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A spokesperson for the Education Department did not respond to a question about why that decision was made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Corinthian scandal led to a federal crackdown on for-profit colleges, and the Obama administration promised to forgive loans for Corinthian students whose programs lied about job placement rates. That administration went on to expand a process known as borrower defense to repayment, which allows any defrauded student to apply for debt cancellation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration drew criticism when it started granting only partial loan cancellation to defrauded students, giving lower levels of relief to those with higher incomes. Former Corinthian students sued, and a federal judge halted the policy and ordered the Education Department to stop collecting payments on Corinthian debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration later announced full cancellation for all Corinthian students who had been given only partial forgiveness, but thousands of others were left waiting for the department to process their relief applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of December, the department reported it had more than 109,000 pending applications from students alleging fraud by their colleges, mostly in the for-profit industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Libby DeBlasio Webster, senior counsel for the advocacy group Student Defense, called it a “fresh start” for former Corinthian students, but she noted that many defrauded students from other for-profit colleges are awaiting help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she hopes the news “is a sign that other decisions are on the horizon for thousands of similarly situated students who are waiting for this kind of relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Corinthian student Nathan Hornes had his debt forgiven in 2017 through the borrower defense process, but his sister Natasha is among the 560,000 former Corinthian students now getting cancellation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My sister and all the others who went through the same experience of being cheated by Corinthian finally get to experience the same relief of having the financial burden lifted,” he said in a statement. “They deserve that too, and I’m so glad that today they finally get to feel that freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A for-profit college trade group said students who are deceived by their colleges deserve relief, but that Corinthian’s actions “do not represent all private career schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [Education] Department and others should not conflate the actions of one organization with an entire sector that has provided opportunities for millions of students and contributed to our nation’s workforce,” said Jason Altmire, president and CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Julia McEvoy contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Former Corinthian students sued, and a federal judge halted the policy and ordered the Education Department to stop collecting payments on Corinthian debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration later announced full cancellation for all Corinthian students who had been given only partial forgiveness, but thousands of others were left waiting for the department to process their relief applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of December, the department reported it had more than 109,000 pending applications from students alleging fraud by their colleges, mostly in the for-profit industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Libby DeBlasio Webster, senior counsel for the advocacy group Student Defense, called it a “fresh start” for former Corinthian students, but she noted that many defrauded students from other for-profit colleges are awaiting help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she hopes the news “is a sign that other decisions are on the horizon for thousands of similarly situated students who are waiting for this kind of relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Corinthian student Nathan Hornes had his debt forgiven in 2017 through the borrower defense process, but his sister Natasha is among the 560,000 former Corinthian students now getting cancellation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My sister and all the others who went through the same experience of being cheated by Corinthian finally get to experience the same relief of having the financial burden lifted,” he said in a statement. “They deserve that too, and I’m so glad that today they finally get to feel that freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A for-profit college trade group said students who are deceived by their colleges deserve relief, but that Corinthian’s actions “do not represent all private career schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [Education] Department and others should not conflate the actions of one organization with an entire sector that has provided opportunities for millions of students and contributed to our nation’s workforce,” said Jason Altmire, president and CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Julia McEvoy contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Private colleges in California want more power to rein in trespassing on their campuses, particularly when people repeatedly enter to harass students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willful trespassing on the campuses of California’s K-12 schools and public universities is considered a misdemeanor, and can result in jail time. But private colleges can only hand out warning letters.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jessica Ramey Stender, deputy legal director, Equal Rights Advocates\"]‘I think it shows the difficult position that universities are in, in trying to ensure that they keep their students safe.’[/pullquote]The issue is at the center of a bill that is one chamber away from reaching Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Private colleges say that the current situation hampers their ability to protect students — but some students worry that the proposed changes could make campuses feel cut off from surrounding neighborhoods and lead to racial profiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The no-trespassing letters are ineffective because there isn’t a clear consequence for violating them, say the bill’s supporters, which include policing associations and the 86-member Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, the association has heard reports of people entering campuses to make racist comments toward Asian American and Pacific Islander students. Trespassers who sexually harass female students also are an issue, said Alex Graves, the association’s vice president for government relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the bill highlights a complicated dynamic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many private college campuses in California are open spaces, including the Claremont Colleges and Santa Clara University, which support the bill. Community members pass through often to walk their dogs or relax on the manicured lawns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The open nature of campuses makes reining in trespassing “a very difficult line to walk,” said Jessica Ramey Stender, deputy legal director of Equal Rights Advocates, a gender-justice nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it shows the difficult position that universities are in, in trying to ensure that they keep their students safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you should know about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB748\">Senate Bill 748\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which changes would the bill make?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill would rework a section of the state’s criminal code that right now applies only to public colleges or universities and public and private K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those schools, the law says that it’s a misdemeanor for a person to “willfully and knowingly” enter a campus after having been banned. A person can be barred for disrupting a campus or facility’s “orderly operation,” according to the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would expand the provision to include private colleges and universities. Punishment for a violation is either a fine of no more than $500 or imprisonment in county jail for no longer than six months, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authored by Sen. Anthony Portantino, a San Fernando Valley Democrat, the bill passed the state Senate 34-0 in January and is scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Public Safety Committee on June 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do private campuses currently handle trespassing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s use the University of San Diego as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university supports the bill. It has the kind of idyllic campus that the general public regularly visits: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.edu/about/fast-facts.php\">180 acres overlooking San Diego, Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fairly common for the university’s police force to be summoned to disturbances involving people who have entered campus, said James Miyashiro, assistant vice president of safety at USD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, an unhoused man barricaded himself in a campus bathroom, and threatened to return once police told him to leave, said Miyashiro, who watched footage from an officer’s body camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altercations with students also occur. People come to campus to play pickup games and sometimes get in fights with students who have the space reserved, or make comments that offend students, who then report them to the police, Miyashiro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When campus police get such a report, they ask the person to leave campus. If they come back, officers give them a letter barring them from campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “that doesn’t have a lot of teeth behind it,” Miyashiro said. And city police are reluctant to respond to trespassing issues on campus, particularly during hours when the buildings are open, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miyashiro contrasted the dynamic with his experience at two public universities where he worked previously: the University of California, Los Angeles and Riverside Community College District. There, campus police could tell a person causing a disturbance that if they returned within seven days, they could be arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:86c7c3bd-6880-3f3b-a2c2-8f5178884c18\">city police associations back the bill\u003c/a>, including the Riverside Sheriffs’ Association and the Santa Ana Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equal Rights Advocates also decided to support the measure, Stender said, based on what it has heard from students who have been victims of sexual assault or harassment. Sometimes, the attacker will return to campus to continue harassing or even assault them again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequence of a misdemeanor charge brings clarity, said John Ojeisekhoba, the president-elect of a campus-policing association that supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will give an officer a significant level of deterrence. That will be the difference. Right now, there’s just no such thing, ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Could this bill lead to racial profiling?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several students said they are concerned about this outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alessia Milstein, who graduated this spring from Pitzer College, said there should be other options for how people get help instead of defaulting to calling the police. Milstein was involved in the Claremont Colleges’ Prison Abolition Collective, a club that educates students about prison and police abolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11915577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman who was involved in abolition activism at Pitzer College stands, looking seriously at the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-1536x1034.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alessia Milstein graduated this spring from Pitzer College, in Claremont. She was involved in abolition activism on campus. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s also important to remember that everyone is subject to having racial biases — and relying on police to decide who belongs on campus is “allowing those to run freely,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like it’s kind of the epitome, again, of why police don’t work,” Milstein said. “You’re trying to solve every conflict with a catchall that is rooted in colonialism and white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are “more negatives than positives” with the bill, said Tess Gibbs, a rising senior at Scripps College, who is also part of the collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Gibbs said she worries the bill could make campus into a sort of “fortress,” cut off from the surrounding community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just question how much this would actually significantly increase safety of students, which seems to be its intention,” Gibbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A movement to reduce police presence on California campuses has grown over the last several years, following a nationwide reckoning over the scope of police power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the University of California and California State University, some students have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2020/06/students-push-uc-to-abolish-police-departments/\">called for abolishing, or increasing oversight of, campus police departments\u003c/a>, particularly because of concerns over aggressive policing of protests and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2021/03/uc-cal-state-police-diversity-whiter-than-students/\">racial profiling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And racism regularly leads to people of color being deemed suspicious. One such incident that garnered national attention: In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/nyregion/yale-black-student-nap.html\">a white student at Yale University called campus police after seeing a Black student asleep in the dorm common room\u003c/a>. Several police officers responded to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to make sure it’s applied in a way that makes sense,” Portantino said of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked via email about concerns that the bill could lead to racial profiling or harassment of unhoused people, he said that the measure isn’t meant to be used for anything other than “fostering prudent student and campus safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How could campus police avoid over-policing, if the bill becomes law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several campus safety officials interviewed said they intended to use the bill’s power just as needed, rather than overdo it. Of course, that’s easier said than done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ojeisekhoba, of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, acknowledged that mistakes can happen. Still, he said he has seen a shift in how campus police respond to reports of suspicious behavior. As an example, he pointed to the private university where he is chief of police, Biola University in La Mirada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of immediately sending an officer to the scene after getting a call about suspicious behavior, dispatchers are trained to ask more questions in the hopes of figuring out whether there is actually an issue. The approach is meant to “reduce potential mistakes or the appearance of racial profiling,” he said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tess Gibbs, Scripps College student\"]‘I just question how much this would actually significantly increase safety of students.’[/pullquote]Stan Skipworth, associate vice president of campus safety at the Claremont Colleges, also said in an email that jail time isn’t necessary in all instances of trespassing — just the most egregious cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of relying on police, students should learn to count on community members when problems arise, said Alaia Zaki, a rising senior at the University of San Francisco. Zaki is part of the university’s chapter of Alliance for Change, an organization that helps people transition from prison and reenter communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaki highlighted \u003ca href=\"https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/\">pod-mapping\u003c/a> as potential inspiration. The approach has been championed by the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, an Oakland-based group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pods are meant to be a way to deal with \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/what-mutual-aid-can-do-during-a-pandemic\">small harms\u003c/a> by relying on a group of trusted friends or neighbors. For example, instead of calling the police, a person could reach out to their pod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have a relationship founded on community would be kind of a game-changer because you would have people that you know, and hopefully respect and trust, coming to deescalate your situations,” Zaki said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nElina Lingappa is a fellow with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/college-journalism-network/\">CalMatters College Journalism Network\u003c/a>, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. This story and other higher education coverage is supported by the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Community members pass through often to walk their dogs or relax on the manicured lawns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The open nature of campuses makes reining in trespassing “a very difficult line to walk,” said Jessica Ramey Stender, deputy legal director of Equal Rights Advocates, a gender-justice nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it shows the difficult position that universities are in, in trying to ensure that they keep their students safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you should know about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB748\">Senate Bill 748\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which changes would the bill make?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill would rework a section of the state’s criminal code that right now applies only to public colleges or universities and public and private K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those schools, the law says that it’s a misdemeanor for a person to “willfully and knowingly” enter a campus after having been banned. A person can be barred for disrupting a campus or facility’s “orderly operation,” according to the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would expand the provision to include private colleges and universities. Punishment for a violation is either a fine of no more than $500 or imprisonment in county jail for no longer than six months, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authored by Sen. Anthony Portantino, a San Fernando Valley Democrat, the bill passed the state Senate 34-0 in January and is scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Public Safety Committee on June 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do private campuses currently handle trespassing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s use the University of San Diego as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university supports the bill. It has the kind of idyllic campus that the general public regularly visits: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.edu/about/fast-facts.php\">180 acres overlooking San Diego, Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fairly common for the university’s police force to be summoned to disturbances involving people who have entered campus, said James Miyashiro, assistant vice president of safety at USD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, an unhoused man barricaded himself in a campus bathroom, and threatened to return once police told him to leave, said Miyashiro, who watched footage from an officer’s body camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altercations with students also occur. People come to campus to play pickup games and sometimes get in fights with students who have the space reserved, or make comments that offend students, who then report them to the police, Miyashiro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When campus police get such a report, they ask the person to leave campus. If they come back, officers give them a letter barring them from campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “that doesn’t have a lot of teeth behind it,” Miyashiro said. And city police are reluctant to respond to trespassing issues on campus, particularly during hours when the buildings are open, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miyashiro contrasted the dynamic with his experience at two public universities where he worked previously: the University of California, Los Angeles and Riverside Community College District. There, campus police could tell a person causing a disturbance that if they returned within seven days, they could be arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:86c7c3bd-6880-3f3b-a2c2-8f5178884c18\">city police associations back the bill\u003c/a>, including the Riverside Sheriffs’ Association and the Santa Ana Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equal Rights Advocates also decided to support the measure, Stender said, based on what it has heard from students who have been victims of sexual assault or harassment. Sometimes, the attacker will return to campus to continue harassing or even assault them again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequence of a misdemeanor charge brings clarity, said John Ojeisekhoba, the president-elect of a campus-policing association that supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will give an officer a significant level of deterrence. That will be the difference. Right now, there’s just no such thing, ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Could this bill lead to racial profiling?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several students said they are concerned about this outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alessia Milstein, who graduated this spring from Pitzer College, said there should be other options for how people get help instead of defaulting to calling the police. 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One such incident that garnered national attention: In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/nyregion/yale-black-student-nap.html\">a white student at Yale University called campus police after seeing a Black student asleep in the dorm common room\u003c/a>. Several police officers responded to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to make sure it’s applied in a way that makes sense,” Portantino said of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked via email about concerns that the bill could lead to racial profiling or harassment of unhoused people, he said that the measure isn’t meant to be used for anything other than “fostering prudent student and campus safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How could campus police avoid over-policing, if the bill becomes law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several campus safety officials interviewed said they intended to use the bill’s power just as needed, rather than overdo it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tuesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/25/1101071658/what-we-know-about-uvalde-shooting\">mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas\u003c/a>, has made ripples across the Bay Area and around the country — reigniting concerns about gun safety and violence in schools and delivering a hefty emotional blow to parents, students and educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day of the shooting, teacher Peter Wilson was trying to celebrate his fifth graders’ graduation. Wilson, who taught a combined fourth and fifth grade class this year at Sankofa United Elementary School in Oakland, said he felt conflicting emotions as he looked back at the ceremony that took place on the school’s field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can you relish your joy while you’re looking at the tragedy of these families?” asked Wilson, who’s lost several of his own students over the years to gun violence. “They're not supposed to die before you. 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Never.'[/pullquote]California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877552/americas-disease-gun-violence-gun-control-and-where-california-goes-from-here\">has some of the strictest gun laws in the country\u003c/a> — but the state has still seen at least two major shootings this year — one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910536/a-mass-shooting-in-downtown-sacramento\">downtown Sacramento\u003c/a> and another at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914496/man-accused-in-orange-county-church-shooting-faces-murder-charge\">church in Laguna Woods\u003c/a> in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915068/newsom-legislative-leaders-vow-to-strengthen-californias-already-strict-gun-laws\">announced that by next month he plans to sign into law over a dozen bills that would help strengthen gun laws\u003c/a> — especially when it comes to enforcement of ghost guns and assault-style weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taking the cue from Texas and the SB 8 bill that put women’s lives at risk, we’re going to use those core tenets to save people’s lives here in California, as it relates to ‘private right of action,’” Newsom said during the Wednesday news conference. “This state’s leaning in, and I want folks to know if you’re feeling that anxiety, stress and fear, I hope you’ll consider California as an antidote of sorts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, educators and students in cities like Oakland point out that gun violence affects many communities on a daily basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I would be doing a disservice to my community, not to mention that … for my students, gun violence is a part of our daily lives, regardless of what we hear and see in the news,” said Erin Ronhovde, a third grade teacher at East Oakland Pride Elementary School. “Because a lot of the things they deal with and experience daily don't show up there and are more a part of their immediate reality and the trauma that they're dealing with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, in particular, has seen an alarming rise in violence during the pandemic — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\">recording the biggest jump in murders of any Bay Area city\u003c/a>, according to KQED reporting. The reasons behind that spike in violence aren’t simple — what’s more certain is the ongoing disproportionate impact on Black and brown communities, which have long borne the brunt of crime spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11906253 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/GettyImages-1368114541-1-1020x680.jpg']“I teach in Oakland. So there are kids who have been through these types of tragedies,” Wilson said. “They've lost relatives to gun violence. Neighbors and friends. So they're used to these kinds of things, but it never makes it easy for them. Never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronhovde said she advocates for her students and that, in light of this week’s mass shooting, it reinforced her role to protect her students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt that, if push came to shove, I'd be between the gun and my kids,” she said. “And just the fact that I've had to accept that and make peace with it is a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronhovde remembers rallying with her students in 2018, in response to the shooting that year at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. At the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655297/thousands-of-bay-area-students-join-national-walkout-to-end-gun-violence\">thousands of Bay Area students joined their peers nationwide in the March for Our Lives campaign\u003c/a>, calling for gun control measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was looking at those [protest] signs again today and realized we could make those tomorrow,” she said. “We could make those same signs tomorrow without changing a word. And they'd still be just as applicable to this current situation as they were in 2018.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915165\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1184\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot.jpg 1242w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot-800x763.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot-1020x972.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot-160x153.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goodness Nwakudu, who recently graduated from Oakland Technical High School, says she's thinking about youth activism in light of yet another mass shooting this week at a Texas elementary school. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Goodness Nwakudu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many young people themselves wonder what their advocacy has resulted in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goodness Nwakudu, 17, was in middle school at the time of the 2018 school walkouts. Now this week, she’s just graduated from Oakland Technical High School — and like Peter Wilson with his class of fifth graders, she’s finding it difficult to understand whether she can do anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's been pretty tough just seeing a lot of issues and shootings, especially just happening over and over and with kids like my age who are either getting killed or the people killing, it makes me feel like, you know, what can I really do to help?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds that community building is key — that fostering communication among teachers, students and elected leaders are strong first steps toward creating a culture that promotes prevention over reactionary violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I teach in Oakland. So there are kids who have been through these types of tragedies,” Wilson said. “They've lost relatives to gun violence. Neighbors and friends. So they're used to these kinds of things, but it never makes it easy for them. Never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronhovde said she advocates for her students and that, in light of this week’s mass shooting, it reinforced her role to protect her students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt that, if push came to shove, I'd be between the gun and my kids,” she said. “And just the fact that I've had to accept that and make peace with it is a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronhovde remembers rallying with her students in 2018, in response to the shooting that year at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. At the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655297/thousands-of-bay-area-students-join-national-walkout-to-end-gun-violence\">thousands of Bay Area students joined their peers nationwide in the March for Our Lives campaign\u003c/a>, calling for gun control measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was looking at those [protest] signs again today and realized we could make those tomorrow,” she said. “We could make those same signs tomorrow without changing a word. And they'd still be just as applicable to this current situation as they were in 2018.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915165\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1184\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot.jpg 1242w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot-800x763.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot-1020x972.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Goodness-Nwakudu_headshot-160x153.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goodness Nwakudu, who recently graduated from Oakland Technical High School, says she's thinking about youth activism in light of yet another mass shooting this week at a Texas elementary school. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Goodness Nwakudu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many young people themselves wonder what their advocacy has resulted in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goodness Nwakudu, 17, was in middle school at the time of the 2018 school walkouts. Now this week, she’s just graduated from Oakland Technical High School — and like Peter Wilson with his class of fifth graders, she’s finding it difficult to understand whether she can do anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's been pretty tough just seeing a lot of issues and shootings, especially just happening over and over and with kids like my age who are either getting killed or the people killing, it makes me feel like, you know, what can I really do to help?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds that community building is key — that fostering communication among teachers, students and elected leaders are strong first steps toward creating a culture that promotes prevention over reactionary violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The final class to graduate from Mills College in Oakland walked across the stage on Saturday, at the last undergraduate commencement before the 170-year-old independent women's college merges with Boston’s Northeastern University this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who haven't yet graduated are deciding whether or not to stay at the school, which will become Mills College at Northeastern University in July and open its campus to students of all genders for the first time.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"LJ Miranda, Mills College senior\"]'Regardless of how the merger changes the school, every student, every faculty member, every staff member, every alum makes Mills what it is [and] is carrying a piece of that legacy with them.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, some of those current students who haven't graduated yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Students-sue-Mills-College-saying-it-misled-them-17169370.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, alleging the school misled them about which programs would be available in the coming years, costing them thousands of dollars and delaying their progress toward degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lawsuits are a part of higher education, and we will reckon with this and support our community as best we can,\" Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman told KQED on Saturday when asked about the lawsuit. \"We strongly believe that we’ll be able to serve the most students in the best possible way through the merger with Northeastern University.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration says the merger, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888178/mills-college-to-merge-with-northeastern-university-after-months-long-court-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved by the Mills Board of Trustees last September after a months-long court battle with the alumnae association\u003c/a>, is necessary to resolve budget shortfalls caused by declining enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914208 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two people holding their Mills College degrees stand in black cap and gowns holding bouquets of flowers.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Vivian Guerrero (left) and Maureen Guerrero Nanstad (right) graduated from Mills College in Oakland on Saturday with degrees in computer science (bachelor's, Vivian) and public policy (master's, Maureen). \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kieran Turan, vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.savemillscollege.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Mills College Coalition\u003c/a>, championed the college's uniqueness and decried the merger in comments to KQED on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This college is so necessary for the future as it is,\" Turan said, noting the school's diverse student body and status as having been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/145337/all-womens-mills-college-welcomes-transgender-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first women's college to accept trans students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to see Mills preserved ... We have an incredible liberal arts program. All those programs will be canceled under Northeastern. This is unacceptable. This is a historic legacy and precious institution for Oakland and the Bay Area and it needs to remain independent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914211 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand posed and smiling against the backdrop of trees on a sunny day.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Mahood Levin, president of the Save Mills College Coalition (second from right) and Kieran Turan, vice president (far right), attend the final commencement ceremony of Mills College along with other Mills alumnae and coalition members on May 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abi Amit, who graduated Saturday with a degree in art and technology, expressed frustration with the school, along with adoration for its students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the stuff that's been going on [with the merger] really left a sour taste in my mouth,\" said Amit. \"We have no idea what it's going to be like next semester at all because they haven't been telling the current students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I think this [commencement] is for me, and I love the people at Mills. I love the students. I love the faculty that make it what it is ... This is about celebrating their achievements. I'm just here to celebrate me and my friends and all the teachers that got me here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914207 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman ties a colorful purple lei onto another woman wearing a black graduation gown. A sunny day with clear sky and trees can be seen in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorelei Bresler has a lei tied on her head by a friend at the final commencement ceremony of Mills College in Oakland on May 14, 2022. Bresler graduated with a master's in management from the business school. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Mills is not dead ... Mills did not come this far to only come this far,\" said LJ Miranda, senior student speaker in a commencement address. \"Regardless of how the merger changes the school, every student, every faculty member, every staff member, every alum makes Mills what it is [and] is carrying a piece of that legacy with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills College awarded honorary degrees to three women at Saturday's commencement, including an honorary doctorate of humane letters for Lynette Gibson McElhaney, the first Black woman to serve as president of the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are grieving the loss of our beloved community and the things that are familiar,\" McElhaney told the graduating class. \"You all who are the last graduating class of Mills as we know it, are celebrating with a tinge of grief. And so I just wanted to share with you all some of what I've been learning in this decade of leading while grieving. You'll take your next step. And you will enjoy your next laugh because you will be empowered by hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration says the merger, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888178/mills-college-to-merge-with-northeastern-university-after-months-long-court-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved by the Mills Board of Trustees last September after a months-long court battle with the alumnae association\u003c/a>, is necessary to resolve budget shortfalls caused by declining enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914208 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two people holding their Mills College degrees stand in black cap and gowns holding bouquets of flowers.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Vivian Guerrero (left) and Maureen Guerrero Nanstad (right) graduated from Mills College in Oakland on Saturday with degrees in computer science (bachelor's, Vivian) and public policy (master's, Maureen). \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kieran Turan, vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.savemillscollege.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Mills College Coalition\u003c/a>, championed the college's uniqueness and decried the merger in comments to KQED on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This college is so necessary for the future as it is,\" Turan said, noting the school's diverse student body and status as having been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/145337/all-womens-mills-college-welcomes-transgender-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first women's college to accept trans students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to see Mills preserved ... We have an incredible liberal arts program. All those programs will be canceled under Northeastern. This is unacceptable. This is a historic legacy and precious institution for Oakland and the Bay Area and it needs to remain independent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914211 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand posed and smiling against the backdrop of trees on a sunny day.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Mahood Levin, president of the Save Mills College Coalition (second from right) and Kieran Turan, vice president (far right), attend the final commencement ceremony of Mills College along with other Mills alumnae and coalition members on May 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abi Amit, who graduated Saturday with a degree in art and technology, expressed frustration with the school, along with adoration for its students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the stuff that's been going on [with the merger] really left a sour taste in my mouth,\" said Amit. \"We have no idea what it's going to be like next semester at all because they haven't been telling the current students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I think this [commencement] is for me, and I love the people at Mills. I love the students. I love the faculty that make it what it is ... This is about celebrating their achievements. I'm just here to celebrate me and my friends and all the teachers that got me here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914207 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman ties a colorful purple lei onto another woman wearing a black graduation gown. A sunny day with clear sky and trees can be seen in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorelei Bresler has a lei tied on her head by a friend at the final commencement ceremony of Mills College in Oakland on May 14, 2022. Bresler graduated with a master's in management from the business school. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Mills is not dead ... Mills did not come this far to only come this far,\" said LJ Miranda, senior student speaker in a commencement address. \"Regardless of how the merger changes the school, every student, every faculty member, every staff member, every alum makes Mills what it is [and] is carrying a piece of that legacy with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills College awarded honorary degrees to three women at Saturday's commencement, including an honorary doctorate of humane letters for Lynette Gibson McElhaney, the first Black woman to serve as president of the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are grieving the loss of our beloved community and the things that are familiar,\" McElhaney told the graduating class. \"You all who are the last graduating class of Mills as we know it, are celebrating with a tinge of grief. And so I just wanted to share with you all some of what I've been learning in this decade of leading while grieving. You'll take your next step. And you will enjoy your next laugh because you will be empowered by hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "At a Sonoma County High School, Students of Color Demand an End to Racist Harassment",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913342/in-sebastopol-students-want-adults-to-do-more-about-racist-bullying\">Listen here to a longer version of this story (25 mins.) on The Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]J[/dropcap]erry Loya had just transferred to West County High School in Sebastopol and was looking to make new friends when a white student approached him in the hallway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked what ethnicity he was. But before Loya could respond, she said, \"You look Indian. I’m going to call you my little Indian friend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did that for months, even after Loya told her he is not Indian but Black, Mexican and Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A freshman at the time, Loya says he was afraid to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn't say anything because I was ashamed of where I was, and I was scared and I didn't want any backlash,\" said Loya, who is now a junior. \"And also, I didn't want anybody to flip the script on me because I can count all the POCs that go to my school, you know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big part of his fear was being a minority student in a school where two-thirds of the students are white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you think about it, they can all come against us,” Loya said. “And that's a scary thing to think about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Loya put up with it. Other students of color at West County High say they have, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hear racial slurs most commonly in the boys' restrooms and the hallways. The N-word, racial slurs against Mexicans, Asian Americans,” said Dylan Peña Pérez, a senior who's nearing graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña Pérez and several other students of color at West County High say these and other aggressions are commonplace. He says the school has a culture of normalized racism and, despite complaints to administrators, not enough gets done to change it.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dylan Peña Pérez, student, West County High School\"]'At times it feels as if I'm putting a target on myself, especially at a predominantly white community that is Sebastopol. At times I don't feel safe at school.'[/pullquote]He points to incidents like one earlier this year in which a white student called a Black student the N-word. The white student's five-day suspension was reduced to two days after she wrote an apology. Some students said reducing the penalty amounted to giving the white student \"a long weekend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent girls' basketball game, two West County High School fans in the stands — a white student and an Asian student — made gorilla sounds when Black players from the opposing team took the floor. The home team suffered no consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in early April, a racist \"promposal\" from a white student hit Instagram and made the rounds in the community. Jerry Loya saw the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It said, ‘If I were Black, I'd be picking cotton, but I'm not, so I'm picking you. Prom?’ It's just blatant racism that she wasn't even trying to hide it. And she also had two or three other of her friends post it, too,” Loya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly Principal Shauna Ferdinandson’s office phones were ringing off the wall from people throughout Sebastopol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody in every demographic of student showed up, up in arms about what they were looking at,” said Ferdinandson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students on the newly formed Antiracist Student Committee who had been trying to get Ferdinandson to see the pervasive racism they were experiencing said it was only after the racist promposal went public that the principal took action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm gonna be honest, I truly feel they don't know how and what to do because I think that they're more worried about their image rather than helping a solution and a cause,” Loya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11913513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"West County High School Principal Shauna Ferdinandson seated in her office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West County High School Principal Shauna Ferdinandson. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The students led a school walkout in protest over the promposal in late April. About 300 of West County's 1,100 students left their tutorial period to gather in the school’s shady courtyard. They wore white T-shirts emblazoned with antiracist slogans in red ink. School leadership supported the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students like Loya and Peña Pérez on the Antiracist Student Committee also were calling school leaders out at meetings of the West Sonoma County Union High School District board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting last month, board President Patrick Nagle thanked students for telling the trustees what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not here every day, so if people don’t bring it to our attention or, as you said, 'bug us', we don’t know about it,” he told Peña Pérez, who is the student board representative. Peña Pérez pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you haven’t heard about this before, it is because you haven’t created a bridge where they can trust you with this information,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the district has been failing its minority students for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights slammed West Sonoma County Union High School District officials officials for failing to intervene on behalf of a student of color who was subjected to frequent racist harassment for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/more/09161264-a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">office's inquiry\u003c/a> found that both district officials and administrators at the school, then called Analy High, did not adequately follow up in their investigation of racist slurs and threats directed at the student. He subsequently transferred to another school while the white students who targeted him suffered no punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal report also said that facts it uncovered during its investigation — including use of the N-word on campus and school surveys that showed substantial numbers of Latino, Black and mixed-race students reporting episodes of racist harassment — showed that students of color were being subjected to a hostile environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferdinandson was vice principal at the school then. She says she built lessons about racism and empathy to comply with an agreement between the West County district and the Office for Civil Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/o7soCyte1RE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We implemented everything they asked for,\" Ferdinandson says, but acknowledges that after she became principal in 2019, progress stalled due to the pandemic and having to manage the consolidation of two high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Ferdinandson says the school acted immediately to bring in the students behind the racist promposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had consequences around all of that. And we've told everyone that we are dealing with this, and we are taking it seriously,” she said. She said she could not give specifics due to student privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racism at West County High isn’t isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-22-104341.pdf\">almost a quarter of all students age 12 to 18 saw hate words or symbols written in their schools in school year 2018-19\u003c/a>, including homophobic slurs and references to lynching. Hate crimes targeting students also increased that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week Black high school students in Fresno are \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article261253287.html\">demanding school leaders stop racist images\u003c/a> circulating on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently there are 263 cases of racial discrimination in elementary and secondary schools being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students of color at West County High who spoke about experiencing racism would not share their experiences publicly for this story for fear of being confronted by their white peers at school. Some said their parents are immigrants who worry their children will get hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña Pérez says speaking out has made him uneasy. “At times it feels as if I'm putting a target on myself, especially at a predominantly white community that is Sebastopol. At times I don't feel safe at school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña Pérez says it would help if more teachers at West County High were trained to step in and stop racist behavior. “Some of them actually contribute to this problem by being passively racist. They also don't speak up in class when they hear other students say racist stuff,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferdinandson agreed training is needed for teachers and staff so they can recognize and disrupt comments that are racist, homophobic, sexist or simply insensitive to others. She said she met recently with the NAACP Santa Rosa-Sonoma, which is sending her resources for teacher training next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913518\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11913518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"West County High School teachers seated at school board meeting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers Rachel Ambrose and Rosalie Abbott say more teacher training is needed to intervene when students report racism on campus. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students also are calling for ethnic studies to be made a graduation requirement immediately in the district, for training in restorative justice practices and for more severe consequences for student racist behavior. Ferdinandson says she is exploring these ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The burden falls to students of color\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the racist promposal hit the school, Principal Ferdindanson decided to hold an emergency all-school assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked the co-presidents of the Antiracist Student Committee to recruit other students of color to stand up on stage in front of their peers and speak about their experiences of feeling attacked or unwelcome at the school. No professional mediator was there or met with the students ahead of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said they were nervous and scared. They also said it felt important to speak up and be heard. Jerry Loya was one of nine who took the stage. “This is like a battle, this is a war we have to keep fighting,” he said afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that as difficult as the situation is for him, at least the topic of racism is out in the open and people are talking about it. And that resulted in a concrete gesture from a fellow student. The girl who called him her “little Indian friend” wrote him an apology after the assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a big step for me, too,\" Loya said. \"She also got a lot of backlash for it, which I don't want to say is a good thing, but it is also a good thing, because it just shows that other people are listening to my story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's right: Other people are listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After three months of students demanding that the district remove several plaques that had been donated by Native Sons of the Golden West starting in 1935, including one embedded in the concrete at the entrance to West County High, the district's board of trustees took up the issue for a vote on May 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Native_Sons_of_the_Golden_West/Native_Daughters_of_the_Golden_West/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Native Sons of the Golden West\u003c/a>, an organization that said it was dedicated to preserving \"the spirit of the 'Days of '49,'\" carried on a decades-long campaign to limit the rights of ethnic minorities in California, especially people of Japanese descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguing in 1942 on behalf of \u003ca href=\"https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2018/11/02/this-isnt-the-first-time-white-supremacists-have-tried-to-cancel-birthright-citizenship\">a lawsuit that sought to remove Japanese American citizens from San Francisco's voter rolls\u003c/a>, the Native Sons' attorney told a federal judge that the Constitution was “by and for white people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11913514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"A 1935 plaque from Native Sons of the Golden West at West County High School in Sebastopol, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-1536x1083.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-2048x1444.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-1920x1354.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Native Sons of the Golden West donated this plaque to the school in 1935. The current school board agreed to remove it after students protested the group's past campaigns against Asian Americans. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the May 4 board meeting, women leaders from the Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition of the North Bay and the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League came to stand alongside West County students like KatieAnn Nguyen as she spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen, a senior, said it was unfair that she and others had to take time away from studying for AP tests that night to ask for basic decency from the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sacrifices myself and others have made for this school is utterly devastating because we have given up so much just for you to hear us,” Nguyen told the board. “Tonight, I am not just asking you to remove the Native Sons of the Golden West plaques, but to also make a promise to our community, to your students here, that you'll do everything in your power to ensure the voices of the students are heard, that they are respected, and that most of all, they can find a place to call home. Here at West County High School.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Japanese American Citizens League’s Gail Yamamoto asked the board to ensure that the history of the plaques — and the reasons they're being removed — become part of the school’s curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Healing starts when we come together to face what history teaches us. It should involve honest and sustained dialogues by all stakeholders. More importantly, it must include sincere efforts to listen to the voices of those who do not feel safe,” Yamamoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board voted unanimously to remove the plaques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students Peña Pérez and Nguyen say this feels like a victory, and they are continuing to meet with Ferdinandson about their other demands: a mandatory ethnic studies requirement, teacher training, and more severe consequences for student racist behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They add that they will hand off an activism blueprint to younger students to keep the pressure on school officials next school year.\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>He points to incidents like one earlier this year in which a white student called a Black student the N-word. The white student's five-day suspension was reduced to two days after she wrote an apology. Some students said reducing the penalty amounted to giving the white student \"a long weekend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent girls' basketball game, two West County High School fans in the stands — a white student and an Asian student — made gorilla sounds when Black players from the opposing team took the floor. The home team suffered no consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in early April, a racist \"promposal\" from a white student hit Instagram and made the rounds in the community. Jerry Loya saw the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It said, ‘If I were Black, I'd be picking cotton, but I'm not, so I'm picking you. Prom?’ It's just blatant racism that she wasn't even trying to hide it. And she also had two or three other of her friends post it, too,” Loya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly Principal Shauna Ferdinandson’s office phones were ringing off the wall from people throughout Sebastopol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody in every demographic of student showed up, up in arms about what they were looking at,” said Ferdinandson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students on the newly formed Antiracist Student Committee who had been trying to get Ferdinandson to see the pervasive racism they were experiencing said it was only after the racist promposal went public that the principal took action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm gonna be honest, I truly feel they don't know how and what to do because I think that they're more worried about their image rather than helping a solution and a cause,” Loya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11913513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"West County High School Principal Shauna Ferdinandson seated in her office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7512-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West County High School Principal Shauna Ferdinandson. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The students led a school walkout in protest over the promposal in late April. About 300 of West County's 1,100 students left their tutorial period to gather in the school’s shady courtyard. They wore white T-shirts emblazoned with antiracist slogans in red ink. School leadership supported the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students like Loya and Peña Pérez on the Antiracist Student Committee also were calling school leaders out at meetings of the West Sonoma County Union High School District board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting last month, board President Patrick Nagle thanked students for telling the trustees what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not here every day, so if people don’t bring it to our attention or, as you said, 'bug us', we don’t know about it,” he told Peña Pérez, who is the student board representative. Peña Pérez pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you haven’t heard about this before, it is because you haven’t created a bridge where they can trust you with this information,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the district has been failing its minority students for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights slammed West Sonoma County Union High School District officials officials for failing to intervene on behalf of a student of color who was subjected to frequent racist harassment for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/more/09161264-a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">office's inquiry\u003c/a> found that both district officials and administrators at the school, then called Analy High, did not adequately follow up in their investigation of racist slurs and threats directed at the student. He subsequently transferred to another school while the white students who targeted him suffered no punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal report also said that facts it uncovered during its investigation — including use of the N-word on campus and school surveys that showed substantial numbers of Latino, Black and mixed-race students reporting episodes of racist harassment — showed that students of color were being subjected to a hostile environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferdinandson was vice principal at the school then. She says she built lessons about racism and empathy to comply with an agreement between the West County district and the Office for Civil Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/o7soCyte1RE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We implemented everything they asked for,\" Ferdinandson says, but acknowledges that after she became principal in 2019, progress stalled due to the pandemic and having to manage the consolidation of two high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Ferdinandson says the school acted immediately to bring in the students behind the racist promposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had consequences around all of that. And we've told everyone that we are dealing with this, and we are taking it seriously,” she said. She said she could not give specifics due to student privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racism at West County High isn’t isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-22-104341.pdf\">almost a quarter of all students age 12 to 18 saw hate words or symbols written in their schools in school year 2018-19\u003c/a>, including homophobic slurs and references to lynching. Hate crimes targeting students also increased that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week Black high school students in Fresno are \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article261253287.html\">demanding school leaders stop racist images\u003c/a> circulating on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently there are 263 cases of racial discrimination in elementary and secondary schools being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students of color at West County High who spoke about experiencing racism would not share their experiences publicly for this story for fear of being confronted by their white peers at school. Some said their parents are immigrants who worry their children will get hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña Pérez says speaking out has made him uneasy. “At times it feels as if I'm putting a target on myself, especially at a predominantly white community that is Sebastopol. At times I don't feel safe at school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña Pérez says it would help if more teachers at West County High were trained to step in and stop racist behavior. “Some of them actually contribute to this problem by being passively racist. They also don't speak up in class when they hear other students say racist stuff,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferdinandson agreed training is needed for teachers and staff so they can recognize and disrupt comments that are racist, homophobic, sexist or simply insensitive to others. She said she met recently with the NAACP Santa Rosa-Sonoma, which is sending her resources for teacher training next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913518\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11913518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"West County High School teachers seated at school board meeting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7681-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers Rachel Ambrose and Rosalie Abbott say more teacher training is needed to intervene when students report racism on campus. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students also are calling for ethnic studies to be made a graduation requirement immediately in the district, for training in restorative justice practices and for more severe consequences for student racist behavior. Ferdinandson says she is exploring these ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The burden falls to students of color\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the racist promposal hit the school, Principal Ferdindanson decided to hold an emergency all-school assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked the co-presidents of the Antiracist Student Committee to recruit other students of color to stand up on stage in front of their peers and speak about their experiences of feeling attacked or unwelcome at the school. No professional mediator was there or met with the students ahead of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said they were nervous and scared. They also said it felt important to speak up and be heard. Jerry Loya was one of nine who took the stage. “This is like a battle, this is a war we have to keep fighting,” he said afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that as difficult as the situation is for him, at least the topic of racism is out in the open and people are talking about it. And that resulted in a concrete gesture from a fellow student. The girl who called him her “little Indian friend” wrote him an apology after the assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a big step for me, too,\" Loya said. \"She also got a lot of backlash for it, which I don't want to say is a good thing, but it is also a good thing, because it just shows that other people are listening to my story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's right: Other people are listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After three months of students demanding that the district remove several plaques that had been donated by Native Sons of the Golden West starting in 1935, including one embedded in the concrete at the entrance to West County High, the district's board of trustees took up the issue for a vote on May 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Native_Sons_of_the_Golden_West/Native_Daughters_of_the_Golden_West/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Native Sons of the Golden West\u003c/a>, an organization that said it was dedicated to preserving \"the spirit of the 'Days of '49,'\" carried on a decades-long campaign to limit the rights of ethnic minorities in California, especially people of Japanese descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguing in 1942 on behalf of \u003ca href=\"https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2018/11/02/this-isnt-the-first-time-white-supremacists-have-tried-to-cancel-birthright-citizenship\">a lawsuit that sought to remove Japanese American citizens from San Francisco's voter rolls\u003c/a>, the Native Sons' attorney told a federal judge that the Constitution was “by and for white people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11913514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"A 1935 plaque from Native Sons of the Golden West at West County High School in Sebastopol, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-1536x1083.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-2048x1444.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7516-1920x1354.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Native Sons of the Golden West donated this plaque to the school in 1935. The current school board agreed to remove it after students protested the group's past campaigns against Asian Americans. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the May 4 board meeting, women leaders from the Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition of the North Bay and the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League came to stand alongside West County students like KatieAnn Nguyen as she spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen, a senior, said it was unfair that she and others had to take time away from studying for AP tests that night to ask for basic decency from the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sacrifices myself and others have made for this school is utterly devastating because we have given up so much just for you to hear us,” Nguyen told the board. “Tonight, I am not just asking you to remove the Native Sons of the Golden West plaques, but to also make a promise to our community, to your students here, that you'll do everything in your power to ensure the voices of the students are heard, that they are respected, and that most of all, they can find a place to call home. Here at West County High School.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Japanese American Citizens League’s Gail Yamamoto asked the board to ensure that the history of the plaques — and the reasons they're being removed — become part of the school’s curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Healing starts when we come together to face what history teaches us. It should involve honest and sustained dialogues by all stakeholders. More importantly, it must include sincere efforts to listen to the voices of those who do not feel safe,” Yamamoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board voted unanimously to remove the plaques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students Peña Pérez and Nguyen say this feels like a victory, and they are continuing to meet with Ferdinandson about their other demands: a mandatory ethnic studies requirement, teacher training, and more severe consequences for student racist behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They add that they will hand off an activism blueprint to younger students to keep the pressure on school officials next school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thirty years ago, the east side of Bay Area suburb Dublin was little more than miles of ranchland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"2\">Today, it’s lined with new houses and apartments that are home to thousands of new-to-the-area families. On a sunny afternoon, the city of 61,000’s playgrounds, cul-de-sacs and sports fields are buzzing with children, and the roads and strip mall parking lots are packed with minivans and electric cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"3\">The city’s building boom following the Great Recession resulted in the Dublin Unified School District tripling its number of students since 2000 — the only Bay Area district to do so while the region as a whole saw a 3.7% increase from 2000 and 2019. Along with the rest of the state, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/california-k-12-enrollment-plunges-again-falls-below-6-million/670111\">Bay Area enrollment plunged around 6.2% during the pandemic\u003c/a> to 859,619 students — the lowest it’s been in more than 20 years.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chris Funk, Dublin superintendent\"]'I would much rather be at a growing district than a declining district.'[/pullquote]Families flocked to the Tri-Valley city of Dublin for its new homes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/The-fastest-growing-Bay-Area-job-zone-isn-t-SF-13086071.php\" data-reader-unique-id=\"15\">new jobs\u003c/a>, well-regarded schools and proximity to other job hubs in Silicon Valley, Oakland and San Francisco. The construction of thousands of new homes and apartments across five new developments allowed the 12,491-student district to build seven new schools, with two more on the way to bring the total to 15. The U.S. Census Bureau deemed \u003ca href=\"https://www.independentnews.com/news/dublin-ranks-as-states-fastest-growing-city/article_4123885c-823f-11e9-a73d-2b039f182ee1.html\" data-reader-unique-id=\"16\">Dublin the fastest-growing city in California\u003c/a> between 2000 and 2019, and one of the 15 fastest-growing cities in the country\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"17\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"18\">“It’s almost like a new city,” said Ram Bora, whose boys are in kindergarten and first grade in Dublin Unified schools. Bora moved there from Los Angeles about five years ago and lives in one of the new eastside developments.[aside postID=\"news_11910758,news_11912196,news_11908141\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Ed Pruno, whose children are in kindergarten and fifth grade, said he left the East Bay about 10 years ago to “settle down” and start a family. He was attracted to Dublin by the positive reviews of its schools on the real estate listing websites as well as the city’s lower \u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"20\">home prices when compared with elsewhere in the region. Pruno said he moved around a lot as a child and sought out Dublin as a place where his children could finish all their K-12 schooling.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"21\">“I wanted to give them what I didn’t have,” Pruno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"22\">Neither Pruno nor Bora said school overcrowding was an issue for their children. Superintendent Chris Funk said the enrollment increase has been “manageable,” though schools have had to move some classes into portables as school construction catches up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"23\">Brentwood Union Elementary and Liberty Union High were the other two districts that saw the highest rates of enrollment growth since 2000. Both serve the east Contra Costa County suburbs of Brentwood and Oakley. Much like Dublin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2014/05/06/brentwood-and-oakley-fastest-growing-cities-in-contra-costa-county/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"24\">those cities quickly grew with the construction of new homes\u003c/a>. They both doubled their enrollment but still remain under 10,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"25\">Growing suburbs with modest regional growth between 2000 and 2019 doesn’t tell the whole story, however. Districts that serve more lower-income students in cities with less new construction lost thousands of students during that time, only exacerbating existing budget woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"28\">Funk has seen what it’s like at both growing and declining districts. Before taking the superintendent position at Dublin Unified, he served in the same role in San José’s East Side Union High School District, which saw an 8% enrollment drop between 2000 and 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would much rather be at a growing district than a declining district,” Funk said. “We’re able to give our employees raises without having to lay people off, and expand our programming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"39\">Vallejo City Unified saw one of the sharpest enrollment drops in the Bay Area — losing 43.6% of its students between 2000 and 2019, and another 8.7% over 2019 through 2021. That resulted in the district having to make $29 million in budget cuts, and to closing or consolidating six campuses since 2017, said district spokesperson Celina Baguiao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"40\">Vallejo City Unified started to see declining enrollment in the 1990s going into the 2000s and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/How-Vallejo-school-district-got-itself-60-2710782.php\" data-reader-unique-id=\"41\">went into state receivership\u003c/a> in 2004 after finding itself millions in debt. Then came the Great Recession. The working-class city of 120,000 people was one of the country’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2011/08/17/vallejo-still-among-top-us-cities-with-home-foreclosures/\">cities hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/18/AR2008101801964.html\">it declared bankruptcy in 2008\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"44\">The district still owes $9 million on the state’s $60 million loan, Baguiao said. Paying off the debt with an even tighter budget due to enrollment loss makes it harder to fund the things that could improve schools and draw more students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"45\">“As we continue to pay the loan off, we have the extra financial burden to consider when expanding programs and hiring,” Baguiao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"46\">As Vallejo schools’ budgets tightened, charter schools drew students from district schools. According to state enrollment data, the city’s six independent charter schools have grown by nearly 84% since 2014, adding a total of 1,099 students over that time while district enrollment shrank by 24.7%, or 3,378 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"47\">\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/a-new-chapter-for-charter-schools-in-california-as-enrollment-drops-for-first-time-in-3-decades/670868\">\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"49\">Charter school enrollment\u003c/span>\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"50\"> \u003c/span>throughout the Bay Area\u003c/a> more than doubled between 2009 and 2021, from 36,810 to 82,875.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"51\">The other two Bay Area districts with the highest rates of enrollment decrease over the past 20 years are Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto and Alum Rock Union Elementary in San José. Both districts have had to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/09/east-palo-alto-ravenswood-schools-to-close-two-elementary-schools/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"52\">close schools\u003c/a> in recent years to adjust to the \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/alum-rock-union-school-district-to-close-san-jose-schools/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"53\">funding loss\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"54\">Some of Vallejo City Unified’s high rate of enrollment loss also can be attributed to families leaving the Bay Area over the region’s high cost of living, Baguiao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"55\">“While the median-priced home is cheaper in Vallejo than in many of our neighboring cities, it still costs a lot of money to live in this area,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"56\">Vallejo City Unified and most other districts haven’t researched where departing families are moving to. West Contra Costa Unified, however, has managed to track where some families are going. In a \u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"57\">report\u003c/span> presented at Wednesday night’s school board meeting, the district found that slightly more than half of the 1,206 students that left the district last year went to a different district, while about 14% enrolled in charters, 13% enrolled outside the state and 8% enrolled in private schools. The students enrolled in neighboring Vallejo City Unified and Oakland Unified, as well as Antioch Unified farther east in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"58\">Of the 539 students who have already filed transfer requests to districts next year, 76% are going to neighboring Albany Unified and Berkeley Unified school districts. Others are going elsewhere in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"59\">West Contra Costa Unified itself saw an enrollment drop of 18.5% between 2000 and 2019. Nearby Oakland Unified lost more than 30% of its enrollment during that period, while expenses increased. Oakland Unified’s decades-long budget woes prompted the district’s school board, in February, to approve a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/oakland-students-teachers-community-to-fight-11-school-closures-mergers-reductions/667243\" data-reader-unique-id=\"60\">close, consolidate and merge 11 schools\u003c/a> to adjust to the enrollment drop. The decision was met with hunger strikes and other ongoing protests and actions by members of the community and the local teachers union, the Oakland Education Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"61\">The Bay Area’s largest district, San Francisco Unified, saw a 10% enrollment drop between 2000 and 2019. The city had an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/census-sf-population/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"62\">influx of new residents\u003c/a> during that time, but the number of households with children decreased. In a \u003ca href=\"https://default.sfplanning.org/publications_reports/Family_Friendly_Briefing_01-17-17_FINAL.pdf\" data-reader-unique-id=\"63\">2017 policy brief\u003c/a>, County Supervisor Norman Yee chalked it up to a lack of affordable family housing, making the city less desirable than other Bay Area cities for incoming families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"64\">Districts like those that serve higher percentages of students from lower-income families could suffer another major financial hit next year, Funk pointed out. Fewer families are submitting household income forms to their districts, he said, because the forms are no longer required to access free school meals now that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/free-school-meals-here-to-stay-in-california/658564\">California is providing free meals to all students\u003c/a>. That will inevitably reduce the amount of supplemental funds districts qualify for under the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2016/local-control-funding-formula-guide-lcff/89272\" data-reader-unique-id=\"66\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"67\">“It’s a double whammy,” Funk said.\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>Families flocked to the Tri-Valley city of Dublin for its new homes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/The-fastest-growing-Bay-Area-job-zone-isn-t-SF-13086071.php\" data-reader-unique-id=\"15\">new jobs\u003c/a>, well-regarded schools and proximity to other job hubs in Silicon Valley, Oakland and San Francisco. The construction of thousands of new homes and apartments across five new developments allowed the 12,491-student district to build seven new schools, with two more on the way to bring the total to 15. The U.S. Census Bureau deemed \u003ca href=\"https://www.independentnews.com/news/dublin-ranks-as-states-fastest-growing-city/article_4123885c-823f-11e9-a73d-2b039f182ee1.html\" data-reader-unique-id=\"16\">Dublin the fastest-growing city in California\u003c/a> between 2000 and 2019, and one of the 15 fastest-growing cities in the country\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"17\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"18\">“It’s almost like a new city,” said Ram Bora, whose boys are in kindergarten and first grade in Dublin Unified schools. Bora moved there from Los Angeles about five years ago and lives in one of the new eastside developments.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ed Pruno, whose children are in kindergarten and fifth grade, said he left the East Bay about 10 years ago to “settle down” and start a family. He was attracted to Dublin by the positive reviews of its schools on the real estate listing websites as well as the city’s lower \u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"20\">home prices when compared with elsewhere in the region. Pruno said he moved around a lot as a child and sought out Dublin as a place where his children could finish all their K-12 schooling.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"21\">“I wanted to give them what I didn’t have,” Pruno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"22\">Neither Pruno nor Bora said school overcrowding was an issue for their children. Superintendent Chris Funk said the enrollment increase has been “manageable,” though schools have had to move some classes into portables as school construction catches up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"23\">Brentwood Union Elementary and Liberty Union High were the other two districts that saw the highest rates of enrollment growth since 2000. Both serve the east Contra Costa County suburbs of Brentwood and Oakley. Much like Dublin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2014/05/06/brentwood-and-oakley-fastest-growing-cities-in-contra-costa-county/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"24\">those cities quickly grew with the construction of new homes\u003c/a>. They both doubled their enrollment but still remain under 10,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"25\">Growing suburbs with modest regional growth between 2000 and 2019 doesn’t tell the whole story, however. Districts that serve more lower-income students in cities with less new construction lost thousands of students during that time, only exacerbating existing budget woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"28\">Funk has seen what it’s like at both growing and declining districts. Before taking the superintendent position at Dublin Unified, he served in the same role in San José’s East Side Union High School District, which saw an 8% enrollment drop between 2000 and 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would much rather be at a growing district than a declining district,” Funk said. “We’re able to give our employees raises without having to lay people off, and expand our programming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"39\">Vallejo City Unified saw one of the sharpest enrollment drops in the Bay Area — losing 43.6% of its students between 2000 and 2019, and another 8.7% over 2019 through 2021. That resulted in the district having to make $29 million in budget cuts, and to closing or consolidating six campuses since 2017, said district spokesperson Celina Baguiao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"40\">Vallejo City Unified started to see declining enrollment in the 1990s going into the 2000s and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/How-Vallejo-school-district-got-itself-60-2710782.php\" data-reader-unique-id=\"41\">went into state receivership\u003c/a> in 2004 after finding itself millions in debt. Then came the Great Recession. The working-class city of 120,000 people was one of the country’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2011/08/17/vallejo-still-among-top-us-cities-with-home-foreclosures/\">cities hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/18/AR2008101801964.html\">it declared bankruptcy in 2008\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"44\">The district still owes $9 million on the state’s $60 million loan, Baguiao said. Paying off the debt with an even tighter budget due to enrollment loss makes it harder to fund the things that could improve schools and draw more students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"45\">“As we continue to pay the loan off, we have the extra financial burden to consider when expanding programs and hiring,” Baguiao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"46\">As Vallejo schools’ budgets tightened, charter schools drew students from district schools. According to state enrollment data, the city’s six independent charter schools have grown by nearly 84% since 2014, adding a total of 1,099 students over that time while district enrollment shrank by 24.7%, or 3,378 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"47\">\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/a-new-chapter-for-charter-schools-in-california-as-enrollment-drops-for-first-time-in-3-decades/670868\">\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"49\">Charter school enrollment\u003c/span>\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"50\"> \u003c/span>throughout the Bay Area\u003c/a> more than doubled between 2009 and 2021, from 36,810 to 82,875.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"51\">The other two Bay Area districts with the highest rates of enrollment decrease over the past 20 years are Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto and Alum Rock Union Elementary in San José. Both districts have had to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/09/east-palo-alto-ravenswood-schools-to-close-two-elementary-schools/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"52\">close schools\u003c/a> in recent years to adjust to the \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/alum-rock-union-school-district-to-close-san-jose-schools/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"53\">funding loss\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"54\">Some of Vallejo City Unified’s high rate of enrollment loss also can be attributed to families leaving the Bay Area over the region’s high cost of living, Baguiao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"55\">“While the median-priced home is cheaper in Vallejo than in many of our neighboring cities, it still costs a lot of money to live in this area,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"56\">Vallejo City Unified and most other districts haven’t researched where departing families are moving to. West Contra Costa Unified, however, has managed to track where some families are going. In a \u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"57\">report\u003c/span> presented at Wednesday night’s school board meeting, the district found that slightly more than half of the 1,206 students that left the district last year went to a different district, while about 14% enrolled in charters, 13% enrolled outside the state and 8% enrolled in private schools. The students enrolled in neighboring Vallejo City Unified and Oakland Unified, as well as Antioch Unified farther east in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"58\">Of the 539 students who have already filed transfer requests to districts next year, 76% are going to neighboring Albany Unified and Berkeley Unified school districts. Others are going elsewhere in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"59\">West Contra Costa Unified itself saw an enrollment drop of 18.5% between 2000 and 2019. Nearby Oakland Unified lost more than 30% of its enrollment during that period, while expenses increased. Oakland Unified’s decades-long budget woes prompted the district’s school board, in February, to approve a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/oakland-students-teachers-community-to-fight-11-school-closures-mergers-reductions/667243\" data-reader-unique-id=\"60\">close, consolidate and merge 11 schools\u003c/a> to adjust to the enrollment drop. The decision was met with hunger strikes and other ongoing protests and actions by members of the community and the local teachers union, the Oakland Education Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"61\">The Bay Area’s largest district, San Francisco Unified, saw a 10% enrollment drop between 2000 and 2019. The city had an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/census-sf-population/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"62\">influx of new residents\u003c/a> during that time, but the number of households with children decreased. In a \u003ca href=\"https://default.sfplanning.org/publications_reports/Family_Friendly_Briefing_01-17-17_FINAL.pdf\" data-reader-unique-id=\"63\">2017 policy brief\u003c/a>, County Supervisor Norman Yee chalked it up to a lack of affordable family housing, making the city less desirable than other Bay Area cities for incoming families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"64\">Districts like those that serve higher percentages of students from lower-income families could suffer another major financial hit next year, Funk pointed out. Fewer families are submitting household income forms to their districts, he said, because the forms are no longer required to access free school meals now that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/free-school-meals-here-to-stay-in-california/658564\">California is providing free meals to all students\u003c/a>. That will inevitably reduce the amount of supplemental funds districts qualify for under the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2016/local-control-funding-formula-guide-lcff/89272\" data-reader-unique-id=\"66\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"67\">“It’s a double whammy,” Funk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11 a.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College of San Francisco's Board of Trustees finalized 38 faculty layoffs to address a looming budget deficit during a special meeting Friday night. Another 12 faculty are retiring and won't be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that may not be the full count of teachers dropped by the school: At least 150 part-timers may not be hired back to the college as part of a state mechanism that mandates part-timers not take the place of laid-off full-time faculty, the teachers' union says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while those aren't technically layoffs, those teachers will be out of a job all the same. Many have worked at the college for years — for some, decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913429\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tent sits next to demonstrators listening to speakers at a rally outside a large administrative building\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty and students gather outside Conlan Hall at CCSF to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Faculty have been camping there to protest layoffs since Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All week, faculty and student supporters tried to hold back the tidal wave of layoffs: On Sunday, City College of San Francisco faculty marched for May Day; on Tuesday they camped in tents in front of their administration's offices; and on Thursday, 10 protesters were arrested after blocking a street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday night, the tsunami of cuts washed over them, all the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 360 faculty tuned in to the virtual City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees meeting Friday afternoon, including Denise Selleck, who has taught English as a second language classes at the college since 1991. Those classes primarily serve San Francisco's many immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your decision today not only affects the 38 tenured instructors who will lose their jobs, it also affects the dozens of part-timers who you will make unemployed,\" Selleck said, during public comment. \"And it will affect the thousands of students who will not be able to get the classes that they want and need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English teacher Monica Bosson put the cuts in simpler terms to the Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's absolutely gut-wrenching,\" Bosson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five trustees voted to approve the cuts, with trustee Alan Wong casting a nay vote. A student trustee also cast a nay vote, though student trustee votes are only advisory. Board trustee Shanell Williams disagreed with criticism from the hundreds of faculty attending the virtual meeting that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the decimation of our college. There are mechanisms for rehiring and there are pathways for growth,” Williams said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Denise Selleck, ESL teacher\"]'Your decision today not only affects the 38 tenured instructors who will lose their jobs, it also affects the dozens of part-timers who you will make unemployed ... And it will affect the thousands of students who will not be able to get the classes that they want and need.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday's meeting, Chancellor David Martin called the layoffs a \"very difficult situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, \"this is the best path to move forward in allowing us to spend our resources in a way that best meets the students' needs into the future,\" he said. \"We do need to readjust our financial structure, not only by increasing our reserves in excess of 5%, but we also have funding needs such as scheduled maintenance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin told those in attendance that the college also has to balance paying basic needs like fixing boilers or renewing computers, and that layoffs were the only way to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Bravewoman, president-elect of AFT 2121, the City College of San Francisco teachers' union, told KQED that the trustees' vote shook the faith of college faculty, who had been working with the city of San Francisco to raise new revenues to stave off cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With four of the trustee seats open for election this November, AFT 2121 says they're now seeking to replace the trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My message all week long has been loud and clear: Your 'yes' vote on these layoffs is our 'no' vote in November,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoffs follow various faculty rallies over the last week, including the arrest of 10 faculty members at City College of San Francisco Thursday evening by San Francisco police during a protest against the layoffs at CCSF's Ocean campus, according to AFT Local 2121, the union that represents CCSF faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesperson said officers arrested and cited 11 protesters for failing to obey a peace officer and for being pedestrians outside of a crosswalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913417\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"demonstrator wearing a mask stands and is handcuffed by police holding zip ties as other demonstrators remain seated in foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD officers arrest a demonstrator who had been sitting on Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to City College of San Francisco's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also isn't the first time City College of San Francisco has warned layoffs were on the way. Last year, the college voted to suspend layoffs of some 160 faculty, but the Board of Trustees warned that new funding would need to be identified to stem future cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a one-year deal. And City College will continue to have a structural budget deficit and funding gap,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872984/ccsf-approves-plan-to-avoid-layoffs-sf-mulls-permanent-fund-for-threatened-classes\">City College Board Trustee Alan Wong told KQED in May last year\u003c/a>. \"Immediately after approving this tentative agreement, we must turn our attention to long-term funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College's woes began during its 2013 accreditation crisis — which infamously threatened its closure — and sent its\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/104635/city-college-of-san-francisco-enrollment-plunges-after-accreditation-loss\"> enrollment into a spiral\u003c/a> from which it never fully recovered, teachers say. [aside postID=\"news_11908747\" label=\"Related Post\"]Fewer students means fewer dollars to pay for teachers, and the college is now facing \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/city-college-faculty-stage-sleep-in-ahead-of-layoff-vote/\">a $5.8 million deficit in its 2025-2026 fiscal year\u003c/a>, according to The SF Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the start of new programs like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/paying-college/free-city\">Free City College\u003c/a>, which offers free tuition to San Francisco residents, other factors soon compounded the existing drop in student population, including a statewide community college enrollment plunge during the pandemic. A CalMatters analysis found that, at 42 out of 116 California community colleges, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/03/community-college-enrollment/\">more students left in the fall of 2021 than in the fall of 2020\u003c/a>. That comprised a statewide loss of more than 300,000 students, which California tried to correct by spending an extra $120 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of unions has tried to pitch tax proposals to stem the gap, including Service Employees International Union 1021, which also represents City College of San Francisco workers and\u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu1021.org/article/coalition-sf-city-college-unions-urge-mayor-breed-support-revenue-measure-restore-improve?link_id=2&can_id=8a6d4c2c56a332e581114be9f7773d13&source=email-important-updates-on-the-fight-to-defend-ccsf-3&email_referrer=email_1526655&email_subject=join-the-ccsf-community-sunday-at-may-day-rally-campaign-updates\"> met with Mayor London Breed in February to propose new tax mechanisms to raise dollars for CCSF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bravewoman said those efforts are ongoing. Right now, it looks like the funding mechanism may be a parcel tax that's shaped to affect new home buyers, as opposed to existing homeowners, that may raise as much as $45 million a year. Polling shows strong support for the measure, she said. The unions will soon begin the signature-gathering effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're confident we'll be successful at the polls,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3qTKYyaCBdZQxFcITEZ8ICcB2HesJAf/edit\">recent cuts are striking departments of all sorts\u003c/a>, affecting everything from workforce training courses like aircraft maintenance and auto mechanics, to classes needed to transfer to four-year schools, like chemistry and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pink slips — layoff notices — already have been mailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold large yellow banner sign reading 'board of trustees meet students needs'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCSF teachers and students block Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to CCSF's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the May Day rally and march in San Francisco on Sunday, City College faculty who'd been served with pink slips spoke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golnar Afshar, a full-time biotechnology teacher, told KQED she got her pink slip in February. Afshar is one of only three faculty in the biotechnology program. Now those students will have fewer classes available to complete their learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Afshar's students are older and changing their careers. They have bachelor's degrees but need to fulfill hands-on training experience to get laboratory jobs — a highly sought-after career path in the Bay Area, which Afshar called \"the Mecca of biotechnology in the world.\" Now those students may have a tougher path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no idea what's going to happen,\" she said. \"If the classes are canceled, the students will not be able to finish up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for Afshar, who is 55 and was looking toward retirement in the next decade, \"I'm just going to have to start looking for a job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman wearing black union shirt speaks into megaphone while supporters on either side of her raise fists in support\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathe Burick, a former dance instructor at CCSF, speaks outside Conlan Hall to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Burick was one of 10 faculty members arrested by SFPD at the protest. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two women and a young girl stand in front of a CCSF sign holding a drum and their own protest sign reading 'from CCSF to OUSD, stop school cuts and closures'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Arlene Bugayong, Ella Rose, 6, and Sarah June Harris protest layoffs at CCSF, on May 5, 2022. Bugayong is a counselor at the school and received a pink slip, or layoff notice, earlier this week. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Annelise Finney, Haley Gray and David Marks contributed to this report.\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>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11 a.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College of San Francisco's Board of Trustees finalized 38 faculty layoffs to address a looming budget deficit during a special meeting Friday night. Another 12 faculty are retiring and won't be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that may not be the full count of teachers dropped by the school: At least 150 part-timers may not be hired back to the college as part of a state mechanism that mandates part-timers not take the place of laid-off full-time faculty, the teachers' union says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while those aren't technically layoffs, those teachers will be out of a job all the same. Many have worked at the college for years — for some, decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913429\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tent sits next to demonstrators listening to speakers at a rally outside a large administrative building\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty and students gather outside Conlan Hall at CCSF to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Faculty have been camping there to protest layoffs since Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All week, faculty and student supporters tried to hold back the tidal wave of layoffs: On Sunday, City College of San Francisco faculty marched for May Day; on Tuesday they camped in tents in front of their administration's offices; and on Thursday, 10 protesters were arrested after blocking a street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday night, the tsunami of cuts washed over them, all the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 360 faculty tuned in to the virtual City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees meeting Friday afternoon, including Denise Selleck, who has taught English as a second language classes at the college since 1991. Those classes primarily serve San Francisco's many immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your decision today not only affects the 38 tenured instructors who will lose their jobs, it also affects the dozens of part-timers who you will make unemployed,\" Selleck said, during public comment. \"And it will affect the thousands of students who will not be able to get the classes that they want and need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English teacher Monica Bosson put the cuts in simpler terms to the Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's absolutely gut-wrenching,\" Bosson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five trustees voted to approve the cuts, with trustee Alan Wong casting a nay vote. A student trustee also cast a nay vote, though student trustee votes are only advisory. Board trustee Shanell Williams disagreed with criticism from the hundreds of faculty attending the virtual meeting that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the decimation of our college. There are mechanisms for rehiring and there are pathways for growth,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday's meeting, Chancellor David Martin called the layoffs a \"very difficult situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, \"this is the best path to move forward in allowing us to spend our resources in a way that best meets the students' needs into the future,\" he said. \"We do need to readjust our financial structure, not only by increasing our reserves in excess of 5%, but we also have funding needs such as scheduled maintenance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin told those in attendance that the college also has to balance paying basic needs like fixing boilers or renewing computers, and that layoffs were the only way to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Bravewoman, president-elect of AFT 2121, the City College of San Francisco teachers' union, told KQED that the trustees' vote shook the faith of college faculty, who had been working with the city of San Francisco to raise new revenues to stave off cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With four of the trustee seats open for election this November, AFT 2121 says they're now seeking to replace the trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My message all week long has been loud and clear: Your 'yes' vote on these layoffs is our 'no' vote in November,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoffs follow various faculty rallies over the last week, including the arrest of 10 faculty members at City College of San Francisco Thursday evening by San Francisco police during a protest against the layoffs at CCSF's Ocean campus, according to AFT Local 2121, the union that represents CCSF faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesperson said officers arrested and cited 11 protesters for failing to obey a peace officer and for being pedestrians outside of a crosswalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913417\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"demonstrator wearing a mask stands and is handcuffed by police holding zip ties as other demonstrators remain seated in foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD officers arrest a demonstrator who had been sitting on Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to City College of San Francisco's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also isn't the first time City College of San Francisco has warned layoffs were on the way. Last year, the college voted to suspend layoffs of some 160 faculty, but the Board of Trustees warned that new funding would need to be identified to stem future cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a one-year deal. And City College will continue to have a structural budget deficit and funding gap,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872984/ccsf-approves-plan-to-avoid-layoffs-sf-mulls-permanent-fund-for-threatened-classes\">City College Board Trustee Alan Wong told KQED in May last year\u003c/a>. \"Immediately after approving this tentative agreement, we must turn our attention to long-term funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College's woes began during its 2013 accreditation crisis — which infamously threatened its closure — and sent its\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/104635/city-college-of-san-francisco-enrollment-plunges-after-accreditation-loss\"> enrollment into a spiral\u003c/a> from which it never fully recovered, teachers say. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fewer students means fewer dollars to pay for teachers, and the college is now facing \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/city-college-faculty-stage-sleep-in-ahead-of-layoff-vote/\">a $5.8 million deficit in its 2025-2026 fiscal year\u003c/a>, according to The SF Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the start of new programs like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/paying-college/free-city\">Free City College\u003c/a>, which offers free tuition to San Francisco residents, other factors soon compounded the existing drop in student population, including a statewide community college enrollment plunge during the pandemic. A CalMatters analysis found that, at 42 out of 116 California community colleges, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/03/community-college-enrollment/\">more students left in the fall of 2021 than in the fall of 2020\u003c/a>. That comprised a statewide loss of more than 300,000 students, which California tried to correct by spending an extra $120 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of unions has tried to pitch tax proposals to stem the gap, including Service Employees International Union 1021, which also represents City College of San Francisco workers and\u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu1021.org/article/coalition-sf-city-college-unions-urge-mayor-breed-support-revenue-measure-restore-improve?link_id=2&can_id=8a6d4c2c56a332e581114be9f7773d13&source=email-important-updates-on-the-fight-to-defend-ccsf-3&email_referrer=email_1526655&email_subject=join-the-ccsf-community-sunday-at-may-day-rally-campaign-updates\"> met with Mayor London Breed in February to propose new tax mechanisms to raise dollars for CCSF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bravewoman said those efforts are ongoing. Right now, it looks like the funding mechanism may be a parcel tax that's shaped to affect new home buyers, as opposed to existing homeowners, that may raise as much as $45 million a year. Polling shows strong support for the measure, she said. The unions will soon begin the signature-gathering effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're confident we'll be successful at the polls,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3qTKYyaCBdZQxFcITEZ8ICcB2HesJAf/edit\">recent cuts are striking departments of all sorts\u003c/a>, affecting everything from workforce training courses like aircraft maintenance and auto mechanics, to classes needed to transfer to four-year schools, like chemistry and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pink slips — layoff notices — already have been mailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold large yellow banner sign reading 'board of trustees meet students needs'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCSF teachers and students block Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to CCSF's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the May Day rally and march in San Francisco on Sunday, City College faculty who'd been served with pink slips spoke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golnar Afshar, a full-time biotechnology teacher, told KQED she got her pink slip in February. Afshar is one of only three faculty in the biotechnology program. Now those students will have fewer classes available to complete their learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Afshar's students are older and changing their careers. They have bachelor's degrees but need to fulfill hands-on training experience to get laboratory jobs — a highly sought-after career path in the Bay Area, which Afshar called \"the Mecca of biotechnology in the world.\" Now those students may have a tougher path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no idea what's going to happen,\" she said. \"If the classes are canceled, the students will not be able to finish up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for Afshar, who is 55 and was looking toward retirement in the next decade, \"I'm just going to have to start looking for a job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman wearing black union shirt speaks into megaphone while supporters on either side of her raise fists in support\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathe Burick, a former dance instructor at CCSF, speaks outside Conlan Hall to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Burick was one of 10 faculty members arrested by SFPD at the protest. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two women and a young girl stand in front of a CCSF sign holding a drum and their own protest sign reading 'from CCSF to OUSD, stop school cuts and closures'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Arlene Bugayong, Ella Rose, 6, and Sarah June Harris protest layoffs at CCSF, on May 5, 2022. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update Friday, June 24: The decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was announced on June 24, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>California guarantees the right to abortion in statute and the state constitution. Our state’s abortion laws are the strongest in the United States. Both officials and abortion providers have made it very clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917111/even-without-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-still-legal-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">abortion access in California will not change\u003c/a> because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Read more about the overturning of Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California abortion clinics are building new facilities closer to transit hubs and training more staff. A package of a dozen abortion rights bills moving through the Legislature could expand the number of providers, provide financial assistance to patients traveling to California to terminate their pregnancies, and legally protect the doctors who treat them.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jodi Hicks, president and CEO, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California\"]‘People from across the country are already looking to California as a haven state, as a beacon to provide them the care they need.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As new restrictions rapidly sweep the country in anticipation of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this summer that may dramatically scale back or even end the constitutional right to abortion, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/\">California is preparing to step into the void\u003c/a> — and welcome a possible surge of patients losing access in dozens of other states. Politico released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\">draft majority opinion\u003c/a> written by Justice Samuel Alito that calls for overturning Roe v. Wade and the constitutional abortion rights that were maintained under the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the draft opinion, Alito wrote, “We hold that \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Casey\u003c/em> must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Casey\u003c/em> now chiefly rely – the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, justices can change, and have changed, their votes on major decisions where multiple drafts have been created. The Supreme Court’s decision will not be final until it is published, more than likely sometime in the next two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the leaked draft opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed its authenticity and directed the Supreme Court marshal to investigate how such a leak occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096123185/supreme-court-john-roberts-roe-wade\">said Roberts in a statement\u003c/a>. “The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People from across the country are already looking to California as a haven state, as a beacon to provide them the care they need,” Jodi Hicks, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said during a recent online program. “It is our moral imperative that we continue to provide the leadership that people are looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood, which operates about half of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ansirh.org/abortion-facility-database\">165 abortion clinics in California\u003c/a>, reports that it has treated at least 80 out-of-state patients per month on average since September, when Texas adopted a law allowing residents to seek civil damages against anyone who aids an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move turbocharged a political and cultural battle that has all but cut off abortion access in the most conservative parts of the country in recent years and sent advocates in liberal states scrambling to build a bulwark for reproductive rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to secure an injunction against the Texas law while courts consider the legality of the novel attempt to circumvent Roe v. Wade — the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that protected the right to an abortion without excessive government restriction — clinics in the state shut down to avoid a deluge of lawsuits. \u003ca href=\"https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2022/03/07/about-1-400-texans-seeking-out-of-state-abortions-per-month--ut-austin-study-says-\">Thousands of patients are now seeking abortions elsewhere\u003c/a>, overwhelming neighboring Oklahoma and New Mexico and pushing some people further afield to more friendly states, including California.[aside postID=\"news_11909017,arts_13911818,forum_2010101888660\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“The need right now of expanding access is pretty clear to all of us,” state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins told reporters last month. The San Diego Democrat is carrying \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1375\">Senate Bill 1375\u003c/a>, which would allow some nurse practitioners to independently perform first-trimester abortions without a doctor’s supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting ready for more patients\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sue Dunlap, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, said she has been preparing for years for the moment when the organization would have to become a haven for patients from all over the country who have nowhere else to turn for an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has included expanding and reorganizing its network of facilities — so that they are near airports and bus and train stations — and of supportive emergency rooms and medical providers. Dunlap said she worked with UCLA’s law school to establish a \u003ca href=\"https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF06954\">new center for the study of reproductive health law and policy\u003c/a>. Planned Parenthood Los Angeles also collaborates with medical schools across the country on abortion training, particularly in states where those opportunities might not otherwise exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunlap declined to provide data on how many out-of-state patients the organization serves, arguing that the numbers would not fully reflect the situation because of the secrecy and fear surrounding abortion. But she noted that Los Angeles, as a center of tourism and commerce, has long been a \u003ca href=\"https://online.ucpress.edu/ch/article/99/1/10/120152/Abortion-and-the-Law-in-CaliforniaLessons-for\">destination for people seeking abortions\u003c/a> — even before it was legal, when patients often crossed the border to Mexico for the procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Angeles is a place that people identify with ideas of freedoms,” Dunlap said. “Los Angeles is also a place that, when you don’t know where to go, you come here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who do come “are almost always in incredibly desperate situations,” she added, and many have more challenging circumstances and complications than in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunlap mentioned a pregnant woman from Texas who was diagnosed with breast cancer, necessitating a double mastectomy. Though the woman did not want to terminate her pregnancy, Dunlap said, she had to travel to one of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles’s clinics in recent months because she could not get an abortion in her own state — and could not get the double mastectomy if she were pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which covers Northern and Central California and Northern Nevada, said it treated 66 out-of-state patients at its California clinics between September and March, including 22 patients from Texas. One of them was a college student who was prepared to use her scholarship money to fly to California until it provided her with a voucher, according to an anonymous patient testimony shared by the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Oklahoma and other states on the verge of shutting down abortion access as well, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte President and CEO Stacy Cross said the organization is preparing to take on between 250 and 500 more patients per week in its network of facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medication abortion is now available at all of its sites. Clinics are hiring more staff and making sure any medical providers who are licensed to perform abortions have the necessary training, even if they specialize in one of the other services Planned Parenthood offers, so they can schedule more appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next month, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte plans to break ground on a new, larger facility in Reno that is closer to the airport. Cross wants to add a second site in northern Nevada for what she anticipates will soon be more patients coming from Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work is personal for Cross: Both of her grandmothers died from a lack of access to reproductive care — one from an illegal abortion and the other in childbirth, delivering her ninth child at age 47, she said. She worries that Californians don’t fully understand how quickly and fully abortion access could shut down across the country if the Supreme Court reverses the Roe decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I even say those words out loud, it sends a chill down my back. It’s horrific to think about,” Cross said. But California has done an amazing job preparing: “We fill the gaps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Divide deepens between red and blue states\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those gaps are almost certain to widen in the months to come. Spurred on by the success of the Texas law, anti-abortion legislators across America are racing to advance new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a one-week stretch this month, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/desantis-signs-abortion-ban-florida/index.html\">ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy\u003c/a>; GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma signed a bill making it \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-oklahoma-law-87880e9f3c7bde2ae634cb2f02839e6e\">a felony to perform an abortion in the state\u003c/a>, punishable by up to 10 years in prison; and Republican legislators in Kentucky overrode a governor’s veto on a measure to impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-general-assembly/2022/04/15/new-kentucky-abortion-law-ky-only-state-without-abortion-services/7330408001/\">broad new requirements on abortion providers\u003c/a> that they say make it impossible for them to continue operating. A federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-business-health-kentucky-legislature-eda1b6c68c636e753be8032c715bde45?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP\">temporarily blocked the Kentucky law\u003c/a> on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many of the policies are currently unconstitutional, conservative states are laying the groundwork in anticipation that the Supreme Court will soon uphold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/01/us/abortion-mississippi-supreme-court\">Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy\u003c/a>. A decision on that case is expected by June, and some experts believe the justices will take the opportunity to overturn the Roe ruling altogether, which would trigger \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2021/10/26-states-are-certain-or-likely-ban-abortion-without-roe-heres-which-ones-and-why\">near or complete bans on abortion in about half of states\u003c/a>, including Arizona, which neighbors California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberal states are responding with their own measures to protect the right to abortion in law, and to increase access to accommodate a potential influx of patients from beyond their borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Vermont voters will decide whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2022-02-08/proposed-constitutional-amendment-protecting-reproductive-liberty-heads-to-vt-voters\">amend the state constitution\u003c/a> to enshrine reproductive autonomy, while Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is trying to circumvent her state’s Republican-controlled Legislature by asking the state Supreme Court to \u003ca href=\"https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/04/07/michigan-abortion-law-ban-gretchen-whitmer-supreme-court/9485031002/\">overturn a pre-Roe abortion ban\u003c/a> that is still on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon recently approved a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/idaho-abortion-ban-oregon-reproductive-funding/283-4c696054-7b49-48ea-b7e2-a9639d47d47e\">$15 million fund that could provide financial assistance to patients\u003c/a>, including those from outside the state, who need help paying for abortion fees and other costs. Washington adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/washington-state-governor-signs-bill-that-prohibits-texas-style-abortion-lawsuits\">legal protections against prosecuting people who aid an abortion or people who experience pregnancy losses\u003c/a>. Democratic legislators in Maryland overrode a veto by the Republican governor to pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-sat-hogan-overrides-20220409-pqpje5ocdvaknho7ry62a6nfve-story.html\">a bill that would require health insurance plans to cover abortions\u003c/a> and put $3.5 million toward training providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several states have adopted or are pursuing measures to expand who is authorized to perform an abortion to include other advanced medical professionals beyond doctors, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, following a move that California made more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has been on the forefront for a long time,” said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst for the Guttmacher Institute, which researches and promotes reproductive rights. “It has helped other states see what’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making California an abortion ‘sanctuary’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/\">California is pushing further still.\u003c/a> In September, after the Texas law took effect, Gov. Gavin Newsom convened the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafabcouncil.org/\">Future of Abortion Council\u003c/a>, a coalition of reproductive rights, health and justice groups, to explore how to make the state a “sanctuary” for abortion. More than 40 policy recommendations, released in December, formed the basis for the sweeping legislative package now advancing at the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved by the end of session in August and signed by Newsom, the measures would become law next year, though supporters hope some pieces might be incorporated into the state budget that must be approved by June 15. Those could kick in immediately this summer, when the Supreme Court decision on abortion is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is definitely an urgency to get some of these things in place and get prepared, because this is happening regardless of whatever timeline our Legislature is on,” said Lisa Matsubara, general counsel and vice president of policy for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, which is sponsoring or co-sponsoring most of the bills in the package. “We are doing everything we can to make sure we are as ready as we can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centerpiece is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1142\">Senate Bill 1142\u003c/a>, by Democratic Sens. Anna Caballero of Salinas and Nancy Skinner of Berkeley, which would create a state-administered fund to assist patients who face financial barriers to obtaining an abortion and support public research into improving access. Advocates are seeking $20 million from the state to launch the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2134\">Assembly Bill 2134\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Akilah Weber, a San Diego Democrat, which would set aside money for clinics that provide uncompensated care to lower-income patients whose insurance does not cover abortion and contraceptive services. Supporters argue the funding is crucial to ensure that not only wealthy patients are able to travel to California for abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Pinckney, executive director of Access Reproductive Justice, the only statewide abortion fund in California, says the bill could expand its grants to people who need help paying for their abortion, travel and lodging, lost wages, a doula or other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Oakland-based fund supported 551 patients with an average of about $300, Pinckney said, not enough to meet anybody’s full need. She also would like to do more outreach to let people know the fund exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 people the fund served were from 18 different states, Pinckney added, but most are lower-income or from one of the dozens of mostly rural counties without an abortion provider, who may need to travel hours and stay overnight for a multi-day abortion procedure in their second trimester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the state of California, there are quite a few barriers,” Pinckney said. “This is an unmet need for Californians already.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recognition that conservative states may continue to ramp up legal and financial penalties for abortions, another collection of bills aims to protect doctors who travel to other states to perform the procedure or who treat out-of-state patients: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1666\">AB 1666\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, an Orinda Democrat, would nullify civil judgments from other states related to reproductive care. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2091\">AB 2091\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Mia Bonta, an Alameda Democrat, would prohibit medical providers and health insurers from sharing information in cases that seek to penalize abortion. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2626\">AB 2626\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Lisa Calderon, a Whittier Democrat, would prevent the state medical board from suspending or revoking the license of a physician who is punished in another state for performing an abortion in accordance with California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other major legislative efforts include Atkins’s bill to allow abortions by independent nurse practitioners and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1918\">AB 1918\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, which would create a “reproductive health service corps” for underserved parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about strengthening our foundation, our health care foundation, to expand the pool of health care professionals who can provide abortions,” Atkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Last stand for anti-abortion activists?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/#9f19d20d-aa0d-463f-a93f-1f63820093df\">measures are moving through the legislative process\u003c/a> so far with widespread support from the overwhelmingly Democratic lawmakers, and seem likely to be approved if they reach the governor’s desk. Newsom already signed a law last month that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/03/22/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-eliminate-out-of-pocket-costs-for-abortion-services/\">prohibits health insurers from charging a co-pay or deductible for abortions\u003c/a>, thus eliminating out-of-pocket costs for covered patients. He pledged that California would continue to “protect and advance reproductive freedom for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the bills have not been entirely without controversy. Hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/04/abortion-rights-covid-protests/\">protesters gathered at the Capitol last week\u003c/a> to oppose \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2223\">AB 2223\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, an Oakland Democrat, which would end a requirement that coroners investigate the cause of fetal deaths resulting from suspected self-induced abortions, clarify that people cannot be held criminally or civilly liable for their own pregnancy losses or abortions, and create an ability to sue prosecutors and others who violate that protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters holding crosses and “Babies’ Lives Matter” signs packed onto the steps of the building to hear from \u003ca href=\"https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-rally-against-california-abortion-bill.html\">Pastor Jack Hibbs of the Calvary Chapel Chino Hills megachurch\u003c/a>. Nearby, a Christian band and twirling dancers led a crowd in a worship service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the measure is necessary to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/04/coroner-investigation-stillbirths-anti-abortion/\">protect Californians from overzealous law enforcement\u003c/a> and district attorneys who may be hostile to abortion rights. They point to two Kings County women who were charged with murder and imprisoned in the past five years after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/criminal-justice/2022/02/stillbirth-prison-manslaughter/\">both delivered stillbirths and tested positive for methamphetamine\u003c/a>, in what Attorney General Rob Bonta has called a misapplication of the state criminal code. Advocates argue that fear of prosecution may deter some patients from seeking necessary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-800x534.png\" alt='A crowd marches forward holding signs that read \"Save lives No AB 2223.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-1536x1025.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM.png 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors gather to rally against Assembly Bill 2223 at the state Capitol in Sacramento on April 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But critics of the Wicks bill highlight a provision that states women cannot be penalized for “perinatal death due to a pregnancy-related cause,” referring to a baby who dies in an undefined period immediately after birth, which they contend is so vague as to legalize infanticide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is trying to really tear down one of the few restrictions that California does have when it comes to terminating pregnancies, and that is the actual point of delivery,” Jonathan Keller, president of the religious advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafamily.org/\">California Family Council\u003c/a>, said following the Capitol rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wicks has vehemently denied that’s what the measure would or is intended to do, Keller said, “Intentions don’t matter. It’s actual legislative text that matters.” He added that the outrage has helped his group organize broader and more fervent opposition to the abortion legislation than it has managed in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do think that many of the bills in this package are actually out of step with the state of California,” Keller said, including the fund to help out-of-state patients travel to California for abortion care. He calls it “abortion tourism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His claims have been picked up by the Republican National Committee, which issued a statement denouncing Wicks’s bill and calling abortion “murder,” but seem unlikely to gain much traction in the Democrat-dominated Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the first committee hearing for the bill, following the rally, only one legislator questioned Wicks, who slammed her opponents’ tactics: “These same groups that are trying to ban abortion across this country and imprison people for stillbirths have manufactured a disinformation campaign using disturbing and violent imagery that is not grounded in medical science or the text of the bill,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite nearly an hour of testimony from opponents, the bill sailed through on an 11-3 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original version of this story was published on April 25, 2022.\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>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update Friday, June 24: The decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was announced on June 24, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>California guarantees the right to abortion in statute and the state constitution. Our state’s abortion laws are the strongest in the United States. Both officials and abortion providers have made it very clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917111/even-without-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-still-legal-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">abortion access in California will not change\u003c/a> because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Read more about the overturning of Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California abortion clinics are building new facilities closer to transit hubs and training more staff. A package of a dozen abortion rights bills moving through the Legislature could expand the number of providers, provide financial assistance to patients traveling to California to terminate their pregnancies, and legally protect the doctors who treat them.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As new restrictions rapidly sweep the country in anticipation of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this summer that may dramatically scale back or even end the constitutional right to abortion, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/\">California is preparing to step into the void\u003c/a> — and welcome a possible surge of patients losing access in dozens of other states. Politico released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\">draft majority opinion\u003c/a> written by Justice Samuel Alito that calls for overturning Roe v. Wade and the constitutional abortion rights that were maintained under the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the draft opinion, Alito wrote, “We hold that \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Casey\u003c/em> must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Casey\u003c/em> now chiefly rely – the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, justices can change, and have changed, their votes on major decisions where multiple drafts have been created. The Supreme Court’s decision will not be final until it is published, more than likely sometime in the next two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the leaked draft opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed its authenticity and directed the Supreme Court marshal to investigate how such a leak occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096123185/supreme-court-john-roberts-roe-wade\">said Roberts in a statement\u003c/a>. “The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People from across the country are already looking to California as a haven state, as a beacon to provide them the care they need,” Jodi Hicks, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said during a recent online program. “It is our moral imperative that we continue to provide the leadership that people are looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood, which operates about half of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ansirh.org/abortion-facility-database\">165 abortion clinics in California\u003c/a>, reports that it has treated at least 80 out-of-state patients per month on average since September, when Texas adopted a law allowing residents to seek civil damages against anyone who aids an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move turbocharged a political and cultural battle that has all but cut off abortion access in the most conservative parts of the country in recent years and sent advocates in liberal states scrambling to build a bulwark for reproductive rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to secure an injunction against the Texas law while courts consider the legality of the novel attempt to circumvent Roe v. Wade — the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that protected the right to an abortion without excessive government restriction — clinics in the state shut down to avoid a deluge of lawsuits. \u003ca href=\"https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2022/03/07/about-1-400-texans-seeking-out-of-state-abortions-per-month--ut-austin-study-says-\">Thousands of patients are now seeking abortions elsewhere\u003c/a>, overwhelming neighboring Oklahoma and New Mexico and pushing some people further afield to more friendly states, including California.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The need right now of expanding access is pretty clear to all of us,” state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins told reporters last month. The San Diego Democrat is carrying \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1375\">Senate Bill 1375\u003c/a>, which would allow some nurse practitioners to independently perform first-trimester abortions without a doctor’s supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting ready for more patients\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sue Dunlap, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, said she has been preparing for years for the moment when the organization would have to become a haven for patients from all over the country who have nowhere else to turn for an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has included expanding and reorganizing its network of facilities — so that they are near airports and bus and train stations — and of supportive emergency rooms and medical providers. Dunlap said she worked with UCLA’s law school to establish a \u003ca href=\"https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF06954\">new center for the study of reproductive health law and policy\u003c/a>. Planned Parenthood Los Angeles also collaborates with medical schools across the country on abortion training, particularly in states where those opportunities might not otherwise exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunlap declined to provide data on how many out-of-state patients the organization serves, arguing that the numbers would not fully reflect the situation because of the secrecy and fear surrounding abortion. But she noted that Los Angeles, as a center of tourism and commerce, has long been a \u003ca href=\"https://online.ucpress.edu/ch/article/99/1/10/120152/Abortion-and-the-Law-in-CaliforniaLessons-for\">destination for people seeking abortions\u003c/a> — even before it was legal, when patients often crossed the border to Mexico for the procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Angeles is a place that people identify with ideas of freedoms,” Dunlap said. “Los Angeles is also a place that, when you don’t know where to go, you come here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who do come “are almost always in incredibly desperate situations,” she added, and many have more challenging circumstances and complications than in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunlap mentioned a pregnant woman from Texas who was diagnosed with breast cancer, necessitating a double mastectomy. Though the woman did not want to terminate her pregnancy, Dunlap said, she had to travel to one of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles’s clinics in recent months because she could not get an abortion in her own state — and could not get the double mastectomy if she were pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which covers Northern and Central California and Northern Nevada, said it treated 66 out-of-state patients at its California clinics between September and March, including 22 patients from Texas. One of them was a college student who was prepared to use her scholarship money to fly to California until it provided her with a voucher, according to an anonymous patient testimony shared by the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Oklahoma and other states on the verge of shutting down abortion access as well, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte President and CEO Stacy Cross said the organization is preparing to take on between 250 and 500 more patients per week in its network of facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medication abortion is now available at all of its sites. Clinics are hiring more staff and making sure any medical providers who are licensed to perform abortions have the necessary training, even if they specialize in one of the other services Planned Parenthood offers, so they can schedule more appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next month, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte plans to break ground on a new, larger facility in Reno that is closer to the airport. Cross wants to add a second site in northern Nevada for what she anticipates will soon be more patients coming from Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work is personal for Cross: Both of her grandmothers died from a lack of access to reproductive care — one from an illegal abortion and the other in childbirth, delivering her ninth child at age 47, she said. She worries that Californians don’t fully understand how quickly and fully abortion access could shut down across the country if the Supreme Court reverses the Roe decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I even say those words out loud, it sends a chill down my back. It’s horrific to think about,” Cross said. But California has done an amazing job preparing: “We fill the gaps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Divide deepens between red and blue states\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those gaps are almost certain to widen in the months to come. Spurred on by the success of the Texas law, anti-abortion legislators across America are racing to advance new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a one-week stretch this month, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/desantis-signs-abortion-ban-florida/index.html\">ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy\u003c/a>; GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma signed a bill making it \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-oklahoma-law-87880e9f3c7bde2ae634cb2f02839e6e\">a felony to perform an abortion in the state\u003c/a>, punishable by up to 10 years in prison; and Republican legislators in Kentucky overrode a governor’s veto on a measure to impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-general-assembly/2022/04/15/new-kentucky-abortion-law-ky-only-state-without-abortion-services/7330408001/\">broad new requirements on abortion providers\u003c/a> that they say make it impossible for them to continue operating. A federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-business-health-kentucky-legislature-eda1b6c68c636e753be8032c715bde45?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP\">temporarily blocked the Kentucky law\u003c/a> on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many of the policies are currently unconstitutional, conservative states are laying the groundwork in anticipation that the Supreme Court will soon uphold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/01/us/abortion-mississippi-supreme-court\">Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy\u003c/a>. A decision on that case is expected by June, and some experts believe the justices will take the opportunity to overturn the Roe ruling altogether, which would trigger \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2021/10/26-states-are-certain-or-likely-ban-abortion-without-roe-heres-which-ones-and-why\">near or complete bans on abortion in about half of states\u003c/a>, including Arizona, which neighbors California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberal states are responding with their own measures to protect the right to abortion in law, and to increase access to accommodate a potential influx of patients from beyond their borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Vermont voters will decide whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2022-02-08/proposed-constitutional-amendment-protecting-reproductive-liberty-heads-to-vt-voters\">amend the state constitution\u003c/a> to enshrine reproductive autonomy, while Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is trying to circumvent her state’s Republican-controlled Legislature by asking the state Supreme Court to \u003ca href=\"https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/04/07/michigan-abortion-law-ban-gretchen-whitmer-supreme-court/9485031002/\">overturn a pre-Roe abortion ban\u003c/a> that is still on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon recently approved a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/idaho-abortion-ban-oregon-reproductive-funding/283-4c696054-7b49-48ea-b7e2-a9639d47d47e\">$15 million fund that could provide financial assistance to patients\u003c/a>, including those from outside the state, who need help paying for abortion fees and other costs. Washington adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/washington-state-governor-signs-bill-that-prohibits-texas-style-abortion-lawsuits\">legal protections against prosecuting people who aid an abortion or people who experience pregnancy losses\u003c/a>. Democratic legislators in Maryland overrode a veto by the Republican governor to pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-sat-hogan-overrides-20220409-pqpje5ocdvaknho7ry62a6nfve-story.html\">a bill that would require health insurance plans to cover abortions\u003c/a> and put $3.5 million toward training providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several states have adopted or are pursuing measures to expand who is authorized to perform an abortion to include other advanced medical professionals beyond doctors, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, following a move that California made more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has been on the forefront for a long time,” said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst for the Guttmacher Institute, which researches and promotes reproductive rights. “It has helped other states see what’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making California an abortion ‘sanctuary’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/\">California is pushing further still.\u003c/a> In September, after the Texas law took effect, Gov. Gavin Newsom convened the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafabcouncil.org/\">Future of Abortion Council\u003c/a>, a coalition of reproductive rights, health and justice groups, to explore how to make the state a “sanctuary” for abortion. More than 40 policy recommendations, released in December, formed the basis for the sweeping legislative package now advancing at the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved by the end of session in August and signed by Newsom, the measures would become law next year, though supporters hope some pieces might be incorporated into the state budget that must be approved by June 15. Those could kick in immediately this summer, when the Supreme Court decision on abortion is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is definitely an urgency to get some of these things in place and get prepared, because this is happening regardless of whatever timeline our Legislature is on,” said Lisa Matsubara, general counsel and vice president of policy for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, which is sponsoring or co-sponsoring most of the bills in the package. “We are doing everything we can to make sure we are as ready as we can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centerpiece is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1142\">Senate Bill 1142\u003c/a>, by Democratic Sens. Anna Caballero of Salinas and Nancy Skinner of Berkeley, which would create a state-administered fund to assist patients who face financial barriers to obtaining an abortion and support public research into improving access. Advocates are seeking $20 million from the state to launch the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2134\">Assembly Bill 2134\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Akilah Weber, a San Diego Democrat, which would set aside money for clinics that provide uncompensated care to lower-income patients whose insurance does not cover abortion and contraceptive services. Supporters argue the funding is crucial to ensure that not only wealthy patients are able to travel to California for abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Pinckney, executive director of Access Reproductive Justice, the only statewide abortion fund in California, says the bill could expand its grants to people who need help paying for their abortion, travel and lodging, lost wages, a doula or other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Oakland-based fund supported 551 patients with an average of about $300, Pinckney said, not enough to meet anybody’s full need. She also would like to do more outreach to let people know the fund exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 people the fund served were from 18 different states, Pinckney added, but most are lower-income or from one of the dozens of mostly rural counties without an abortion provider, who may need to travel hours and stay overnight for a multi-day abortion procedure in their second trimester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the state of California, there are quite a few barriers,” Pinckney said. “This is an unmet need for Californians already.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recognition that conservative states may continue to ramp up legal and financial penalties for abortions, another collection of bills aims to protect doctors who travel to other states to perform the procedure or who treat out-of-state patients: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1666\">AB 1666\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, an Orinda Democrat, would nullify civil judgments from other states related to reproductive care. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2091\">AB 2091\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Mia Bonta, an Alameda Democrat, would prohibit medical providers and health insurers from sharing information in cases that seek to penalize abortion. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2626\">AB 2626\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Lisa Calderon, a Whittier Democrat, would prevent the state medical board from suspending or revoking the license of a physician who is punished in another state for performing an abortion in accordance with California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other major legislative efforts include Atkins’s bill to allow abortions by independent nurse practitioners and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1918\">AB 1918\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, which would create a “reproductive health service corps” for underserved parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about strengthening our foundation, our health care foundation, to expand the pool of health care professionals who can provide abortions,” Atkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Last stand for anti-abortion activists?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/#9f19d20d-aa0d-463f-a93f-1f63820093df\">measures are moving through the legislative process\u003c/a> so far with widespread support from the overwhelmingly Democratic lawmakers, and seem likely to be approved if they reach the governor’s desk. Newsom already signed a law last month that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/03/22/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-eliminate-out-of-pocket-costs-for-abortion-services/\">prohibits health insurers from charging a co-pay or deductible for abortions\u003c/a>, thus eliminating out-of-pocket costs for covered patients. He pledged that California would continue to “protect and advance reproductive freedom for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the bills have not been entirely without controversy. Hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/04/abortion-rights-covid-protests/\">protesters gathered at the Capitol last week\u003c/a> to oppose \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2223\">AB 2223\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, an Oakland Democrat, which would end a requirement that coroners investigate the cause of fetal deaths resulting from suspected self-induced abortions, clarify that people cannot be held criminally or civilly liable for their own pregnancy losses or abortions, and create an ability to sue prosecutors and others who violate that protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters holding crosses and “Babies’ Lives Matter” signs packed onto the steps of the building to hear from \u003ca href=\"https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-rally-against-california-abortion-bill.html\">Pastor Jack Hibbs of the Calvary Chapel Chino Hills megachurch\u003c/a>. Nearby, a Christian band and twirling dancers led a crowd in a worship service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the measure is necessary to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/04/coroner-investigation-stillbirths-anti-abortion/\">protect Californians from overzealous law enforcement\u003c/a> and district attorneys who may be hostile to abortion rights. They point to two Kings County women who were charged with murder and imprisoned in the past five years after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/criminal-justice/2022/02/stillbirth-prison-manslaughter/\">both delivered stillbirths and tested positive for methamphetamine\u003c/a>, in what Attorney General Rob Bonta has called a misapplication of the state criminal code. Advocates argue that fear of prosecution may deter some patients from seeking necessary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-800x534.png\" alt='A crowd marches forward holding signs that read \"Save lives No AB 2223.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-1536x1025.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM.png 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors gather to rally against Assembly Bill 2223 at the state Capitol in Sacramento on April 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But critics of the Wicks bill highlight a provision that states women cannot be penalized for “perinatal death due to a pregnancy-related cause,” referring to a baby who dies in an undefined period immediately after birth, which they contend is so vague as to legalize infanticide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is trying to really tear down one of the few restrictions that California does have when it comes to terminating pregnancies, and that is the actual point of delivery,” Jonathan Keller, president of the religious advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafamily.org/\">California Family Council\u003c/a>, said following the Capitol rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wicks has vehemently denied that’s what the measure would or is intended to do, Keller said, “Intentions don’t matter. It’s actual legislative text that matters.” He added that the outrage has helped his group organize broader and more fervent opposition to the abortion legislation than it has managed in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do think that many of the bills in this package are actually out of step with the state of California,” Keller said, including the fund to help out-of-state patients travel to California for abortion care. He calls it “abortion tourism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His claims have been picked up by the Republican National Committee, which issued a statement denouncing Wicks’s bill and calling abortion “murder,” but seem unlikely to gain much traction in the Democrat-dominated Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the first committee hearing for the bill, following the rally, only one legislator questioned Wicks, who slammed her opponents’ tactics: “These same groups that are trying to ban abortion across this country and imprison people for stillbirths have manufactured a disinformation campaign using disturbing and violent imagery that is not grounded in medical science or the text of the bill,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite nearly an hour of testimony from opponents, the bill sailed through on an 11-3 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original version of this story was published on April 25, 2022.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Craig Colbert mingles with parents picking up their kids outside Grass Valley Elementary’s front doors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the school’s community adviser, it’s his job to know students’ families. It helps that he grew up with some of them in this hilly green section of East Oakland, that his own son graduated from the school and that he’s worked here for a decade.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He saunters up to idling cars to chat with moms through open windows and offers dads standing on the sidewalk handshakes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What’s up, baby boy,” he says, gripping Steffen Scott Sr.’s hand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They both played basketball on the Grass Valley outdoor courts as kids. Now, Scott’s fifth grader is in his first year here. At his last school in Union City, there were hardly any Black students in his class, Scott explains, “so he couldn’t really identify with anything.” \u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Francis Pearman, education professor, Stanford University\"]‘If these school closures are promoting the further dispossession of communities of color, making them even less likely to retain their historic profile of being Black communities, then there’s broader conversations that need to be had about what these closures mean for the lifeblood of Black neighborhoods.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re a lot friendlier here,” Steffen Jr. chimes in. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Grass Valley, Steffen Jr. is surrounded by students who look like him. The comfort of familiarity has translated into greater confidence, Scott says, and he sees the difference in his son’s schoolwork. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Seeing the joy when he walks out that door, it’s everything to me,” Scott says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grass Valley, off Golf Links Road near Skyline Boulevard, enrolls the highest share of Black students — 65% — among Oakland Unified School District elementary schools. In February, the school board voted to close it next year as part of a broader downsizing plan that will shutter seven campuses. Black families will be disproportionately affected. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The decision comes less than a year after the board made a remarkable pledge to its Black students by adopting a community proposal that organizers named \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://reparationsforblackstudents.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The plan seeks to address practices, like school closures, that have helped cut the number of Black students in the district from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=n&:showVizHome=n&:origin=viz_share_link\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">25,400 in 2000-01 \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterEth.aspx?cds=0161259&agglevel=district&year=2021-22\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">7,400 this year\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In the past two decades, Oakland Unified has closed 16 majority-Black schools. That’s left few elementary schools like Grass Valley.\u003c/span>[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the board passed the Reparations for Black Students resolution in March 2021, it excluded one of the campaign’s central demands: that no majority-Black schools be considered for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under pressure to address a stubborn structural deficit, the size of which nobody seems to agree on, the board forged ahead. It did so despite the pleas of students, parents and teachers — and despite protest marches, rallies and a weeks-long hunger strike by two teachers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“For those that don’t know the power of the word ‘reparations,’ the first part of the definition is a commitment to not cause harm again,” says Pecolia Manigo Awobodu, who chairs the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/reparations\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which is charged with implementing the reparations work. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The story of this campaign is not an easy one to tell,” she continues. “It’s a story of, how do you really get a system to address its lack of commitment to the education of Black students? And how do you do it in such a way that even when there is resistance, you’re still capable of making some levels of progress?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">— \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grass Valley Elementary opened in 1953 as a set of portable classrooms with 100 students before a permanent school was built for the rapidly growing area. Throughout the 1960s, newspaper ads for nearby housing developments enticed buyers with references to the “outstanding” and “wonderful” neighborhood school. \u003c/span>[aside postID=\"news_11904278,news_11906636,news_11911675\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, teachers have taped up crayon signs in the classroom windows that say “save our school” and “Black Lives Matter.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before Colbert came to Grass Valley, he worked at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, just down the hill, until the district \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2011/10/27/ousd-board-votes-to-close-five-elementary-schools-at-a-contentious-meeting/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">closed it a decade ago\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Mostly Black students enrolled at Marshall, and the reasons district leaders gave for closing it echo those for closing Grass Valley: under-enrollment and poor test scores.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When he was packing up Thurgood Marshall’s archives, Colbert, 49, came across photos of himself as a student there in the ’80s. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I thought about the community, I thought about the kids that went there and how much they loved the school,” he says. “It was a tough deal.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a kid, he’d hitchhike up Golf Links Road after school to play basketball on the school’s courts. Many of the children he grew up with went to school there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back then, the neighborhoods close to the school were home to a mix of Black and white middle- and upper-middle-class families. Incomes dropped as you went down the hill, as did the share of white residents. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are more Latino and Asian people now, and fewer Black families. Between 2010 and 2020, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://belonging.gis-cdn.net/us_segregation_map/?year=2010&bounds=37.83%2C-121.98%2C37.65%2C-122.27&geoid=06001410000&geo=tract\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">share of Black residents\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the neighborhood surrounding the school dropped from nearly 50% to 37%, according to research from UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Having a school site where Black kids feel really valued and can be themselves is important,” says Paula Mitchell, another Marshall transplant who now runs Grass Valley’s project-based learning program. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kids play outside at school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students play during recess at Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland on April 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I purposely chose to be in a place where I could teach students that look like me because I didn’t have any Black teachers when I was growing up,” she continues, “and I just know how it would have made me feel differently in my belief in all the things I could do in the world.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About half of Grass Valley’s teachers are Black, compared to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousddata.org/announcements/fast-facts-2020-21\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">20% district-wide\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, according to school-district data. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think families feel really comfortable sending their children here knowing that we get it,” Mitchell says. “We understand what’s out there in the world and we’re doing our best to hold their kids close.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a recent study, Stanford education professor Francis Pearman \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/school-closures-and-gentrification-black-metropolis\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">found that school closures increased gentrification in Black neighborhoods\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“In an age where school districts are writing statements and promising policy in ‘defense of Black lives,’ stakeholders must consider how educational policies are contributing to the further perpetuation of the disintegration of Black communities,” Pearman writes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In his research, Pearman has identified a cyclical relationship between school closures and neighborhood change. Closing schools increases the likelihood that Black neighborhoods will gentrify. In turn, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042085919884342\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gentrification leads to lower enrollment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as families are displaced and new residents opt out of the neighborhood school or don’t have kids to enroll. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If these school closures are promoting the further dispossession of communities of color, making them even less likely to retain their historic profile of being Black communities, then there’s broader conversations that need to be had about what these closures mean for the lifeblood of Black neighborhoods,” Pearman says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On April 11, the ACLU asked Attorney General Rob Bonta to investigate Oakland’s closure plan, saying it is discriminatory and violates the rights of of Black students. On April 29, Oakland Unified teachers, including those at Grass Valley, held a one-day strike to protest the closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colbert leaves his two-story, four-bedroom home in Stockton at 6:30 a.m. to get to Grass Valley’s tree-ringed campus in time for work. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I wanted to own my own house,” he says. “But I come here every day, so Oakland is still in my heart.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About 10 Grass Valley families live outside the city, according to principal Casey Beckner, but most people leave the school behind when they move. They often leave for the Central Valley. Like Colbert, they’re relocating to become homeowners or looking for cheaper rent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pandemic has accelerated the exodus as parents put their kids in independent study or homeschool them. Public school \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/california-k-12-enrollment-plunges-again-falls-below-6-million/670111#:~:text=The%201.8%25%20enrollment%20decline%2C%20on,Covid%20struck%20in%20spring%202020.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">enrollment plummeted\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> across the state during the pandemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man and child walk past a multicolored mural of students, a bridge and an eagle.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Colbert watches students during recess at Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland on April 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Grass Valley staff blame the Thurgood Marshall closure for driving families away, too. As they tell it, transplanting the Marshall community to Grass Valley created a chain reaction of instability. The principal got burned out and left, then some teachers started chafing at the new administrator’s approach. As teachers left, more families followed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Once you start a cycle of people leaving, then you have an open door,” Colbert says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment has declined at Grass Valley four years in a row, leaving the school with 198 students. District staff say that’s too small to make the school financially sustainable. For the past 15 years, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/DQ/EnrTimeRptSch.aspx?cYear=2012-13&Level=School&cName=Grass+Valley+Elementary&cCode=6001879&dCode=0161259\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state records\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> show the school’s enrollment has hovered around 250 students, dipping as low as 177 and rising to 285 at its peak. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If one school doesn’t have enough students to generate the money to cover its costs, it hurts the whole system, says school board director Clifford Thompson, whose district includes Grass Valley. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have to use the money that [a bigger] school has generated in order to keep this other school afloat,” he says. “It’s a hard decision, but how long can you do that? It’s been done for several years, and now it’s time to really bite the bullet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">District staff have pointed out that Oakland Unified operates more schools than many larger districts in the state. They say having more teachers per student than these other districts hasn’t translated into academic gains for students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thompson sees an upside to larger schools. He’d like to see Oakland’s elementary schools enroll about 400 students each. The former principal, who returned to teaching in Richmond a few years ago, says having multiple teachers for each grade allows educators to learn from each other, grow and innovate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of Grass Valley’s teachers and staff who came from Marshall are wary of the district’s vision of a system improved through economization. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a face mask sits in a classroom with two children using multicolored blocks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Tammy Coleman works with students on an activity at Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland on April 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Tammy Coleman’s classroom, the small numbers are a blessing. Typically, she’s had 25 or 26 students, and as many as 30. This year, she has only 18 in her combined first and second grade class, the fewest she’s ever had. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s grateful to be able to give students more individualized support as they get readjusted to the classroom after more than a year of distance learning. She says some second graders, who didn’t know the alphabet when they started the year, are now flourishing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s just a beautiful thing and it’s less stress,” she says. “You can delve into what they need more.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Late one morning, after reading instruction, she makes her way around the classroom, checking in with students who are bent over their notebooks clutching crayons and pencils. The class is studying birds and the students are responding to prompts in their new research journals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, William,” Coleman says, leaning down to get a closer look at her student’s work. “What do you wonder about birds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How birds fly, period. And how they lay eggs,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of research to do!” Coleman says before moving to another student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grass Valley’s closure would be her third. All three schools were majority Black. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She spent a decade at Cole Middle School, on 10th Street in West Oakland’s Cypress Village neighborhood, before the district closed it. She then moved to Thurgood Marshall. Based on her 28 years in the classroom, she says what matters most is individualized support. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The kids come in needing so much and it’s hard for one person to give them all that they need,” Coleman says. “Are you going to close the achievement gap by shoving them into a larger school with larger class sizes, teachers they don’t know?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When a group of local Black organizers began gathering community input to shape an agenda for improving Black students’ experiences in schools, stopping closures quickly became a priority. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“One of the reasons why it rang so true for us to name the campaign Reparations for Black Students is because we saw a trend in this district that majority-Black schools were always targeted for school closures, which meant that the bulk of the pain of that practice lived in Black communities,” Awobodu, an OUSD parent and lead organizer of the reparations project, says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The evidence backs her up, says UC Berkeley professor of education and African American studies Janelle Scott, who’s studying school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know that Black and Latinx students are much more likely to be targeted by school closures,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Chicago closed dozens of schools a decade ago, for instance, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/09/19/heres-one-reason-rahm-emanuel-wont-run-for-reelection-as-chicagos-mayor/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">88%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the students affected were Black. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“So it’s not a subtle point of evidence,” Scott says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other research finds that school closures are associated with charter school expansion, which can further destabilize district enrollment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research suggests academic prospects for students whose schools close vary depending on many factors, including the quality of the new school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grass Valley’s general education students will be sent to Oakland Academy of Knowledge and Burckhalter Elementary School under Oakland Unified’s plan. The schools are three and four miles away and their academic, racial and socioeconomic profiles are similar to Grass Valley’s.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott finds that claims about declining enrollment and cost savings are often used to justify closures, but that the evidence doesn’t actually support the strategy as a cost-savings measure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It sounds kind of persuasive and simple, but the reality is not quite so simple,” she says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s because the costs that can come with shuttering campuses, like facilities improvements needed to accommodate displaced students at receiving schools, can offset potential savings. Closing schools also can contribute to revenue decline by pushing more students out of the district. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When you disrupt communities with school closures, however well-intentioned, many families do look for other options, so you see a relationship between school closures and even further enrollment declines,” Scott says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott met with three Oakland Unified school board members in an effort to better understand their reasoning. They didn’t produce the evidence to persuade her. The takeaway, she says, was, “‘We don’t know what else to do. We know we need to do something.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In slating the closure, the district may have sealed Grass Valley’s fate: Families don’t want to sign up for a school that may not be around after next year, and some parents plan to pull their kids out preemptively. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ericka Njemanze used to be an active Grass Valley parent. She was president of the PTA and a member of the School Site Council. Her second grader and fourth grade twins have been at the school since kindergarten.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912889\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A child holds up a drawing of a person.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student in Tammy Coleman’s class draws a picture that says ‘Girl Power’ at Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland on April 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I picked Grass Valley because it had a history,” she says. “I heard really good things about the school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The family doesn’t live far from Grass Valley, but it’s not their neighborhood school. At first Njemanze thought she’d made a good choice, but her feelings have changed. Her kids fell behind during the pandemic, and the fifth grade teachers she was looking forward to for her kids retired. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the harsh light of the closure, the things that bothered her became intolerable. She judged the test scores and wondered where the other professional Black parents were. Why wasn’t there more PTA involvement? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I don’t see the fifth grade teachers taking my kids where they need to be,” says Njemanze, who plans to send her kids to Laurel Elementary next year. “I guess I want to beat the wave. If my kids can transition a little faster, I think that will help my household.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colbert stands at the end of a long lunch table in the schoolyard. On a neon green sheet of poster board, he’s mapped out the fourth grade and fifth grade girls’ arm-wrestling tournament brackets. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last week he held a tournament for the boys, and the girls demanded their own.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This contest isn’t about strength, it’s about stamina and your will to win,” he tells the girls crowded around the table. “If you want to win, you will fix yourself to win. It doesn’t matter how big or small the other person is on the other side.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The girls pair up and lock arms. Their biceps tense as they strain and grit their teeth. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Don’t give up,” Colbert says. “Don’t give up.”\u003c/span>\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re a lot friendlier here,” Steffen Jr. chimes in. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Grass Valley, Steffen Jr. is surrounded by students who look like him. The comfort of familiarity has translated into greater confidence, Scott says, and he sees the difference in his son’s schoolwork. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Seeing the joy when he walks out that door, it’s everything to me,” Scott says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grass Valley, off Golf Links Road near Skyline Boulevard, enrolls the highest share of Black students — 65% — among Oakland Unified School District elementary schools. In February, the school board voted to close it next year as part of a broader downsizing plan that will shutter seven campuses. Black families will be disproportionately affected. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The decision comes less than a year after the board made a remarkable pledge to its Black students by adopting a community proposal that organizers named \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://reparationsforblackstudents.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The plan seeks to address practices, like school closures, that have helped cut the number of Black students in the district from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=n&:showVizHome=n&:origin=viz_share_link\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">25,400 in 2000-01 \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterEth.aspx?cds=0161259&agglevel=district&year=2021-22\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">7,400 this year\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In the past two decades, Oakland Unified has closed 16 majority-Black schools. That’s left few elementary schools like Grass Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the board passed the Reparations for Black Students resolution in March 2021, it excluded one of the campaign’s central demands: that no majority-Black schools be considered for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under pressure to address a stubborn structural deficit, the size of which nobody seems to agree on, the board forged ahead. It did so despite the pleas of students, parents and teachers — and despite protest marches, rallies and a weeks-long hunger strike by two teachers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“For those that don’t know the power of the word ‘reparations,’ the first part of the definition is a commitment to not cause harm again,” says Pecolia Manigo Awobodu, who chairs the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/reparations\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which is charged with implementing the reparations work. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The story of this campaign is not an easy one to tell,” she continues. “It’s a story of, how do you really get a system to address its lack of commitment to the education of Black students? And how do you do it in such a way that even when there is resistance, you’re still capable of making some levels of progress?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">— \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grass Valley Elementary opened in 1953 as a set of portable classrooms with 100 students before a permanent school was built for the rapidly growing area. Throughout the 1960s, newspaper ads for nearby housing developments enticed buyers with references to the “outstanding” and “wonderful” neighborhood school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, teachers have taped up crayon signs in the classroom windows that say “save our school” and “Black Lives Matter.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before Colbert came to Grass Valley, he worked at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, just down the hill, until the district \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2011/10/27/ousd-board-votes-to-close-five-elementary-schools-at-a-contentious-meeting/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">closed it a decade ago\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Mostly Black students enrolled at Marshall, and the reasons district leaders gave for closing it echo those for closing Grass Valley: under-enrollment and poor test scores.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When he was packing up Thurgood Marshall’s archives, Colbert, 49, came across photos of himself as a student there in the ’80s. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I thought about the community, I thought about the kids that went there and how much they loved the school,” he says. “It was a tough deal.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a kid, he’d hitchhike up Golf Links Road after school to play basketball on the school’s courts. Many of the children he grew up with went to school there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back then, the neighborhoods close to the school were home to a mix of Black and white middle- and upper-middle-class families. Incomes dropped as you went down the hill, as did the share of white residents. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are more Latino and Asian people now, and fewer Black families. Between 2010 and 2020, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://belonging.gis-cdn.net/us_segregation_map/?year=2010&bounds=37.83%2C-121.98%2C37.65%2C-122.27&geoid=06001410000&geo=tract\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">share of Black residents\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the neighborhood surrounding the school dropped from nearly 50% to 37%, according to research from UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Having a school site where Black kids feel really valued and can be themselves is important,” says Paula Mitchell, another Marshall transplant who now runs Grass Valley’s project-based learning program. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kids play outside at school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students play during recess at Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland on April 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I purposely chose to be in a place where I could teach students that look like me because I didn’t have any Black teachers when I was growing up,” she continues, “and I just know how it would have made me feel differently in my belief in all the things I could do in the world.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About half of Grass Valley’s teachers are Black, compared to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousddata.org/announcements/fast-facts-2020-21\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">20% district-wide\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, according to school-district data. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think families feel really comfortable sending their children here knowing that we get it,” Mitchell says. “We understand what’s out there in the world and we’re doing our best to hold their kids close.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a recent study, Stanford education professor Francis Pearman \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/school-closures-and-gentrification-black-metropolis\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">found that school closures increased gentrification in Black neighborhoods\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“In an age where school districts are writing statements and promising policy in ‘defense of Black lives,’ stakeholders must consider how educational policies are contributing to the further perpetuation of the disintegration of Black communities,” Pearman writes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In his research, Pearman has identified a cyclical relationship between school closures and neighborhood change. Closing schools increases the likelihood that Black neighborhoods will gentrify. In turn, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042085919884342\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gentrification leads to lower enrollment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as families are displaced and new residents opt out of the neighborhood school or don’t have kids to enroll. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If these school closures are promoting the further dispossession of communities of color, making them even less likely to retain their historic profile of being Black communities, then there’s broader conversations that need to be had about what these closures mean for the lifeblood of Black neighborhoods,” Pearman says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On April 11, the ACLU asked Attorney General Rob Bonta to investigate Oakland’s closure plan, saying it is discriminatory and violates the rights of of Black students. On April 29, Oakland Unified teachers, including those at Grass Valley, held a one-day strike to protest the closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colbert leaves his two-story, four-bedroom home in Stockton at 6:30 a.m. to get to Grass Valley’s tree-ringed campus in time for work. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I wanted to own my own house,” he says. “But I come here every day, so Oakland is still in my heart.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About 10 Grass Valley families live outside the city, according to principal Casey Beckner, but most people leave the school behind when they move. They often leave for the Central Valley. Like Colbert, they’re relocating to become homeowners or looking for cheaper rent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pandemic has accelerated the exodus as parents put their kids in independent study or homeschool them. Public school \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/california-k-12-enrollment-plunges-again-falls-below-6-million/670111#:~:text=The%201.8%25%20enrollment%20decline%2C%20on,Covid%20struck%20in%20spring%202020.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">enrollment plummeted\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> across the state during the pandemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man and child walk past a multicolored mural of students, a bridge and an eagle.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55655_029_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Colbert watches students during recess at Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland on April 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Grass Valley staff blame the Thurgood Marshall closure for driving families away, too. As they tell it, transplanting the Marshall community to Grass Valley created a chain reaction of instability. The principal got burned out and left, then some teachers started chafing at the new administrator’s approach. As teachers left, more families followed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Once you start a cycle of people leaving, then you have an open door,” Colbert says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment has declined at Grass Valley four years in a row, leaving the school with 198 students. District staff say that’s too small to make the school financially sustainable. For the past 15 years, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/DQ/EnrTimeRptSch.aspx?cYear=2012-13&Level=School&cName=Grass+Valley+Elementary&cCode=6001879&dCode=0161259\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state records\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> show the school’s enrollment has hovered around 250 students, dipping as low as 177 and rising to 285 at its peak. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If one school doesn’t have enough students to generate the money to cover its costs, it hurts the whole system, says school board director Clifford Thompson, whose district includes Grass Valley. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have to use the money that [a bigger] school has generated in order to keep this other school afloat,” he says. “It’s a hard decision, but how long can you do that? It’s been done for several years, and now it’s time to really bite the bullet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">District staff have pointed out that Oakland Unified operates more schools than many larger districts in the state. They say having more teachers per student than these other districts hasn’t translated into academic gains for students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thompson sees an upside to larger schools. He’d like to see Oakland’s elementary schools enroll about 400 students each. The former principal, who returned to teaching in Richmond a few years ago, says having multiple teachers for each grade allows educators to learn from each other, grow and innovate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of Grass Valley’s teachers and staff who came from Marshall are wary of the district’s vision of a system improved through economization. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a face mask sits in a classroom with two children using multicolored blocks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55644_018_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Tammy Coleman works with students on an activity at Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland on April 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Tammy Coleman’s classroom, the small numbers are a blessing. Typically, she’s had 25 or 26 students, and as many as 30. This year, she has only 18 in her combined first and second grade class, the fewest she’s ever had. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s grateful to be able to give students more individualized support as they get readjusted to the classroom after more than a year of distance learning. She says some second graders, who didn’t know the alphabet when they started the year, are now flourishing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s just a beautiful thing and it’s less stress,” she says. “You can delve into what they need more.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Late one morning, after reading instruction, she makes her way around the classroom, checking in with students who are bent over their notebooks clutching crayons and pencils. The class is studying birds and the students are responding to prompts in their new research journals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, William,” Coleman says, leaning down to get a closer look at her student’s work. “What do you wonder about birds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How birds fly, period. And how they lay eggs,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of research to do!” Coleman says before moving to another student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grass Valley’s closure would be her third. All three schools were majority Black. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She spent a decade at Cole Middle School, on 10th Street in West Oakland’s Cypress Village neighborhood, before the district closed it. She then moved to Thurgood Marshall. Based on her 28 years in the classroom, she says what matters most is individualized support. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The kids come in needing so much and it’s hard for one person to give them all that they need,” Coleman says. “Are you going to close the achievement gap by shoving them into a larger school with larger class sizes, teachers they don’t know?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When a group of local Black organizers began gathering community input to shape an agenda for improving Black students’ experiences in schools, stopping closures quickly became a priority. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“One of the reasons why it rang so true for us to name the campaign Reparations for Black Students is because we saw a trend in this district that majority-Black schools were always targeted for school closures, which meant that the bulk of the pain of that practice lived in Black communities,” Awobodu, an OUSD parent and lead organizer of the reparations project, says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The evidence backs her up, says UC Berkeley professor of education and African American studies Janelle Scott, who’s studying school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know that Black and Latinx students are much more likely to be targeted by school closures,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Chicago closed dozens of schools a decade ago, for instance, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/09/19/heres-one-reason-rahm-emanuel-wont-run-for-reelection-as-chicagos-mayor/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">88%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the students affected were Black. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“So it’s not a subtle point of evidence,” Scott says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other research finds that school closures are associated with charter school expansion, which can further destabilize district enrollment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research suggests academic prospects for students whose schools close vary depending on many factors, including the quality of the new school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grass Valley’s general education students will be sent to Oakland Academy of Knowledge and Burckhalter Elementary School under Oakland Unified’s plan. The schools are three and four miles away and their academic, racial and socioeconomic profiles are similar to Grass Valley’s.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott finds that claims about declining enrollment and cost savings are often used to justify closures, but that the evidence doesn’t actually support the strategy as a cost-savings measure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It sounds kind of persuasive and simple, but the reality is not quite so simple,” she says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s because the costs that can come with shuttering campuses, like facilities improvements needed to accommodate displaced students at receiving schools, can offset potential savings. Closing schools also can contribute to revenue decline by pushing more students out of the district. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When you disrupt communities with school closures, however well-intentioned, many families do look for other options, so you see a relationship between school closures and even further enrollment declines,” Scott says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott met with three Oakland Unified school board members in an effort to better understand their reasoning. They didn’t produce the evidence to persuade her. The takeaway, she says, was, “‘We don’t know what else to do. We know we need to do something.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In slating the closure, the district may have sealed Grass Valley’s fate: Families don’t want to sign up for a school that may not be around after next year, and some parents plan to pull their kids out preemptively. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ericka Njemanze used to be an active Grass Valley parent. She was president of the PTA and a member of the School Site Council. Her second grader and fourth grade twins have been at the school since kindergarten.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912889\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A child holds up a drawing of a person.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55649_023_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student in Tammy Coleman’s class draws a picture that says ‘Girl Power’ at Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland on April 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I picked Grass Valley because it had a history,” she says. “I heard really good things about the school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The family doesn’t live far from Grass Valley, but it’s not their neighborhood school. 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"content": "\u003cp>Charter school enrollment in California declined this year for the first time after three decades of steady and, in some years, staggering growth. Does this signify a pandemic blip, retrenchment or an inflection point for charter schools?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not since the first charter school opened in 1994 in San Carlos, south of San Francisco, has charter school enrollment fallen year over year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was to have been a year of school recovery, but instead has been turbulent, buffeted by waves of COVID infections. Charter school leaders say they have been consumed with keeping schools open, and have put off thinking about growing again. They and districts face the same headwinds: an immediate teacher and staff shortage, rising chronic absences, huge questions about enrollment next year and long-term projections of a double-digit decline statewide over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But charter schools say they also face potential legal roadblocks, anti-charter antagonism, and financial burdens, including uncertainty over how much funding they’ll receive this year under a state budget that left them vulnerable to funding cuts. All of that gives them pause about expanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m a charter management organization, and I’m struggling with 30% turnover in teachers, fluctuating enrollment, and I’m dedicating resources that I don’t even have any idea if I’m going to be reimbursed by the state, why would I be thinking about fighting a political fight to get a charter petition into LAUSD?” said Myrna Castrejón, president and CEO of the California Charter Schools Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-800x611.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-school-aged girl with brown skin and black hair smiles as she holds in her arms and tucked under her chin three yellow softballs and an assortment of small stuffed animals in yellow blue, green and purple. She's wearing a black sweater over a red shirt. She's standing next to a large blow-up slide in purple and yellow. This is a charity event for her school, Backpack Middle School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-800x611.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-1020x779.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-1536x1174.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-2048x1565.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-1920x1467.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student enjoys carnival games during the Vera Bradley/Blessings in a Backpack middle school charity event at Vista Charter Public School in September 2018 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Vera Bradley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 9 of California’s 5.9 million public school students attends a charter school, which are public schools freed from some regulations imposed on traditional school districts. Independent, nonprofit boards run most of them, with some under the control of school districts that set them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020-21, the first full year of the pandemic, total enrollment statewide fell 4.4% while charter school enrollment actually increased 3.4%. But this year, enrollment in TK-12 school districts and charter schools both fell 1.8%: by 110,000 students in district schools, and by 12,600 in charter schools, as measured as of Census Day last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exclude all virtual charter schools, a small subset of charter schools, and enrollment in classroom-based charter schools, the most common form, fell 2.9%, exceeding district schools’ one-year decline, according to an EdSource analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parallel enrollment drop wasn’t coincidental. COVID-19 has been a storm that has upended district and charter schools alike, said Castrejón. The pandemic “supercharged these broader demographic trends — the crashing birth rate, the negative rate of immigration, the transfer [of families] into rural and suburban areas, the political dissatisfaction in red areas where people are leaving for Texas, Arizona or Idaho,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she said, COVID has produced a “multiverse” of education options that affect schools and districts: Enrollment in private schools is up, as are parents’ applications for homeschooling. There are emerging forms like small, private homeschools in pods and through church co-ops that are hard to quantify. And there are hybrid charter schools combining independent study at home with classroom learning at schools like \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://classicalacademy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Classical Academies\u003c/a> in northern San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter school enrollment declined the most this year in the areas that for decades have been the strongholds of charter schools: the Bay Area, down 3.6%, and Los Angeles County and the San Diego area, both down 3.1%. Those, too, are the regions with the largest drops in overall school enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-800x544.jpg\" alt=\"A teacher and student with wide smiles give each other a big hug in an office with a calendar, whiteboard and paper notes covering the walls. The teacher has black skin and is wearing a black and white dress in a graphic print. The student, almost as tall as her teacher, has black skin and is wearing a black sweatshirt and pants with white stripes down the side. \" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-1536x1045.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-2048x1394.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-1920x1307.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student Danesha Johnson (left) gets a big hug from workforce development director Aubria Lamendola at the Life Learning Academy charter school on Treasure Island in San Francisco in March 2018. The school was breaking ground on a dormitory that week to house more students. \u003ccite>(Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“From 2003 through 2017, we worked with our philanthropic partners to encourage and fund charters that targeted neighborhoods with crowded, academically failing schools,” said Caprice Young, the founding head of the charter schools association that led two Los Angeles-based groups of charter schools and consults for education nonprofits and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those neighborhoods are disproportionately inner-city and facilities-based, so the larger demographic trends impact the charter movement more than the traditional schools,” Young said, referring to many charter schools’ concentration in lower-income neighborhoods with declining enrollment. \u003ca href=\"https://www.datawrapper.de/_/2iTVf/\">Click here to see California charter school enrollment since 2009-2010.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For two decades, that strategy worked in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Led by charter management organizations — including \u003ca href=\"https://aspirepublicschools.org/\">Aspire\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kipp.org/\">Kipp\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.laalliance.org/\">Alliance College-Ready Public Schools\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and \u003ca href=\"https://www.rocketshipschools.org/\">Rocketship\u003c/a> in the Bay Area — charter schools grew by a dozen to more than three dozen schools annually before leveling out in 2018 with 188 schools in the Bay Area and 373 in Los Angeles County, mainly Los Angeles Unified. It is the nation’s second-largest school district and contains the nation’s largest concentration of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Los Angeles Unified, charter enrollment mushroomed as enrollment in the district’s schools steadily fell, creating tensions over shared facilities and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/charter-school-politics-still-in-play-in-la-unified-school-board-elections/624275\">epic election battles to establish a pro- or anti-charter majority\u003c/a> on the seven-member district board. In 2009-2010, there were 61,000 charter school students and 618,000 students in district schools. By last year, charter school enrollment had more than doubled, to its peak of 114,431, while district enrollment had fallen to 456,964. In LAUSD, 1 in 5 public school students attended a charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then COVID took its toll. This year, enrollment at charter schools in Los Angeles fell 1.7%, compared with 5.7% at district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Inequitable funding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year, school districts are being held financially harmless for a second year, because of COVID’s havoc on drops in enrollment and attendance. They are receiving the pre-pandemic level of funding. But charter schools are not; they are returning to funding based on the average daily attendance, as in the past. And with attendance down anywhere from 8% to 10% this year, they’re anticipating a commensurate cut in funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Premack, executive director and founder of the Charter Schools Development Center in Sacramento, said charter schools had no notice last June that the budget legislation extending financial protection to districts wouldn’t apply to them. Charter leaders are hoping to get this fixed retroactively in May when Gov. Gavin Newsom delivers his revised budget plan for 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t get it fixed, it will be an enormous hit for charter schools with a psychological impact. Can you afford to take growth risks when you just lost a big chunk or all of your budget reserves?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the Legislature has put a three-year moratorium on new non-classroom-based charter schools, while it figures out how to distinguish legitimate programs from poor-performing programs and frauds, like\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2021-09-10/a3-charter-school-fraud-ringleader-sentenced-to-4-years-in-prison-fined-18-75-million#:~:text=Three%20of%20those%20schools%20were,of%20dollars%20for%20personal%20use.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the former A3 charter chain\u003c/a> in San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topping off worries is a new but largely untried charter governance and accountability law, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1505\u003c/a>, which was passed into law in September 2019, six months before COVID shut down all schools and cut short plans for new charter schools. Newsom sold it as a reasonable compromise on charter school growth. Premack and other critics see it as a signal for abuse. Its most contested provision allows school boards to consider a new charter school petition’s financial impact on a district as a factor in approval or denial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castrejón points to the law’s guardrails and said it’s too soon to judge. Premack said that in an era of declining enrollment, districts will use fiscal impact as a cudgel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Hunkapiller, a founder of the San Carlos Charter Learning Center and now the chair of Aspire Public Schools’ board of trustees, foresees problems. “Yes, the table is tilted by AB 1505. It wrote into law the presumption that the existence of charter schools has fiscal impact on district schools,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Follow the migration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside the Bay Area and Los Angeles, there is room to grow, and there are alternatives to the traditional brick-and-mortar charter schools. Since 2000, except for last year and the Great Recession of 2009, school enrollment has grown steadily in San Bernardino and Riverside counties — which make up the Inland Empire — the Central Valley, and Sacramento and surrounding cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s urban centers have failed to build housing, so people are fleeing inland and to other states to raise families,” Young of Los Angeles observed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of charter schools in the Inland Empire has increased from 45 in 2009 to 81 this year. In the northern San Joaquin Valley, which includes Stockton, the number has more than doubled, from 45 to 92. From the Sacramento region north to the Oregon border, the number has jumped from 110 to 167. \u003ca href=\"https://www.datawrapper.de/_/ywl84/\">Click here to see the number of charter schools by region since 2009-2010.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocketship Public Schools, an elementary charter school network with most of its 13 California schools in lower-income San José neighborhoods, saw an overall enrollment plunge of 5.5%, the first drop since it started in 2008. But enrollment in its two newest schools, in Concord and Antioch, to the east in Contra Costa County, grew significantly this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aspire Public Schools, with nearly 17,000 students, now has 16 of its 36 schools in Sacramento, Modesto and Stockton, more than in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. It has received approvals for two new schools in Stockton and, after drawn-out negotiations, the ability to expand existing schools in new facilities in Sacramento and Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tony Solina, Aspire’s Central Valley superintendent, is not optimistic in the current environment that new schools could be approved. Aspire will identify schools with long waiting lists as areas to expand, but there’s an anti-charter sentiment even in districts that were favorably inclined to support charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School board members are under pressure to deny charters,” Solina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What do families want?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Population shifts have led some foundations like the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.siliconschools.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silicon Schools fund\u003c/a>, which underwrites start-up and other costs of innovative schools serving lower-income students, to revise their plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re now supporting schools in Bakersfield, Stockton, Fresno, Sacramento, which is very different than how our foundation looked 10 years ago,” said Brian Greenberg, Silicon Schools CEO. “Once we opened our minds to look, we found the truth, which is that talent is equally distributed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenberg said that the emergence from COVID offers a moment of opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if teachers want a little more flexibility of how they use time during the day? What if parents want some more flexibility of how kids are coming to school or what they’re doing during the school day?” he asked. “We’re much more interested in finding more innovative solutions that work better for kids and families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to two charter schools, one that opened this year in Fresno and another that will open in 2023-2024 in Sacramento, as examples of new models grounded in community support. The former is \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.goldencharteracademy.org/gca-news/gca-news-january-2021-rps33-hl94z-yf6r6-fm26s-hs472-xdr7g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Charter Academy\u003c/a>, a TK-8 school founded by retired NFL defensive back Robert Golden, who has returned to his hometown of Fresno. The school is partnering with Fresno Chaffee Zoo, with plans to relocate next to it, so that students can learn firsthand about wildlife habitats and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other, which received approval this month as a countywide charter in Sacramento County, will be a high school early college program built around a single industry sector, construction trades. With partnerships with Caltrans, the building trades union and some of the largest building contractors in Sacramento, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://capcca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capital College & Career Academy\u003c/a> will start with career exploration and foundational academic courses the first two years, with opportunities as juniors and seniors for internships, dual-enrollment courses in community colleges and courses at Sacramento State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students will have credits toward a four-year degree in engineering or design or training to enter an apprenticeship in a building trade, said founder Kevin Dobson, who’s currently a principal at Natomas Charter School. The new school “will bridge the gap between K to 12 and post-secondary options. This really grew out of frustration that kids were really going unserved, often being forced to choose college or career at the expense of the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose Braxton says her fifth grader, who has a learning disability, is looking forward to enrolling four years from now. “I don’t see her struggle with hands-on learning. She likes building things and is a more visual learner,” she said. “They have community support. Kevin has a heart for reaching youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Shalvey has a long view on charter schools, as a former teacher and principal, school district superintendent, founder and CEO of Aspire Public Schools and former deputy director overseeing education for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Now he’s the executive director of \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://sjaplus.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Joaquin A+\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization in the San Joaquin Valley, where he has lived for 50 years, seeding efforts to prepare students for a changing workplace. (Shalvey is one of 13 members of EdSource’s board of directors, who have no influence or oversight on content. Editorial decisions remain under the sole control of the EdSource newsroom.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Greenberg, he agrees that families moving east into the Central Valley will insist on new school models, including pod schools, independent study programs and schools with flexible schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “crazy notion of war between charters and districts” is tangential to them, he said, and “distorts that parents expect schools to provide a brighter future for kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin A+ supports the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://valleyrobotics.lodiusd.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valley Robotics Academy\u003c/a>, an independent school within Lodi Unified that partners with the agriculture industry to train students in complex technical, mechanical and engineering skills. And San Joaquin A+ works with charter schools and county offices of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1990s and early 2000s, charter schools were small schools, personalized and safe. That’s what parents wanted,” Shalvey said. Aspire identified neighborhoods where Black and Latino students were underserved and “did the common thing uncommonly well,” preparing students for college on the same dollar as district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s still important but not the singular thing a school district should do,” he said. “Some charter management organizations must change their model. The menu for school choice is no longer as narrow as it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Charter school enrollment in California declined this year for the first time after three decades of steady and, in some years, staggering growth. Does this signify a pandemic blip, retrenchment or an inflection point for charter schools?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not since the first charter school opened in 1994 in San Carlos, south of San Francisco, has charter school enrollment fallen year over year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was to have been a year of school recovery, but instead has been turbulent, buffeted by waves of COVID infections. Charter school leaders say they have been consumed with keeping schools open, and have put off thinking about growing again. They and districts face the same headwinds: an immediate teacher and staff shortage, rising chronic absences, huge questions about enrollment next year and long-term projections of a double-digit decline statewide over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But charter schools say they also face potential legal roadblocks, anti-charter antagonism, and financial burdens, including uncertainty over how much funding they’ll receive this year under a state budget that left them vulnerable to funding cuts. All of that gives them pause about expanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m a charter management organization, and I’m struggling with 30% turnover in teachers, fluctuating enrollment, and I’m dedicating resources that I don’t even have any idea if I’m going to be reimbursed by the state, why would I be thinking about fighting a political fight to get a charter petition into LAUSD?” said Myrna Castrejón, president and CEO of the California Charter Schools Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-800x611.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-school-aged girl with brown skin and black hair smiles as she holds in her arms and tucked under her chin three yellow softballs and an assortment of small stuffed animals in yellow blue, green and purple. She's wearing a black sweater over a red shirt. She's standing next to a large blow-up slide in purple and yellow. This is a charity event for her school, Backpack Middle School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-800x611.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-1020x779.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-1536x1174.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-2048x1565.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1027443678-1920x1467.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student enjoys carnival games during the Vera Bradley/Blessings in a Backpack middle school charity event at Vista Charter Public School in September 2018 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Vera Bradley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 9 of California’s 5.9 million public school students attends a charter school, which are public schools freed from some regulations imposed on traditional school districts. Independent, nonprofit boards run most of them, with some under the control of school districts that set them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020-21, the first full year of the pandemic, total enrollment statewide fell 4.4% while charter school enrollment actually increased 3.4%. But this year, enrollment in TK-12 school districts and charter schools both fell 1.8%: by 110,000 students in district schools, and by 12,600 in charter schools, as measured as of Census Day last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exclude all virtual charter schools, a small subset of charter schools, and enrollment in classroom-based charter schools, the most common form, fell 2.9%, exceeding district schools’ one-year decline, according to an EdSource analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parallel enrollment drop wasn’t coincidental. COVID-19 has been a storm that has upended district and charter schools alike, said Castrejón. The pandemic “supercharged these broader demographic trends — the crashing birth rate, the negative rate of immigration, the transfer [of families] into rural and suburban areas, the political dissatisfaction in red areas where people are leaving for Texas, Arizona or Idaho,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she said, COVID has produced a “multiverse” of education options that affect schools and districts: Enrollment in private schools is up, as are parents’ applications for homeschooling. There are emerging forms like small, private homeschools in pods and through church co-ops that are hard to quantify. And there are hybrid charter schools combining independent study at home with classroom learning at schools like \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://classicalacademy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Classical Academies\u003c/a> in northern San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter school enrollment declined the most this year in the areas that for decades have been the strongholds of charter schools: the Bay Area, down 3.6%, and Los Angeles County and the San Diego area, both down 3.1%. Those, too, are the regions with the largest drops in overall school enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-800x544.jpg\" alt=\"A teacher and student with wide smiles give each other a big hug in an office with a calendar, whiteboard and paper notes covering the walls. The teacher has black skin and is wearing a black and white dress in a graphic print. The student, almost as tall as her teacher, has black skin and is wearing a black sweatshirt and pants with white stripes down the side. \" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-1536x1045.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-2048x1394.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1298841505-1920x1307.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student Danesha Johnson (left) gets a big hug from workforce development director Aubria Lamendola at the Life Learning Academy charter school on Treasure Island in San Francisco in March 2018. The school was breaking ground on a dormitory that week to house more students. \u003ccite>(Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“From 2003 through 2017, we worked with our philanthropic partners to encourage and fund charters that targeted neighborhoods with crowded, academically failing schools,” said Caprice Young, the founding head of the charter schools association that led two Los Angeles-based groups of charter schools and consults for education nonprofits and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those neighborhoods are disproportionately inner-city and facilities-based, so the larger demographic trends impact the charter movement more than the traditional schools,” Young said, referring to many charter schools’ concentration in lower-income neighborhoods with declining enrollment. \u003ca href=\"https://www.datawrapper.de/_/2iTVf/\">Click here to see California charter school enrollment since 2009-2010.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For two decades, that strategy worked in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Led by charter management organizations — including \u003ca href=\"https://aspirepublicschools.org/\">Aspire\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kipp.org/\">Kipp\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.laalliance.org/\">Alliance College-Ready Public Schools\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and \u003ca href=\"https://www.rocketshipschools.org/\">Rocketship\u003c/a> in the Bay Area — charter schools grew by a dozen to more than three dozen schools annually before leveling out in 2018 with 188 schools in the Bay Area and 373 in Los Angeles County, mainly Los Angeles Unified. It is the nation’s second-largest school district and contains the nation’s largest concentration of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Los Angeles Unified, charter enrollment mushroomed as enrollment in the district’s schools steadily fell, creating tensions over shared facilities and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/charter-school-politics-still-in-play-in-la-unified-school-board-elections/624275\">epic election battles to establish a pro- or anti-charter majority\u003c/a> on the seven-member district board. In 2009-2010, there were 61,000 charter school students and 618,000 students in district schools. By last year, charter school enrollment had more than doubled, to its peak of 114,431, while district enrollment had fallen to 456,964. In LAUSD, 1 in 5 public school students attended a charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then COVID took its toll. This year, enrollment at charter schools in Los Angeles fell 1.7%, compared with 5.7% at district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Inequitable funding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year, school districts are being held financially harmless for a second year, because of COVID’s havoc on drops in enrollment and attendance. They are receiving the pre-pandemic level of funding. But charter schools are not; they are returning to funding based on the average daily attendance, as in the past. And with attendance down anywhere from 8% to 10% this year, they’re anticipating a commensurate cut in funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Premack, executive director and founder of the Charter Schools Development Center in Sacramento, said charter schools had no notice last June that the budget legislation extending financial protection to districts wouldn’t apply to them. Charter leaders are hoping to get this fixed retroactively in May when Gov. Gavin Newsom delivers his revised budget plan for 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t get it fixed, it will be an enormous hit for charter schools with a psychological impact. Can you afford to take growth risks when you just lost a big chunk or all of your budget reserves?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the Legislature has put a three-year moratorium on new non-classroom-based charter schools, while it figures out how to distinguish legitimate programs from poor-performing programs and frauds, like\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2021-09-10/a3-charter-school-fraud-ringleader-sentenced-to-4-years-in-prison-fined-18-75-million#:~:text=Three%20of%20those%20schools%20were,of%20dollars%20for%20personal%20use.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the former A3 charter chain\u003c/a> in San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topping off worries is a new but largely untried charter governance and accountability law, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1505\u003c/a>, which was passed into law in September 2019, six months before COVID shut down all schools and cut short plans for new charter schools. Newsom sold it as a reasonable compromise on charter school growth. Premack and other critics see it as a signal for abuse. Its most contested provision allows school boards to consider a new charter school petition’s financial impact on a district as a factor in approval or denial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castrejón points to the law’s guardrails and said it’s too soon to judge. Premack said that in an era of declining enrollment, districts will use fiscal impact as a cudgel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Hunkapiller, a founder of the San Carlos Charter Learning Center and now the chair of Aspire Public Schools’ board of trustees, foresees problems. “Yes, the table is tilted by AB 1505. It wrote into law the presumption that the existence of charter schools has fiscal impact on district schools,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Follow the migration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside the Bay Area and Los Angeles, there is room to grow, and there are alternatives to the traditional brick-and-mortar charter schools. Since 2000, except for last year and the Great Recession of 2009, school enrollment has grown steadily in San Bernardino and Riverside counties — which make up the Inland Empire — the Central Valley, and Sacramento and surrounding cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s urban centers have failed to build housing, so people are fleeing inland and to other states to raise families,” Young of Los Angeles observed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of charter schools in the Inland Empire has increased from 45 in 2009 to 81 this year. In the northern San Joaquin Valley, which includes Stockton, the number has more than doubled, from 45 to 92. From the Sacramento region north to the Oregon border, the number has jumped from 110 to 167. \u003ca href=\"https://www.datawrapper.de/_/ywl84/\">Click here to see the number of charter schools by region since 2009-2010.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocketship Public Schools, an elementary charter school network with most of its 13 California schools in lower-income San José neighborhoods, saw an overall enrollment plunge of 5.5%, the first drop since it started in 2008. But enrollment in its two newest schools, in Concord and Antioch, to the east in Contra Costa County, grew significantly this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aspire Public Schools, with nearly 17,000 students, now has 16 of its 36 schools in Sacramento, Modesto and Stockton, more than in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. It has received approvals for two new schools in Stockton and, after drawn-out negotiations, the ability to expand existing schools in new facilities in Sacramento and Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tony Solina, Aspire’s Central Valley superintendent, is not optimistic in the current environment that new schools could be approved. Aspire will identify schools with long waiting lists as areas to expand, but there’s an anti-charter sentiment even in districts that were favorably inclined to support charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School board members are under pressure to deny charters,” Solina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What do families want?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Population shifts have led some foundations like the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.siliconschools.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silicon Schools fund\u003c/a>, which underwrites start-up and other costs of innovative schools serving lower-income students, to revise their plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re now supporting schools in Bakersfield, Stockton, Fresno, Sacramento, which is very different than how our foundation looked 10 years ago,” said Brian Greenberg, Silicon Schools CEO. “Once we opened our minds to look, we found the truth, which is that talent is equally distributed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenberg said that the emergence from COVID offers a moment of opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if teachers want a little more flexibility of how they use time during the day? What if parents want some more flexibility of how kids are coming to school or what they’re doing during the school day?” he asked. “We’re much more interested in finding more innovative solutions that work better for kids and families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to two charter schools, one that opened this year in Fresno and another that will open in 2023-2024 in Sacramento, as examples of new models grounded in community support. The former is \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.goldencharteracademy.org/gca-news/gca-news-january-2021-rps33-hl94z-yf6r6-fm26s-hs472-xdr7g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Charter Academy\u003c/a>, a TK-8 school founded by retired NFL defensive back Robert Golden, who has returned to his hometown of Fresno. The school is partnering with Fresno Chaffee Zoo, with plans to relocate next to it, so that students can learn firsthand about wildlife habitats and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other, which received approval this month as a countywide charter in Sacramento County, will be a high school early college program built around a single industry sector, construction trades. With partnerships with Caltrans, the building trades union and some of the largest building contractors in Sacramento, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://capcca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capital College & Career Academy\u003c/a> will start with career exploration and foundational academic courses the first two years, with opportunities as juniors and seniors for internships, dual-enrollment courses in community colleges and courses at Sacramento State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students will have credits toward a four-year degree in engineering or design or training to enter an apprenticeship in a building trade, said founder Kevin Dobson, who’s currently a principal at Natomas Charter School. The new school “will bridge the gap between K to 12 and post-secondary options. This really grew out of frustration that kids were really going unserved, often being forced to choose college or career at the expense of the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose Braxton says her fifth grader, who has a learning disability, is looking forward to enrolling four years from now. “I don’t see her struggle with hands-on learning. She likes building things and is a more visual learner,” she said. “They have community support. Kevin has a heart for reaching youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Shalvey has a long view on charter schools, as a former teacher and principal, school district superintendent, founder and CEO of Aspire Public Schools and former deputy director overseeing education for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Now he’s the executive director of \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://sjaplus.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Joaquin A+\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization in the San Joaquin Valley, where he has lived for 50 years, seeding efforts to prepare students for a changing workplace. (Shalvey is one of 13 members of EdSource’s board of directors, who have no influence or oversight on content. Editorial decisions remain under the sole control of the EdSource newsroom.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Greenberg, he agrees that families moving east into the Central Valley will insist on new school models, including pod schools, independent study programs and schools with flexible schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “crazy notion of war between charters and districts” is tangential to them, he said, and “distorts that parents expect schools to provide a brighter future for kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin A+ supports the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://valleyrobotics.lodiusd.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valley Robotics Academy\u003c/a>, an independent school within Lodi Unified that partners with the agriculture industry to train students in complex technical, mechanical and engineering skills. And San Joaquin A+ works with charter schools and county offices of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1990s and early 2000s, charter schools were small schools, personalized and safe. That’s what parents wanted,” Shalvey said. Aspire identified neighborhoods where Black and Latino students were underserved and “did the common thing uncommonly well,” preparing students for college on the same dollar as district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s still important but not the singular thing a school district should do,” he said. “Some charter management organizations must change their model. The menu for school choice is no longer as narrow as it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Inside some University of California academic departments and colleges, an atypical idea is gaining steam: deemphasizing, or even ditching, the A-F grading system and rethinking how to assess student learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Divisions like UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry and UC Davis’s Department of Mathematics are deliberating whether to change how they grade students. In some cases, that means awarding students a pass or no-pass grade rather than a letter grade. Other times, it may mean allowing students to choose which assignments get the most weight in determining their grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Irvine, Academic Senate leaders are currently evaluating long-term options around grading and have met with officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where students don’t receive letter grades for their first semester, to learn about that university’s approach.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jody Greene, associate vice provost of teaching and learning, UC Santa Cruz\"]'The changes that were happening in higher education at a glacial pace were put on a bullet train by COVID, and as painful as the last couple of years have been, we're now having genuine conversations about how we can better serve the students.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Departments at other UC campuses also are experimenting with making changes to how they test students, putting less emphasis on high-stakes exams, because some students aren’t good test-takers but can demonstrate their understanding of the material in other ways. Some departments have begun using two-stage exams: Students take a standard individual exam before also taking a group test where they work with other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes are especially being considered for first-year students to give them more time to get used to the rigors of college work and learn the material over the course of a semester rather than discourage them early on with low scores on tests and other assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the possibilities are a welcome development to Jody Greene, the associate vice provost of teaching and learning at UC Santa Cruz, who argues that letter grades aren’t necessarily indicative of whether a student has mastered the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, Greene said, what grades really measure is the student’s preparation to do college work. That could stem from the availability of rigorous courses in that student’s high school, such as Advanced Placement classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/mar22/a3.pdf\">recent UC Board of Regents memo\u003c/a> noted that a student from an under-resourced high school “may perform poorly on initial assignments.” As they learn the material over the course of the term, the student may ultimately ace the final exam yet still end up with a below average grade because of those early assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greene is among some teaching staff across UC who have long advocated for changes to grading, but the pandemic has accelerated the willingness of many faculty members to get on board with those ideas, she said. According to the regents memo, faculty sensitivity to inequities in their students’ educational experiences “was heightened” during the pandemic, ramping up efforts across UC to improve grading and assessment, though officials acknowledge there’s no consensus across the system of the best approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be better institutions for this,” said Greene, who is also the founding director of \u003ca href=\"https://citl.ucsc.edu/\">UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning\u003c/a>. “The changes that were happening in higher education at a glacial pace were put on a bullet train by COVID, and as painful as the last couple of years have been, we’re now having genuine conversations about how we can better serve the students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift to reconsider how best to teach and assess students was a natural one for many faculty members amid the pandemic, said Rachel Kennison, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://ceils.ucla.edu/\">UCLA’s Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences\u003c/a>. Once classes moved online, faculty had to think of new ways to engage students and couldn’t rely on traditional methods for assessing them, such as in-person, closed-book exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was key because often, students who struggle in their first year of college to achieve high grades are discouraged and leave their majors. 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Some departments have begun using two-stage exams: Students take a standard individual exam before also taking a group test where they work with other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes are especially being considered for first-year students to give them more time to get used to the rigors of college work and learn the material over the course of a semester rather than discourage them early on with low scores on tests and other assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the possibilities are a welcome development to Jody Greene, the associate vice provost of teaching and learning at UC Santa Cruz, who argues that letter grades aren’t necessarily indicative of whether a student has mastered the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, Greene said, what grades really measure is the student’s preparation to do college work. 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According to the regents memo, faculty sensitivity to inequities in their students’ educational experiences “was heightened” during the pandemic, ramping up efforts across UC to improve grading and assessment, though officials acknowledge there’s no consensus across the system of the best approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be better institutions for this,” said Greene, who is also the founding director of \u003ca href=\"https://citl.ucsc.edu/\">UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning\u003c/a>. “The changes that were happening in higher education at a glacial pace were put on a bullet train by COVID, and as painful as the last couple of years have been, we’re now having genuine conversations about how we can better serve the students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift to reconsider how best to teach and assess students was a natural one for many faculty members amid the pandemic, said Rachel Kennison, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://ceils.ucla.edu/\">UCLA’s Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences\u003c/a>. Once classes moved online, faculty had to think of new ways to engage students and couldn’t rely on traditional methods for assessing them, such as in-person, closed-book exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was key because often, students who struggle in their first year of college to achieve high grades are discouraged and leave their majors. 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