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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Earlier versions of this story included outdated enrollment impact estimates, which were supplied by UC Berkeley officials to CalMatters.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. The university typically offers admission to roughly 21,000 first-year and transfer students, about 9,500 of whom enroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An appeals court last month denied UC Berkeley's request to lift the enrollment freeze as the case continues. The decision prompted Gov. 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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It is a step in the right direction in general, but I do have some concerns and it goes back to fear as a parent because we are still not out of it. 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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We urge local school districts to continue to work with educators and families and to act cautiously while prioritizing the safety of students, educators, and their families,” Boyd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Cassondra Curiel, who heads the teachers union, also welcomed a way to ease mask requirements, stating that United Educators of San Francisco would work with the district and the city to “meet the needs of San Francisco students, families, staff, and educators. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll out last week, of nearly 9,000 California registered voters, 65% approved of requiring masks in schools. In the Bay Area, 74% approved. However, opinions split radically along party lines, with 87% of Democrats approving and just 26% of Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And parents who continue to lack confidence that their children are safe from the virus while in school may balk at any lifting of mask restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Berkeley IGS poll, Latino and Black parents expressed less confidence than white and Asian parents that their child was safe from the virus while in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any divide over making masks optional could cause problems inside schools. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2022/02/california-mask-mandate-student-life/\">CalMatters reported\u003c/a> on tensions between groups of students at Nevada Joint Union High, south of Nevada City, last week over whether masks should be worn. CalMatters reported that so many of the district’s teachers called in sick in response to the district voting to lift its mask mandate, several schools were shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Halima Watson, a first-year student at Oakland Technical High School, said that even if her district lifts the mask mandate, she’ll keep her mask on to keep others safe. “Because everyone reacts differently to COVID,” she said. “I have a friend who had it and she has had neurological problems and she’s had shaking with her body. I feel like it’s better to keep masking, but I feel like there are a lot of kids who don’t wear their masks properly so I don’t know if it will make much of a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halima said there are already tensions inside her school about kids who don’t take the masking rule seriously. “There’s this kid who I sit next to in geometry who is very, like, whenever another kid has their mask off, he’s like, ‘Put your mask on.’ A lot of people would probably be very against it [lifting the mask mandate].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halima’s mom, Kim Watson, predicts if the district has a stricter set of rules than the CDC and the state, it is going to be difficult for teachers trying to insist kids wear their masks. “It could cause tension between peers and also between educators and students,” Watson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some districts across California are already allowing students not to wear masks inside, defying state rules. 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"content": "\u003cp>After winning the gold medal in the 400-meter race in the Berlin Olympics in 1936, \u003ca href=\"https://xs.pac-12.com/2021-08/Archie_Williams.png\">Oakland-born Archie Williams was honored with a parade\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when he graduated from UC Berkeley with a mechanical engineering degree in 1939, he couldn't get hired in his chosen field because he was Black. So he dug ditches for the East Bay Municipal Utility District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The life story of Archie Williams is filled with highs and lows and, most of all, perseverance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to learn to fly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/02/28/little-told-story-tuskegee-weathermen/\">helped teach the Tuskegee Airmen to fly during World War II and had a career as an Air Force meteorologist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1993/06/26/a-hero-of-berlin-olympics-dies/5bbcabc6-c29d-447c-86fe-46bf529c1c03/\">Williams died in 1993\u003c/a>. Just last year, San Anselmo's Sir Francis Drake High School \u003ca href=\"https://marinmagazine.com/community/who-was-archie-williams-the-story-behind-the-renaming-of-a-san-anselmo-high-school/\">was renamed Archie Williams High School\u003c/a> in honor of the man who was a beloved math and computer science teacher at the school for over 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you learn about Williams's incredible life, then the life of a 14th-century human trafficker from England — whose name the school used to bear — doesn't seem so worthy of honor, even if he did sail around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For an even more detailed account of Archie Williams's life, I highly recommend reading \u003ca href=\"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/rohoia/ucb/text/joyofflyingthe00willrich.pdf\">this oral history from UC Berkeley's \"Black Alumni Series.\"\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11905897 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: shows Archie Williams wearing his Olympic gold medal. He got a degree from UC Berkeley in engineering, ran track and went on to win a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01-1536x1536.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11906063 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: Archie Williams with Nazi flags and crowds in the background. Williams says, "I was aware of their super race, whatever, 'Aryan Supremacy,' but they didn't prove it to us!"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a-1536x1536.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11905899 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: Williams faced discrimination back in the U.S. Cartoon shows him digging a ditch for East Bay Municipal Utility District since no one would hire a black man for his engineering degree.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03-1536x1536.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin04a.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11906065 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin04a-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: a plane soars over clouds, Archie Williams pictured below in a flight helmet with goggles. Williams learned to fly at the Oakland Airport and went on to help teach Tuskegee Airmen how to fly.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin04a-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin04a-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin04a-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin04a-1536x1536.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin04a.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin05.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11905901 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin05-1020x1020.png\" alt='Cartoon: an older Williams writes on a weather map. Text: After a career as an Air Force meteorologist... he became a much-loved math and computer science teacher in Marin & coached track & field at what is now called \"Archie Williams High School.\"' width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin05-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin05-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin05-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin05-1536x1536.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin05.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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So he dug ditches for the East Bay Municipal Utility District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The life story of Archie Williams is filled with highs and lows and, most of all, perseverance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to learn to fly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/02/28/little-told-story-tuskegee-weathermen/\">helped teach the Tuskegee Airmen to fly during World War II and had a career as an Air Force meteorologist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1993/06/26/a-hero-of-berlin-olympics-dies/5bbcabc6-c29d-447c-86fe-46bf529c1c03/\">Williams died in 1993\u003c/a>. Just last year, San Anselmo's Sir Francis Drake High School \u003ca href=\"https://marinmagazine.com/community/who-was-archie-williams-the-story-behind-the-renaming-of-a-san-anselmo-high-school/\">was renamed Archie Williams High School\u003c/a> in honor of the man who was a beloved math and computer science teacher at the school for over 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you learn about Williams's incredible life, then the life of a 14th-century human trafficker from England — whose name the school used to bear — doesn't seem so worthy of honor, even if he did sail around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For an even more detailed account of Archie Williams's life, I highly recommend reading \u003ca href=\"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/rohoia/ucb/text/joyofflyingthe00willrich.pdf\">this oral history from UC Berkeley's \"Black Alumni Series.\"\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11905897 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: shows Archie Williams wearing his Olympic gold medal. He got a degree from UC Berkeley in engineering, ran track and went on to win a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01-1536x1536.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin01.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11906063 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: Archie Williams with Nazi flags and crowds in the background. Williams says, "I was aware of their super race, whatever, 'Aryan Supremacy,' but they didn't prove it to us!"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a-1536x1536.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin02a.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11905899 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: Williams faced discrimination back in the U.S. Cartoon shows him digging a ditch for East Bay Municipal Utility District since no one would hire a black man for his engineering degree.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03-1536x1536.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin03.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin04a.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11906065 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/archiewilliams_fin04a-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: a plane soars over clouds, Archie Williams pictured below in a flight helmet with goggles. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Saturday afternoon, Oakland Unified School District employee Timothy Killings stood in front of a crowd of parents, teachers and community members scattered across the lawn at Markham Elementary School in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of this town hall is to bring the sites under the most immediate threat together, so we could get some plans of actions going,” he said. “Truth be told, we should have been in the streets, like, yesterday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group had assembled to plan protests of the district's planned school consolidations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in clusters together in the grass, looking like students at recess, participants debated whether or not teachers should strike, school board members should be recalled, and other solutions, like lobbying state lawmakers in Sacramento to send funding to stave off the district’s budget woes. One idea floated would even see opponents of school closures partner with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union workers at Oakland’s port, since both say they are fighting privatization — of the port and of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When not organizing resistance, Killings is a case manager at Oakland Unified School District’s Westlake Middle School. But on Saturday, his day off, he helped organize Oakland residents to push back against the district's proposed school closures, mergers and grade truncations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905987\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11905987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7909-1.jpg\" alt=\"A few dozen people sit in the grass, many cross-legged, facing a speaker that is off-camera. A baskteball court and the street can be seen in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7909-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7909-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7909-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7909-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7909-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gathered on a lawn at Markham Elementary School Saturday to plan protests of OUSD’s planned school consolidations. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The latest version of the district’s plan would close two schools — Parker K-8 and Community Day — this year. Five other schools—Korematsu, Horace Mann, Brookfield, Carl B. Munck and Grass Valley — would be shuttered at the end of the 2022-2023 school year. Lastly, two additional schools — Rise Community Elementary and New Highland Academy — would be merged this year, and another two — Hillcrest and La Escuelita — would see the number of grades they teach decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904618/oakland-moves-to-close-seven-schools-despite-fierce-community-opposition\">As KQED reported earlier this month\u003c/a>, an estimated 93% of students at the schools affected by the plan are considered either lower-income, English learners or foster youth, compared to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Oakland-Unified\">district-wide average of about 80%\u003c/a>. Black students are also disproportionately affected – about 43% of students at the eight sites on the original school closure list are Black, almost twice the proportion of Black students in the entire district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district's plan for school closures was originally announced at the end of January, and attributed to\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/12/17/oakland-unified-budget-deficit-enrollment-attendance/\"> a roughly $40 million budget deficit and declining enrollment\u003c/a>. The plan was amended, decreasing the number of schools affected, on February 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, February 18, the school board held an emergency meeting to consider further changes to the plan but, at the end of the night, voted to move forward with the plan they had already approved that would see schools shutter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s plan faced opposition from the start, and after the emergency meeting that resistance is blossoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Timothy Killings, organizer and Oakland educator\"]'Truth be told, we should have been in the streets, like, yesterday.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, parents and alumni of Parker K-8 rallied on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland’s Eastmont neighborhood. Around 20 frustrated parents, alumni and people living in the neighborhood waved signs and drummed up enthusiasm, in the form of honks, from passing cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those fed-up parents rallying was Rochelle Jenkins, who worries for the education of her three OUSD students. Jenkins spoke to passing cars through a speaker. She directed her words to board members through a loudspeaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How dare you guys come down and try to take the thing that is needed in each and every last community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins says she plans to protest until the school board calls off the closure of Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two OUSD employees began a hunger strike in protest of the plans at the start of the month. One of those employees ended their strike at the emergency meeting Friday; the other, Maurice André San-Chez, a teacher at Westlake Middle School, announced the end of their hunger strike in an Instagram post on Sunday, February 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Time to recover and gain strength to continue this battle,” they wrote on Instagram. “The torch is in your hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CaOMXP9Fcoe/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the emergency meeting, others said they would join the hunger strike if the board voted in favor of the current plan — and that’s exactly how the board voted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the anger at the school closures may have manifested in vandalism. Oakland Board of Education President Dr. Gary Yee encountered people disgruntled by the closures at his home over the weekend and later found\u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2022/02/21/oakland-school-board-presidents-home-vandalized/\"> his front window broken\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one person who said they would join the strikers Friday night has since decided not to.[aside label=\"More OUSD Coverage\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904618/oakland-moves-to-close-seven-schools-despite-fierce-community-opposition,Oakland Moves to Close 7 Schools Despite Fierce Community Opposition\"]High school senior and Oakland Youth Advisory Commission co-chair Aniyah Story says her mom convinced her to consider alternatives, something she says a group of community members discussed at a virtual meeting Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like even though money is a big issue, there's well-being, community, our future … it's way bigger than that,” she told KQED Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Oakland Unified School District says it understands that many people in Oakland are upset with the decision to consolidate and it supports means of protest that do not jeopardize the health of those involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED's Sara Hossaini and Vanessa Rancaño.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The results of Tuesday's recall elections against three San Francisco school board members were incontrovertible: Voters overwhelmingly backed the removal of Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens next for the board, the district and school politics in San Francisco, however, is less clear. New school board members will inherit the immediate tasks of managing the district and longer-term challenges of boosting enrollment and student achievement. The sudden fevered interest in local education, meanwhile, could reshape who runs for school board in the future, or fizzle out with the recall over and the pandemic receding.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alida Fisher, San Francisco special education advocate\"]'We've got all these other huge, huge issues that we need to tackle that are absolutely impacting what's happening in our schools, and yet what we're talking about is only these three people on the school board.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staggering changes wrought by the pandemic that abruptly shifted education from the classroom to the living room, and school board meetings from Franklin Street to Zoom, also amplified public interest and engagement in school issues, said Alida Fisher, a special education advocate in San Francisco, who called it \"the blessing and the curse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think that engagement will ever go away as long as we've got more visibility. I think transparency is good, visibility is good,\" said Fisher, a former school board candidate who opposed the recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for too many, she said, the election will be seen as a panacea for the district's plights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got all these other huge, huge issues that we need to tackle that are absolutely impacting what's happening in our schools, and yet what we're talking about is only these three people on the school board,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future direction of the board will be determined in part by Mayor London Breed's selection of three new commissioners, who could take office 10 days after the Board of Supervisors certifies the election results — likely in early March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Breed held a press conference outlining her process for selecting the new board members, emphasizing a focus on candidates who could manage the district's finances, and promising to focus on \"all those kids who don't have advocates.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DeanPreston/status/1494185956919840768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">To the chagrin of many recall opponents\u003c/a>, who lamented the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904052/campaign-to-recall-three-san-francisco-school-board-members-vastly-outspending-opposition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vast sums donated by charter and voucher supporters\u003c/a> to the recall campaign, Breed has refused to rule out the appointment of a board member who supports the expansion of charter schools in the city, or the use of public dollars for private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been a lot of different kinds of people who have been involved in the push for this recall from all walks of life,\" Breed said. \"And to attribute it to one group of people is really not fair to the work that so many of the grassroots people who have children in our public school system have done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An early favorite for appointment to the board is Ann Hsu, the president of the Parent Teacher Student Association at Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, Breed's alma mater. As the chair of the district's Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee, she'd take office with knowledge of school finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks leading up to the election, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hsu led the voter registration\u003c/a> drive of hundreds of Chinese American residents, along with noncitizen parents who were able to vote in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905789\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurance Lee speaks during a press conference held by the Chinese/API Voter Outreach Taskforce on Jan. 14, 2021. He fears the city is approaching a 'cliff of interest' in school politics. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whoever Breed picks will face two immediate challenges: picking a new superintendent to manage the day-to-day affairs of the district, and dealing with an ongoing budget deficit. On Friday, the board announced it would extend the application deadline for the superintendent job through the end of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s hard to tell how soon these new commissioners can get up to speed on items,\" said Laurance Lee, a recall supporter who writes a newsletter about the Board of Education. \"That's a big concern for me if some of these commissioners are coming in without having followed these meetings in detail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, the district is facing a steady decline in enrollment that could further imperil school funding, which is largely based on attendance. And it must continue to address the longstanding and persistent achievement gaps between white and Asian students and their Black and Latino peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the three seats opened by the recall will go back before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said he fears the city is approaching a \"cliff of interest\" in school politics after a recall election that, while contentious and headline-grabbing, only brought out roughly a third of city voters to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others are more sanguine about the prospects of the recall setting in motion a continued attentiveness to the governance of city schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he ran, unsuccessfully, for the school board in 2018, John Trasviña said he remembers meeting indifferent voters who sometimes mistakenly thought he was already serving as a commissioner. But now he expects that to change, he said.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"sf-school-board-recall\"]\"I think we're going to have a lot more engagement, a lot more attention, a lot more scrutiny,\" said Trasviña, who serves as head of the Lowell High School alumni association, and who rallied against recent efforts to scrap the elite school's merit-based admissions system — among the lightning-rod issues that fueled the recall campaign. \"And really, that's the way it should be. The schools are incredibly important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josephine Zhao, another former school board aspirant, said the recall has particularly \"awakened and empowered\" Chinese voters in the city, many of whom were motivated by the admissions changes at majority-Asian Lowell, as well as controversial 2016 tweets written by Collins about Asian Americans. Election returns show stronger support for the recall in majority-Asian neighborhoods such as Chinatown, Visitacion Valley, the Sunset and Portola, as compared to citywide totals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The recall school board movement has actually tapped into some of the anger in the communities, that a lot of the Chinese and AAPI community do not feel that they have the respect from the school board members,\" Zhao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other parents and advocates feel the recall tidal wave will discourage some potential future candidates from pursuing a seat on the board, or wash away the focus that the recalled members placed on pursuing equity for Black and Latino students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Collins, López and Moliga were three of the 19 candidates who ran for school board in San Francisco. Fisher, who also ran that year, remembers dozens more candidates filing initial paperwork to pursue a seat, a reflection of the Trump-era surge of civic participation on the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could the specter of a vitriolic recall campaign add a new deterrent for school board participation — on top of the meager $500 in monthly pay? Fisher worries the board will risk losing \"the teacher, the social worker voice\" that López, Collins and Moliga brought into office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the ouster of those three board members, who championed issues like changing the admissions process at Lowell to boost Black and Latino enrollment, Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, said she's concerned future members won't \"center those populations that have been historically marginalized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we see a swing happening to the center ... where folks don't advance, don't discuss and want to shy and hide away from those issues, from actions that would have visible physical and mental positive impacts on students?\" said Curiel. \"Surely, surely we might see that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco voters also will soon have a say in whether the recall process itself will continue to loom as a threat to sitting lawmakers, however rare. 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Korematsu Discovery Academy and Horace Mann Elementary will also close in 2023, as called for in the original plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prescott Elementary in West Oakland, however, which was initially on the chopping block, will be spared under the revised plan, after the board reasoned there would be too few remaining district-run elementary schools in that part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the district will merge only two of the six schools it had originally considered consolidating: RISE Community will merge into New Highland Academy Elementary at the start of the 2022-23 school year, while La Escuelita Elementary and Hillcrest Elementary will eliminate grades 6-8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also dropped plans to merge Manzanita Community School and Fruitvale Elementary, Westlake Middle School and West Oakland Middle School, and Dewey Academy and Ralph Bunche Continuation High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday evening, ahead of the vote, students, teachers and parents pleaded with the board, via Zoom, for more than 3.5 hours, many arguing that the closures wouldn’t save enough money to justify the heartache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need our education just like how everybody else had their education,” Jelani Smith, a Parker seventh grader, told the board. “It’s not right for our school to get closed down while you’re keeping all the other schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many commenters expressed outrage at the disproportionate impact the closures would have on lower-income students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not fair. 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Black and Latino students are also overrepresented: About 43% of students at the eight sites on the original closure list are Black, almost twice the proportion of Black students in the entire district.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"ousd\"]“I’m just really disgusted and really hurt over just the blatant attack on our communities of color,” Renia Webb, a parent of four, told the board. “We all know that these schools slated for closure will have a devastating and lasting impact on Black and Brown families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Aimee Eng said she and vice president Sam Davis drafted the amended proposal as an effort to balance the district’s fiscal needs with the desire to give families and staff more time to adjust to the changes. The amendment passed 4-2, with additional support from Board President Gary Yee and board member Shanthi Gonzales. Board members Mike Hutchinson and VanCedric Williams opposed the plan, while Clifford Thompson abstained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it’s a choice about whether people are comfortable just persisting in the status quo that we know is not working for students and it’s not working for staff, or we can actually do something,” Gonzales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also approved a second amendment put forward by Davis to provide academic and social-emotional learning supports for students affected by the closures, with funding from a special state allotment. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1840\">Assembly Bill 1840\u003c/a>, passed in 2018, makes OUSD eligible for infusions of cash from the state if it meets certain benchmarks that demonstrate it is working toward financial stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District leaders who support the closure plan argue the district operates too many schools for the declining number of students it serves. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel Mann, a fourth grade teacher at Allendale Elementary, sat on the concrete steps of the amphitheater in front of Oakland’s City Hall on Friday, among the roughly 200 people gathered to protest the city’s recently announced school closure plans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are a school district,” Mann said. “We should be keeping schools open and cutting everything else we could possibly cut.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of January, the Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWL0ZdDNCWBGV4OgE3oyQ0nNgHi4F-Nj/view?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district’s enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/01/12/how-to-watch-and-participate-in-oakland-school-board-meetings/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgP6PBhDmARIsAPWMq6l80j09E4PPDprx-M-slG7l7Ah3rqM0OtHxTiE_6wHP_MVq0izmCHAaAlsTEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will vote on the plan on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in a meeting open to the public virtually via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/boewatch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Brown, Oakland Education Association President, speaks to the crowd during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the announcement, families and teachers opposing the proposal have demonstrated on school campuses, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/protesters-caravan-to-denounce-ousd-school-closures/\">in car caravans and outside the homes of school board members\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Hutchinson, OUSD school board director\"]‘We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mann said she’d rather see cuts come from the salaries of district administrators or from the money OUSD pays to lease and operate its downtown headquarters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think those things should be cut first before actual humans are made to change their whole entire lives and go to a new school or have no school in their neighborhood,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing nearby was Audrey Darnis, a teacher at Manzanita Community School, which serves students in Fruitvale and East Oakland. The district’s proposal would merge her school with Fruitvale Elementary, starting in the 2023-2024 school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many of the students live right in the neighborhood, right? So they walk to school. A majority of my students’ families do not have cars,” Darnis said, noting that Fruitvale Elementary is about a mile away from Manzanita. “If their school shuts down, it’s going to be very hard for them to get to another school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt='Three young people stand with their signs. One in a purple jacket, one in a red jacket and one person in a jean jacket with a sign saying \"Hands off our schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malou, a Melrose Leadership Academy student, listens to speeches with two friends during a rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she understands the district’s proposal is hard on students and teachers, especially given Oakland’s history of school closures over the last two decades — many of them campuses where the majority of students were Black. \u003c/span>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101887739,news_11900752\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have been through so much trauma and they have every right to feel distrustful and fearful about this decision,” she said in an interview with KQED on Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment in OUSD has declined by nearly 20,000 students over the last two decades, from over 52,000 in 2002 to just under 35,500 now, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And because state funding for public schools is tied to attendance, as students left the district, so did a lot of money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf says consolidating schools is necessary to fix structural problems in the district’s budget. “When you look at districts like Stockton, Fremont, San Jose, they serve roughly the same number of students — about 33,000,” she said. “But they do it in almost half the campuses — between 41 and 48 campuses — in those three districts, whereas Oakland has 80 campuses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Schaaf, the consolidation would allow the district to redirect more funds from building upkeep and redundant administrative costs to student services. “This is an opportunity to do better for our students, our educators, and our families,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School board member Mike Hutchinson, who is opposed to the consolidation plan, said it breaks promises the district made to the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students Resolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a response to longtime efforts by community activists to call attention to the displacement of Black students and the disproportionate impact school closures in the district have had on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the resolution, the board promised, among other things, to work with the newly created Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force to develop an equity impact analysis before announcing additional school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But on January 12, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DPEJIKPw_pyiS_6ZTzya59OpvIAYtPC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the board instructed the superintendent\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to move forward on a consolidation plan, in spite of its commitments made in the Reparations for Black Students resolution. They also instructed the district to do so without consideration for previous resolutions designed to improve community engagement ahead of school closures. Instead, the board asked for a plan as soon as possible, that could be put into action in the next school year and the year after. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1020x751.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1536x1131.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-2048x1508.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1920x1413.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, school board director for District 5, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally there on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says the rush is eroding community trust in the board. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities,” Hutchinson said at a rally on Saturday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prescott, an elementary school in West Oakland, is a prime example. The school, which has served Oakland students for more than a century, is where Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first Black teacher, began teaching in the 1920s. Now it’s on the chopping block.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lavena Brown, who attended a rally at Prescott on Saturday morning, says she lives near the school and was once a student there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There’s a lot of memories here,” she said of Prescott, the only elementary school in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. “All my family, my parents went to this school. I went to this school in the ’70s, my parents way before me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the district’s plan, Prescott students would go to either Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary — about a mile away — or Hoover Elementary — about two miles away — starting next school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904314 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black head scarf and a black hoodie with images from Mario Kart poses for a portrait the a young child wearing glasses. The child is holding a sign that reads, "Don't cut our kids." Stick into the frame above them is the top of a basketball hoop. Behind them are two cream and blue portable classrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Wade and her son Samuel pose for a portrait during a rally at Prescott School on Feb. 5, 2022. Wade is a graduate of Prescott and Samuel is a student at OUSD’s Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says keeping neighborhood schools open is a basic issue of fairness. “Every community pays taxes. Every community deserves the same access to resources,” he says. “If our anchor public elementary schools close, that leaves that community, that neighborhood, without access to public resources.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across town, two OUSD staff members have turned to more drastic methods to protest the closure plan: Moses Omolade, OUSD’s program director for community schools, and Maurice André San-Chez, a choir and dance teacher at Westlake Middle School, have been on a hunger strike since last Monday. The two are camped out on the front lawn of the school, which, under the district’s proposal, would be merged with West Oakland Middle School, roughly two miles away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904317\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg\" alt='Two tents, one gray and one red stand on a lawn above a small retaining wall. A sign next to the tents reads, \"Westlake Middle School, Westlake convocation hunger strike day 5.\" In front of the tents a line of protest signs lines the edge of the retaining wall. Two read, \"No cuts, no closures.\" Behind the tents and one story white and green school building is visible. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OUSD staff members engaged in a hunger strike have set up a camp on the front lawn of Westlake Middle School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omolade says the short timeline for the approval of the plan and the lack of community engagement in the process has backed the families and teachers into a corner. When the plan was announced, he says, his world was turned upside down. “The community was struck. Kids freaking out, parents freaking out, staff freaking out,” he said. “Prescott, 150 years! At the stroke of a pen and a Zoom call, you think you’re about to take Prescott?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In thinking about how to protest, Omolade said he reflected on how his body has always been politicized. “I’m in a really large Black body — 6’8”, 210, and dark as night. And it’s a beautiful thing, but that hasn’t always been the messaging.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904316\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904316 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A waist-up photo of a man wearing a maroon beanie and a gray Westlake Middle School t-shirt. He's sitting in a green armchair. He has two nose piercings and septum piercing. He has beaded necklaces around his neck and his arms are spread out over the arms of the armchair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses Omolade, OUSD program director of community schools, sits in an armchair outside Westlake Middle School. Omolade is one of two OUSD staff members on a hunger strike. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says his decision to go on hunger strike is a way to show the board how much these closures will affect the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is what it looks like when you continue to make choices that create harm that you are so far removed from,” he said. “You don’t get to see those children and those families hurt and cry and travel across Oakland, lose hubs, community hubs, that produced their ancestors. So now this is what it looks like. I want you to see my body.”\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>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel Mann, a fourth grade teacher at Allendale Elementary, sat on the concrete steps of the amphitheater in front of Oakland’s City Hall on Friday, among the roughly 200 people gathered to protest the city’s recently announced school closure plans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are a school district,” Mann said. “We should be keeping schools open and cutting everything else we could possibly cut.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of January, the Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWL0ZdDNCWBGV4OgE3oyQ0nNgHi4F-Nj/view?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district’s enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/01/12/how-to-watch-and-participate-in-oakland-school-board-meetings/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgP6PBhDmARIsAPWMq6l80j09E4PPDprx-M-slG7l7Ah3rqM0OtHxTiE_6wHP_MVq0izmCHAaAlsTEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will vote on the plan on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in a meeting open to the public virtually via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/boewatch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Brown, Oakland Education Association President, speaks to the crowd during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the announcement, families and teachers opposing the proposal have demonstrated on school campuses, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/protesters-caravan-to-denounce-ousd-school-closures/\">in car caravans and outside the homes of school board members\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mann said she’d rather see cuts come from the salaries of district administrators or from the money OUSD pays to lease and operate its downtown headquarters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think those things should be cut first before actual humans are made to change their whole entire lives and go to a new school or have no school in their neighborhood,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing nearby was Audrey Darnis, a teacher at Manzanita Community School, which serves students in Fruitvale and East Oakland. The district’s proposal would merge her school with Fruitvale Elementary, starting in the 2023-2024 school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many of the students live right in the neighborhood, right? So they walk to school. A majority of my students’ families do not have cars,” Darnis said, noting that Fruitvale Elementary is about a mile away from Manzanita. “If their school shuts down, it’s going to be very hard for them to get to another school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt='Three young people stand with their signs. One in a purple jacket, one in a red jacket and one person in a jean jacket with a sign saying \"Hands off our schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malou, a Melrose Leadership Academy student, listens to speeches with two friends during a rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she understands the district’s proposal is hard on students and teachers, especially given Oakland’s history of school closures over the last two decades — many of them campuses where the majority of students were Black. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have been through so much trauma and they have every right to feel distrustful and fearful about this decision,” she said in an interview with KQED on Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment in OUSD has declined by nearly 20,000 students over the last two decades, from over 52,000 in 2002 to just under 35,500 now, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And because state funding for public schools is tied to attendance, as students left the district, so did a lot of money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf says consolidating schools is necessary to fix structural problems in the district’s budget. “When you look at districts like Stockton, Fremont, San Jose, they serve roughly the same number of students — about 33,000,” she said. “But they do it in almost half the campuses — between 41 and 48 campuses — in those three districts, whereas Oakland has 80 campuses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Schaaf, the consolidation would allow the district to redirect more funds from building upkeep and redundant administrative costs to student services. “This is an opportunity to do better for our students, our educators, and our families,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School board member Mike Hutchinson, who is opposed to the consolidation plan, said it breaks promises the district made to the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students Resolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a response to longtime efforts by community activists to call attention to the displacement of Black students and the disproportionate impact school closures in the district have had on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the resolution, the board promised, among other things, to work with the newly created Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force to develop an equity impact analysis before announcing additional school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But on January 12, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DPEJIKPw_pyiS_6ZTzya59OpvIAYtPC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the board instructed the superintendent\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to move forward on a consolidation plan, in spite of its commitments made in the Reparations for Black Students resolution. They also instructed the district to do so without consideration for previous resolutions designed to improve community engagement ahead of school closures. Instead, the board asked for a plan as soon as possible, that could be put into action in the next school year and the year after. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1020x751.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1536x1131.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-2048x1508.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1920x1413.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, school board director for District 5, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally there on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says the rush is eroding community trust in the board. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities,” Hutchinson said at a rally on Saturday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prescott, an elementary school in West Oakland, is a prime example. The school, which has served Oakland students for more than a century, is where Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first Black teacher, began teaching in the 1920s. Now it’s on the chopping block.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lavena Brown, who attended a rally at Prescott on Saturday morning, says she lives near the school and was once a student there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There’s a lot of memories here,” she said of Prescott, the only elementary school in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. “All my family, my parents went to this school. I went to this school in the ’70s, my parents way before me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the district’s plan, Prescott students would go to either Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary — about a mile away — or Hoover Elementary — about two miles away — starting next school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904314 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black head scarf and a black hoodie with images from Mario Kart poses for a portrait the a young child wearing glasses. The child is holding a sign that reads, "Don't cut our kids." Stick into the frame above them is the top of a basketball hoop. Behind them are two cream and blue portable classrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Wade and her son Samuel pose for a portrait during a rally at Prescott School on Feb. 5, 2022. Wade is a graduate of Prescott and Samuel is a student at OUSD’s Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says keeping neighborhood schools open is a basic issue of fairness. “Every community pays taxes. Every community deserves the same access to resources,” he says. “If our anchor public elementary schools close, that leaves that community, that neighborhood, without access to public resources.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across town, two OUSD staff members have turned to more drastic methods to protest the closure plan: Moses Omolade, OUSD’s program director for community schools, and Maurice André San-Chez, a choir and dance teacher at Westlake Middle School, have been on a hunger strike since last Monday. The two are camped out on the front lawn of the school, which, under the district’s proposal, would be merged with West Oakland Middle School, roughly two miles away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904317\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg\" alt='Two tents, one gray and one red stand on a lawn above a small retaining wall. A sign next to the tents reads, \"Westlake Middle School, Westlake convocation hunger strike day 5.\" In front of the tents a line of protest signs lines the edge of the retaining wall. Two read, \"No cuts, no closures.\" Behind the tents and one story white and green school building is visible. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OUSD staff members engaged in a hunger strike have set up a camp on the front lawn of Westlake Middle School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omolade says the short timeline for the approval of the plan and the lack of community engagement in the process has backed the families and teachers into a corner. When the plan was announced, he says, his world was turned upside down. “The community was struck. Kids freaking out, parents freaking out, staff freaking out,” he said. “Prescott, 150 years! At the stroke of a pen and a Zoom call, you think you’re about to take Prescott?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In thinking about how to protest, Omolade said he reflected on how his body has always been politicized. “I’m in a really large Black body — 6’8”, 210, and dark as night. And it’s a beautiful thing, but that hasn’t always been the messaging.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904316\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904316 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A waist-up photo of a man wearing a maroon beanie and a gray Westlake Middle School t-shirt. He's sitting in a green armchair. He has two nose piercings and septum piercing. He has beaded necklaces around his neck and his arms are spread out over the arms of the armchair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses Omolade, OUSD program director of community schools, sits in an armchair outside Westlake Middle School. Omolade is one of two OUSD staff members on a hunger strike. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says his decision to go on hunger strike is a way to show the board how much these closures will affect the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is what it looks like when you continue to make choices that create harm that you are so far removed from,” he said. “You don’t get to see those children and those families hurt and cry and travel across Oakland, lose hubs, community hubs, that produced their ancestors. So now this is what it looks like. I want you to see my body.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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