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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:14 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State\u003c/a> can move forward with its broad academic and athletic cuts temporarily, a superior court judge ruled Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Kenneth English denied a preliminary injunction requested by six students who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036250/sonoma-states-deep-cuts-are-paused-by-judge-leaving-students-and-faculty-in-limbo\">suing the school\u003c/a> over its decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023598/sonoma-state-is-eliminating-athletics-slashing-several-degree-programs-to-cut-budget\">cut more than 20 degree programs, six academic departments and all 11 of its NCAA athletics teams\u003c/a>. Their attorneys allege that Sonoma State failed to follow the California State University’s protocol for discontinuing academic programs and failed to provide meaningful evidence of the amount of money that discontinuing athletics would save.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the university’s budget crisis, English ruled that maintaining its current athletic program “would interfere with Sonoma State’s academic mission as further budget cuts would need to be made regarding academic programs and student services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Saturday night, a spokesperson for the university said they appreciated the court’s “thoughtful and detailed order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These decisions are never easy and have a significant impact on our entire community,” Jeff Keating, a Sonoma State spokesperson, said in an email. “As we move forward, we remain committed to supporting our current students through this transition while ensuring that Sonoma State University is positioned to thrive as a dynamic campus, offering a diverse range of relevant majors and programs for our current and future students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Seidel, one of two lawyers representing the students pro bono, said in an email on Friday that he thought the judge “got it wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are assessing next steps in this important litigation to protect the students and student-athletes of Sonoma State from the destructive and unlawful conduct of the CSU,” Seidel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school announced the sweeping cuts in January in the face of a $24 million budget deficit brought on by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025961/sonoma-state-1st-csu-slash-programs-likely-wont-be-last\">declines in enrollment and state funding\u003c/a>. The decision — revealed in an all-school email — spurred \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">protests\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024572/sonoma-state-coaches-call-federal-investigation-elimination-athletics\">civil rights complaints\u003c/a> and the lawsuit against the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, six student-athletes filed a suit against Sonoma State, Interim President Emily Cutrer and CSU Chancellor Mildred García in Sonoma County Superior Court, alleging that they reached the decision to make the program cuts in violation of the CSU’s policy, which requires that the school engage with its academic senate and educational policies committee and proposes plans for current students to finish their discontinued degrees before making a final decision about program changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to show their work,” attorney Ross Middlemiss said after English issued a temporary restraining order in April that forced the school to halt actions to eliminate academic programs. “These policies and regulations are in place to require that, and [the administrators] just blatantly ignored their own rules and went ahead and issued this really broad and harmful decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12036250 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-18-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university contends that it did follow the school system’s process for discontinuing programs. David Kesselman, the lead attorney representing the university, said in court last Thursday that Sonoma State’s Jan. 22 email from Cutrer announcing the cuts to students and staff was a proposal, not a final decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the email announcement, he said, the school attempted to engage with the committee and senate, and in March, the senate voted to reject the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve chosen not to engage. That’s fine, that’s their right,” he said in court at a hearing last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With English initially skeptical of the school’s argument that the decision announced in January was a proposal, not a done deal, Kesselman argued that the first concrete execution of the cuts came in April, after the senate’s vote in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actual enrollment for fall didn’t open until April,” Kesselman said during last week’s hearing. “Senate and [the educational policies committee] weighed in before fall enrollment would start [and] wasn’t limited by the school until fall enrollment opened in April — after the March senate vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his ruling, English said the argument that the school-wide email was a proposal, not a decision, “is not persuasive nor does it square with the evidence presented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The plain reading of that email indicates that a decision had been made to discontinue academic programs and that steps would be taken to implement that decision,” the ruling states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seidel argued that the athletic cuts should be stopped for a different reason — a lack of evidence that it will save the school money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at [Sonoma State’s] citation of the $3.7 million that could be saved by cutting athletics, that’s a restatement … not a citation,” he said, referring to the two documents he said Cutrer and her staff have supplied as evidence for the savings. One of the documents is Sonoma State’s public budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-51.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-51-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-51-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-51-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-51-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-51-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carson Warfield, left, and Abbey Healy, right, both athletes on Sonoma State’s soccer team, pose for a photo at the Sonoma State University soccer fields in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. Sonoma State is cutting its entire Athletic Department, eliminating majors and laying off faculty to address a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>“It’s an assumption … simply a line item,” Seidel said. “There’s no evidence of how they calculated that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said the school failed to account for the money that athletics bring into the school through tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a student leaves [Sonoma State], which student athletes will … and they don’t have to pay their athletic scholarship … they are also going to lose all of their enrollment money,” Seidel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kesselman said the students’ attorneys needed to provide proof that the school had no evidence to back up its estimated savings, otherwise, “deference has to be given to the campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question is ‘Is there no evidence in the record?’” he said. “A vice president of the campus submitted a declaration explaining how we got here. This isn’t a huge math assignment, he explains how we got here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English ultimately agreed, saying in his ruling that the university “acted within their discretion to eliminate the athletics program if they have a reasonable belief that doing so would assist in their attempts to balance the budget,” which, he said, the evidence submitted in court supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the \u003cem>certainty\u003c/em> that at least $3.7 million in expenses that can be saved by eliminating the athletics program and the \u003cem>uncertainties \u003c/em>as to how much ‘revenue’ student-athletes would contribute towards the 2025–2026 Operating Budget if the athletics program continued operating, it cannot be said that [the university’s] decision to terminate the athletics program amounted to an abuse of discretion,” English wrote in his ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Sonoma State’s enrollment for the fall semester opened without the option for students to enroll in classes across most of the programs being cut, and the school has pulled its teams from their respective leagues for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision really truly is destroying the academic and athletic lives of many students … and that’s why we’re here,” Middlemiss said at the hearing last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show English has set the next hearing in the case for July 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Brian Krans contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The letter noted that school districts and nonprofits in California receive $1.5 billion in federal funding each year to operate local Head Start programs that serve more than 80,000 children and employ nearly 27,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12037453 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250414-HEAD-START-WORKER-LAID-OFF-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That money supports not only early education and family services, but thousands of jobs, child care providers, bus drivers, cooks, support staff, many of them right here in rural areas where employment opportunities are already limited,” said Assemblymember Heather Hadwick (R–Modoc County), who said cuts to Head Start would devastate the rural communities she represents in far Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadwick said she attended a Head Start center when she was raised by a single mother and called the program “a lifeline” for her family. 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The vote saved eight positions but left the district in further fiscal uncertainty, requiring more than $1 million in alternative cuts, interim Superintendent Kim Moses said in a Feb. 27 statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-13-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031026 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from Richmond’s John F. Kennedy High School stage a walkout and rally in front of the West Contra Costa Unified School District offices to protest impending layoffs as part of cuts to the district’s budget in Richmond on March 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, students from Kennedy and Richmond High schools marched over two miles in the rain from Kennedy on Cutting Boulevard to district offices on Bissell Avenue, receiving honks of approval from passing cars and drawing residents out of their homes. Students and former Richmond City Councilmember Melvin Willis led chants while some held signs saying “Our Education Matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuts would be especially harmful to Kennedy, Blandon said. The school is over 90% students of color, and many have low income, according to state data. She said the cuts would eliminate almost 20 teachers from the school’s college and career pathways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials have also said the reductions, which have already resulted in $19 million being cut for this school year, are unnecessary and “a direct attack on our classrooms, our educators, and our students’ future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031023\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from Richmond’s John F. Kennedy High School rally outside the West Contra Costa Unified School District offices in Richmond on March 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The United Teachers of Richmond, which represents educators throughout the district, said last month during a Richmond City Council \u003ca href=\"https://ccpulse.org/2025/02/27/teachers-union-asks-richmond-to-look-at-wccusd-finances-richmond-honors-black-nine-officers/\">meeting\u003c/a> that WCCUSD was “stockpiling reserves” instead of funding schools. 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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area public schools are struggling, especially in Oakland and San Francisco. Both districts are among only a handful across the state with negative budgets, and as a result recently voted to approve preliminary layoff notices for teachers, counselors, and other staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4698991256\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] All right, Katie, so last week, some huge budget cuts were announced for Oakland and San Francisco schools. How big of a deal are these cuts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:02:29] They’re significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:31] Katie DeBenedetti is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:02:34] San Francisco needs to cut about $113 million from their budget, and Oakland needs to cut about $95 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] In San Francisco, the cuts, which are really potential layoff notices, impact about 10% of the district’s teachers, social workers, counselors, teacher aides. And in Oakland, hundreds of staff could be affected. There, the district is eliminating about 800 positions, but it’s creating 700 new ones. So a lot of people might get shifted into a new role. They might move from a 12 month position to an 11 month position, but there’s still gonna be a lot of confusion and a lot of jobs are changing, which could result in pay cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:03:29] I think it’s really demoralizing for both teachers and staff that have kind of gotten used to receiving these pink slips. We’re looking at staffing that might cut a lot of the really key services that students rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:47] Yeah, let’s dig into that a little bit more. What is the range of things actually on the chopping block? Starting with San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:03:55] In San Francisco, they have basically said, we’re going to cut 395 or so roles across teachers, social workers, counselors, and under teachers, there are a lot of specialist positions. So those are English language arts specialist, literacy coaches, a lot of librarians are teachers. And then a lot of also administrators, most schools right now might not have an assistant principal. Basically, it’s anything that doesn’t fit in the state standard of positions needed to, quote, keep the lights on in school. So classroom teachers, a principal, a janitor, and a clerk are pretty much the only guarantees right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:42] And what about Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:04:44] In Oakland, a lot of the positions that are getting cut are going to be reallocated. So, you know, there’s going to be some cuts to classroom teachers in certain cases. But a big category of the cuts that people are worried about are these substitute teachers called STIP subs. They work at one school site. They say they’re year round. Basically, the district is going to eliminate those roles and kind of replace them with a group of subs that will live at the district level and be sent out based on teacher absences. The other big category there is a lot of roles for support staff are going to be changed from 12 months to 11 months, which results in a pay cut and also makes it so that those staff members won’t be able to use that 12th month of the year where they’re doing planning and preparing over the summer to really get things done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:51] I really do feel like I have seen story after story after story about budget cuts at public schools all over the Bay Area. It really seems like a tough time right now for public schools. I mean, is it just, am I just imagining this, Katie? Like, or are public schools across the Bay really struggling right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] No, you are not imagining it. This is not isolated to San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:06:25] Many, many school districts are struggling. In just the Bay Area, Santa Rosa is planning to close five schools because of budget cuts. In San Jose, they’re also closing schools. And districts throughout the state are facing these deficits and making staff cuts kind of across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:47] And why is that, Katie? Why is it that so many public schools seem to be struggling so much in this particular moment in time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:06:57] One of the biggest reasons is declining enrollment. Families have moved out of cities. Kids might be attending private school in higher numbers. The birth rate is also declining. So there are a couple of reasons that schools aren’t growing. Basically the way that school districts get their funding is they get a certain amount of money for every student that they have. That makes up a big bulk of their total budget. So when you have a district like San Francisco, which has lost 10,000 students in the last 10 years or Oakland, which has lost 15,000 in the last 20, they’re getting a lot less money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:07:42] Another big reason is during COVID, districts got a lot of relief money from the government and a lot of districts already facing that declining enrollment kind of used it to pay for ongoing expenses, but that money is now gone. And I think things are also just costing more. The cost of living in Oakland and San Francisco has gone up disproportionately to the, you know, amount of funding that they get from the state for schools. but they need to pay more in wages, they’re paying more for their buildings, for their third-party contracts, and that’s just not being reflected in the amount of funding they’re getting from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:27] Coming up, why the budget situation is even worse in Oakland and San Francisco. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:12] So it sounds like a lot of school districts across the Bay Area are struggling with issues like low enrollment, the end of these COVID funds, inflation, but where do the budget problems at Oakland and San Francisco public schools, where do they stack up against these other Bay Area school districts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:09:34] They’re definitely among the worst off. Oakland and San Francisco are among seven of about a thousand districts in California that have negative interim budgets from December. That basically means that without making big changes, they won’t be able to pay their bills in the next few years. Hayward Unified School District is also on that list, but the other four districts are much smaller. They’re in rural parts of the state and their budgets are really a fraction of the size of San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:07] I mean, Katie, why are things so bad at schools in Oakland and San Francisco, specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:10:14] Oakland and San Francisco have historically, you know, talked about big cuts, talked about school closures, and then backed off those plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Grant Dawson \u003c/strong>[00:10:24] It’s been decades of not dealing with systemic issues and ultimately asking the superintendent and the staff to make it work for the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:10:36] So Lisa Grant Dawson is Oakland’s budget officer, and she said that they have this pattern. They’ll workshop a plan, they’ll discuss it, they’ll talk about the community impact, what can go, but then they won’t implement it. And that’s kind of continued for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Grant-Dawson \u003c/strong>[00:10:56] It often sounds like our issue is strictly financial, but it’s really how we operate and we’ve just reached a place that we’ve run out of space in order for us to be able to make amends as we have historically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] I mean, is this normal that that these two districts sort of come up with a plan, you know, commit to these cuts and then decide to sort of back off on them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mike Fine \u003c/strong>[00:11:33] Oakland is notorious for planning, for taking a plan, and naming it five different times, but never fully implementing the plan. San Francisco has yet to come up with a plan, in my opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:11:46] Mike Fine, who is the executive director of FCMAT, which is a financial company that helps California districts with their finances, said that a lot of districts are having these same issues, but what’s hurting Oakland and San Francisco is that they’re not taking the steps they need to, to remediate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mike Fine \u003c/strong>[00:12:06] This failure to implement idea is really harmful because you go through the same grind and you go through the same emotional trauma year after year after year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:12:20] Realistically, all of the budget balancing work that they’re doing costs money. Like last fall, Oakland and San Francisco both had plans to close schools, which admittedly it’s unclear how much money closing schools really saves, but developing the plans to close schools costs money, staff puts time into it. It’s a lot of work and then to get no gain out of it is hurting them even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:49] Coming back to the students here who really will, I imagine, bear the brunt of these cuts. I mean, what are these cuts going to mean for San Francisco and Oakland students?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:13:01] I think a lot of families and teachers are really concerned about how equitable they’re going to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kampala Taiz-Rancifer \u003c/strong>[00:13:10] Our main function as a school district is to provide quality education. And when we make cuts so close to schools, we’re really undermining that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:13:19] Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, who is the Oakland Union President for teachers, she says that a lot of the cuts that are being made are gonna impact students on their school sites. So, you know, teachers who are working 11 instead of 12 months won’t engage with families during the summer as much. Without subs on site, kids will have to, you know, get accustomed to working with teachers that they don’t know as well. They’ll lose kind of another adult resource. And really, they’re just going to hurt students more than they’re hurting the function of the district at the central office level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kampala Taiz-Rancifer \u003c/strong>[00:14:00] We are going to be having threats from our national government and we really at this time need to make sure that schools are stable and that they are places that students can rely upon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:14:16] Both districts in the past have had school closure plans and budget cut plans that school communities feel have really negatively impacted low -income students and students of color disproportionately. And so there’s a lot of distrust just when we’re making these cuts, are we prioritizing those students’ needs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Member 1 \u003c/strong>[00:14:36] The positions that you’re proposing to cut or reduce work directly with students and families, particularly from our most disadvantaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:14:43] and you can really hear a lot of those concerns at these districts recent board meetings from parents and from teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Member 2 \u003c/strong>[00:14:51] Please fund a full social worker at every site at minimum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Member 3 \u003c/strong>[00:14:54] District employees receive high salaries, yet they remain inaccessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Member 4 \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] I am here to demand that this board protect our student -facing services. I don’t even like calling it services. These are human beings. These are people, essential people, that work with our babies every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:15] What is next here, Katie? It sounds like, at least in San Francisco, TBD on who exactly could lose their jobs. And then in the case of Oakland, I mean, are these cuts going to happen in the next school year or what is next year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:15:36] So the next step is layoff notice letters going out. These are not set in stone. A lot of people are going to get layoff notices and then in May, when budgets become more clear, get those notices rescinded. If they don’t get rescinded and they get confirmed in May, those employees will be without a job beginning in the next school year. The state would only step in if either district makes it to June just before the start of the new fiscal year without balancing a budget. So because both districts did pass layoff notice resolutions, they are technically making the cuts that they need to make. So it really depends on May and what cuts stay and what cuts get rescinded. And I’m sure in the months in between, there’s gonna be a lot of organizing from, you know each district’s unions, the parent communities, to fight cuts and try to shift them away from students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:46] Well, Katie, thanks so much for breaking this down for us. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:16:49] Thanks so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:56] That was Katie DeBenedetti, a reporter for KQED. This 25 -minute conversation with Katie was cut down and edited by senior editor, Alan Montecillo. Jessica Kariisa is our producer. She scored this episode. Our intern, Mel Velasquez, added all the tape. Music courtesy of Audio Network, Blue Dot Sessions, and NPR. Support for The Bay is provided in part by the Osher Production Fund. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. I’m Erica Cruz Guevarra, thanks for listening, peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027158/how-oakland-and-sf-ended-up-among-7-ca-school-districts-who-cant-pay-their-bills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Oakland and SF Ended Up Among 7 CA School Districts Who Can’t Pay Their Bills\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:31] Katie DeBenedetti is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:02:34] San Francisco needs to cut about $113 million from their budget, and Oakland needs to cut about $95 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] In San Francisco, the cuts, which are really potential layoff notices, impact about 10% of the district’s teachers, social workers, counselors, teacher aides. And in Oakland, hundreds of staff could be affected. There, the district is eliminating about 800 positions, but it’s creating 700 new ones. So a lot of people might get shifted into a new role. They might move from a 12 month position to an 11 month position, but there’s still gonna be a lot of confusion and a lot of jobs are changing, which could result in pay cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:03:29] I think it’s really demoralizing for both teachers and staff that have kind of gotten used to receiving these pink slips. We’re looking at staffing that might cut a lot of the really key services that students rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:47] Yeah, let’s dig into that a little bit more. What is the range of things actually on the chopping block? Starting with San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:03:55] In San Francisco, they have basically said, we’re going to cut 395 or so roles across teachers, social workers, counselors, and under teachers, there are a lot of specialist positions. So those are English language arts specialist, literacy coaches, a lot of librarians are teachers. And then a lot of also administrators, most schools right now might not have an assistant principal. Basically, it’s anything that doesn’t fit in the state standard of positions needed to, quote, keep the lights on in school. So classroom teachers, a principal, a janitor, and a clerk are pretty much the only guarantees right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:42] And what about Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:04:44] In Oakland, a lot of the positions that are getting cut are going to be reallocated. So, you know, there’s going to be some cuts to classroom teachers in certain cases. But a big category of the cuts that people are worried about are these substitute teachers called STIP subs. They work at one school site. They say they’re year round. Basically, the district is going to eliminate those roles and kind of replace them with a group of subs that will live at the district level and be sent out based on teacher absences. The other big category there is a lot of roles for support staff are going to be changed from 12 months to 11 months, which results in a pay cut and also makes it so that those staff members won’t be able to use that 12th month of the year where they’re doing planning and preparing over the summer to really get things done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:51] I really do feel like I have seen story after story after story about budget cuts at public schools all over the Bay Area. It really seems like a tough time right now for public schools. I mean, is it just, am I just imagining this, Katie? Like, or are public schools across the Bay really struggling right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] No, you are not imagining it. This is not isolated to San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:06:25] Many, many school districts are struggling. In just the Bay Area, Santa Rosa is planning to close five schools because of budget cuts. In San Jose, they’re also closing schools. And districts throughout the state are facing these deficits and making staff cuts kind of across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:47] And why is that, Katie? Why is it that so many public schools seem to be struggling so much in this particular moment in time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:06:57] One of the biggest reasons is declining enrollment. Families have moved out of cities. Kids might be attending private school in higher numbers. The birth rate is also declining. So there are a couple of reasons that schools aren’t growing. Basically the way that school districts get their funding is they get a certain amount of money for every student that they have. That makes up a big bulk of their total budget. So when you have a district like San Francisco, which has lost 10,000 students in the last 10 years or Oakland, which has lost 15,000 in the last 20, they’re getting a lot less money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:07:42] Another big reason is during COVID, districts got a lot of relief money from the government and a lot of districts already facing that declining enrollment kind of used it to pay for ongoing expenses, but that money is now gone. And I think things are also just costing more. The cost of living in Oakland and San Francisco has gone up disproportionately to the, you know, amount of funding that they get from the state for schools. but they need to pay more in wages, they’re paying more for their buildings, for their third-party contracts, and that’s just not being reflected in the amount of funding they’re getting from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:27] Coming up, why the budget situation is even worse in Oakland and San Francisco. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:12] So it sounds like a lot of school districts across the Bay Area are struggling with issues like low enrollment, the end of these COVID funds, inflation, but where do the budget problems at Oakland and San Francisco public schools, where do they stack up against these other Bay Area school districts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:09:34] They’re definitely among the worst off. Oakland and San Francisco are among seven of about a thousand districts in California that have negative interim budgets from December. That basically means that without making big changes, they won’t be able to pay their bills in the next few years. Hayward Unified School District is also on that list, but the other four districts are much smaller. They’re in rural parts of the state and their budgets are really a fraction of the size of San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:07] I mean, Katie, why are things so bad at schools in Oakland and San Francisco, specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:10:14] Oakland and San Francisco have historically, you know, talked about big cuts, talked about school closures, and then backed off those plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Grant Dawson \u003c/strong>[00:10:24] It’s been decades of not dealing with systemic issues and ultimately asking the superintendent and the staff to make it work for the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:10:36] So Lisa Grant Dawson is Oakland’s budget officer, and she said that they have this pattern. They’ll workshop a plan, they’ll discuss it, they’ll talk about the community impact, what can go, but then they won’t implement it. And that’s kind of continued for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Grant-Dawson \u003c/strong>[00:10:56] It often sounds like our issue is strictly financial, but it’s really how we operate and we’ve just reached a place that we’ve run out of space in order for us to be able to make amends as we have historically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] I mean, is this normal that that these two districts sort of come up with a plan, you know, commit to these cuts and then decide to sort of back off on them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mike Fine \u003c/strong>[00:11:33] Oakland is notorious for planning, for taking a plan, and naming it five different times, but never fully implementing the plan. 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Like last fall, Oakland and San Francisco both had plans to close schools, which admittedly it’s unclear how much money closing schools really saves, but developing the plans to close schools costs money, staff puts time into it. It’s a lot of work and then to get no gain out of it is hurting them even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:49] Coming back to the students here who really will, I imagine, bear the brunt of these cuts. I mean, what are these cuts going to mean for San Francisco and Oakland students?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:13:01] I think a lot of families and teachers are really concerned about how equitable they’re going to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kampala Taiz-Rancifer \u003c/strong>[00:13:10] Our main function as a school district is to provide quality education. And when we make cuts so close to schools, we’re really undermining that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:13:19] Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, who is the Oakland Union President for teachers, she says that a lot of the cuts that are being made are gonna impact students on their school sites. So, you know, teachers who are working 11 instead of 12 months won’t engage with families during the summer as much. Without subs on site, kids will have to, you know, get accustomed to working with teachers that they don’t know as well. They’ll lose kind of another adult resource. And really, they’re just going to hurt students more than they’re hurting the function of the district at the central office level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kampala Taiz-Rancifer \u003c/strong>[00:14:00] We are going to be having threats from our national government and we really at this time need to make sure that schools are stable and that they are places that students can rely upon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:14:16] Both districts in the past have had school closure plans and budget cut plans that school communities feel have really negatively impacted low -income students and students of color disproportionately. And so there’s a lot of distrust just when we’re making these cuts, are we prioritizing those students’ needs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Member 1 \u003c/strong>[00:14:36] The positions that you’re proposing to cut or reduce work directly with students and families, particularly from our most disadvantaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:14:43] and you can really hear a lot of those concerns at these districts recent board meetings from parents and from teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Member 2 \u003c/strong>[00:14:51] Please fund a full social worker at every site at minimum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Member 3 \u003c/strong>[00:14:54] District employees receive high salaries, yet they remain inaccessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Member 4 \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] I am here to demand that this board protect our student -facing services. I don’t even like calling it services. These are human beings. These are people, essential people, that work with our babies every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:15] What is next here, Katie? It sounds like, at least in San Francisco, TBD on who exactly could lose their jobs. And then in the case of Oakland, I mean, are these cuts going to happen in the next school year or what is next year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:15:36] So the next step is layoff notice letters going out. These are not set in stone. A lot of people are going to get layoff notices and then in May, when budgets become more clear, get those notices rescinded. If they don’t get rescinded and they get confirmed in May, those employees will be without a job beginning in the next school year. The state would only step in if either district makes it to June just before the start of the new fiscal year without balancing a budget. So because both districts did pass layoff notice resolutions, they are technically making the cuts that they need to make. So it really depends on May and what cuts stay and what cuts get rescinded. And I’m sure in the months in between, there’s gonna be a lot of organizing from, you know each district’s unions, the parent communities, to fight cuts and try to shift them away from students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:46] Well, Katie, thanks so much for breaking this down for us. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:16:49] Thanks so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:56] That was Katie DeBenedetti, a reporter for KQED. This 25 -minute conversation with Katie was cut down and edited by senior editor, Alan Montecillo. Jessica Kariisa is our producer. She scored this episode. Our intern, Mel Velasquez, added all the tape. 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Despite the city’s announcement that it would not close the stations last week, Ramachandran said she still believes it is an important vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because this [announcement from the city] came as a surprise, I am looking for clarity tomorrow and a strong statement that makes clear that they’re keeping these stations open,” she told KQED. “Administrative actions can be rescinded at any time and don’t have to go through the public process in a vote the way that council budget actions do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022659 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Gg4EOtTaMAA2rIR.jpeg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution also uses money from the city’s self-liability and transportation funds to keep the stations from closing — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">reopen two that were browned out\u003c/a> in the first phase of budget cuts in January before the end of the fiscal year. 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But because it is required by state law to issue preliminary pink slips by March 15 — before it has a complete picture of its budget for the next fiscal year based on resignations, an early retirement buyout plan, and final state and federal funding allocations — it wants to ensure “flexibility” to lay off the necessary number of employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really find this to be an unnecessarily high number, even if they were in good faith doing due diligence in order to make sure their budget matches their staffing,” said Cassondra Curiel, the president of San Francisco’s teachers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have so many families and students without a [permanent] educator in their classroom right now, so the concept of a layoff yet again of educators that are already employed seems counterproductive to ensuring that every student has a qualified credentialed educator in their classroom for next year,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027158 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, students in dozens of classrooms \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">didn’t have a permanent teacher\u003c/a>. There’s also been an uptick in the number of combination classes that schools have to teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, some schools, like Sheridan Elementary School, might have to introduce a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands\">kindergarten-first grade combined class\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not one person who I know has a child in this district sends their child to school to be the teacher. They send their child to school to learn from teachers and educators,” Curiel said. “The district’s cuts [are] ultimately harming what students have to look forward to for the next year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents are also worried that important school-site positions like assistant principal roles won’t be funded. 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"content": "\u003cp>The significant cuts announced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State University\u003c/a> are not likely to be a one-off, interim President Emily Cutrer warned — other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> campuses in the Bay Area are facing similar budget deficits and might have to take the same drastic steps as enrollment and statewide funding decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may be the first, but we’re not the last CSU where you are going to see issues,” Cutrer said Thursday morning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908804/what-sonoma-states-massive-budget-cuts-mean-for-the-universitys-future\">on KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma State is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">eliminating 20 degree programs, six departments and all NCAA Division II athletics\u003c/a> at the end of the academic year to stave off a $24 million budget shortfall — worsened by a 38% decline in enrollment over the last decade. That shrinking student body affects two of the university’s major funding streams: tuition dollars and CSU funding, which the system announced in 2023 that it would reallocate away from campuses that don’t meet enrollment goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other CSUs in Northern California — including Cal State East Bay and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-state-university\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a> — have also faced declining enrollment, saddling them with significant deficits as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, university President Lynn Mahoney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">announced a fiscal emergency\u003c/a> in December, which she told KQED at the time was “just the language that [she] had to use based on a very old [Academic] Senate policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk up to the top of San Francisco State University’s campus in San Francisco, California, on Aug. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, she said in a message to staff that month that the policy allows programs to “be reduced, phased out, reorganized or discontinued.” She also said the university would cut back on hiring staff and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State’s student body has been decreasing since the fall of 2019, and this year, its first-year class was 20% to 25% smaller than anticipated. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">number of faculty lecturers\u003c/a> were informed in the fall that they wouldn’t be teaching classes this semester, and next year, sections of some courses, like introductory writing, will be significantly reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University spokesperson Bobby King said the campus is just beginning to budget for next year, but he expects it to have to make $25 million in reductions based on a 5% decrease in enrollment-based funding and dwindling tuition dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFSU has been working to align budgets with current enrollment trends for several years. But with the additional cuts that appear to be on the horizon, we — unfortunately — will have a lot more work to do,” King told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025974 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/AP24306173842056_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details will emerge in the coming months, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the university announced that it was beginning to phase out the use of its Romberg Tiburon Campus in Marin County, which has been a research location since 1978. It’s housed the Estuary and Ocean Science Center — which employs three tenure-track faculty members, 11 faculty researchers and nine state-funded employees — since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students haven’t taken courses there since a master’s program in estuary science was discontinued last year, but about 40 conduct research onsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The closure of RTC will allow SFSU to redirect critical funding into the main campus during a challenging period for the University, CSU and the state,” Mahoney said in a statement on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State faculty roles won’t be cut and will be relocated to the main campus. It’s unclear what will happen to the nine state-funded positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State East Bay is also phasing out use of one of its satellite campuses, the Oakland Center, for ongoing “significant savings.” It will terminate its lease at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student walks past the East Bay sign at Cal State East Bay in Hayward on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are projecting a significant structural deficit,” campus President Cathy Sandeen said in a message to the school community in September. The deficit was around $14 million after enrollment fell further at the start of the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson said Thursday that the campus has been able to save $10 million throughout this budget year but was still looking at discontinuing low-enrolled programs while prioritizing required courses and ensuring faculty assignments align with enrollment demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs,” Sandeen said in a budget update last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were identified for discontinuation at the beginning of the 2024–25 academic year and women’s water polo was cut last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 18 months, 165 lecturers, who taught part-time or up to four classes in a semester, lost their appointments. Jeff Newcomb, the president of Cal State East Bay’s faculty union, said the union was warned that layoffs might still be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandeen said at the beginning of the year that administrators were working with the faculty union since some represented positions might be eliminated and was forming an Academic Senate Layoff Committee to advise on the job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José State University’s Washington Square Hall located in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the CSU system’s 23 campuses will also be hit by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2025/uc-csu-face-cuts-under-newsoms-proposed-budget/724947\">a 7.95% state funding cut\u003c/a>, based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020389/newsom-projects-slight-budget-surplus-with-focus-on-saving-accountability\">Gov. Gavin Newson’s proposed budget\u003c/a>, released in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of such deep funding cuts will have significant real-world consequences, both in and out of the classroom,” CSU Chancellor Mildred García said in a statement at the time. “Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and a reduced workforce will hinder students’ ability to graduate on time and weaken California’s ability to meet its increasing demands for a diverse and highly educated workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state cuts would cost SF State $20.7 million and Cal State East Bay $11 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José State, which saw a 3.5% increase in its student body this year, will see enrollment-based funding go up instead of being trimmed, but spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald called the state’s financial outlook “challenging” for the university. Between the enrollment-based increase and the overall state funding cut, SJSU expects a net reduction of 2.5% to 4%, McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts won’t be finalized until June, when the California Legislature approves a final budget. All of the universities have expressed hope that the state — which has a $363 million budget surplus — will reinstate school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Romesburg, the Sonoma State Women and Gender Studies department chair who is set to be laid off at the end of the year when his department closes, said the state should be stepping up to fund the CSU system, especially as President Trump’s administration targets public institutions and social welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to recognize that doing so is a way of pushing back against all of the ways in which we are being besieged by the federal government and its politics right now,” he said on Forum. “Reinvest in a California-style, quality public higher education system that creates the engines of change and social justice and prosperity and purpose for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other CSUs in Northern California — including Cal State East Bay and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-state-university\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a> — have also faced declining enrollment, saddling them with significant deficits as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, university President Lynn Mahoney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">announced a fiscal emergency\u003c/a> in December, which she told KQED at the time was “just the language that [she] had to use based on a very old [Academic] Senate policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk up to the top of San Francisco State University’s campus in San Francisco, California, on Aug. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, she said in a message to staff that month that the policy allows programs to “be reduced, phased out, reorganized or discontinued.” She also said the university would cut back on hiring staff and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State’s student body has been decreasing since the fall of 2019, and this year, its first-year class was 20% to 25% smaller than anticipated. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">number of faculty lecturers\u003c/a> were informed in the fall that they wouldn’t be teaching classes this semester, and next year, sections of some courses, like introductory writing, will be significantly reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University spokesperson Bobby King said the campus is just beginning to budget for next year, but he expects it to have to make $25 million in reductions based on a 5% decrease in enrollment-based funding and dwindling tuition dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFSU has been working to align budgets with current enrollment trends for several years. But with the additional cuts that appear to be on the horizon, we — unfortunately — will have a lot more work to do,” King told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details will emerge in the coming months, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the university announced that it was beginning to phase out the use of its Romberg Tiburon Campus in Marin County, which has been a research location since 1978. It’s housed the Estuary and Ocean Science Center — which employs three tenure-track faculty members, 11 faculty researchers and nine state-funded employees — since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students haven’t taken courses there since a master’s program in estuary science was discontinued last year, but about 40 conduct research onsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The closure of RTC will allow SFSU to redirect critical funding into the main campus during a challenging period for the University, CSU and the state,” Mahoney said in a statement on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State faculty roles won’t be cut and will be relocated to the main campus. It’s unclear what will happen to the nine state-funded positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State East Bay is also phasing out use of one of its satellite campuses, the Oakland Center, for ongoing “significant savings.” It will terminate its lease at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student walks past the East Bay sign at Cal State East Bay in Hayward on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are projecting a significant structural deficit,” campus President Cathy Sandeen said in a message to the school community in September. The deficit was around $14 million after enrollment fell further at the start of the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson said Thursday that the campus has been able to save $10 million throughout this budget year but was still looking at discontinuing low-enrolled programs while prioritizing required courses and ensuring faculty assignments align with enrollment demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs,” Sandeen said in a budget update last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were identified for discontinuation at the beginning of the 2024–25 academic year and women’s water polo was cut last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 18 months, 165 lecturers, who taught part-time or up to four classes in a semester, lost their appointments. Jeff Newcomb, the president of Cal State East Bay’s faculty union, said the union was warned that layoffs might still be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandeen said at the beginning of the year that administrators were working with the faculty union since some represented positions might be eliminated and was forming an Academic Senate Layoff Committee to advise on the job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José State University’s Washington Square Hall located in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the CSU system’s 23 campuses will also be hit by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2025/uc-csu-face-cuts-under-newsoms-proposed-budget/724947\">a 7.95% state funding cut\u003c/a>, based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020389/newsom-projects-slight-budget-surplus-with-focus-on-saving-accountability\">Gov. Gavin Newson’s proposed budget\u003c/a>, released in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of such deep funding cuts will have significant real-world consequences, both in and out of the classroom,” CSU Chancellor Mildred García said in a statement at the time. “Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and a reduced workforce will hinder students’ ability to graduate on time and weaken California’s ability to meet its increasing demands for a diverse and highly educated workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state cuts would cost SF State $20.7 million and Cal State East Bay $11 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José State, which saw a 3.5% increase in its student body this year, will see enrollment-based funding go up instead of being trimmed, but spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald called the state’s financial outlook “challenging” for the university. Between the enrollment-based increase and the overall state funding cut, SJSU expects a net reduction of 2.5% to 4%, McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts won’t be finalized until June, when the California Legislature approves a final budget. All of the universities have expressed hope that the state — which has a $363 million budget surplus — will reinstate school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Romesburg, the Sonoma State Women and Gender Studies department chair who is set to be laid off at the end of the year when his department closes, said the state should be stepping up to fund the CSU system, especially as President Trump’s administration targets public institutions and social welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to recognize that doing so is a way of pushing back against all of the ways in which we are being besieged by the federal government and its politics right now,” he said on Forum. “Reinvest in a California-style, quality public higher education system that creates the engines of change and social justice and prosperity and purpose for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>County supervisors are urging California State University officials to reconsider the budget cuts announced at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State\u003c/a> last month, citing concerns that slashing many of the campus’ academic departments and eliminating its NCAA athletics will hurt the larger community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://sonoma-county.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13730292&GUID=A407F284-1923-4AB3-BC6F-EE91979B5A06\">letter (PDF)\u003c/a> that was issued to the CSU chancellor and board of trustees on Tuesday, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors voiced its opposition and asked that the school take into consideration the possible \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">far-reaching consequences associated with the proposed cuts\u003c/a>, which the board said would extend beyond students, coaches and instructors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cuts seem destined to exacerbate enrollment’s downward spiral, with no indication of how that will be arrested and reversed,” the letter written by Supervisor Lynda Hopkins reads. “Budget cuts that result in fewer course offerings, reduced faculty support and declining enrollment will not only diminish the quality of education but will also weaken the local talent pool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s success is critical for Sonoma County’s economic health and prosperity, the supervisors said in the letter. Local college graduates are needed to fill key positions in the county’s public sector, and the university has been a pipeline for both county departments and for private businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letha Ch’ien, an associate professor in the art history department, which is slated to close, said students at Sonoma State come from diverse backgrounds and with a diverse set of interests that ultimately benefit the county in numerous ways. The relationship between the school and Sonoma County is symbiotic, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s simply no end to the amount of good that the university contributes to the community,” Ch’ien said. “The institution is not imposed on the county or separate from it…. 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More than 20 degree programs, six academic departments and all of the school’s athletics programs are also on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrollment rates have gone down by nearly 40% since 2015, funding avenues continue to dwindle, and operating costs are increasing at an overwhelming pace, according to Cutrer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County supervisors are concerned about what “the loss of cultural and athletic offerings” could mean for the school and for county residents. Without a diverse set of programs, they fear Sonoma State’s declining enrollment numbers and financial distress will only get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impacts are huge,” Ch’ien said. “Not only is the university a hub for students, faculty and staff, but the community at large gathers for events at the Green Music Center, shows and exhibitions at the art gallery, performances in the theatre department…. The university serves the people of Sonoma County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Horstein, a union leader in the California Faculty Association and a theatre studies professor at Sonoma State, said the school is undermining the confidence of both current and prospective students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big risk,” Horstein said. “You want to feel like you’re at a place where you are valued, and it’s a big risk for the school to send the opposite message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024772 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-5.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The programs that are being cut have a very positive effect on the county,” he continued. “I’m not surprised that the county is concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students and staff are also pushing back against the university’s announcement. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:45 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> teachers unions joined a statewide bargaining campaign Tuesday, kicking off coordinated negotiations with more than 30 school districts across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, teachers’ unions negotiate individually with their districts. This statewide campaign, dubbed “We Can’t Wait,” aims to align the bargaining sessions for more than 77,000 educators — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland\u003c/a> and San José — to demand smaller class sizes, more resources, better wages and benefits for teachers and improved mental health support for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us to be coordinating our fight at the same time right now is a unifying effort and a really powerful statement that we represent what the community of California needs, what students and families need,” said Cassondra Curiel, the president of United Educators in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, unions across the state saw that they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014795/fewer-kids-are-going-to-california-public-schools-is-there-a-right-way-to-close-campuses\">faced similar challenges,\u003c/a> such as understaffing and frequent changes to curriculum and school resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really also allowed us to see where and how many of our issues in our districts are so similar and what the benefit would be for us to put ourselves together on it. That’s essentially when we decided” to unify bargaining timelines, Curiel told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In both San Francisco and Oakland, budget shortfalls spurred plans to close or merge some schools last fall — proposals that were scaled back, delayed or called off amid intense controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the unions are mostly aligned on their overarching demands, how that looks in each district will be different, according to Curiel. She joined parents and other UESF members who traveled by motorized cable car to schools across the city to speak about their demands — like having Chinese-speaking parent liaisons, full-time school site nurses and dedicated social workers — at campuses from Chinatown to Hunter’s Point on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I chose Gordon J. Lau for my students because of their teacher retention, strong leadership and low turnover rate,” said Brittany Cuartelon, a parent of three students at the elementary school. “I also chose Lau because of the access to enrichment programs and specialty teachers like arts, teachers, special ed teachers, speech pathologists and others … but we are seeing less and less of this as teachers are being let go, and these programs are being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has sparred with the San Francisco Unified School District in recent years, accusing it of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">incompetence in hiring\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908196/sfusd-teachers-protest-missed-paychecks-and-payroll-glitches-at-headquarters-overnight-sfusd\">botching a payroll system\u003c/a>, and sowing confusion and fear as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">considered closing schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12025664 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Siniard, a fourth-grade teacher, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the start of this school year, there were about 100 classrooms across the district without permanent teachers. In 2022 and 2023, many educators went without proper pay and had insurance and tax-filing issues after the district introduced a new payroll system that proved a failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD is now preparing its 2025–2026 budget in the face of a massive deficit. While it shelved the controversial school closure plan in the fall, officials have said that without consolidations, school services will be pared down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, officials shared a version of a sparse new staffing formula with school principals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t look like the school sites we all work at, the school sites that our families and students expect,” Curiel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independence High School Principal Anna Klafter asked SFUSD board members last week to address why there were no mental health providers, social workers, nurses or counselors included in the plan. Other speakers on Tuesday’s UESF school tour noted that assistant principals weren’t budgeted in the model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also announced a buy-out option for some staff, aimed at reducing layoffs and saving money spent on higher salaries for more experienced teachers, in December. The deadline for educators to take the deal is Feb. 21, but if fewer than 314 sign up, it will be voided. Curiel said if that’s the case, the union expects union members to receive pink slips this spring and is prepared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">fight layoffs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025665\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parent Blanca Fabiola Catalan speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UESF has called for necessary funding cuts to come from the district’s administration, pointing to high-salary positions in what it calls a “bloated” central office. But SFUSD said it has made the cuts it can away from children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darcie Chan Blackburn, an English learning specialist at Sheridan Elementary School, said the draft staffing formula includes cutting one teacher and adding a third combined class from her campus. She doesn’t know if her position will be budgeted for at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheridan already has combined second-third grade and fourth-fifth grade classes and will add a kindergarten-first grade combo next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024772 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-5-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The third-grade students who are getting second-grade English language arts curriculum now are going to go up to a fourth-fifth class [next year],” Chan Blackburn said. “Well, the fourth-fifth is looping to the fifth-grade curriculum next year, so this third grader is going from second-grade English language arts to fifth-grade English language arts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That just pushes our enrollment lower because what family really wants their child to be in a split grade level?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is in a similar situation, facing a $150 million budget deficit while its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">board refuses to vote on a school consolidation plan\u003c/a>. Last month, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023461/ousd-on-track-run-out-of-cash-after-avoiding-hard-decisions-scathing-letter-says\">certified a negative budget\u003c/a> for the first time in more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These districts are in these positions because they didn’t listen to us in the first place,” Curiel said. “We’ve been saying that central offices should prioritize spending on students — really centering families and students at school sites — and if they were doing that, then they wouldn’t be sitting on the millions and millions and millions of dollars in reserve that they currently have in their bank accounts right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Educators Association said it is seeking livable wages for the Bay Area, more paraeducator and mental health support, and keeping community schools open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OEA and UESF leaders will join Berkeley and West Contra Costa union members and Jeff Frietas, the president of the California Federation of Teachers, for a rally in the East Bay on Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really hoping that this campaign … will bring a light to the circumstances that we work under to achieve what is the foundation of our democratic society every day,” Curiel said. “And what it needs to survive moving forward and how that represents what the families and the citizens of one of the biggest states in the country should really be expecting in public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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That’s essentially when we decided” to unify bargaining timelines, Curiel told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In both San Francisco and Oakland, budget shortfalls spurred plans to close or merge some schools last fall — proposals that were scaled back, delayed or called off amid intense controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the unions are mostly aligned on their overarching demands, how that looks in each district will be different, according to Curiel. She joined parents and other UESF members who traveled by motorized cable car to schools across the city to speak about their demands — like having Chinese-speaking parent liaisons, full-time school site nurses and dedicated social workers — at campuses from Chinatown to Hunter’s Point on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I chose Gordon J. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of students and staff gathered at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State University\u003c/a> on Thursday, angry and grieving one week after the school announced massive cuts to academic departments and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024572/sonoma-state-coaches-call-federal-investigation-elimination-athletics\">elimination of its NCAA athletics program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gathering at Seawolf Plaza came as university officials held a town hall to discuss the cuts — a meeting that was shifted to a virtual format because it was “expected to surpass the capacity of any campus facility,” interim President Emily Cutrer said this week. The move angered many students who were hoping for an opportunity to speak with the administrators face-to-face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, students, faculty members, coaches and groups supporting many of the departments slated to be cut swarmed around a large outdoor screen to watch the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boos erupted from the crowd as Cutrer and other administrators appeared on screen at 1:30 p.m. Students yelled for the interim president to “go back to Texas” and called her a “liar” as she answered questions. They cheered along with others on screen who called for accountability and expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023790/sonoma-state-is-reeling-after-huge-cuts-where-does-the-school-go-from-here\">frustration over the rollout of the cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Santoyo Martinez, a second-year liberal studies student, said the administration could have chosen to move the town hall to the Green Music Center, or even the courtyard students and staff were gathered in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they did that only because they’re scared,” she told KQED. “They’re scared of what we have to say, and they’re scared to see our faces, and they’re scared of us crying and pleading with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023598/sonoma-state-is-eliminating-athletics-slashing-several-degree-programs-to-cut-budget\">were announced Jan. 22\u003c/a> in an email from Cutrer. She said the university would be slashing more than 20 degree programs, six departments and all 11 of its NCAA Division II athletic programs at the end of the academic year in the face of a massive budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the announcement, students and staff have pushed back, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024188/sonoma-state-plans-to-cut-all-athletics-coaches-athletes-fighting-back\">launching a legal fight\u003c/a> and amassing more than 5,000 signatures across multiple petitions urging the school to back off its plan to lay off 60 employees and shut down liberal arts degree programs. Departments facing closure have mounted their own resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owen Anfinson, an associate geology professor who’s been at Sonoma State for a decade, was in Arizona with two of his research students when he was notified that his department would be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024917\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-3-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Associate geology professor Owen Anfinson, who was one of the 46 faculty members to receive a layoff notice, poses for a photo at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were in the lab, and I get an email that says ‘Budget Deficit Update,’ and I kind of joked with the faculty at the University of Arizona and my colleague from Macalester College that these emails are never good,” he told KQED before the town hall. “Then, reading through paragraph maybe four, all of a sudden, I see that a geology program is terminated, and I look at my colleagues, and I was like, ‘I think I just got laid off.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knew that there were budget cuts coming, and geology had already been slated to consolidate into the physical sciences, losing its department chair and cutting administrative costs. But as a tenured professor, Anfinson didn’t expect to be told he was losing his job in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The day before I received my letter of layoff, I received a letter from the dean of our department encouraging the school to consider my request [to become] a full professor,” he said. “So I just had made it through all levels of review to become a full professor, and the day before essentially being let go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anfinson has two children with his ex-wife in Santa Rosa and is expecting another child the day after his layoff will be made official in July, and now has to consider moving for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Faculty positions are rare, and they are hard to find and they are hard to get. Personally, it is a tough scenario for my job, my academic career,” he told KQED. “There are no jobs available in the entire country right now. In geoscience, there are maybe 10 academic jobs available, none of which are in my field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anfinson was among a contingent of geology students and professors holding signs with quips like “It’s not our fault” and “Don’t extinct us” who gathered outside the Sonoma State student center — near the campus ballroom where the town hall was originally set to take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of the cuts, announced just three days into the spring semester, was another point of frustration for many students, who accused school leaders of waiting until after they had paid tuition to announce that their degree would no longer be available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a true roller coaster of hope and despair,” said Don Romesburg, the Women and Gender Studies department chair. “The administration made far more sweeping cuts to academics and other programs than any of us anticipated, and they made them at an especially cruel time.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The academic job cycle is from September to December, so if I’m lucky, I might find a job in like 18 months,” continued Romesburg, who was wearing his doctorate graduation regalia and a sign that said “Hired 2008, Awarded SSU highest teaching honor 2014, Fired 2025.” “It’s really devastating materially for all of us as professors. We don’t know where our paychecks are coming from in August.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students have already signed year-long leases in the area, and others who will want to transfer say the timeline for getting into another California State University campus before next fall has already passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcus Ziemer, the men’s soccer coach, said the vast majority of the school’s 227 student-athletes have already entered the NCAA transfer portal, but coaches and players with spring seasons are now scrambling to balance continuing to compete while helping players take other campus visits and navigate recruitment negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024572 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-11-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emiria Salzmann, the women’s soccer coach, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023999/sonoma-state-players-coaches-blindsided-by-elimination-of-ncaa-athletics\">told KQED last week\u003c/a> that most schools looking for a new coach for a fall sport like soccer have already wrapped up their hiring process for the upcoming season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma State alumni, students and staff dominated the CSU Board of Trustees meeting’s public comment this week, where the school was required to present a balanced budget that was ultimately accepted by the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lianna Hartmour, a 2007 alum of the Women and Gender Studies Department, one of six being shut down, told the trustees that she owed her career to the degree program at Sonoma State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“WGS [Women and Gender Studies] is a vital career-based major, which is a stated priority for the CSU system,” she said during public comment on Tuesday. “Like many WGS graduates, I got my first job out of college, where I had my WGS internship. 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