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Its collection covers 19 countries, represents over 30 languages and is made up of roughly 6,400 reference materials and periodicals, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/ssea-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who use the S/SEAL describe it as a cozy and intimate space — a \u003ca href=\"https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/intellectual-legacy-campus-historian-endures-southsoutheast-asia-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">space\u003c/a> that's more than just to study or check out books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a place where they can find a sense of community,\" said Khatharya Um, an associate professor in the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies program who also teaches and conducts research at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. \"It's the only dedicated space on this campus for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the now-scrapped proposal, the S/SEAL would've made room for more offices, and the small library's collections, services and staffing would've been integrated \"with the rest of Doe Library,\" according to the call for comments \u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/call_for_public_comment_for_south_southeast_asia_library.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the S/SEAL would've been swallowed up by the larger library system and no longer provide a single dedicated space for South and Southeast Asian works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement prompted a swift and vocal mobilization. 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Students, staff, faculty and alumni amassed support from thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/uc-berkeley-library-save-the-south-southeast-asia-library-at-uc-berkeley?redirect=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition\u003c/a> to save the S/SEAL has garnered more than 8,500 signatures so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Um says the growing and highly diverse South Asian and Southeast Asian student population on campus were, among others, at the core of this mobilization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/psejenks/status/1374202787181981696\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley declined to speak to KQED on Monday afternoon, and announced it was withdrawing its proposal to close S/SEAL later that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason said since opening the public comment period two weeks ago, they \"received substantial input from scholars at Berkeley and beyond, and discussions on this feedback began almost immediately. We spent over a week consulting with decision makers; the decision that resulted from those discussions was announced Monday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, \"As soon as it became clear that the university had enough information to make a decision on the proposal, there was no reason to prolong the process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Second Home; A Space for Rediscovery\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Kashi Gomez is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. She's been a Cal student since 2009, when she began her undergraduate studies. And for the past 12 years, the S/SEAL — a room that fits only 40 seats and the university refers to as \"the smallest of our campus libraries\" — was to Gomez a place of solace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a first-generation college student who opted to live in an apartment in South Berkeley because dorms were too expensive, Gomez spent a considerable amount of time at the S/SEAL. 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It was a place that I felt really connected to, that made me feel like I was part of a community, and I hadn't found that elsewhere.\"[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Paula Varsano, chair of the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies\"]'There's this terrible irony that while the campus absolutely seems to be behind these values [of diversity, equity and inclusion], that they would actually eliminate one of the rare spaces that serves this community both intellectually and culturally.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when the university library announced on March 8 its plan to shutter the S/SEAL, Gomez felt a deep personal sadness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose Schweis, an undergraduate student in the Southeast Asian Studies Department who's in her last semester at Cal, moved to the U.S. when she was 5 years old, and says, like \"a typical immigration story,\" there was an expectation for her and her sister to move away from their Thai roots and instead assimilate. \"And usually in America, that means closer proximity to whiteness,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The S/SEAL gave Schweis access to something she didn't have before: resources to her cultural history. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Women’s Student Union at Berkeley High School \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/03/11/womens-student-union-at-berkeley-high-sues-dept-of-ed-to-overturn-trump-era-sexual-misconduct-rules\">sued the U.S. Department of Education earlier this month\u003c/a> over Title IX rules adopted during the Trump administration that govern how schools respond to cases of sexual harassment and assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rules, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/06/851733630/federal-rules-give-more-protection-to-students-accused-of-sexual-assault\">announced last May and implemented in August under former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos \u003c/a>, offer more protections for students who are accused of sexual misconduct. They apply to colleges as well as K-12 schools. The Women’s Student Union – a student-founded and student-led group that advocates for policies to reduce sexual harassment on Berkeley High’s campus – argued in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20517245-20210308-doc-1-complaint\">lawsuit\u003c/a> that the policy discourages students from reporting harassment and schools from investigating complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This latest action by students comes more than a year after victims and advocates at Berkeley High organized a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801840/reckoning-with-sexual-assault-at-berkeley-high-school\">walkout\u003c/a> in February 2020 to demand changes over how misconduct was handled on their own campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ayisha Friedman, Berkeley High alum\"]‘I was always seeing somebody who had done something or experienced something or a hallway where something had been done. It’s always on your mind and it’s always breaking your heart.’[/pullquote]“We were realizing that a lot of the issues that students at Berkeley High were facing stemmed from national policies,” said Ava, a junior at Berkeley High and one of the students who filed the lawsuit. “And if we could change national policies, we could help people at every school in the United States, not just Berkeley High.” KQED is identifying Ava by only her first name over fears she could face harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the year since the walkout, the Berkeley Unified School District has adopted some changes in response to students’ demands. In December, the district \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyhighjacket.com/2020/features/busd-implements-title-ix-reform-demanded-by-students/\">announced\u003c/a> they had hired a full-time Title IX coordinator and investigator, and set up a committee of mostly Berkeley High School students to lead some of the changes around consent education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time the district’s students and adult advocates have demanded changes in how their schools handle misconduct complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A History of Activism at Berkeley High\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Berkeley High alum Liana Thomason and her classmates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10392296/berkeley-high-students-trying-to-change-schools-sexual-harassment-policy\">started the group BHS Stop Harassing\u003c/a>. She said they founded the group after comments made during a school assembly seemed to blame harassment on the ways students dressed. But Thomason said the need was about more than just those comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unofficial story is that there had just been this culture of harassment in Berkeley High and middle school. There was Slap Ass Friday where boys would slap the girls’ asses on Friday,” Thomason said. “And it was just like, ‘This is what the world is like. That’s fine.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the assembly, Thomason invited a group of female friends to her house to talk about what they saw as a culture of unchecked harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized that we had to say something. We had to let the school know that it was not OK,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maha Ibrahim, attorney with Equal Rights Advocates\"]‘Not only was there an assumption that students wouldn’t face these issues at school, but there was a resistance to admit it could possibly be a problem. It was sort of like, ‘Well, this can’t be us. We’re Berkeley.”[/pullquote]Berkeley High students had also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2015/10/02/berkeley-unified-school-district-inadequately-handles-sexual-harassment/\">created\u003c/a> an Instagram account on which some female students were referred to as “sluts” alongside degrading photos of them. Thomason was also motivated to address these issues after her sister was sexually assaulted at a middle school bike cage in 2014. She said the school responded by setting up a restorative justice circle that traumatized her sister even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomason’s mother, Heidi Goldstein, became an adviser for BHS Stop Harassing and is still working on these issues today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started researching Title IX and school district policies,” Goldstein said. “And that’s where I came to the conclusion that the whole system was just in disarray. There was no system and there really was no process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liana Thomason, right, a Berkeley High alum, founded the group BHS Stop Harassing. Her mother Heidi Goldstein continues to be an adult adviser for the group. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goldstein filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/OCR-Letter-1-14-2015.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a> with the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights about how the school handled misconduct complaints, prompting an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of BHS Stop Harassing began showing up at school board meetings to demand better policies around sexual harassment and more training for teachers as well as education for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Public School District places an immense value on student safety and well-being,” former BUSD Superintendent Donald Evans and BUSD Board President Judy Appel wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sexual-Harrassment-Letter-v4c-1-7-.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to district families at the time. “Based on student, teacher, and community feedback about this and other related issues, we have come to realize that there is an urgent need to work on developing a culture focused on prevention of sexual harassment, not simply reacting to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Wild West of Title IX Regulations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maha Ibrahim, an attorney with Equal Rights Advocates, a nonprofit that advocates for gender equity in schools, has worked with Berkeley High students. She said few schools do a sufficient job responding to sexual harassment or assault claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal rules and regulations for Title IX have been written for universities – and schools K-12 were an afterthought,” Ibrahim said. “It’s like the Wild West. It’s a lot of individual adults who are shooting from the hip when approached with difficult or traumatic experiences of their students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11859164 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46527_003_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_01092021-qut-1038x576.jpg']According to a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.knowyourix.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Know-Your-IX-2021-Report-Final-Copy.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the advocacy group Know Your IX, a survey of more than 100 students found that 20% of students who reported sexual violence to their school transferred schools, and nearly 10% dropped out entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said Berkeley’s progressive image also made it difficult for some to acknowledge that some students felt unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only was there an assumption that students wouldn’t face these issues at school, but there was a resistance to admit it could possibly be a problem,” Ibrahim said. “It was sort of like, ‘Well, this can’t be us. We’re Berkeley.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to demands from students made in 2014, the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ActionStepstoAddressSexualHarassment3.8.17.docx-1.pdf\">said\u003c/a> it expanded an advisory committee to create a comprehensive sexual harassment policy, held restorative justice circles for students who were targeted by sexual harassment and established a Title IX coordinator and compliance officer position.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Lawsuit and a Sexual Assault Reported on Campus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But students say the problems continued. The district was sued by a student over its handling of a sexual assault allegation last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges a student was sexually assaulted by another student during school hours in an unlocked classroom at Berkeley High in 2019. It claims the district failed to take steps to adequately ensure the victim’s safety. KQED is identifying the student as “Faith” to protect her identity over concerns for her safety. In the lawsuit, she is identified as “Jane Doe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith said she kept seeing her assailant on campus after the assault, and that he continued to sexually harass her. She said she had meltdowns for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually, I’m a happy, goofy person. My teachers were just worried, and they would always just look at me and they’re like, ‘You look so sad,’ ” Faith said. “They would try to help me get back to how I used to be. And it was just hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Faith sits with hands on knees, only legs and shoes visible\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith, a former Berkeley High student, sued the district in January 2020 over its handling of her sexual assault allegations against a fellow student. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Faith and her parents decided it was too much, and she transferred into an independent studies program. Attorneys for the district argued in a court filing that administrators worked with Faith to make sure she was safe, and they tried to limit the potential for contact between the two students. They said district personnel were responsive to Faith’s complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RG20052743-Doe-VS-Berkeley-Unified-School-District.pdf\">sued the district\u003c/a> in January 2020 before she left Berkeley High the next month, and she said students at the school began talking about the case, trying to guess the identity of Jane Doe. She said it was scary, but that she also felt resilient knowing she had helped spark a larger conversation about safety on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want there to be a change, especially being a person of color. I became a person of color who was also assaulted,” Faith said. “It was just something I had to speak up on, because my voice is not heard by a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Names on the Bathroom Stall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some Berkeley High students had already thought the school had a culture where sexual misconduct was swept under the rug, but the lawsuit Faith filed seemed to break something open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the lawsuit was filed, a group of Berkeley High students began writing the names of alleged perpetrators on a bathroom stall. In black ink, they wrote “Boys To Watch Out 4,” followed by several names and the words “rapist” and “abuser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_0893-e1616451221449.jpg\" alt=\"Ayisha Friedman sitting outside, arms crossed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayisha Friedman organized a walkout over sexual harassment and assault at Berkeley High in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ayisha Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ayisha Friedman, a senior at Berkeley High during this time, said she saw the list during first or second period. Reading the list, Friedman thought about her friends who’d been harassed or assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always seeing somebody who had done something or experienced something or a hallway where something had been done. It’s always on your mind and it’s always breaking your heart,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said a lot of the boys were popular and known for inappropriate behavior around young women. She said the list was impossible to ignore. By the end of the school day, a picture of the stall had been shared on Instagram, and it felt like everyone in the school had seen it and had something to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that goes both ways. That goes people who were defending these women and who are saying, ‘I believe you, I am here for you,’ ” Friedman said. “And then people on the other side who were like, ‘Anybody could have written this. And this is a lie.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Walkout Gets the District’s Attention\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several students who spoke to KQED described a climate at the high school where victims who reported their assaults to administrators were questioned or doubted by their peers. Students wanted the school district to do more to support victims and keep them safe on campus. Friedman and others began organizing a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Redmond, one of the organizers, reported her own sexual assault about a week before the walkout in February 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was in the midst of a really hard situation. But we were all coming together and working on something that we really cared about,” Redmond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she found a supportive community during a time when others were gossiping about her experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so tense,” said Sophia Kerievsky, another organizer and friend of Redmond. “I remember people were pointing at me in the courtyard, and just really attacking my character, and especially her character. It was this strange energy. It was a lot of girls who were standing up for her, and then a huge group of boys standing by his side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/BHS_Rape_Walkout-17-1-1-scaled-e1616451482414.jpg\" alt=\"BHS students behind podium during walkout\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1353\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley High School students organized a walkout in February 2020 to address sexual harassment and assault on campus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mia Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The day of the walkout, Redmond wasn’t sure how many people would show up. So when she looked out at the courtyard, she was stunned by the support, and said the entire courtyard was filled with students, staff and administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me feel like I wasn’t alone in it. At the time I was feeling a lot of lack of understanding,” Redmond said. “And it definitely gave me a group of people who I was like, ‘I can trust these people. These people support me, and I want to support these people.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Practical and Philosophical Set of Demands\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The students drafted up specific demands, such as more resources for the Title IX office handling misconduct complaints, expanded consent education and policies stating that perpetrators found to be guilty by the school would be suspended from school-sanctioned events. They wanted to create a culture where victims could heal, and for the school to continue the conversation long after they had graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Brent Stephens had begun working for the district less than a year before the walkout, and he said many of the students’ requests were practical, and that change felt necessary. There had also been high turnover in the district’s Title IX coordinator role, with at least six different people working in that position from 2015 to 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, he said, had done their homework, and met with teachers, staff and adult advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so when they came with a set of demands, they were sort of philosophical in nature, but they were very pragmatic as well,” Stephens said. “It was … a political moment, but it resonated with what I and many others saw as legitimate needs of the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Conversation Continues Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just weeks after the walkout, schools shut down because of COVID-19. And as everyone focused on the pandemic, the momentum began to fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Annette Kwon, a former Berkeley High student now at Branham High School in San Jose, decided to find another way to restart the conversation. Over the summer, she made a TikTok video showing the faces of alleged perpetrators at Berkeley High and Lowell High School in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Kwon, a former Berkeley High student, created a TikTok video to continue a public conversation around sexual harassment and assault in high school. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Annette Kwon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When the quarantine started, everything died down,” she said. “And I just felt like it was necessary that the topic stays relevant, because if it had faded out once again, nothing would change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video received over 100,000 views, and soon students throughout the Bay Area launched Instagram accounts for people to post their experiences of harassment and assault anonymously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Redmond remembered seeing dozens of stories of harassment and assault posted on an Instagram account called BHS Protectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just felt like everyone was coming together again, and addressing the issue again that we had done in February,” Redmond said. “It was powerful to see not only so many people at Berkeley High being able to tell their stories, that they couldn’t talk about before, but also other schools following that, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Education Coverage' tag='education']But for others, the account was also overwhelming, especially during a pandemic that left so many people isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people were like, ‘I’m in a pandemic, I’m in my room 24/7. This is already messing with my mental health. And everyday I open my Instagram and I’m reminded of my own trauma,’ ” said Ayisha Friedman, another walkout organizer, of people she knew who had seen the account. “Where does the conversation go? You’re stuck in your room with no support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trish McDermott, a spokesperson for the Berkeley Unified School District, said in a statement that administrators reached out to those who posted about incidents of sexual harm, discrimination or racism, and those who were named in the posts. She said administrators also informed police and Child Protective Services about the account and specific allegations that could be traced to any students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account has since been removed, and now students who participated in the walkout are hoping some of the cultural shifts inspired by their organizing will last when the pandemic is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>District Announces Changes, and the Culture Begins to Shift\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ultraviolet Schneider-Dwyer, a senior at Berkeley High, said that before the walkout a lot of the incidents of harassment and assault occurred during parties where young people were too intoxicated to consent. She’s hopeful her peers will no longer tolerate that culture after so many students shared their experiences of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be more social consequences than there are administrative or academically,” she said. “At the same time, I’m just making sure that they’re not doing it out of fear of not being accepted, but they’re doing it because it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Mia Redmond is a part of a committee to give students a chance to provide the school with input on issues like harassment and consent education. She feels like the district is taking students’ demands seriously. She’s graduating this year and plans to continue her advocacy after high school. And she said it will be up to future generations of Berkeley High students as well as administrators to make sure the changes she and others started will last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t say for certain whether [the walkout] changed the culture at Berkeley High, but it definitely brought up a conversation that wasn’t being had before,” Redmond said. “It was such a monumental thing in Berkeley High history that everyone who experienced it, they’re not going to forget about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/protecting-kids-from-abuse/\">This story\u003c/a> was reported in collaboration with Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. It was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Berkeley High students had also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2015/10/02/berkeley-unified-school-district-inadequately-handles-sexual-harassment/\">created\u003c/a> an Instagram account on which some female students were referred to as “sluts” alongside degrading photos of them. Thomason was also motivated to address these issues after her sister was sexually assaulted at a middle school bike cage in 2014. She said the school responded by setting up a restorative justice circle that traumatized her sister even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomason’s mother, Heidi Goldstein, became an adviser for BHS Stop Harassing and is still working on these issues today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started researching Title IX and school district policies,” Goldstein said. “And that’s where I came to the conclusion that the whole system was just in disarray. There was no system and there really was no process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liana Thomason, right, a Berkeley High alum, founded the group BHS Stop Harassing. Her mother Heidi Goldstein continues to be an adult adviser for the group. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goldstein filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/OCR-Letter-1-14-2015.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a> with the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights about how the school handled misconduct complaints, prompting an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of BHS Stop Harassing began showing up at school board meetings to demand better policies around sexual harassment and more training for teachers as well as education for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Public School District places an immense value on student safety and well-being,” former BUSD Superintendent Donald Evans and BUSD Board President Judy Appel wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sexual-Harrassment-Letter-v4c-1-7-.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to district families at the time. “Based on student, teacher, and community feedback about this and other related issues, we have come to realize that there is an urgent need to work on developing a culture focused on prevention of sexual harassment, not simply reacting to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Wild West of Title IX Regulations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maha Ibrahim, an attorney with Equal Rights Advocates, a nonprofit that advocates for gender equity in schools, has worked with Berkeley High students. She said few schools do a sufficient job responding to sexual harassment or assault claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal rules and regulations for Title IX have been written for universities – and schools K-12 were an afterthought,” Ibrahim said. “It’s like the Wild West. It’s a lot of individual adults who are shooting from the hip when approached with difficult or traumatic experiences of their students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.knowyourix.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Know-Your-IX-2021-Report-Final-Copy.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the advocacy group Know Your IX, a survey of more than 100 students found that 20% of students who reported sexual violence to their school transferred schools, and nearly 10% dropped out entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said Berkeley’s progressive image also made it difficult for some to acknowledge that some students felt unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only was there an assumption that students wouldn’t face these issues at school, but there was a resistance to admit it could possibly be a problem,” Ibrahim said. “It was sort of like, ‘Well, this can’t be us. We’re Berkeley.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to demands from students made in 2014, the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ActionStepstoAddressSexualHarassment3.8.17.docx-1.pdf\">said\u003c/a> it expanded an advisory committee to create a comprehensive sexual harassment policy, held restorative justice circles for students who were targeted by sexual harassment and established a Title IX coordinator and compliance officer position.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Lawsuit and a Sexual Assault Reported on Campus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But students say the problems continued. The district was sued by a student over its handling of a sexual assault allegation last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges a student was sexually assaulted by another student during school hours in an unlocked classroom at Berkeley High in 2019. It claims the district failed to take steps to adequately ensure the victim’s safety. KQED is identifying the student as “Faith” to protect her identity over concerns for her safety. In the lawsuit, she is identified as “Jane Doe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith said she kept seeing her assailant on campus after the assault, and that he continued to sexually harass her. She said she had meltdowns for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually, I’m a happy, goofy person. My teachers were just worried, and they would always just look at me and they’re like, ‘You look so sad,’ ” Faith said. “They would try to help me get back to how I used to be. And it was just hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Faith sits with hands on knees, only legs and shoes visible\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith, a former Berkeley High student, sued the district in January 2020 over its handling of her sexual assault allegations against a fellow student. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Faith and her parents decided it was too much, and she transferred into an independent studies program. Attorneys for the district argued in a court filing that administrators worked with Faith to make sure she was safe, and they tried to limit the potential for contact between the two students. They said district personnel were responsive to Faith’s complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RG20052743-Doe-VS-Berkeley-Unified-School-District.pdf\">sued the district\u003c/a> in January 2020 before she left Berkeley High the next month, and she said students at the school began talking about the case, trying to guess the identity of Jane Doe. She said it was scary, but that she also felt resilient knowing she had helped spark a larger conversation about safety on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want there to be a change, especially being a person of color. I became a person of color who was also assaulted,” Faith said. “It was just something I had to speak up on, because my voice is not heard by a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Names on the Bathroom Stall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some Berkeley High students had already thought the school had a culture where sexual misconduct was swept under the rug, but the lawsuit Faith filed seemed to break something open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the lawsuit was filed, a group of Berkeley High students began writing the names of alleged perpetrators on a bathroom stall. In black ink, they wrote “Boys To Watch Out 4,” followed by several names and the words “rapist” and “abuser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_0893-e1616451221449.jpg\" alt=\"Ayisha Friedman sitting outside, arms crossed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayisha Friedman organized a walkout over sexual harassment and assault at Berkeley High in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ayisha Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ayisha Friedman, a senior at Berkeley High during this time, said she saw the list during first or second period. Reading the list, Friedman thought about her friends who’d been harassed or assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always seeing somebody who had done something or experienced something or a hallway where something had been done. It’s always on your mind and it’s always breaking your heart,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said a lot of the boys were popular and known for inappropriate behavior around young women. She said the list was impossible to ignore. By the end of the school day, a picture of the stall had been shared on Instagram, and it felt like everyone in the school had seen it and had something to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that goes both ways. That goes people who were defending these women and who are saying, ‘I believe you, I am here for you,’ ” Friedman said. “And then people on the other side who were like, ‘Anybody could have written this. And this is a lie.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Walkout Gets the District’s Attention\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several students who spoke to KQED described a climate at the high school where victims who reported their assaults to administrators were questioned or doubted by their peers. Students wanted the school district to do more to support victims and keep them safe on campus. Friedman and others began organizing a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Redmond, one of the organizers, reported her own sexual assault about a week before the walkout in February 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was in the midst of a really hard situation. But we were all coming together and working on something that we really cared about,” Redmond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she found a supportive community during a time when others were gossiping about her experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so tense,” said Sophia Kerievsky, another organizer and friend of Redmond. “I remember people were pointing at me in the courtyard, and just really attacking my character, and especially her character. It was this strange energy. It was a lot of girls who were standing up for her, and then a huge group of boys standing by his side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/BHS_Rape_Walkout-17-1-1-scaled-e1616451482414.jpg\" alt=\"BHS students behind podium during walkout\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1353\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley High School students organized a walkout in February 2020 to address sexual harassment and assault on campus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mia Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The day of the walkout, Redmond wasn’t sure how many people would show up. So when she looked out at the courtyard, she was stunned by the support, and said the entire courtyard was filled with students, staff and administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me feel like I wasn’t alone in it. At the time I was feeling a lot of lack of understanding,” Redmond said. “And it definitely gave me a group of people who I was like, ‘I can trust these people. These people support me, and I want to support these people.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Practical and Philosophical Set of Demands\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The students drafted up specific demands, such as more resources for the Title IX office handling misconduct complaints, expanded consent education and policies stating that perpetrators found to be guilty by the school would be suspended from school-sanctioned events. They wanted to create a culture where victims could heal, and for the school to continue the conversation long after they had graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Brent Stephens had begun working for the district less than a year before the walkout, and he said many of the students’ requests were practical, and that change felt necessary. There had also been high turnover in the district’s Title IX coordinator role, with at least six different people working in that position from 2015 to 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, he said, had done their homework, and met with teachers, staff and adult advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so when they came with a set of demands, they were sort of philosophical in nature, but they were very pragmatic as well,” Stephens said. “It was … a political moment, but it resonated with what I and many others saw as legitimate needs of the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Conversation Continues Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just weeks after the walkout, schools shut down because of COVID-19. And as everyone focused on the pandemic, the momentum began to fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Annette Kwon, a former Berkeley High student now at Branham High School in San Jose, decided to find another way to restart the conversation. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dressed in a white gown and hooked to an IV pump, Tina Jones was sitting on a hospital bed when nursing student Erin Abille greeted her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glancing at Jones’ chart, Abille saw that the patient came into the hospital for a foot infection and had a penicillin allergy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you in any pain?” Abille asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, OK,” Jones responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bizarre response wasn’t the only unusual thing, Abille noted. The patient also had stilted facial and hand movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those symptoms weren’t due to a medical condition — they were because Jones is not a real patient but a computer avatar in Shadow Health, a virtual simulation that has been widely adopted by nursing education programs across California since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has restricted the number of clinical placements available to nursing students in hospitals, forcing them to practice their skills instead on mannequins, virtual patients like Jones, or at home with relatives and even stuffed animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has relaxed regulations to allow for more virtual education, but some nursing students say they feel less confident in their skills, and others have had their graduation delayed, at a time when the state arguably needs nurses more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals have been reluctant to place nursing students at risk by having them enter a workplace filled with COVID patients, and more experienced nurses have been too busy with patient care to supervise them, said Loretta Melby, president of the California Board of Registered Nursing, a state agency that regulates nursing education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really difficult for all of our students when the facilities that they’ve relied on for years to do their clinical practice said, ‘We can’t have you here anymore,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Practicing at Home Means\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866000\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11866000\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/012321_NursingStudent_AB_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/012321_NursingStudent_AB_10.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/012321_NursingStudent_AB_10-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nursing student Erin Abille finds new ways to learn medicine by practicing techniques on a stuffed animal in Mulberry Park in Chula Vista on Jan. 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Arlene Banuelos for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prior to the pandemic, nursing students were required to spend at least 75% of their clinical time providing direct care to patients in hospitals. The Board of Registered Nursing \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/new-california-nursing-waiver-will-allow-some-students-to-complete-training-but-leaves-others-out/628170\">relaxed its regulations\u003c/a> in April 2020 to allow students to fulfill half of their clinical hours in simulated scenarios, but said it will reverse that decision when the pandemic is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Abille, that means that instead of checking her patients’ vital signs with her stethoscope and thermometer, she now relies on the electronic health records shown at the bottom of her laptop screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caring for faux-patient Jones, she said, is a stark contrast to the close relationships she developed with patients when working as a certified nursing assistant at a skilled nursing facility. There, she had emotional conversations with elderly patients on the geriatrics floor, many of whom were reflecting on the choices they’d made in life as they neared its end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abille wasn’t able to do that with Jones. “I couldn’t pry into her personal life, I couldn’t pry into her worries, I couldn’t pry even into her pain,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Abille would have received one-on-one mentorship from a senior nurse on how to do sensitive procedures, such as inserting a catheter into a patient’s urethra. Now, with her college’s skills lab closed and even mannequins unavailable, she practices at home. A unicorn Pillow Pet stands in as her patient and she uses a water bottle to replicate the urethra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abille said she worries that she might accidentally reinforce mistakes because she doesn’t have her instructor to immediately correct her. Having a catheter inserted is a scary procedure for many patients, who often wonder whether the procedure will hurt. That’s not a conversation she can have with her unicorn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In person, nursing students can use all of their senses when caring for patients, but with simulations, they miss out on the physical cues that patients give to signify pain or discomfort, said Melby of the BRN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I worked in the ICU, I could smell various things like a gastrointestinal bleed,” she said. In a simulation, “you’re not getting that kind of input. Your mannequin can’t grimace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866001\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11866001 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/TINA-JONES.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/TINA-JONES.png 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/TINA-JONES-800x454.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/TINA-JONES-1020x579.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/TINA-JONES-160x91.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from a simulated patient interaction in Shadow Health, a computer program that colleges are using to train nurses during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘A Real-Life Situation in a Non-Threatening Environment’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the drawbacks, virtual simulations do have some upsides, said KT Waxman, director of the California Simulation Alliance at HealthImpact, a nonprofit focused on health workforce development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can still develop their critical thinking and clinical judgement. When instructors create clinical scenarios over Zoom or show a video of a heart failure, debriefing allows students to grow more confident in their ability to handle those situations, Waxman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You expose the students to a real-life situation in a non-threatening environment, where students know if they make a mistake that the life of the patient is not at stake,” said Salima Allahbachayo, director of the nursing program at Citrus College, which has relied on computer simulation to continue teaching during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her students were able to learn more through Zoom scenarios because repetition allows them to correct their mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides spurring a move toward more simulation, the pandemic has shrunk the number of available slots in colleges’ nursing programs, said Joanne Spetz, director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some nursing programs in California didn’t admit any new students this year, at a time when the state is projected to have \u003ca href=\"https://bhw.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/bureau-health-workforce/data-research/nchwa-hrsa-nursing-report.pdf\">a shortage of 44,500 full-time registered nurses by 2030\u003c/a>, according to the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis. And around one in 10 nursing programs in California has suspended admissions for 2021-2022, according to preliminary data from a survey Spetz is conducting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those students, that’s another semester or quarter where they’re not able to get started,” said Spetz. “It slows down their graduation, and overall slows down the supply of nurses into our workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Growing Demand for Nurses\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alexis Hawkins, a nursing student at Grossmont College in El Cajon, said her nursing program paused classes halfway through the spring 2020 semester. She had to redo the entire first semester online and missed out on learning how to give IV injections, a skill that’s only taught in person and that she should have learned her first year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joanne Spetz, director of Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF\"]‘If we end up losing a bunch of nurses who are in their 30s, those are nurses who had another 20 or 30 years of working life available for us and that’s a much bigger loss for the workforce.’[/pullquote]Coming back for her second semester, she said, was like trying to keep up with a moving conveyor belt; she was expected to perform as if she’d had clinical rotations her first semester, and ended up quitting her job to study harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do feel that my education is compromised,” Hawkins said. “I’m not getting the best education that I think I would be getting if we were in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, nursing programs were \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/when-nurses-are-needed-most-nursing-programs-arent-keeping-up-with-demand/\">reporting record numbers of applicants\u003c/a> but struggling to accommodate more students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nursing is a particularly resource-heavy field,” said Rehman Attar, director of health care workforce development at California State University. Colleges need to find space for labs, attract faculty away from other well-paying jobs and compete with other schools for limited clinical placements, Attar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the last year on the front lines of COVID-19 has led many older nurses to retire early and younger nurses to quit. Spetz said hospital leaders are concerned that senior nurses currently in the workforce will burn out before new graduates can be hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hospitals are losing nurses close to retirement a few years early … but we knew that they were going to retire,” Spetz said. “But if we end up losing a bunch of nurses who are in their 30s, those are nurses who had another 20 or 30 years of working life available for us and that’s a much bigger loss for the workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is more acute in high-demand areas such as the emergency room and intensive care unit, Spetz said. Those departments have been off-limits to nursing students during the pandemic — and that’s experience that can’t be replicated in a virtual scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘You Cannot Simulate the Fear and Dread of Some People’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even with clinical experience, the transition from being a nursing student to being a nurse working in a hospital can be jarring, said Gerard Brogan, the director of nursing practice at the California Nurses Association, a labor union that represents registered nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='nurses']“Lack of access to these specialty units, and this more generic simulation-based education, is not going to prepare these nurses on their own for a major shock,” Brogan said. He likened it to soldiers learning warfare on simulators, which has been linked to significant increases in post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union members are also concerned that colleges will rely heavily on virtual simulations even after the pandemic because software is cheaper than staff, Brogan said. Instruction that doesn’t prepare students to connect with patients on a human level, he said, threatens to compromise safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot simulate the fear and dread of some people,” Brogan said. “And frankly, we’re worried about the attempt to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the availability of clinical placements has recently begun to increase in California as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/03/california-milestone-reopening-today/\">more vaccines are distributed\u003c/a> and coronavirus cases decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Waxman, of the nonprofit California Simulation Alliance, agreed that the state is likely to see an expanded use of technology in nurse training post-pandemic, including a wider adoption of virtual reality that will replace some clinical experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though cost has limited the use of virtual reality in nursing programs — each headset costs around $300, not including the price of the software — it overcomes some of the shortcomings of the 2D virtual simulations that colleges currently use, Waxman said, because it is immersive and students can use their sense of touch when practicing physical assessments and hands-on skills such as immunization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the pandemic is over, I believe that students will need to get back into the hands-on skills lab. 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The patient also had stilted facial and hand movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those symptoms weren’t due to a medical condition — they were because Jones is not a real patient but a computer avatar in Shadow Health, a virtual simulation that has been widely adopted by nursing education programs across California since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has restricted the number of clinical placements available to nursing students in hospitals, forcing them to practice their skills instead on mannequins, virtual patients like Jones, or at home with relatives and even stuffed animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has relaxed regulations to allow for more virtual education, but some nursing students say they feel less confident in their skills, and others have had their graduation delayed, at a time when the state arguably needs nurses more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals have been reluctant to place nursing students at risk by having them enter a workplace filled with COVID patients, and more experienced nurses have been too busy with patient care to supervise them, said Loretta Melby, president of the California Board of Registered Nursing, a state agency that regulates nursing education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really difficult for all of our students when the facilities that they’ve relied on for years to do their clinical practice said, ‘We can’t have you here anymore,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Practicing at Home Means\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866000\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11866000\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/012321_NursingStudent_AB_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/012321_NursingStudent_AB_10.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/012321_NursingStudent_AB_10-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nursing student Erin Abille finds new ways to learn medicine by practicing techniques on a stuffed animal in Mulberry Park in Chula Vista on Jan. 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Arlene Banuelos for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prior to the pandemic, nursing students were required to spend at least 75% of their clinical time providing direct care to patients in hospitals. 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Having a catheter inserted is a scary procedure for many patients, who often wonder whether the procedure will hurt. That’s not a conversation she can have with her unicorn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In person, nursing students can use all of their senses when caring for patients, but with simulations, they miss out on the physical cues that patients give to signify pain or discomfort, said Melby of the BRN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I worked in the ICU, I could smell various things like a gastrointestinal bleed,” she said. In a simulation, “you’re not getting that kind of input. 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She said she’s been going to the office once a week in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bims-Payne \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/home-school-advice-for-parents\">spoke\u003c/a> with KQED's Brian Watt last year, shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered shelter in place statewide. 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Even before the coronavirus, depression, anxiety and other issues \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/data.html\">were increasing\u003c/a> in children ages 6 to 17, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past year has been challenging for Bims-Payne, too. She said she’s started therapy and participates in parent support groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just to kind of work on me and my feelings and a safe space for myself,” she said. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On Schools Reopening\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bims-Payne said distance learning has improved in the past year, but she’s concerned about how much information her kids are actually retaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is time we're not going to get back,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bims-Payne said she's looking forward to OUSD schools reopening, but has also been exploring other options. She said she’s signed up for open houses at private schools, some of which have been reopened for in-person instruction for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11858444/san-francisco-sues-school-district-school-board-over-failure-to-reopen-schools\">months.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents and school leaders are worried about a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55976/survey-shows-big-remote-learning-gaps-for-low-income-and-special-needs-children\">learning gap \u003c/a>that has grown during the pandemic. Gov. 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An extra virtual class per day will also be added for distance learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big change is that parents will now get two opportunities to switch which of the two programs they’re in, once before students begin returning in person on March 29 and again in early May. Parents were previously told their decision would be final.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like things are moving in the right direction,” said Malcolm X Elementary School parent Roberto Santiago, one of the parents who had concerns, in a text. “I am feeling better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladys Ocampo Stout is opting to keep both of her kids home, in part because she has a son with asthma. She and other parents of kids who go to Sylvia Mendez Elementary School were especially worried about how teacher reassignment will affect students in the school’s Spanish immersion program. But at the town hall, Stephens said bilingual teachers from the same school will be available for those who stay in distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a relief for Ocampo Stout. Still, she expressed frustration that the reopening fight in Berkeley had devolved into what felt like parents fighting for their own kids to get back at the expense of hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was talking about equity, and then when it comes down to it, we’re just going to ignore that part,” she said. “I don’t dismiss the importance of opening up. I understand that there are kids that are seriously depressed, there are kids that are suicidal. It’s about understanding and being compassionate — the world doesn’t revolve around you, there are other people here, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Stephens said reassigning students was one of the most difficult decisions the district had to confront. “I recognize it’s not the same,” he said. “We struggled a lot with this decision. We realize there’s an impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district will aim to keep continuing remote learning students who are in the same class together, but they may now be grouped with kids from other schools. Under the plan, far fewer students returning in person will be assigned new teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, only 18% of families are opting to keep their kids in distance learning, according to the district. But some parents say they felt pressured into sending kids back in person, because the distance learning option seemed so inferior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt lots and lots of pressure,” said Maria Moreno, whose son goes to Sylvia Mendez Elementary. Her son has asthma, and she would much prefer to keep him home for the rest of the school year, but was so worried about him losing his teacher that she’s sending him back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to try it and see what happens,” she said. “But honestly, I’m still scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After much debate, Lizet Lopez, whose three children attend Thousand Oaks and Ruth Acty elementary schools, made the same call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s sending her kids back in person even though it makes her uncomfortable. “If they told me I will have my teachers and therapists if I stay online, I would stay online,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significant differences have emerged in which families are opting to put their kids in a classroom again and which are remaining remote-only: 28% of Black families, 23% of English learner families and 26% of socioeconomically disadvantaged families are opting for distance learning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/2021/03/reopening-information-sessions-and-solidarity-reapertura-sesiones-informativas-y-solidaridad/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accordinging to district data\u003c/a>, compared to 13% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t feel comfortable sending our kids back into this environment because systemic racism already hurt our kids, so what’s it going to look like when you add a pandemic?” Santiago said earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s keeping his kids home out of safety concerns and to make space in the physical classrooms for those who really need to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district announced elementary schools would reopen in person five days a week, parents who spent months organizing rallies and pressuring local and state officials to reopen celebrated a major victory, but some Black and Latino parents were alarmed by a perceived lack of attention to students who will stick with learning from home, leading them to call into question the commitment to equity espoused throughout the reopening debate. Late last week, Santiago and other parents formed the group Berkeley Unified Distance Choice Advocates to bring together parents and teachers as advocates for families who are not sending their kids back to classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the district took steps to address their concerns, parent Ludovic Blain said a racial inequity existed. “White parents’ demands were met fully 100%,” he said, referring to those who organized for reopening. “Now we’re left with the scraps to try to piece together a semblance of distance learning.” Months before a reopening deal was reached, the teachers union warned of such a possibility in arguing for a measured approach to reopening that was often criticized as too slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blain is not ready to send his 11-year-old son back into a classroom at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School, due to “data-based hesitancy,” he said. 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But at the town hall, Stephens said bilingual teachers from the same school will be available for those who stay in distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a relief for Ocampo Stout. Still, she expressed frustration that the reopening fight in Berkeley had devolved into what felt like parents fighting for their own kids to get back at the expense of hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was talking about equity, and then when it comes down to it, we’re just going to ignore that part,” she said. “I don’t dismiss the importance of opening up. I understand that there are kids that are seriously depressed, there are kids that are suicidal. It’s about understanding and being compassionate — the world doesn’t revolve around you, there are other people here, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Stephens said reassigning students was one of the most difficult decisions the district had to confront. “I recognize it’s not the same,” he said. “We struggled a lot with this decision. We realize there’s an impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district will aim to keep continuing remote learning students who are in the same class together, but they may now be grouped with kids from other schools. Under the plan, far fewer students returning in person will be assigned new teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, only 18% of families are opting to keep their kids in distance learning, according to the district. But some parents say they felt pressured into sending kids back in person, because the distance learning option seemed so inferior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt lots and lots of pressure,” said Maria Moreno, whose son goes to Sylvia Mendez Elementary. Her son has asthma, and she would much prefer to keep him home for the rest of the school year, but was so worried about him losing his teacher that she’s sending him back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to try it and see what happens,” she said. “But honestly, I’m still scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After much debate, Lizet Lopez, whose three children attend Thousand Oaks and Ruth Acty elementary schools, made the same call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s sending her kids back in person even though it makes her uncomfortable. “If they told me I will have my teachers and therapists if I stay online, I would stay online,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significant differences have emerged in which families are opting to put their kids in a classroom again and which are remaining remote-only: 28% of Black families, 23% of English learner families and 26% of socioeconomically disadvantaged families are opting for distance learning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/2021/03/reopening-information-sessions-and-solidarity-reapertura-sesiones-informativas-y-solidaridad/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accordinging to district data\u003c/a>, compared to 13% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t feel comfortable sending our kids back into this environment because systemic racism already hurt our kids, so what’s it going to look like when you add a pandemic?” Santiago said earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s keeping his kids home out of safety concerns and to make space in the physical classrooms for those who really need to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district announced elementary schools would reopen in person five days a week, parents who spent months organizing rallies and pressuring local and state officials to reopen celebrated a major victory, but some Black and Latino parents were alarmed by a perceived lack of attention to students who will stick with learning from home, leading them to call into question the commitment to equity espoused throughout the reopening debate. Late last week, Santiago and other parents formed the group Berkeley Unified Distance Choice Advocates to bring together parents and teachers as advocates for families who are not sending their kids back to classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the district took steps to address their concerns, parent Ludovic Blain said a racial inequity existed. “White parents’ demands were met fully 100%,” he said, referring to those who organized for reopening. “Now we’re left with the scraps to try to piece together a semblance of distance learning.” Months before a reopening deal was reached, the teachers union warned of such a possibility in arguing for a measured approach to reopening that was often criticized as too slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blain is not ready to send his 11-year-old son back into a classroom at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School, due to “data-based hesitancy,” he said. As an African American, he’s watched the virus take a disproportionate toll on his community, and his wife is vulnerable because of a recent surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the situation appears improved for students like his son, who is in the Spanish immersion program, he’s feeling better, though his frustration with the process hasn’t ebbed. “This is all coming out a week \u003cem>after\u003c/em> families had to choose,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11865153 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-1020x681.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-1536x1026.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents who’ve advocated to reopen schools for in-person classes are now focused on getting middle and high school students back to campus full time.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lei Levy, who leads a Berkeley parent group that pushed for reopening, expressed regret that the reopening process seemed to pit parents against each other. She takes issue with the characterization of parents who fought hard for the reopening of schools as predominantly affluent and white, and argues framing the issue as a fight between white parents and parents of color is an oversimplification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just happy that we’re finally at this place that both sides are being considered equally, because it felt like for so long only the distance learning families were being considered,” Levy said. “That’s why our group came into existence; we saw that nobody was advocating for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she welcomes having another group of parent advocates join the fray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents feel like, ‘Oh, wait, now I have to start advocating for my kids?’ Yeah, you do. We all have to step up right now because lazy policy is being steamrolled over us,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distance Learning teacher assignments will be announced beginning next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mills College in Oakland, the prestigious 169-year-old women’s institution, plans to stop enrolling first-year undergraduate students after this fall. It will likely hand out its final undergraduate and graduate degrees in 2023 following years of financial losses, the school announced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter\u003c/a>, Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman cited “the economic burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic, structural changes across higher education, and Mills’ declining enrollment and budget deficits” as reasons for the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s news signals the end of an era in Mills College’s history. It may provoke a variety of reactions and emotions in you, as it has in me,” Hillman said in the letter. “I also expect you will have many questions, some of which I will not yet be able to answer. Mills takes seriously our obligation to keep you apprised as we assess options and build pathways for transition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current students were informed of the decision on Wednesday morning - at nearly the same time it was announced publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/tEk9j9-2sa4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills is grappling with a $3 million deficit — against a $50 million budget — driven largely by years declining enrollment, a problem that has only been exacerbated by the pandemic. Student ranks have dropped by roughly 30% over the past five years, to just 900 during the pandemic, Hillman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mills-college\"]The college's Mission, \"to promote women's leadership, gender and racial justice, and critical and creative thought, has never been more urgent,\" Hillman said in a video message posted on the school's website. \"But it's become clear, through a deep and searching process of reflection and analysis by the college's leadership, that we cannot continue to fulfill Mills' mission in our current form.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Mills had considered becoming a shared campus, and was in talks with other universities — including UC Berkeley — about potential partnerships. But the pandemic tanked those plans when it forced the campus to shut down last year and shift to virtual instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillman said the administration is now working to create a “Mills Institute” on the campus to “continue to foster women’s leadership and student success, advance gender and racial equity, and cultivate innovative pedagogy, research, and critical thinking.” The specific details of what the new institution will look like are still being worked out, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school will help current students either finish their degrees at Mills or transfer to other colleges or universities, Hillman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11865511 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk onto the Mills College campus through the main gates on MacArthur Blvd. \u003ccite>(Steve Babuljak/Mills College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most graduate students can continue to enroll after this fall, with the expectation that their degree programs will be completed by the end of spring 2023, said Tami Kelly, a Mills spokesperson. It's unclear though, what the announcement means for current faculty members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We kind of knew that Mills was having issues,\" said Angel Fabre, a senior and editor-in-chief of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecampanil.com/author/angelfabre/\">The Campanil\u003c/a>, the campus newspaper. The school, she noted, has struggled financially for years; in 2017 it declared a fiscal emergency and laid off several tenured professors. \"We just were under the assumption that it was seeking different avenues. ... At most, we thought that we were possibly going to merge with another college.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fabre said the school administration has so far provided very few concrete details about how it came to its decision. Why, for instance, isn't it digging into its nearly $190 million endowment to cover some losses, she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've survived several major events. We've been struggling for a while,\" she said, noting that Hillman had until recently expressed confidence the school would survive, despite mounting financial challenges. \"It wasn’t just COVID. There had to be other financial factors that caused Mills to have to close. They're not telling us the specifics of why they don’t have enough money. Students deserve to know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fabre, who like most students, hasn't set foot on campus since last March, when the pandemic began, said the news is hitting hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been pretty emotional,\" she said. \"For a lot of students, it's really sinking in that they're never going to return to what they left from.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills is a unique institution, Fabre said, providing a much-needed safe environment for women and nonbinary students. \"You're able to come to a space where you're going to be respected, but also learn to advocate for yourself,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students here, she added, have a strong history of activism, and are unlikely to take the news sitting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fighting spirit was evident in the swift, ardent response from a number of prominent alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am heartbroken and outraged by today’s announcement that Mills College will cease to be as we know it,” U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, a Mills graduate, said in a statement. “Personally I owe a debt of gratitude to Mills College. Five decades ago, I was able to attend college and earn a degree as a young single mother on public assistance who often had to bring her sons to class — something that would have been impossible at many other colleges or universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills is where Lee met her mentor, pioneering Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, she said, and where “my passion for public service and politics began.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KateABC7/status/1372418145944629250\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of just 34 all-women colleges in the U.S., Mills has served students at its 135-acre campus on MacArthur Boulevard since 1871, where it relocated after starting as a small seminary in Benicia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For generations, Mills has been a bastion of diversity in higher education, providing an excellent academic education to women who are too often shut out by other institution of higher education,” Lee said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The college's Mission, \"to promote women's leadership, gender and racial justice, and critical and creative thought, has never been more urgent,\" Hillman said in a video message posted on the school's website. \"But it's become clear, through a deep and searching process of reflection and analysis by the college's leadership, that we cannot continue to fulfill Mills' mission in our current form.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Mills had considered becoming a shared campus, and was in talks with other universities — including UC Berkeley — about potential partnerships. But the pandemic tanked those plans when it forced the campus to shut down last year and shift to virtual instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillman said the administration is now working to create a “Mills Institute” on the campus to “continue to foster women’s leadership and student success, advance gender and racial equity, and cultivate innovative pedagogy, research, and critical thinking.” The specific details of what the new institution will look like are still being worked out, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school will help current students either finish their degrees at Mills or transfer to other colleges or universities, Hillman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11865511 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk onto the Mills College campus through the main gates on MacArthur Blvd. \u003ccite>(Steve Babuljak/Mills College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most graduate students can continue to enroll after this fall, with the expectation that their degree programs will be completed by the end of spring 2023, said Tami Kelly, a Mills spokesperson. It's unclear though, what the announcement means for current faculty members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We kind of knew that Mills was having issues,\" said Angel Fabre, a senior and editor-in-chief of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecampanil.com/author/angelfabre/\">The Campanil\u003c/a>, the campus newspaper. The school, she noted, has struggled financially for years; in 2017 it declared a fiscal emergency and laid off several tenured professors. \"We just were under the assumption that it was seeking different avenues. ... At most, we thought that we were possibly going to merge with another college.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fabre said the school administration has so far provided very few concrete details about how it came to its decision. Why, for instance, isn't it digging into its nearly $190 million endowment to cover some losses, she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've survived several major events. 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"content": "\u003cp>Looking back over a year of my COVID-19 cartoons, I'm struck by how they reflect a slow-motion realization of the horror of what was unfolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a \"science\" story became an everything story about a pandemic that to date has killed over 525,000 people in the United States alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of my early pandemic stupidity, I drew this – \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11799364/separating-fact-from-crazed-conspiracy-fiction\">my first cartoon about coronavirus\u003c/a> – while sitting in a crowded food court (unmasked, of course) while on a trip to New York City on Jan. 31, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11799364/separating-fact-from-crazed-conspiracy-fiction\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11799374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"Keep Calm and Science On by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember the introduction of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806484/the-elbow-bump-and-more\">elbow-bump\u003c/a>? At first it seemed almost quaint and funny, until most of us here in the Bay Area became more like the character in the last frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806484/the-elbow-bump-and-more\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11806490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-800x569.png\" alt=\"The Elbow Bump And More by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-800x569.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-160x114.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-1020x726.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809059/walking-the-dog-not-quite-as-simple-as-before\">This cartoon\u003c/a> coincided with the rise of the pandemic pup, although in hindsight, I'm screaming at the human characters in this cartoon to put on face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809059/walking-the-dog-not-quite-as-simple-as-before\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11809063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-800x579.png\" alt=\"Six Foot Dog Walking by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-800x579.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-160x116.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-1020x738.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When community transmission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804012/stay-safe-and-keep-calm-california\">finally came to California\u003c/a>, COVID-19 was no longer only a problem for other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804012/stay-safe-and-keep-calm-california\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11804021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-800x574.png\" alt=\"Coronavirus California Republic by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-800x574.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-160x115.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-1020x732.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The isolation of working from home is nothing new for cartoonists, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809688/remember-those-unsung-heroes\">not everyone\u003c/a> has been able to minimize the risk of contracting COVID-19 by having a career that lends itself to remote work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809688/remember-those-unsung-heroes\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11809702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-800x568.png\" alt=\"Unsung Heroes by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-800x568.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-160x114.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-1020x724.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810112/not-feeling-so-foolish-this-april\">April Fools' Day came along\u003c/a> early in the pandemic, pranks weren't high on most people's list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810112/not-feeling-so-foolish-this-april\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11810120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-800x573.png\" alt=\"April Not So Foolish by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-800x573.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-160x115.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-1020x731.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social distancing took on a very different meaning depending on where you were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">in California\u003c/a> and across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11814620\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-800x531.png\" alt=\"Distancing by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-800x531.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-160x106.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-1020x677.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though it has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, there have definitely been some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">silver linings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11811888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png\" alt=\"Silver Lining by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-1020x711.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I created \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">this cartoon\u003c/a> nearly a year ago and it still applies for reopening guidelines and now, for the vaccine rollout.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11817138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png\" alt=\"Pandemic Patchwork by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-160x125.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-1020x800.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We figured out how to fight racial injustice amid a pandemic as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">marches and uprisings\u003c/a> happened across the country that were sparked by the police killing of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11822919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png\" alt=\"Stay Home Leave Home by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, coronavirus outbreaks happened in prisons across the state, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826003/being-locked-up-just-got-worse\">San Quentin State Prison\u003c/a> being among the hardest hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826003/being-locked-up-just-got-worse\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11826013\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-800x535.png\" alt=\"San Quentin COVID-19\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-800x535.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-1020x683.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-1536x1028.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been a year of tracking COVID-19 cases and deaths with graphs and charts, and who says you can't use them in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826175/data-downers\">a cartoon\u003c/a> to make a point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826175/data-downers\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11826183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-800x635.png\" alt=\"Flattening the Curve by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-800x635.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-1020x810.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-160x127.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-1536x1220.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832163/california-covid-19-cases-are-trending-down-or-up\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11832168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-800x533.png\" alt=\"Down is Up by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-1020x679.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-1536x1023.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time in the Bay Area and across California and the west, wildfires and smoke cast an additional pall over an already bleak forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840263/after-six-swingless-months\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11840267\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-800x539.png\" alt=\"Playgrounds Reopening by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-800x539.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-1020x687.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-160x108.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-1536x1035.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840653/all-the-colors-of-the-disasterbow\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11840661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-800x561.png\" alt=\"All the Colors of the Disasterbow by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-800x561.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-1020x716.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-1536x1078.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11838718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png\" alt=\"Weekend by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1020x702.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-160x110.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1536x1058.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of downplaying the danger of coronavirus and dodging any blame for how his administration handled the pandemic, President Trump finally \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840795/a-positive-president\">caught the virus\u003c/a> and was hospitalized for a short time.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840795/a-positive-president\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11840803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-800x537.png\" alt=\"Pandemic in Sight by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-800x537.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-1020x685.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-1536x1031.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And throughout the past year of pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">parents and children\u003c/a> have juggled online schooling, career and staying at home, as many schools only recently move toward in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11848134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Pandemic Parent by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1020x614.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-160x96.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1536x925.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring the \"Home Sweet Home\" classic needlepoint sign as \"Home Stay Home Again\" as new stay-at-home orders are issued by Gov. Newsom' width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1020x649.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1536x977.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One silver lining of this damn pandemic has been a wealth of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849065/purple-is-on-the-menu\">new visual images and metaphors\u003c/a> for my cartoons. If we can't laugh a little, we'll only cry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849065/purple-is-on-the-menu\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-800x508.png\" alt=\"Cartoon about dining out amid the pandemic restrictions by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-800x508.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-1020x648.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-1536x976.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, my coronavirus cartoons have now largely turned to focus on vaccines, their rollout and anti-vaxxers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858285/anti-vaxxers-vs-reality\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11858308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-800x522.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring COVID-19 saying, "fortunately, there's no vaccine for stupidity," as anti-vaxxers protest the coronavirus vaccine.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-800x522.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-1020x666.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-1536x1002.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862330/the-unfolding-masterpiece\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11862337\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-800x539.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon showing a painter in front of a painting showing the dramatic drop in COVID cases in nursing homes while saying, "I call it, 'take that, anti-vaxxers.'"\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-800x539.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-1020x687.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-160x108.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-1536x1034.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to that light at the end of the tunnel we've all been waiting for ...\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863986/heres-to-happy-reunions\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11863994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-800x519.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring a happy reunion between grandparents and grandkids at the end of a tunnel, captioned, \"the light at the end of the tunnel.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-800x519.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-1020x662.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-1536x997.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Looking back over a year of my COVID-19 cartoons, I'm struck by how they reflect a slow-motion realization of the horror of what was unfolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a \"science\" story became an everything story about a pandemic that to date has killed over 525,000 people in the United States alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of my early pandemic stupidity, I drew this – \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11799364/separating-fact-from-crazed-conspiracy-fiction\">my first cartoon about coronavirus\u003c/a> – while sitting in a crowded food court (unmasked, of course) while on a trip to New York City on Jan. 31, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11799364/separating-fact-from-crazed-conspiracy-fiction\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11799374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"Keep Calm and Science On by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember the introduction of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806484/the-elbow-bump-and-more\">elbow-bump\u003c/a>? At first it seemed almost quaint and funny, until most of us here in the Bay Area became more like the character in the last frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806484/the-elbow-bump-and-more\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11806490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-800x569.png\" alt=\"The Elbow Bump And More by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-800x569.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-160x114.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-1020x726.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809059/walking-the-dog-not-quite-as-simple-as-before\">This cartoon\u003c/a> coincided with the rise of the pandemic pup, although in hindsight, I'm screaming at the human characters in this cartoon to put on face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809059/walking-the-dog-not-quite-as-simple-as-before\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11809063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-800x579.png\" alt=\"Six Foot Dog Walking by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-800x579.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-160x116.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-1020x738.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When community transmission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804012/stay-safe-and-keep-calm-california\">finally came to California\u003c/a>, COVID-19 was no longer only a problem for other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804012/stay-safe-and-keep-calm-california\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11804021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-800x574.png\" alt=\"Coronavirus California Republic by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-800x574.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-160x115.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-1020x732.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The isolation of working from home is nothing new for cartoonists, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809688/remember-those-unsung-heroes\">not everyone\u003c/a> has been able to minimize the risk of contracting COVID-19 by having a career that lends itself to remote work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809688/remember-those-unsung-heroes\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11809702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-800x568.png\" alt=\"Unsung Heroes by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-800x568.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-160x114.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-1020x724.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810112/not-feeling-so-foolish-this-april\">April Fools' Day came along\u003c/a> early in the pandemic, pranks weren't high on most people's list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810112/not-feeling-so-foolish-this-april\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11810120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-800x573.png\" alt=\"April Not So Foolish by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-800x573.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-160x115.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-1020x731.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social distancing took on a very different meaning depending on where you were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">in California\u003c/a> and across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11814620\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-800x531.png\" alt=\"Distancing by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-800x531.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-160x106.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-1020x677.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though it has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, there have definitely been some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">silver linings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11811888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png\" alt=\"Silver Lining by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-1020x711.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I created \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">this cartoon\u003c/a> nearly a year ago and it still applies for reopening guidelines and now, for the vaccine rollout.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11817138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png\" alt=\"Pandemic Patchwork by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-160x125.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-1020x800.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We figured out how to fight racial injustice amid a pandemic as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">marches and uprisings\u003c/a> happened across the country that were sparked by the police killing of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11822919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png\" alt=\"Stay Home Leave Home by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, coronavirus outbreaks happened in prisons across the state, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826003/being-locked-up-just-got-worse\">San Quentin State Prison\u003c/a> being among the hardest hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826003/being-locked-up-just-got-worse\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11826013\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-800x535.png\" alt=\"San Quentin COVID-19\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-800x535.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-1020x683.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-1536x1028.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been a year of tracking COVID-19 cases and deaths with graphs and charts, and who says you can't use them in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826175/data-downers\">a cartoon\u003c/a> to make a point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826175/data-downers\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11826183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-800x635.png\" alt=\"Flattening the Curve by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-800x635.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-1020x810.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-160x127.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-1536x1220.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832163/california-covid-19-cases-are-trending-down-or-up\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11832168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-800x533.png\" alt=\"Down is Up by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-1020x679.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-1536x1023.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time in the Bay Area and across California and the west, wildfires and smoke cast an additional pall over an already bleak forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840263/after-six-swingless-months\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11840267\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-800x539.png\" alt=\"Playgrounds Reopening by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-800x539.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-1020x687.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-160x108.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-1536x1035.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840653/all-the-colors-of-the-disasterbow\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11840661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-800x561.png\" alt=\"All the Colors of the Disasterbow by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-800x561.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-1020x716.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-1536x1078.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11838718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png\" alt=\"Weekend by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1020x702.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-160x110.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1536x1058.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of downplaying the danger of coronavirus and dodging any blame for how his administration handled the pandemic, President Trump finally \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840795/a-positive-president\">caught the virus\u003c/a> and was hospitalized for a short time.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840795/a-positive-president\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11840803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-800x537.png\" alt=\"Pandemic in Sight by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-800x537.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-1020x685.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-1536x1031.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And throughout the past year of pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">parents and children\u003c/a> have juggled online schooling, career and staying at home, as many schools only recently move toward in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11848134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Pandemic Parent by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1020x614.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-160x96.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1536x925.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring the \"Home Sweet Home\" classic needlepoint sign as \"Home Stay Home Again\" as new stay-at-home orders are issued by Gov. Newsom' width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1020x649.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1536x977.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One silver lining of this damn pandemic has been a wealth of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849065/purple-is-on-the-menu\">new visual images and metaphors\u003c/a> for my cartoons. If we can't laugh a little, we'll only cry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849065/purple-is-on-the-menu\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-800x508.png\" alt=\"Cartoon about dining out amid the pandemic restrictions by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-800x508.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-1020x648.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-1536x976.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, my coronavirus cartoons have now largely turned to focus on vaccines, their rollout and anti-vaxxers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858285/anti-vaxxers-vs-reality\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11858308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-800x522.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring COVID-19 saying, "fortunately, there's no vaccine for stupidity," as anti-vaxxers protest the coronavirus vaccine.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-800x522.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-1020x666.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-1536x1002.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862330/the-unfolding-masterpiece\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11862337\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-800x539.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon showing a painter in front of a painting showing the dramatic drop in COVID cases in nursing homes while saying, "I call it, 'take that, anti-vaxxers.'"\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-800x539.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-1020x687.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-160x108.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-1536x1034.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to that light at the end of the tunnel we've all been waiting for ...\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863986/heres-to-happy-reunions\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11863994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-800x519.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring a happy reunion between grandparents and grandkids at the end of a tunnel, captioned, \"the light at the end of the tunnel.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-800x519.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-1020x662.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-1536x997.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 86 into law on Friday, he marshaled the state’s mighty resources to facilitate a return to classroom learning in thousands of public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His signature also ends, for now, the state government’s direct involvement in California’s clamorous school reopening dispute — the latest skirmish in a decades-long debate over whether school policy in California should be driven by state or local officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863208/california-legislature-approves-plan-to-reopen-schools\">Under the legislation\u003c/a>, the state is paying for improved school ventilation, cleaning, tutoring and counseling needed to bring the state’s youngest kids back to class in the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill does \u003cem>not\u003c/em> force districts to bring back in-person education, thus leaving the most important details for many parents and students (reopening dates, school-day length, classroom setup) in the hands of locally elected school boards.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Pat Reilly, Democratic political consultant\"]‘Having individual school districts try to negotiate with their labor partners in the thousand-plus school districts in California, from my perspective, is like setting off a bunch of brush fires across the state.’[/pullquote]Legislators of both parties hailed AB 86 as a victory for local control, the concept of leaving decision-making power to officials closest to the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody loves to talk about local control, it’s kind of like something sacred, like motherhood and apple pie,” said Gloria Romero, the former Democratic chair of the state Senate Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics of the approach believe many school boards are proving ineffectual\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in the face of competing local pressures\u003c/a>. In San Francisco, parent groups want to change how school boards are constructed, arguing that a switch to mayoral appointments may produce more competent boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others think that the decision to reopen schools is simply too important to delegate to an entanglement of forces working between the Capitol building and California classrooms — what Romero calls the “Byzantine labyrinth” that includes elected school boards, powerful teachers unions, county and state offices of education and the independently elected superintendent of public instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re finding out that local control … there are so many fingers in the pot stirring it, blocking it, adding in poison pills,” said Romero, a longtime charter school advocate. “Despite how convoluted that is, the governor has the bully pulpit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fear of Local ‘Brush Fires’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Critics of Newsom have for months called on him to use executive authority to force teachers back into the classroom — potentially by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/to-help-get-kids-back-in-school-california-should-temporarily-suspend-local-collective-bargaining/646857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suspending collective bargaining\u003c/a> at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He should have shown leadership,” said Romero. “He was just, I think, embarrassingly weak and without a backbone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the fate of reopening will likely be decided through the contentious negotiations taking place between school districts and unions representing teachers, bus drivers, custodians and administrators. Many large districts, including Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, are unlikely to reopen by April 1, after which, the amount of grant funding in AB 86 starts to decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having individual school districts try to negotiate with their labor partners in the thousand-plus school districts in California, from my perspective, is like setting off a bunch of brush fires across the state,” said Pat Reilly, a Democratic political consultant and advocate with the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.openschoolsca.com/\">OpenSchoolsCA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of distance learning, legislative leaders grew impatient with the progress of local reopening talks. Some appeared flummoxed that districts hadn’t done more to resume in-person schooling when infection rates ebbed in September and October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am normally a huge proponent of local control, but this year, local control has been a complete failure,” said state Assembly Budget Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, in a hearing last month on the school reopening plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘A First Step’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the end, however, local control carried the day. Lawmakers hailed AB 86 for setting a uniform standard of “flexibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"school-reopening\"]But without a mandate, the bill might not move the needle in the most stubborn negotiations. And the legislation has no effect at all on the vast majority of middle and high school students. The plan only provides grants to bring back elementary school grades, along with one grade of middle or high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday’s virtual bill-signing ceremony, Ting was left to describe the bill he authored as “a first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to go home to all our districts and beg all our districts to open up, use this money,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, the deference that Newsom and the Legislature have given to local decision-making is borne of the vast differences in public schools throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at 58 counties, a thousand-plus school districts, this truly is a challenge at scale that no other state in the country is faced with,” Newsom said as he signed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, former Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, a Democrat who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/magazine/school-reopenings-rhode-island.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gained national recognition\u003c/a> for her work in reopening schools last year, dealt with roughly 60 districts — and the state already had control over its largest school district, in Providence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s new legislation ensures the state will not be a hurdle for districts keen on opening their doors: There are no mandates to vaccinate teachers or reach collective bargaining agreements with unions — and districts located in counties outside of California’s purple COVID-19 tier will not be required to test students and staff for the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the bill’s guarantee that 10% of the state’s vaccine doses be set aside for school employees (codifying an earlier promise made by Newsom) may be the most important provision in nudging teachers back into the classroom. In just the last week, an increasing vaccine supply and the hope of a continued decline in infections has accelerated the progress of reopening schools in large districts like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863665/questions-linger-as-san-francisco-schools-aim-to-reopen-next-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article249615263.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresno\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are generally supportive of handing authority to local governments; the leading Republicans seeking to challenge Newsom in a potential recall election this year said they would also not have suspended collective bargaining rights to force reopenings. Just four GOP legislators in the state Senate and Assembly voted against the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, R-Yucaipa, argued that “it is essential that we have local control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled a recent meeting with constituents, when a frustrated audience member asked her who bears responsibility for the decisions being made at his local school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘You are, you are ultimately in control of your local schools,’ ” said Ochoa Bogh, who served on the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District before her election to the Senate last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not happy then, lo and behold, go ahead and find candidates that reflect your values and your vision of education and get them elected,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Attention on School Boards \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a number of cities across the state, many parents aren’t waiting for the next election to decide the fate of their school boards. Recall campaigns against individual board members have been launched in Benicia, La Mesa and San Ramon. And in San Francisco, critics of the board are pursuing a recall and a wholesale change in how members are selected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing both impatient Sacramento lawmakers and exasperated parents, “school boards have really been stuck in the middle,” said Troy Flint, senior director of communications for the California School Boards Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re dealing with parent communities which are often rife with division on this issue,” he said. “And they don’t really have the framework needed to effectively pursue negotiations on reopening, because there hasn’t until now been the standard for the state on what acceptable measures of safety are to reopen.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nBy and large, parents furious with the lack of progress on reopenings argue their elected boards are too aligned with local teachers unions — and thus more likely to prioritize the safety of educators over the education and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/18/953581851/ive-tried-everything-pandemic-has-cut-options-for-kids-with-mental-illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mental well-being\u003c/a> of students, which have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/who-is-losing-ground-with-distance-learning-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suffered greatly\u003c/a> during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That perceived imbalance is likely a result of shifts in education decision-making over the last half century, said Gary Hart, the former state secretary of education under Gov. Gray Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the 1970s, school boards had greater control over decisions to tax and spend on local schools. That provided an incentive for business-minded community members to run for seats on the board to provide a check on members more sympathetic to teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That began to change in 1971, when the California Supreme Court ruled that the state’s education funding scheme \u003ca href=\"https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/serrano-v-priest-27628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disadvantaged students in low-income neighborhoods\u003c/a> where fewer local taxes could be raised to pay for schools. Then, in 1978, voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, the landmark initiative that dramatically shrunk the amount of local property tax revenue that schools had traditionally relied on, forcing districts to feed from the trough of state revenue controlled by the Legislature and governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School boards no longer had much overall control of their school budgets, particularly as it related to increases in spending,” Hart said. “So as a result of that, I think there was a diminishment of civic leaders serving on school boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their place, he said, emerged increasingly diverse school board candidates who were more aligned with the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Mayoral Involvement\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Beyond recall campaigns, parent advocates and some supervisors in San Francisco say the answer is to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11861151/new-pac-targets-san-francisco-school-board-over-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">move away from a citywide election of school board members\u003c/a> — either by splitting the election into districts, or by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/Should-S-F-City-Hall-control-the-school-board-16005019.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">giving the mayor direct power\u003c/a> to appoint the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there needs to be some change, what that change is, is yet to be determined,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101882236/2010101882236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent interview on KQED Forum\u003c/a>, when asked about the possibility of appointing the board. “I know that folks who don’t even have kids in the school district are paying very close attention to the fact that the leaders of our school district are not up for the task of doing what’s necessary to get our kids back in school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who has joined parents at recent rallies to support reopening, was reluctant to endorse more mayoral control over schools. She told KQED she believes “shared governance in our city is the best model right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]‘I think that there needs to be some change, what that change is, is yet to be determined.’[/pullquote]Mayors in cities such as Chicago and New York (where schools have opened) appoint a controlling share of their local school boards. But in California, efforts by mayors to play a larger role in school policy have largely fallen flat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, then-Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795095/direct-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">convinced voters to pass Measure D\u003c/a>, giving him three appointments to the school board. But still lacking a majority, Brown wrestled with the board for the next few years before turning his attention to creating his own charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Los Angeles, former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, an adamant proponent of charter schools, received permission from the Legislature to take control of individual schools and hire the district’s superintendent. But months after those changes were enacted, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6663370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they were ruled unconstitutional \u003c/a>by a Superior Court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, school boards have trended toward even greater localized control — with hundreds of districts \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/california-school-district-latest-to-change-board-elections-to-better-reflect-diversity-of-community/609854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">switching to electing members\u003c/a> from individual geographic districts, rather than through citywide elections. Most recently, voters in San Diego (who rejected the idea of appointed school board members in 2010), \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/nov/03/election-2020-san-diego-measures-c-d/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opted to move away\u003c/a> from at-large elections altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over reopening schools brings to a head the conflicting feelings of voters, said Larry Tramutola, a political strategist known for his work in school campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would like to have school boards to be more competent and represent all people,” he said. “But on the other hand, they want district elections, where school board members are elected by basically small neighborhoods, so it’s often difficult to find quality people — experienced, knowledgeable — to run for these seats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those school board seats often become launching pads for elected officials aspiring to reach higher office — though the reopening debate is certain to test the veracity of that narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can be a stepping stone,” Tramutola said. “But it can be a step into quicksand, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sara Hossaini contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Legislators of both parties hailed AB 86 as a victory for local control, the concept of leaving decision-making power to officials closest to the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody loves to talk about local control, it’s kind of like something sacred, like motherhood and apple pie,” said Gloria Romero, the former Democratic chair of the state Senate Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics of the approach believe many school boards are proving ineffectual\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in the face of competing local pressures\u003c/a>. In San Francisco, parent groups want to change how school boards are constructed, arguing that a switch to mayoral appointments may produce more competent boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others think that the decision to reopen schools is simply too important to delegate to an entanglement of forces working between the Capitol building and California classrooms — what Romero calls the “Byzantine labyrinth” that includes elected school boards, powerful teachers unions, county and state offices of education and the independently elected superintendent of public instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re finding out that local control … there are so many fingers in the pot stirring it, blocking it, adding in poison pills,” said Romero, a longtime charter school advocate. “Despite how convoluted that is, the governor has the bully pulpit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fear of Local ‘Brush Fires’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Critics of Newsom have for months called on him to use executive authority to force teachers back into the classroom — potentially by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/to-help-get-kids-back-in-school-california-should-temporarily-suspend-local-collective-bargaining/646857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suspending collective bargaining\u003c/a> at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He should have shown leadership,” said Romero. “He was just, I think, embarrassingly weak and without a backbone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the fate of reopening will likely be decided through the contentious negotiations taking place between school districts and unions representing teachers, bus drivers, custodians and administrators. Many large districts, including Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, are unlikely to reopen by April 1, after which, the amount of grant funding in AB 86 starts to decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having individual school districts try to negotiate with their labor partners in the thousand-plus school districts in California, from my perspective, is like setting off a bunch of brush fires across the state,” said Pat Reilly, a Democratic political consultant and advocate with the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.openschoolsca.com/\">OpenSchoolsCA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of distance learning, legislative leaders grew impatient with the progress of local reopening talks. Some appeared flummoxed that districts hadn’t done more to resume in-person schooling when infection rates ebbed in September and October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am normally a huge proponent of local control, but this year, local control has been a complete failure,” said state Assembly Budget Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, in a hearing last month on the school reopening plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘A First Step’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the end, however, local control carried the day. Lawmakers hailed AB 86 for setting a uniform standard of “flexibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But without a mandate, the bill might not move the needle in the most stubborn negotiations. And the legislation has no effect at all on the vast majority of middle and high school students. The plan only provides grants to bring back elementary school grades, along with one grade of middle or high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday’s virtual bill-signing ceremony, Ting was left to describe the bill he authored as “a first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to go home to all our districts and beg all our districts to open up, use this money,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, the deference that Newsom and the Legislature have given to local decision-making is borne of the vast differences in public schools throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at 58 counties, a thousand-plus school districts, this truly is a challenge at scale that no other state in the country is faced with,” Newsom said as he signed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, former Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, a Democrat who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/magazine/school-reopenings-rhode-island.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gained national recognition\u003c/a> for her work in reopening schools last year, dealt with roughly 60 districts — and the state already had control over its largest school district, in Providence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s new legislation ensures the state will not be a hurdle for districts keen on opening their doors: There are no mandates to vaccinate teachers or reach collective bargaining agreements with unions — and districts located in counties outside of California’s purple COVID-19 tier will not be required to test students and staff for the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the bill’s guarantee that 10% of the state’s vaccine doses be set aside for school employees (codifying an earlier promise made by Newsom) may be the most important provision in nudging teachers back into the classroom. In just the last week, an increasing vaccine supply and the hope of a continued decline in infections has accelerated the progress of reopening schools in large districts like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863665/questions-linger-as-san-francisco-schools-aim-to-reopen-next-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article249615263.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresno\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are generally supportive of handing authority to local governments; the leading Republicans seeking to challenge Newsom in a potential recall election this year said they would also not have suspended collective bargaining rights to force reopenings. Just four GOP legislators in the state Senate and Assembly voted against the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, R-Yucaipa, argued that “it is essential that we have local control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled a recent meeting with constituents, when a frustrated audience member asked her who bears responsibility for the decisions being made at his local school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘You are, you are ultimately in control of your local schools,’ ” said Ochoa Bogh, who served on the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District before her election to the Senate last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not happy then, lo and behold, go ahead and find candidates that reflect your values and your vision of education and get them elected,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Attention on School Boards \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a number of cities across the state, many parents aren’t waiting for the next election to decide the fate of their school boards. Recall campaigns against individual board members have been launched in Benicia, La Mesa and San Ramon. And in San Francisco, critics of the board are pursuing a recall and a wholesale change in how members are selected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing both impatient Sacramento lawmakers and exasperated parents, “school boards have really been stuck in the middle,” said Troy Flint, senior director of communications for the California School Boards Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re dealing with parent communities which are often rife with division on this issue,” he said. “And they don’t really have the framework needed to effectively pursue negotiations on reopening, because there hasn’t until now been the standard for the state on what acceptable measures of safety are to reopen.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nBy and large, parents furious with the lack of progress on reopenings argue their elected boards are too aligned with local teachers unions — and thus more likely to prioritize the safety of educators over the education and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/18/953581851/ive-tried-everything-pandemic-has-cut-options-for-kids-with-mental-illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mental well-being\u003c/a> of students, which have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/who-is-losing-ground-with-distance-learning-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suffered greatly\u003c/a> during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That perceived imbalance is likely a result of shifts in education decision-making over the last half century, said Gary Hart, the former state secretary of education under Gov. Gray Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the 1970s, school boards had greater control over decisions to tax and spend on local schools. That provided an incentive for business-minded community members to run for seats on the board to provide a check on members more sympathetic to teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That began to change in 1971, when the California Supreme Court ruled that the state’s education funding scheme \u003ca href=\"https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/serrano-v-priest-27628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disadvantaged students in low-income neighborhoods\u003c/a> where fewer local taxes could be raised to pay for schools. Then, in 1978, voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, the landmark initiative that dramatically shrunk the amount of local property tax revenue that schools had traditionally relied on, forcing districts to feed from the trough of state revenue controlled by the Legislature and governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School boards no longer had much overall control of their school budgets, particularly as it related to increases in spending,” Hart said. “So as a result of that, I think there was a diminishment of civic leaders serving on school boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their place, he said, emerged increasingly diverse school board candidates who were more aligned with the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Mayoral Involvement\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Beyond recall campaigns, parent advocates and some supervisors in San Francisco say the answer is to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11861151/new-pac-targets-san-francisco-school-board-over-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">move away from a citywide election of school board members\u003c/a> — either by splitting the election into districts, or by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/Should-S-F-City-Hall-control-the-school-board-16005019.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">giving the mayor direct power\u003c/a> to appoint the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there needs to be some change, what that change is, is yet to be determined,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101882236/2010101882236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent interview on KQED Forum\u003c/a>, when asked about the possibility of appointing the board. “I know that folks who don’t even have kids in the school district are paying very close attention to the fact that the leaders of our school district are not up for the task of doing what’s necessary to get our kids back in school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who has joined parents at recent rallies to support reopening, was reluctant to endorse more mayoral control over schools. She told KQED she believes “shared governance in our city is the best model right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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