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And I was like, how am I going to get through this?” history teacher Alette Kendrick told the group during the first meeting a couple days after the attack. “In these times where it feels like it's so important to be a good teacher, I've also felt like there's never been a harder time for me to be a good teacher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation moved from how to handle their own emotions to the importance of teaching the history of resistance in Black and brown communities to the way the insurrection was resurfacing family trauma for recent immigrant students from Central America whose parents had fled civil war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick called on colleagues to ground themselves in the history needed to give students proper context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ourselves have to become versed and informed to be able to support our students in understanding this moment and having agency within it,” Kendrick said. “We've seen things very similar to this happen. And what that means is that we can also look to how people have been able to respond and survive this type of violence in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group talked about connecting the current moment to Watts’ own history of civil unrest and how it shaped the community. In fact, their very school was \u003ca href=\"https://ca.greendot.org/locke/about-us/\">built in response\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-watts-riots-explainer-20150715-htmlstory.html\">Watts uprising of 1965\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually the group is hoping to bring community elders and local activists to speak to students as part of the town hall series. To pull something off before the inauguration, they started small. 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And so so that changes my understanding of the risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manigo, who is Black, has talked with parents who are pushing for schools to reopen and says they aren’t feeling the effects of the pandemic in the same way families in her neighborhood are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not in their families, is not in their neighborhood. It’s an amorphous kind of idea and a threat. It’s not even seen as a potential threat for them,” she said. “We are hearing families testing positive every week. And so it just feels different for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">In cities that have not seen concentrations of COVID-19 in residential neighborhoods, such as Berkeley, some parents of color have advocated for a return to in-person learning. Berkeley Unified parent Laura Babitt, who is Black and newly elected to the school board, recently wrote to the Berkeley City Council expressing parents’ frustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“While science says we can do this safely, the unions are asking for more,” she wrote. “So much more, that we may never be able to reopen schools for our earliest learners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bacigalupi, from Open Schools California, says her son, who has dyslexia, is one of the students falling behind in distance learning. 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One hour she’s helping to set up a parent’s email account, another she’s walking a family through an unemployment application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one morning, earlier in the year, she facilitated a Zoom conference to discuss Yosgar’s school experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To break the ice, Rodgers asked Ms. Godinez to share something her son likes to do, then handed off to Aguilar to interpret. But before they could get through the first question, the Godinezes disappeared from the screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh no!” Rodgers said. “Did we lose them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They reconnected, but by 10 minutes in, their internet connection had already dropped five times. The group eventually abandoned Zoom in favor of a three-way phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yosgar, it was only the latest technological hurdle since classes moved online. His mom had no computer experience at all, and because Yosgar had never used one at home before this year, he had trouble navigating the Wi-Fi hot spot and school-loaned laptop. After missing two weeks of instruction, he was finally able to connect with help from his older brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such problems aren’t uncommon. District data shows schools are too often failing to reach Mam speakers during distance learning — these students are in class just 85% of the time compared with 92% and 93% for Spanish and English speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in the school year, administrators asked Aguilar if she could help make a video tutorial in Mam, coaching families on setting up Wi-Fi hot spots. 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Less time at school means his English is slipping, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days he feels most comfortable speaking Spanish. When he has to speak English in front of his class on Zoom, he panics. He’s embarrassed because he’s worried he’ll say something wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It scares me so much,” he says. “My heart feels like it’s going to jump out of my chest and my eyes hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these anxieties came up during his school conference, but Yosgar did get at least one thing out of the meeting: Watching Maria Aguilar move between languages left an impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She speaks Mam, English and Spanish,” he says. “I liked it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He mentions with pride the time he interpreted for his mother during the family’s asylum process, saying how important it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom thanked me,” he says. “She was so happy I helped her!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But while Rodgers shared the family’s concern over Yosgar’s school troubles, she does not share their native language. The Godinezes speak Mam, a Mayan tongue used by some half million people, primarily in Guatemala. The family and Rodgers both speak some Spanish, but only enough between them for the most basic communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Maria Aguilar, the district’s Mam interpreter, came in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Oakland Unified School District’s support for Mayan Mam and other newcomer students is among the most robust in the country, from the creation of a continuation high school designed for recent immigrants to specialized counseling and educational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pandemic is threatening hard-won progress. 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And to his surprise, the landlord was interested in renting to him even though he wasn’t working yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore had just been offered a job at Alameda Health Systems, working in its COVID-19 ward. But there was still another problem: He couldn’t afford the security deposit and first month’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the landlord connected him to a program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/a>. Since 2018, it has provided more than $11.5 million in direct financial assistance and legal counsel to nearly 5,000 households. Most of the money — 85% — comes from philanthropic donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It actually had me in tears,” Moore said, after finding out the program would foot the bill to help him move in. “It meant everything to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquisse Moore looks out the window at his home in Oakland on Jan. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea behind the program is simple, said Zoë Polk, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a>: “Stop homelessness before it happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program began in 2018 as a three-year pilot program and is a partnership between the city of Oakland and local nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Zoë Polk, executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center\"]‘It may be hard to remember, but our homelessness crisis was huge even before COVID. And, in light of COVID, it became even more imperative that people are able to stay in a place where they have been able to keep their family together.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people need legal support to fight an eviction, Polk said. That’s where the law center comes in. Others, like Moore, need direct rental assistance or housing. And for that, \u003ca href=\"https://housing.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services\u003c/a> intervenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some people need other kinds of help, Polk said, such as connecting to employment or health services. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay\u003c/a> takes care of that piece of the puzzle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be targeting people so they can stay where they currently are, stay in their homes,” Polk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed launched in response to a dramatic rise in both rents and homelessness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average rent for an apartment more than doubled between 2010 and 2019, from $1,396 to $2,905, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/market-snapshots/renting-america-housing-changed-past-decade/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to an analysis\u003c/a> by the apartment listing service RENTCafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the number of people experiencing homelessness on any given night increased 85% between 2015 and 2019, growing from 2,191 people to 4,071, according to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biennial survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be hard to remember, but our homelessness crisis was huge then even before COVID,” Polk said. “And, in light of COVID, it became even more imperative that people are able to stay in place, where they have a place that they’re comfortable in, a place where they have been able to keep their family together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-wage workers and people of color who were already more at risk of eviction and homelessness have only seen those risks grow as a result of the pandemic, said Mary Cunningham, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/metropolitan-housing-and-communities-policy-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center\u003c/a> at the Urban Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/research/publication/looming-eviction-cliff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published a study\u003c/a> showing that across the country, 9.5 million renters reported problems paying rent in September, including nearly 17% of Black and 23% of Latino renters, compared to 8% of white renters. Black and Latino renters were also four times more likely to have received an eviction notice from their landlords since the beginning of March last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mary Cunningham, vice president, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute\"]‘We know that Black and Latino households have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 … So we need to make sure that rental assistance is addressing past housing inequities, but is also trying to provide assistance in a targeted way so we can address racial inequities.’[/pullquote]In Oakland, Black residents make up 24% of the population but account for \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went into the pandemic with a pretty big, longstanding affordable housing crisis,” Cunningham said. “And now the pandemic has added additional stress and added more people to the pool of those who need help and who are at risk of eviction and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real public health concern\u003c/a> that housing instability can lead to higher coronavirus infections and deaths as people who lose their housing double up with friends or family or become homeless, Cunningham said. But even without the pandemic, homelessness is just expensive for taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Alliance to End Homelessness \u003ca href=\"http://naeh.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cost-Savings-from-PSH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> that a person who has experienced homelessness longer than a year costs taxpayers an average of $35,578 per year. Those costs include emergency shelter, visits to the emergency room and interactions with police. Comparatively, a year of housing with supportive services on-site costs an average of $12,800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing someone from losing their housing is even more cost-effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed provided each household it helped with an average of $2,149 in direct rental assistance in the latter half of 2019. That figure grew to an average of $3,309 between July and September of last year, according to The San Francisco Foundation, which administers the program on behalf of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Marquisse Moore smiles inside his home\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquisse Moore at his home in Oakland on Jan. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polk says the third year of the pilot program will be pivotal in preventing an onslaught of evictions as moratoriums expire and months of back rent come due. The program still has $8 million available to assist residents this year. And Polk said that money will be crucial since the unemployment rate in California is still high at around 8%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ca.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the U.S. Department of Labor\u003c/a> – and many people remain out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very far away from universally people getting a vaccine,” Polk said. “So from our standpoint, Keep Oakland Housed has a lot of work to do in this next year making sure that we are not putting the cart before the horse in terms of trying to evict people while it’s still not safe to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']The latest stimulus bill included $25 billion in federal rent relief, $2.6 billion of which was allocated to California. Gov. Gavin Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/01/06/governor-newsom-announces-golden-state-stimulus-a-budget-proposal-to-help-low-income-californians-through-600-rapid-cash-payments-and-calls-for-extension-of-eviction-moratorium/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed urgency\u003c/a> in distributing that money quickly to low-income renters, affordable housing providers and small property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham said it’s critical that local governments target that money to the lowest-income residents who have also been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that Black and Latino households, because they’re essential workers, have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 both as a public health crisis and as an economic crisis,” she said. “So we need to make sure that rental assistance is addressing past housing inequities, but is also trying to provide assistance in a targeted way so we can address racial inequities moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Marquisse Moore, the opportunity to get into stable housing and get back on his feet has been humbling, he said. The past six months of moving between friends’ and family’s houses took a toll on his daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that she has her own place, she’s at peace,” Moore said. “She’s just enjoying being a kid and not having to worry about what’s going on around her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How to Get Help Via Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org/howtogethelp\">advises Oakland residents\u003c/a> who have a household income at or below 50% of the area median income and are experiencing a housing crisis to contact any of the three collaborative organizations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services (BACS)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-899-9289\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC)\u003c/a>: For legal representation: 510-548-4040 (ask for housing intake)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay (CCEB)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-768-3100\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The latest stimulus bill included $25 billion in federal rent relief, $2.6 billion of which was allocated to California. Gov. Gavin Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/01/06/governor-newsom-announces-golden-state-stimulus-a-budget-proposal-to-help-low-income-californians-through-600-rapid-cash-payments-and-calls-for-extension-of-eviction-moratorium/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed urgency\u003c/a> in distributing that money quickly to low-income renters, affordable housing providers and small property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham said it’s critical that local governments target that money to the lowest-income residents who have also been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that Black and Latino households, because they’re essential workers, have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 both as a public health crisis and as an economic crisis,” she said. “So we need to make sure that rental assistance is addressing past housing inequities, but is also trying to provide assistance in a targeted way so we can address racial inequities moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Marquisse Moore, the opportunity to get into stable housing and get back on his feet has been humbling, he said. The past six months of moving between friends’ and family’s houses took a toll on his daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that she has her own place, she’s at peace,” Moore said. “She’s just enjoying being a kid and not having to worry about what’s going on around her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How to Get Help Via Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org/howtogethelp\">advises Oakland residents\u003c/a> who have a household income at or below 50% of the area median income and are experiencing a housing crisis to contact any of the three collaborative organizations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services (BACS)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-899-9289\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC)\u003c/a>: For legal representation: 510-548-4040 (ask for housing intake)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay (CCEB)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-768-3100\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Six-year-old Felix Whitaker has a message for Gov. Gavin Newsom: “I miss my friends and my teacher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, the first grader crouched on the pavement outside Thousand Oaks Elementary School in Berkeley, pen in hand, slowly adding those words to a letter addressed to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t alone. Around him, more than 20 other students and parents drafted their own notes to Newsom, their school superintendent or to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767224/what-california-knows-about-kamala-harris\">who attended this school.\u003c/a> Others held up signs that read, “I want to meet my teacher” and “School is the essential business of childhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sit-in is the latest action coordinated by Berkeley Unified School District parents mounting an increasingly organized pressure campaign that includes rallies, op-eds, a slick website and professionally printed #OpenSchools signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re out today because Jan. 13 is the day that Berkeley public schools were supposed to reopen,” said Berkeley Unified parent Jamila Dunn. “They did not, because they weren’t prepared.” Dunn and others gathered for the protest want to see a return to in-person instruction as soon as public health officials give the green light. They hope the letters to elected officials help galvanize the support needed to make that possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855294\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11855294\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46598_016_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46598_016_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46598_016_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46598_016_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46598_016_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46598_016_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Brown, center, and her kids Isaiah Parker (left) and Juna Parker (right) attend a sit-in in support of reopening schools at Thousand Oaks Elementary School. Parents and students staged a sit-in for equity in school reopening on Jan. 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But a holiday spike in COVID-19 cases and ongoing negotiations with employee unions mean there’s no reopening date in sight in Berkeley, or most other districts in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the sticking points in Berkeley Unified’s negotiations with the teachers union are the transmission rate thresholds for opening and closing schools, accommodations for high-risk staff and the hybrid learning schedule that allows for both in-person and distance education, said Berkeley Federation of Teachers President Matt Meyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about running two different systems at the same time with the same staff and the same resources,” he said of the hybrid model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, California lawmakers introduced a bill that would give public schools a deadline to cement their plans for reopening for in-person instruction. Beginning March 1, schools would have to be ready to put those plans into action within two weeks of getting approval to open under state and county health orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, Gov. Gavin Newsom prioritized school staff in the state’s vaccine distribution plan and put forward a $2 billion proposal to incentivize schools to begin in-person instruction for transitional kindergarten through sixth grade, starting in mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our kids are suffering now,” Dunn said. “At this point we do need a directive in order to make this happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855291\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11855291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46595_013_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46595_013_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46595_013_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46595_013_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46595_013_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46595_013_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student’s letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom in support of schools reopening lies on the sidewalk at Thousand Oaks Elementary School. Parents and students staged a sit-in for equity in school reopening on Jan. 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She worries about her first grader falling behind and doesn’t want her younger son to start kindergarten this fall on Zoom. “We’re kind of like hanging on the cliff edge, waiting for the district to figure this out,” she said. “I’m losing more and more faith in that every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight-year-old Shai Elis, who attends Thousand Oaks Elementary, said she’s not learning much in the hour she spends in Zoom classes most days. “That’s like not even half of what we’re doing in regular school and not that much school work,” she said. “So a lot of the day I’m like, what do I do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elis said she’s eager to get back to school so she can meet her teacher in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A November survey of parents conducted by the district showed 46% of elementary school parents were ready for their kids to return to on-campus learning in a hybrid model as soon as possible, while 32% said they were not ready to return and 22% were unsure. For middle school parents, the numbers were the same, while 49% of high school parents said they were eager to send their students back as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer, the Berkeley Federation of Teachers president, said the union is focused on finding ways to ensure equity for students who choose to stay home. “Teachers spend a lot of time making sure their distance-learning kids are attending class and all that disappears when they have to be in a hybrid model at the same time — it’s the same teachers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jamila Dunn, Berkeley Unified parent\"]‘We’re kind of like hanging on the cliff edge, waiting for the district to figure this out.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Dunn may not stick around to see the two sides reach a deal. She said she’s been meeting with private schools and may make the move if she can find financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Berkeley parent, Nicole Blaquiere, nearly enrolled her 6-year-old daughter in private school last fall but opted for public schools. “To be honest, I’m deeply regretting that decision right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blaquiere, a research chemist, said balancing work and homeschooling while also caring for her 3 year old is taking a toll. “All of my mom-friends have thought about quitting their jobs or going part time,” she said. “I feel this is setting women back a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Meyer’s view, vaccinating teachers could expedite reopening, but he said the union has not received a timetable for when that could start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the governor’s reopening proposal, Meyer points to concerns raised by the superintendents of the state’s largest school districts, including Oakland and San Francisco, that the plan could worsen inequalities between affluent districts and large, urban districts like theirs. The superintendents argue low-income communities with high rates of infection would be left out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1347635569052975104\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Newsom’s Safe Schools for All plan, which requires legislative approval, schools would get at least $450 and up to $700 per student if they agreed to requirements for COVID-19 testing and negotiated a pandemic safety plan with their employee union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer is doubtful any large district in Alameda County will have a labor agreement in place on the governor’s timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these Berkeley parents plan to keep up the pressure. After mailing off their letters, they plan to hold an informational panel with medical experts to make the case for the safety of reopening. “We need to have our voices heard,” said Lei Levi, one of the parent organizers. “We’re going to do public acts, we’re going to write letters, we’re going to email. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855481/ana-no-podia-ir-a-la-escuela-porque-tenia-que-trabajar-pero-la-escuela-en-linea-hizo-posible-que-siguiera-estudiando\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it’s time for class, 17-year-old Ana will put down her mop, switch off the vacuum or stop scrubbing the toilet, then ask to borrow her boss’s car keys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside whichever house she’s cleaning that day, she’ll get into the parked car. After opening her Chromebook, she'll connect her hotspot and join her high school classmates on Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]'If I keep going, maybe it'll be worth it.'[/pullquote]It's not easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to do everything alone,” she says. “It’s so hard, I feel like crying. I want to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she hasn’t. Almost two years after immigrating to the United States, Ana — a nickname used at her attorney’s request to protect her privacy — is attending high school for the first time. While remote learning has upended the education of so many students in recent months, for Ana, it took a global pandemic to make high school a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's not alone. In Oakland, where the school district has seen an influx of new immigrant students in recent years, distance learning has created opportunities for some of the most vulnerable among them: unaccompanied immigrant youth like Ana who face daunting obstacles to staying in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Drive to Get Educated\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a child, Ana liked school, but after finishing sixth grade in Guatemala, “I had nowhere to go,” she says. Without money for textbooks, uniforms and other school costs, she began working alongside her mother, harvesting coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was both the drive to continue her education and economic need that brought her to this country. But after she arrived in Oakland, she went a year without setting foot in a classroom because her housekeeping job made high school unrealistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually she learned about a beginning literacy class for adults, and three nights a week, after commuting from East Oakland to San Francisco and back for work, Ana took the bus to the class so she could improve her English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teacher, Victoria Carpenter, says Ana stood out as a quick learner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was really smart, that was evident,” Carpenter says. So Carpenter was shocked when weeks into the course, as students were learning how birthdates are formatted in the U.S., she realized Ana had barely turned 17. Legally, she needed to be in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nate Dunstan, who runs the Oakland Unified School District’s program for refugee and recent immigrant students, came looking for her after getting a call from Carpenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him I wanted to be in high school, but I can’t. I have to work,” Ana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Dunstan, the dilemma is familiar. Keeping unaccompanied immigrant youth like Ana in school is one of his biggest challenges. These teenagers often find themselves in precarious living situations with relatives they hardly know, facing intense economic pressures. On top of their own expenses, some have to send money home to their families and pay down debts owed to coyotes who ferried them across the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the dropout rate over four years for newcomers was 36%, compared to 6% for non-newcomers. The number refers to students who dropped out anytime between the beginning of ninth grade in 2016-17 and their expected graduation in 2019-20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These figures include young immigrants who migrated with families as well as those who came alone, and administrators say the dropout rate for just unaccompanied minors is likely far higher. They’re the students Dunstan worries about most; he’s seen too many struggle with homelessness or ensnared by labor and sex traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's hopeful that a new grant to fund a full-time caseworker dedicated to re-engaging out-of-school unaccompanied minors will make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11855227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Principal Emma Batten-Bowen and students at Rudsdale High School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Emma Batten-Bowen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'What Other Choice Do I Have?'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was on Dunstan’s mind when he met Ana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made an impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going to the adult ed class at age 16 — that's incredible,” he says. “That takes a lot of motivation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulled out \"all the stops” to get her enrolled in high school, connecting her with a pro bono immigration attorney and providing a small stipend to help pay bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she couldn’t give up work entirely in order to attend school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Ana saw how remote learning could work to her advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her aunt was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are you going to do, take the computer to work?” Ana remembers her asking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What other choice do I have?” Ana replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that, she prepared to start ninth grade at Fremont High School in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the turmoil of the pandemic, Dunstan has managed to enroll other unaccompanied minors. After months of trying, he finally got one young woman into high school when she was forced to stay home from work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got her into a summer school class only because she had COVID,” he says. “She was quarantining and she was like, ‘Well, I might as well take a class now.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newcomer Enrollment Surging \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Rudsdale Newcomer High School, designed to support unaccompanied minors and other recently arrived immigrants, Assistant Principal Emma Batten-Bowen says enrollment is at an all-time high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're really re-engaging a lot of kids who had dropped out because they couldn't make the schedule,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batten-Bowen is especially encouraged to see young mothers coming back to school after leaving to care for children. She says now they can be at home with their kids while they attend class online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether this new way of learning translates into academic success is still an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they actually passing classes?” Batten-Bowen asks. She notes that some things remain unchanged. “Their lives are just very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks into her first semester, Ana’s remarkable motivation flagged. Without home internet, she relied on a hot spot loaned by her school, which she says disconnected every few minutes. The constant interruptions made it difficult for her to follow along, and sometimes she lost all her work. She was also finding it hard to balance her job with school, sometimes forgetting to slip out to her boss’s car until class was nearly over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually got internet at home, and she says school is getting a little easier. 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They’re the students Dunstan worries about most; he’s seen too many struggle with homelessness or ensnared by labor and sex traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's hopeful that a new grant to fund a full-time caseworker dedicated to re-engaging out-of-school unaccompanied minors will make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11855227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/01/RudsdaleOakland-e1610582288769.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Principal Emma Batten-Bowen and students at Rudsdale High School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Emma Batten-Bowen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'What Other Choice Do I Have?'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was on Dunstan’s mind when he met Ana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made an impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going to the adult ed class at age 16 — that's incredible,” he says. “That takes a lot of motivation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulled out \"all the stops” to get her enrolled in high school, connecting her with a pro bono immigration attorney and providing a small stipend to help pay bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she couldn’t give up work entirely in order to attend school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Ana saw how remote learning could work to her advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her aunt was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are you going to do, take the computer to work?” Ana remembers her asking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What other choice do I have?” Ana replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that, she prepared to start ninth grade at Fremont High School in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the turmoil of the pandemic, Dunstan has managed to enroll other unaccompanied minors. After months of trying, he finally got one young woman into high school when she was forced to stay home from work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got her into a summer school class only because she had COVID,” he says. “She was quarantining and she was like, ‘Well, I might as well take a class now.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly has seen plenty of riots and civil unrest in his native Ivory Coast. But the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol this week shocked and saddened the 23-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am not really sure if there will be any real inclusion or acceptance of diversity or end to racism in this country,” he wrote in an email to KQED. “Despite the constant praise of the U.S. as being a country that upholds democracy, this is a clear statement that the U.S. today is like a developing country – susceptible to coups and such actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For international students like Coulibaly, attending school in the U.S. – and especially California – has long been held up as a dream. The state’s universities draw people from all over the world, many of whom arrive on these shores full of notions of inclusivity, openness and opportunity. Grappling with the caustic political climate is one challenge Coulibaly and fellow students from Africa studying at UC Berkeley have faced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic is another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been hell,” said Coulibaly. “I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sustained by Dreams of California, Met With a Different Reality\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly was just a little kid when civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in the early 2000s. Coulibaly said his family was forced to flee their home in the western city of Man as a militia swarmed in. It was a terrifying time – but the war subsided and life went on. Coulibaly was a good student, so he was sent to the capital city when he was just 13 years old to get a better education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Leaving my family, especially my mom, was extremely hard,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said what kept him going as a teenager in the big city all alone was the far-off dream of going to school in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was what was in my mind – the place where diverse people support each other and come together and flourish,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly was thrilled to get a scholarship to UC Berkeley as an undergrad. But he said it didn’t take long for his expectations to part ways with reality. One day at the library, he overheard a couple of fellow students saying they would never date a Black guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That day really, really like broke that idea of diversity that I had in my heart,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the racism he’s experienced on campus, Coulibaly said his life experiences don’t necessarily match up with those of the members of the school’s Black student groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the people that look like you, you don’t really understand the struggle that they have been through while being in this country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Idris Muktar Ibrahim, UC Berkeley grad student studying remotely from Kenya\"]‘I’ve never been made aware of my skin color. I’ve never been made aware of where I’m from, or opportunities, or being privileged or not being privileged.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Coulibaly started studying for his doctorate in engineering this past fall, most of the friends he’d made as an undergrad had finished their degrees and moved on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So starting the grad program, I really felt isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s reached out to his campus counselor and psychiatrist for help. But he wishes he could get more emotional support from his family. He said there’s a lot of stigma surrounding mental health issues in his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way mental health is taken back home, just like, ‘you will be fine’ or ‘it’s gonna pass’ and stuff like this,” Coulibaly said. “So I had a lot of breakdowns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While being an international student in the U.S. can be difficult overall, the situation is particularly acute for African students at Berkeley. There are \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only around 60 students from Africa\u003c/a> at the school right now — about 1% of the international student population — and half of those are undergraduates. With such a small population, it can be hard to connect with people who have shared life experiences, especially during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1536x977.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley 2020 international student enrollment by country \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other than going out for occasional runs and bike rides, Coulibaly spends most of his time indoors. He said he’s just focused on getting through the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Remote Learning, Thousands of Miles Away\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Coulibaly, many of the international students that chose to enroll this year haven’t even set foot on campus because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-sixth\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s student population (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/fall-enrollment-glance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-seventh\u003c/a> of the overall UC system student population) comes from outside the United States. And \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they pay\u003c/a> more than twice as much in tuition fees and living expenses as their \u003ca href=\"https://admissions.berkeley.edu/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-state counterparts\u003c/a>. International student enrollment was at an all-time high during the last academic year at Berkeley, at nearly 7,000 students. But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a master’s in journalism student at UC Berkeley who’s been studying remotely from Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that wild ride began during orientation when he came down with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was dying,” Ibrahim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old scholarship student didn’t immediately seek medical help because he said there’s a culture of shame around the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I kept it to myself,” he said. “I didn’t tell family. I didn’t tell anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim eventually regained his health. But he continued to struggle, trying to keep up a day job to help put his siblings through school, at the same time as studying in the face of constant power and internet outages. And that’s to say nothing of the 11-hour time difference between his home in Nairobi and the U.S. west coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852658\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley journalism student Idris Muktar Ibrahim is currently studying from Nairobi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Idris Muktar Ibrahim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim’s journalism classes on Zoom typically begin at around 7 p.m. his time and run until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would start the class like, high momentum, high energy,” he said. “But by the time it’s midnight, I’m like out. I’m done. I can’t even concentrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently decided to quit his day job, working as a reporter for the German international broadcaster \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deutsche Welle\u003c/a>, so he can focus full time on his studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sacrifice,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ibrahim is nothing if not a survivor. He grew up in Korogocho, one of Nairobi’s toughest neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it made us mature at a very early age,” Ibrahim said. “We were forced to be adults when we were supposed to be kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said crime was an everyday occurrence. Ibrahim was in high school when his father – who had instilled in his son a love of books – was murdered by gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was like my turning point,” Ibrahim said. “And I started writing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started submitting video stories about crime in his neighborhood to local news outlets and eventually started working regularly as a reporter, covering difficult topics like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xpcz9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread rape of Kenyan women\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/the-gaping-hole-left-by-ethiopian-airlines-flight-et-302/av-52707218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plane crashes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said he’s witnessed a lot of violence in Africa. But he’s worried about what’s in store for him in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never been made aware of my skin color,” he said. “I’ve never been made aware of where I’m from, or opportunities, or being privileged or not being privileged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said systemic racism and the Black Lives Matter movement have been a hot topic of discussion in his UC Berkeley journalism classes. But like fellow African student Coulibaly, he’s found it hard to relate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t actively participate in the discussion because I don’t understand the context,” he said. “I don’t relate the same to the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that he himself might be a target of racial violence frightened Ibrahim for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of the reasons that got me thinking, like, do I really want to do this? Do I really want to move to America?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his fears, Ibrahim has decided to come to the U.S. anyway. There’s something about what Berkeley, in particular, represents that’s pulling him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID-19-related travel restrictions permitting, he just found out he’ll be flying out next week – in time for the start of the spring semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley, I’ve always read, is a liberal university, is a center of democracy and protests,” he said. “So I want to see this for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly has seen plenty of riots and civil unrest in his native Ivory Coast. But the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol this week shocked and saddened the 23-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am not really sure if there will be any real inclusion or acceptance of diversity or end to racism in this country,” he wrote in an email to KQED. “Despite the constant praise of the U.S. as being a country that upholds democracy, this is a clear statement that the U.S. today is like a developing country – susceptible to coups and such actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For international students like Coulibaly, attending school in the U.S. – and especially California – has long been held up as a dream. The state’s universities draw people from all over the world, many of whom arrive on these shores full of notions of inclusivity, openness and opportunity. Grappling with the caustic political climate is one challenge Coulibaly and fellow students from Africa studying at UC Berkeley have faced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic is another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been hell,” said Coulibaly. “I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sustained by Dreams of California, Met With a Different Reality\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly was just a little kid when civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in the early 2000s. Coulibaly said his family was forced to flee their home in the western city of Man as a militia swarmed in. It was a terrifying time – but the war subsided and life went on. Coulibaly was a good student, so he was sent to the capital city when he was just 13 years old to get a better education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Leaving my family, especially my mom, was extremely hard,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said what kept him going as a teenager in the big city all alone was the far-off dream of going to school in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was what was in my mind – the place where diverse people support each other and come together and flourish,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Coulibaly started studying for his doctorate in engineering this past fall, most of the friends he’d made as an undergrad had finished their degrees and moved on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So starting the grad program, I really felt isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s reached out to his campus counselor and psychiatrist for help. But he wishes he could get more emotional support from his family. He said there’s a lot of stigma surrounding mental health issues in his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way mental health is taken back home, just like, ‘you will be fine’ or ‘it’s gonna pass’ and stuff like this,” Coulibaly said. “So I had a lot of breakdowns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While being an international student in the U.S. can be difficult overall, the situation is particularly acute for African students at Berkeley. There are \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only around 60 students from Africa\u003c/a> at the school right now — about 1% of the international student population — and half of those are undergraduates. With such a small population, it can be hard to connect with people who have shared life experiences, especially during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1536x977.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley 2020 international student enrollment by country \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other than going out for occasional runs and bike rides, Coulibaly spends most of his time indoors. He said he’s just focused on getting through the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Remote Learning, Thousands of Miles Away\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Coulibaly, many of the international students that chose to enroll this year haven’t even set foot on campus because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-sixth\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s student population (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/fall-enrollment-glance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-seventh\u003c/a> of the overall UC system student population) comes from outside the United States. And \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they pay\u003c/a> more than twice as much in tuition fees and living expenses as their \u003ca href=\"https://admissions.berkeley.edu/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-state counterparts\u003c/a>. International student enrollment was at an all-time high during the last academic year at Berkeley, at nearly 7,000 students. But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a master’s in journalism student at UC Berkeley who’s been studying remotely from Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that wild ride began during orientation when he came down with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was dying,” Ibrahim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old scholarship student didn’t immediately seek medical help because he said there’s a culture of shame around the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I kept it to myself,” he said. “I didn’t tell family. I didn’t tell anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim eventually regained his health. But he continued to struggle, trying to keep up a day job to help put his siblings through school, at the same time as studying in the face of constant power and internet outages. And that’s to say nothing of the 11-hour time difference between his home in Nairobi and the U.S. west coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852658\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley journalism student Idris Muktar Ibrahim is currently studying from Nairobi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Idris Muktar Ibrahim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim’s journalism classes on Zoom typically begin at around 7 p.m. his time and run until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would start the class like, high momentum, high energy,” he said. “But by the time it’s midnight, I’m like out. I’m done. I can’t even concentrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently decided to quit his day job, working as a reporter for the German international broadcaster \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deutsche Welle\u003c/a>, so he can focus full time on his studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sacrifice,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ibrahim is nothing if not a survivor. He grew up in Korogocho, one of Nairobi’s toughest neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it made us mature at a very early age,” Ibrahim said. “We were forced to be adults when we were supposed to be kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said crime was an everyday occurrence. Ibrahim was in high school when his father – who had instilled in his son a love of books – was murdered by gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was like my turning point,” Ibrahim said. “And I started writing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started submitting video stories about crime in his neighborhood to local news outlets and eventually started working regularly as a reporter, covering difficult topics like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xpcz9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread rape of Kenyan women\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/the-gaping-hole-left-by-ethiopian-airlines-flight-et-302/av-52707218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plane crashes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said he’s witnessed a lot of violence in Africa. But he’s worried about what’s in store for him in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never been made aware of my skin color,” he said. “I’ve never been made aware of where I’m from, or opportunities, or being privileged or not being privileged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said systemic racism and the Black Lives Matter movement have been a hot topic of discussion in his UC Berkeley journalism classes. But like fellow African student Coulibaly, he’s found it hard to relate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t actively participate in the discussion because I don’t understand the context,” he said. “I don’t relate the same to the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that he himself might be a target of racial violence frightened Ibrahim for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of the reasons that got me thinking, like, do I really want to do this? Do I really want to move to America?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his fears, Ibrahim has decided to come to the U.S. anyway. 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"content": "\u003cp>By 8:30 a.m. the morning after an angry mob stormed the U.S. Capitol with Confederate flags, Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District teacher Mary Vanasit had prepared a 45-minute lesson on the topic for her third graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do you notice?” she asked, 15 minutes into the class, as she worked through a slideshow comparing images from the insurrection with those from Black Lives Matter protests this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The white guy looks pretty happy because he’s taking something,” a student named Ava said of a photo showing a white man grinning and waving as he hoists a lectern emblazoned with the seal of the speaker of the House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Black guy feels sort of anxious because he’s getting sprayed with something and turning away so he doesn’t get it in his eyes,” she went on, describing the second photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11854616\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11854616\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/1920_1080-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/1920_1080-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/1920_1080-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/1920_1080-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/1920_1080.jpg 1463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of a slide from Mary Vanasit’s lesson on Jan. 7 — the day after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mary Vanasit)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vanasit closed by thanking her students for opening up. “It’s something hard to talk about,” she said. “But is it important — when things like this happen, should we ignore it and pretend like it didn’t happen? We shouldn’t, huh. Because is anything going to change if we ignore it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She posed a final question to the kids: “How can we change the world with each other?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her class, Vanasit navigated things smoothly, offering support and empathy. But the discussion shook her. “It was extremely sad and gave me goosebumps,” she said later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the pandemic and the killing of George Floyd, the past year has brought plenty of trauma into the lives of students. This week, California educators once again find themselves looking for ways to support kids while managing their own emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Hayward, seventh grade teacher Donovan Hall woke up anxious about facing his students on Zoom. “I just didn’t trust that I could kind of keep that contained,” he said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mary Vanasit, third grade teacher\"]‘It’s something hard to talk about … But is it important — when things like this happen, should we ignore it and pretend like it didn’t happen? We shouldn’t, huh. Because is anything going to change if we ignore it?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall, who teaches a class focused on academic and personal development at Impact Academy, worried about his ability to guide students through this moment. “I’m a Black man and seeing how people are talking about it and kind of connecting it to Black Lives Matter and connecting to Black people in general, it brings up a lot of just hurt and pain,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knew one way to support his students was to be honest about his own emotions, “and let them know, ‘This is important to me, but right now I’m not ready to process it. That’s OK.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall and his co-teacher ended up dividing their class into two groups: One talked about the attempted coup, and the other, led by Hall, intentionally did not — they played a game instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Hall’s eighth grade students, Leandro Galvez, opted to join the group discussion and said it helped him process the events. “I feel frustrated, I feel angry, I feel sad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way law enforcement handled the insurrection by the pro-Trump mob only confirms his belief that white privilege exists, he said, though it doesn’t make it any easier to make sense of the concept. “We all have red blood,” he said. “That means we’re all people. We shouldn’t be fighting with each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the kind of reaction principal Blain Watson of Locke College Preparatory Academy in Watts anticipated from his students, whose pain and outrage is still raw in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students of color, communities of color have a lot of doubts about the establishment,” said Watson, “about whether the government supports us or not.” He went on to explain that after seeing Trump supporters able to enter the Capitol and fly a Confederate flag, he worries his students are in danger of losing all faith in government. [aside tag=\"education\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was up all night thinking about the responsibility my colleagues and me have to make sure that 20 years from now, when kids look back, they’ll remember the response to these events as something that was responsible and maintained emotional integrity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For both Watson and Hall, the next step is to help students move beyond exploring their feelings about the state of our country, and on to what they can do about them. Watson plans to convene a deeper discussion of what the events mean to this Black and Latinx community in the week ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar conversations are happening among teachers who work with much younger students. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom presented an upbeat outlook as he unveiled his proposal for the 2021-22 state budget Friday, saying that despite the coronavirus pandemic-induced recession, California is poised for a strong recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s $227 billion budget proposal highlights the extent to which California’s progressive tax structure will help the state weather a recession. Despite historic levels of unemployment and a precipitous drop in the state’s GDP last year, the tax income from wealthy residents has resulted in a $15 billion surplus for the budget year beginning in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. 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But because of the unexpected windfall in tax revenue, Newsom is also proposing $5 billion in immediate investments he hopes lawmakers will approve this month on schools and COVID-19 relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes $2.4 billion for one-time $600 direct payments to low-income Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four million people get the benefit of that program if we move quickly,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the governor wants to see $575 million for grants to small businesses and nonprofits struggling because of the pandemic-induced recession, $71 million in fee waivers for small businesses adopted and $2 billion to help schools reopen safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also wants to extend an eviction moratorium that is set to expire at the end of January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally, Newsom said his budget is focused on meeting the most urgent needs of Californians, which he listed as vaccination rollout, safely reopening schools, providing support for small businesses, putting money in the pockets of Californians who need it and wildfire preparedness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly California is poised for an economic recovery,” Newsom said Friday. “We are in a much better fiscal footing than anyone would have thought a few months ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he warned that the fiscal picture a few years out is not as rosy, with a projected deficit of $11.3 billion by the 2024-2025 fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we are enjoying the fruits of a lot of one-time energy and surplus, it's not permanent,\" Newsom said. \"We have to be mindful of over-committing ... and exacerbating some of the structural challenges that we still have to face going forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Newsom said his administration is focused on helping those who are struggling the most right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all better off when we are all better off,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Republicans have criticized Newsom's response to the pandemic – particularly his restrictions on businesses and gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11854170 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS42402_047_KQED_BethLaBerge_BloomEnergy_Newsom_03282020-qut-1020x680.jpg']Assemblyman Vince Fong, R-Bakersfield, the vice chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, said Newsom's budget proposal doesn't change the fact that the governor is \"failing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sacramento is failing to address California’s affordability crisis, homelessness crisis, power shutoffs, and an incompetent EDD bureaucracy,\" Fong said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reopening Schools?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Newsom has charted a course for the youngest California students to return to in-person instruction as soon as February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor proposed spending an additional $2 billion in the current budget year on testing and protective gear in order to incentivize schools to reopen their doors for grades K-12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would apply to schools in counties with fewer than 28 coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents – a threshold that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809760/how-many-california-coronavirus-cases-see-latest-numbers-by-county\">all but a handful of counties\u003c/a> in the state have surpassed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can’t do it safe, we can’t do it,” Newsom reiterated on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a group of large school districts – including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Oakland – criticized the plan for setting an unrealistic benchmark for bringing kids back to classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A funding model which supports only schools in communities less impacted by the virus is at odds with California’s long-standing efforts to provide more support to students from low-income families,” the districts \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/seven-california-superintendents-send-letter-governor-newsom-regarding-safe-schools-all-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote in a letter to Newsom\u003c/a>. “The initial target date of Feb. 1 doesn’t reflect the COVID reality in many of the communities we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he would be meeting with the leaders of seven school districts on Monday, and his proposal provides full funding for districts whose opening is delayed by the virus spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new round of relief funding from the federal government could add another $6.7 billion for California schools, Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>COVID-19 Response\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal comes as the state faces the darkest days yet of the pandemic. 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