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"content": "\u003cp>The sun was already sinking below the horizon on the final night of the lawmaking year as nearly two dozen lobbyists stalked the Capitol’s brightly lit hallways, making sure lawmakers didn’t approve a new math and science school for disadvantaged students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters, including billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad, had pitched the school as a slingshot from poor communities to the state’s most prestigious universities. But the state’s most powerful teachers union saw it as a dangerous effort to siphon away taxpayer money for a private operation with little public oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time lawmakers finished their work at close to 3 a.m., the California Teachers Association had won; the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposal\u003c/a> had never come up for a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the last piece of education legislation to \u003ca href=\"http://laschoolreport.com/plans-for-state-run-stem-school-in-downtown-la-die-as-bill-fails-to-win-support/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">die\u003c/a> in a year when the teachers union and its ascendant adversary, the California Charter Schools Association, fought to a stalemate while trying to shape the future of the state’s public schools. Both groups successfully halted virtually all the legislation they opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Rather than address huge issues like our achievement gaps, these groups are working hard to protect their short-term self-interests.'\u003ccite>Bruce Fuller, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The union stopped more than two dozen bills, including proposals to \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/07/11/teacher-tenure-debate-returns-to-california-legislature/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extend\u003c/a> the length of time teachers must work before gaining lifetime job protection and to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2017/to-retain-teachers-lawmakers-push-to-exempt-them-from-state-income-tax/578841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">address\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/lawmakers-ease-california-teacher-shortage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shortage\u003c/a> of educators in some hard-to-staff areas. The charter advocates killed half a dozen proposals, including some that would have \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-essential-education-updates-southern-la-teachers-union-unveils-bill-to-1489711203-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forced\u003c/a> their schools to hold public meetings and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-bills-aim-crack-profit-charter-schools/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned\u003c/a> schools run by for-profit companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With lawmakers focused on the state’s shortage of affordable \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-legislature-final-bills-governor-brown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing\u003c/a> and its crumbling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-democrats-struggling-keep-party-unity/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roads\u003c/a>, education policymaking this year took a back seat. The losers, some experts say, are California’s low-income students, whose persistently low achievement hasn’t budged in decades amid the opponents’ charged policy battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than come around the table to address huge issues like our achievement gaps, these groups are working hard to protect their short-term self-interests,” said Bruce Fuller, an education policy professor at UC Berkeley. “California rags on Washington politicians for thinking this way. If we looked in the mirror, we’d see we’re doing the same thing when it comes to our education politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The back-and-forth wears on lawmakers, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from Santa Monica who leads the Senate Education Committee, said he recites the serenity prayer before most hearings: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wants this job. It’s a tough committee,” he said. “The work can be very discouraging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618326\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-800x811.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Heins, president of the California Teachers Association.\" width=\"800\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-800x811.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-1020x1034.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-1180x1197.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-960x974.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-240x243.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-375x380.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-520x527.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Heins, president of the California Teachers Association. \u003ccite>(California Teachers Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California Teachers Association President Eric Heins applauded the union’s record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re obviously happy when the things we oppose get stalled,” said Heins, whose group blocked or persuaded lawmakers to change all but one of the 30 bills it opposed this year. Many of those proposals stalled in the Legislature’s secretive appropriations committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">measure\u003c/a> going to Gov. Jerry Brown for consideration without the union’s stamp of approval would require municipalities to disclose the tax rate required to fund bond measures, including school bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two groups did reach a \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/05/25/72181/kicked-out-of-a-charter-school-deal-struck-in-sacr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">compromise\u003c/a> on a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill\u003c/a> that strengthens charter school discipline and dismissal policies. But the charter association’s chief advocate, Carlos Marquez, acknowledged how rare such agreements are. He called his group’s tension with the union a “regrettable state of affairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do we go from here?” said Marquez, the group’s senior vice president for government affairs. “Honestly, I don’t know. This work requires us to take the long view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association didn’t take a formal position on the proposal to create a state-run STEM school for about 800 Los Angeles-area students, but it might as well have. Broad, one of the group’s wealthy benefactors and one of the union’s biggest foes, had been pushing for it since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His involvement was bound to draw union opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Broad was among a small group of donors who banded together to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/11/11/66059/flood-of-spending-by-charter-advocates-leads-to-el/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invest\u003c/a> nearly $20 million in campaigns that sent Democrats to Sacramento who support charter schools. This year, many of those donors, including Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-edu-school-election-money-20170521-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">put another $10 million\u003c/a> into Los Angeles school board races and helped elect candidates who view charters favorably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618330\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618330\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-800x858.jpg\" alt=\"Charter schools advocate Eli Broad.\" width=\"800\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-800x858.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-160x172.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-1020x1094.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-1180x1266.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-960x1030.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-240x258.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-375x402.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-520x558.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charter schools advocate Eli Broad. \u003ccite>(Michael Buckner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By comparison, the union used only about $2 million from its political war chest for 2016 legislative races and backed mostly losing candidates with independent spending. It invested considerably more in ballot-measure battles. That imbalance led to speculation that the union’s prospects for a successful legislative year would dim, but that didn’t pan out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broad said the nonprofit STEM school would seek to serve low-income and other high-need students—foster youth, homeless children, English learners—and “ensure they have the opportunity and the skill set to become leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also pledged to support the school financially. That generosity fueled criticism by the union and their allies that Broad might seek to profit from the public school. A union lobbyist even doctored editorial cartoons on other topics to make them seem as though they’d been drawn to make that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the union called that move a “poor choice” and said the union doesn’t condone the lobbyist’s behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for Broad said neither he nor any of the more than 40 organizations that endorsed the school proposal wanted to make money from it or could have done so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast sums of cash the union and charter groups have spent to influence policy helps explain their success in halting legislation they oppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first half of this year, according to the most recent reports, the union spent about $1.5 million on lobbying, while the charter schools association and EdVoice, another group that supports charters, together spent about $800,000. Both camps rank in the top 10 among the state’s lobbyist employers for money spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[EducationDuel]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marquez helped the association defeat all six proposals it opposed, including \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one\u003c/a> that would have forced charters to follow the state’s open records and public meetings laws, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another\u003c/a> to dismantle the system of appeals that applicants seeking to open a school may use when their petitions are denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter schools have been operating in California since the early 1990s, but some state lawmakers still know relatively little about them, Marquez said. Helping to elect charter-friendly legislators has made his work easier. What makes it harder, he said, are the union’s lobbying tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to a flier the union distributed ahead of a vote on a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">measure\u003c/a> to make teachers work longer before winning tenure. The flier compared the proposal’s author, Democratic Assemblywoman \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/shirley-weber-sharecroppers-daughter-fierce-california-lawmaker/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shirley Weber\u003c/a> of San Diego, to President Trump and urged legislators to vote no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re willing to put stuff out there about Dr. Weber that any reasonable person would conclude is a lie, you have to ask yourself some hard questions about the claims they put out there on the charter sector and about a lot of other arguments they advance,” Marquez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s bill is unique among proposals the union opposed this year. Several union members helped her craft the bill, which \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2017/author-shelves-teacher-tenure-bill-union-backed-alternative-emerges/584760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stalled\u003c/a> in the Senate after clearing that tough vote in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heins, the union president, was dismissive of the \u003ca href=\"https://e4e.org/blog-news/press-release/educators-excellence-los-angeles-statement-introduction-teacher-and-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teachers\u003c/a> who worked on the legislation. He said they don’t speak for his roughly 325,000 members, whose jobs, wages and working conditions are his duty to protect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That “people power” is the real source of the union’s might in Sacramento, said Jack Pitney, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have to run on all cylinders in every election because everyone knows what they could do if they had to,” Pitney said. “They have members in every single community in California. They’re well organized, and if they needed to they could organize en masse very quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These teachers,” he added, “are awfully hard to beat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With lawmakers focused on the state’s shortage of affordable \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-legislature-final-bills-governor-brown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing\u003c/a> and its crumbling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-democrats-struggling-keep-party-unity/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roads\u003c/a>, education policymaking this year took a back seat. The losers, some experts say, are California’s low-income students, whose persistently low achievement hasn’t budged in decades amid the opponents’ charged policy battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than come around the table to address huge issues like our achievement gaps, these groups are working hard to protect their short-term self-interests,” said Bruce Fuller, an education policy professor at UC Berkeley. “California rags on Washington politicians for thinking this way. If we looked in the mirror, we’d see we’re doing the same thing when it comes to our education politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The back-and-forth wears on lawmakers, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from Santa Monica who leads the Senate Education Committee, said he recites the serenity prayer before most hearings: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wants this job. It’s a tough committee,” he said. “The work can be very discouraging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618326\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-800x811.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Heins, president of the California Teachers Association.\" width=\"800\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-800x811.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-1020x1034.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-1180x1197.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-960x974.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-240x243.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-375x380.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-520x527.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EricHeins-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Heins, president of the California Teachers Association. \u003ccite>(California Teachers Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California Teachers Association President Eric Heins applauded the union’s record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re obviously happy when the things we oppose get stalled,” said Heins, whose group blocked or persuaded lawmakers to change all but one of the 30 bills it opposed this year. Many of those proposals stalled in the Legislature’s secretive appropriations committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">measure\u003c/a> going to Gov. Jerry Brown for consideration without the union’s stamp of approval would require municipalities to disclose the tax rate required to fund bond measures, including school bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two groups did reach a \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/05/25/72181/kicked-out-of-a-charter-school-deal-struck-in-sacr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">compromise\u003c/a> on a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill\u003c/a> that strengthens charter school discipline and dismissal policies. But the charter association’s chief advocate, Carlos Marquez, acknowledged how rare such agreements are. He called his group’s tension with the union a “regrettable state of affairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do we go from here?” said Marquez, the group’s senior vice president for government affairs. “Honestly, I don’t know. This work requires us to take the long view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association didn’t take a formal position on the proposal to create a state-run STEM school for about 800 Los Angeles-area students, but it might as well have. Broad, one of the group’s wealthy benefactors and one of the union’s biggest foes, had been pushing for it since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His involvement was bound to draw union opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Broad was among a small group of donors who banded together to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/11/11/66059/flood-of-spending-by-charter-advocates-leads-to-el/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invest\u003c/a> nearly $20 million in campaigns that sent Democrats to Sacramento who support charter schools. This year, many of those donors, including Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-edu-school-election-money-20170521-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">put another $10 million\u003c/a> into Los Angeles school board races and helped elect candidates who view charters favorably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618330\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11618330\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-800x858.jpg\" alt=\"Charter schools advocate Eli Broad.\" width=\"800\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-800x858.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-160x172.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-1020x1094.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-1180x1266.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-960x1030.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-240x258.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-375x402.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EliBroad-520x558.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charter schools advocate Eli Broad. \u003ccite>(Michael Buckner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By comparison, the union used only about $2 million from its political war chest for 2016 legislative races and backed mostly losing candidates with independent spending. It invested considerably more in ballot-measure battles. That imbalance led to speculation that the union’s prospects for a successful legislative year would dim, but that didn’t pan out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broad said the nonprofit STEM school would seek to serve low-income and other high-need students—foster youth, homeless children, English learners—and “ensure they have the opportunity and the skill set to become leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also pledged to support the school financially. That generosity fueled criticism by the union and their allies that Broad might seek to profit from the public school. A union lobbyist even doctored editorial cartoons on other topics to make them seem as though they’d been drawn to make that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the union called that move a “poor choice” and said the union doesn’t condone the lobbyist’s behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for Broad said neither he nor any of the more than 40 organizations that endorsed the school proposal wanted to make money from it or could have done so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast sums of cash the union and charter groups have spent to influence policy helps explain their success in halting legislation they oppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first half of this year, according to the most recent reports, the union spent about $1.5 million on lobbying, while the charter schools association and EdVoice, another group that supports charters, together spent about $800,000. Both camps rank in the top 10 among the state’s lobbyist employers for money spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[EducationDuel]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marquez helped the association defeat all six proposals it opposed, including \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one\u003c/a> that would have forced charters to follow the state’s open records and public meetings laws, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another\u003c/a> to dismantle the system of appeals that applicants seeking to open a school may use when their petitions are denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter schools have been operating in California since the early 1990s, but some state lawmakers still know relatively little about them, Marquez said. Helping to elect charter-friendly legislators has made his work easier. What makes it harder, he said, are the union’s lobbying tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to a flier the union distributed ahead of a vote on a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">measure\u003c/a> to make teachers work longer before winning tenure. The flier compared the proposal’s author, Democratic Assemblywoman \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/shirley-weber-sharecroppers-daughter-fierce-california-lawmaker/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shirley Weber\u003c/a> of San Diego, to President Trump and urged legislators to vote no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re willing to put stuff out there about Dr. Weber that any reasonable person would conclude is a lie, you have to ask yourself some hard questions about the claims they put out there on the charter sector and about a lot of other arguments they advance,” Marquez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s bill is unique among proposals the union opposed this year. Several union members helped her craft the bill, which \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2017/author-shelves-teacher-tenure-bill-union-backed-alternative-emerges/584760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stalled\u003c/a> in the Senate after clearing that tough vote in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heins, the union president, was dismissive of the \u003ca href=\"https://e4e.org/blog-news/press-release/educators-excellence-los-angeles-statement-introduction-teacher-and-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teachers\u003c/a> who worked on the legislation. He said they don’t speak for his roughly 325,000 members, whose jobs, wages and working conditions are his duty to protect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That “people power” is the real source of the union’s might in Sacramento, said Jack Pitney, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have to run on all cylinders in every election because everyone knows what they could do if they had to,” Pitney said. “They have members in every single community in California. They’re well organized, and if they needed to they could organize en masse very quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These teachers,” he added, “are awfully hard to beat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of our series “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-ed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Ed\u003c/a>,” exploring how President Trump’s proposed federal education policies could impact California schools. The series was produced in collaboration with reporters from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPBS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPCC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CALmatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As principal of a charter high school in South Los Angeles, Joshua Hartford said families would ask him the same question over and over again: “When are you opening a middle school?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartford works for \u003ca href=\"http://greendot.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Dot Public Schools\u003c/a>, the leading charter school operator in Los Angeles, and one of the top three largest in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”xgQK5IQGEdWT4bw6sluYpkPfcdElHSR4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He finally asked Green Dot executives if they would consider opening a middle school in one of L.A. County’s poorest areas — the \u003ca href=\"http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/florence-firestone/\">Florence-Firestone neighborhood\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward to this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Dot’s \u003ca href=\"http://ca.greendot.org/florence-firestone/\">Ánimo Florence-Firestone Middle School\u003c/a> made its debut with 116 students enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartford traded his high school principal role to manage the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Parents] kept asking, ‘What can you do for my child who’s in the seventh grade right now?’” he said. “I decided I’d better do something about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11461632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Osterhaus, a teacher at Ánimo Florence-Firestone Middle School in South Los Angeles, introduces a lesson in his science class. The campus is operated by Green Dot Public Schools, the leading charter school operator in L.A. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11461632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Osterhaus, a teacher at Ánimo Florence-Firestone Middle School in South Los Angeles, introduces a lesson in his science class. The campus is operated by Green Dot Public Schools, the leading charter school operator in L.A. \u003ccite>(Kyle Stokes/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ánimo Florence-Firestone was established with help from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Green Dot won a $14 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-awards-397-million-grants-expand-high-quality-charter-sc\">grant from the Obama administration\u003c/a>, allowing it to open or expand 20 schools in three states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump now wants to bolster that federal support for independent charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”N4uVpHxqQ7idGBMFgr1n8oPOfIllhE9q”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf\">2017-2018 proposed education budget\u003c/a>, Trump proposes $500 million to help charter school organizations like Green Dot establish or expand campuses throughout the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, he’s proposing to slash federal funding for long-established after school programs, early learning initiatives and teacher preparation and retention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11461637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11461637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ánimo Florence-Firestone Middle School currently operates out of portable classroom buildings within the Los Angeles Unified School District. The independent charter is one of 228 charters in L.A. \u003ccite>(Kyle Stokes/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Next to philanthropy, the federal government has been one of the steadiest and best friends of charter schools,” said Nina Rees, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.publiccharters.org/\">National Association for Public Charter Schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 228 independent charter schools, L.A. is currently home to more charters than any city in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Green Dot administrators say creating more charter schools from scratch will require a lot more federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”QepUFZiTM8l2ANcmmFUocR2b8WvLLrkZ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five-hundred million [is a] big number, but it still is relatively small compared to the money locally that has to happen to get schools off the ground,” said Chad Soleo, Green Dot Public Schools’ vice president of advancement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soleo said opening just one charter school can cost up to $3 million — which covers facilities, technology, furniture, textbooks and other curricular materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because federal charter school grants only cover a small portion of that amount, charter operators have to rely heavily on philanthropy to make up the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor that could impede Trump’s charter school plan: L.A. politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter expansion is already a deeply divisive issue in the \u003ca href=\"http://home.lausd.net/\">L.A. Unified School District\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11462825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11462825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25386_Stokes-5-qut-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25386_Stokes-5-qut-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25386_Stokes-5-qut-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25386_Stokes-5-qut-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25386_Stokes-5-qut-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25386_Stokes-5-qut-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25386_Stokes-5-qut-2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25386_Stokes-5-qut-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25386_Stokes-5-qut-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25386_Stokes-5-qut-2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ánimo Florence-Firestone Middle School in South Los Angeles is operated Green Dot Public Schools, the leading independent charter school operator in L.A. The organization would be eligible for more federal funding under President Trump’s proposed education budget. \u003ccite>(Kyle Stokes/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The situation reached a boiling point in 2015 when the pro-charter \u003ca href=\"http://broadfoundation.org/\">Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation\u003c/a> outlined a strategy to drastically expand L.A.’s charter school sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public school supporters — including\u003ca href=\"http://www.utla.net/\"> L.A. teachers unions\u003c/a> — waged war, saying charters leech money and students from traditional public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan generated backlash, and philanthropists have since changed their strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s call for charter school expansion has evoked the same fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”cfnyLE4U3n8CaWuZS4NYxu3TFItK6PoV”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the eve of the president’s inauguration in January, hundreds of protesters at Grand View Boulevard Elementary in L.A. Unified expressed their dismay over Trump’s advocacy of private school vouchers and charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine-year-old Luna Cruz had special message for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to stop… trying to turn public schools into charters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all charter school leaders are on board with Trump, who’s unpopular in deep-blue L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11462826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11462826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Osterhaus, a teacher at Ánimo Florence-Firestone Middle School in South Los Angeles, assists a student in his science class. Osterhaus has been a teacher in L.A. since 2001. \u003ccite>(Kyle Stokes/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some worry the president’s support could prove toxic by galvanizing even more charter school opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be much more valuable for me, frankly, if [the president] just said he hates charter schools,” said Caprice Young, chief executive officer and superintendent of the\u003ca href=\"http://www.magnoliapublicschools.org/#\"> Magnolia network of charter schools\u003c/a>. “The fact that Trump supports charter schools gives the opposition… an opportunity to equate charter schools with the things that Trump cares about, that most Californians are opposed to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some charter school groups have begun pushing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, several executives of charter school chains with big presences in California — including Green Dot — \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/03/28/trump-education-budget-needs-work-charter-school-ceos-column/99705262/\"> co-signed an op-ed in USA Today\u003c/a> saying they couldn’t support Trump’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executives wrote they could not abide by modest increases to federal charter grant programs while broader education programs took deep cuts.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of our series “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-ed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Ed\u003c/a>,” exploring how President Trump’s proposed federal education policies could impact California schools. The series was produced in collaboration with reporters from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPBS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPCC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CALmatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As principal of a charter high school in South Los Angeles, Joshua Hartford said families would ask him the same question over and over again: “When are you opening a middle school?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartford works for \u003ca href=\"http://greendot.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Dot Public Schools\u003c/a>, the leading charter school operator in Los Angeles, and one of the top three largest in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He finally asked Green Dot executives if they would consider opening a middle school in one of L.A. County’s poorest areas — the \u003ca href=\"http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/florence-firestone/\">Florence-Firestone neighborhood\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward to this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Dot’s \u003ca href=\"http://ca.greendot.org/florence-firestone/\">Ánimo Florence-Firestone Middle School\u003c/a> made its debut with 116 students enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartford traded his high school principal role to manage the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Parents] kept asking, ‘What can you do for my child who’s in the seventh grade right now?’” he said. “I decided I’d better do something about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11461632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Osterhaus, a teacher at Ánimo Florence-Firestone Middle School in South Los Angeles, introduces a lesson in his science class. The campus is operated by Green Dot Public Schools, the leading charter school operator in L.A. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11461632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25385_Stokes-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Osterhaus, a teacher at Ánimo Florence-Firestone Middle School in South Los Angeles, introduces a lesson in his science class. The campus is operated by Green Dot Public Schools, the leading charter school operator in L.A. \u003ccite>(Kyle Stokes/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ánimo Florence-Firestone was established with help from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Green Dot won a $14 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-awards-397-million-grants-expand-high-quality-charter-sc\">grant from the Obama administration\u003c/a>, allowing it to open or expand 20 schools in three states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump now wants to bolster that federal support for independent charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf\">2017-2018 proposed education budget\u003c/a>, Trump proposes $500 million to help charter school organizations like Green Dot establish or expand campuses throughout the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, he’s proposing to slash federal funding for long-established after school programs, early learning initiatives and teacher preparation and retention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11461637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11461637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25382_Stokes-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ánimo Florence-Firestone Middle School currently operates out of portable classroom buildings within the Los Angeles Unified School District. The independent charter is one of 228 charters in L.A. \u003ccite>(Kyle Stokes/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Next to philanthropy, the federal government has been one of the steadiest and best friends of charter schools,” said Nina Rees, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.publiccharters.org/\">National Association for Public Charter Schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 228 independent charter schools, L.A. is currently home to more charters than any city in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Green Dot administrators say creating more charter schools from scratch will require a lot more federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five-hundred million [is a] big number, but it still is relatively small compared to the money locally that has to happen to get schools off the ground,” said Chad Soleo, Green Dot Public Schools’ vice president of advancement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soleo said opening just one charter school can cost up to $3 million — which covers facilities, technology, furniture, textbooks and other curricular materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because federal charter school grants only cover a small portion of that amount, charter operators have to rely heavily on philanthropy to make up the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor that could impede Trump’s charter school plan: L.A. politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter expansion is already a deeply divisive issue in the \u003ca href=\"http://home.lausd.net/\">L.A. 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The organization would be eligible for more federal funding under President Trump’s proposed education budget. \u003ccite>(Kyle Stokes/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The situation reached a boiling point in 2015 when the pro-charter \u003ca href=\"http://broadfoundation.org/\">Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation\u003c/a> outlined a strategy to drastically expand L.A.’s charter school sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public school supporters — including\u003ca href=\"http://www.utla.net/\"> L.A. teachers unions\u003c/a> — waged war, saying charters leech money and students from traditional public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan generated backlash, and philanthropists have since changed their strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s call for charter school expansion has evoked the same fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the eve of the president’s inauguration in January, hundreds of protesters at Grand View Boulevard Elementary in L.A. Unified expressed their dismay over Trump’s advocacy of private school vouchers and charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine-year-old Luna Cruz had special message for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to stop… trying to turn public schools into charters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all charter school leaders are on board with Trump, who’s unpopular in deep-blue L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11462826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11462826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25384_Stokes-3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Osterhaus, a teacher at Ánimo Florence-Firestone Middle School in South Los Angeles, assists a student in his science class. Osterhaus has been a teacher in L.A. since 2001. \u003ccite>(Kyle Stokes/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some worry the president’s support could prove toxic by galvanizing even more charter school opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be much more valuable for me, frankly, if [the president] just said he hates charter schools,” said Caprice Young, chief executive officer and superintendent of the\u003ca href=\"http://www.magnoliapublicschools.org/#\"> Magnolia network of charter schools\u003c/a>. “The fact that Trump supports charter schools gives the opposition… an opportunity to equate charter schools with the things that Trump cares about, that most Californians are opposed to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some charter school groups have begun pushing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, several executives of charter school chains with big presences in California — including Green Dot — \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/03/28/trump-education-budget-needs-work-charter-school-ceos-column/99705262/\"> co-signed an op-ed in USA Today\u003c/a> saying they couldn’t support Trump’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executives wrote they could not abide by modest increases to federal charter grant programs while broader education programs took deep cuts.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Many California education leaders say they plan to resist any effort to cut or divert public school funding under \u003ca href=\"http://www.betsydevos.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Betsy DeVos\u003c/a>, the country’s new secretary of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand their collective angst, let’s rewind to \u003ca href=\"http://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/nomination-of-betsy-devos-to-serve-as-secretary-of-education\" target=\"_blank\">DeVos' confirmation hearing\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the more contentious moments came when \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaine.senate.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine\u003c/a> grilled DeVos about whether she would hold all schools to the same academic and financial accountability standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kaine\u003c/strong>: I think all schools that receive taxpayer funding should be equally accountable. 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We need to now -- more than ever -- come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heins says California’s opposition to DeVos has now turned into resistance, and the vast majority of public school teachers in the Golden State are gearing up for a long fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heins believes state legislators will stand alongside teachers in defending public school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The governor is in the right spot on this. I believe our Legislature is in the right spot on this. We will be working together to express and protect California’s values for our students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/02/2017-02-08b-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/DeVos-1-800x533.jpg\" Title=\"The DeVos Pushback: State Educators Gearing Up for a Long Fight\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has been pushing a $20 billion federal school voucher program, which would give each low-income family up to $12,000 for use at the public or private school of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/voucher-law-comparison.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">13 states use school vouchers\u003c/a> in some fashion, but it’s been a complicated and thorny issue in California with voters twice rejecting measures at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In school districts like \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Unified\u003c/a>, the mere mention of school vouchers strikes fear in the heart of many families who support public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say Oakland is already losing hundreds of students to charter and private schools every year. A federal school voucher program would be a death knell for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s outrageous,” says Kim Davis, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://ousdparentsunited.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Parents United for Public Schools in Oakland\u003c/a>. “I think it would be devastating to a community like Oakland. And to me, our public schools should be the most important focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11307534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11307534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Oak Ridge Elementary School in Sacramento strives to ensure each classroom is well-organized, student-centered and colorful so children feel welcomed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oak Ridge Elementary School in Sacramento strives to ensure each classroom is well-organized, student-centered and colorful so that children feel welcomed. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leading education finance experts say constitutional challenges will likely block any attempt to create a federal voucher program using existing \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Title I\u003c/a> money intended for disadvantaged students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos’ first order of business is to find a different approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible option? 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If you donate to any eligible, existing scholarship fund, you could reduce the amount of money you owe on your tax bill by the amount of your donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families could, in turn, tap into this fund to shop for the school of their choice, be it public or private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://edexcellence.net/articles/a-federal-scholarship-tax-credit-trumps-only-fifty-state-school-choice-option?utm_source=Fordham+Updates&utm_campaign=fa4e3392f0-EMAIL_CAMP\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Fordham Institute\u003c/a>, a conservative education policy think tank, this approach is \"Trump's only 50-state school-choice option,\" which could \"unlock school choice for children in every state in the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ms/mm/\" target=\"_blank\">California State Board of Education President Michael Kirst\u003c/a> agrees this approach offers the Trump-DeVos education team a quicker \"political pathway.\" He says states like Florida have already implemented versions of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9jCbZaUfEOootmEjvBrIRtcnbuhMFY2Y\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is certainly rising concern,\" Kirst says. \"We don't incentivize private schools in California. 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A federal school voucher program would be a death knell for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s outrageous,” says Kim Davis, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://ousdparentsunited.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Parents United for Public Schools in Oakland\u003c/a>. “I think it would be devastating to a community like Oakland. And to me, our public schools should be the most important focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11307534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11307534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Oak Ridge Elementary School in Sacramento strives to ensure each classroom is well-organized, student-centered and colorful so children feel welcomed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Class-2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oak Ridge Elementary School in Sacramento strives to ensure each classroom is well-organized, student-centered and colorful so that children feel welcomed. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leading education finance experts say constitutional challenges will likely block any attempt to create a federal voucher program using existing \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Title I\u003c/a> money intended for disadvantaged students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos’ first order of business is to find a different approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible option? A federal scholarship tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it could work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal tax credit would be created for K–12 scholarships. If you donate to any eligible, existing scholarship fund, you could reduce the amount of money you owe on your tax bill by the amount of your donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families could, in turn, tap into this fund to shop for the school of their choice, be it public or private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://edexcellence.net/articles/a-federal-scholarship-tax-credit-trumps-only-fifty-state-school-choice-option?utm_source=Fordham+Updates&utm_campaign=fa4e3392f0-EMAIL_CAMP\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Fordham Institute\u003c/a>, a conservative education policy think tank, this approach is \"Trump's only 50-state school-choice option,\" which could \"unlock school choice for children in every state in the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ms/mm/\" target=\"_blank\">California State Board of Education President Michael Kirst\u003c/a> agrees this approach offers the Trump-DeVos education team a quicker \"political pathway.\" He says states like Florida have already implemented versions of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is certainly rising concern,\" Kirst says. \"We don't incentivize private schools in California. But I don’t think many people had thought of this federal tax credit option.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group you’d think might like this brand of school choice is charter school supporters in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they worry families might pull their kids out of charters in favor of private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families already have plenty of options in California,” says Hilary Harmssen, the Bay Area regional director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Charter Schools Association.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why if Trump’s plan does come to be, California might finally see a coming together of public school supporters and charter advocates as they fight a new common enemy: a federal scholarship tax credit program.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is three years into his second big investment in education reform, after his first investment of $100 million in Newark public schools was \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/business/dealbook/the-melting-of-mark-zuckerbergs-donation-to-newark-schools.html?_r=0\">widely criticized as being a waste of money\u003c/a>. He’s given $120 million to invest in Bay Area schools, but this time he’s choosing to work with programs already claiming success. One is a Bay Area-based network of charter schools called \u003ca href=\"http://summitps.org/schools/california\">Summit\u003c/a> that says it’s redefining how teachers teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summit founder Diane Tavenner founded the first school in Redwood City in 2003 after spending 10 years as a teacher. After having grown up in a poor town near Lake Tahoe and seeing many of her classmates not graduate from high school, she wanted to create a school where students would be engaged in their learning and finish successfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her idea was to create a program where students meet grade-level goals, but manage their own time and learn lessons to hit those goals -- basically taking tests and completing projects when they feel ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Personalized learning, at its heart, is about a student owning and driving their own learning,\" Tavenner explains. \"And connecting their future to what they’re doing every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a fresh idea, but it started out with a low technology threshold to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the years we got better and technology got better. Those Word docs became PDFs and then Google Docs,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Summit teachers were personalizing learning the old-fashioned way -- using worksheets to keep track of students' progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As her charter network expanded from its single Redwood City location to more locations in California and Washington, they needed a better way to share data. In 2012, she hired an engineer to create a platform all her schools could use -- students, teachers and parents alike, from anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2014, lightning struck. Mark Zuckerberg showed up to tour a Summit school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mark said to me, 'Can I meet your engineering team?' And I said ‘Oh, sure, here’s Sam,’ and he said, 'Just one?' \" Tavenner recalls. “And he said, ‘What you’re doing is really important, and I’d love to help you. What Facebook does well is engineering, so how about we give you some engineering support so you can make this better?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11233195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/IMG_1493-800x600.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11233195\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/IMG_1493-800x600-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Students mill about the atrium of Summit Prep in Redwood City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/IMG_1493-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/IMG_1493-800x600-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/IMG_1493-800x600-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/IMG_1493-800x600-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/IMG_1493-800x600-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students mill about the atrium of Summit Prep in Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Sarah Tan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg put a team of engineers to work inside Summit. Today, the schools can process student data on the spot. Teachers get up-to-the-minute feedback about how quickly students are learning, and they can also talk directly to the engineers about how they’d like the program shaped to better meet their classroom needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In National Rollout, One Size Does Not Fit All\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, more than 100 schools across the country use the Facebook-Summit platform free of cost. Oakland Urban Promise Academy is one of those schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran Oakland teacher Lisa Hiltbrand said the program has given her more time to respond individually to students, but it hasn’t been without problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority of our students are second-language learners, and many of them are reading multiple years below grade level,” Hiltbrand says. “So we’ve had to do a lot of modification around that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For students, the program can take some getting used to. Edgar Anaya is a senior at a Summit school in Redwood City who has been working in Summit’s personalized learning setting for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In middle school, my teacher kind of told me what to do. There was always that guidance there. Transitioning to Summit, it was more on me to do my work,” Anaya says. \"I was falling behind, and it wasn’t really anyone’s fault but mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that he will definitely continue to use the skills he’s learned at Summit after he graduates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next year, I’ll be a freshman in college, and I think it’s a great way to hold myself accountable, focus my learning on what I want,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook isn’t the only company helping schools develop programs to connect parents, students and teachers. Companies like Blackboard and Khan Academy offer ways for students to learn online at their own pace, and also give teachers and parents a way to check in on a student’s progress. Some charge schools to use their platform; some don't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Critics Worry About Student Data Mining\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Feldstein, an education technology consultant at MindWires Consulting, says the term “personalized learning\" is overhyped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing you need to understand about the industry is 'personalized learning' is a marketing term,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that although Facebook’s intentions with Summit seem well-meaning, the program does collect a lot of data about students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important with any system like this to have a very clear, legally binding understanding of what will and will not happen with that data. And it’s even more important where the company’s motivation isn’t clear,” Feldstein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His business partner, Phil Hill, likewise cautions people against thinking of\u003ca href=\"https://www.summitlearning.org/\"> the Facebook-Summit platform\u003c/a>, or any personalized learning platform, as a silver bullet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology shows a lot of promise: real opportunity, real need,” Hill says of classrooms today. But the technology should serve the needs of excellent teachers. “This isn’t magic technology, it’s technology enabling teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While both agree that they believe Facebook’s venture with Summit is philanthropic at the moment, they say it’s good to keep a healthy amount of skepticism as this new education platform is rolled out across the country.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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