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The budget deal is adding another $83 million to make sure more students with dependent children who get Cal Grants also receive an additional $6,000, a program that first debuted in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student advocacy made a difference, said Colm Fitzgerald, outgoing student-voting member of the governing board of the community college system. “I watched how that directly impacted the perspectives of legislators in terms of Cal Grants and how Cal Grant was then reformed,” Fitzgerald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also credited a law passed in 2019 that led to increases in the advocacy budget for members of the student senate of the community colleges to travel to Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Debt-free grant program won’t cover community college students\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The budget deal promises to supersize an existing Middle Class Scholarship that covers a portion of a student’s tuition at the UC and CSU by instead becoming a debt-free grant program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crucially, the plan leaves out virtually all community college students, except for the tiny number who are enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program at a community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the debt-free grant debuts next year, it’ll cover the college-going expenses that part-time work, college grants and state and federal grant aid don’t. Students of families earning more than $100,000 annually will receive less. That plan alone is estimated to cost $515 million, part of a down payment of what legislative staffers say will eventually cost at least $1.5 billion if fully funded. More details about the plan are forthcoming in a “trailer” bill that’s expected to appear in print today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community college students make up almost two-thirds of all college students in California, so the state would have to spend as much as $1.4 billion to cover their housing, food and transportation expenses that existing aid doesn’t cover. 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Under the formula, all districts receive a base amount of money per student, and more money for foster children, English learners or those qualifying for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/rs/scales2021.asp\">free or reduced-price lunch\u003c/a>. If any of those groups make up more than half of a district’s enrollment, the district gets additional money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget deal also reflects Gov. 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The plan would cost $2.7 billion once fully implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also spending billions to expand child care subsidies. This year, $1.5 billion will go toward 120,000 additional kids, mostly those of essential workers. Next year, child care subsidy spending would increase to $2.7 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen such an expansion and an attempt to improve the quality of child care, really since the advent of pre-K in the 1960s,” said Bruce Fuller, a professor of education at UC Berkeley. “The expansion of early education, in sheer dollar amounts, rivals the increases in K-12.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Easing the Fiscal Burden of Pensions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In past years, increases in overall education funding were dwarfed by the tens of millions of dollars some districts were required to pay to employee retirement funds. 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"content": "\u003cp>After the chaos that marked the end of Oakland's 2019-20 school year, when many teachers scrambled to move classrooms online even as thousands of students lacked the required technology, Lakisha Young knew she had to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lakisha Young, executive director of The Oakland REACH\"]'These issues are not new issues, but we have a new opportunity to do something. Why can't we create something that puts folks on the right path, that brings a sense of hope and of progress?'[/pullquote]“Immediately, when COVID hit, you heard so many people saying, ‘Oh my God, it's just going to get worse for Black and brown kids. It’s just gonna get worse,’ ” she said. “Well, then what are you going to do about it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, members of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829180/how-an-oakland-parent-advocate-group-is-making-distance-learning-possible-this-summer\">The Oakland REACH\u003c/a>, the parent advocacy group Young founded, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56629/how-families-are-pushing-schools-to-teach-reading-skills-more-effectively\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have been showing up\u003c/a> at Oakland Unified School District board meetings demanding better schools, but academic outcomes for many students have barely budged. The district hasn't been able to get more than a quarter of Black and Latino kids up to state reading standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no interest in continuing the learning that our children are getting,” Young said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, and billions of dollars in state and federal relief funds began flowing into school districts, REACH saw an opportunity to remake an education system they contend was failing their kids long before COVID closed schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These issues are not new issues, but we have a new opportunity to do something,” Young said. “Why can't we create something that puts folks on the right path, that brings a sense of hope and of progress?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Young and her team built an academic program from scratch, designed to supplement, not replace, the education students get at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been able to fundraise to make sure our kids can get access to things that normally only wealthy, privileged families gain access to,” said Michael De Sousa, REACH’s chief program officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829180/how-an-oakland-parent-advocate-group-is-making-distance-learning-possible-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">began as a summer school initiative last year\u003c/a>, continued into the new school year, offering afternoon online art, karate, cooking, STEM and literature classes for kids of all ages, plus tutoring and intensive-reading help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11829275 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakisha Young, co-founder and executive director of The Oakland REACH, on July 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It served over 350 students throughout district and charter schools during the school year; about 400 are enrolled this summer in an expanded program that added new courses and one-on-one mentorship for high schoolers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young’s goal is to see the model adopted across the city, and she’s found a willing partner in OUSD. With the support of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4875&ModuleInstanceID=34476&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=35661&PageID=13526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$900,000 grant\u003c/a> from the Center on Reinventing Public Education and TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project), REACH and the district are expanding the program to six elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brilliance of this moment is we all had to stretch and do something different out of necessity,” OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said at a national education conference recently, where she and Young talked about their sometimes tense partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been many touchy, uncomfortable conversations that Lakisha and I have had in terms of, ‘This isn't working,’ \" she said. “But to me, \u003cem>that\u003c/em> \u003cem>is\u003c/em> the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell acknowledges that her district needs to do more to get more kids in the most underserved communities reading at grade level and better prepared for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is being radical in terms of, ‘Is there a different way to conceive of how a system operates?’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By fall, the goal is to expand the program to another 325 families, whose kids would have access to reading support and enrichment classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Elementary School in East Oakland, one of the six schools in the pilot program, had just one literacy tutor before the partnership began. Now they’ve added three, allowing for smaller groups and more targeted instruction, according to Nikki Williams, the school’s principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about increasing the depth of the support,” she said. “Going from six [students per group] to four can really make a big difference, especially when you're talking about foundational skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students were selected based on literacy levels and staff recommendations, Williams says, noting that the program offers them more opportunities than what her school could provide alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're really a partner and a support to what's happening during the school day,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Leonard Taylor’s daughter, Am’Briyah, who'll be starting second grade in the fall, the intensive literacy coaching made a difference this past year. Early in the school year, Taylor didn’t have child care, so Am’Briyah had to do her distance learning Zoom classes in the car while he delivered food for Grubhub — and she quickly started falling behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's hard to pay attention to the computer when you’re riding around and stuff is moving,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He credits the REACH program’s small class sizes and one-on-one support for getting his daughter caught up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actually, she's [now] above her reading level,” he said. “I feel better now because she's in tune, she shows interest. She doesn't even want to go to her regular school class; The Oakland REACH program, she's ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11875277 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS36182_IMG_9404-14-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Oakland REACH students. \u003ccite>(Olivia Obineme/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preliminary data collected by REACH last summer showed that during five weeks of online instruction, students, on average, made the kind of reading progress that’s normally expected over two months of in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that I really appreciate from the partnership is that we keep coming back to the science of reading,” said Romy Trigg-Smith, OUSD's early literacy coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means grounding not only literacy tutors, but also parents, in an evidence-based approach to teaching reading. REACH holds workshops to help parents understand their kids’ reading assessment data and to demonstrate what quality reading instruction should look like, with the goal of getting parents to advocate for it and support their kids at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oakland-reach\"]Am’Briyah was one of just two students in an afternoon reading class this year led by Irene Segura, a former OUSD reading tutor. Segura’s new title with REACH is “literacy liberator.” She and nearly all the other coaches are Black or Latino, like their students. She credits the individualized attention for helping the kids make rapid reading gains, and says the program’s focus on the whole family is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very family driven,” she said. “We involve the family so that they know exactly what they're teaching and can do a lot of the activities at home. And it's just a place where we keep each other safe and we care for each other and we solve problems together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having the program so firmly grounded in family and community is what makes it unique, says Williams, the principal at Howard Elementary. “Sometimes hearing it parent-to-parent is so much more powerful. You can say, ‘My kids struggle with the same thing. Here is what I can do to support you,’ ” she said. “I think that just brings power to the message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the program, every family gets assigned a caseworker from their own community to help them navigate the school system and access everything from housing to employment services. REACH co-founder Keta Brown works with 18 families from all over Oakland and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have these relationships, you understand the challenges of each family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes that means making a house call to help a grandparent set up a Wi-Fi hotspot, or walking a parent through the school enrollment process. Brown says her goal is always to empower parents, not do things for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a difference,” Brown said. “It's like cooking. You know, I'm not going to keep cooking all the food. We're gonna get our ingredients together and we're gonna lay out the recipe and you might want to add a little different twist. And at the end of the day it’s the dish that works for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11829280 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland REACH parents preparing to distribute computers and other school supplies last summer when they first launched the learning program. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the district has family outreach staff, a single coordinator might serve hundreds of families. The REACH model brings that ratio down to 20 families per caseworker, at most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, what was really exciting was understanding what they call their secret sauce,” Trigg-Smith, the OUSD early literacy coordinator said. “How does that family support look different from how our family liaisons work? How can we learn from those practices?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REACH’s Lakisha Young hopes her group’s model demonstrates to district administrators that outreach alone isn't enough; listening and responding to parents’ needs is also essential in getting them more involved in their kids' education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not just about engaging families,” she said. “It's helping families step into their power — making sure that the voices of families are really front and center in guiding solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says her goal is to help the district expand the program over the next couple of years, eventually handing it over to them completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to see this become the new normal,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Now they’ve added three, allowing for smaller groups and more targeted instruction, according to Nikki Williams, the school’s principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about increasing the depth of the support,” she said. “Going from six [students per group] to four can really make a big difference, especially when you're talking about foundational skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students were selected based on literacy levels and staff recommendations, Williams says, noting that the program offers them more opportunities than what her school could provide alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're really a partner and a support to what's happening during the school day,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Leonard Taylor’s daughter, Am’Briyah, who'll be starting second grade in the fall, the intensive literacy coaching made a difference this past year. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jennifer Rocha wanted to hear the rustle of her black graduation gown against the bell pepper bushes in the hot Coachella farm fields. She wanted to see the hem float above the dirt paths that she and her parents have spent years walking as a family while plucking heavy gallons of perfectly ripe fruits and vegetables that end up in America's grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why she decided to take her college graduation photos in the same fields where she has worked with her parents since she was in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm proud that that's where I come from,\" says Rocha, who graduated from UC San Diego on Saturday. \"It's a huge part of who I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole reason I wanted to go back to the fields with my parents is because I wouldn't have the degree and the diploma if it wasn't for them. They sacrificed their backs, their sweat, their early mornings, late afternoons, working cold winters, hot summers just to give me and my sisters an education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/copy-of-img_1425-1-_custom-3d9bb8e9094f81c7d43aa1dded4d7870adfe997d-scaled-e1623870926504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2501\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878214\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocha began working in the fields in Coachella when she was a junior in high school. She continued the exhausting work through college. \u003ccite>(Branden Rodriguez/Instagram @branden.shoots)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The stunning pictures, in which she's in heels wearing full graduation regalia and picking veggies alongside her parents dressed in \"regular field picking work clothes,\" have struck a chord across social media, going viral over the past couple of days. But Rocha says it's the feedback from other children of immigrants who have reaped the rewards of having their parents do back-breaking work so they can succeed that she cherishes the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really think that's why people like them so much,\" she says after a short pause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'They Just Didn't Have Those Options'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rocha began working in the fields when she was a junior in high school. Her mom and dad, Angelica Maria and Jose Juan Rocha, had both labored in the fields of Michoacán, Mexico, as young children before emigrating to the U.S. And when they arrived, they put aside dreams of becoming doctors or taking up other professional careers, Rocha recalls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just didn't have those options,\" she says. Instead, they returned to the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And when we were older they started taking us so we could learn a lesson about the value of higher education,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/copy-of-img_1402-01cc392505097215fbc8efeee1945948aebfc84a-scaled-e1623871027477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878215\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Rocha picks bell peppers alongside her parents, Angelica Maria and Jose Juan Rocha, shortly before graduating from UC San Diego last week. \u003ccite>(Branden Rodriguez/Instagram @branden.shoots)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The message was simple: \"If you don't pursue a higher education, this is where you're going to end up. And the only way for you to learn is for us to take you for you to experience it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant juggling school and cross-country practice with overnight shifts, Rocha says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Basically Doing Three Jobs at the Same Time'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"I would get out of cross-country practice at around 2 p.m. and then my dad would pick me up and I would get home, change, eat something and then go right to work overnight because during that time we were planting strawberries overnight.\" The whole family would get home sometime between 2 and 3 a.m., she says, giving her enough time to \"shower, nap and then wake up like around 5:30 a.m. to get ready for school because I had to catch the city bus or else I was going to miss it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continued the work through college even when she got a job with campus security. During winter, spring and summer breaks she would join her parents, hunching over different crops and hoisting as many barrels as she could manage onto her shoulders from the field to a sorting table for eight hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then once I got the other job as a cadet [with the Beverly Hills Police Department], I was basically doing three jobs at the same time,\" she says, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1705px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/copy-of-img_1382_custom-c412142c06a1d715294a7a7534da45388fd53ac8-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1705\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878216\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/copy-of-img_1382_custom-c412142c06a1d715294a7a7534da45388fd53ac8-scaled.jpg 1705w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/copy-of-img_1382_custom-c412142c06a1d715294a7a7534da45388fd53ac8-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/copy-of-img_1382_custom-c412142c06a1d715294a7a7534da45388fd53ac8-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/copy-of-img_1382_custom-c412142c06a1d715294a7a7534da45388fd53ac8-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/copy-of-img_1382_custom-c412142c06a1d715294a7a7534da45388fd53ac8-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/copy-of-img_1382_custom-c412142c06a1d715294a7a7534da45388fd53ac8-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/copy-of-img_1382_custom-c412142c06a1d715294a7a7534da45388fd53ac8-1920x2883.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1705px) 100vw, 1705px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocha, who majored in sociology with an emphasis in law and society, is working in law enforcement and hopes to be a chief someday. \u003ccite>(Branden Rodriguez/Instagram @branden.shoots)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The photos, she says, show the world in which she is just one of the hard-working, smart people like her parents who are often invisible but can be relied on every day to do the nation's most menial and low-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I want you to recognize not just them, but also all the other migrant workers that we tend to forget about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocha says she hopes that anyone who's been moved by the photos will have a new perspective the next time they shop for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When people go to the grocery store, [they] just grab vegetables and food without really putting thought into it,\" she says, sounding frustrated. \"They don't think, there are people that are drastically working hard and in hazardous conditions just to make sure that we have these foods accessible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/copy-of-img_1381-7c355421359b6278495179485c44bd243a12e005-scaled-e1623870675757.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878213\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When relaying why she chose the farm fields for her college graduation photo shoot, Jennifer Rocha explained it's because that's where her parents 'sacrificed their backs, their sweat, their early mornings, late afternoons, working cold winters, hot summers just to give me and my sisters an education.' \u003ccite>(Branden Rodriguez/Instagram @branden.shoots)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her favorite picture of the series is one in which she's flanked by her parents walking down a dirt path – the lead photo at the top of this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, she says, she couldn't see exactly what her parents were doing as the photographer snapped away. But when she caught a glimpse of their smiling faces, she says, \"It's just a joy and pride that they feel that now they have three girls with degrees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just made me feel like, 'Wow, I just made you guys proud.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocha, who majored in sociology with an emphasis in law and society, is already pursuing her dream career in law enforcement. She hopes to be a chief someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she'll take this moment in the limelight to encourage other young Latinos to hustle and set clear goals for themselves regardless of circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not impossible,\" she says. \"Just because your parents work in domestic labor jobs doesn't mean that you aren't going to be successful. It's going to be hard, but everything is possible. And never forget where you come from.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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And that was really the advantage that the San Francisco community has provided.’[/pullquote]“The children and families that were served by the hubs represented the highest risk that San Francisco as a city experienced,” said Dr. Sunitha Kaiser, a UCSF pediatrician and the study’s lead author. “The delightful surprise was the shockingly low level of in-hub COVID transmission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers said the study is important because many parents from parts of the Bay Area that were most devastated by the coronavirus have expressed fear over returning their unvaccinated children to school campuses this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study comes at a time when Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870787/will-california-lawmakers-allow-distance-learning-to-continue-next-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has been pushing\u003c/a> for all schools to fully reopen in-person this fall. 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The 85 hubs served a total of 1,738 students with 295 supervising adults, and offered services from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The study focused on 54 of the hubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the hubs were established after schools shuttered last year, Kaiser saw it as an opportunity to fill a gap in the body of research on in-school transmission. Two large studies out of \u003ca href=\"https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2021/01/06/peds.2020-048090.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Carolina\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7004e3.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wisconsin\u003c/a> found low rates of in-school transmission, but neither study had focused exclusively on an urban school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The studies that have been done to date haven’t really honed in on those most disadvantaged neighborhoods. 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"content": "\u003cp>Students at Oakland’s Fremont High School will collect their diplomas in person this week, part of a wave of Oakland public school seniors who’ve managed to make it through a year of distance learning. But at Fremont High where staff focus heavily on getting English language learners to academic success, the pandemic has left gaps, unraveling the kind of in-person support system that helped students not only graduate but plan their next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Friday before graduation Karina Dealba Perez was inside Fremont High bent over a computer, working on her post graduation plan with her teacher, Maya Brodkey. They were looking over the AmeriCorps community service program while other students in the room were getting last minute projects done in order to graduate on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a moment in this school year when Dealba Perez wasn’t sure she was going to graduate. She was working so many hours to support her family that school went by the wayside. Even when her father got his restaurant job back this spring, things didn’t get easier on the family financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just had a funeral and we have a lot of funeral expenses going on and it’s a lot,” Dealba Perez explained. Her cousin who had been living with her family died of gunshot wounds earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom was his guardian so he was like a brother to me,\" she said. \"We didn’t have money, we weren’t prepared for it,\" said Dealba Perez. She says she stopped going to classes for almost a month, but once she let her teacher know, Brodkey helped her out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brodkey gave Dealba Perez work she could do on her own time, as part of a capstone project to help make up for lost attendance. It’s common at Fremont High for teachers to be more than educators and yet, at this point in the pandemic, Maya Brodkey was also having financial issues of her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner had to close her business due to COVID and all of a sudden Oakland rent was really expensive and we had to move someplace where we could afford to be,” Brodkey said. The couple decided to try out living in Eureka, roughly five hours north of the Bay Area, where rent was cheaper, until school reopened in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brodkey’s partner found work and Brodkey taught remotely. They both planned to return to Oakland, but when they tried to find housing in February, Brodkey said rents had increased even more. “In some ways I'm making a decision and in some ways the decision was made for me,” she said, of her choice to quit teaching in Fremont after this year. 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But she says things have been different for this graduating class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very worried about them going out into the world with I think much less preparation than seniors normally get,\" she said. \"And this year, there's been so many students that have just kind of fallen off the map.” Of 153 seniors who began the year at Fremont, 138 will graduate according to school administrators, a graduation rate of about 90 percent, similar to the senior class from last year, according to Nidya Baez, Fremont High School's assistant principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brodkey says school staff was able to reconnect with many students by doing outreach to homes and helping provide assistance to families, but the continuous in-person support that the school prides itself on took a hit during distance learning. 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"content": "\u003cp>It has been a turbulent year for the San Francisco school board in ways that its two student delegates could never have foreseen. As both delegates graduate this week, they leave behind a legacy of activism their peers say sets the bar for what it means to be a student leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior, fought fiercely for Black students and called on administrators to do a better job confronting racism.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shavonne Hines-Foster, Lowell senior and San Francisco school board delegate\"]'No one who looked like me had been on the seat in the past few years. People put faith in me to lead with strength and compassion.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her colleague, Kathya Correa Almanza, is graduating from June Jordan School for Equity. As a student delegate she advocated for transformational education for all students with poise and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That representation has been particularly important during a year when most students have been away from their schools and more isolated. Both students also had to learn how to navigate their roles amid adult debates over the reopening of schools, offensive tweets and lawsuits, said Correa Almanza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I expected education to be this place where everyone agrees on what is right because it's for the students,\" Correa Almanza said. \"San Francisco is divided in so many ways, you know, we have different neighborhoods, we have different incomes. But to see how [that] played out was something that surprised me a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Students Advocating for Their Communities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Correa Almanza's experience prepared her for this role. She was a high school debater, and over time, began using the power of her words for more than winning debate rounds. Her peers saw her as a leader, and pushed her to run for their student delegate. But she was nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a role where people wouldn't expect to see a young Latina from a low-income household [and] single mother,\" Correa Almanza said. \"People would not expect someone that identifies like me to be in this role.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She reached out to San Francisco Board of Education President Gabriela López, the youngest woman ever elected to office in San Francisco, to talk about how she was feeling. After that conversation, and winning the election, Correa Almanza remained unfazed even when hundreds of people often tuned in over Zoom for board meetings. She says she understood what she had to do to be a strong leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hines-Foster decided to run, she was thinking about her community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11859101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lowell Black Student Union co-president Shavonne Hines-Foster speaks during a rally held at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021, to address recent racist incidents at the school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lowell Black Student Union co-President Shavonne Hines-Foster speaks during a rally held at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021, to address recent racist incidents at the school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"No one who looked like me had been on the seat in the past few years,\" Hines-Foster said. \"People put faith in me to lead with strength and compassion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers how in elementary school her teacher didn’t have anything planned for Black History Month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So she actually told my mom, 'You can do it yourself.' So my mom had to give her own Black history lesson to my first grade class,\" Hines-Foster said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Finding Ways to Be Heard, in Spite of the Critics\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the school board, Hines-Foster called out racism and inaction. She advocated for a Black studies curriculum, and for victims of sexual assault. But she said speaking out also led to threats online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People don't want me to take up space. But I think honestly, I kind of brush it off because these people aren't saying these things with their chests,\" Hines-Foster said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if people didn't want to listen, Hines-Foster found ways to be heard. She kept her peers updated through posts and livestreams on Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Correa Almanza and Hines-Foster co-authored a resolution with other board members to end Lowell’s selective admissions policy based on grades and test scores. This year’s enrollment figures show that the policy change has made a difference. A greater percentage of Black and Hispanic students have been accepted into Lowell for the upcoming school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, really, man, I hope these numbers come out good, because if [they don't], I'm probably going to get roasted by my whole school,\" Hines-Foster said. \"Like, 'You took away admissions and it didn't even work!' So I was like, 'Please, please, let something change.' So when the numbers came out, I was really happy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hines-Foster is also proud of her advocacy around bringing a Black studies curriculum to the district. She and Correa Almanza co-sponsored a Black studies resolution that gives every student in the district the chance to participate in Black studies by the school year 2022-2023. They also both began drafting a Title IX resolution to improve the reporting process for students who experience harassment or assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Passing Off the Baton to the Next Student Leader\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now that Correa Almanza and Hines-Foster are graduating, they're handing the baton to next year’s student delegates, Joanna Lam and Agnes Liang. Lam will be a senior at Lowell, and Agnes Liang will be a senior at Mission High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam is Cambodian American, the child of refugees and says she has been advocating for other students since kindergarten when she was on the student council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have young cousins who are in elementary school right now, and I want to make this district a place where they can grow up, and make their future overall better,\" Lam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She does think the student delegates can make a difference, even if their votes are only advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The influence of student voice is questionable. But if you have people behind you with that voice, it's something much more powerful,\" Lam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam says she plans to continue using social media in creative ways to keep students engaged. 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The version that’s moving ahead is more limited in when a person can sue the police — a change the bill’s author, state Sen. Steve Bradford, said was “difficult to accept.” But the Gardena Democrat said in a statement: “Compromise requires us to work together to find common ground.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For the second year in a row, the appropriations committee killed a bill requiring law enforcement agencies to process their backlogged rape kits. The California Public Defenders Association argued the bill would take away resources to test other types of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Byrhonda Lyons and Robert Lewis\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11829079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An effort to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1135\">streamline affordable housing funding\u003c/a> by creating one place for developers to apply for tax credits, bonds and subsidies is on hold until next year. \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\">UC Berkeley’s Terner Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2020-108.pdf\">state auditor\u003c/a> argued this approach would cut the cost and time it takes to build affordable housing, but state Treasurer Fiona Ma, whose office would have given up some power, called the overhaul “risky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1188\">third attempt to create a registry\u003c/a> making it easier to determine who owns rental housing died amid opposition from the California Association of Realtors, which argued the registry would burden property owners. The California Association of Realtors — a political powerhouse in Sacramento — spent \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2579564&amendid=0\">nearly $350,000 on lobbying\u003c/a> between January and March and also opposed a measure to curb evictions and another to help first-time homebuyers by ending a mortgage interest deduction on second homes, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/05/california-homeownership-black/\">died before they even got to the Assembly appropriations committee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Manuela Tobias\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11874743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2309\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg 2309w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2309px) 100vw, 2309px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Poverty and Inequality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB223\">proposal\u003c/a> to shield more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/water-debt-california-households-face-water-shutoffs/\">Californians who are late on water bills\u003c/a> from having their water shut off stalled in the face of opposition from municipal water agencies. But hope is not lost for those late on water bills. Newsom wants to spend $1 billion to bail out consumers and providers crushed by water debt. And \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB222\">another bill\u003c/a> to create a water assistance program survived Thursday’s bloodbath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of proposals aimed at using the tax system to help low-income consumers also died, including a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB691\">bill\u003c/a> to make parents without income eligible for California’s tax credit for young children of as much as $1,000, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB276\">proposal\u003c/a> to help low-income workers maximize their tax refund by choosing from the last three years of income and a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB553\">plan\u003c/a> to create a state tax credit for employers who hire people who are disabled veterans, on public assistance or formerly incarcerated. For each, legislative analysts questioned whether the benefits outweigh the cost to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Jackie Botts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11806716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"Even among nursing homes crowned with the maximum government rating of five stars for overall quality, nearly half have been cited for an infection-control lapse.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-1020x698.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies prevailed in killing a bill that would have allowed the state to require health plans to issue “emergency payments” to struggling health providers in public health crises. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB454\">The legislation\u003c/a> was backed by doctors and dentists who said the pandemic left many medical and dental practices \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/04/coronavirus-private-practice-doctors/\">cash-strapped \u003c/a>because of fewer patient visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB285\"> bill\u003c/a> to hire a chief school nurse at the state level also failed, even though — as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/10/california-without-school-nurse-pandemic/\">CalMatters reported\u003c/a> last year — California is one of only 10 states without someone in that position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Ana B. Ibarra and Barbara Feder Ostrov\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10485439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SolarPanel-e1428694379439.jpg\" alt=\"Residential solar panel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A residential solar panel. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environment \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attempt to streamline permitting for residential solar systems died amid opposition from unions representing electrical workers. Environmental groups supported the\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB617\"> bill\u003c/a> that would have required cities and counties to establish online permitting and automated approvals for residential solar systems — a response to the often sluggish permitting process and the associated costs that has caused consumers to cool toward adopting solar systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists also lost out with the stalling of a bill to require companies doing business in California with more than $1 billion in annual revenues to publicly \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB260\">report their greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> from both direct sources, such as manufacturing, and indirect, such as from their supply chain. The bill’s delay until next year “shows just how much control corporate polluters still have in California,” the head of the California League of Conservation Voters said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Julie Cart\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11796288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley.jpg\" alt=\"Students walk near Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk near Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Higher Education\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB288\">Legislation aimed at preventing\u003c/a> universities from reducing students’ financial aid when they receive private scholarships is on hold until at least next year. A bill that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB940\">would have dedicated $20 million\u003c/a> to expand mental health services to students attending the state’s public colleges and universities also stalled, but Assemblymember Kevin McCarty said he’ll try to fund it through the state budget. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB566\">Legislation\u003c/a> to ensure support staff at California State University campuses get 5% merit raises failed amid opposition from university leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure that stalled \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB379\">would have barred\u003c/a> the University of California from entering into contracts with health providers that forbid UC medical staff from providing reproductive health care and gender-affirming care for transgender patients. It was pulled to give the UC until next year to establish its own policies, said a spokesperson for the bill’s author, state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco. The proposal was also \u003ca href=\"https://thealliance.net/sites/default/files/sb_379_oppose_senhealth_041421.pdf\">opposed\u003c/a> by Catholic hospitals, which have partnerships with UC hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left to live another day is arguably the most consequential higher education bill — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/04/cal-grant-expansion-older-students/\">a massive expansion of state financial aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Felicia Mello and Mikhail Zinshteyn\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10897055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS11152_131990247-e1477087351446.jpg\" alt=\"Democratic lawmakers in California are moving to stop a private equity firm from buying the internet registry for .org domain names, which are commonly used by non-profits and advocacy groups.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Broadband Access and Internet Safety\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic-induced shift to remote work and distance learning prompted a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-digital-divide-broadband/\">slate of proposals aimed at closing the digital divide\u003c/a>. Two of them died Thursday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One proposed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1176\">a statewide broadband subsidy\u003c/a> for low-income people. While it aimed to improve \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-broadband-student-access/\">broadband affordability — a barrier to access that has been laid bare by the pandemic\u003c/a> — anti-poverty groups and advocates for lower taxes on businesses opposed its plan to charge telecom companies 23 cents per month per user. Plus, the federal government just created its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandbenefit\">$50 per month pandemic broadband benefit\u003c/a> for low-income consumers, though it’s temporary\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB34\">bill\u003c/a> to put a $10 billion bond on the 2022 ballot to fund a public-sector-run broadband network was scrapped after the governor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-broadband-expansion/\">earmarked $7 billion\u003c/a> for internet deployment in his budget proposal\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Concern that kids can too easily drift into violent or inappropriate content online prompted \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1545\">a bill\u003c/a> that would have prohibited features such as auto-play videos and in-app purchases, unless parents opt-in for their children. But it died for a second year in a row, even after being narrowed to address the tech industry’s opposition to an earlier version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Jackie Botts, Ben Christopher and Zayna Syed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporters Rachel Becker, Nigel Duara and Jocelyn Wiener contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that bills to increase transparency and accountability on nursing home ownership and to shorten the waiting period for end-of-life decisions had been killed. Also, the story has been changed to say that a bill to require reporting of greenhouse gas emissions has been delayed a year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/california-bills-legislators-kill/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.network/2021/05/20/suspense-file-day-which-controversial-bills-did-california-legislators-kill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article\u003c/a> first appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters Network\u003c/a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em; margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-cropped-calmatters-favicon-32x32-1.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" id=\"republication-tracker-tool-source\" style=\"width: 1px; height: 1px;\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/?republication-pixel=true&post=64435&ga=UA-59722930-8\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Governors also try to bottle some things up in the suspense file, Gatto said, adding that when he left office in 2016, then-Gov. Jerry Brown thanked him for keeping legislation from reaching his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspense file, of course, is not the only tool for slaying bills. Lawmakers can also kill them simply by doing nothing. For the last two years, the Assembly has allowed policy committee chairpersons to decide whether to give bills a hearing. That means they can \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/04/california-legislators-killing-bills-committee-democrats/\">silently snuff them just by not taking them up for a vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how Democrats, who control the Legislature, have killed some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/04/alex-lee-progressive-california/\">most progressive bills introduced this year\u003c/a>, including proposals to develop a single-payer health care system, ban fracking and levy a wealth tax. It’s also what doomed an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/California-soda-tax-bill-dies-in-another-win-for-16113143.php\">repeal a ban on local soda taxes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he will not sign tax increases this year, with the state awash in COVID-19 relief money from the federal government and taxes paid by wealthier residents benefiting from a booming stock market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re enjoying a $76-plus billion — and growing — operating surplus, I don’t think it’s the time to do tax increases,” Newsom said last week as he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-spending-spree-california-budget/\">presented his updated budget\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, one major tax increase survived the suspense file Thursday — a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB71\">increase taxes on international corporations to fund homeless services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Key Proposals That Stalled This Week\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1418px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1418\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1418w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1418px) 100vw, 1418px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators stop at a police barricade outside of the Oakland Police Department on Broadway in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after protests across the country over police accountability and racism, lobbying by law enforcement groups effectively watered down or stopped a handful of bills aimed at policing the police:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A proposed requirement that background checks explore if law enforcement officers have been affiliated with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB655\">hate groups in the past\u003c/a> stalled amid opposition from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A bill requiring police departments to pull in different agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB594\">investigate police shootings of armed people\u003c/a> is on hold until next year\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The biggest police reform bill of the year — which would allow the state to kick bad cops out of the profession for certain types of misconduct and make it easier for people to sue officers and departments for civil rights violations — survived the suspense file, but only after it was watered down. The version that’s moving ahead is more limited in when a person can sue the police — a change the bill’s author, state Sen. Steve Bradford, said was “difficult to accept.” But the Gardena Democrat said in a statement: “Compromise requires us to work together to find common ground.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For the second year in a row, the appropriations committee killed a bill requiring law enforcement agencies to process their backlogged rape kits. The California Public Defenders Association argued the bill would take away resources to test other types of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Byrhonda Lyons and Robert Lewis\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11829079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An effort to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1135\">streamline affordable housing funding\u003c/a> by creating one place for developers to apply for tax credits, bonds and subsidies is on hold until next year. \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\">UC Berkeley’s Terner Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2020-108.pdf\">state auditor\u003c/a> argued this approach would cut the cost and time it takes to build affordable housing, but state Treasurer Fiona Ma, whose office would have given up some power, called the overhaul “risky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1188\">third attempt to create a registry\u003c/a> making it easier to determine who owns rental housing died amid opposition from the California Association of Realtors, which argued the registry would burden property owners. The California Association of Realtors — a political powerhouse in Sacramento — spent \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2579564&amendid=0\">nearly $350,000 on lobbying\u003c/a> between January and March and also opposed a measure to curb evictions and another to help first-time homebuyers by ending a mortgage interest deduction on second homes, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/05/california-homeownership-black/\">died before they even got to the Assembly appropriations committee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Manuela Tobias\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11874743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2309\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg 2309w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2309px) 100vw, 2309px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Poverty and Inequality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB223\">proposal\u003c/a> to shield more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/water-debt-california-households-face-water-shutoffs/\">Californians who are late on water bills\u003c/a> from having their water shut off stalled in the face of opposition from municipal water agencies. But hope is not lost for those late on water bills. Newsom wants to spend $1 billion to bail out consumers and providers crushed by water debt. And \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB222\">another bill\u003c/a> to create a water assistance program survived Thursday’s bloodbath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of proposals aimed at using the tax system to help low-income consumers also died, including a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB691\">bill\u003c/a> to make parents without income eligible for California’s tax credit for young children of as much as $1,000, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB276\">proposal\u003c/a> to help low-income workers maximize their tax refund by choosing from the last three years of income and a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB553\">plan\u003c/a> to create a state tax credit for employers who hire people who are disabled veterans, on public assistance or formerly incarcerated. For each, legislative analysts questioned whether the benefits outweigh the cost to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Jackie Botts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11806716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"Even among nursing homes crowned with the maximum government rating of five stars for overall quality, nearly half have been cited for an infection-control lapse.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-1020x698.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies prevailed in killing a bill that would have allowed the state to require health plans to issue “emergency payments” to struggling health providers in public health crises. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB454\">The legislation\u003c/a> was backed by doctors and dentists who said the pandemic left many medical and dental practices \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/04/coronavirus-private-practice-doctors/\">cash-strapped \u003c/a>because of fewer patient visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB285\"> bill\u003c/a> to hire a chief school nurse at the state level also failed, even though — as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/10/california-without-school-nurse-pandemic/\">CalMatters reported\u003c/a> last year — California is one of only 10 states without someone in that position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Ana B. Ibarra and Barbara Feder Ostrov\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10485439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SolarPanel-e1428694379439.jpg\" alt=\"Residential solar panel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A residential solar panel. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environment \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attempt to streamline permitting for residential solar systems died amid opposition from unions representing electrical workers. Environmental groups supported the\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB617\"> bill\u003c/a> that would have required cities and counties to establish online permitting and automated approvals for residential solar systems — a response to the often sluggish permitting process and the associated costs that has caused consumers to cool toward adopting solar systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists also lost out with the stalling of a bill to require companies doing business in California with more than $1 billion in annual revenues to publicly \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB260\">report their greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> from both direct sources, such as manufacturing, and indirect, such as from their supply chain. The bill’s delay until next year “shows just how much control corporate polluters still have in California,” the head of the California League of Conservation Voters said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Julie Cart\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11796288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley.jpg\" alt=\"Students walk near Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk near Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Higher Education\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB288\">Legislation aimed at preventing\u003c/a> universities from reducing students’ financial aid when they receive private scholarships is on hold until at least next year. A bill that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB940\">would have dedicated $20 million\u003c/a> to expand mental health services to students attending the state’s public colleges and universities also stalled, but Assemblymember Kevin McCarty said he’ll try to fund it through the state budget. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB566\">Legislation\u003c/a> to ensure support staff at California State University campuses get 5% merit raises failed amid opposition from university leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure that stalled \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB379\">would have barred\u003c/a> the University of California from entering into contracts with health providers that forbid UC medical staff from providing reproductive health care and gender-affirming care for transgender patients. It was pulled to give the UC until next year to establish its own policies, said a spokesperson for the bill’s author, state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco. The proposal was also \u003ca href=\"https://thealliance.net/sites/default/files/sb_379_oppose_senhealth_041421.pdf\">opposed\u003c/a> by Catholic hospitals, which have partnerships with UC hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left to live another day is arguably the most consequential higher education bill — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/04/cal-grant-expansion-older-students/\">a massive expansion of state financial aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Felicia Mello and Mikhail Zinshteyn\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10897055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS11152_131990247-e1477087351446.jpg\" alt=\"Democratic lawmakers in California are moving to stop a private equity firm from buying the internet registry for .org domain names, which are commonly used by non-profits and advocacy groups.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Broadband Access and Internet Safety\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic-induced shift to remote work and distance learning prompted a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-digital-divide-broadband/\">slate of proposals aimed at closing the digital divide\u003c/a>. Two of them died Thursday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One proposed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1176\">a statewide broadband subsidy\u003c/a> for low-income people. While it aimed to improve \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-broadband-student-access/\">broadband affordability — a barrier to access that has been laid bare by the pandemic\u003c/a> — anti-poverty groups and advocates for lower taxes on businesses opposed its plan to charge telecom companies 23 cents per month per user. Plus, the federal government just created its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandbenefit\">$50 per month pandemic broadband benefit\u003c/a> for low-income consumers, though it’s temporary\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB34\">bill\u003c/a> to put a $10 billion bond on the 2022 ballot to fund a public-sector-run broadband network was scrapped after the governor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-broadband-expansion/\">earmarked $7 billion\u003c/a> for internet deployment in his budget proposal\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Concern that kids can too easily drift into violent or inappropriate content online prompted \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1545\">a bill\u003c/a> that would have prohibited features such as auto-play videos and in-app purchases, unless parents opt-in for their children. But it died for a second year in a row, even after being narrowed to address the tech industry’s opposition to an earlier version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Jackie Botts, Ben Christopher and Zayna Syed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporters Rachel Becker, Nigel Duara and Jocelyn Wiener contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that bills to increase transparency and accountability on nursing home ownership and to shorten the waiting period for end-of-life decisions had been killed. Also, the story has been changed to say that a bill to require reporting of greenhouse gas emissions has been delayed a year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/california-bills-legislators-kill/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.network/2021/05/20/suspense-file-day-which-controversial-bills-did-california-legislators-kill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article\u003c/a> first appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters Network\u003c/a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em; margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-cropped-calmatters-favicon-32x32-1.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" id=\"republication-tracker-tool-source\" style=\"width: 1px; height: 1px;\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/?republication-pixel=true&post=64435&ga=UA-59722930-8\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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}
}
