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It follows similar mandates imposed earlier this month by Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest school district, and the smaller Southern California district of Culver City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other school boards in the Bay Area are considering similar measures, including West Contra Costa County Unified and Berkeley Unified, as schools try to navigate in-person instruction amid ongoing concerns over the highly contagious delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11889297 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS42264_006_KQED_Pittsburg_MaliaJohnson_03242020-qut-1020x680.jpg']The plan in Oakland, which serves about 50,000 students, will require all students age 12 and older to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they are granted medical or “personal belief” exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution does not specify a timeline or say how students’ vaccination status will be tracked. It requires OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell to “develop recommendations for enforcement of this vaccine requirement” and report them to the board by October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Davis, the school board vice president who \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5126010&GUID=8D190D58-237F-4085-8620-499EFCBB54FC&Options=&Search=\">introduced the vaccine resolution\u003c/a>, cited district data showing that 40% of the \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/COVIDCaseDashboard/SchoolLevelData?%3Aembed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">positive cases \u003c/a>have involved students in middle and high schools, who are old enough to be vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that if more students were vaccinated, those numbers would go down really sharply,” he said. “That’s what’s creating the urgency around this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no data on how many students are already vaccinated in Oakland Unified, but in the city of Oakland, 54% of 12- to 17-year-olds are fully vaccinated, and 71% have received at least one dose, according to data cited in the school board’s proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis says the district’s efforts to reach more high school students, including mobile vaccine clinics and free donuts, simply aren’t getting enough traction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he sees the resolution as a starting point. “It just feels like this is an urgent conversation that we need to have,” he said. “And I know it’s a hard conversation, but I don’t want to shy away from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vocal critics of the vaccine mandate — including the school board president, Shanthi Gonzales — say the plan could easily backfire, exposing the district to major litigation and driving a significant number of students out of the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will push more students to distance learning, where we don’t have space for more students,” she said in a statement. “Or worse, to charters or other districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board member Mike Hutchinson, who also opposes the new requirement, says any such mandate should come from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about potentially thousands of students being told that you can’t attend school until you get this vaccination,” said Hutchinson. “That makes me nervous that some families will respond by not attending school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some education officials also have questioned the legality of mandating the coronavirus vaccine for students under 16 while it’s still under emergency use authorization. Currently, only the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been granted full FDA authorization, and only for those 16 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California currently requires public school staff to either be vaccinated or submit to weekly testing starting Oct. 15, but there is no similar statewide rule regarding students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked at a Thursday media briefing if the state is considering requiring eligible schoolchildren to be vaccinated to attend in-person classes, Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s secretary of health and human services, said there is “no definitive action or decision” right now. But he left open the possibility of such a mandate, noting that students have \u003ca href=\"https://www.shotsforschool.org/k-12/\">long been required\u003c/a> to receive vaccinations against other viruses — including polio, hepatitis B, measles and diphtheria — to attend school in person.[aside tag=\"education\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]“We’re watching the experience in Los Angeles, understanding what it means for students and families alike, staff as well, and watching as other counties consider the same,” he said. “So that conversation is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/culver-city-unified-mandates-covid-vaccine-for-students-possibly-the-states-first/659929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed support\u003c/a> for mandatory student vaccination, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fauci-backs-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-us-school-children-2021-08-29/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as has Dr. Anthony Fauci\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-education-coronavirus-pandemic-only-on-ap-0440d83602da918c571d506a3de9f44b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll by the Associated Press\u003c/a> found that 6 out of 10 Americans support requiring vaccines for eligible students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Oakland’s new requirement is likely to face significant backlash among students and families who are already on the fence about the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClymonds High School student L’Shawna Fletcher, 14, says she thinks a vaccine mandate will keep more students out of class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s just gonna choose to go home instead of getting the vaccine,” she said. “My mom don’t even want me with the vaccine. 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San Juan Unified is offering Saturday school for English learners, and Fremont Unified is planning to hire more translators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento school officials have been meeting weekly with representatives from resettlement agencies to prepare for the students. \u003ca href=\"https://refugeeempowerment.org/resettlement/\">Resettlement agencies\u003c/a> partner with the federal government to ensure refugees have food, clothing and housing, as well as medical and mental health services, among other things, for 90 days after their arrival in a city. After that, school districts often take on the role of liaison between the family and social service organizations, offering translators and guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We connect with them when their 90 days are over,” said Cristina Burkhart, program specialist with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjuan.edu/Page/47205\">refugee team at San Juan Unified\u003c/a>. “We help them in any way we can. We help them make doctor appointments, or translate for them so they can build that capacity and advocate for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento-area school officials have been told to expect about 1,200 new students from Afghanistan to enroll in area schools in the next few months, but the number was estimated before more than 100,000 Afghans were evacuated and could be higher, Tientcheu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, California school district officials interviewed by EdSource reported only a trickle of refugee enrollments, but Tientcheu says many of the families that have already arrived are completing required vaccinations and medical appointments before enrolling their children in school. Some are living in temporary housing and are waiting to move to permanent homes before starting school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California school districts with Afghan student populations are offering wraparound services for refugee families, including dedicated staff to enroll students in school, language classes for parents and students, and translators to help explain schoolwork or make medical appointments. Districts also refer families to community resources that provide food, housing and medical care, among other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elk Grove Unified, a district of 63,000 students in south Sacramento County, has about 2,000 student refugees from Afghanistan, said Lisa Levasseur, a program specialist in the district’s Family and Community Engagement Department. The number of students started increasing about four years ago. Now, the Afghan population is the fastest-growing ethnicity in the district, Levasseur said. She said the refugees are sometimes attracted to the Elk Grove area because it has larger apartments that allow extended families to live together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11885908,news_11887273,arts_13902072]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District services for Afghan refugees have increased with their numbers. The district has opened two welcome centers, but Levasseur would like to open two more. At the center, families can enroll students in school, get referrals for social services or find tutoring help. District staff also help parents find jobs and operate support groups for family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elk Grove staff who are interested in learning more about the cultural differences the Afghan students will face can take classes provided by the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are expanding our programs and constantly learning what is needed,” Levasseur said. “I’m meeting tomorrow with an organization that runs after-school sports and focuses on social-emotional development for refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levasseur would like to start a soccer program for newcomers, like the one in nearby San Juan Unified. The San Juan soccer program was originally created for refugee students to provide social-emotional support and help integrate them into the school district. It provides cleats, shin guards and balls for each player — equipment too expensive for most refugee families — and teaches them soccer skills and holds tournaments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents enjoyed it because the parents are on the sidelines and they are making friends,” Burkhart said. “They are communicating with other people, and they are cheering. They have to bring chairs. They are learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district limited the number of players to 300 refugees until this school year when a grant allowed the district to expand the program to all English learners. Now the soccer program, which was scheduled to start Sept. 16, is expected to have 800 players from eight schools. The teams will be divided into two leagues that will play one another in tournaments in October and December, Burkhart said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Juan Unified, a district of 57,000 students, has 3,000 refugee students from Afghanistan — half of its English learner population. Students who have immigrated from other countries sometimes transfer to San Juan Unified from other districts because it has 60 bilingual staff members, 11 translators and 12 community resource assistants, as well as 100 students who speak both their language and English who work as after-school tutors, Burkhart said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has a robust program for English learners, including a Saturday academy. The program, held twice a year for six to eight weeks, includes language development, self-esteem training, lessons about American norms, physical fitness and sometimes art and music classes. The academy is currently held at four schools, but district officials would like to double that number, Burkhart said. The district also offers after-school programs, including programs on wellness and robotics, as well as summer school for students who are English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts fund refugee or newcomer programs from a number of different sources. In San Juan Unified, the program is funded with federal Title I money for lower-income students and Title III money for English learners and immigrants. The district also has grants from the California Health and Human Services Agency and uses some of its state Local Control Funding Formula dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"english-learners\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they come to an American school, Afghan students have to navigate American cultural norms, including, for example, unfamiliar dress in gym class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burkhart said one of the most difficult things to explain to the students and their parents is that attending school is required by law, that a school must be called when a child is going to be absent and students must stay on campus unless given permission to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmad Nimati, a school community refugee specialist on the team at San Juan, is one of the first people Afghan refugees see when they arrive at the San Juan Unified enrollment center. 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So far, the triplets have lost four weeks of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, other parents are being placed in a similar position after more than a year of distance learning during which \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/20/students-disabilities-virtual-learning-failure/\">students with disabilities fell behind disproportionately\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, the legislators who designed the recently passed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/08/california-school-reopenings-quarantine-independent-study/\">independent study laws\u003c/a> say this form of remote learning might not be able to accommodate all students’ needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB10\">California’s public schools offered remote instruction through distance learning in response to the coronavirus pandemic\u003c/a>. Teachers were required to provide “daily live interaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This school year, with vaccines available to adults and children age 12 and older, live, in-person instruction is the expectation. Parents who want to keep their children learning virtually need to apply to their district for independent study, an option predating the pandemic primarily intended for special situations like traveling athletes or child actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is even more complicated for parents of students with disabilities. Those parents work with districts to create what’s called an individualized education program, or IEP, for their children. These programs aren’t set up for distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hence Julie Fitzgibbons’s dilemma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of the school year, Fitzgibbons asked the district to place her triplets in independent study. The district, however, said virtual instruction was incompatible with the needs of the triplets and the services they require.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some educators across the state say even if they can provide special education services through independent study, they’re wholly inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11889124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/091521_brady_students_with_disabilities_calmatters-e1632162645560.jpeg\" alt=\"A student, Brady, takes a break from his schoolwork by watching educational videos on a tablet on top of a bed.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brady takes a break from doing his schoolwork and watches educational videos on a tablet in Monrovia, on Sept. 15, 2021. “There is no way with three kids at home I could have been in all the rooms,” said Julie Fitzgibbons, who expressed relief with having behavioral therapists at home. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Fitzgibbons said she was forced to decide between her kids’ safety and academic progress. If she kept her kids at home, she would have to forfeit their special education services like speech therapy, occupational therapy and extra help in the classroom. If she sent them back to campus for in-person instruction, they would be at greater risk of contracting the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district and Fitzgibbons eventually reached a compromise that would allow her kids to get at least some of the services they received last year, which included six hours a day of one-on-one help and an hour a week of speech and occupational therapy. Fitzgibbons declined to provide details about the new agreement because it still needs to be approved by the Duarte Unified school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Special education is so individualized. There are cases where it is an easy fit with independent study,” said District Superintendent Gordon Amerson. “There will be other cases where other options need to be discussed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11889123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/091521_fitzgibbons_students_with_disabilities_calmatters-e1632162661334.jpeg\" alt=\"A mother of triplets all on the autism spectrum is talking with her son, Brady, to try and get him to go back to his desk in their home in Monrovia, California\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Fitzgibbons, the mother of triplets all on the autism spectrum, tries to get her son, Brady, 13, to come back to his desk in Monrovia, on Sept. 15, 2021. “This has been hard on parents,” said Fitzgibbons, who had to enroll her kids’ in independent study. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Uneasy return to campus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Northern California, Connie Nakano has three children who attend school in the Elk Grove Unified School District, about 15 miles southeast of Sacramento. Her youngest and oldest children, age 7 and 10, both are on the autism spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nakano opted for all of her children to be in independent study this year instead of returning them to campuses. She said she was most concerned about the spread of the delta variant, unmasked kids sitting together for lunch and quarantines disrupting her children’s learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said her middle child, who does not have a disability, has had a much easier time in independent study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some inequities here. Parents are allowed to choose between in-person and online,” Nakano said. “However, those two options don’t translate to students who have disabilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"remote-learning\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Elk Grove Unified denied her request for remote special education services. Nakano said she’s still negotiating with the district. In the meantime, she placed them in independent study so they don’t fall further behind. But so far, her two children on the autism spectrum already are having trouble keeping up with school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re having to make a choice between services and safety,” Nakano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anne Rigali, director of special education at Elk Grove Unified, said special education has been challenging to merge with independent study. But she said the district is hoping to find creative solutions for all of their students who aren’t ready to return to campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working with the families to see how we can best support their child,” she said. “We’re trying to address each family and hold these conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Some parents want a return to distance learning\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-parents-want-their-kids-back-in-the-classroom-fewer-agree-on-the-covid-19-safety-measures/\">most parents across the state had a negative experience last school year\u003c/a>, both Nakano and Fitzgibbons said distance learning worked for their kids. Last year, Nakano’s children received extra help from teachers’ aides through Zoom. Her kids also got more real-time instruction compared to this year in independent study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgibbons said her school provided therapists who worked remotely with her triplets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re worried we’re gonna lose our service providers and our time slots,” she said. “These people have worked with our kids for 20 months now. Our kids did really well with distance learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_206985\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-206985\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/091521_Triplets_PU_web_07.jpg\" alt=\"A teenage boy in a long-sleeved T-shirt in a bedroom looks above the camera, ostensibly at a screen.\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack watches a video related to his schoolwork in Monrovia on Sept. 15, 2021. “There is no way to go back with 37 kids in a classroom,” said his mother, Julie Fitzgibbons. “With masks and not being able to communicate very well, and autism, there is just no way we can go back like normal.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fitzgibbons is currently going through her family’s insurance to pay for private instructors and therapists while her triplets wait for the district to finalize their agreement for special education services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions from CalMatters, California State Assemblymembers Kevin McCarty and Phil Ting issued a joint statement that said special education services can be delivered through independent study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However, the student’s [individualized education program] is required to be updated first, to make sure the student is not receiving a lower standard of services,” they said. “There may be a determination in the IEP that the student cannot be served in independent study and get their needs met, and that would be a group discussion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They added that a new state guidance to be released as early as this week “will dispel many of the myths that are causing confusion about independent study for families, including the rights of special education students to independent study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Special education incompatible with independent study\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, school district officials are struggling to reconcile the federal laws that govern special education and the state laws that govern independent study and remote learning. As a result, students with disabilities across California are either waiting to get their special education services or forfeiting them for independent study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislators put us between a rock and a hard place,” said \u003ca href=\"https://eastvalleyselpa.org/info/contact-us\">Patty Metheny, an administrator who oversees special education\u003c/a> in multiple school districts in San Bernardino County. “Because those are the only two options, the consequences are great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, public schools must offer all students a free appropriate public education by providing any services required to accommodate a disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the name suggests, independent study requires a degree of independence, and some students aren’t able to work on their own. As a result, certain students with disabilities who aren’t ready to return to campuses might not be receiving a free appropriate public education in independent study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very difficult to address all of the goals and needs students have through independent study,” said Amanda Brooke, a deputy superintendent at the Imperial County Office of Education. “We’ve even seen general education students fall behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Connie Nakano, Elk Grove Unified parent\"]‘There are some inequities here. Parents are allowed to choose between in-person and online. However, those two options don’t translate to students who have disabilities.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The language in the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB130\">independent study laws\u003c/a> don’t specify exactly how many hours a day students must receive real-time, or synchronous, instruction. They only state that students in transitional kindergarten through the third grade must receive daily synchronous instruction. For grades 4 through 12, students must receive weekly real-time instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, individualized education plans for students with disabilities contain much more detail. The plans often state the number of hours of specialized instruction or therapy that a student must receive each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Imperial County Office of Education, special education teacher Jazmin Carrillo said her students are getting between two and three hours of real-time instruction daily. But even then, she struggles to help them make progress in both their learning and their behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I typically am there to help regulate their behaviors. I need to be there in person to show them,” Carrillo said. “Sometimes they just turn their cameras off and that cuts me off from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nakano said her children are meeting with their teachers for about 30 minutes every day through Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a brief check-in,” she said. “It’s not exactly instruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During distance learning last year, her two children on the autism spectrum got more than two hours of real-time instruction every day, Nakano said. While that still doesn’t beat in-person instruction, she’s worried her children on the autism spectrum will fall behind even more if they don’t get the services they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure we get them up to speed so they don’t have to repeat a grade,” she said. “For our family, we think about it every day.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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These programs aren’t set up for distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hence Julie Fitzgibbons’s dilemma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of the school year, Fitzgibbons asked the district to place her triplets in independent study. 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If she kept her kids at home, she would have to forfeit their special education services like speech therapy, occupational therapy and extra help in the classroom. If she sent them back to campus for in-person instruction, they would be at greater risk of contracting the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district and Fitzgibbons eventually reached a compromise that would allow her kids to get at least some of the services they received last year, which included six hours a day of one-on-one help and an hour a week of speech and occupational therapy. Fitzgibbons declined to provide details about the new agreement because it still needs to be approved by the Duarte Unified school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Special education is so individualized. 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But she said the district is hoping to find creative solutions for all of their students who aren’t ready to return to campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working with the families to see how we can best support their child,” she said. “We’re trying to address each family and hold these conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Some parents want a return to distance learning\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-parents-want-their-kids-back-in-the-classroom-fewer-agree-on-the-covid-19-safety-measures/\">most parents across the state had a negative experience last school year\u003c/a>, both Nakano and Fitzgibbons said distance learning worked for their kids. Last year, Nakano’s children received extra help from teachers’ aides through Zoom. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mills College will merge with Northeastern University, after a vote by the Board of Trustees on Tuesday. The partnership between the schools is expected to take effect on or around July 2022. This comes after months in court with the school’s Alumnae Association of Mills College, which has sued to get more information about the proposed deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the AAMC and Mills went to court over an ex parte application filed by an alumnae member of the board seeking to slow down the deal. The application would have extended a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885304/judge-puts-another-pause-on-mills-college-merger-allows-financial-document-review\">previously granted restraining order\u003c/a> for another 60 days, preventing any vote from taking place. But an Alameda County judge denied that request, allowing the vote to go through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An alliance with Northeastern empowers Mills to continue doing what it has done since its founding in 1852: offer exceptional educational opportunities to students who want to make a difference,” said Mills President Elizabeth Hillman in a statement Tuesday. “It also means that the Mills campus will remain a vibrant center of learning with deep and meaningful connections with the broader Oakland community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Mills President Elizabeth Hillman\"]‘An alliance with Northeastern empowers Mills to continue doing what it has done since its founding in 1852: offer exceptional educational opportunities to students who want to make a difference.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Mills College announced it would no longer be granting degrees last March, ideas have swirled about what the future might hold for the historic women’s college. First, there was a potential partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, then a planned on-campus program between the two schools that would bring UC students to the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there’s the deal with Northeastern. And on Tuesday, Hillman announced a few details about what the merger would entail. For students, Mills will continue to grant degrees up until the partnership date, at which point degrees will be from “Mills College at Northeastern University.” For faculty, Northeastern says it will “honor and abide by the terms of tenure of Mills faculty who hold a tenured position or a continuous contract and will offer tenure-track faculty and adjunct faculty opportunities for employment.” And staff will become employees of Northeastern in July 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting to this point has been hard on the entire Mills College community. And some say the many vacillations that have taken place since the college announced its plans to close have had a detrimental impact on students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">‘It couldn’t have came at a worse time\u003c/b>‘\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Shay Franco-Clausen says she never thought she’d be able to go to college. Growing up in Oakland and San José, her early education was interrupted due to being an incarcerated foster youth, and higher education always felt out of reach financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she found out about Mills College. It had smaller class sizes, which would be perfect for her learning style. And she was attracted to the college’s legacy of teaching progressive leaders, like East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee. Franco-Clausen is currently the vice-chairperson of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority and says she has aspirations for national office, so Mills seemed to be the perfect fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘I want to go to Mills because I’m an elected official. I’m going to be a future Assemblywoman. I want to learn from some of the best and some of the brightest and be in spaces with women as such,'” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11885304,news_11867137,news_11865408]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Franco-Clausen saved up money and worked out a schedule with her wife to care for their five kids. And when she applied for the school’s accelerated bachelor’s-to-master’s program in public policy, she got in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then halfway through her program, while she was sitting in class, Mills announced that it would stop granting degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It couldn’t have came at a worse time. [For] students like myself — who work, have families and [are] trying to reach our academic goals — to be hit with an interruption of our journey in our path at Mills … it’s blindsiding,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those distractions didn’t just affect students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anyone on the faculty or staff, aside from a few select higher-ups, knew anything about it coming down the pipeline,” said Roger Sparks, professor and chair of the economics department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was more confusion for students and faculty when it looked like another Bay Area giant might swoop in and provide some answers: UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that deal didn’t materialize.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘It never got to that point’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Less than a week before Mills announced that it would be forced to close, officials at the Berkeley journalism school sent an email to faculty and lecturers. In it, Associate Dean Jeremy Rue had some exciting news: Berkeley was “exploring the purchase of Mills College campus in Oakland,” and that potential acquisition could present opportunities for the journalism school — including “an entire relocation of the school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were plans to form a committee at the school to look into potential options and “explore its implications and desirability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11888180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-7.32.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-7.32.14-PM.png 1390w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-7.32.14-PM-800x155.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-7.32.14-PM-1020x198.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-7.32.14-PM-160x31.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1390px) 100vw, 1390px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that committee was never formed. Interim Dean Geeta Anand told KQED that relocating to the school was “never seriously considered by me or any of our faculty. It just never got to that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rumored deal to purchase Mills also fell apart, though officials at both schools have declined to comment on why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Dr. Marilyn Schuster, an alumna of Mills and a member of the Board of Trustees who’s in favor of the deal with Northeastern, timeliness seems to have been a factor in the decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley is part of the UC system. It’s a very complicated decision structure, and there were just other details that were taking a very long time and just didn’t work out,” she said. “I’m sorry it didn’t, frankly. I am a great admirer of what the university does. But when Northeastern started talking with us, the timing and the kinds of things that we could do in a partnership were quite attractive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One issue that has caused friction is the lack of communication between the Mills administration and the wider community. But, according to those familiar with higher education mergers of this type, keeping a deal like this under wraps isn’t unheard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Higher Education Stories\" tag=\"higher-education\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a case where the college announced: We are going to have serious conversations with Northeastern. We have a rough framework for what a deal might look like … and they revealed that they were going to have these conversations,” said Larry Ladd, senior consultant for \u003ca href=\"https://agb.org\">The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges\u003c/a>. “So I think I consider that transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Ladd said, in some scenarios, potential partnerships aren’t even made public until a deal has already been worked out, like in 2018 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.bu.edu/wheelock/magazine-article/bu-wheelock-merger-will-create-new-school-of-education/\">Boston University merged with Wheelock College\u003c/a> to create a new school of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because of the tenuous nature of the deals, it’s typical for schools to be stingy with the specifics while they’re in the midst of negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now [Mills and Northeastern] are going to have negotiations, you don’t have transparency during negotiations … they have to be done quietly and deals are made with each side doing the best to maximize its own interest,” Ladd said. “So you don’t have that public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ladd says from what he’s seen from both sides, it appears the two colleges are attempting an “identity-protecting merger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Its students would still be able to get a Mills College degree. The college would continue to advocate for its unique mission of representing women and supporting women, representing social justice issues and supporting social justice issues,” he said. “There will be various ways to preserve the stated mission of Mills, but it will not be a separate entity anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Mills community is trying to envision what their future with Northeastern might look like, the best insight into its future could lie across the pond. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Northeastern in London\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back in 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://news.northeastern.edu/2019/02/26/northeastern-finalizes-partnership-agreement-with-new-college-of-the-humanities-in-london/\">Northeastern announced that it had finalized a partnership\u003c/a> with the New College of the Humanities in London. The small, privately owned school served about 200 students when it entered into the partnership. The new relationship added the London school’s campus to Northeastern’s network, giving students the opportunity to study across the U.S. and abroad, and allowed the school to confer degrees in the United Kingdom. It also opened up research opportunities for faculty and created new academic programs at NCH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the announcement, Northeastern officials said that under the partnership terms, “NCH at Northeastern will maintain its own faculty and staff, and will continue to oversee student admission and enrollment to the college. Its one-to-one tutorial model of personalized instruction will not change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to at least one former NCH professor, the school did go through some changes — particularly for faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monojit Chatterji taught economics at the school. He says when Northeastern came into the picture, the work increased dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Senior Consultant Larry Ladd, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges \"]‘There will be various ways to preserve the stated mission of Mills, but it will not be a separate entity anymore.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the course of the year they were told, suddenly, to do things which they had never done before, which really added to their workloads,” he said. “Their salary wasn’t cut, that’s true, but their workloads went up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatterji said that’s largely due to the vast increase in class sizes when Northeastern students began attending the small school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professors saw their class assignments change as well, Chatterji said, as a result of the leadership changes. And he said the contracts offered to faculty contained so many teaching hours that doing research felt nearly impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Chatterji decided not to pursue a new contract at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if faculty at Mills think that they’re going to be in the same working conditions that they were in before, they should think again,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northeastern did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ladd, changes are to be expected to some degree when mergers of this type take place, particularly for schools in the situation that Mills is currently in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the circumstances that Mills has experienced mean change is inevitable,” he said. “Even if the college stayed independent, it does not have the resources to continue to operate the way it has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for those who want to keep the college intact as it is, the relationship with Northeastern felt like it was rushed, without much insight into why this option was the only viable one on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s the best path forward?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the Mills administration has moved forward on this deal, some alumnae have questioned whether or not the school could look into other financial options, like fundraising or restructuring the debt to find an outcome that would keep the school intact as-is. They said they even formally proposed some of these ideas to members of the Board of Trustees but felt their ideas were being brushed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Board of Trustees should be ashamed that they’ve brought this historic college to this state. This is their failure,” said Cynthia Mahood Levin, president of the board of Save Mills College Coalition, in a statement regarding the Northeastern deal. “They are selling out Mills College after years of poor financial mismanagement, and then claiming this sale as a ‘success.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Cynthia Mahood Levin, Save Mills College Coalition\"]‘They are selling out Mills College after years of poor financial mismanagement, and then claiming this sale as a ‘success.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Larry Ladd’s perspective, however, this deal may have been the best thing on the table for long-term sustainability — although, he said, that doesn’t mean the process isn’t painful for current and former students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their heart has been broken. … They loved it when they went there. They’ve given money to it. They feel very loyal to it. It’s a part of their own identity. 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I’m glad we’re taking this step,” she said. “I feel more comfortable hanging out with people who are vaccinated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAUSD is the first major school district in the nation to require vaccines for students. But the move from California’s largest school district won’t have an immediate ripple effect. While some California districts have already started considering a vaccine mandate for students, the conversation hasn’t started at others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have so many kids in our district,” Cunningham said. “I think it’s our job to make it safe to come to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No statewide momentum yet\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://boe.lausd.net/sites/default/files/09-09-21SpclBdMaterials.pdf\">Los Angeles Unified’s\u003c/a> mandate requires that all students 12 and older receive their first dose by Nov. 3 and their second dose by Dec. 19, with earlier deadlines for students participating in in-person extracurricular activities. Younger students must be fully vaccinated within eight weeks of their 12th birthdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAUSD isn’t the first district to require vaccines for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighboring \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/us/culver-city-student-vaccine-mandate.html\">Culver City Unified School District\u003c/a> issued a vaccine mandate in mid-August. Less than a week later, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine for those 16 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as schools reopened statewide, no other districts in the state required vaccines for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some districts may hesitate because they feel it’s intrusive,” said Troy Flint, spokesperson for the California School Boards Association. “Some may feel that it’s too politically charged. Others may feel they’ve been able to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 through other measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While health experts hope California’s largest district can be a guiding light for others across the state, Flint said there’s been no immediate rush to issue similar mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure there will be some other districts that take this step,” he said. “But I don’t get the feeling that this will become a huge trend in the short term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Stack, a spokesperson for Gov. 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It’s the one thing that shifted our entire approach to COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At San Diego Unified School District, the state’s second-largest district with close to 100,000 students, Board President Richard Barrera said the district is “not quite ready to discuss vaccine mandates for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zachary Patterson, a student board member and a senior in the district, said he believes the science is clear behind vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would support any resolution brought forth,” he said. “As we see LAUSD moving in this direction, it definitely paves the way for smaller school districts to consider things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But she is exactly the kind of person California intends to prioritize under an ambitious experiment to move Medi-Cal beyond traditional doctor visits and hospital stays into the realm of social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887890\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887890 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg\" alt=\"A row of tents alongside a cement sidewalk in an urban park surrounded by buildings.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staying in a tent in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood has been a safer experience for Eugenia Hunter than sleeping on a nearby bench, which was her living situation for most of the year. However, she is reluctant to see a doctor or use Medi-Cal, largely because it would force her to leave her tent. When she has left her tent in the past, her belongings have been stolen. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the program, vulnerable patients like Hunter will be assigned a personal care manager to coordinate their health care treatments and daily needs, like paying bills and buying groceries. And they will receive \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/CalAIM-Nontraditional-Services-2022.pdf\">services that aren’t typically covered by health insurance plans\u003c/a>, such as getting security deposits paid, receiving deliveries of fruits and vegetables, and having toxic mold removed from homes to reduce asthma flare-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, California is plowing nearly $6 billion in state and federal money into the plan, which will target just a sliver of the 14 million low-income Californians enrolled in Medi-Cal: unhoused individuals or those at risk of losing their homes; heavy users of hospital emergency rooms; children and seniors with complicated physical and mental health conditions; and people in — or at risk of landing in — expensive institutions like jails, nursing homes or mental health crisis centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']Under the program, vulnerable patients like Hunter will be assigned a personal care manager to coordinate their health care treatments and daily needs, like paying bills and buying groceries.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is trumpeting the first-in-the-nation initiative as the centerpiece of his ambitious health care agenda — and vows it will help fix the mental health and addiction crisis on the streets and get people into housing, all while saving taxpayer money. His top health care advisers have even \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/CalAIM-Role-in-Addressing-Homelessness-Fact-Sheet-%26-Letter-4-9-21.pdf\">cast it as an antidote to California’s worsening homelessness crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the first-term Democrat, who faces a Sept. 14 recall election, is making a risky bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not have the evidence to prove this approach will work statewide, nor the workforce or infrastructure to make it happen on such a large scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11883165\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/041021_FacebookVaccine_AW_09-1020x680.jpeg\"]Critics also fear the program will do nothing to improve care for the millions of other Medi-Cal enrollees who won’t get help from this initiative. Medi-Cal has been slammed for failing to provide basic services, \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2018-111.pdf\">including vaccinations for kids\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2018-122.pdf\">timely appointments for rural residents\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/Newsom_begins_mental_health_care_crackdown_with_county_sanctions.pdf\">adequate mental health treatment\u003c/a> for Californians in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the managed-care insurance companies responsible for most enrollees’ health will nonetheless be given massive new power as they implement this experiment. The insurers will decide which services to offer and which high-needs patients to target, likely creating disparities across regions and further contributing to an unequal system of care in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will leave a lot of people behind,” said Linda Nguy, a policy advocate at the Western Center on Law & Poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen health plans excel in even providing basic preventative services to healthy people,” she said. “I mean, do your basic job first. How can they be expected to successfully take on these additional responsibilities for people with very high health needs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This revolution in Medi-Cal’s scope and mission is taking place alongside a parallel initiative to hold insurance companies more accountable for providing quality health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']If California’s experiment succeeds, other states will likely follow … but if the richest state in the country can’t pull off better health outcomes and cost savings, the movement to put health insurers into the business of social work will falter.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health officials are forcing Medi-Cal managed-care plans to reapply and meet stricter standards if they want to continue doing business in the program. Together, these initiatives will fundamentally reinvent the biggest Medicaid program in the country, which serves about one-third of the state population at a cost of $124 billion this fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/CalAIM-Proposal-03-23-2021.pdf\">experiment succeeds\u003c/a>, other states will likely follow, national Medicaid experts say. But if the richest state in the country can’t pull off better health outcomes and cost savings, the movement to put health insurers into the business of social work will falter.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What it takes to provide ‘whole person care’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Newsom signed the “California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal” initiative into law in late July — “CalAIM” for short — he celebrated it as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to completely transform the Medicaid system in California.” He declined an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11877000\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49414_028_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Beginning next year, public and private managed health care plans will pick high-needs Medi-Cal enrollees to receive nontraditional services from among \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/MCP-ECM-and-ILOS-Contract-Template-Provisions.pdf\">14 broad categories, including housing and food benefits, addiction care and home repairs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach is known as “whole person care,” and insurers will be required to assign patients a personal care manager to help them navigate the system. Insurers will receive incentive payments to offer new services and boost provider networks and, over time, the program will expand to more people and services. For instance, members of Native American tribes will eventually be eligible to receive treatment for substance use disorder, and incarcerated people will be enrolled in Medi-Cal automatically upon release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurers — currently 25 are participating — will focus most intensely on developing housing programs to combat the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/CalAIM-Role-in-Addressing-Homelessness-Fact-Sheet-%26-Letter-4-9-21.pdf\">worsening homelessness epidemic\u003c/a>. The state was home to at least 162,000 unhoused people in 2020, a 6.8% increase since Newsom took office in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jacey Cooper, director of Medicaid for California\"]‘If you generally focus on [the most vulnerable], you will be able to yield better health outcomes for those individuals and, ultimately, cost savings.’[/pullquote]Jacey Cooper, the state’s Medicaid director, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/CalAIM-Role-in-Addressing-Homelessness-Fact-Sheet-%26-Letter-4-9-21.pdf\">all Medi-Cal members will eventually be eligible for housing services\u003c/a>. Initially, though, they will be available only to the costliest patients. State Medi-Cal expenditure data shows that 1% of Medi-Cal enrollees, many of the unhoused patients who frequently land in hospitals, account for a staggering 21% of overall spending. And 5% account for 44% of the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really need to focus on your top 1% to 5% of utilizers — that’s your most vulnerable,” Cooper said. “If you generally focus on that group, you will be able to yield better health outcomes for those individuals and, ultimately, cost savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials do not have a savings estimate for the program, nor a projection of how many people will be enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan, Cooper said, builds on more than \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/2020/wholepersoncare-report-jan2020.pdf\">25 successful regional experiments underway since 2016\u003c/a>. From Los Angeles to rural Shasta, big and small counties have provided vulnerable Medi-Cal patients with different services based on their communities’ needs, from job placement services to providing a safe place for an unhoused person to get sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper highlighted \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/2020/wholepersoncare-report-jan2020.pdf\">interim data from the experiments\u003c/a> that showed patients hospitalized due to mental illness were more likely to receive follow-up care, obtain treatment for substance abuse, avoid hospitalizations and emergency department visits, and see improvements in chronic diseases like diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She argued that data — even though it is not comprehensive — is enough to prove the initiative will work on a statewide scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11870625\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43040_011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]However, studies of similar programs elsewhere have yielded mixed results. New York provided housing services to high-cost Medicaid enrollees with chronic diseases and mental health and substance use disorders and found major reductions in hospital admissions and emergency department visits between 2012 and 2017, and saw a \u003ca href=\"https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/supportive_housing/evaluation.htm\">15% reduction in Medicaid spending.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Camden, New Jersey, \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/despite-new-doubts-hotspotting-help-for-heavy-health-care-users-marches-on/\">an early test of the “whole person care” approach\u003c/a> provided expensive Medicaid patients with intensive care coordination, but not nontraditional services. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1906848\">study concluded in 2020 that it hadn’t lowered hospital readmissions\u003c/a> — and thus didn’t save health care dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found we just couldn’t help people with housing as quickly as they needed help,” said Kathleen Noonan, CEO of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. “Many of these clients have bad credit, they may have a record, and they’re still using. Those are huge challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California may find success where the coalition hadn’t because it will offer social services, she said, which the coalition has also started doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it will take time. California will have five years to prove to the federal government it can save money and improve health care quality. Insurers will be required to track health outcomes and savings, and can boost services over time or drop programs that don’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the regional experiments have failed to serve low-income Black and Latino residents, according to the interim assessments conducted by Nadereh Pourat, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. She concluded that they have \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/2020/wholepersoncare-report-jan2020.pdf\">primarily benefited white, English-speaking, middle-aged men\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11877585\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49286_002_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Cooper said \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/CalAIM-Proposal-03-23-2021.pdf\">the statewide initiative will tackle “systemic racism,” \u003c/a>initially as it targets \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/resource/racial-inequalities-homelessness-numbers/\">unhoused individuals, who are disproportionately Black\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider Eugenia Hunter, who is African American, and whose many untreated mental and physical illnesses, intertwined with her addictions, mean it will take a herculean effort — and cost — to get her off the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter has gone without a stable housing situation for at least three years. Or maybe it’s five; her mental illness clouds her memory, and she erupts in anger when pressed for details. She eases her frustration sometimes with sleep, sometimes by smoking crystal meth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stack of unopened health insurance letters sat beside Hunter one evening in late August. Her eyes were glassy when she struggled to remember when she received a cancer diagnosis — if she ever did at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bringing stakeholders on board\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Health insurers will not be required to offer social services to patients like Hunter because federal law requires nontraditional Medicaid services to be optional. But California is enticing insurers with bigger payouts and higher state rankings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are asking the plans and providers to stretch. We’re asking them to reform,” Cooper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jacey Cooper, director of Medicaid for California\"]‘We are asking the plans and providers to stretch. We’re asking them to reform.’[/pullquote]The state is urging insurers to start with the roughly 130,500 Medi-Cal patients already enrolled in the local experiments. To prepare, they are cobbling together networks of nonprofits and social service organizations to provide food, housing and other services — much as they do with doctors and hospitals contracted to deliver medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/CalAIM-Nontraditional-Services-2022.pdf\">Services will also vary by insurer and region.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Inland Empire Health Plan, for example, will offer some patients home repairs that reduce asthma triggers, such as mold removal and installing air filters. But Partnership HealthPlan of California will not offer those benefits in its wildfire-prone Northern California region because it doesn’t have an adequate network of organizations equipped to provide those services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with nearly all of California’s Medi-Cal managed-care plans, executives said they support the dual goals of helping patients get healthier while saving money, but “it is a lot to take on,” said Richard Sanchez, CEO of CalOptima, which serves Orange County and will start modestly, primarily with housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']Nearly all the health plans will offer housing services right away, focusing on three categories of aid: helping enrollees secure housing and rent subsidies; providing temporary rent and security deposit payments; and helping tenants stay housed.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last thing I want to do is make promises that we can do all these things and not come through,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all the health plans will offer housing services right away, focusing on three categories of aid: helping enrollees secure housing and rent subsidies; providing temporary rent and security deposit payments; and helping tenants stay housed, like intervening with a landlord if a patient misses rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Robert Moore, chief medical officer of Partnership HealthPlan\"]‘It’s a great deal of money for a small number of members … we are building something extraordinarily ambitious quickly, without the infrastructure in place to make it successful.’[/pullquote]Partnership HealthPlan, which serves 616,000 Medi-Cal patients in 14 Northern California counties, will prioritize its most at-risk enrollees with housing services, food deliveries and a “homemaker” benefit to help them cook dinner, do laundry and pay bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great deal of money for a small number of members and, frankly, there’s no guarantee it’s going to work,” said Dr. Robert Moore, the plan’s chief medical officer. “We are building something extraordinarily ambitious quickly, without the infrastructure in place to make it successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if offering new services costs more money than it saves, it’s a worthwhile investment, said John Baackes, CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan, the largest Medi-Cal plan, which serves more than 2 million patients in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When somebody has congestive heart failure, their diet should be structured around alleviating that chronic condition,” he said, explaining his plan to offer patients healthful food. “What are we going to do — let them eat ramen noodles for the rest of their lives?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, two plans are available to serve Hunter. The Alameda Alliance for Health, a public insurer established by the county, and Anthem Blue Cross, a private insurance company, will expand housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='healthcare, health care']“People like Eugenia Hunter are exactly who we want to serve, and we’re prepared to go out and help her,” said Scott Coffin, CEO of the Alameda Alliance for Health, who is also on a local street medicine team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they’d have to find her first — chaos and homeless encampment sweeps force her to move her tent frequently. And then they’d have to win her trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one moment, Hunter angrily described how health plans have tried to enroll her in services, but she declined, mistrustful of their motives. In the next moment, fighting back voices in her head, she said she desperately wants care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone is going to help me?” she asked. “All I want to do is pay my rent and succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kaiser Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at Kaiser Family Foundation, an endowed nonprofit providing information on health issues.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Living unmedicated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Eugenia Hunter has a hard time recalling how long she’s been staying in the tent she calls home at the bustling intersection of San Pablo Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood. Craft coffee shops and weed dispensaries are plentiful here, and one-bedroom apartments push $3,000 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least the rats aren’t all over me in here,” the 59-year-old Oakland native said on a bright August afternoon, stretching her arm to grab the zipper to her front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hot inside and the stench of wildfire smoke hung in the air. Still, after sleeping on a nearby bench for the better part of a year, she felt safer here, Hunter explained as she rolled a joint she’d use to ease the pain from also living with what she said is untreated pancreatic cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887857\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887857 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03.jpg\" alt=\"Woman with no hair sits in door of a tent on a bedframe, looking tired.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenia Hunter lives in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood surrounded by upscale apartments and hip eateries. She can’t find a place she can afford on the $930 per month she receives in federal disability payments. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hunter has been hospitalized repeatedly, including once last summer after she overdosed on alcohol and lay unconscious on a sidewalk until someone stopped to help. But she is reluctant to see a doctor or use Medi-Cal, California’s health insurance program for low-income and disabled people, largely because it would force her to leave her tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My stuff keeps on getting taken when I’m not around and, besides, I’m waiting until I got a place to live to start taking my medication again,” Hunter said, tearing up. “I can’t get anything right out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter’s long and complex list of ailments, combined with her mistrust of the health care system, make her an incredibly difficult and expensive patient to treat. But she is exactly the kind of person California intends to prioritize under an ambitious experiment to move Medi-Cal beyond traditional doctor visits and hospital stays into the realm of social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887890\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887890 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg\" alt=\"A row of tents alongside a cement sidewalk in an urban park surrounded by buildings.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staying in a tent in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood has been a safer experience for Eugenia Hunter than sleeping on a nearby bench, which was her living situation for most of the year. However, she is reluctant to see a doctor or use Medi-Cal, largely because it would force her to leave her tent. When she has left her tent in the past, her belongings have been stolen. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the program, vulnerable patients like Hunter will be assigned a personal care manager to coordinate their health care treatments and daily needs, like paying bills and buying groceries. And they will receive \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/CalAIM-Nontraditional-Services-2022.pdf\">services that aren’t typically covered by health insurance plans\u003c/a>, such as getting security deposits paid, receiving deliveries of fruits and vegetables, and having toxic mold removed from homes to reduce asthma flare-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, California is plowing nearly $6 billion in state and federal money into the plan, which will target just a sliver of the 14 million low-income Californians enrolled in Medi-Cal: unhoused individuals or those at risk of losing their homes; heavy users of hospital emergency rooms; children and seniors with complicated physical and mental health conditions; and people in — or at risk of landing in — expensive institutions like jails, nursing homes or mental health crisis centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Some students still haven’t met their teachers, and the first informational session for families interested in the program was held just four days before the start of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a school board meeting held last week\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> Faiza Ayesh, a parent with three young kids enrolled in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/independentstudy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sojourner Truth Independent Study/Online Learning\u003c/a> program, complained the program was in disarray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no teachers, we have no communication from the school about what’s going on,” Ayesh told the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the vast majority of Oakland students returned to campuses in person, 726 students are now enrolled in the independent study program. Hundreds more are on a wait list, and OUSD projects that enrollment will reach 1,112, as parents weigh the risks of sending their kids into classrooms while the highly transmissible coronavirus delta variant drives an elevated case count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the first two school board meetings of the year, Sojourner Truth parents said they weren’t even sure whether their children were enrolled, with phone calls and emails going unanswered. Some who had managed to get a spot said they never got login information for their kids’ virtual meetings, or that they were given incorrect passwords. Three weeks in, some said their kids were only getting a half hour of Zoom instruction a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves parents who aren’t comfortable sending their kids back into classrooms feeling abandoned by the district. Meanwhile, as the reality of exposure notifications and classroom quarantines sets in, some who opted for in-person school might like to reconsider, but a good alternative is not yet in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ayesh, the decision to stick with virtual learning came down to her personal experience with COVID. Her fourth and fifth graders recently got the virus. Neither is old enough to be vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have six kids and we’ve been through all kinds of flus and viruses,” she said, but COVID left them with “the worst stomach pain ever. My older daughter was literally in the fetal position on the floor for two days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ayesh and her husband, both vaccinated, got mild breakthrough infections from their kids. And weeks after getting sick, her daughter still had lingering pain. “I just didn’t want to do this again and put my kids at risk for more problems,” Ayesh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family didn’t think of going back to distance learning as a sacrifice — last school year, her kids thrived in Sankofa United Elementary School’s virtual classes, and Ayesh thought she knew what to expect. “I thought everything is going to happen smoothly because we’ve been doing this for the past almost two years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC8297119966&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she learned her children would have to leave Sankofa and enroll in a different school — Sojourner Truth Independent Study — and though they’d be able to opt back in to in-person school at any time, their spots at Sankofa weren’t guaranteed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, lawmakers created and schools administered distance learning as an emergency alternative during the pandemic. Ahead of this school year, legislators — concerned about students’ learning loss and mental health, and with pressure from parents demanding that schools reopen — limited distance learning in order to ensure school systems brought students back into classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, independent study has offered a way to keep students learning while on extended vacations, or if bullying or a mental health issue created stress at school. But in the face of the continuing pandemic, the programs have had to ramp up to serve more students than ever, while adhering to a more stringent curriculum and class time requirements newly imposed by the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pre-pandemic, Oakland Unified’s Sojourner Truth Independent Study program served about 200 students, with fewer than 20 of elementary age, according to the school’s principal, Willie Thompson. 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Most of Oakland Unified’s 36,000 students have returned to schools in person this year. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like we’re sitting on our hands here,” Thompson said during the first week of school. “We are talking about a radical shift for us.” He said the level of interest caught leadership off guard. “We knew that there would be some parents opting for distance learning, but not at this scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges, he said, has been setting a schedule for students and teachers amid changing enrollment. “It’s almost like trying to fly a plane while you build it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middle school teacher Mark Airgood was assigned to the program after requesting a medical accommodation from the district, allowing him to stay out of the classroom during the pandemic. 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During the first week of school, Thompson said\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the program was still short about four of the roughly 18 teachers he had estimated the school needed\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>not to mention additional staff to meet wait list demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fill the gap, staff from the district’s central office stepped in. “We just need all boots on the ground,” Thompson said, noting that many of the reinforcements are former teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Sojourner Truth parents, some of those staffers are still running what limited instruction there is. Jamie Burnell said at the school board meeting last week that her son still hadn’t met his permanent teacher. “I’m frankly shocked that my child is still doing 30-minute lessons almost a month into the school year,” she told the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamia Green’s seventh grade daughter met her English teacher for the first time at the end of the second week of school, after the teacher she’d initially been assigned had resigned, Green said. Her daughter still hadn’t met her math teacher, and when she wasn’t given a password to log in to her Zoom class, Green found it hard to get answers from the school. “I felt like everybody was passing the baton,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Plenty of time to prepare’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>OUSD is not alone in facing challenges implementing distance learning through independent study, according to Kevin Gordon, president of the Sacramento-based lobbying firm Capitol Advisors Group, which represents hundreds of school districts around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers weren’t anticipating the delta variant when they constrained virtual learning options, Gordon said. “Now what happens is there’s a high demand for distance learning and a very, very narrow opportunity in the law to offer it. 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And weeks after getting sick, her daughter still had lingering pain. “I just didn’t want to do this again and put my kids at risk for more problems,” Ayesh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family didn’t think of going back to distance learning as a sacrifice — last school year, her kids thrived in Sankofa United Elementary School’s virtual classes, and Ayesh thought she knew what to expect. “I thought everything is going to happen smoothly because we’ve been doing this for the past almost two years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC8297119966&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she learned her children would have to leave Sankofa and enroll in a different school — Sojourner Truth Independent Study — and though they’d be able to opt back in to in-person school at any time, their spots at Sankofa weren’t guaranteed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, lawmakers created and schools administered distance learning as an emergency alternative during the pandemic. Ahead of this school year, legislators — concerned about students’ learning loss and mental health, and with pressure from parents demanding that schools reopen — limited distance learning in order to ensure school systems brought students back into classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, independent study has offered a way to keep students learning while on extended vacations, or if bullying or a mental health issue created stress at school. But in the face of the continuing pandemic, the programs have had to ramp up to serve more students than ever, while adhering to a more stringent curriculum and class time requirements newly imposed by the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pre-pandemic, Oakland Unified’s Sojourner Truth Independent Study program served about 200 students, with fewer than 20 of elementary age, according to the school’s principal, Willie Thompson. 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Most of Oakland Unified’s 36,000 students have returned to schools in person this year. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like we’re sitting on our hands here,” Thompson said during the first week of school. “We are talking about a radical shift for us.” He said the level of interest caught leadership off guard. “We knew that there would be some parents opting for distance learning, but not at this scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges, he said, has been setting a schedule for students and teachers amid changing enrollment. “It’s almost like trying to fly a plane while you build it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middle school teacher Mark Airgood was assigned to the program after requesting a medical accommodation from the district, allowing him to stay out of the classroom during the pandemic. On the second day of school, he learned he’d be teaching middle school math and science, subjects for which he has the credentials but not the teaching experience. For the last 20 years, he said, he’s been a special education resources teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just going to have to get rolling on it,” he said of his new assignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sojourner Truth also faced the challenge of hiring new teachers to meet the increased demand, especially in the elementary grades, a problem complicated by \u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/california-covid-19-teacher-workforce-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statewide teacher shortage exacerbated during the pandemic\u003c/a>. 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