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The court sided with a Berkeley neighborhood group that had sued the school, arguing that university officials did not adequately consider the environmental impacts of its planned enrollment increase, as required by a state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the newly approved legislation (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB118\">Senate Bill 118\u003c/a>) gives UC Berkeley and other schools up to 18 months to comply with the law before judges can order them to reduce enrollment. And it is retroactive, effectively reversing the state high court’s ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m grateful to the Legislature for moving quickly on this critical issue. It sends a clear signal that California won’t let lawsuits get in the way of the education and dreams of thousands of students, our future leaders and innovators,” Gov. 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On-campus housing at the school is limited, and many students live off campus. Rents are expensive, especially for apartments closer to campus, while residents grumble over the added traffic, noise and housing costs brought by an increased student body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court agreed with the neighborhood group and ordered the university to stop construction of more housing and classroom space and to keep its enrollment at the same level as the 2020-21 school year. School officials said that meant they would have to reject or offer online-only options to about 2,600 students for the upcoming freshman class whom they had planned to accept on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling stunned lawmakers, parents and anxious applicants awaiting to hear whether they would be admitted this fall. University officials and students pleaded with state lawmakers for an emergency fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in the state Legislature dominated by Democrats responded with unusual speed, writing and passing a bill in just 11 days. Most other bills take up to eight months before they become law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would have shut the doors of college education for thousands of Californians,” said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento. “Our economy requires more college graduates. We know that college is the ticket to the middle class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PhilTing/status/1503515581869264896\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Assemblymember Phil Ting, a UC Berkeley alum, who introduced the legislation with state Sen. Nancy Skinner of Berkeley, said the university was partly to blame for failing to properly plan for campus growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the students should really pay the price for bad bureaucratic decisions and a very poor lawyer,” Ting said on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ thanked legislators for their quick action and said the school is “committed to continuing our efforts to address a student housing crisis through new construction of below market housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers hoped the bill would end the controversy. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/education/#:~:text=CDPH%20strongly%20recommends%20everyone%20continue,the%202021%2D2022%20school%20year.\">Today is the first day\u003c/a> many kids in California can see each other smile or frown throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the state just ended it's indoor mask mandate for schools — the first time kids have had the option to lower their face coverings since most of them returned to in-person classes last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grace Richards is thrilled she doesn’t have to wear her Hello Kitty mask to second grade at her elementary school in Petaluma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can finally take it off and we can finally see everybody's personality!\" said Richards, smiling. “I know I’m going to be safe because we have to stay an arm's distance away from each other while eating and drinking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not exactly true. Richards is still at risk if she’s sitting near someone who's infected. Social-distancing protocols do help lower transmission, though, which is why Garrett Glass is ditching his mask in his fifth grade class in San Anselmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sit, like, three feet apart,” said Glass. “So I'm not that worried about getting it in class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glass wasn't even really fazed when one of his classmates tested positive just last week.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Grace Richards, a second grader in Petaluma\"]'I can finally take it off and we can finally see everybody's personality!'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm pretty sure everybody in our class is fully vaccinated, so I’m not that scared,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet many kids might not understand why it’s suddenly safe to show their face after being told over and over that face coverings save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some children at a playground in Oakland are pretty conflicted about the whole thing. Ten-year-old Kenley Gupta, a fourth grader at Montclair Elementary School in Oakland, doesn’t like her mask, but she’s not quite ready to toss it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of the time it's really uncomfortable and it keeps sliding down my nose,” said Gupta. “It’s just a burden hanging over me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, she says, it’s also scary to take off her pink, tie-dyed mask. \"The virus is still simmering down so I just think it’s best to be safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_0229-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908263\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_0229-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two children wearing masks stand on the playground. 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I've gotten conflicting information from even the higher-ups, you know, from the principals and the coordinators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 1,500 educators in the San Francisco school district may not be receiving their full paychecks or haven’t been paid at all in the last month, according to United Educators of San Francisco, the teachers union, which represents some 6,500 educators in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem stems from the district switching to a new accounting system, but may also speak to deeper troubles in its finance department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turmoil comes as the district and school board leadership are under intense scrutiny for their inability to successfully manage finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Dudnick, a spokesperson for the district, issued a statement saying the district apologizes, takes full responsibility and is trying to fix the issue, blaming problems on the transition from an antiquated payroll system to EMPowerSF, the new system that cost the district $9.5 million to install.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is inexcusable and should not have happened,” Dudnick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says the vast majority of its 10,000 employees have been properly paid through the new system, even as a growing number of teachers are reporting irregularities on their monthly paychecks — issues that first emerged two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has since moved 10 administrative staff from other duties to support payroll, a district spokesperson said in a statement, adding that staff are “working to figure out any error patterns caused by the new process or system configuration so that corrections are made for subsequent pay periods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1196px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908039\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits in a room, smiling, wearing a yellow jacket, perched on the armrest of a sofa.\" width=\"1196\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822.jpg 1196w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822-800x666.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822-1020x849.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822-160x133.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Prince, who teaches ethnic studies at Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School in San Francisco, says he has been waiting three months for his missing pay from the district. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Kyle Prince)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Prince, most of the educators affected are those who have additional jobs outside their main teaching positions — including those working extra hours as paraeducators, substitute teachers or Saturday school instructors.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some teachers, including those on leave, also have reported issues with benefits and withholdings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elisa Romero, a counselor with the district, got a call from her accountant last week. “My accountant was shocked. He told me I owed $8,000 between federal and state [taxes]. I usually owe about $2,000 every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Romero told the district it had under-withheld her taxes in 2021, she said the district told her to go and change her withholding for the current year. But that won’t fix this year's problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will be wiping out a lot of savings to pay this and it feels like a punch in the stomach. I owe a lot of money because the district screwed up,” she said. “It's a bitter pill to swallow. It's very hard to come up with $8,000 by April 18, and I am considering selling my mutual funds to cover it. It just really brought me to tears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the initial cost of installing the new payroll system, the school board last year approved two more payments for transition costs, totaling an additional $4.2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said the additional money was needed for more transitional time and prep,” said school board commissioner Matt Alexander, noting his frustration. “They wanted all that money to make for a smooth rollout, but all the stuff that they were trying to prevent is happening. It is anything but smooth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a hundred educators had to take time off teaching and parent-teacher conferences last week to attend a district pop-up clinic to try to fix their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the district has made out 861 new checks to educators, according to the teachers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it has set up a support-ticketing system to help accurately track and follow up on every issue of nonpayment or underpayment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linh Gee, an English teacher at Burton High, said she filed several tickets since realizing the district underpaid her roughly $4,500 — and was told a payroll specialist would assist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's the third time that I've submitted the ticket, and so far no one has reached out to me,” said Gee, who also teaches online and night classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman smiling.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burton High teacher Linh Gee says she has filed multiple help tickets with the district to recoup the nearly $4,500 the district owes her. 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Vincent Matthews, the district’s current superintendent, has said he is stepping down in June, so the new board will be charged with hiring his successor. Many parents who supported the recall said they wanted a more competent board to select the district’s next leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, the president of Galileo’s Parent Teacher Student Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904873/political-ads-in-sf-school-board-recall-election-target-chinese-speaking-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appeared in pro-recall advertisements\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worked to register Asian American voters\u003c/a> ahead of the special election. She also serves on the SFUSD Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"sf-school-board-recall\"]“Being a first-generation immigrant, I also want to lift up the concerns and interests of the significant immigrant parents community in SFUSD,” said Hsu, who lives in the Richmond District, and started her own business after emigrating from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Motamedi, from the city’s Inner Sunset neighborhood, also has firsthand experience working with San Francisco’s school district, where she helped to oversee school spending as a co-chair of the district’s Public Education Enrichment Fund committee. She\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> also served as a member of its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/lcap-task-force\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local Control and Accountability Plan task force\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My focus is to bring my experience and our collective experience to help all families and children in this city to get the support they need as we do the really, really challenging work to get our district back on track,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward, Breed’s third appointee, lives in the Mission District and is associate director of the Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Joining the board after years of contentious meetings that have at times erupted in bitter clashes among members, parents and students, she underscored the “importance of process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve learned the value and importance of investing time into building rapport in order to better find common ground,” she said. “Because if even at the outset we don’t agree, when we engage in a process that’s thoughtful, that’s transparent and that’s fair, we’ll be in a better position to move things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new superintendent and board will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905363/with-the-school-board-recall-finally-over-whats-next-for-education-politics-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">be tasked with long-standing issues\u003c/a>, such as falling enrollment and racial gaps in academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also is currently trying to solve problems with a new payroll operating system it began using in January. The transition to the new program has left some 200 educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/sfusd-employees-feel-disrespected-after-missing-full-or-partial-paychecks/\">either underpaid or without checks at all\u003c/a>, and is causing problems for nearly 1,000 more, according to the United Educators of San Francisco, which is threatening a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also looming large are the final budget cuts that need approval to solve the district’s $125 million budget deficit. The outgoing board approved all but $3.8 million in cuts, refusing to lay off some 47 paraeducator positions. 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It remains to be seen whether the new board will bow to intense pressure from some parents and alumni to reinstate the school’s merit-based admissions policy, or keep in place the new lottery system, which has helped significantly increase the number of Black and Latino students in this year’s freshman class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/why-californias-education-code-does-not-prohibit-academic-admissions-at-lowell-high-school/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arguments from the Lowell Alumni Association\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C9CSB26EC44E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">district has maintained\u003c/a> that a return to admissions based on academic performance would violate state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questionnaires from the supporters of the recall campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/ann-hsu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hsu\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/lainie-motamedi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motamedi\u003c/a> both said they would support reinstating Lowell’s merit-based admissions process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward stopped short of saying where she stood on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a general matter I’ll say I support equity, I support access and I support academically rigorous programs and I think as many people that can be a part of that is what I support,” she said on Friday. “And we probably need to be lifting up and having more schools that are able to allow students to have these academically rigorous programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next regularly scheduled board meeting is March 22, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> also served as a member of its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/lcap-task-force\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local Control and Accountability Plan task force\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My focus is to bring my experience and our collective experience to help all families and children in this city to get the support they need as we do the really, really challenging work to get our district back on track,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward, Breed’s third appointee, lives in the Mission District and is associate director of the Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Joining the board after years of contentious meetings that have at times erupted in bitter clashes among members, parents and students, she underscored the “importance of process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve learned the value and importance of investing time into building rapport in order to better find common ground,” she said. “Because if even at the outset we don’t agree, when we engage in a process that’s thoughtful, that’s transparent and that’s fair, we’ll be in a better position to move things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new superintendent and board will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905363/with-the-school-board-recall-finally-over-whats-next-for-education-politics-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">be tasked with long-standing issues\u003c/a>, such as falling enrollment and racial gaps in academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also is currently trying to solve problems with a new payroll operating system it began using in January. The transition to the new program has left some 200 educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/sfusd-employees-feel-disrespected-after-missing-full-or-partial-paychecks/\">either underpaid or without checks at all\u003c/a>, and is causing problems for nearly 1,000 more, according to the United Educators of San Francisco, which is threatening a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also looming large are the final budget cuts that need approval to solve the district’s $125 million budget deficit. The outgoing board approved all but $3.8 million in cuts, refusing to lay off some 47 paraeducator positions. Instead, it asked the district to cut more management positions, and delayed delivery of its second interim budget report to the state — which it now must submit by March 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we fight for the schools our students deserve, we look forward to working with the 3 BOE appointees,” the city’s teachers union said in a statement. “Educators know our students deserve stable, staffed & funded schools to thrive and hope the BOE is prepared to work with educators, families & our communities to achieve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite waning COVID-19 case levels in the city, the pandemic continues to pose challenges to how schools are run. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:00 p.m. March 6\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier versions of this story included outdated enrollment impact estimates, which were supplied by UC Berkeley officials to CalMatters. The story has been updated to reflect revised numbers from UC Berkeley, which indicate a less dire impact on new students than the university’s past statements and projections had suggested. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley will be able to enroll almost all the roughly 9,200 students it planned for this coming academic year, even though the California Supreme Court Thursday refused to strike down a lower court’s order that the university cut its campus enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the undergraduates we planned to enroll will be enrolled next year,” said Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor of public affairs at UC Berkeley, during a phone interview with CalMatters Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the lower court said UC Berkeley must whittle down its campus enrollment by about 3,000 students, that still leaves room for new students to attend online in the fall or start their classes next spring, when the campus population declines as other students graduate early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By asking roughly 1,000 new students to take all their classes online in the fall and another 650 to begin their UC Berkeley educations in spring of 2023, the university won’t have to leave any students behind in the 2022-23 academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the campus will miss some enrollment targets. Because some of the 125 graduate school programs hadn’t yet sent out their admissions offers, the enrollment cap means 400 fewer new graduate students in engineering, business and law programs will attend the university next year, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a different degree of fallout than campus officials warned could happen. That UC Berkeley has to cut its campus population at all stems from Alameda Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/02/uc-berkeley-admissions-cuts-prioritize-californians/\">order last year to hold UC Berkeley’s enrollment at 2020-21 levels\u003c/a>, after residents in the city of Berkeley sued the university, challenging the impact the school’s enrollment growth would have on city services, scarce local housing and noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basis of that suit and court decisions, the 1970 California Environmental Quality Act, centers anew the state’s marquee environmental protection law as either a source of ire for backers of urban density and housing developers or as a chief weapon to preserve communities and the surrounding environments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a statement from UC Berkeley said the state Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene “is devastating news for the thousands of students who have worked so hard for and have earned a seat in our fall 2022 class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new press statement from Mogulof on Friday said, “[T]he harm caused by this court decision extends beyond the students who should be offered an in-person seat in our fall 2022 class. It impacts prospective students generally, our campus operations, and the university’s ability to serve students by meeting the enrollment targets set by the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision wasn’t unanimous. In a dissenting statement, Justice Goodwin Liu wrote that he would have granted UC Berkeley’s request to block the enrollment cap. He urged the sides to try to quickly resolve the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Phil Bokovoy, president of Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, the group that brought the suit against UC Berkeley, said he was “pleased” with the Supreme Court’s decision but that “we’d like to assure deserving California high school students that we are as disappointed as they are that UC has tried to use them as pawns in UC’s attempts to avoid mitigating the impacts from the massive enrollment increases over the past few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Liu’s comments, \u003ca href=\"http://saveberkeleysneighborhoods.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Press-release-Save-Berkeleys-Neighborhoods-offers-partial-relief-to-UC-5-March-22.pdf\">Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods proposed a compromise deal\u003c/a> in a press release on Saturday, March 5. The group’s proposal would allow UC Berkeley to enroll a total of 43,347 students, instead of the 42,347 allowed under the Supreme Court’s ruling, but it would be conditional. The group would require that 90% of new undergraduates be California residents (in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://pages.github.berkeley.edu/OPA/our-berkeley/100-students.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">73% \u003c/a>of newly matriculated students were), and UC Berkeley would not be allowed to seek further legal action on this matter in the courts or state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof told KQED that UC Berkeley officials take issue with the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this small group of litigants is asking for is authority to determine enrollment at the University of California, Berkeley,” Mogulof said. He went on to say, “Enrollment decisions of the universities should not be in the hands of a small group of private citizens who have no accountability and no expertise in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After telling CalMatters that all the undergraduates the university had planned to enroll will be able to attend, Mogulof emailed a short time later to clarify that most of, but not all, the students would be able to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of this is exact,” he said. “These are all rounded numbers that fluctuate year to year. Yes, we usually hover around 9,500 new undergrads a year. … This year, before the court ruling, we originally planned on on 9,310 … and now we’re looking at 9,144 plus an expanded wait list of 150 that will provide us with more flexibility in potentially enrolling additional students if, for example, there is a legislative fix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question becomes where might those students who would have been admitted to Berkeley end up going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now those fears are largely neutralized because the enrollment cap isn’t reducing the total number of new students the university will be able to enroll this coming academic year. There’s still tumult for students and the university, though. For the 1,650 students who’ll have to start online or in the fall, the start of their academic careers “is going to look nothing like what they wanted and hoped for,” Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus has some wiggle room with the enrollment cap because the campus population typically goes down marginally in the spring as students graduate early or attend off-campus programs in cities like Sacramento and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its new students starting this fall and in person, the university will also prioritize in-state students over students who don’t have residency in California. In the past few years, about a quarter of undergraduates have typically come from out of state. But UC Berkeley will aim to lower that ratio substantially for this year — just 9% of students, or 641, will be nonresidents, and the remaining 6,334 new students will be Californians. Overall, 7,171 of the new 9,144 undergraduates, about 79%, who are expected to enter next year will be Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This follows a CalMatters analysis that the campus could find a way to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/02/uc-berkeley-admissions-cuts-prioritize-californians/\">enroll more Californians by excluding some out-of-state students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley said Friday its in-person campus population has to go down by roughly 2,600 students, not the 3,000 it previously estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers and legal scholars had previously said that if the state Supreme Court kept Seligman’s order in place, it would open the door for other communities to sue campuses for their enrollment growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an enormous limit on what any UC school, any Cal State school, any public school system can do,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley’s law school, in a conversation with CalMatters before the Supreme Court issued its decision Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Thursday’s court decision wasn’t about the full merits of the case but instead was about Seligman’s decision to cap enrollment. A state court of appeals is expected to hear the full case later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers could try to fast-track a bill to exempt campus enrollment from the state’s environmental quality act, a lawmaker said last month. But UC Berkeley is supposed to inform students by March 24 whether they’re admitted and some were already informed Feb. 11. Meanwhile, May 1 is the deadline for students to put down deposits to attend the campus — and the typical deadline for colleges across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers “don’t need much time to put that together,” texted Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento. “We’re on the case and aware of the deadlines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a law would be a “missed opportunity,” said UC Davis law professor Chris Elmendorf, because it wouldn’t address what he says is the environmental act’s major flaw: It views population growth of any kind as pollution in urban settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KMGguyqRPfNjmRTNEkFK_E0pUNRnEfSnerfTcRN_qE/edit\">student government implored the state Legislature\u003c/a> today to exempt campus enrollment from the environmental act’s restrictions. In the past, Berkeley students were critical of the university’s housing plans because they threatened to displace lower-income city residents. The campus has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/12/16/student-housing-uc-berkeley-walnut-street-demolition\">demolished an eight-unit rent-controlled building\u003c/a> to make room for a new student housing complex. The students fear less revenue from fewer students will make it harder for the campus to meet its student housing goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the act’s backers say it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/02/ceqa-advances-environmental-justice-so-why-all-the-hate/\">protects communities from pollution\u003c/a> and is unfairly pilloried by public agencies and developers who want to build housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley argued in court filings that if it could not enroll the 3,000 students previously expected to be excluded this fall, it would lose out on $57 million in annual tuition payments for at least four years. The actual hit to UC’s bottom line will be much less now that it can enroll almost every student it sought for this coming fall. The students starting in the spring and the lower number of graduate students will lead to revenue declines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the current lawsuit technically concerns a housing and academic development for the Goldman School of Public Policy, the larger issue is whether UC Berkeley failed to adequately measure the impact its enrollment growth would have on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley said in its 2005 multiyear construction plan that its 2020 enrollment would be around 33,000 students. But the campus actually hit nearly 43,000 students in the fall of 2020. While the campus far exceeded its enrollment caps, UC Berkeley built fewer housing slots for students than it had anticipated. By 2020 the campus said it would have 10,790 beds but to date can house just 9,800 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit brought forth by Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods argues UC Berkeley never did a proper assessment of how that added enrollment growth affects the surrounding area. And without that analysis, the campus can’t proceed with any other construction plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seligman agreed. And the state Supreme Court agreed with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley contends budget shortfalls caused by the Great Recession and declining state support for much of that period meant less money to invest in student housing. The campus also spent “a significant amount of its housing reserves to seismically retrofit three of our existing residential facilities,” said Mogulof, the UC Berkeley spokesperson. And, he said, while the campus had identified land for as many as \u003ca href=\"https://evcp.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/housing_master_plan_task_force_final_draft_january_2017.pdf\">5,000 beds in a 2017 report\u003c/a>, those properties already included existing structures like parking lots and academic buildings that would have to be torn down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in the past year have proposed or approved \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/\">$7 billion in campus housing loans and grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other legal scholars say enrollment growth isn’t an issue that’s relevant to the case. “The trial court’s ruling was wrong on many levels. The court had no jurisdiction in deciding the Goldman School case to impose limits on Berkeley’s student population; that was simply not at issue,” wrote Chemerinsky in a Sacramento Bee essay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public officials, most prominently Gov. Gavin Newsom, said students will be locked out of an elite education. Denying enrollment at UC Berkeley “would be irreparably damaging” and “also undermine the State’s broad interest in expanding access to higher education, especially at the State’s flagship undergraduate institutions,” Newsom’s brief to the state Supreme Court said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public data suggests nearly all UC Berkeley applicants admitted as first-year students end up at a college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, just 5%, or 656, of \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/admit-destinations\">UC Berkeley’s admitted freshmen didn’t attend a college\u003c/a>, or their college destinations were unknown. Nearly half — 45% — who were admitted ended up attending the university. The remaining half largely made their way to strong institutions, including 16% to other UCs and 24% to selective private universities that typically have strong financial aid packages for students with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, those stats apply to a normal year, not when a large campus like UC Berkeley is unable to enroll the 3,000 new freshmen and transfer students officials previously feared would lose a spot. Given the popularity of the whole UC system, other campuses within the system would have struggled to accommodate those students, which could have affected enrollment capacity at other public and private colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bokovoy, of Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, pointed out during a Zoom press conference following the state Supreme Court’s decision that in the past decade, the percentage of students receiving the federal Pell grant intended for students with lower incomes dropped from 33% to 27% at UC Berkeley. He argued high rents in the community and insufficient student housing have pushed students with lower incomes out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, Bokovoy wrote in an email that the group “would like a legally binding agreement that ties enrollment growth to the production of housing on land UC already owns” — which would mean the campus can’t add more students until it builds more housing. In past conversations, he cited the \u003ca href=\"https://lrdp.ucsc.edu/settlement-agreement.pdf\">2008 legal settlement between UC Santa Cruz and local government\u003c/a> that tied campus enrollment growth to more housing as a model for what UC Berkeley could pursue. But that deal also came with an enrollment cap of 19,500 students for what ended up being 15 years. At the time of the deal, UC Santa Cruz’s enrollment was around 16,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several times Bokovoy denied a UC Berkeley claim that he is pushing for an enrollment cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley won’t agree to any enrollment cap, Mogulof said. The campus struck a deal last year with the city of Berkeley that \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/07/14/uc-berkeley-payment-settlement-agreement\">it will pay the city $4 million a year\u003c/a> regardless of whether the campus reaches its housing production goals. The city was an initial plaintiff in the lawsuit against UC Berkeley but settled with the campus before Seligman issued his enrollment cap. \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-02-18-Amicus-Curiae-Letter-Supreme-Court-Case-No.-S273160.pdf\">The city never sought an enrollment cap\u003c/a>; in fact, its legal team wrote to the state Supreme Court in a request to side with the UC campus and lift the enrollment cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another campus, UC Davis, made a promise to tie enrollment growth to more housing but \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavis.app.box.com/s/gq0jfianaphpgtafrzvoqe3hq5fwxlz8\">the penalty for missing its targets is $500 per bed\u003c/a>, according to a legal deal it made with the local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bokovoy said UC Berkeley could expand its campus elsewhere in the Bay Area and not in the city of Berkeley, such as in nearby Richmond. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-Berkeley-suspends-plans-to-build-Global-Campus-9187281.php\">Early plans for a satellite campus\u003c/a> there fell through in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, if community groups target other campuses for their enrollment growth, those lawsuits may be short-lived if the court of appeals overturns Seligman’s ruling once it hears the full UC Berkeley case later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemerinsky, the UC Berkeley law school dean, said the UC Berkeley case introduces larger questions about the state’s main environmental law at the center of the lawsuit and the role courts play in university affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a real question of how much do we want the courts in the name of [the environmental law] to be controlling enrollment in the UC system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Haley Gray contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That UC Berkeley has to cut its campus population at all stems from Alameda Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/02/uc-berkeley-admissions-cuts-prioritize-californians/\">order last year to hold UC Berkeley’s enrollment at 2020-21 levels\u003c/a>, after residents in the city of Berkeley sued the university, challenging the impact the school’s enrollment growth would have on city services, scarce local housing and noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basis of that suit and court decisions, the 1970 California Environmental Quality Act, centers anew the state’s marquee environmental protection law as either a source of ire for backers of urban density and housing developers or as a chief weapon to preserve communities and the surrounding environments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a statement from UC Berkeley said the state Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene “is devastating news for the thousands of students who have worked so hard for and have earned a seat in our fall 2022 class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new press statement from Mogulof on Friday said, “[T]he harm caused by this court decision extends beyond the students who should be offered an in-person seat in our fall 2022 class. It impacts prospective students generally, our campus operations, and the university’s ability to serve students by meeting the enrollment targets set by the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision wasn’t unanimous. In a dissenting statement, Justice Goodwin Liu wrote that he would have granted UC Berkeley’s request to block the enrollment cap. He urged the sides to try to quickly resolve the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Phil Bokovoy, president of Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, the group that brought the suit against UC Berkeley, said he was “pleased” with the Supreme Court’s decision but that “we’d like to assure deserving California high school students that we are as disappointed as they are that UC has tried to use them as pawns in UC’s attempts to avoid mitigating the impacts from the massive enrollment increases over the past few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Liu’s comments, \u003ca href=\"http://saveberkeleysneighborhoods.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Press-release-Save-Berkeleys-Neighborhoods-offers-partial-relief-to-UC-5-March-22.pdf\">Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods proposed a compromise deal\u003c/a> in a press release on Saturday, March 5. The group’s proposal would allow UC Berkeley to enroll a total of 43,347 students, instead of the 42,347 allowed under the Supreme Court’s ruling, but it would be conditional. The group would require that 90% of new undergraduates be California residents (in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://pages.github.berkeley.edu/OPA/our-berkeley/100-students.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">73% \u003c/a>of newly matriculated students were), and UC Berkeley would not be allowed to seek further legal action on this matter in the courts or state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof told KQED that UC Berkeley officials take issue with the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this small group of litigants is asking for is authority to determine enrollment at the University of California, Berkeley,” Mogulof said. He went on to say, “Enrollment decisions of the universities should not be in the hands of a small group of private citizens who have no accountability and no expertise in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After telling CalMatters that all the undergraduates the university had planned to enroll will be able to attend, Mogulof emailed a short time later to clarify that most of, but not all, the students would be able to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of this is exact,” he said. “These are all rounded numbers that fluctuate year to year. Yes, we usually hover around 9,500 new undergrads a year. … This year, before the court ruling, we originally planned on on 9,310 … and now we’re looking at 9,144 plus an expanded wait list of 150 that will provide us with more flexibility in potentially enrolling additional students if, for example, there is a legislative fix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question becomes where might those students who would have been admitted to Berkeley end up going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now those fears are largely neutralized because the enrollment cap isn’t reducing the total number of new students the university will be able to enroll this coming academic year. There’s still tumult for students and the university, though. For the 1,650 students who’ll have to start online or in the fall, the start of their academic careers “is going to look nothing like what they wanted and hoped for,” Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus has some wiggle room with the enrollment cap because the campus population typically goes down marginally in the spring as students graduate early or attend off-campus programs in cities like Sacramento and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its new students starting this fall and in person, the university will also prioritize in-state students over students who don’t have residency in California. In the past few years, about a quarter of undergraduates have typically come from out of state. But UC Berkeley will aim to lower that ratio substantially for this year — just 9% of students, or 641, will be nonresidents, and the remaining 6,334 new students will be Californians. Overall, 7,171 of the new 9,144 undergraduates, about 79%, who are expected to enter next year will be Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This follows a CalMatters analysis that the campus could find a way to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/02/uc-berkeley-admissions-cuts-prioritize-californians/\">enroll more Californians by excluding some out-of-state students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley said Friday its in-person campus population has to go down by roughly 2,600 students, not the 3,000 it previously estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers and legal scholars had previously said that if the state Supreme Court kept Seligman’s order in place, it would open the door for other communities to sue campuses for their enrollment growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an enormous limit on what any UC school, any Cal State school, any public school system can do,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley’s law school, in a conversation with CalMatters before the Supreme Court issued its decision Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Thursday’s court decision wasn’t about the full merits of the case but instead was about Seligman’s decision to cap enrollment. A state court of appeals is expected to hear the full case later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers could try to fast-track a bill to exempt campus enrollment from the state’s environmental quality act, a lawmaker said last month. But UC Berkeley is supposed to inform students by March 24 whether they’re admitted and some were already informed Feb. 11. Meanwhile, May 1 is the deadline for students to put down deposits to attend the campus — and the typical deadline for colleges across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers “don’t need much time to put that together,” texted Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento. “We’re on the case and aware of the deadlines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a law would be a “missed opportunity,” said UC Davis law professor Chris Elmendorf, because it wouldn’t address what he says is the environmental act’s major flaw: It views population growth of any kind as pollution in urban settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KMGguyqRPfNjmRTNEkFK_E0pUNRnEfSnerfTcRN_qE/edit\">student government implored the state Legislature\u003c/a> today to exempt campus enrollment from the environmental act’s restrictions. In the past, Berkeley students were critical of the university’s housing plans because they threatened to displace lower-income city residents. The campus has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/12/16/student-housing-uc-berkeley-walnut-street-demolition\">demolished an eight-unit rent-controlled building\u003c/a> to make room for a new student housing complex. The students fear less revenue from fewer students will make it harder for the campus to meet its student housing goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the act’s backers say it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/02/ceqa-advances-environmental-justice-so-why-all-the-hate/\">protects communities from pollution\u003c/a> and is unfairly pilloried by public agencies and developers who want to build housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley argued in court filings that if it could not enroll the 3,000 students previously expected to be excluded this fall, it would lose out on $57 million in annual tuition payments for at least four years. The actual hit to UC’s bottom line will be much less now that it can enroll almost every student it sought for this coming fall. The students starting in the spring and the lower number of graduate students will lead to revenue declines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the current lawsuit technically concerns a housing and academic development for the Goldman School of Public Policy, the larger issue is whether UC Berkeley failed to adequately measure the impact its enrollment growth would have on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley said in its 2005 multiyear construction plan that its 2020 enrollment would be around 33,000 students. But the campus actually hit nearly 43,000 students in the fall of 2020. While the campus far exceeded its enrollment caps, UC Berkeley built fewer housing slots for students than it had anticipated. By 2020 the campus said it would have 10,790 beds but to date can house just 9,800 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit brought forth by Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods argues UC Berkeley never did a proper assessment of how that added enrollment growth affects the surrounding area. And without that analysis, the campus can’t proceed with any other construction plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seligman agreed. And the state Supreme Court agreed with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley contends budget shortfalls caused by the Great Recession and declining state support for much of that period meant less money to invest in student housing. The campus also spent “a significant amount of its housing reserves to seismically retrofit three of our existing residential facilities,” said Mogulof, the UC Berkeley spokesperson. And, he said, while the campus had identified land for as many as \u003ca href=\"https://evcp.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/housing_master_plan_task_force_final_draft_january_2017.pdf\">5,000 beds in a 2017 report\u003c/a>, those properties already included existing structures like parking lots and academic buildings that would have to be torn down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in the past year have proposed or approved \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/01/student-housing-2/\">$7 billion in campus housing loans and grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other legal scholars say enrollment growth isn’t an issue that’s relevant to the case. “The trial court’s ruling was wrong on many levels. The court had no jurisdiction in deciding the Goldman School case to impose limits on Berkeley’s student population; that was simply not at issue,” wrote Chemerinsky in a Sacramento Bee essay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public officials, most prominently Gov. Gavin Newsom, said students will be locked out of an elite education. Denying enrollment at UC Berkeley “would be irreparably damaging” and “also undermine the State’s broad interest in expanding access to higher education, especially at the State’s flagship undergraduate institutions,” Newsom’s brief to the state Supreme Court said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public data suggests nearly all UC Berkeley applicants admitted as first-year students end up at a college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, just 5%, or 656, of \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/admit-destinations\">UC Berkeley’s admitted freshmen didn’t attend a college\u003c/a>, or their college destinations were unknown. Nearly half — 45% — who were admitted ended up attending the university. The remaining half largely made their way to strong institutions, including 16% to other UCs and 24% to selective private universities that typically have strong financial aid packages for students with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, those stats apply to a normal year, not when a large campus like UC Berkeley is unable to enroll the 3,000 new freshmen and transfer students officials previously feared would lose a spot. Given the popularity of the whole UC system, other campuses within the system would have struggled to accommodate those students, which could have affected enrollment capacity at other public and private colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bokovoy, of Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, pointed out during a Zoom press conference following the state Supreme Court’s decision that in the past decade, the percentage of students receiving the federal Pell grant intended for students with lower incomes dropped from 33% to 27% at UC Berkeley. He argued high rents in the community and insufficient student housing have pushed students with lower incomes out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, Bokovoy wrote in an email that the group “would like a legally binding agreement that ties enrollment growth to the production of housing on land UC already owns” — which would mean the campus can’t add more students until it builds more housing. In past conversations, he cited the \u003ca href=\"https://lrdp.ucsc.edu/settlement-agreement.pdf\">2008 legal settlement between UC Santa Cruz and local government\u003c/a> that tied campus enrollment growth to more housing as a model for what UC Berkeley could pursue. But that deal also came with an enrollment cap of 19,500 students for what ended up being 15 years. At the time of the deal, UC Santa Cruz’s enrollment was around 16,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several times Bokovoy denied a UC Berkeley claim that he is pushing for an enrollment cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley won’t agree to any enrollment cap, Mogulof said. The campus struck a deal last year with the city of Berkeley that \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/07/14/uc-berkeley-payment-settlement-agreement\">it will pay the city $4 million a year\u003c/a> regardless of whether the campus reaches its housing production goals. The city was an initial plaintiff in the lawsuit against UC Berkeley but settled with the campus before Seligman issued his enrollment cap. \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-02-18-Amicus-Curiae-Letter-Supreme-Court-Case-No.-S273160.pdf\">The city never sought an enrollment cap\u003c/a>; in fact, its legal team wrote to the state Supreme Court in a request to side with the UC campus and lift the enrollment cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another campus, UC Davis, made a promise to tie enrollment growth to more housing but \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavis.app.box.com/s/gq0jfianaphpgtafrzvoqe3hq5fwxlz8\">the penalty for missing its targets is $500 per bed\u003c/a>, according to a legal deal it made with the local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bokovoy said UC Berkeley could expand its campus elsewhere in the Bay Area and not in the city of Berkeley, such as in nearby Richmond. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-Berkeley-suspends-plans-to-build-Global-Campus-9187281.php\">Early plans for a satellite campus\u003c/a> there fell through in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, if community groups target other campuses for their enrollment growth, those lawsuits may be short-lived if the court of appeals overturns Seligman’s ruling once it hears the full UC Berkeley case later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemerinsky, the UC Berkeley law school dean, said the UC Berkeley case introduces larger questions about the state’s main environmental law at the center of the lawsuit and the role courts play in university affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a real question of how much do we want the courts in the name of [the environmental law] to be controlling enrollment in the UC system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But it is scrambling to keep its prospective students and will increase online enrollment and also ask new, incoming students to delay enrollment until January 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The lower court order leaves us with options that are far from ideal,\" the statement said. \"We believe this effort is preferable to drastically reducing the number of offers of admissions and denying so many students a Berkeley education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the university expects to present its case before the California Court of Appeal this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s decision is the result of a legal battle with a residents group called Save Berkeley Neighborhoods that sued the university for failing to address the effect of increased student enrollment on housing, homelessness, traffic and noise. 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It contends that a dearth of on-campus housing forces students to find alternatives around the city, in a process that ultimately displace lower-income city residents, fuels homelessness and strains city resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Bokovoy, the president of the group, says he's pleased with the court's decision but not with the way the university is handling it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re not happy that deserving California high school students have been used as pawns in UC Berkeley’s attempts to avoid mitigating the impact from those massive enrollment increases,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freezing enrollment means that UC Berkeley would not be able to offer an additional 3,050 seats for incoming first-year and transfer students as planned for the fall of 2022, and stands to lose at least $57 million in tuition, officials said. 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In that same time period, hospitalizations dropped by 48%, and test positivity rates dropped by more than half, to 2.9%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think those local details, those local conditions are really going to guide,” said Ghaly. “We are saying at the state level that if the conditions warrant it and the conversations go to it, those districts, those jurisdictions should feel empowered to keep masking in place because that is the decision that they’re making to keep their community safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaly also noted how the state’s approach has helped California keep schools open, with the percentage of closures far lower than the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he acknowledged that some parents may still be frustrated with the state’s school masking decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you that we know for each person out there who may have one view of the decision today that there is another family, another young person who has a different view,” Ghaly said. “So public health is not necessarily about balance, it’s about leading with data and science and communicating clearly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ventura County, Simi Valley Unified School District Superintendent Jason Peplinski welcomed the news, saying his school board would have allowed kids to go maskless inside schools months ago if it hadn’t been for the state’s restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a lot of angst around this topic for the last few months and it was increasingly less civil,” said Peplinski, adding that most of his school community is grateful for the policy shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now the other side of this topic is there are still parents that probably would prefer that all kids are masked,” said Peplinski. “There probably are still employees that would prefer that all students wear masks. 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I literally lost someone just last week that I know in my industry to COVID,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland Unified, parent Pecolia Manigo said when the state leaves it up to districts and local public health officials to decide what is safe, it puts the responsibility on families and on students to have to defend what they believe is safe for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It also truly creates racial tensions, in the middle school, in the high schools,” said Manigo. “Because, you know, the students who are not feeling safe are not backed up and not reaffirmed by often staff who may have their own opinions shared or not. And so it’s an unfortunate situation. It’s unfortunate because it tells certain communities that even though you might have a right to feel safe, we’re not going to protect that right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week’s federal guidance shift on masks in schools came two weeks after several states controlled by Democrats, including Oregon, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey, already relaxed their school masking rules. On Sunday, New York’s governor said the state would lift its mask mandate on March 2. Several states have banned masks in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National teachers organizations welcomed the CDC’s move away from universal masking. The American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten cautioned, however, against bullying those who want to remain masked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some parents, students and educators will still choose to wear masks, and there should be no stigma for those who do so. 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It’s unfortunate because it tells certain communities that even though you might have a right to feel safe, we’re not going to protect that right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week’s federal guidance shift on masks in schools came two weeks after several states controlled by Democrats, including Oregon, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey, already relaxed their school masking rules. On Sunday, New York’s governor said the state would lift its mask mandate on March 2. Several states have banned masks in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National teachers organizations welcomed the CDC’s move away from universal masking. The American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten cautioned, however, against bullying those who want to remain masked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some parents, students and educators will still choose to wear masks, and there should be no stigma for those who do so. 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