside for me to go to college, I would feel bad because they couldn’t use it for themselves — like I was putting a burden on them,” she explained, and said that there were times it felt like going to college was not going to be financially possible. “But then my parents reassured me that it was going to be worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nwe and her parents decided they were going to make the most of the K2C account. Her parents would deposit small amounts whenever they had the chance, and Nwe found out that the program also offered cash incentives: Whenever students take time to explore their account or learn more about savings and personal finances, K2C rewards them by adding small amounts into their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my K2C comes from scholarships I earned and from summer jobs,” Nwe explained. “Instead of giving me a check, they put it in [my account].” By the end of her senior year, Nwe was able to save a little over $1,400, which she says isn’t enough to cover tuition at UPenn, but it can cover other necessary expenses, like fees and books for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having young people learn how savings accounts work and talking about personal finances with their families are some of the goals of the K2C program, says San Francisco City Treasurer José Cisneros, who helped design the program with then-Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2011. “It’s not about saving thousands of dollars necessarily,” Cisneros said. “If we give [students] 12 or 13 years to save money, they’re going to have something real there when they graduate high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man with a suit and tie speaks from behind a dais with a university emblem behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros speaks about the first class of graduates from San Francisco high schools using the K2C savings. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re currently an SFUSD student — or a parent or guardian of one — and are heading into summer thinking about college, here’s a quick breakdown of how Kindergarten to College works and how to make the most of your account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can I access my Kindergarten to College account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K2C opens an account for a student automatically, as soon as they enroll in an SFUSD school and regardless of what grade they enroll in or whether they transfer in partway through the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents or guardians do not need to do anything; however, they do need to \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/register-view-balance-online\">visit the K2C portal\u003c/a> and register their student’s information so they can see their account balance and start depositing. To register an account, you will need your student’s K2C account number. SFUSD mails families a letter with their student’s account number several times during elementary and middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if I can’t find my K2C account number?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No worries — K2C has \u003ca href=\"https://newbusiness.sfgov.org/k2cAccountLookup/\">a tool that can help track down your account number\u003c/a>. All you need is your student’s full name, birth date and ZIP code. Once you have the number handy, go back to the K2C portal to register, create a password and check out your account. You should already have $50 dollars in there — that starting amount comes from the city and is allocated from the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you have your account set up, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/how-make-deposit\">there are several ways you can make a deposit\u003c/a>, including through direct deposit, making a deposit in person or mailing a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much is my family expected to save?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each family can engage with their K2C account as much or as little as they see fit. There is no obligation from the city to use the account. Each account already comes with $50, and if you log in to your account at least once a year, the city will add another $20. There are many different types of cash incentives available: Some you can receive by learning more about your account; others are available through special student contests where students can submit original art pieces they created at school; and some are automatically available to students at select elementary schools. \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/earn-incentives\">You can review a more detailed list of incentives on the K2C website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people sit inside a large conference room and look away from the camera. Behind them, a large monitor reads out, \"Congratulations graduates!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a video during the ceremony. Every kindergartner who attends public school in San Francisco receives a college savings account automatically with a $50 incentive. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m a high school senior right now. How can I withdraw what I have in my account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing out your account is pretty straightforward. If you have an automatic direct deposit set up, first make sure you stop these transfers. Then, complete a \u003ca href=\"https://etaxstatement.sfgov.org/K2COnlineForm/\">K2C Account Withdrawal Request Form\u003c/a>, where you will be asked to confirm your personal information, whether you are graduating high school and what you will be using the money for. You have several ways to receive it, including through a Zelle account transfer, a check or a transfer to a ScholarShare 529 account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have not yet graduated high school, but are transferring out of an SFUSD school (for example, you are transferring to a private school in the city or to another school district), you can also request to withdraw your funds. And if you never deposited your own money into your account, you can still request to withdraw the money the city deposited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are students enrolled in charter schools included in the K2C program? What about students in private or parochial schools?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most charter schools in San Francisco are included in K2C. 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"content": "\u003cp>For the first time in state history, child care centers in California had to test their drinking water for possible lead contamination, and preliminary results show about a quarter of those that reported results contained unsafe levels of lead, according to data recently reported by state regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the nearly 6,900 centers whose results have been disclosed, almost 1,700 had lead levels that exceeded 5 parts per billion (ppb) — the state’s allowable limit for child care centers. Of those, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/1-4-california-child-care-centers-found-have-alarming-levels\">13 had lead levels above 500 ppb\u003c/a>, including four in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Petite Academy in San Diego reported the highest levels of lead — 11,300 ppb — of any child care center in the state. That’s more than 2,200 times higher than what California allows, and comes close to some of the highest levels detected \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353852/#:~:text=In%20the%20wake%20of%20the,23%2C%20100%20%CE%BCg%2FL.\">during the catastrophic water crisis in Flint, Michigan\u003c/a>, nearly a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility has since gotten rid of two drinking fountains with the highest lead samples and found its remaining water sources safe after retesting them, said Joanna Cline, spokesperson for the center.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Susan Little, senior advocate, Environmental Working Group\"]‘What’s so tragic about this is that this testing is not only an indicator of existing problems, but it also is an indicator of what could have been going on for decades in the drinking water in these centers throughout the state.’[/pullquote]The results indicate that the young children at those centers have been drinking lead-contaminated water for years, which is particularly worrisome because their bodies can absorb significantly more lead —\u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poisoning-and-health#:~:text=Young%20children%20are%20particularly%20vulnerable%20to%20lead%20poisoning%20because%20they,adults%20from%20a%20given%20source.\"> up to five times as much\u003c/a> — than those of adults, said Susan Little, a senior advocate with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/1-4-california-child-care-centers-found-have-alarming-levels\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, the nonprofit that analyzed the test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s so tragic about this is that this testing is not only an indicator of existing problems, but it also is an indicator of what could have been going on for decades in the drinking water in these centers throughout the state,” Little told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a toxic metal found throughout the environment that can enter drinking water from corroded pipes, and has been found to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/children.htm\">harm children’s nervous systems and brain development\u003c/a> if ingested in highly concentrated amounts. Exposure to lead — even at low levels — has been linked to developmental delays and cognition and behavioral problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those reasons, the \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/138/1/e20161493/52600/Prevention-of-Childhood-Lead-Toxicity?_ga=2.241873154.1051551116.1684909652-1546072125.1684909652\">American Academy of Pediatrics in 2016 recommended\u003c/a> that lead concentrations in drinking water at schools not exceed 1 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EWG’s study stems from a state law passed in 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2370\">AB 2370\u003c/a>, that required all licensed child care centers located in buildings constructed before 2010 to test every faucet for lead contamination by January of this year, and then retest the water every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, the state would order any facilities with water exceeding the limit of 5 ppb to reduce lead levels to as close to zero as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standards for child care centers are higher than those at elementary, middle and high schools, which don’t have to test every tap and are not required to replace fixtures or notify parents unless lead levels exceed 15 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Chris Holden, who authored AB 2370, introduced a bill this year that would require schools to meet the same standards as child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By aligning childcare and school lead testing standards we can protect children from the toxic effects of lead,” Holden said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care centers had a two-year window to have their drinking water tested for lead contamination. But so far, months past the deadline, hundreds have still not reported results, according to EWG’s analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11950822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png\" alt=\"A bar chart showing 13 child care centers in California with the highest lead levels.\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-800x503.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-1020x642.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-1536x967.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little said she expects the number of facilities with unhealthy lead exposure to grow as more test results come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears this is the tip of the iceberg,” she said, noting that licensed family child care homes in California, which outnumber child care centers, are not even required to test their water for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little advises parents who send their children to family child care homes to encourage their providers to install newer faucets and lead-removing filters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who send their children to a center \u003ca href=\"https://static.ewg.org/upload/pdf/California_statewide_childcare_testing_results_as_of_April_23_2023_-_Statewide_results_as_of_4.27.23.pdf?_gl=1*1wkx0xy*_gcl_au*MTQyNzQ2MDgzNy4xNjg0OTA2Mzk4*_ga*MTEwNTE3ODc1OS4xNjg0OTA2Mzk4*_ga_CS21GC49KT*MTY4NDkwOTY0OS4yLjEuMTY4NDkxMTY2MS4wLjAuMA..&_ga=2.69131411.367003707.1684906398-1105178759.1684906398\">can look up lead-level results (PDF)\u003c/a> in EWG’s database and, if the results from that facility are missing, press them to test their water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the center has been found to have an unsafe level of lead in its water, Little encourages parents to ask providers for details on what they have done to lower those levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kumiko Inui, director of ABC Preschool in San Francisco, whose lead levels ranked fourth highest in the study, said that result was due to an outdoor sink that hadn’t been used in years and has since been shut off. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n any given day of the week, you can find retired teacher Mike Peritz on the campus of John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond. Peritz is 79 years old now, and he still speaks with the enthusiasm and optimism he had when he was a 24-year-old rookie on the founding faculty of the school back in 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to say that in my 35 years of teaching, I don’t think I ever had a bad day,” said Peritz. “I always had a good time and I tried to make sure everyone else had a good time. I still believe that enhances learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Peritz, retired teacher, John F. Kennedy High School\"]‘Everything that was there had a certain creativity, a certain flexibility, a certain intention.’[/pullquote]More than two decades after he officially retired, Peritz is still on a mission to lift the sagging fortunes of a once stellar inner city high school where he taught English, social sciences and a pioneering food services training program. He isn’t paid anymore, but Peritz is still at Kennedy High as a volunteer, mentor, advocate, educational guru and fundraiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses in a black hoodie talks to a teenager wearing a gray hoodie with wired ear buds in his ear in a classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired teacher Mike Peritz speaks with Jeffrey Lopez, one of the student shop assistants, in Benjamin Carpenter’s welding class at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Mike Peritz is Mr. Kennedy,” said Kibby Kleiman, the principal at Pinole Valley High School, who spent nearly 20 years of his own career previously at Kennedy High. “If anyone deserves credit for keeping the heartbeat and legacy of Kennedy High alive, then it’s him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what is that legacy?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A legacy of innovation and integration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 1967, what was then called the Richmond Unified School District opened a brand-new campus designed as a model of innovation. They called it John F. Kennedy High to honor the young president who was assassinated four years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy High was built like a college campus — each department had its own building and opened out to the fresh air. The school was designed for flexible scheduling, team-teaching and big chunks of unstructured time that students could use to work on projects. It was a model that encouraged students to use their non-classroom time wisely and to take responsibility for their own learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A look down a hallway with person accessing a locker in the distance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letters covering windows in a hallway spell out ‘Respect’ at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond, on May 18, 2023. On the other side of the hall, a school employee removes graffiti. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything that was there had a certain creativity, a certain flexibility, a certain intention,” recalls Peritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else was happening too. In what might be considered a special moment in history, \u003ca href=\"https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft9h4nb6db&chunk.id=d0e132&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e132&brand=ucpress\">Kennedy High was fully integrated by race and class\u003c/a> after a vote by the RUSD school board in 1968. A voluntary bussing program brought kids from all over the district to attend Kennedy. The children of professors went to school with the kids of pipefitters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might have been the only school in the country where affluent white parents schemed of ways to get their kids into a school that had lots of minorities because we had some great programs and very good teachers,” said another retired teacher, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chssa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/David-Dansk.pdf\">David Dansky (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dansky led Kennedy High’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.speechanddebate.org/hall-of-fame/\">nationally ranked speech and debate program\u003c/a>. His graduating seniors were routinely admitted to some of the top colleges and universities in the country, including Harvard, Stanford, MIT and the UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo from a page in a yearbook of a white man with glasses wearing a tie, white shirt and vest. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of teacher Mike Peritz in a John F. Kennedy High School yearbook from the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Peritz, a champion of \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/pubs/web/95024-2.asp\">vocational education\u003c/a>, led the school’s Food Education and Service Training program known as FEAST. It was supported by federal and local grants, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://ggra.org/our-mission/\">Golden Gate Restaurant Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support the FEAST program, the school building’s architect designed Kennedy with a 24-seat restaurant laid out in a classroom with a specially designed kitchen. The FEAST program taught students the details of planning, cooking and serving meals, preparing and writing menus, shopping, shipping, sanitation, business English as well as accounting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were so successful with our training program that by 1975, 100% of my senior students had some kind of job before they went out into the world,” said Peritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy High’s FEAST program became a national model, attracting visitors from around the country seeking to replicate its success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A display of awards and trophies. One award in particular reads \"Scholastic Journalist Award.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">School trophies sit in a glass case in the office at John F. Kennedy High School. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Overall, Kennedy High proved that a racially integrated inner city high school with superb academics, athletics and vocational education could succeed. The school had sufficient funding and plenty of support from parents in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a word that Peritz and his teaching peers at Kennedy High use to describe that period when everything seemed possible at the school. They invoke the myth surrounding President John F. Kennedy: \u003ca href=\"https://politicaldictionary.com/words/camelot/\">Camelot\u003c/a>. It refers to the mythical court of King Arthur as compared to the young President Kennedy’s administration, both periods of optimism and opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camelot is really a metaphor for perfection or idealism,” said Peritz. “The students who came together and weren’t supposed to get along, well, everybody was uplifted by each other. So that was our Camelot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anyone familiar with the history of public education in California knows that that period of optimism and innovation would not last.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A challenging decade\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting in the late 1970s, a series of cascading events over a decade slowly changed Kennedy High and not for the better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, California voters approved Proposition 13, which cut property taxes thereby \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/stories/education/\">decimating a main funding source for public schools\u003c/a>. As local property tax revenues dried up, a long series of teacher and staff cutbacks began. The school district also eliminated the voluntary bussing program that brought students in from affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another economic earthquake occurred between 1980 and 1983: \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2018/08/28/after-plant-closings-a-labor-day-story/?sh=25b7a34725b3\">a loss of manufacturing jobs\u003c/a> that sustained working class African American and Latino families. In conjunction, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.governor.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt336/files/documents/20200819-gilles-bissonnette-new-jim-crow-exerpt.pdf\">crack epidemic swept through neighborhoods (PDF)\u003c/a> like South Richmond. President Ronald Reagan called it “an uncontrolled fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1980s, student enrollment in Richmond public schools declined as the baby boom kids graduated. And many more affluent parents, often white, stopped sending their kids to Kennedy High, instead using their privilege and knowledge of the system to transfer their children to El Cerrito High. Waking up to the fact that everything they had built was in jeopardy, Peritz and other teachers wrote an open letter to parents residing within Kennedy High’s boundaries in hopes of staunching the exodus. The letter, written in 1987, told parents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This year we are delighted that five students have been accepted to Stanford, three to Harvard, three to M.I.T., many to Cal and others to Princeton, Cornell, Yale, UCLA, et al…If positive learning were not taking place at JFK right now, these successes in educating our college bound would not have happened. Stanford and Harvard demand performance, not myth.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But their plea didn’t work. A few years later, the district, now known as West Contra Costa County Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/04/20/california-school-district-files-bankruptcy/3bca06c5-998c-4d6a-b0e3-7d993973412b/\">fell into bankruptcy\u003c/a>. The state stepped in to manage the district. Kennedy High never really recovered. By the end of the 1990s, budget cutbacks, bureaucratic meddling and a demoralized faculty led to the end of the speech and debate and FEAST programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Peritz refuses to give up on Kennedy High\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After his retirement in 2001, Mike Peritz shifted into another gear as a champion for Kennedy High and its feeder schools, many of which serve a population that often could use more support than the district provides. Many students are English-language learners, many families are struggling to make ends meet and test scores are often some of the lowest in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peritz co-founded the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/champion-of-richmond-education-1/\">Eagle Foundation\u003c/a> to raise money for Kennedy High. The foundation later folded into a college scholarship program for needy students all over Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/09/08/city-pays-to-keep-three-richmond-schools-open/\">the district threatened to close Kennedy High\u003c/a> due to declining enrollment, Peritz led a community campaign to keep the school open, arguing that it was still a vital institution in South Richmond. (The school remained open after the city of Richmond agreed to give the district approximately $7 million over five years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is sometimes difficult to keep up with all of Peritz’s projects. In 2013, he \u003ca href=\"https://richmondconfidential.org/2013/11/22/music-is-back-at-kennedy-high-school/\">co-created “the Music at Kennedy Committee”\u003c/a> to revive musical instruction at the school. He conducts semi-regular tours of the school, especially for city leaders, to make sure the community understands what is happening on campus. He also arranges tours for elementary school students to familiarize them with the high school they hopefully will attend. Peritz is also a fierce opponent of charter schools, which he says are expanding within the district at the expense of students in schools like Kennedy High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love Mike around here,” said Principal Jarod Scott. “Sometimes you have to be concerned about somebody’s agenda [working inside the school], but with Mike he’s always transparent. He comes to me and says, ‘Here’s what I’d like to do; let me know if it conflicts with what you want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses in a black hoodie talks with a Black man in a collared shirt at a desk with trophies behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired teacher Mike Peritz speaks with Principal Jarod Scott in the office at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past four years, Peritz has devoted much of his attention to Kennedy High’s welding classes, a key component of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wccusd.net/domain/3066\">the school’s Career Technical Education program\u003c/a>. When a former welding instructor passed away, Peritz led an effort to recruit his replacement. The new teacher, Ben Carpenter, had never taught in public schools before. He said of Peritz, “This guy comes up to me and says, ‘Hey, I’m taking this math class so that I can help your students with the math.’ And I kind of looked at him and was tilting my head like a dog, like what?! What?!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpenter says Peritz has been a mentor and huge source of support as he’s learned the ropes of teaching at Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950575\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses in a black hoodie talks to another white man in a black beanie hat and black hoodie in a welding classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welding teacher Benjamin Carpenter talks with retired teacher Mike Peritz in the welding classroom at John F. Kennedy High School. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He said, basically, ‘I’m working for you. You tell me what you need,’” said Carpenter, shaking his head at the memory. “Mike is a character. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone as dedicated to anything as this guy is to this school in this community and these students. It’s incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what keeps him going long after all of his peers have settled into retirement, Peritz slaps his forearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a thicker skin than most people,” he said. “You know, same house, same woman, same kids, same car. I try to maintain things and hang with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pauses, then adds: “No, seriously speaking. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>More than two decades after he officially retired, Peritz is still on a mission to lift the sagging fortunes of a once stellar inner city high school where he taught English, social sciences and a pioneering food services training program. He isn’t paid anymore, but Peritz is still at Kennedy High as a volunteer, mentor, advocate, educational guru and fundraiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses in a black hoodie talks to a teenager wearing a gray hoodie with wired ear buds in his ear in a classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired teacher Mike Peritz speaks with Jeffrey Lopez, one of the student shop assistants, in Benjamin Carpenter’s welding class at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Mike Peritz is Mr. Kennedy,” said Kibby Kleiman, the principal at Pinole Valley High School, who spent nearly 20 years of his own career previously at Kennedy High. “If anyone deserves credit for keeping the heartbeat and legacy of Kennedy High alive, then it’s him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what is that legacy?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A legacy of innovation and integration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 1967, what was then called the Richmond Unified School District opened a brand-new campus designed as a model of innovation. They called it John F. Kennedy High to honor the young president who was assassinated four years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy High was built like a college campus — each department had its own building and opened out to the fresh air. The school was designed for flexible scheduling, team-teaching and big chunks of unstructured time that students could use to work on projects. It was a model that encouraged students to use their non-classroom time wisely and to take responsibility for their own learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A look down a hallway with person accessing a locker in the distance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letters covering windows in a hallway spell out ‘Respect’ at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond, on May 18, 2023. On the other side of the hall, a school employee removes graffiti. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything that was there had a certain creativity, a certain flexibility, a certain intention,” recalls Peritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else was happening too. In what might be considered a special moment in history, \u003ca href=\"https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft9h4nb6db&chunk.id=d0e132&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e132&brand=ucpress\">Kennedy High was fully integrated by race and class\u003c/a> after a vote by the RUSD school board in 1968. A voluntary bussing program brought kids from all over the district to attend Kennedy. The children of professors went to school with the kids of pipefitters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might have been the only school in the country where affluent white parents schemed of ways to get their kids into a school that had lots of minorities because we had some great programs and very good teachers,” said another retired teacher, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chssa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/David-Dansk.pdf\">David Dansky (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dansky led Kennedy High’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.speechanddebate.org/hall-of-fame/\">nationally ranked speech and debate program\u003c/a>. His graduating seniors were routinely admitted to some of the top colleges and universities in the country, including Harvard, Stanford, MIT and the UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo from a page in a yearbook of a white man with glasses wearing a tie, white shirt and vest. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of teacher Mike Peritz in a John F. Kennedy High School yearbook from the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Peritz, a champion of \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/pubs/web/95024-2.asp\">vocational education\u003c/a>, led the school’s Food Education and Service Training program known as FEAST. It was supported by federal and local grants, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://ggra.org/our-mission/\">Golden Gate Restaurant Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support the FEAST program, the school building’s architect designed Kennedy with a 24-seat restaurant laid out in a classroom with a specially designed kitchen. The FEAST program taught students the details of planning, cooking and serving meals, preparing and writing menus, shopping, shipping, sanitation, business English as well as accounting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were so successful with our training program that by 1975, 100% of my senior students had some kind of job before they went out into the world,” said Peritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy High’s FEAST program became a national model, attracting visitors from around the country seeking to replicate its success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A display of awards and trophies. One award in particular reads \"Scholastic Journalist Award.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">School trophies sit in a glass case in the office at John F. Kennedy High School. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Overall, Kennedy High proved that a racially integrated inner city high school with superb academics, athletics and vocational education could succeed. The school had sufficient funding and plenty of support from parents in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a word that Peritz and his teaching peers at Kennedy High use to describe that period when everything seemed possible at the school. They invoke the myth surrounding President John F. Kennedy: \u003ca href=\"https://politicaldictionary.com/words/camelot/\">Camelot\u003c/a>. It refers to the mythical court of King Arthur as compared to the young President Kennedy’s administration, both periods of optimism and opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camelot is really a metaphor for perfection or idealism,” said Peritz. “The students who came together and weren’t supposed to get along, well, everybody was uplifted by each other. So that was our Camelot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anyone familiar with the history of public education in California knows that that period of optimism and innovation would not last.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A challenging decade\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting in the late 1970s, a series of cascading events over a decade slowly changed Kennedy High and not for the better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, California voters approved Proposition 13, which cut property taxes thereby \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/stories/education/\">decimating a main funding source for public schools\u003c/a>. As local property tax revenues dried up, a long series of teacher and staff cutbacks began. The school district also eliminated the voluntary bussing program that brought students in from affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another economic earthquake occurred between 1980 and 1983: \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2018/08/28/after-plant-closings-a-labor-day-story/?sh=25b7a34725b3\">a loss of manufacturing jobs\u003c/a> that sustained working class African American and Latino families. In conjunction, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.governor.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt336/files/documents/20200819-gilles-bissonnette-new-jim-crow-exerpt.pdf\">crack epidemic swept through neighborhoods (PDF)\u003c/a> like South Richmond. President Ronald Reagan called it “an uncontrolled fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1980s, student enrollment in Richmond public schools declined as the baby boom kids graduated. And many more affluent parents, often white, stopped sending their kids to Kennedy High, instead using their privilege and knowledge of the system to transfer their children to El Cerrito High. Waking up to the fact that everything they had built was in jeopardy, Peritz and other teachers wrote an open letter to parents residing within Kennedy High’s boundaries in hopes of staunching the exodus. The letter, written in 1987, told parents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This year we are delighted that five students have been accepted to Stanford, three to Harvard, three to M.I.T., many to Cal and others to Princeton, Cornell, Yale, UCLA, et al…If positive learning were not taking place at JFK right now, these successes in educating our college bound would not have happened. Stanford and Harvard demand performance, not myth.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But their plea didn’t work. A few years later, the district, now known as West Contra Costa County Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/04/20/california-school-district-files-bankruptcy/3bca06c5-998c-4d6a-b0e3-7d993973412b/\">fell into bankruptcy\u003c/a>. The state stepped in to manage the district. Kennedy High never really recovered. By the end of the 1990s, budget cutbacks, bureaucratic meddling and a demoralized faculty led to the end of the speech and debate and FEAST programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Peritz refuses to give up on Kennedy High\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After his retirement in 2001, Mike Peritz shifted into another gear as a champion for Kennedy High and its feeder schools, many of which serve a population that often could use more support than the district provides. Many students are English-language learners, many families are struggling to make ends meet and test scores are often some of the lowest in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peritz co-founded the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/champion-of-richmond-education-1/\">Eagle Foundation\u003c/a> to raise money for Kennedy High. The foundation later folded into a college scholarship program for needy students all over Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/09/08/city-pays-to-keep-three-richmond-schools-open/\">the district threatened to close Kennedy High\u003c/a> due to declining enrollment, Peritz led a community campaign to keep the school open, arguing that it was still a vital institution in South Richmond. (The school remained open after the city of Richmond agreed to give the district approximately $7 million over five years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is sometimes difficult to keep up with all of Peritz’s projects. In 2013, he \u003ca href=\"https://richmondconfidential.org/2013/11/22/music-is-back-at-kennedy-high-school/\">co-created “the Music at Kennedy Committee”\u003c/a> to revive musical instruction at the school. He conducts semi-regular tours of the school, especially for city leaders, to make sure the community understands what is happening on campus. He also arranges tours for elementary school students to familiarize them with the high school they hopefully will attend. Peritz is also a fierce opponent of charter schools, which he says are expanding within the district at the expense of students in schools like Kennedy High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love Mike around here,” said Principal Jarod Scott. “Sometimes you have to be concerned about somebody’s agenda [working inside the school], but with Mike he’s always transparent. He comes to me and says, ‘Here’s what I’d like to do; let me know if it conflicts with what you want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses in a black hoodie talks with a Black man in a collared shirt at a desk with trophies behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired teacher Mike Peritz speaks with Principal Jarod Scott in the office at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past four years, Peritz has devoted much of his attention to Kennedy High’s welding classes, a key component of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wccusd.net/domain/3066\">the school’s Career Technical Education program\u003c/a>. When a former welding instructor passed away, Peritz led an effort to recruit his replacement. The new teacher, Ben Carpenter, had never taught in public schools before. He said of Peritz, “This guy comes up to me and says, ‘Hey, I’m taking this math class so that I can help your students with the math.’ And I kind of looked at him and was tilting my head like a dog, like what?! What?!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpenter says Peritz has been a mentor and huge source of support as he’s learned the ropes of teaching at Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950575\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses in a black hoodie talks to another white man in a black beanie hat and black hoodie in a welding classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welding teacher Benjamin Carpenter talks with retired teacher Mike Peritz in the welding classroom at John F. Kennedy High School. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He said, basically, ‘I’m working for you. You tell me what you need,’” said Carpenter, shaking his head at the memory. “Mike is a character. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone as dedicated to anything as this guy is to this school in this community and these students. It’s incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what keeps him going long after all of his peers have settled into retirement, Peritz slaps his forearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a thicker skin than most people,” he said. “You know, same house, same woman, same kids, same car. I try to maintain things and hang with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pauses, then adds: “No, seriously speaking. I hang with it because we had a mission when I came here and I’m still flying that mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In the coming weeks, the two groups will vote separately on the proposal, negotiated during a seven-day strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are major gains in some areas, and there’s other areas where we made modest gains, and some areas where we have the status quo,” said Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher and the union’s president. “But as a package, it is amazing what they accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement includes plans for substantial changes to teachers’ salaries, improvements on classroom conditions, and “common good” proposals such as student housing assistance and programs that benefit students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also features amendments to special education, but parents and teachers say there is more work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/oaklandea/status/1660824964633878529?s=46&t=r9Q2R3VlaGIjgJa5ishJag\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made modest gains,” Armendariz repeated. “But we’re going to center special education going forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the school district serves more than 6,000 students in special education programs, accounting for roughly 17% of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Oakland’s population of students in special education programming continues to grow, the school district has struggled to find enough staff and funding to meet the needs of these students. 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The two are standing at a picnic bench with neat stacks of juice boxes and snacks for kids.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, teachers and high school students hand out lunch to Oakland Unified students at a ‘solidarity school’ at Dimond Park in Oakland on May 11, 2023. 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It allows employees to request more support once they reach certain limits, which could include additional compensation or staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than base caseloads purely on the number of students, the program will take into account the specific needs and learning levels of each student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really been a big issue,” said Holly Adler, a member of the union’s bargaining team and a resource specialist. “Teachers haven’t been getting support with high-needs students that are now being mainstreamed.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Coriander Melious, parent and special education teacher\"]‘Real inclusion comes with shifting the culture.’[/pullquote]Not all parents are happy about the “mainstreaming,” which will place more students with special needs in general education classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Pursell is the parent of a sixth grader with autism. He said his son performs well in a general education classroom, but still needs time in a smaller, separate classroom to fully thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried that if he’s placed in a generalist setting, that he’ll lose all that progress and fall through the cracks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program to help teachers manage their caseloads conflicts with difficulties in hiring support staff. But these support staff, called paraeducators, are not included in the union and do not benefit from the salary raises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melious said that the low pay means these positions are often left empty, and students lose much-needed support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter was not able to participate in a musical performance because she was unable to learn guitar without a teacher’s aide. 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"content": "\u003cp>A group of students of color at \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UC College of the Law, San Francisco,\u003c/span> allege the school downplayed multiple complaints of discriminatory behavior and racist marginalization on campus and claim administrators have done little to develop a more inclusive environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue became abundantly clear to Megan Wilhelm during her first year at the law school formerly known as UC Hastings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would cry every day,” said Wilhelm, who just finished her second year at the school. “It got to the point where I didn’t know if I was going to come back that year. ‘Draining’ is the word I would use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a legal research and writing class, Wilhelm was assigned an oral argument around workplace discrimination. The case involved an employee who called another employee the N-word, and Wilhelm was tasked with defending the perpetrator’s employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilhelm recalls being the only Black student in the room asked to participate, and said she felt alienated when a teacher’s assistant told other students they could use the N-word because it was a fact of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949830 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Students seated in a circle while in discussion, outside in a courtyard with buildings behind them and a little lawn underneath them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student organizers debrief outside UC Law SF after demonstrating against an alleged pattern of inaction from school staff regarding student concerns, on April 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After discovering that the case involved a majority-Black workplace, Wilhelm said she recalled telling the class, “You have no idea what this conversation is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was marked down on her grade for the assignment, and later broke down crying in the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she complained to her professor about the experience, the professor brought the issue to Dean of Students Grace Hum, who was also responsible for advising on issues of diversity and inclusion, as well as providing guidance on student and personal life, according to the university’s website. But the professor later informed Wilhelm that the dean did not consider it a pressing issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hum resigned last month to take a job in the executive office of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The university provided a written statement but declined requests to interview Hum or other officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We need more Black attorneys’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There was no source, no outlet to talk about it and make sure that it could change,” Wilhelm said. “Why was this even an option of cases that we should be discussing without any background or any cultural education about it?”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dominique Armstrong, student, UC Law SF\"]‘For us, it was trying to convey a message that we are tired of being treated like second-class citizens. We are paying the same tuition as white students and we aren’t getting the same treatment.’[/pullquote]Wilhelm is among a group of students of color at the school who say they are struggling from a lack of support, and have accused some professors and key administrators of largely dismissing their grievances. That, they argue, is an issue of particular concern, as they prepare to enter a field vastly overrepresented by white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also not about individual students. It’s a pattern,” Wilhem said. “I just know that if I don’t say something, more people are going to be hurt, and we need more Black attorneys, not less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, like much of the rest of the country, Wilhelm notes, there is a striking dearth of lawyers of color, with numbers that fail to reflect the diversity of the larger population. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://publications.calbar.ca.gov/2022-diversity-report-card/diversity-2022-california-licensed-attorneys\">just 3% of all licensed attorneys in California were Black, and just 6% were Latino\u003c/a>, according to data from the State Bar of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they’re going to sit here and advertise that they’re a social justice-focused school, they need to have a system that supports us and protects us from the harms that they are continuing to put us through,” Wilhem added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A quiet pattern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just over a year ago, students at UC Law SF shut down a speaking engagement featuring Ilya Shapiro, a conservative legal scholar. Shapiro, who was invited by the campus’ chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, had recently posted racist tweets denigrating the Black female judges President Biden was considering for the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/When-Black-people-refuse-to-quietly-endure-17029870.php\">The protesters successfully halted the event.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it was trying to convey a message that we are tired of being treated like second-class citizens. We are paying the same tuition as white students and we aren’t getting the same treatment,” said Dominique Armstrong, then co-president of the school’s Black Law Student Association, who helped organize the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t much acknowledgement of race, and our administration has done little to address the racism and misogyny in our coursework,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after the demonstration, the administration sent students an updated policy introducing new rules for campus protests and counterprotests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young African American woman wearing a denim jacket leans against a building while looking away from the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Armstrong, a third-year law student at UC Law SF, has been working to organize other law students at the university to enact change in the way the administration responds to student accounts of racism and ableism on campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Impermissible forms of protest are those that substantially disrupt an in-person or virtual event in a way that has the effect of silencing a speaker,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23817782-10122-event-policy-adopted-1\">the document reads\u003c/a>. “This includes but is not limited to forcing a change to the planned event format; disregarding time limits or other event guidelines to prevent speakers or other attendees from participating; preventing a person from speaking or being heard via such means as heckling, making noise, standing in the area of a room reserved for the speaker, blocking the speaker or event organizers from accessing AV equipment, blocking the views of attendees attempting to view the speaker; using or implementing technology features, such as the mute button and the camera button.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The updated policies were adopted Oct. 1, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, students involved in that organizing effort say the protest was merely a flashpoint in a much broader campus discussion about freedom of speech and how administrators should respond when students bring up their experiences of racism and sexism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until meeting other organizers at that protest, Sonja Chen, who just completed her second year as a student, didn’t realize that a traumatizing experience she had had soon after starting the school was hardly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During orientation, a fellow classmate taunted Chen over her race, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without prompting, this person immediately was like, ‘You should thank Lyndon B. Johnson and the New Deal for you being a student at this law school, because without him, Chinese people wouldn’t be allowed in this space,’” Chen, who is Chinese and white, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very much taken aback by that framing of history,” she added. “But also I wasn’t wearing a name tag or anything that was identifying me specifically as Chinese, and I thought that that was just very confronting to be called out immediately on one specific race, especially after COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman of half-white, half-Asian descent leans against a wall and looks at the camera. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Chen raised concerns about racism on the UC Law SF campus, but feels her voice went unheard when it came to taking action. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chen came to Hum, the dean of students, to report the interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first brought this to [the dean’s] attention, she focused on the individual man’s rights around free speech and basically said there’s nothing that she can do,” Chen said. “There was no option generating. There was no plan of action. And I left feeling really disheartened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, the dean later offered to change Chen’s schedule so she and the other student wouldn’t have any classes together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The second meeting, I told her this is still on my mind,” she said. “And she offered me to switch sections, which means you have to switch your section for every single class. So that’s just a very disruptive offering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Incremental changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at the university declined to comment on specific incidents, but said the administration is actively working to address its systems and culture to be more inclusive of students from all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a student would like to express a concern about racist or other bias-related issues, they have a variety of resources upon which to rely, including reporting the issue to the Provost and Academic Dean, the Dean of Students, or a variety of other administrators ready to support,” UC Law SF Chancellor and Dean David Faigman said in an email response to KQED. “Administrators and staff members often engage in informal mechanisms to help resolve differences and provide opportunities for learning and reflections for all community members, including faculty, staff, and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949840 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Three students walk down a brightly lit indoor hallway with florescent lighting and white walls.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miquela Kallenberger leads students to the office of Academic Dean Morris Ratner to demonstrate against an alleged lack of accountability from school officials, on April 18, 2023, on the UC Law SF campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school is also actively recruiting its first ombudsperson to facilitate conflict resolution, Faigman said. He pointed to a list of initiatives on campus that aim to promote diversity and inclusion, such as a program specifically for students who are the first in their families to go to law school; merit-based scholarships for students from historically Black colleges or universities (HBCUs); and about 20 affinity groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Law SF is committed to ensuring that all our law students feel a sense of belonging, so we intentionally and thoughtfully created programs and initiatives to inculcate that feeling within our community,” Faigman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the school decided to change its name, following years of pressure by advocates who underscored that Serranus Hastings, the school’s founder and a prominent politician and rancher, participated in the genocide of thousands of the Indigenous people in California. The new name went into effect on Jan. 1, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many student advocates of color say the school’s recent efforts fall short and student voices are not driving the conversations about inclusivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To hear those discussions coming from the faculty of the name change and how it would affect all these student organizations, it was totally missing the mark,” said Chen. “Y’all are out searching for Pluto and we’re looking for water on Earth right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New tactics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As classes were wrapping up for the most recent school year, students from the protest and others who had come forward to report issues with racism made one final push to elevate some of the roadblocks they’d run into when reporting discrimination on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They posted flyers asking peers to share their experiences with Hum. Within days, they received dozens of examples in which the dean and other administrators had responded dismissively to student concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949824\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two students, one male, the other female, stand on either side of a door with their backs to the camera, through the door we see a white man in a brown suit sitting behind a desk explaining something.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Academic Dean Morris Ratner talks with students about an alleged pattern of inaction from Dean Grace Hum and other school staff regarding reports of racism and ableism on campus, on April 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the last week of classes in April, a group of about 15 students attempted to hand-deliver a hard copy of the examples to Hum, only to find she was not on campus that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They instead met with Morris Ratner, the school’s academic dean, who spoke with them for nearly 30 minutes about their concerns and advised them to refer to formal complaint processes in the student handbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, students hugged with teary eyes. For some, it would be the last time they would see each other before graduating. Others said they planned to continue pushing their demands next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949827\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Various students seated and standing in an office listening to somebody speak (who is not in the photo), with a sign that says 'Dean of Students, Listen to Students.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at UC Law SF stage a protest against the school’s administration, in San Francisco on April 18, 2023, alleging that concerns of racism and ableism on campus are often ignored or brushed off. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school has since started its search for a new dean of students, and several student organizers told KQED they would like to see students from different corners of campus represented in the hiring process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know why I applied to law school. It was to change a systemic issue of oppression. It was to address racism in our country. It was to call people out for hurting others and making spaces feel like they aren’t meant for people like me,” Wilhelm said. “That was in my admissions essay. But they’re surprised now that I’m saying something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wilhelm is among a group of students of color at the school who say they are struggling from a lack of support, and have accused some professors and key administrators of largely dismissing their grievances. That, they argue, is an issue of particular concern, as they prepare to enter a field vastly overrepresented by white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also not about individual students. It’s a pattern,” Wilhem said. “I just know that if I don’t say something, more people are going to be hurt, and we need more Black attorneys, not less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, like much of the rest of the country, Wilhelm notes, there is a striking dearth of lawyers of color, with numbers that fail to reflect the diversity of the larger population. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://publications.calbar.ca.gov/2022-diversity-report-card/diversity-2022-california-licensed-attorneys\">just 3% of all licensed attorneys in California were Black, and just 6% were Latino\u003c/a>, according to data from the State Bar of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they’re going to sit here and advertise that they’re a social justice-focused school, they need to have a system that supports us and protects us from the harms that they are continuing to put us through,” Wilhem added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A quiet pattern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just over a year ago, students at UC Law SF shut down a speaking engagement featuring Ilya Shapiro, a conservative legal scholar. Shapiro, who was invited by the campus’ chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, had recently posted racist tweets denigrating the Black female judges President Biden was considering for the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/When-Black-people-refuse-to-quietly-endure-17029870.php\">The protesters successfully halted the event.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it was trying to convey a message that we are tired of being treated like second-class citizens. We are paying the same tuition as white students and we aren’t getting the same treatment,” said Dominique Armstrong, then co-president of the school’s Black Law Student Association, who helped organize the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t much acknowledgement of race, and our administration has done little to address the racism and misogyny in our coursework,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after the demonstration, the administration sent students an updated policy introducing new rules for campus protests and counterprotests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young African American woman wearing a denim jacket leans against a building while looking away from the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Armstrong, a third-year law student at UC Law SF, has been working to organize other law students at the university to enact change in the way the administration responds to student accounts of racism and ableism on campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Impermissible forms of protest are those that substantially disrupt an in-person or virtual event in a way that has the effect of silencing a speaker,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23817782-10122-event-policy-adopted-1\">the document reads\u003c/a>. “This includes but is not limited to forcing a change to the planned event format; disregarding time limits or other event guidelines to prevent speakers or other attendees from participating; preventing a person from speaking or being heard via such means as heckling, making noise, standing in the area of a room reserved for the speaker, blocking the speaker or event organizers from accessing AV equipment, blocking the views of attendees attempting to view the speaker; using or implementing technology features, such as the mute button and the camera button.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The updated policies were adopted Oct. 1, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, students involved in that organizing effort say the protest was merely a flashpoint in a much broader campus discussion about freedom of speech and how administrators should respond when students bring up their experiences of racism and sexism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until meeting other organizers at that protest, Sonja Chen, who just completed her second year as a student, didn’t realize that a traumatizing experience she had had soon after starting the school was hardly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During orientation, a fellow classmate taunted Chen over her race, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without prompting, this person immediately was like, ‘You should thank Lyndon B. Johnson and the New Deal for you being a student at this law school, because without him, Chinese people wouldn’t be allowed in this space,’” Chen, who is Chinese and white, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very much taken aback by that framing of history,” she added. “But also I wasn’t wearing a name tag or anything that was identifying me specifically as Chinese, and I thought that that was just very confronting to be called out immediately on one specific race, especially after COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman of half-white, half-Asian descent leans against a wall and looks at the camera. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Chen raised concerns about racism on the UC Law SF campus, but feels her voice went unheard when it came to taking action. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chen came to Hum, the dean of students, to report the interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first brought this to [the dean’s] attention, she focused on the individual man’s rights around free speech and basically said there’s nothing that she can do,” Chen said. “There was no option generating. There was no plan of action. And I left feeling really disheartened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, the dean later offered to change Chen’s schedule so she and the other student wouldn’t have any classes together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The second meeting, I told her this is still on my mind,” she said. “And she offered me to switch sections, which means you have to switch your section for every single class. So that’s just a very disruptive offering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Incremental changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at the university declined to comment on specific incidents, but said the administration is actively working to address its systems and culture to be more inclusive of students from all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a student would like to express a concern about racist or other bias-related issues, they have a variety of resources upon which to rely, including reporting the issue to the Provost and Academic Dean, the Dean of Students, or a variety of other administrators ready to support,” UC Law SF Chancellor and Dean David Faigman said in an email response to KQED. “Administrators and staff members often engage in informal mechanisms to help resolve differences and provide opportunities for learning and reflections for all community members, including faculty, staff, and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949840 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Three students walk down a brightly lit indoor hallway with florescent lighting and white walls.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miquela Kallenberger leads students to the office of Academic Dean Morris Ratner to demonstrate against an alleged lack of accountability from school officials, on April 18, 2023, on the UC Law SF campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school is also actively recruiting its first ombudsperson to facilitate conflict resolution, Faigman said. He pointed to a list of initiatives on campus that aim to promote diversity and inclusion, such as a program specifically for students who are the first in their families to go to law school; merit-based scholarships for students from historically Black colleges or universities (HBCUs); and about 20 affinity groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Law SF is committed to ensuring that all our law students feel a sense of belonging, so we intentionally and thoughtfully created programs and initiatives to inculcate that feeling within our community,” Faigman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the school decided to change its name, following years of pressure by advocates who underscored that Serranus Hastings, the school’s founder and a prominent politician and rancher, participated in the genocide of thousands of the Indigenous people in California. The new name went into effect on Jan. 1, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many student advocates of color say the school’s recent efforts fall short and student voices are not driving the conversations about inclusivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To hear those discussions coming from the faculty of the name change and how it would affect all these student organizations, it was totally missing the mark,” said Chen. “Y’all are out searching for Pluto and we’re looking for water on Earth right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New tactics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As classes were wrapping up for the most recent school year, students from the protest and others who had come forward to report issues with racism made one final push to elevate some of the roadblocks they’d run into when reporting discrimination on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They posted flyers asking peers to share their experiences with Hum. Within days, they received dozens of examples in which the dean and other administrators had responded dismissively to student concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949824\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two students, one male, the other female, stand on either side of a door with their backs to the camera, through the door we see a white man in a brown suit sitting behind a desk explaining something.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Academic Dean Morris Ratner talks with students about an alleged pattern of inaction from Dean Grace Hum and other school staff regarding reports of racism and ableism on campus, on April 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the last week of classes in April, a group of about 15 students attempted to hand-deliver a hard copy of the examples to Hum, only to find she was not on campus that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They instead met with Morris Ratner, the school’s academic dean, who spoke with them for nearly 30 minutes about their concerns and advised them to refer to formal complaint processes in the student handbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, students hugged with teary eyes. For some, it would be the last time they would see each other before graduating. Others said they planned to continue pushing their demands next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949827\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Various students seated and standing in an office listening to somebody speak (who is not in the photo), with a sign that says 'Dean of Students, Listen to Students.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at UC Law SF stage a protest against the school’s administration, in San Francisco on April 18, 2023, alleging that concerns of racism and ableism on campus are often ignored or brushed off. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school has since started its search for a new dean of students, and several student organizers told KQED they would like to see students from different corners of campus represented in the hiring process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know why I applied to law school. It was to change a systemic issue of oppression. It was to address racism in our country. It was to call people out for hurting others and making spaces feel like they aren’t meant for people like me,” Wilhelm said. “That was in my admissions essay. But they’re surprised now that I’m saying something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947683/subsidized-child-care-fees-could-be-going-up-in-july-heres-what-to-know\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante la pandemia, California dejó de cobrar las cuotas mensuales de varios programas para el cuidado de niños, con el próposito de ayudar a las familias con menos ingresos acceder al cuidado infantil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero a partir del 30 de septiembre, estos subsidios estatales desaparecerán, lo que significa que estas familias tendrán que pagar mucho más para porder seguir llevando a sus pequeños a la guardería.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anteriormente, las cuotas para las guarderías subvencionadas por el estado iban a regresar el 30 de junio, pero el gobernador Gavin Newsom llegó a un acuerdo la semana pasada para extender hasta el 30 de septiembre el programa de ayuda financiera que ha congelado estas tarifas. Newsom anunció que el estado usará 29.4 millones de dólares para extender esta ayuda a familias de bajos ingresos que necesitan cuidado infantil, pero todavía se desconoce qué pasará después del 30 de septiembre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esta es una situación complicada y cambiante, y para complicarla aún más, estos cambios podrían verse frenados por una o varias medidas legales en curso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Así que si usted o alguien que conoce depende del cuidado infantil subsidiado por el estado, siga leyendo para saber cómo podría verse afectado, qué puede hacer ahora para prepararse para un posible aumento de los costos, y qué están haciendo las autoridades en respuesta a esta situación. Seguiremos actualizando esta guía a medida que sepamos más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ir directamente a:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#familias\">\u003cstrong>¿Qué pueden hacer ahora las familias si regresan estas cuotas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Por qué está subiendo el costo de las guarderías subvencionadas en California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Desde 1998, las familias que participan en programas de asistencia para el cuidado de niños en California \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/calworks-child-care/program-eligibility\">tienen que pagar una cuota mensual\u003c/a>, también llamada copago, la cual es determinada por su nivel de ingresos. Estas cuotas mensuales se conocen como “cuotas familiares”, y van desde $36 a $600 dólares al mes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Las ‘cuotas familiares’ son tarifas mensuales que familias tienen que pagar cada mes si es que tienen a sus niños en programas de cuidado infantil subvencionados por el estado de California.[/pullquote]Al inicio de la pandemia, California recibió permiso del gobierno federal para no cobrar las cuotas familiares y dejó de cobrarlas temporalmente a las familias que ya recibían subsidios para las guarderías a tiempo parcial o completo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California pudo detener la recolección de estas cuotas gracias a fondos federales asignados durante la pandemia. Pero esta ayuda del gobierno federal se está agotando. Esto significa que, a partir del 1 de octubre, las familias volverán a tener que aportar las cuotas familiares, a menos que las autoridades estatales tomen acción.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Si regresan las cuotas familiares a partir del 1 de octubre, ¿cuáles familias son las que tendrían que pagar por la guardería?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Las normas federales permiten a los estados \u003ca href=\"https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/family_co-payment_brief_0.pdf#:~:text=While%20the%20definition%20did%20not%20change%2C%20the%20Administration,access%20section%20of%20the%20CCDF%20Final%203%20Rule.\">fijar sus propias cuotas familiares, en función del tamaño de la familia y sus ingresos\u003c/a>, siempre y cuando estas sean asequibles y no se conviertan en un obstáculo para que las familias reciban asistencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En la actualidad, para tener derecho a una guardería subvencionada por el estado, una familia debe ganar el 85 por ciento o menos del ingreso promedio del estado. En California, esa cantidad sería de 82 mil 102 dólares anuales para una familia de tres miembros, y de 95 mil 289 dólares para una familia de cuatro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quienes ganan menos del 40 por ciento de esa cantidad no pagan nada por la guardería. Las familias que ganan \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CDSS_Famfeeschedule_SubChildCare_FY2022-23.pdf\">entre el 40 por ciento y el 85 por ciento de los ingresos promedios del estado pagan una cuota a la guardería que se calcula según una escala variable\u003c/a>. Esta tarifa puede llegar a ser hasta al 10 por ciento de los ingresos de una familia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, el Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California ha reiterado que las familias que ganan el 39 por ciento o menos de los ingresos medios del estado, y las familias que reciben ayuda CalWORKS, no tendrán que pagar cuotas después del 1 de octubre. Además, las familias que reciben ayuda de los Servicios de Protección Infantil pueden quedar exentas de las cuotas familiares durante otros 12 meses.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Las familias que ganan el 39 por ciento o menos del ingreso promedio estatal, y las familias que reciben ayuda de CalWORKS, no tendrán que pagar cuotas después del 1 de octubre, según funcionarios estatales.[/pullquote]Usted puede utilizar la \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/\">Calculadora de Cuotas Familiares de Cuidado Infantil\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (enlace disponible sólo en inglés) del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California para ver cuánto tendría que pagar por cuidado infantil subvencionado, en función del número de personas de su familia y de sus ingresos mensuales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Tiene problemas para calcular los ingresos mensuales de su familia? Puede utilizar \u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/FeeRate2021/CalculationWorksheet\">\u003cstrong>esta hoja de cálculo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (enlace disponible sólo en inglés), que también proporciona instrucciones sobre cómo sumar con exactitud los ingresos procedentes de trabajos irregulares o estacionales. También encontrará instrucciones sobre cómo incluir otras fuentes de ingresos mensuales, incluidas las ayudas públicas, las prestaciones por discapacidad o desempleo y la manutención por parte de su pareja.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los defensores de los programas de educación infantil y guardería recomiendan a los padres que empiecen a ahorrar dinero, si pueden, para prepararse para el posible regreso de las cuotas familiares el 1 de julio. \u003ccite>(Cavan Images/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"familias\">\u003c/a>¿Qué pueden hacer ahora las familias en medio de esta incertidumbre?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No haga cambios grandes en el cuidado de su hijo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina Buthee, directora ejecutiva de la organización sin fines de lucro \u003ca href=\"https://www.everychildca.org/\">EveryChild California\u003c/a>, dice que su mensaje a las familias en este momento es mantenerse firmes en estos momentos, aunque las cosas puedan parecer inciertas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No se precipite ni saque a su hijo de ningún programa, independientemente de lo que diga este papel en términos de cuotas”, afirma Buthee, cuya organización defiende los programas de atención y educación infantil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee también cree que es muy probable que el estado reduzca las cuotas, incluso sin el apoyo del gobierno federal, algo por lo que EveryChild California, junto con otros, está abogando. Vea a continuación más información sobre las medidas legales que podrían cambiar la situación de las cuotas familiares en los próximos meses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahorre lo que pueda ante el posible retorno de las cuotas familiares\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee recomienda que si su familia puede “ahorrar algo de dinero”, lo haga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y mientras ahorra, si es que puede, “sepa que hay activistas y legisladores que están trabajando muy, muy duro para asegurarse de que las cuotas familiares queden exentas al menos hasta el 1 de octubre, y además, esperamos conseguir que se reduzcan durante el resto del año”, dijo Buthee.[aside postID=\"news_11941448\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/FARMWORKETS-SHOVELING-DIRT-YELLOW-RAINGEAR.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asegúrese de que su familia está recibiendo todas las prestaciones a las que califica\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si su hogar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do\">califica para recibir estampillas de comida de CalFresh\u003c/a>, asegúrese de que está recibiendo los fondos a los que tiene derecho. Si sus ingresos han disminuido o sus gastos han aumentado este año, puede solicitar más fondos. Si esta es su situación, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/county-offices\">póngase en contacto con su oficina local de servicios sociales\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshOutreach/Brochures/Income_Inserts_FFY2023-English.pdf?ver=2022-09-27-105231-437\">Consulte los requisitos de ingresos y las asignaciones mensuales máximas de CalFresh\u003c/a> vigentes hasta el 30 de septiembre de 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si está recibiendo su asignación completa de CalFresh y tiene problemas para conseguir alimentos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do#foodsupport\">consulte nuestra lista de fuentes alternativas de asistencia alimentaria, incluidos bancos de alimentos \u003c/a>(enlace disponible sólo en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>También tenga en cuenta que si su familia utiliza Medi-Cal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944543/on-medi-cal-eligibility-changes-starting-in-april-could-mean-you-lose-coverage-heres-what-to-do\">a partir de abril tendrá que volver a certificar su elegibilidad para mantener su cobertura de Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, lo cual ocurre por primera vez desde que comenzó la pandemia. Asegúrese de que su oficina local de servicios sociales tenga su información de contacto más actualizada, especialmente si se ha mudado durante la pandemia.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Qué podría cambiar la situación con las cuotas familiares?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>De momento, el gobernador Gavin Newsom no ha incluido una propuesta para mantener las cuota familiar congeladas en su presupuesto para 2023-2024. Pero hay dos medidas legales en marcha que podrían cambiar esta situación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La primera es a nivel estatal: La líder de la Asamblea de California, Eloise Gómez Reyes, \u003ca href=\"https://a50.asmdc.org/press-releases/20230209-assembly-majority-leader-reyes-and-senator-senator-limon-introduce-child\">propone suspender el cobro de estas cuotas hasta que el estado implemente un nuevo sistema de tarifas más equitativo\u003c/a>. Su legislación también abordaría la forma en que se reembolsa a los trabajadores de guarderías por proporcionar cuidados subvencionados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']En cuanto a la situación actual de esta legislación, fue aprobada por unanimidad por la Comisión de Servicios Humanos de la Asamblea el mes pasado y ahora se está estudiando en la Comisión de Educación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes dijo a KQED que las familias de California están pagando “hasta el 25 por ciento de sus ingresos” en estas cuotas y afirma que estas familias ya han demostrado que cumplen con los requisitos para recibir cuidado infantil subsidiado. “Y sin embargo estamos diciendo, sí, usted tiene que pagar casi $600 dólares al mes para el cuidado de su niño”, dijo Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El año pasado, Newsom vetó un proyecto de ley de Reyes \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB92\">para reducir las cuotas a partir del 1 de julio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La segunda gran novedad que podría afectar a las cuotas familiares es que el 18 de abril, el Presidente Joe Biden firmó \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/18/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-most-sweeping-set-of-executive-actions-to-improve-care-in-history/\">una serie de órdenes ejecutivas destinadas a mejorar el acceso a la cuidado infantil\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una de las órdenes de Biden dirige al Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de EE.UU. que estudie medidas para reducir o eliminar las cuotas para las familias que ya reciben ayuda financiera del programa federal ‘Child Care and Development Block Grant’ (CCDBG, por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee, de EveryChild California, dijo que la orden ejecutiva de Biden anima a los estados a no imponer cuotas a quienes ganan el 75 por ciento o menos de la renta familiar media del estado. En el caso de las familias que ganen más del 75 por ciento, seguirán pagando las cuotas según una escala variable, pero la orden de Biden establece que las cuotas no superen el 7 por ciento de los ingresos familiares. Esto se debe a que el gobierno federal ha determinado que las guarderías que cuestan más del 7 por ciento del presupuesto familiar no son asequibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11947683\" label=\"Read this story in English\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1020x680-1.jpg\"]El motivo por el que la orden ejecutiva de Biden es tan importante es que el reloj sigue corriendo en California: a fines de abril, el Departamento de Servicios Sociales y el Departamento de Educación del estado enviaron a los proveedores la nueva tabla de cuotas familiares que entraría en vigor a partir del 1 de julio (cuando comienza el nuevo año fiscal en California) porque las familias necesitan al menos un preaviso de 60 días. Dicho esto, aún no está claro cuándo podría cambiar el gobierno federal las normas relativas a estas cuotas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los defensores del cuidado infantil en California y legisladores como Reyes han instado al estado a solicitar una prórroga federal para continuar eximiendo las cuotas hasta el 30 de septiembre, utilizando los fondos no gastados de la Ley de Asignaciones Suplementarias de Respuesta y Alivio del Coronavirus, que originalmente permitió la exención de tarifas familiares. Esto daría al estado más tiempo hasta que comience el año fiscal federal el 1 de octubre, cuando se espera que el gobierno federal cambie las regulaciones de los programas de cuidado de niños como el CCDBG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 25 de abril, un portavoz del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California dijo a KQED en un correo electrónico que “actualmente, California no tiene una propuesta o solicitud pendiente con el gobierno federal en relación con las cuotas familiares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En resumen, es cuestión de esperar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Una actualización:\u003c/strong> El 26 de abril, el Senado estatal señaló su apoyo al proyecto de Reyes al incluir en su propuesta la financiación del \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/sites/sbud.senate.ca.gov/files/Protect%20Our%20Progress%20Senate%20Budget%20Plan.pdf\">presupuesto 2023-24\u003c/a> para revisar la estructura de cuotas familiares “para evitar que las familias de bajos ingresos pierdan el acceso al cuidado infantil porque no pueden pagar las cuotas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Si regresan las cuotas familiares, ¿cómo se verían afectadas las familias californianas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El portavoz del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California, Scott Murray, dijo a CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/children-and-youth/2022/10/subsidized-child-care/\">que más de 26 mil familias en varios programas de asistencia de cuidado infantil pueden haberse beneficiado de las exenciones de cuotas familiares en el año fiscal 2021-22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una encuesta realizada en 2023 por EveryChild California a padres y tutores con hijos en guarderías subvencionadas por el estado, el 56 por ciento de los encuestados afirmó que no podrían mantener a sus hijos en su programa actual si se llegaran a restablecer las cuotas familiares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Church, madre soltera de San Francisco que trabaja en el sector de atención al cliente, dice que depende de una guardería subvencionada para poder cuidar a su hijo de 6 años. Antes de la pandemia, pagaba 200 dólares al mes por las cuotas familiares de la guardería. “Tengo estampillas de comida y trabajo tiempo completo, y sólo tengo lo suficiente para llegar a fin de mes, vivo de cheque en cheque, la cuota familiar sería una carga”, dijo Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando he tenido que pagar, es todo un reto tener que hacer ese pago, incluso con un horario a tiempo completo”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tener que volver a pagar las cuotas “nos dejaría definitivamente, yo creo, sin comida”, dijo Church. “Es lo primero que se me viene a la mente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Usted puede utilizar la \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/\">Calculadora de Cuotas Familiares de Cuidado Infantil\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (enlace disponible sólo en inglés) del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California para ver cuánto tendría que pagar por cuidado infantil subvencionado, en función del número de personas de su familia y de sus ingresos mensuales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Tiene problemas para calcular los ingresos mensuales de su familia? Puede utilizar \u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/FeeRate2021/CalculationWorksheet\">\u003cstrong>esta hoja de cálculo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (enlace disponible sólo en inglés), que también proporciona instrucciones sobre cómo sumar con exactitud los ingresos procedentes de trabajos irregulares o estacionales. También encontrará instrucciones sobre cómo incluir otras fuentes de ingresos mensuales, incluidas las ayudas públicas, las prestaciones por discapacidad o desempleo y la manutención por parte de su pareja.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los defensores de los programas de educación infantil y guardería recomiendan a los padres que empiecen a ahorrar dinero, si pueden, para prepararse para el posible regreso de las cuotas familiares el 1 de julio. \u003ccite>(Cavan Images/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"familias\">\u003c/a>¿Qué pueden hacer ahora las familias en medio de esta incertidumbre?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No haga cambios grandes en el cuidado de su hijo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina Buthee, directora ejecutiva de la organización sin fines de lucro \u003ca href=\"https://www.everychildca.org/\">EveryChild California\u003c/a>, dice que su mensaje a las familias en este momento es mantenerse firmes en estos momentos, aunque las cosas puedan parecer inciertas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No se precipite ni saque a su hijo de ningún programa, independientemente de lo que diga este papel en términos de cuotas”, afirma Buthee, cuya organización defiende los programas de atención y educación infantil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee también cree que es muy probable que el estado reduzca las cuotas, incluso sin el apoyo del gobierno federal, algo por lo que EveryChild California, junto con otros, está abogando. Vea a continuación más información sobre las medidas legales que podrían cambiar la situación de las cuotas familiares en los próximos meses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahorre lo que pueda ante el posible retorno de las cuotas familiares\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee recomienda que si su familia puede “ahorrar algo de dinero”, lo haga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y mientras ahorra, si es que puede, “sepa que hay activistas y legisladores que están trabajando muy, muy duro para asegurarse de que las cuotas familiares queden exentas al menos hasta el 1 de octubre, y además, esperamos conseguir que se reduzcan durante el resto del año”, dijo Buthee.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asegúrese de que su familia está recibiendo todas las prestaciones a las que califica\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si su hogar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do\">califica para recibir estampillas de comida de CalFresh\u003c/a>, asegúrese de que está recibiendo los fondos a los que tiene derecho. Si sus ingresos han disminuido o sus gastos han aumentado este año, puede solicitar más fondos. Si esta es su situación, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/county-offices\">póngase en contacto con su oficina local de servicios sociales\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshOutreach/Brochures/Income_Inserts_FFY2023-English.pdf?ver=2022-09-27-105231-437\">Consulte los requisitos de ingresos y las asignaciones mensuales máximas de CalFresh\u003c/a> vigentes hasta el 30 de septiembre de 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si está recibiendo su asignación completa de CalFresh y tiene problemas para conseguir alimentos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do#foodsupport\">consulte nuestra lista de fuentes alternativas de asistencia alimentaria, incluidos bancos de alimentos \u003c/a>(enlace disponible sólo en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>También tenga en cuenta que si su familia utiliza Medi-Cal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944543/on-medi-cal-eligibility-changes-starting-in-april-could-mean-you-lose-coverage-heres-what-to-do\">a partir de abril tendrá que volver a certificar su elegibilidad para mantener su cobertura de Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, lo cual ocurre por primera vez desde que comenzó la pandemia. Asegúrese de que su oficina local de servicios sociales tenga su información de contacto más actualizada, especialmente si se ha mudado durante la pandemia.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Qué podría cambiar la situación con las cuotas familiares?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>De momento, el gobernador Gavin Newsom no ha incluido una propuesta para mantener las cuota familiar congeladas en su presupuesto para 2023-2024. Pero hay dos medidas legales en marcha que podrían cambiar esta situación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La primera es a nivel estatal: La líder de la Asamblea de California, Eloise Gómez Reyes, \u003ca href=\"https://a50.asmdc.org/press-releases/20230209-assembly-majority-leader-reyes-and-senator-senator-limon-introduce-child\">propone suspender el cobro de estas cuotas hasta que el estado implemente un nuevo sistema de tarifas más equitativo\u003c/a>. Su legislación también abordaría la forma en que se reembolsa a los trabajadores de guarderías por proporcionar cuidados subvencionados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>En cuanto a la situación actual de esta legislación, fue aprobada por unanimidad por la Comisión de Servicios Humanos de la Asamblea el mes pasado y ahora se está estudiando en la Comisión de Educación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes dijo a KQED que las familias de California están pagando “hasta el 25 por ciento de sus ingresos” en estas cuotas y afirma que estas familias ya han demostrado que cumplen con los requisitos para recibir cuidado infantil subsidiado. “Y sin embargo estamos diciendo, sí, usted tiene que pagar casi $600 dólares al mes para el cuidado de su niño”, dijo Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El año pasado, Newsom vetó un proyecto de ley de Reyes \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB92\">para reducir las cuotas a partir del 1 de julio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La segunda gran novedad que podría afectar a las cuotas familiares es que el 18 de abril, el Presidente Joe Biden firmó \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/18/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-most-sweeping-set-of-executive-actions-to-improve-care-in-history/\">una serie de órdenes ejecutivas destinadas a mejorar el acceso a la cuidado infantil\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una de las órdenes de Biden dirige al Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de EE.UU. que estudie medidas para reducir o eliminar las cuotas para las familias que ya reciben ayuda financiera del programa federal ‘Child Care and Development Block Grant’ (CCDBG, por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee, de EveryChild California, dijo que la orden ejecutiva de Biden anima a los estados a no imponer cuotas a quienes ganan el 75 por ciento o menos de la renta familiar media del estado. En el caso de las familias que ganen más del 75 por ciento, seguirán pagando las cuotas según una escala variable, pero la orden de Biden establece que las cuotas no superen el 7 por ciento de los ingresos familiares. Esto se debe a que el gobierno federal ha determinado que las guarderías que cuestan más del 7 por ciento del presupuesto familiar no son asequibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>El motivo por el que la orden ejecutiva de Biden es tan importante es que el reloj sigue corriendo en California: a fines de abril, el Departamento de Servicios Sociales y el Departamento de Educación del estado enviaron a los proveedores la nueva tabla de cuotas familiares que entraría en vigor a partir del 1 de julio (cuando comienza el nuevo año fiscal en California) porque las familias necesitan al menos un preaviso de 60 días. Dicho esto, aún no está claro cuándo podría cambiar el gobierno federal las normas relativas a estas cuotas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los defensores del cuidado infantil en California y legisladores como Reyes han instado al estado a solicitar una prórroga federal para continuar eximiendo las cuotas hasta el 30 de septiembre, utilizando los fondos no gastados de la Ley de Asignaciones Suplementarias de Respuesta y Alivio del Coronavirus, que originalmente permitió la exención de tarifas familiares. Esto daría al estado más tiempo hasta que comience el año fiscal federal el 1 de octubre, cuando se espera que el gobierno federal cambie las regulaciones de los programas de cuidado de niños como el CCDBG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 25 de abril, un portavoz del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California dijo a KQED en un correo electrónico que “actualmente, California no tiene una propuesta o solicitud pendiente con el gobierno federal en relación con las cuotas familiares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En resumen, es cuestión de esperar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Una actualización:\u003c/strong> El 26 de abril, el Senado estatal señaló su apoyo al proyecto de Reyes al incluir en su propuesta la financiación del \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/sites/sbud.senate.ca.gov/files/Protect%20Our%20Progress%20Senate%20Budget%20Plan.pdf\">presupuesto 2023-24\u003c/a> para revisar la estructura de cuotas familiares “para evitar que las familias de bajos ingresos pierdan el acceso al cuidado infantil porque no pueden pagar las cuotas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Si regresan las cuotas familiares, ¿cómo se verían afectadas las familias californianas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El portavoz del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California, Scott Murray, dijo a CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/children-and-youth/2022/10/subsidized-child-care/\">que más de 26 mil familias en varios programas de asistencia de cuidado infantil pueden haberse beneficiado de las exenciones de cuotas familiares en el año fiscal 2021-22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una encuesta realizada en 2023 por EveryChild California a padres y tutores con hijos en guarderías subvencionadas por el estado, el 56 por ciento de los encuestados afirmó que no podrían mantener a sus hijos en su programa actual si se llegaran a restablecer las cuotas familiares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Church, madre soltera de San Francisco que trabaja en el sector de atención al cliente, dice que depende de una guardería subvencionada para poder cuidar a su hijo de 6 años. Antes de la pandemia, pagaba 200 dólares al mes por las cuotas familiares de la guardería. “Tengo estampillas de comida y trabajo tiempo completo, y sólo tengo lo suficiente para llegar a fin de mes, vivo de cheque en cheque, la cuota familiar sería una carga”, dijo Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando he tenido que pagar, es todo un reto tener que hacer ese pago, incluso con un horario a tiempo completo”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tener que volver a pagar las cuotas “nos dejaría definitivamente, yo creo, sin comida”, dijo Church. “Es lo primero que se me viene a la mente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Born in Oakland, Jessica Katrice Fountaine and her family moved around the Bay, first to Hayward, then Vallejo. But she still spent much of her time in The Town. “I don’t remember a weekend where I was not out here. I was always here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she moved to the Wood Street encampment last year at the age of 33, she said she felt like she had come home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area of the Wood Street community stretched along a long-vacant plot of land in West Oakland under a maze of freeway overpasses, a wastewater treatment plant and freight-train tracks on one side, and a line of warehouses and businesses on the other. Fountaine said she became familiar with this area as a kid. One day, her brothers made a game of jumping off a railroad bridge onto a mattress on the dirt below.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11949327,news_11945984,news_11945422\"]“The first bone I broke was off this bridge,” she said, recalling how, as she jumped, her brothers pulled the mattress out from under her. “It made me tough, though.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fountaine said she had lived with her family for much of her life but, after a falling out, set out on her own, first living in her truck, then in an RV community in Richmond, before arriving at Wood Street in June 2022. The settlement provided a safety net, she said, a community where people looked out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, it was Northern California’s largest settlement of unhoused people. But in September, just months after Fountaine arrived at Wood Street, a serious fire near her trailer prompted Caltrans, the agency that owns the land, to order all of the roughly 300 residents to pack up and leave within five days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the eviction, many residents scattered to areas around Wood Street, including the neighboring city-owned land, which they dubbed the Commons. But people staying there were soon forced to leave as well, and by April, the city had cleared the last remaining residents, with Oakland officials saying the site would be used to develop 170 units of affordable housing. Hundreds of people continue to live in the area without permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story follows Jessica Katrice Fountaine from July 2022 through May 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950152\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An RV parked beneath a freeway ramp.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets on the Wood Street settlement seen from an abandoned railroad bridge in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman with a black shirt and a denim jacket fixes the baseball hat on her head inside her RV as she laughs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine laughs with a friend in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Fountaine arrived at Wood Street, a friend let her live in an empty trailer at his compound. Although residents see themselves as one community, most people separate into smaller groups — or compounds — for both camaraderie and protection. “I’m the compound cook,” Fountaine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman applies eye makeup in a mirror.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine practices putting makeup on herself in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Fountaine worked as an in-home caregiver to her two godchildren. After losing her job when the lockdown started, she said she took time to think about what she wanted to do to make money. “I don’t want to live to work. And I don’t want to work to live,” she said. “I want to be able to enjoy some part of it and try to make a change just a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950172\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A written note in red ink on lined notebook paper lays on the ground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign notifying people not to disturb Fountaine’s virtual church fell to the ground after being taped to her RV door at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine grew up attending Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in West Oakland, where she was baptized and went to her first praise dance, and religion continues to play a large role in her life. She recalled a time before moving to Wood Street that brought her closer to her church: “I walked around for days with nowhere to go. I couldn’t sleep because it’s not safe. It just took one person to offer for me to live in her trailer that she wasn’t living in, and I cried for three days. I slept, and I cried. And then I just got up. It was a Sunday, and I got on my phone, and I went to church because my church goes live on Facebook … I’ve never been more deep and more strong in my religion than I am now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman leaves her RV as she prepares to exit the open door and down the stairs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine leaves her RV to visit a neighbor. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wood Street life could be tough. Residents often used generators or solar power for electricity, and there was no running water. That scarcity heightened Fountaine’s awareness of the resources she uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a very traditional background, so it’s weird for my family to see or to accept how I live, but I’ve never been more aware of my carbon footprint in my life,” she said. “I went home for Christmas, and I sat back, and I watched how they just let the water run washing dishes. I don’t have that luxury no more. How I used to let the shower run to get hot. I don’t have that luxury no more … I don’t let food go to waste. I preserve my lights. My everything has changed with me living like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Manicured and stylized long fingernails in a photo of an African American woman's right hand with a denim jacket sleeve.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine shows off the nails she did for herself in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Fountaine said, she still considers herself “a girly girl.” “I like nails. I like makeup. So I made the choice to go to cosmetology school,” she said. Fountaine said she has already picked a name for the salon she hopes to one day own: Rosalind’s Beauty Bar, an homage to her mother. Despite their strained relationship, she said, she still cares deeply about her mom. “And all I do is pray about it. I just pray that, before God calls either one of us home, he fix whatever is broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950157\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two African American women, one seated in the drivers seat of a car and the other standing outside her car door, holding a box.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine talks with her friend Shavon who had recently been in a car accident near Wood Street. As soon as Fountaine heard about it, she and another friend jumped into action to tow the car back to the settlement. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950158\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A car being towed ahead seen from inside another car driving behind it as they pass under an overpass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine drives behind as her friend Shavon’s car is towed into the settlement to be repaired. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950159\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman wearing a blue denim jacket smoking while seated inside an RV.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine smokes a vape pen in her RV. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950160\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman dancing with a dog as dust is kicked up, with industrial structures behind them, and she's wearing a pink sleeveless shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Wood Street, Fountaine dances with Bonita, a neighbor’s dog, in front of an abandoned railroad bridge. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although people formed into small compounds, Fountaine said Wood Street residents also saw themselves as one community and built up shared resources. “We still all come together. We have a community center called the Cob. It’s all the way in the middle … It’s pretty nice,” she said, as the eviction loomed closer. “During what’s going on now, we’ve been having a lot of family dinners and stuff. You will find more help here than you will from a government facility. Clothes, food, shelter from the weather, mental health, hygiene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950161\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950161\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman looks out pensively from the passenger seat of a car.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine sits in a friend’s car at Wood Street Fountaine after losing the RV where she was living. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But things weren’t always harmonious. A dispute within her compound at the beginning of September cost her the trailer where she was living: Its owner took it back without warning, along with all her belongings. Although she didn’t know where she would live at the time, she expressed confidence in her friends and herself. “My family … They did not raise a quitter. And they didn’t raise me to just sit and wallow in my self-pity. So I’m figuring it out one day at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Caltrans began evicting residents just days later, she remained optimistic. “Well, I’ll be OK. I just got to make sure that my family’s OK because that’s what they don’t understand. We are not friends. We are not associates. This is our family. We depend on one another. We help one another, and when we sick, we help each other get well. That’s us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950162\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RVs in an encampment under a freeway ramp with signs that say 'Where do we go?' draped on the nearest RV.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover 2 RVs at the Wood Street encampment as Caltrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the evictions continued over several weeks, Fountaine reflected on the resilience of her community. “We didn’t [just] survive. We were living. We lived here. We can do it anywhere. So just shutting us down and pushing us out does nothing but make the city have to really figure it out because where are we gonna go? We’re just going to find another empty lot, and we’re gonna do this all over. So find a permanent solution,” Fountaine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950163\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman sweeps a dirt path with a broom with cars and RVs parked behind her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine uses a broom to sweep around her new RV parked at the end of 9th and Pine streets, near the Lower Bobs Skatepark. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After being evicted from Wood Street, Fountaine found another RV to live in and relocated about a mile away to 9th and Pine streets in October, where a growing number of displaced residents had relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950164\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man leans on the open door of an SUV with window rolled down, talking with an African American woman seated in the drivers seat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine talks with her neighbor, Bradford Nicholson, on 9th and Pine streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the new site, Fountaine helped arrange toilets, a sink and a regular trash pick-up at the end of the street. “I fight for my community to be better because I want my family to come over here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American looking out of her RV door, smiling, seen from the left.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine talks to her cousins from the doorway of the RV where she lives at 9th and Pine streets. A sign about faith and trust in God she made hangs on the wall. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman lying in bed with her cat\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine lies in bed with her cat BW in the bedroom of her RV on 9th and Pine Streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December, as the holidays approached, Fountaine said she had been thinking a lot about her relationship with her mother after her difficult teen and young-adult years. “Our relationship is so torn apart. All I can do is be the best daughter that I can be right now. I want her to see me for who I am now and not who I was 10 years ago. Like she doesn’t understand how important a hug means to me right now … I miss her so much,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950167\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A notebook open on a lap.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While lying in her bed in the RV at 9th and Pine streets, Fountaine reads through responses she wrote to prompts in a life-story journal. For her greatest achievement, she wrote, ‘Living on my own.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was taught that being book smart is one thing, but you still need to know how to be street smart. And it comes in handy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man smiles as he looks through an RV window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023.jpg 1864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine’s cousin, Earnest Jasper, talks to her through the window of her RV at 9th and Pine streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman cooking food on a BBQ, wearing a broadbrimmed hat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine cooks on a stove she created in the bed of a pickup truck on 9th and Pine streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine is often the cook for her community but said they also look out for her. “We all depend on each other. I’m diabetic,” she said. “My neighbors come over there and be like, ‘You eat today?’” But living alone, often without a cellphone, also worries her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An RV kitchen with food on the counter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food sits in Fountaine’s kitchen as smoke wafts through the air. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine said she has considered moving into safe RV parking, a space for RV residents that offers electrical hookups, bathrooms and other amenities, but the rumors of limited-term stays or RV park closures have dissuaded her. \u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s what these are for, to house those who are unhoused,” she said. “So you’re going to house us, then unhouse us?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950171\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman sits on a chair outside by the road, closing her eyes as she smokes a cigarette, wearing a black outfit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine sits on an abandoned chair left on the road outside her RV. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the 9th and Pine streets area scheduled to be cleared by the city of Oakland on May 17, 2023, Fountaine said she’s considering moving to a city-run shelter, consisting of “community cabins” — essentially, Tuff Sheds — where other former Wood Street residents have gone. But she said that would only be a temporary solution to a long-term problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How I live is not who I am. And unfortunately, I’m sorry. I can’t afford that $1,500, that $1,200 rent,” she said, adding that lower-cost housing is the only solution she can see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can’t afford it, we gonna be right back where we started. That’s what I feel like nobody understands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The first bone I broke was off this bridge,” she said, recalling how, as she jumped, her brothers pulled the mattress out from under her. “It made me tough, though.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fountaine said she had lived with her family for much of her life but, after a falling out, set out on her own, first living in her truck, then in an RV community in Richmond, before arriving at Wood Street in June 2022. The settlement provided a safety net, she said, a community where people looked out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, it was Northern California’s largest settlement of unhoused people. But in September, just months after Fountaine arrived at Wood Street, a serious fire near her trailer prompted Caltrans, the agency that owns the land, to order all of the roughly 300 residents to pack up and leave within five days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the eviction, many residents scattered to areas around Wood Street, including the neighboring city-owned land, which they dubbed the Commons. But people staying there were soon forced to leave as well, and by April, the city had cleared the last remaining residents, with Oakland officials saying the site would be used to develop 170 units of affordable housing. Hundreds of people continue to live in the area without permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story follows Jessica Katrice Fountaine from July 2022 through May 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950152\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An RV parked beneath a freeway ramp.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets on the Wood Street settlement seen from an abandoned railroad bridge in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman with a black shirt and a denim jacket fixes the baseball hat on her head inside her RV as she laughs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine laughs with a friend in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Fountaine arrived at Wood Street, a friend let her live in an empty trailer at his compound. Although residents see themselves as one community, most people separate into smaller groups — or compounds — for both camaraderie and protection. “I’m the compound cook,” Fountaine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman applies eye makeup in a mirror.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine practices putting makeup on herself in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Fountaine worked as an in-home caregiver to her two godchildren. After losing her job when the lockdown started, she said she took time to think about what she wanted to do to make money. “I don’t want to live to work. And I don’t want to work to live,” she said. “I want to be able to enjoy some part of it and try to make a change just a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950172\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A written note in red ink on lined notebook paper lays on the ground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign notifying people not to disturb Fountaine’s virtual church fell to the ground after being taped to her RV door at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine grew up attending Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in West Oakland, where she was baptized and went to her first praise dance, and religion continues to play a large role in her life. She recalled a time before moving to Wood Street that brought her closer to her church: “I walked around for days with nowhere to go. I couldn’t sleep because it’s not safe. It just took one person to offer for me to live in her trailer that she wasn’t living in, and I cried for three days. I slept, and I cried. And then I just got up. It was a Sunday, and I got on my phone, and I went to church because my church goes live on Facebook … I’ve never been more deep and more strong in my religion than I am now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman leaves her RV as she prepares to exit the open door and down the stairs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine leaves her RV to visit a neighbor. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wood Street life could be tough. Residents often used generators or solar power for electricity, and there was no running water. That scarcity heightened Fountaine’s awareness of the resources she uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a very traditional background, so it’s weird for my family to see or to accept how I live, but I’ve never been more aware of my carbon footprint in my life,” she said. “I went home for Christmas, and I sat back, and I watched how they just let the water run washing dishes. I don’t have that luxury no more. How I used to let the shower run to get hot. I don’t have that luxury no more … I don’t let food go to waste. I preserve my lights. My everything has changed with me living like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Manicured and stylized long fingernails in a photo of an African American woman's right hand with a denim jacket sleeve.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine shows off the nails she did for herself in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Fountaine said, she still considers herself “a girly girl.” “I like nails. I like makeup. So I made the choice to go to cosmetology school,” she said. Fountaine said she has already picked a name for the salon she hopes to one day own: Rosalind’s Beauty Bar, an homage to her mother. Despite their strained relationship, she said, she still cares deeply about her mom. “And all I do is pray about it. I just pray that, before God calls either one of us home, he fix whatever is broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950157\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two African American women, one seated in the drivers seat of a car and the other standing outside her car door, holding a box.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine talks with her friend Shavon who had recently been in a car accident near Wood Street. As soon as Fountaine heard about it, she and another friend jumped into action to tow the car back to the settlement. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950158\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A car being towed ahead seen from inside another car driving behind it as they pass under an overpass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine drives behind as her friend Shavon’s car is towed into the settlement to be repaired. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950159\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman wearing a blue denim jacket smoking while seated inside an RV.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine smokes a vape pen in her RV. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950160\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman dancing with a dog as dust is kicked up, with industrial structures behind them, and she's wearing a pink sleeveless shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Wood Street, Fountaine dances with Bonita, a neighbor’s dog, in front of an abandoned railroad bridge. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although people formed into small compounds, Fountaine said Wood Street residents also saw themselves as one community and built up shared resources. “We still all come together. We have a community center called the Cob. It’s all the way in the middle … It’s pretty nice,” she said, as the eviction loomed closer. “During what’s going on now, we’ve been having a lot of family dinners and stuff. You will find more help here than you will from a government facility. Clothes, food, shelter from the weather, mental health, hygiene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950161\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950161\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman looks out pensively from the passenger seat of a car.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine sits in a friend’s car at Wood Street Fountaine after losing the RV where she was living. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But things weren’t always harmonious. A dispute within her compound at the beginning of September cost her the trailer where she was living: Its owner took it back without warning, along with all her belongings. Although she didn’t know where she would live at the time, she expressed confidence in her friends and herself. “My family … They did not raise a quitter. And they didn’t raise me to just sit and wallow in my self-pity. So I’m figuring it out one day at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Caltrans began evicting residents just days later, she remained optimistic. “Well, I’ll be OK. I just got to make sure that my family’s OK because that’s what they don’t understand. We are not friends. We are not associates. This is our family. We depend on one another. We help one another, and when we sick, we help each other get well. That’s us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950162\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RVs in an encampment under a freeway ramp with signs that say 'Where do we go?' draped on the nearest RV.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover 2 RVs at the Wood Street encampment as Caltrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the evictions continued over several weeks, Fountaine reflected on the resilience of her community. “We didn’t [just] survive. We were living. We lived here. We can do it anywhere. So just shutting us down and pushing us out does nothing but make the city have to really figure it out because where are we gonna go? We’re just going to find another empty lot, and we’re gonna do this all over. 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A sign about faith and trust in God she made hangs on the wall. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman lying in bed with her cat\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine lies in bed with her cat BW in the bedroom of her RV on 9th and Pine Streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December, as the holidays approached, Fountaine said she had been thinking a lot about her relationship with her mother after her difficult teen and young-adult years. “Our relationship is so torn apart. All I can do is be the best daughter that I can be right now. I want her to see me for who I am now and not who I was 10 years ago. Like she doesn’t understand how important a hug means to me right now … I miss her so much,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950167\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A notebook open on a lap.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While lying in her bed in the RV at 9th and Pine streets, Fountaine reads through responses she wrote to prompts in a life-story journal. For her greatest achievement, she wrote, ‘Living on my own.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was taught that being book smart is one thing, but you still need to know how to be street smart. And it comes in handy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man smiles as he looks through an RV window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023.jpg 1864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine’s cousin, Earnest Jasper, talks to her through the window of her RV at 9th and Pine streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman cooking food on a BBQ, wearing a broadbrimmed hat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine cooks on a stove she created in the bed of a pickup truck on 9th and Pine streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine is often the cook for her community but said they also look out for her. “We all depend on each other. I’m diabetic,” she said. “My neighbors come over there and be like, ‘You eat today?’” But living alone, often without a cellphone, also worries her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An RV kitchen with food on the counter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food sits in Fountaine’s kitchen as smoke wafts through the air. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine said she has considered moving into safe RV parking, a space for RV residents that offers electrical hookups, bathrooms and other amenities, but the rumors of limited-term stays or RV park closures have dissuaded her. \u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s what these are for, to house those who are unhoused,” she said. “So you’re going to house us, then unhouse us?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950171\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman sits on a chair outside by the road, closing her eyes as she smokes a cigarette, wearing a black outfit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine sits on an abandoned chair left on the road outside her RV. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the 9th and Pine streets area scheduled to be cleared by the city of Oakland on May 17, 2023, Fountaine said she’s considering moving to a city-run shelter, consisting of “community cabins” — essentially, Tuff Sheds — where other former Wood Street residents have gone. 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