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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/06/2014-06-13d-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California recently joined 10 other states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia with a new law allowing undocumented immigrants to apply for a driver's license. As a result, an estimated 1.4 million state residents could be eligible to take their driver's tests in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsors of AB60 argued that it’s a win-win: It protects immigrants from trouble with the law, and it makes the state's roads safer by making sure drivers know what they're doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it only works if they can actually pass the test – and that may be easier said than done. In the first week that undocumented immigrants started taking Nevada's driver's exam, 90 percent failed. California is eager to avoid the same fate. 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I know everything there is to know,\" she says. \"But really, they don't know what the laws and regulations are.\" (Valerie Hamilton/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It starts at the Mexican Consulate in Orange County, where Consul Loreta Ruiz has organized a series of free five-hour driver's ed classes for people getting ready to take the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want them to study the rules,\" she says. \"We want them to know the rules, so when they go to present that test, they'll be able to pass it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, on a recent Saturday, students settled in with coffee and doughnuts and passed around a stack of printouts of road signs and traffic rules. Driver’s ed teacher Juan Carlos Lopez started off by asking them how many already drive. You might think the number would be small — this was driver’s ed, after all. But a roomful of hands went up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I don't have a driver's license, I still have to go to school. I have to go to work,” says Mabel Barrera, 27. She has lived in the U.S. since she was 15, and has been driving since she was 17. Still, this was her first-ever driving class. Until now, she had learned the rules of the road from her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom learned in Mexico,” Barrera said. “She had her driver's license. She just told me some rules, but just the basics, because she didn't know exactly how many feet, or for how many seconds, you're supposed to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10341784\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DriversEdHandbook.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DriversEdHandbook-400x346.jpg\" alt=\"A woman studies road signs at a driver's ed class for undocumented immigrants in Santa Ana. In the first week that undocumented immigrants took the Nevada driver's exam this year, most failed. California consulates, immigration advocacy groups, community colleges and the DMV are working to make sure the same doesn't happen here. (Marcus Teply/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"346\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10341784\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DriversEdHandbook-400x346.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DriversEdHandbook.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman studies road signs at a driver's ed class for undocumented immigrants in Santa Ana. In the first week that undocumented immigrants took the Nevada driver's exam this year, most failed. California consulates, immigration advocacy groups, community colleges and the DMV are working to make sure the same doesn't happen here. (Marcus Teply/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mabel is just one of an estimated 2 million unlicensed drivers in California, many of them undocumented immigrants who now could get licensed next year. But they'll need to learn the rules of the road for real this time. And so the DMV is stocking community centers with the California driver's manual in 10 languages, and promoting a driver's test smartphone app in English and Spanish. Other Mexican consulates are planning more driver's ed and test prep sessions for the summer. Immigration advocacy groups are holding information sessions. One community college is offering “English for the Driver's Test.” And driving schools are looking forward to an uptick in registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge is that California’s exam is tough, even for people who were born here. According to the last available statistics, about half of all people who take it for the first time fail, as do more than 70 percent of people who take it in a language other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's just the written test. As for the practical test, says California DMV spokesman Armando Botello, “Some people fail before they get out of the parking lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the bill's sponsor, California state Assemblyman Luis Alejo, says the test is a challenge. “It was very difficult, even for me as a lawyer and a college graduate, to pass that exam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's one way through: study. In Nevada, when word got out that you needed to prepare for the test, the fail rate dropped. And so California is working to make sure undocumented immigrants buckle down before they buckle up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, education coordinator Claudia Matus goes through DMV practice tests with a yellow highlighter. The consulate has been handing out the practice tests to people waiting for IDs. Matus says getting people to study the driver's manual can be a hard sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People normally say, ‘Oh I've been driving for so many years, I know everything that is to know regarding driving,’ ” she says. “But they really don't know what the laws and regulations are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10341785\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Lopez.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Lopez-400x395.jpg\" alt=\"This is the fourth class driver's ed teacher Juan Carlos Lopez has taught for undocumented immigrants this year. Lopez, who drove without a license for many years as a formerly undocumented immigrant, says he failed his written driver's exam the first two times he took it. 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( Marcus Teply/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The real test has 36 questions, and a passing grade is 32. This practice test has 10 questions, so you can only get one wrong. She goes through Gustavo Rangel's test and finds two mistakes. Fail. Rangel groans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rangel is at the consulate six months early, applying for a consular ID to use as identification for his license application in January. He's lived in California for six years without papers, and he drives without a license every day. He says he's always looking over his shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the time,” he says. “When I see a cop behind me, I mean I feel scared.” He says he's been stopped and ticketed twice. When January rolls around, he plans to be first in line for a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's going to change a lot. It’s going to change my life, totally,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first, he’s got to hit the books. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want them to study the rules,\" she says. \"We want them to know the rules, so when they go to present that test, they'll be able to pass it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, on a recent Saturday, students settled in with coffee and doughnuts and passed around a stack of printouts of road signs and traffic rules. Driver’s ed teacher Juan Carlos Lopez started off by asking them how many already drive. You might think the number would be small — this was driver’s ed, after all. But a roomful of hands went up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I don't have a driver's license, I still have to go to school. I have to go to work,” says Mabel Barrera, 27. She has lived in the U.S. since she was 15, and has been driving since she was 17. Still, this was her first-ever driving class. Until now, she had learned the rules of the road from her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom learned in Mexico,” Barrera said. “She had her driver's license. She just told me some rules, but just the basics, because she didn't know exactly how many feet, or for how many seconds, you're supposed to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10341784\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DriversEdHandbook.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DriversEdHandbook-400x346.jpg\" alt=\"A woman studies road signs at a driver's ed class for undocumented immigrants in Santa Ana. In the first week that undocumented immigrants took the Nevada driver's exam this year, most failed. California consulates, immigration advocacy groups, community colleges and the DMV are working to make sure the same doesn't happen here. (Marcus Teply/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"346\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10341784\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DriversEdHandbook-400x346.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DriversEdHandbook.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman studies road signs at a driver's ed class for undocumented immigrants in Santa Ana. In the first week that undocumented immigrants took the Nevada driver's exam this year, most failed. California consulates, immigration advocacy groups, community colleges and the DMV are working to make sure the same doesn't happen here. (Marcus Teply/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mabel is just one of an estimated 2 million unlicensed drivers in California, many of them undocumented immigrants who now could get licensed next year. But they'll need to learn the rules of the road for real this time. And so the DMV is stocking community centers with the California driver's manual in 10 languages, and promoting a driver's test smartphone app in English and Spanish. Other Mexican consulates are planning more driver's ed and test prep sessions for the summer. Immigration advocacy groups are holding information sessions. One community college is offering “English for the Driver's Test.” And driving schools are looking forward to an uptick in registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge is that California’s exam is tough, even for people who were born here. According to the last available statistics, about half of all people who take it for the first time fail, as do more than 70 percent of people who take it in a language other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's just the written test. As for the practical test, says California DMV spokesman Armando Botello, “Some people fail before they get out of the parking lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the bill's sponsor, California state Assemblyman Luis Alejo, says the test is a challenge. “It was very difficult, even for me as a lawyer and a college graduate, to pass that exam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's one way through: study. In Nevada, when word got out that you needed to prepare for the test, the fail rate dropped. And so California is working to make sure undocumented immigrants buckle down before they buckle up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, education coordinator Claudia Matus goes through DMV practice tests with a yellow highlighter. The consulate has been handing out the practice tests to people waiting for IDs. Matus says getting people to study the driver's manual can be a hard sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People normally say, ‘Oh I've been driving for so many years, I know everything that is to know regarding driving,’ ” she says. “But they really don't know what the laws and regulations are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10341785\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Lopez.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Lopez-400x395.jpg\" alt=\"This is the fourth class driver's ed teacher Juan Carlos Lopez has taught for undocumented immigrants this year. Lopez, who drove without a license for many years as a formerly undocumented immigrant, says he failed his written driver's exam the first two times he took it. ( Marcus Teply/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10341785\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Lopez-400x395.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Lopez-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Lopez-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Lopez-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Lopez-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Lopez.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the fourth class driver's ed teacher Juan Carlos Lopez has taught for undocumented immigrants this year. Lopez, who drove without a license for many years as a formerly undocumented immigrant, says he failed his written driver's exam the first two times he took it. ( Marcus Teply/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The real test has 36 questions, and a passing grade is 32. This practice test has 10 questions, so you can only get one wrong. She goes through Gustavo Rangel's test and finds two mistakes. Fail. Rangel groans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rangel is at the consulate six months early, applying for a consular ID to use as identification for his license application in January. He's lived in California for six years without papers, and he drives without a license every day. He says he's always looking over his shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the time,” he says. “When I see a cop behind me, I mean I feel scared.” He says he's been stopped and ticketed twice. When January rolls around, he plans to be first in line for a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's going to change a lot. It’s going to change my life, totally,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first, he’s got to hit the books. Matus puts his name on the mailing list for driver's ed classes, and tells him to download the DMV app for his smartphone. He promises he will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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After attending school in Mountain View and graduating from San Francisco State University, Jose Antonio Vargas had a successful career as a journalist. He worked at the Huffington Post, the New Yorker and the Washington Post, where he shared a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, he hid a secret. He was in this country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, Vargas revealed his status in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times Magazine essay\u003c/a> and has since become an immigration advocate. 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He’s also attracted many critics who contend he’s illegal, has repeatedly broken the law and should be deported. Vargas says he’s still here because “there’s been silence from the government. I haven’t heard from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration reform is stalled in Congress, but the issue continues to make headlines. This week, the federal government rejected California’s initial design for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/01/brown-signs-drivers-license-bill-for-undocumented-immigrants-vetoes-deportation-limits/\" target=\"_blank\">driver’s licenses that would be offered to undocumented immigrants \u003c/a>beginning next year. Meanwhile, Florida is expected to soon join 19 other states to make in-state college tuition available to undocumented youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas believes immigration reform will ultimately happen not through Congress, but state by state. 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Now the building’s been sold, its occupants scattered, and the city’s supply of affordable nursing home beds is even smaller.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the families of these elders are helping their loved ones adjust to new and unfamiliar surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Huey’s mom, Chu Huey, is 80 years old and now lives in Oakland at the McClure Convalescent Hospital. She has dementia and a slew of other medical problems. She lives her life bed-bound, so everything about her existence is determined by the care she gets at McClure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu Huey moved from Mission Bay late last year. She’s one of 35 patients who left before the home closed its doors in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shrinking Supply of Beds for Low-Income San Franciscans \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents like Chu Huey appreciated Mission Bay partly because it was familiar: There were bulletin boards with handwritten notices in Chinese, wall calendars in the good-luck colors of red and gold, and when families brought Chinese food with them, patients were surrounded with the smells of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mission Bay was housed in an aging building -- first built in 1917 -- and it needed major upgrades, like fire sprinklers and disabled access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission Bay housed only Medi-Cal patients, so its revenue was limited to the reimbursement it could get, which in 2013 was $185.39 per patient per day according to the state Department of Health Care Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, costs were growing faster than the reimbursements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for the owner, Bill Price, declined an interview request from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143767118&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson Nadell is director of the San Francisco Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, a federally-funded patient advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadell says San Francisco is steadily losing low-income nursing home beds. 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But out of 35 patients, only two were able to secure a spot in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elderly Often Suffer \"Transfer Trauma\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving, family members now have to travel farther to see loved ones, which means fewer visits. And some Mission Bay patients moved into nursing homes where few other patients or caregivers spoke their language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s what’s called \"transfer trauma\" -- when a patient’s health suffers just from being moved. Jennifer Huey’s mother made half a dozen trips to the emergency room in the early weeks after her move out of Mission Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other patients died shortly after they moved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is a 94-year-old woman who spoke only Cantonese and moved to a Kindred nursing home in Oakland at the end of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her oldest son is still reeling with guilt. Tam, who only wanted to use his last name, is 74. 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Until now, California has accounted for a third of deportations under U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/secure-communities/\" target=\"_blank\">Secure Communities\u003c/a> program, which screens the fingerprints of arrestees for potential immigration violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not surprised at all by the size of the drop,\" said Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law and an immigration law expert. \"The concern with the federal government's removal programs has been that low-level criminal offenders have been caught up in the web of the criminal justice system, and are being deported for relatively minor crimes like driving without a license.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The San Francisco Sheriff's Department sent 96 percent fewer immigrants to federal authorities this year.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since sheriff's departments are responsible for most bookings, the AP surveyed those agencies in 23 counties responsible for most of California's deportations under the program. 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Last September, city supervisors passed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/sf-supes-pass-ordinance-opposing-immigration-hold-/nZ6n8/\" target=\"_blank\">Due Process for All\u003c/a> law, which stopped city law enforcement from complying with Secure Communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some sheriffs in California have expressed concern that the new law is letting potentially violent offenders go. Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern is president of the California State Sheriffs' Association, which opposed the Trust Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Common sense will tell you people who are violating the law and taken into custody many times are responsible for unrelated crimes,\" Ahern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Johnson said that it's hard to say whether people arrested for relatively minor infractions, like trespassing, are likely to become criminal offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the fear that some people have expressed is exaggerated and only loosely based to the facts,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nationwide deportations increase\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/us/more-deportations-follow-minor-crimes-data-shows.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">a New York Times analysis\u003c/a> of internal government records shows that since President Barack Obama took office, two-thirds of deportation cases involve people who have committed minor infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The demographics of those being removed today are not all that different from those removed over the years. Most are Mexican men under the age of 35. But many of their circumstances have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records show the largest increases were in deportations involving illegal immigrants whose most serious offense was listed as a traffic violation, including driving under the influence. Those cases more than quadrupled from 43,000 during the last five years of President George W. Bush’s administration to 193,000 during the five years Mr. Obama has been in office. In that same period, removals related to convictions for entering or re-entering the country illegally tripled under Mr. Obama to more than 188,000.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration used arrests for small infractions to show that it was making large strides in deportation, Johnson told KQED's Mina Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The truth of the matter is quite different, and suggests that relatively small-time criminals have been caught up in the system,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to more analysis:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143623072&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>* An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that undocumented immigrants can now secure drivers licenses, in fact that law will take effect next year. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-131168\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS2361_108330194-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404020850/c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the story on The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.eventbrite.com/directory?q=startup+event&loc=Washington%2C+DC\">delegation\u003c/a> of representatives from Silicon Valley start-ups is making the rounds in Washington, D.C., to press for patent reform legislation. Even in an election year, proponents are optimistic they can garner bipartisan support to tackle what many consider a cancer in high tech: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack\">patent lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Samuels is executive director of the group organizing this week’s lobbying trip: \u003ca href=\"http://engine.is/\">Engine\u003c/a>. “The House of Representatives last December passed a bill, and the White House has already said it would sign it. And it looks like the Senate is hopefully going to pass a similar bill that will make this better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engine goes to bat for small firms in tech — as opposed to, say, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/about_us\">Fwd.us\u003c/a> a lobbying organization that’s garnered national attention with big names like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and Bill Gates of Microsoft. Samuels says tech companies big and small share many of the same interests: patent reform, net neutrality, cybersecurity, copyrights, taxes and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list is growing, along with Silicon Valley’s clout in the nation’s capital. Sarah Bryner is research director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/\">Center for Responsive Politics\u003c/a>, a campaign finance watchdog. She says that in 2013 Big Tech was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\">#4 Big Spende\u003c/a>r on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Industry\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Pharmaceuticals/Health Products\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$225,715,937\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Insurance\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$153,116,559\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oil & Gas\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$144,682,462\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>Computers/Internet\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>$140,297,606\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Electric Utilities\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$129,618,239\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>TV/Movies/Music\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$117,972,447\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Business Associations\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$108,371,903\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 1998, which is the earliest year that I have data for, the industry has increased their lobbying by 258 percent, and that’s more than double the rate at which the lobbying industry as a whole has increased their activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley has been lobbying in Washington, D.C., for a half-century now. \u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, one of the first major Valley firms\u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">,\u003c/a> was a military contractor. One of its co-founders, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard\">David Packard\u003c/a>, served in the Defense Department during the Nixon administration. Bryner says the \u003cem>kinds\u003c/em> of tech companies that \u003cem>top\u003c/em> the list of big spenders have changed as the industry has changed over the years: from a focus on hardware, to software, to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You still have traditional tech companies like IBM and Oracle and HP all at the top. But now, you see not necessarily newer — but newer to the game — players like Yahoo, and Facebook is climbing, and Twitter just hired a lobbyist this last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Google was No.1 by a wide margin, having spent $14 million on lobbying.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Client/Parent\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Google Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$14,060,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Microsoft Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$10,490,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oracle Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$7,190,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Hewlett-Packard\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,921,692\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Facebook Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,430,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>IBM Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,950,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Entertainment Software Assn\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,210,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Intel Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$4,393,750\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Amazon.com\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,456,831\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Apple Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,370,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&year=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google actually is one of the few companies that hired a former member of Congress on their own staff to do lobbying,” Bryner notes. “Most companies that hire [former] members of Congress do so using lobbying firms based in D.C., but Google \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/business/susan-molinari-adds-to-googles-political-firepower.html?pagewanted=all\">hired Susan Molinari\u003c/a> of New York from their own payroll. And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. But they’re still spending, holding private fundraisers here in Northern California for key Democrats –- and Republicans –- from all over the country. Just a couple of weeks ago, House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201403190850/a\">paid a visit to the Bay Area\u003c/a> for the latest in a series of private fundraisers put on by TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech executives.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130989\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-the-4-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/img_6883/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130989\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-130989 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_6883-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, Julie Samuels, from Engine, moderated yet another panel discussion in San Francisco on the challenge of expanding the labor pool in tech. Right off the bat, she acknowledged the argument that companies should do more to find and cultivate homegrown talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to find good engineers, and there are two sides of this. It’s the businesses who can’t find people, but it’s also the people who want to be there and can’t get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was held at a start-up incubator called \u003ca href=\"http://www.parisoma.com/\">PariSoma\u003c/a>, and organized by Fwd.us. The crowd was young, hip and international. Mexican native Miguel Cervera is a software engineer at \u003ca href=\"@MiguelCervera\">Twitter\u003c/a>. Over sliders and beer, the 23-year-old expressed distress over the lack of movement on immigration reform.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to see for the people to stop thinking that we are coming here to steal jobs,” Cervera said. “As an immigrant, that’s how I feel, that –- maybe not here in the city, the city is really open in that aspect — but in other places, I feel like if I am Mexican, and I am coming here, they think I am here to steal some other U.S. citizens’ jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even outside Silicon Valley, American opinion may be changing faster than Cervera realizes. A February bipartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/poll_support_immigration_reform\">poll\u003c/a> that Fwd.us likes to quote found a thousand likely general election voters nationwide overwhelmingly support immigration reform. 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And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. But they’re still spending, holding private fundraisers here in Northern California for key Democrats –- and Republicans –- from all over the country. Just a couple of weeks ago, House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201403190850/a\">paid a visit to the Bay Area\u003c/a> for the latest in a series of private fundraisers put on by TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech executives.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130989\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-the-4-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/img_6883/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130989\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-130989 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_6883-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3929.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129740\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3929-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Famed Hawaii chef Alan Wong checks out some of Tadaaki Hachisu's eggs in Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone) \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Famed Hawaii chef Alan Wong checks out some of Tadaaki Hachisu's eggs in Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea seemed simple enough: Take a favorite family recipe, trace its origins and make a TV show about the quest. That concept brought two of Hawaii’s top chefs to Japan and the organic farm of Nancy Singleton Hachisu, who moved there from the Bay Area almost 26 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is \u003ca href=\"http://familyingredients.com\">“Family Ingredients,”\u003c/a> an hourlong production that will be shown tonight in San Francisco as part of \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2014/\">CAAMFest 2014,\u003c/a> an 11-day multimedia festival sponsored by the Center for Asian American Media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hachisu is the author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.japanesefarmfood.com\">“Japanese Farm Food,”\u003c/a> and her book tour was launched at Chez Panisse Cafe in September 2012. Dan Nakasone, who lives on Oahu and is the co-producer of “Family Ingredients,” bought the book soon after it was published. When he started work on the show, it occurred to him that Hachisu might be an ideal match for its host, Ed Kenney, and its featured chef, Alan Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s exactly what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like yin and yang -- such a good balance off of each other,” Hachisu said on Monday night from New York, on her way back to Japan. “ Interestingly enough, some people opened up to Alan, while others opened up to Ed. They were an absolutely unstoppable combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hachisu was born in Palo Alto in 1956, spent her childhood in Atherton, went to Stanford University and met Tadaaki Hachisu when he was a student in an ESL class she was teaching. They are farm-to-table cooks and farmers in Saitama, Japan, and their farm produces, among other things, rice and eggs – a key fact that made the simple idea for the show a much more ambitious undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alan’s father was Chinese Hawaiian and his mother was from Japan,” said Nakasone on Monday, by phone from Honolulu. \"He gave us two dishes he grew up with: tamago kake gohan, which is raw egg on rice with a dash of shoyu, and miso soup. I thought, ‘Man, how are we going to do a one-hour pilot on these ingredients?’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then he remembered Hachisu’s cookbook. “I thought that if we could get to this farm and meet this farmer, we could close the loop. It was so compelling. I told the director, ‘We need to go to this place.’ And he said, ‘Oh, Dan. You got a plan B?’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3868.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129738\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3868-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaii chefs Ed Kenney, left, and Alan Wong visit with organic Tadaaki Hachisu in Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawaii chefs Ed Kenney, left, and Alan Wong visit with organic Tadaaki Hachisu in Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kenney’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.townkaimuki.com\">Town restaurant\u003c/a> and Wong’s namesake \u003ca href=\"http://www.alanwongs.com\">upscale eatery\u003c/a>, both located in Honolulu, have enjoyed enormous acclaim, and they have been relentless advocates for \u003ca href=\"http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/winter-2011-taste/aloha-spam\">local cuisine\u003c/a> and farmers on the Hawaiian Islands. Still, they learned a lot during their nine-day visit to Japan, which included a visit to Sukiyabashi Jiro, a three-star Michelin restaurant in Tokyo where the two chefs from Hawaii ate the best sushi they’d ever tasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Hachisu farm, about a two-hour drive from the capital, they encountered a version of raw egg over rice that was completely unlike the familiar dish that the chefs had consumed for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “Family Ingredients,” Kenney and Wong watched Tadaaki Hachisu transform tamago kake gohan into something else entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so different from what we do,” said Nakasone, who lives in the Oahu town of Wahiawa and is of Okanawan ancestry. “It was creamy, like a risotto. He stirred it first in circles, then he looped it. It created a lot of air and a lot of foam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family Ingredients” combines food, history and travel. It aired last May on PBS Hawaii and is currently available on Hawaiian Airlines flights. Nakason said the pilot was made with the hope that it would be picked up as a series. Recently, the PBS national programming board said it wanted eight half-hour episodes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the first production company from Hawaii to be offered a PBS series in prime time,” Nakasone said. “The concept is to feature all the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Arnold-Hiura-s-Kau-Kau-covers-Hawaiian-chow-3256961.php\">different ethnic groups\u003c/a> that you find in Hawaii – Filipino, Puerto Rican, Portuguese Chinese, Korean, all of them. The focus would be on food. That’s the bridge that would take us to the place of origin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonight’s 7 o’clock showing of \"Family Ingredients” at the Sundance Kabuki on Post Street will be its second in San Francisco. The first was Friday night. Afterward, Nakasone and director Ty Sanga did a question-and-answer session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end, a woman from India came up in tears,” Nakasone recalled. “She said it made her miss her mom and home country. It reaches people on an emotional level. That's the immigrant story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3905.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3905-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy and Tadaaki Hacihisu are organic farmers in Saitama, Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy and Tadaaki Hacihisu are organic farmers in Saitama, Japan. 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(Photo by Dan Nakasone)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kenney’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.townkaimuki.com\">Town restaurant\u003c/a> and Wong’s namesake \u003ca href=\"http://www.alanwongs.com\">upscale eatery\u003c/a>, both located in Honolulu, have enjoyed enormous acclaim, and they have been relentless advocates for \u003ca href=\"http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/winter-2011-taste/aloha-spam\">local cuisine\u003c/a> and farmers on the Hawaiian Islands. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126493\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/girl-640x447.jpeg\" alt=\"A child buys tickets at the Halloween-Día de los Muertos fundraiser for Junipero Serra Elementary in Bernal Heights. The event netted $3,000 for the PTA. (Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child buys tickets at the Halloween Dia de los Muertos fundraiser for Junipero Serra Elementary in Bernal Heights. The event netted $3,000 for the PTA. (Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This photo essay was originally published on \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/publicschools\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>, a KQED News Associate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By: Jeremy Adam Smith, Luke Thomas and Tearsa Joy Hammock, \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana Hernandez and Barry Schmell come from very different backgrounds, but they have at least one thing in common: They both lead their schools’ parent-teacher associations — Ana Hernandez at Junipero Serra Elementary in Bernal Heights, Barry Schmell at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once upon a time, PTAs held bake sales to pay for field trips and annual gifts for the teachers. Those days are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, after five years of severe budget cuts in the San Francisco Unified School District, PTAs are being asked to pay for teachers, reading specialists, social workers and school psychologists, computers, basic school supplies, staff training and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all PTAs can afford those things. Parents at just 10 elementary schools raise more than half the PTA money that all 71 elementary schools in the district take in. Many of the rest raise nothing, or almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents at some schools have personal wealth and other advantages, such as better language and organizational skills. Fundraising has become an essential part of public school finance in San Francisco — and that is triggering far-reaching changes in the culture of the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellDaughter.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellDaughter-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barry Schmell’s daughter, Jonesy, attends fourth grade at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, which raised more than any other elementary school in the district in 2011 — but in subsequent years lost funding. Schmell is divorced from his adopted daughter’s other father, and works from his home in the Castro as Google’s senior technical instructor and course developer. The job gives him flexibility to be deeply involved in his daughter’s life and education. Schmell was raised in Baltimore, the youngest of five in an Orthodox Jewish family, and studied at the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins. “I grew up in a home where my mother was the PTA president,” Schmell said. “I grew up stuffing envelopes in our living room, and so I kind of feel like that’s part of school. I was surprised that public schools in San Francisco required so much fundraising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezFamily.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezFamily-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas/ San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/ San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ana Hernandez, seated second from left, is PTA chapter president at Junipero Serra Elementary in Bernal Heights, where her daughter, Jasmine, (far right, next to her big sister) goes to school. Hernandez emigrated from Guatemala in 2004, fleeing poverty and a society shattered by 50 years of civil war. Today, she supports the entire family working 42 hours a week as a cook in Burlingame. Her husband, Byron, lost one of his fingers in an accident on his job as a laundry mechanic, and as a result he is out of work. Despite her inflexible and demanding schedule, Hernandez said she stays involved with the PTA because it gives her life meaning and community. But for the family to make ends meet, she needs a second job. If she succeeds in finding one, she said she would have to quit leading the PTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyMilk.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyMilk-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During “morning circle” at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, Schmell shows off invitations to a roller-skating party fundraiser. He and members of the Parent-Faculty Club aim to raise $50,000 for supplies, field trips and arts programs this year. “It isn’t just the fundraising — this is my community,” Schmell said. “I have amazing relationships and experiences through the school.” The families are diverse, and Schmell and daughter Jonesy know others who are like theirs: multiracial, with gay parents and adopted children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoSerra.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoSerra-640x426.jpeg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ana Hernandez serves food at a monthly dinner party hosted by Junipero Serra’s PTA. She first got involved by working on the school’s food bank, distributing food to hungry families. This school year, the PTA aims to raise around $7,000 to support field trips, buy computers, get gifts for the teachers and underwrite the fifth-grade graduation project. The PTA also sets aside part of that fund to support Junipero Serra families facing economic emergencies. Because almost all the school’s families live in poverty, their financial contributions tend to be modest. “They can help with $1, $2,” Hernandez said. “Even when they have no money, people help in different ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyLibrary.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyLibrary-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schmell shows off the school library to a group of parents who are considering sending their children to Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy. By giving tours and organizing frequent “fun raisers,” Schmell is working to revitalize a school that has struggled around issues of funding equity, race and social class, as well as management. A nonprofit organization, Friends of Harvey Milk, was one of the top fundraisers in the city, spending $380,000 a year, almost exclusively on before-school and after-school enrichment programs. But that collapsed in 2011 after key supporters withdrew, leaving the school with little fundraising infrastructure. “If we had everyone at Harvey Milk give $250 for the year, then we wouldn’t have to do severe fundraising,” he said. “I’m very concerned about technology. I’d love for us to have a computer lab, and we need to do a targeted fundraising campaign for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoLibrary.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126482\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoLibrary-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Tearsa Joy Hammock/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After years of cuts, the Junipero Serra library now has an annual budget of just $500. Many parents said the library has actually improved in recent years, thanks to book donations and volunteer efforts. Even so, the shelves feel underpopulated, and the room underused. With a limited budget, Principal Evelyn Cheung had to make hard choices, so she prioritized the computer lab and technology training for the kids ahead of other costs. Hernandez supports Cheung’s priorities, and the PTA has been able to buy computers for the lab. “Some people think the government pays for everything at school, but it’s not like that,” she said. “I try to explain to the parents: We have to make fundraising, because that is how we can help the school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellMural.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellMural-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I waited tables in college, and I hated pooling the tips,” Schmell said. This memory makes him reluctant to support a system in which San Francisco schools would share the money raised by parents and redistribute some of it to lower-income schools. His connection to Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy and to the Castro is strong, and that is what motivates him to give. The same is true for Castro businesses that support the school. They might not give as much if they thought their money was going to children in other communities. “But maybe it would be better for us,” he said. “If other people are able to do more, then we’ll benefit from that as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezDaughter.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126485\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezDaughter-640x414.jpg\" alt=\"(Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Tearsa Joy Hammock/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, at the Italian restaurant where Hernandez works, a customer comes to the kitchen to give a tip directly to her, in appreciation for a delicious meal. She always shares the tip with the other line cooks. “Everybody’s working hard,” she said, “so we share.” Waiters also pool their tips, she said, because “the busboy, the person working at the bar, the cooks, they are all working hard.” All the families at Junipero Serra Elementary School work hard, she added, even if they make very little money. If schools shared, she said, everyone would benefit. “I think it’s good, because you give opportunity to all the kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This photo essay is part of a San Francisco Public Press \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/publicschools\" target=\"_blank\">special report on education inequality\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to KQED's Mina Kim interview Jeremy Adam Smith on his research into PTA funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/132944653&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all PTAs can afford those things. Parents at just 10 elementary schools raise more than half the PTA money that all 71 elementary schools in the district take in. Many of the rest raise nothing, or almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents at some schools have personal wealth and other advantages, such as better language and organizational skills. Fundraising has become an essential part of public school finance in San Francisco — and that is triggering far-reaching changes in the culture of the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellDaughter.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellDaughter-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barry Schmell’s daughter, Jonesy, attends fourth grade at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, which raised more than any other elementary school in the district in 2011 — but in subsequent years lost funding. Schmell is divorced from his adopted daughter’s other father, and works from his home in the Castro as Google’s senior technical instructor and course developer. The job gives him flexibility to be deeply involved in his daughter’s life and education. Schmell was raised in Baltimore, the youngest of five in an Orthodox Jewish family, and studied at the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins. “I grew up in a home where my mother was the PTA president,” Schmell said. “I grew up stuffing envelopes in our living room, and so I kind of feel like that’s part of school. I was surprised that public schools in San Francisco required so much fundraising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezFamily.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezFamily-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas/ San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/ San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ana Hernandez, seated second from left, is PTA chapter president at Junipero Serra Elementary in Bernal Heights, where her daughter, Jasmine, (far right, next to her big sister) goes to school. Hernandez emigrated from Guatemala in 2004, fleeing poverty and a society shattered by 50 years of civil war. Today, she supports the entire family working 42 hours a week as a cook in Burlingame. Her husband, Byron, lost one of his fingers in an accident on his job as a laundry mechanic, and as a result he is out of work. Despite her inflexible and demanding schedule, Hernandez said she stays involved with the PTA because it gives her life meaning and community. But for the family to make ends meet, she needs a second job. If she succeeds in finding one, she said she would have to quit leading the PTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyMilk.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyMilk-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During “morning circle” at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, Schmell shows off invitations to a roller-skating party fundraiser. He and members of the Parent-Faculty Club aim to raise $50,000 for supplies, field trips and arts programs this year. “It isn’t just the fundraising — this is my community,” Schmell said. “I have amazing relationships and experiences through the school.” The families are diverse, and Schmell and daughter Jonesy know others who are like theirs: multiracial, with gay parents and adopted children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoSerra.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoSerra-640x426.jpeg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ana Hernandez serves food at a monthly dinner party hosted by Junipero Serra’s PTA. She first got involved by working on the school’s food bank, distributing food to hungry families. This school year, the PTA aims to raise around $7,000 to support field trips, buy computers, get gifts for the teachers and underwrite the fifth-grade graduation project. The PTA also sets aside part of that fund to support Junipero Serra families facing economic emergencies. Because almost all the school’s families live in poverty, their financial contributions tend to be modest. “They can help with $1, $2,” Hernandez said. “Even when they have no money, people help in different ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyLibrary.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HarveyLibrary-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schmell shows off the school library to a group of parents who are considering sending their children to Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy. By giving tours and organizing frequent “fun raisers,” Schmell is working to revitalize a school that has struggled around issues of funding equity, race and social class, as well as management. A nonprofit organization, Friends of Harvey Milk, was one of the top fundraisers in the city, spending $380,000 a year, almost exclusively on before-school and after-school enrichment programs. But that collapsed in 2011 after key supporters withdrew, leaving the school with little fundraising infrastructure. “If we had everyone at Harvey Milk give $250 for the year, then we wouldn’t have to do severe fundraising,” he said. “I’m very concerned about technology. I’d love for us to have a computer lab, and we need to do a targeted fundraising campaign for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoLibrary.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126482\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/JuniperoLibrary-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Tearsa Joy Hammock/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After years of cuts, the Junipero Serra library now has an annual budget of just $500. Many parents said the library has actually improved in recent years, thanks to book donations and volunteer efforts. Even so, the shelves feel underpopulated, and the room underused. With a limited budget, Principal Evelyn Cheung had to make hard choices, so she prioritized the computer lab and technology training for the kids ahead of other costs. Hernandez supports Cheung’s priorities, and the PTA has been able to buy computers for the lab. “Some people think the government pays for everything at school, but it’s not like that,” she said. “I try to explain to the parents: We have to make fundraising, because that is how we can help the school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellMural.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/SchmellMural-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Luke Thomas / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Luke Thomas/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I waited tables in college, and I hated pooling the tips,” Schmell said. This memory makes him reluctant to support a system in which San Francisco schools would share the money raised by parents and redistribute some of it to lower-income schools. His connection to Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy and to the Castro is strong, and that is what motivates him to give. The same is true for Castro businesses that support the school. They might not give as much if they thought their money was going to children in other communities. “But maybe it would be better for us,” he said. “If other people are able to do more, then we’ll benefit from that as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezDaughter.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126485\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/HernandezDaughter-640x414.jpg\" alt=\"(Tearsa Joy Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Tearsa Joy Hammock/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, at the Italian restaurant where Hernandez works, a customer comes to the kitchen to give a tip directly to her, in appreciation for a delicious meal. She always shares the tip with the other line cooks. “Everybody’s working hard,” she said, “so we share.” Waiters also pool their tips, she said, because “the busboy, the person working at the bar, the cooks, they are all working hard.” All the families at Junipero Serra Elementary School work hard, she added, even if they make very little money. If schools shared, she said, everyone would benefit. “I think it’s good, because you give opportunity to all the kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This photo essay is part of a San Francisco Public Press \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/publicschools\" target=\"_blank\">special report on education inequality\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to KQED's Mina Kim interview Jeremy Adam Smith on his research into PTA funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Mohammed Shamma, a software developer in Berkeley, heard about the call for stories from his wife. He writes about trying to reconcile the Islamic belief of chastity until marriage with the raging hormones of an adolescent boy. That duality came to a head when he was 11 years old, during an innocent game of \"Spin the Bottle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was about four or five of us,” Shamma says. “I was the only Muslim kid. It was the first time I ever kissed a girl. So, but my mom found out and I got the silent treatment for several days. I knew I had to make up for it with a lot of prayer at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamma is first-generation Egyptian-American. He says he was racked with guilt over having kissed a girl: His mom said it was a sin – but that didn’t mean he’d stop either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to balance this world where I just wanted to be another American boy. And she wanted me to be this model Muslim boy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Countering Negative Images\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamma hopes his story will help counter the negative image of Muslims here, especially Muslims with Middle Eastern-sounding names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only does having a name like Mohammed make me get stopped at TSA, having a son whose name is Karim who gets stopped when he’s 8 months old, because he’s on a list. That to me is something that needs to change. I don’t need to show my 8-month-old to passport control to say, ‘Look, you don’t need to be worried about this boy.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> He says he was racked with guilt over having kissed a girl. 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