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"content": "\u003cp>Last fall’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/camp-fire/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> — the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history — has brought renewed questions about whether towns in high-risk areas like Paradise should even be rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barry Long tried to squash those immediately recently, as he kicked off a crowded town hall meeting at the Paradise Alliance Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the first questions we get is, ‘are they really going to rebuild Paradise?’,” Long said. “And we say that’s not a question, [the city] council made an immediate decision [that] we’re going to rebuild Paradise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=”right” citation=\"Cathe Wood, Paradise resident\"]‘We have a great opportunity up here for a complete reset.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was met by a resounding applause from a large crowd of anxious Paradise residents. Long’s firm, Urban Design Associates, was hired by the town council to develop a long-term recovery plan for Paradise. They’ve begun holding meetings — the latest scheduled for March 19 — discussing with residents how they think their town should be rebuilt. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people have had to leave Paradise after about 90 percent of the town — almost 19,000 structures — burned to the ground last November in the Camp Fire, which also claimed 85 lives. But for the few who do remain and are eager to begin rebuilding, Long sought to give them reassurances: you can’t just abandon a community that’s been a fixture in the Sierra Nevada foothills since the the 1800s, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took 140 years to build Paradise and obviously things did survive, like the church here,” Long said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban Design Associates also consulted for the state of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. And that’s what this still unfolding crisis is starting to be likened to: a rural Katrina. One big parallel emerging so far is anxiety over gentrification. Once Paradise is rebuilt, there’s resounding agreement it will have much tougher, fire-safe building codes. And that won’t be cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just need affordable living and our home back,” said Cathe Wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/image-from-ios-7-ba10d2c97008e4f7315d853a2810731814e70c75-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Paradise Mayor Jody Jones talks with anxious constituents at a recent town hall meeting at Paradise Alliance Church about rebuilding their town, destroyed in last fall's Camp Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731317\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise Mayor Jody Jones talks with anxious constituents at a recent town hall meeting at Paradise Alliance Church about rebuilding their town, destroyed in last fall’s Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Anxiety Over Gentrification \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wood has lived in Paradise for 30 years. She’s planning to rebuild, but is still applying for permits and dealing with insurance claims. For now anyway, her job is still in Paradise. She works at an accounting firm that didn’t burn. Her home and her family weren’t so lucky. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost everything,” Wood said. “All my family members are homeless, scattered throughout California, I just want to come home.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise was a haven for retirees and others who couldn’t afford the city or just wanted to live in the country. Like a lot of western towns, it grew too quickly — without a lot of planning and scant zoning. Mobile home parks, tract houses, fast food restaurants were packed into overgrown forests. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Paradise, After the Camp Fire\" tag=\"paradise\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cathe Wood hopes something good will come out of all this. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a great opportunity up here for a complete reset,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Complete Reset, But Will it Be Affordable?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Paradise is not going to be the same as it was,” said Jody Jones, the town’s mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the recovery process moves forward, Jones and other town officials insist they’re trying to balance rebuilding smarter while also not mandating expensive changes. But they’ve never done this before and they’re learning as they go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that I can give any assurances it’s not going to be gentrified,” Jones said. “Because in some sense of the word what people mean by that is new, and everything we build is going to be new, it’s going to be different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is Paradise has time to get it right. The scale of this disaster is enormous, even just cleaning it up and removing all the hazardous debris could take more than a year. So it’s not as if the town can just be repopulated and rebuilt immediately as it was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cleanup only began in earnest a couple weeks ago. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Thinking Big\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At another forum in nearby Chico, a group of third-year architecture students from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo may have some answers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve put up poster boards showing architectural renderings of energy efficient, and “fire-wise” municipal buildings. There are proposed, newly redesigned, wider street grids for safer evacuations. And neighborhoods are drawn with more cleared out, open space between smaller, modern and up to code homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/image-from-ios-8-_sq-a11d05925eea1aa5ee08ac1d67eb32f37e8e55dd-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Third-year architecture student Alessandro Zanghi is proposing a new vocational college in Paradise, to train carpenters, plumbers and other trades that will be in high demand as the foothills town looks to rebuild.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731318\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Third-year architecture student Alessandro Zanghi is proposing a new vocational college in Paradise, to train carpenters, plumbers and other trades that will be in high demand as the foothills town looks to rebuild. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few curious members of the public mingled around the presentation talking to students who said their models were still a work in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to figure out a different way to rearrange the town so that it better suits the inhabitants and brings new people to Paradise” said Allessandro Zanghi. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re calling it a “re-imagined Paradise.” The class typically consults for underserved communities. And when the Camp Fire happened, the curriculum was re-designed to cater to Paradise and surrounding burnt-out towns. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Zanghi, it’s been a challenge trying to redesign proposals that preserve Paradise’s rural character. But he said it’s a misnomer that rebuilding or redeveloping a mountain community like this will result in a more expensive town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important to have architecture be more than just luxury high rises,” Zanghi said. “It should be things that help a community grow and flourish.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordability and gentrification are some of the more heated topics emerging so far in the town’s preliminary discussions. At some cantankerous city council meetings, fire survivors have argued with officials over whether they could put campers on burnt-out properties and how FEMA resources will be allocated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students’ instructor, Stacey White, said those are tough conversations that have to happen. But what’s going on here is separate. These kids can take the time to take a 30,000 foot view of the rebuilding project and hopefully inspire a little hope for the community amid all the other setbacks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But [these] students have an ability to step back and think, ‘what if we did this right?’,” White said. “They’re focused on affordability, resiliency and permanence; really investing in the place so we don’t relive this again in ten years.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her class will soon hand over their plans to the town. After four long months of stress and anxiety in this community, the students hope the crisis can also be looked at as an opportunity for Paradise, and they want to help. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1099776512922812416\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35436_IMG_7399-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='Grandma Vickie Goins of Oakland brought her granddaughters to the parade: Constance Capers, Kaliyah Capers, Lamariah Hayes, and Emerald Capers. \"I grew up in an atmosphere of black empowerment,\" Goins said. \"My aunt was a Black Panther.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35436_IMG_7399-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35436_IMG_7399-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35436_IMG_7399-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, 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walk in the Black Joy Parade.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35445_Black-Joy-Pen-1-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35445_Black-Joy-Pen-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35445_Black-Joy-Pen-1-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35445_Black-Joy-Pen-1-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Prescott Circus School walk in the Black Joy Parade. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35433_IMG_7395-qut-800x533.jpg\" 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Andrews says the parade is a fun time and reminds African-Americans that \"we still exist! It would be nice if it were more than just once a year.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35433_IMG_7395-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35433_IMG_7395-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35433_IMG_7395-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35433_IMG_7395-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35433_IMG_7395-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miyishia Shay, Tiffany Andrews and Jamala Massenburg have a book club called “Booktini,” which focuses on black female authors. Andrews says the parade is a fun time and reminds African-Americans that “we still exist! It would be nice if it were more than just once a year.” \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35444_Black-Joy-Pen-2-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland A's mascot Stomper gets into the swing of the Black Joy Parade.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35444_Black-Joy-Pen-2-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35444_Black-Joy-Pen-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35444_Black-Joy-Pen-2-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35444_Black-Joy-Pen-2-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A’s mascot Stomper gets into the swing of the Black Joy Parade. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35437_IMG_7400-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='\"RB\" on bike he designed and Scraper Bike team leader Chuck Davis pose at the Black Joy Parade in downtown Oakland.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35437_IMG_7400-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35437_IMG_7400-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35437_IMG_7400-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35437_IMG_7400-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35437_IMG_7400-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“RB” on bike he designed and Scraper Bike team leader Chuck Davis pose at the Black Joy Parade in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1099771458828390402\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35435_IMG_7398-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Conteh family came all the way from Las Vegas for the event. Mom Jamese says she wanted to present black culture to her kids in a positive light. "It's important to see black joy as opposed to black sorrow." Son Khamri says being immersed in a see of black people is "awesome. It's amazing!" (L-R: Ibrahim, Jameela,, Jamese and Khamri)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35435_IMG_7398-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35435_IMG_7398-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35435_IMG_7398-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35435_IMG_7398-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35435_IMG_7398-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Conteh family came all the way from Las Vegas for the event. Mom Jamese says she wanted to present black culture to her kids in a positive light. “It’s important to see black joy as opposed to black sorrow.” Son Khamri says being immersed in a see of black people is “awesome. It’s amazing!” (L-R: Ibrahim, Jameela,, Jamese and Khamri) \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1099802162668855296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Pendarvis Harshaw contributed reporting to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As teachers picket in the streets of Oakland in their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/lausd-utla-strike-deal-legislature-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second high-profile strike\u003c/a> this year in California, state lawmakers are hearing their battle cry loud and clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s charter schools—privately operated public schools that are mostly non-union—are all over the Capitol agenda. Lawmakers are fast-tracking transparency \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation \u003c/a>that would treat charter trustees like regular school boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State education officials are \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-governor-launches-charter-school-review-20190206-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studying \u003c/a>their financial impact on school districts, a possible first step to curbing future expansion. In his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/newsom-state-of-the-state-annotated/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of the State\u003c/a> address, Gov. Gavin Newsom lumped charter growth in with overcrowded classrooms, the achievement gap and understaffed schools as a “stressor” to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Newsom and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond were backed by California’s powerful teachers’ unions. Both beat opponents who were heavily bankrolled by billionaire advocates of the charter movement in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Map: Map: Where Are Students Attending Charter Schools?\" aria-describedby=\"The majority of California's charter school student population is concentrated in Los Angeles, San Diego and Bay Area counties. Hover through the counties on each map for more information on their charter school growth.\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-bPbYB\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/bPbYB/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the attention also stems from the increased intensity, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/695957426/oakland-los-angeles-and-more-to-come-why-teachers-keep-going-on-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national scope\u003c/a>, of the war between unions and supporters of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, that conflict has been portrayed as a sweeping \u003ca href=\"https://www.csmonitor.com/EqualEd/2019/0116/Behind-LA-teachers-strike-a-battle-for-the-soul-of-public-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fight for the soul\u003c/a> of public education. But a CALmatters analysis of statewide charter enrollment data paints a far more nuanced picture, in which charter growth is more a collection of densely concentrated hotspots than a statewide phenomenon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Though California’s charter school enrollment more than doubled during the past decade, from nearly 250,000 kids to about 630,000, only about 10 percent of the state’s 6.2 million public school students are enrolled in charters, according to state data. From 2007-08 to 2017-18, the period we examined, more than half of California’s school districts—many of them suburban—authorized no charters at all.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charter school expansion seems to correlate with poverty in California. More than half of the state’s charter enrollment is in districts where most students get free and reduced-price lunches. And many of the hotspots are in and around big urban areas with high concentrations of low income kids.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In some districts where charter enrollment has spiked, the rise appears to be less about community demand than a loophole that, as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/audit-school-districts-reap-millions-oking-far-flung-charters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state auditors\u003c/a> have noted, let a few small, mostly rural districts make money by authorizing charter schools that draw enrollment from outside their boundaries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And though claims abound, it’s hard to know how just much charter growth is impacting traditional schools’ budgets, in part because state law doesn’t let districts consider the potential fiscal drain when authorizing new charters. A forthcoming report from the Department of Education will examine the issue statewide.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Big Cities, Big Impact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Chart: By the Numbers: Los Angeles Unified School District\" aria-describedby=\"Over the last decade, California's largest school district lost nearly 180,000 students in its traditional public schools, a drop of roughly 28 percent. At the same time, enrollment in the district's charter schools rose by more than 106,000 kids, a 225 percent increase.\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-OpcLk\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/OpcLk/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the charter debate is arising from places such as Los Angeles and Oakland, and the data show why: large urban school districts are where California charter schools have focused their efforts and seen the most growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Los Angeles Unified School District, nearly 25 percent of the district’s 621,000 students were enrolled in a charter school last year, up from less than 7 percent in the 2007-08 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that decade, traditional district schools at LAUSD lost nearly 180,000 students, while charter schools authorized by the L.A. school board gained more than 106,000 students, as the district’s charter enrollment increased 225 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 26 percent of Oakland Unified’s 50,000 or so students were enrolled in charter schools last year, compared with 16 percent in 2007-08. Among large urban districts, data show, Oakland has the state’s highest concentration of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But L.A. and Oakland are exceptions. There were 73 school districts in CALmatters’ database with total enrollments higher than 20,000 students—a group that accounts for more than half of the state’s public school enrollment. Of those, only 18 (San Diego, San Francisco and Chula Vista Elementary school districts also were among them) had more than 10 percent of their total enrollment in charters. Dominating that list were districts in big cities and poorer communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In far more of California’s districts, charter schools are scarcely an option. Two dozen other big districts—in populous suburbs such as Irvine, Garden Grove, Fontana and Chino Valley in Orange and San Bernardino counties—authorized no charter schools at all in the past decade. This could suggest that there is either little demand or effort to establish charters in these communities, or intense resistance from districts toward authorizing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, more than half of California’s school districts—650, of all sizes—authorized zero charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where charters had been okayed, more than half of the statewide enrollment—350,000 students—was concentrated in school districts where more than 60 percent of students get free or reduced-price lunches, an indicator of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-800x553.jpg\" alt='Ellie Kerwin, a junior in high school, holds a sign that reads \"I Hella Love Oakland Teachers\" as she walks down Broadway St. during the Oakland student walkout on Friday Feb. 8, 2019. ' width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-1200x829.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellie Kerwin, a junior in high school, holds a sign that reads \"I Hella Love Oakland Teachers\" as she walks down Broadway St. during the Oakland student walkout on Friday Feb. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Far-flung Charters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Complicating the charter picture are a handful of small districts that are augmenting their budgets by authorizing charters—in some cases, far beyond their boundaries—via an arcane legislative loophole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California typically doesn’t allow charter schools to open unless a nearby district is willing to track their performance, for which the district can legally charge oversight fees. But a 2017 state audit pinpointed a handful of districts that had authorized charters as far as 50 miles outside their geographic boundaries—a lucrative arrangement that had increased revenue tenfold in at least one district, though the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bsa.ca.gov/reports/2016-141/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auditor also found\u003c/a> that the districts weren’t necessarily delivering the oversight for which they were paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly one-fifth of the state’s 2017-18 total charter enrollment came from schools authorized by the state’s smallest school districts, according to CALmatters’ analysis. Excluding county education offices, districts that had less than 1,500 students in traditional public schools accounted for more than 108,000 charter students, or about 17 percent, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s directory of public schools shows that some of the charter schools authorized by small districts with the most dramatically disproportionate charter enrollments have addresses that are far outside their boundaries. But state auditors noted that it is difficult to tally exactly how many charters operate with far-flung authorizers. The state does not require charter schools to report the locations of all of their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, some of these small districts, such as Acton-Agua Dulce Unified in rural Los Angeles County and Dehesa Elementary School District in eastern San Diego County, experienced dramatic charter growth in the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dehesa, which enrolled 145 traditional district kids in 2017-18, grew its charter enrollment from 676 students in 2007-08 to more than 8,500 last year. Acton-Agua Dulce, which enrolled 1,080 students in its district schools last year, grew the number of charter students it oversees from 165 in 2012-13 to nearly 14,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 2012, the Acton district—in the isolated high desert between Santa Clarita and Palmdale—had not authorized any charters. Now it has, on paper, a larger charter enrollment than Oakland Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Cost Question\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Chart: Growth in California's Charter Schools\" aria-describedby=\"Only about 10 percent of California's 6.2 million public-school students were enrolled in charter schools in 2017-18. Still, the state's charter school enrollment has more than doubled over the last 10 years.\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-WYs07\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WYs07/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the arguments that make charter schools such a potent political issue is the contention by unions and some districts that rapid charter expansion is draining traditional public schools financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been a concentration of need in the traditional public-school system that charter schools are not helping to finance,” said Carmelita Reyes, a principal at Oakland International High School, which specifically targets newly arrived immigrant students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes was among 30 Oakland principals who drove to Sacramento on Wednesday—the day before the strike—to ask legislators for more school funding, oversight of charter schools and forgiveness of a $36 million debt the financially-distressed school district owes the state resulting from a previous bailout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you just have one or two charter schools in your community, that’s probably fine,” Reyes said. “But when [as much as] a third of the students are in charter schools, as is the case in Oakland, it has really financially destabilized programs that we need to support our neediest students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the degree to which charter growth impacts district budgets is difficult to pinpoint, and the issue has become so loaded that hard numbers are difficult to obtain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In L.A. and Oakland the fiscal problems are longstanding and complex: Both districts for years have been in financial distress stemming from factors that range from rising employee pension and healthcare costs to shifting demographics. Oakland is mulling whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/08/oakland-unified-scrambles-to-identify-as-many-as-24-schools-that-could-be-closed-in-next-5-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">close two dozen\u003c/a> district schools amid a $22 million budget deficit that follows a state takeover and two state bailouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State funding for California public schools is based on the average number of students who attend school each day, meaning, in general, less money for districts with lower enrollment. But it’s tricky to accurately isolate the costs of enrollment lost to charters; according to the California Charter School Association, about a quarter of charters are “district dependent,” meaning they operate within a district’s financial and governance structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11728499\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students talk after class at Lighthouse Charter School in Oakland. Unions and some districts say charters siphon critical funding from traditional public schools.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students talk after class at Lighthouse Charter School in Oakland. Unions and some districts say charters siphon critical funding from traditional public schools. \u003ccite>(Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also, a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98/bill/asm/ab_0501-0550/ab_544_bill_19980508_chaptered.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1998 state law\u003c/a> prevents districts from considering the financial impact when determining whether to authorize a new charter, so those cost analyses aren’t part of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for Los Angeles Unified, where tensions have inflamed following January’s teacher strike, told CALmatters that “we do not have a revenue impact calculation for independent charter schools.” A spokesman for Oakland Unified did not respond to a similar inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, neutral estimates are hard to come by. Teachers unions have been citing reports by the left-leaning Bay Area policy center, In The Public Interest, estimating that charter growth cost \u003ca href=\"http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_LAUSDCharters_PolicyBrief_May2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. Unified\u003c/a> more than $508 million in 2014-15 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/report-the-cost-of-charter-schools-for-public-school-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Unified\u003c/a> $57 million in 2016-17. In The Public Interest is affiliated with the Partnership for Working Families, an advocacy group that lobbies against income inequality and whose funders include organized labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Charter Schools Association says whatever financial impact charter growth has had on school districts is overblown and a scapegoat for issues outside of charters’ control. They \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsa.org/blog/2016/05/ccsa-responds-to-utla-report-blaming-charters-for-lausds-fiscal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized \u003c/a>both of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsa.org/blog/2018/05/in-the-public-interest-report-unfairly-scapegoats-charter-public-school-movement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the Public Interest\u003c/a> reports when they came out, saying the latest one was “commissioned by a biased organization with a political agenda and conclusion in mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forthcoming report by the state Department of Education has promised to delve into the numbers with a report due July 1, but it, too, is politically controversial. State schools chief Thurmond, who is overseeing the study, won office on a platform that partly called for a pause on charters while the state examined their financial impact on districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter advocates fear that focus on fiscal impact—combined with the anti-charter rhetoric of striking teachers—could lead to recommendations that slow the growth of charters. In any case, they say, it’s unfair and distorts their intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This villainization of charters driving districts to brink of insolvency is salacious,” said Myrna Castrejón, president and CEO of the state’s charter school association. She touted the growth of charter schools in California, saying it reflects the sector’s broad goal of giving needy students equitable learning opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charters in \u003ca href=\"https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3049635/OUSD%20Charter%20Fact%20Sheet%20FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3049635/LAUSD%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A.\u003c/a> educate similar proportions of low-income students as traditional district schools, according to the association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not for a second will I apologize for the growth of charters that are meeting the needs of parents and are contributing to lifting up our brown and black kids, our disadvantaged students and providing them a lifeline of opportunity for greater success in our great state,” Castrejón said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As teachers picket in the streets of Oakland in their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/lausd-utla-strike-deal-legislature-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second high-profile strike\u003c/a> this year in California, state lawmakers are hearing their battle cry loud and clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s charter schools—privately operated public schools that are mostly non-union—are all over the Capitol agenda. Lawmakers are fast-tracking transparency \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation \u003c/a>that would treat charter trustees like regular school boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State education officials are \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-governor-launches-charter-school-review-20190206-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studying \u003c/a>their financial impact on school districts, a possible first step to curbing future expansion. In his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/newsom-state-of-the-state-annotated/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of the State\u003c/a> address, Gov. Gavin Newsom lumped charter growth in with overcrowded classrooms, the achievement gap and understaffed schools as a “stressor” to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Newsom and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond were backed by California’s powerful teachers’ unions. Both beat opponents who were heavily bankrolled by billionaire advocates of the charter movement in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Map: Map: Where Are Students Attending Charter Schools?\" aria-describedby=\"The majority of California's charter school student population is concentrated in Los Angeles, San Diego and Bay Area counties. Hover through the counties on each map for more information on their charter school growth.\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-bPbYB\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/bPbYB/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the attention also stems from the increased intensity, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/695957426/oakland-los-angeles-and-more-to-come-why-teachers-keep-going-on-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national scope\u003c/a>, of the war between unions and supporters of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, that conflict has been portrayed as a sweeping \u003ca href=\"https://www.csmonitor.com/EqualEd/2019/0116/Behind-LA-teachers-strike-a-battle-for-the-soul-of-public-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fight for the soul\u003c/a> of public education. But a CALmatters analysis of statewide charter enrollment data paints a far more nuanced picture, in which charter growth is more a collection of densely concentrated hotspots than a statewide phenomenon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Though California’s charter school enrollment more than doubled during the past decade, from nearly 250,000 kids to about 630,000, only about 10 percent of the state’s 6.2 million public school students are enrolled in charters, according to state data. From 2007-08 to 2017-18, the period we examined, more than half of California’s school districts—many of them suburban—authorized no charters at all.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charter school expansion seems to correlate with poverty in California. More than half of the state’s charter enrollment is in districts where most students get free and reduced-price lunches. And many of the hotspots are in and around big urban areas with high concentrations of low income kids.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In some districts where charter enrollment has spiked, the rise appears to be less about community demand than a loophole that, as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/audit-school-districts-reap-millions-oking-far-flung-charters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state auditors\u003c/a> have noted, let a few small, mostly rural districts make money by authorizing charter schools that draw enrollment from outside their boundaries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And though claims abound, it’s hard to know how just much charter growth is impacting traditional schools’ budgets, in part because state law doesn’t let districts consider the potential fiscal drain when authorizing new charters. A forthcoming report from the Department of Education will examine the issue statewide.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Big Cities, Big Impact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Chart: By the Numbers: Los Angeles Unified School District\" aria-describedby=\"Over the last decade, California's largest school district lost nearly 180,000 students in its traditional public schools, a drop of roughly 28 percent. At the same time, enrollment in the district's charter schools rose by more than 106,000 kids, a 225 percent increase.\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-OpcLk\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/OpcLk/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the charter debate is arising from places such as Los Angeles and Oakland, and the data show why: large urban school districts are where California charter schools have focused their efforts and seen the most growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Los Angeles Unified School District, nearly 25 percent of the district’s 621,000 students were enrolled in a charter school last year, up from less than 7 percent in the 2007-08 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that decade, traditional district schools at LAUSD lost nearly 180,000 students, while charter schools authorized by the L.A. school board gained more than 106,000 students, as the district’s charter enrollment increased 225 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 26 percent of Oakland Unified’s 50,000 or so students were enrolled in charter schools last year, compared with 16 percent in 2007-08. Among large urban districts, data show, Oakland has the state’s highest concentration of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But L.A. and Oakland are exceptions. There were 73 school districts in CALmatters’ database with total enrollments higher than 20,000 students—a group that accounts for more than half of the state’s public school enrollment. Of those, only 18 (San Diego, San Francisco and Chula Vista Elementary school districts also were among them) had more than 10 percent of their total enrollment in charters. Dominating that list were districts in big cities and poorer communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In far more of California’s districts, charter schools are scarcely an option. Two dozen other big districts—in populous suburbs such as Irvine, Garden Grove, Fontana and Chino Valley in Orange and San Bernardino counties—authorized no charter schools at all in the past decade. This could suggest that there is either little demand or effort to establish charters in these communities, or intense resistance from districts toward authorizing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, more than half of California’s school districts—650, of all sizes—authorized zero charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where charters had been okayed, more than half of the statewide enrollment—350,000 students—was concentrated in school districts where more than 60 percent of students get free or reduced-price lunches, an indicator of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-800x553.jpg\" alt='Ellie Kerwin, a junior in high school, holds a sign that reads \"I Hella Love Oakland Teachers\" as she walks down Broadway St. during the Oakland student walkout on Friday Feb. 8, 2019. ' width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1-1200x829.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellie Kerwin, a junior in high school, holds a sign that reads \"I Hella Love Oakland Teachers\" as she walks down Broadway St. during the Oakland student walkout on Friday Feb. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Far-flung Charters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Complicating the charter picture are a handful of small districts that are augmenting their budgets by authorizing charters—in some cases, far beyond their boundaries—via an arcane legislative loophole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California typically doesn’t allow charter schools to open unless a nearby district is willing to track their performance, for which the district can legally charge oversight fees. But a 2017 state audit pinpointed a handful of districts that had authorized charters as far as 50 miles outside their geographic boundaries—a lucrative arrangement that had increased revenue tenfold in at least one district, though the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bsa.ca.gov/reports/2016-141/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auditor also found\u003c/a> that the districts weren’t necessarily delivering the oversight for which they were paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly one-fifth of the state’s 2017-18 total charter enrollment came from schools authorized by the state’s smallest school districts, according to CALmatters’ analysis. Excluding county education offices, districts that had less than 1,500 students in traditional public schools accounted for more than 108,000 charter students, or about 17 percent, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s directory of public schools shows that some of the charter schools authorized by small districts with the most dramatically disproportionate charter enrollments have addresses that are far outside their boundaries. But state auditors noted that it is difficult to tally exactly how many charters operate with far-flung authorizers. The state does not require charter schools to report the locations of all of their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, some of these small districts, such as Acton-Agua Dulce Unified in rural Los Angeles County and Dehesa Elementary School District in eastern San Diego County, experienced dramatic charter growth in the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dehesa, which enrolled 145 traditional district kids in 2017-18, grew its charter enrollment from 676 students in 2007-08 to more than 8,500 last year. Acton-Agua Dulce, which enrolled 1,080 students in its district schools last year, grew the number of charter students it oversees from 165 in 2012-13 to nearly 14,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 2012, the Acton district—in the isolated high desert between Santa Clarita and Palmdale—had not authorized any charters. Now it has, on paper, a larger charter enrollment than Oakland Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Cost Question\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Chart: Growth in California's Charter Schools\" aria-describedby=\"Only about 10 percent of California's 6.2 million public-school students were enrolled in charter schools in 2017-18. Still, the state's charter school enrollment has more than doubled over the last 10 years.\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-WYs07\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WYs07/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the arguments that make charter schools such a potent political issue is the contention by unions and some districts that rapid charter expansion is draining traditional public schools financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been a concentration of need in the traditional public-school system that charter schools are not helping to finance,” said Carmelita Reyes, a principal at Oakland International High School, which specifically targets newly arrived immigrant students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes was among 30 Oakland principals who drove to Sacramento on Wednesday—the day before the strike—to ask legislators for more school funding, oversight of charter schools and forgiveness of a $36 million debt the financially-distressed school district owes the state resulting from a previous bailout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you just have one or two charter schools in your community, that’s probably fine,” Reyes said. “But when [as much as] a third of the students are in charter schools, as is the case in Oakland, it has really financially destabilized programs that we need to support our neediest students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the degree to which charter growth impacts district budgets is difficult to pinpoint, and the issue has become so loaded that hard numbers are difficult to obtain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In L.A. and Oakland the fiscal problems are longstanding and complex: Both districts for years have been in financial distress stemming from factors that range from rising employee pension and healthcare costs to shifting demographics. Oakland is mulling whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/08/oakland-unified-scrambles-to-identify-as-many-as-24-schools-that-could-be-closed-in-next-5-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">close two dozen\u003c/a> district schools amid a $22 million budget deficit that follows a state takeover and two state bailouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State funding for California public schools is based on the average number of students who attend school each day, meaning, in general, less money for districts with lower enrollment. But it’s tricky to accurately isolate the costs of enrollment lost to charters; according to the California Charter School Association, about a quarter of charters are “district dependent,” meaning they operate within a district’s financial and governance structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11728499\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students talk after class at Lighthouse Charter School in Oakland. Unions and some districts say charters siphon critical funding from traditional public schools.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS8992_Photo3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students talk after class at Lighthouse Charter School in Oakland. Unions and some districts say charters siphon critical funding from traditional public schools. \u003ccite>(Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also, a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98/bill/asm/ab_0501-0550/ab_544_bill_19980508_chaptered.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1998 state law\u003c/a> prevents districts from considering the financial impact when determining whether to authorize a new charter, so those cost analyses aren’t part of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for Los Angeles Unified, where tensions have inflamed following January’s teacher strike, told CALmatters that “we do not have a revenue impact calculation for independent charter schools.” A spokesman for Oakland Unified did not respond to a similar inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, neutral estimates are hard to come by. Teachers unions have been citing reports by the left-leaning Bay Area policy center, In The Public Interest, estimating that charter growth cost \u003ca href=\"http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_LAUSDCharters_PolicyBrief_May2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. Unified\u003c/a> more than $508 million in 2014-15 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/report-the-cost-of-charter-schools-for-public-school-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Unified\u003c/a> $57 million in 2016-17. In The Public Interest is affiliated with the Partnership for Working Families, an advocacy group that lobbies against income inequality and whose funders include organized labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Charter Schools Association says whatever financial impact charter growth has had on school districts is overblown and a scapegoat for issues outside of charters’ control. They \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsa.org/blog/2016/05/ccsa-responds-to-utla-report-blaming-charters-for-lausds-fiscal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized \u003c/a>both of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsa.org/blog/2018/05/in-the-public-interest-report-unfairly-scapegoats-charter-public-school-movement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the Public Interest\u003c/a> reports when they came out, saying the latest one was “commissioned by a biased organization with a political agenda and conclusion in mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forthcoming report by the state Department of Education has promised to delve into the numbers with a report due July 1, but it, too, is politically controversial. State schools chief Thurmond, who is overseeing the study, won office on a platform that partly called for a pause on charters while the state examined their financial impact on districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter advocates fear that focus on fiscal impact—combined with the anti-charter rhetoric of striking teachers—could lead to recommendations that slow the growth of charters. In any case, they say, it’s unfair and distorts their intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This villainization of charters driving districts to brink of insolvency is salacious,” said Myrna Castrejón, president and CEO of the state’s charter school association. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Feb. 22: \u003c/em>\u003cem>This story contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the FBI started closing in on Oakland landlord Yaniv Gohar a little over a year ago, his tenants welcomed the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things had been stressful ever since February 2017, when Gohar purchased the multi-unit property on East 11th Street where Emilio Luna and Mirna Sanchez live. Luna and Sanchez said that Gohar showed up in a car with no license plates and demanded that they and the two other households living in the building move out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the tenants, Gohar said he would go to court for an eviction order if necessary. He told them he planned to renovate the old Victorian house that had been divided long ago into four apartments and rent the units out for much higher prices, they said. The tenants refused to leave and cited Oakland’s Just Cause for Eviction ordinance, which provides strong renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they said Gohar kept up the pressure by demanding large rent increases. Even though they had rent control, two tenants in the building, Christian Perez and Denia Caballero, agreed to pay significantly more, rather than continue fighting. Perez said he agreed to a $400 increase on top of his $1,000 monthly rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Luna and Sanchez objected. “We complained to the city of Oakland,” said Sanchez in a recent interview. A hearing officer with the city’s Rent Adjustment Program blocked Gohar from raising the $600 monthly rent on their studio unit by more than $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, Luna and Sanchez said that Gohar retaliated by ignoring requests to fix their broken stove, provide their building with fire extinguishers, and replace the moldy carpet. City code enforcement records confirm that Luna and Sanchez filed a complaint about the broken stove and other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when FBI agents knocked on their doors in January 2018 asking about Gohar’s activities, the renters assumed that relief from the constant threat of eviction was on its way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always cooperated with them,” said Luna about the FBI’s inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all too soon, Luna and the other tenants found themselves facing eviction again — this time from the federal law enforcement officials who took over management of their building. After prosecutors indicted Gohar on criminal charges, they seized his Oakland rental properties. In January, the U.S. Marshals Service, which acts as the custodian of the seized buildings, began moving to evict the renters and sell off the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tenants, some of whom have lived there for more than a decade, said it’s unfair to be pushed out of their homes despite playing no part in the crimes of which Gohar is accused.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Illegal Slot Machine Ring\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It turned out that Gohar was netting hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from a network of illegal video slot machines hidden in smoke shops and liquor stores across Northern California, according to federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christian Norgaard, a special agent with the state Bureau of Gambling Control, said in an affidavit that Gohar, an Israeli citizen living in Berkeley, was investing some of the illicit proceeds in Oakland real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the multi-unit house on East 11th Street in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood, in 2017 Gohar had also purchased a nearby triplex on 7th Avenue and an uninhabited warehouse on Solano Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents arrested Gohar on Dec. 8, 2017. Prosecutors argued that Gohar should be held without bond because he was dangerous, owned real estate in foreign countries and might flee the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court testimony from FBI Agent Daniel Bryant, Gohar had allegedly threatened to break the legs of a convenience store owner who had cooperated with investigators, calling him an “Arabic asshole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, three weeks later Gohar was released on $200,000 bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after Gohar got out of jail, a Berkeley police officer spotted him driving recklessly in his 2017 Porsche Panamera, according to a complaint filed by prosecutors. Gohar crashed into two parked cars and “the officer observed one of the Porsche’s wheels fly off the Vehicle,” according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors asked a judge to revoke Gohar’s bond, but Gohar never showed up to his next hearing, scheduled on Jan. 3, 2017. He disappeared and remains a fugitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2018, after Gohar fled, the government seized his Oakland rental properties and the U.S. Marshals took over as the new landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New Landlords Bring New Demands\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the three households living in the East 11th Street property, the U.S. Marshals delivered new lease agreements in June and told them to sign, or be evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the leases didn’t change the tenants’ rent, they did include new terms. One was that the tenants would have to make and pay for any repairs themselves. Another was that their new landlord, the U.S. Marshals Service, be allowed to enter their apartments with just 12 hours’ notice, instead of the 24 hours required under state law. And the leases had one key provision: The marshals could evict the tenants — for any reason — with just 30 days notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two households living in the 7th Avenue building signed the new leases. And Perez and Caballero also signed the agreements. But Luna and Sanchez refused to sign and contacted Jackie Zaneri, a housing attorney with the nonprofit Centro Legal de la Raza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaneri said the new leases included several provisions that are illegal under state and local laws, in particular the terms allowing the marshals to evict renters for no cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaneri sent a letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Khasigian, the prosecutor who originally filed the paperwork to seize the buildings from Gohar, challenging the validity of the new leases the marshals were demanding the tenants sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaneri wrote that under Oakland’s Just Cause ordinance, her clients could not be evicted without substantial grounds, such as failing to pay rent. Moreover, she wrote, Oakland law prohibits landlords from unilaterally changing the terms of a lease agreement and evicting a tenant for refusing to sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some of the households did sign the new occupancy agreements with the marshals, Zaneri believes those leases are not enforceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A tenant can’t waive their rights under state and local law,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half a year passed after Zaneri contacted Khasigian, and the government didn’t take any further action. Zaneri said she thought her letter had caused the government to withdraw its demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last month, armed federal marshals showed up at both properties and handed out eviction notices to all the tenants demanding that they leave by Feb. 24. The marshals told them the buildings were up for sale and they had to move out, Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez, who lives in the East 11th Street building with his two children, said the marshals were an intimidating presence. “We’re scared,” he said. “Are they going to arrest us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notices also asked the tenants to notify Kevin Brown, a local real estate agent with Better Homes Realty, when they vacated the property. After Feb. 24, the notices explain, locks will be changed and any possessions left behind will be thrown away. A similar eviction notice was provided to tenants living in the 7th Avenue building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad the tenants came to us rather than taking these threatening notices at face value,” said Zaneri, who has advised the tenants that they have the right to stay in their homes. “State law protections don’t allow any landlord to do these sorts of things, and the federal government is no exception.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Asset Forfeiture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Marshals did not respond to specific questions about their attempts to evict the Oakland tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just days before the eviction deadline, a spokesperson for the agency said they were reversing their decision to evict the tenants from both properties. Notices to rescind the evictions were sent to Zaneri on Feb. 15 and to the tenants on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a U.S. Marshals spokesperson said the original notices to vacate were made at the direction of the buyers. “However, both buyers have since reversed their decisions and are allowing the occupants to stay on after the sales go to settlement,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marshals’ statement did not explain what legal authority allows purchasers of rental housing to direct the government to evict existing tenants. 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She said that the U.S. Marshals’ actions were illegal from the start and that the tenants were preparing to file a lawsuit to protect their rights to stay in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other housing law experts say that the federal government can’t ignore local eviction laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know of no authority that gives the U.S. government the ability to circumvent and ignore the application of Oakland’s Just Cause for Eviction ordinance as it attempts to remove these lawful occupants,” said Meghan Gordon, an attorney who is the director of the East Bay Community Law Center’s housing practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what’s legal, the tenants said they want the government to do what’s right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we expect from them as the government is something better than a criminal,” said Luna. “We want them to respect our rights and follow the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction:\u003c/strong> This story was updated to include the U.S. Marshals’ decision to cancel the evictions and to include information from a statement provided by the U.S. Marshals after publication.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Feb. 22: \u003c/em>\u003cem>This story contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the FBI started closing in on Oakland landlord Yaniv Gohar a little over a year ago, his tenants welcomed the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things had been stressful ever since February 2017, when Gohar purchased the multi-unit property on East 11th Street where Emilio Luna and Mirna Sanchez live. Luna and Sanchez said that Gohar showed up in a car with no license plates and demanded that they and the two other households living in the building move out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the tenants, Gohar said he would go to court for an eviction order if necessary. He told them he planned to renovate the old Victorian house that had been divided long ago into four apartments and rent the units out for much higher prices, they said. The tenants refused to leave and cited Oakland’s Just Cause for Eviction ordinance, which provides strong renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they said Gohar kept up the pressure by demanding large rent increases. Even though they had rent control, two tenants in the building, Christian Perez and Denia Caballero, agreed to pay significantly more, rather than continue fighting. Perez said he agreed to a $400 increase on top of his $1,000 monthly rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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City code enforcement records confirm that Luna and Sanchez filed a complaint about the broken stove and other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when FBI agents knocked on their doors in January 2018 asking about Gohar’s activities, the renters assumed that relief from the constant threat of eviction was on its way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always cooperated with them,” said Luna about the FBI’s inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all too soon, Luna and the other tenants found themselves facing eviction again — this time from the federal law enforcement officials who took over management of their building. After prosecutors indicted Gohar on criminal charges, they seized his Oakland rental properties. In January, the U.S. Marshals Service, which acts as the custodian of the seized buildings, began moving to evict the renters and sell off the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tenants, some of whom have lived there for more than a decade, said it’s unfair to be pushed out of their homes despite playing no part in the crimes of which Gohar is accused.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Illegal Slot Machine Ring\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It turned out that Gohar was netting hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from a network of illegal video slot machines hidden in smoke shops and liquor stores across Northern California, according to federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christian Norgaard, a special agent with the state Bureau of Gambling Control, said in an affidavit that Gohar, an Israeli citizen living in Berkeley, was investing some of the illicit proceeds in Oakland real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the multi-unit house on East 11th Street in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood, in 2017 Gohar had also purchased a nearby triplex on 7th Avenue and an uninhabited warehouse on Solano Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents arrested Gohar on Dec. 8, 2017. Prosecutors argued that Gohar should be held without bond because he was dangerous, owned real estate in foreign countries and might flee the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court testimony from FBI Agent Daniel Bryant, Gohar had allegedly threatened to break the legs of a convenience store owner who had cooperated with investigators, calling him an “Arabic asshole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, three weeks later Gohar was released on $200,000 bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after Gohar got out of jail, a Berkeley police officer spotted him driving recklessly in his 2017 Porsche Panamera, according to a complaint filed by prosecutors. Gohar crashed into two parked cars and “the officer observed one of the Porsche’s wheels fly off the Vehicle,” according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors asked a judge to revoke Gohar’s bond, but Gohar never showed up to his next hearing, scheduled on Jan. 3, 2017. He disappeared and remains a fugitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2018, after Gohar fled, the government seized his Oakland rental properties and the U.S. Marshals took over as the new landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New Landlords Bring New Demands\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the three households living in the East 11th Street property, the U.S. Marshals delivered new lease agreements in June and told them to sign, or be evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the leases didn’t change the tenants’ rent, they did include new terms. One was that the tenants would have to make and pay for any repairs themselves. Another was that their new landlord, the U.S. Marshals Service, be allowed to enter their apartments with just 12 hours’ notice, instead of the 24 hours required under state law. And the leases had one key provision: The marshals could evict the tenants — for any reason — with just 30 days notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two households living in the 7th Avenue building signed the new leases. And Perez and Caballero also signed the agreements. But Luna and Sanchez refused to sign and contacted Jackie Zaneri, a housing attorney with the nonprofit Centro Legal de la Raza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaneri said the new leases included several provisions that are illegal under state and local laws, in particular the terms allowing the marshals to evict renters for no cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaneri sent a letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Khasigian, the prosecutor who originally filed the paperwork to seize the buildings from Gohar, challenging the validity of the new leases the marshals were demanding the tenants sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaneri wrote that under Oakland’s Just Cause ordinance, her clients could not be evicted without substantial grounds, such as failing to pay rent. 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The marshals told them the buildings were up for sale and they had to move out, Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez, who lives in the East 11th Street building with his two children, said the marshals were an intimidating presence. “We’re scared,” he said. “Are they going to arrest us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notices also asked the tenants to notify Kevin Brown, a local real estate agent with Better Homes Realty, when they vacated the property. After Feb. 24, the notices explain, locks will be changed and any possessions left behind will be thrown away. A similar eviction notice was provided to tenants living in the 7th Avenue building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad the tenants came to us rather than taking these threatening notices at face value,” said Zaneri, who has advised the tenants that they have the right to stay in their homes. “State law protections don’t allow any landlord to do these sorts of things, and the federal government is no exception.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Asset Forfeiture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Marshals did not respond to specific questions about their attempts to evict the Oakland tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just days before the eviction deadline, a spokesperson for the agency said they were reversing their decision to evict the tenants from both properties. Notices to rescind the evictions were sent to Zaneri on Feb. 15 and to the tenants on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a U.S. Marshals spokesperson said the original notices to vacate were made at the direction of the buyers. “However, both buyers have since reversed their decisions and are allowing the occupants to stay on after the sales go to settlement,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marshals’ statement did not explain what legal authority allows purchasers of rental housing to direct the government to evict existing tenants. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Roots were to stay open next year to accommodate current students, but not include an incoming sixth grade class, she said, “we would only have a budget of 4.25 teachers for 140 students, which is not a sufficient amount of teachers to run a school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria also assured Roots’ teachers that they would not lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have job openings all the time,” she said. “We want to first and foremost support our teachers so they get placed into those positions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the decision is likely to further inflame tensions between the district and the teachers’ union, which is staunchly opposed to school closures. Teachers are voting this week on whether to give union leadership authority to call a strike if last-ditch bargaining efforts fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding that this proposal be pulled and that this issue be brought to the bargaining table,” Oakland Education Association president Keith Brown told board members ahead of last night’s vote. He warned the board that the California Teachers Association, the statewide union, would get involved and “seek the necessary legal actions to prevent the closure of Roots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students impacted by the closure will be given priority to enroll in nearby better-performing schools, the district said. That includes Coliseum College Prep Academy, a sixth- through 12th-grade school located on the same campus, which the district said will be able to accommodate 79 Roots students next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s little consolation for Roots parent Silvia Ornelas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just upset,” she said. “The kids are so cared for at our school, and I feel they’re just going to be pushed to the side in\u003cbr>\nany other school they go to.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003ch2>Roots Academy is the first of several schools that OUSD intends to close in the next few years. Many in Oakland are closely watching how the district handles this transition a model for what’s to come. Some parents feel left out of the decision-making process.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Jan. 29, 10 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CornellBarnard/status/1090105920837668864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amid angry protests\u003c/a>, the Oakland Unified school board voted 6-1 \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/28/roots-middle-school-to-close/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to close Roots International Academy\u003c/a> middle school at the end of the school year. Students will have the option of attending better-performing schools in the 2019-20 school year, the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original post\u003c/b>: Oakland Unified school board meetings these days are rarely without drama. Chanting, protest signs, booing: That’s all par for the course. But even by those standards, the emotional outpouring at the most recent meeting, which took place last week in the packed auditorium of La Escuelita Elementary School, was pretty exceptional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District’s plan to shutter Roots International Academy in East Oakland is alarming some parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board had convened to discuss the potential closure of Roots International Academy, a small, relatively new middle school in East Oakland beset with consistently poor test scores and dwindling enrollment. In a move that caught the community largely off-guard, the district announced the proposal in December, just before the holiday break, and plans to vote Monday on whether to close the school by the end of this academic year. If the motion is approved, all the students and staff at Roots Academy will be placed in other district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside align=right label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" tag=ousd-qa]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy students, with the support of hundreds of teachers and parents from across the district, marched into the meeting and quickly took over the agenda. They persuaded Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell and members of the school board to join them in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/restorativejustice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restorative justice\u003c/a> circle — a kind of conflict resolution process — and implored them to keep the school open. Over two emotional hours, a succession of students made poignant statements about the positive role the school has played in their lives and the distress they would feel from being forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You closing down Roots, to me, is like putting me up for adoption,” said seventh-grader Tenai Harris. “Roots made me who I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever Pablo, also an eighth-grader at Roots, added: “They picked me up when I was down, they helped me. It’s like a second home where I could go and tell any teacher how I felt because I trusted them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials responded sympathetically, but offered little indication of how they plan to ultimately vote. Protesters, meanwhile, have been trying to pressure the board to postpone Monday’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why is the potential closure of an academically ailing school with fewer than 300 students causing such a stir? Here’s a brief primer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the bigger story here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD has a huge budget deficit — to the tune of roughly $30 million. Under intense pressure to cut spending and encourage fiscal responsibility, the district recently proposed a controversial plan to pare down the number of schools it runs by as many as 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots is the first school to be placed on the chopping block, and how that situation plays out could indicate the way the district handles other schools on its list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on the Strike\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719763/photos-oakland-teachers-paint-prepare-to-vote-on-strike,PHOTOS: Oakland Teachers Paint and Prepare to Vote on Strike\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations,Oakland Teachers Rally and Hold One-Day Sickout Over Stalled Contract Talks\" link3=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718940/teachers-strike-looming-in-oakland-anger-boils-over-into-wildcat-moves,Teacher Sickout Looming in Oakland as Anger Boils Over\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school opened its doors in 2006 as part of an earlier district reform effort to break large, underperforming campuses into smaller schools that could, in theory, better support at-risk students. Nearly all of its pupils are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed-data.org/school/Alameda/Oakland-Unified/ROOTS-International-Academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minorities who qualify for free or reduced lunch\u003c/a> and a large percentage are English language learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots, though, has long struggled with declining enrollment and low academic performance. Just \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">309 students were enrolled\u003c/a> during the 2017-18 school year, the majority of whom did not meet grade-level standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/24/supporters-of-oaklands-roots-middle-school-briefly-shut-down-school-board-meeting/\">Wednesday’s school board meeting\u003c/a>, OUSD Deputy Chief of Innovation Yvette Renteria noted that Roots’ test scores are among the lowest in the district, calling it an “unsustainable small school with limited resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her presentation, Renteria said that closing Roots would save the district more than $345,000 next year, and expected that amount to increase over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the district hasn’t yet released the list of the other schools it’s considering closing, it is preparing a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4813&ModuleInstanceID=26172&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=25745&PageID=16608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citywide plan\u003c/a>” that compares factors like density, school enrollment and performance metrics. That likely means that most of the schools slated for closure will, like Roots Academy, be in underserved neighborhoods in the city’s flatlands, particularly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in East Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents in these communities see this as a disturbing pattern and have said that, despite the district’s promises to include them in these discussions, they feel largely left out of the decision-making process. Many teachers and parents have also said they want to see the district invest more in struggling schools rather than shuttering them and busing their kids to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complicate matters further, the situation is unfolding against the backdrop of a looming teachers’ strike. Tensions between OUSD teachers and their employer have reached a boiling point. Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has also expressed its staunch \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/2db40532-0bde-4b8b-8636-f7164cbfad57.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition to closing schools\u003c/a>, casting it as an equity issue. So the Roots Academy decision has become a kind of rallying cry for Oakland teachers and a focal point for their showdown with the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, the teachers’ union, plans to hold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/videos/2158304011096753/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strike authorization\u003c/a> vote at the end of this month. In an early warning shot, hundreds of teachers and students walked off the job — and out of the classroom — in a one-day sickout on Jan. 18. A full-fledged strike could begin as soon as early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the district thinking about closing so many schools?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district currently operates 87 school sites, and is considering closing up to 24 of them. The idea is part of the school board’s long-term effort to chip away at its massive budget deficit and establish some degree of financial sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teachers Join Parents to Fight Closure of Oakland’s Roots Academy\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0979-e1547162102621-1020x658.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents and students opposed to the school district’s plan to close Roots International Academy in East Oakland are vowing to fight to keep it open.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Much of that stems from intense pressure from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, California’s Legislature approved a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-risks-state-takeover-if-it-fails-to-make-budget-cuts-state-and-county-officials-warn/604183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bailout\u003c/a> for the financially ailing district of up to $34 million, as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">education finance bill\u003c/a> signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. But that money comes with some strict conditions, including a significant reduction of OUSD’s overhead costs. Failure to do so could result in another state takeover of the district, which last occurred \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/us/dream-ends-for-oakland-school-chief-as-state-takes-over.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2003\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state bailout plan comes on the heels of an \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/grandjury/final2017-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County civil grand jury\u003c/a> report released in June 2018, which found the district had “lost control of spending” and was operating far more schools than its declining enrollment could justify. In the last 15 years, as the district lost a growing number of students to charter schools and other factors, enrollment fell from 54,000 to under 37,000, according to the report. Even so, the district continued to add schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More schools mean more administrators and other non-teaching staff, as well as additional overhead expenses. A major consolidation could therefore lead to significant cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report noted that OUSD, compared to other similarly sized districts in the Bay Area, has an outsized proportion of schools for its student body. The average district school has 412 students, it found. In contrast, Fremont Unified, a similarly sized district that’s more financially stable and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Fremont-Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much higher overall academic performance metrics\u003c/a>, has only 42 schools, or about 833 students per school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is also looking at other cost-saving options to help whittle down its deficit, including trimming administrative staff, selling off surplus properties and increasing enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing schools, in and of itself, is certainly not a magic bullet. In 2011, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-board-votes-to-close-5-schools-2325158.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUSD shuttered five elementary schools\u003c/a> in an effort to save about $2 million annually. Some critics of the move, though, say it led more students to leave the district, which ultimately offset most of the savings. School district funding from the state is, after all, based primarily on enrollment, and if enough displaced students decide to go to charter schools or even move to other districts, that could defeat the whole purpose of closing the schools to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens to Roots Academy students and teachers if it closes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School district officials say that if the school closes, they intend to work with Roots Academy families to find the most appropriate placement for their children, with the opportunity to transfer to a better-performing school. School board members at Wednesday’s contentious meeting also stressed that no employees at Roots would be at risk of losing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district wants to expand Coliseum College Prep Academy (CCPA), a higher-performing sixth- through 12th-grade school located on the same campus as Roots. Under the proposal, the school would double the number of sixth-grade seats it offers, taking on an additional 79 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district said that CCPA would definitely not be able to accommodate all of Roots’ current students. Some students would also likely be sent to Elmhurst Community, Greenleaf, Madison Park Upper and Urban Promise Academy schools, according to OUSD spokesman John Sasaki, and potentially offered Clipper cards to get there.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch2>Roots Academy is the first of several schools that OUSD intends to close in the next few years. Many in Oakland are closely watching how the district handles this transition a model for what’s to come. Some parents feel left out of the decision-making process.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Jan. 29, 10 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CornellBarnard/status/1090105920837668864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amid angry protests\u003c/a>, the Oakland Unified school board voted 6-1 \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/28/roots-middle-school-to-close/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to close Roots International Academy\u003c/a> middle school at the end of the school year. Students will have the option of attending better-performing schools in the 2019-20 school year, the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original post\u003c/b>: Oakland Unified school board meetings these days are rarely without drama. Chanting, protest signs, booing: That’s all par for the course. But even by those standards, the emotional outpouring at the most recent meeting, which took place last week in the packed auditorium of La Escuelita Elementary School, was pretty exceptional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District’s plan to shutter Roots International Academy in East Oakland is alarming some parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board had convened to discuss the potential closure of Roots International Academy, a small, relatively new middle school in East Oakland beset with consistently poor test scores and dwindling enrollment. In a move that caught the community largely off-guard, the district announced the proposal in December, just before the holiday break, and plans to vote Monday on whether to close the school by the end of this academic year. If the motion is approved, all the students and staff at Roots Academy will be placed in other district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy students, with the support of hundreds of teachers and parents from across the district, marched into the meeting and quickly took over the agenda. They persuaded Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell and members of the school board to join them in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/restorativejustice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restorative justice\u003c/a> circle — a kind of conflict resolution process — and implored them to keep the school open. Over two emotional hours, a succession of students made poignant statements about the positive role the school has played in their lives and the distress they would feel from being forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You closing down Roots, to me, is like putting me up for adoption,” said seventh-grader Tenai Harris. “Roots made me who I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever Pablo, also an eighth-grader at Roots, added: “They picked me up when I was down, they helped me. It’s like a second home where I could go and tell any teacher how I felt because I trusted them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials responded sympathetically, but offered little indication of how they plan to ultimately vote. Protesters, meanwhile, have been trying to pressure the board to postpone Monday’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why is the potential closure of an academically ailing school with fewer than 300 students causing such a stir? Here’s a brief primer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the bigger story here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>OUSD has a huge budget deficit — to the tune of roughly $30 million. Under intense pressure to cut spending and encourage fiscal responsibility, the district recently proposed a controversial plan to pare down the number of schools it runs by as many as 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots is the first school to be placed on the chopping block, and how that situation plays out could indicate the way the district handles other schools on its list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school opened its doors in 2006 as part of an earlier district reform effort to break large, underperforming campuses into smaller schools that could, in theory, better support at-risk students. Nearly all of its pupils are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed-data.org/school/Alameda/Oakland-Unified/ROOTS-International-Academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minorities who qualify for free or reduced lunch\u003c/a> and a large percentage are English language learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots, though, has long struggled with declining enrollment and low academic performance. Just \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">309 students were enrolled\u003c/a> during the 2017-18 school year, the majority of whom did not meet grade-level standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/24/supporters-of-oaklands-roots-middle-school-briefly-shut-down-school-board-meeting/\">Wednesday’s school board meeting\u003c/a>, OUSD Deputy Chief of Innovation Yvette Renteria noted that Roots’ test scores are among the lowest in the district, calling it an “unsustainable small school with limited resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her presentation, Renteria said that closing Roots would save the district more than $345,000 next year, and expected that amount to increase over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the district hasn’t yet released the list of the other schools it’s considering closing, it is preparing a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4813&ModuleInstanceID=26172&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=25745&PageID=16608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citywide plan\u003c/a>” that compares factors like density, school enrollment and performance metrics. That likely means that most of the schools slated for closure will, like Roots Academy, be in underserved neighborhoods in the city’s flatlands, particularly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in East Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents in these communities see this as a disturbing pattern and have said that, despite the district’s promises to include them in these discussions, they feel largely left out of the decision-making process. Many teachers and parents have also said they want to see the district invest more in struggling schools rather than shuttering them and busing their kids to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complicate matters further, the situation is unfolding against the backdrop of a looming teachers’ strike. Tensions between OUSD teachers and their employer have reached a boiling point. Oakland teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/teacher-salaries-in-bay-area-counties-2016-17/599272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the lowest paid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract since July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has also expressed its staunch \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/3cb1c19b001/2db40532-0bde-4b8b-8636-f7164cbfad57.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition to closing schools\u003c/a>, casting it as an equity issue. So the Roots Academy decision has become a kind of rallying cry for Oakland teachers and a focal point for their showdown with the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Education Association, the teachers’ union, plans to hold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OaklandEA/videos/2158304011096753/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strike authorization\u003c/a> vote at the end of this month. In an early warning shot, hundreds of teachers and students walked off the job — and out of the classroom — in a one-day sickout on Jan. 18. A full-fledged strike could begin as soon as early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the district thinking about closing so many schools?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district currently operates 87 school sites, and is considering closing up to 24 of them. The idea is part of the school board’s long-term effort to chip away at its massive budget deficit and establish some degree of financial sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teachers Join Parents to Fight Closure of Oakland’s Roots Academy\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717451/teachers-join-parents-to-fight-closure-of-oaklands-roots-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0979-e1547162102621-1020x658.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents and students opposed to the school district’s plan to close Roots International Academy in East Oakland are vowing to fight to keep it open.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Much of that stems from intense pressure from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, California’s Legislature approved a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-risks-state-takeover-if-it-fails-to-make-budget-cuts-state-and-county-officials-warn/604183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bailout\u003c/a> for the financially ailing district of up to $34 million, as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">education finance bill\u003c/a> signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. But that money comes with some strict conditions, including a significant reduction of OUSD’s overhead costs. Failure to do so could result in another state takeover of the district, which last occurred \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/us/dream-ends-for-oakland-school-chief-as-state-takes-over.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2003\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state bailout plan comes on the heels of an \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/grandjury/final2017-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County civil grand jury\u003c/a> report released in June 2018, which found the district had “lost control of spending” and was operating far more schools than its declining enrollment could justify. In the last 15 years, as the district lost a growing number of students to charter schools and other factors, enrollment fell from 54,000 to under 37,000, according to the report. Even so, the district continued to add schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More schools mean more administrators and other non-teaching staff, as well as additional overhead expenses. A major consolidation could therefore lead to significant cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report noted that OUSD, compared to other similarly sized districts in the Bay Area, has an outsized proportion of schools for its student body. The average district school has 412 students, it found. In contrast, Fremont Unified, a similarly sized district that’s more financially stable and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Fremont-Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much higher overall academic performance metrics\u003c/a>, has only 42 schools, or about 833 students per school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is also looking at other cost-saving options to help whittle down its deficit, including trimming administrative staff, selling off surplus properties and increasing enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing schools, in and of itself, is certainly not a magic bullet. In 2011, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-board-votes-to-close-5-schools-2325158.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUSD shuttered five elementary schools\u003c/a> in an effort to save about $2 million annually. Some critics of the move, though, say it led more students to leave the district, which ultimately offset most of the savings. School district funding from the state is, after all, based primarily on enrollment, and if enough displaced students decide to go to charter schools or even move to other districts, that could defeat the whole purpose of closing the schools to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens to Roots Academy students and teachers if it closes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School district officials say that if the school closes, they intend to work with Roots Academy families to find the most appropriate placement for their children, with the opportunity to transfer to a better-performing school. School board members at Wednesday’s contentious meeting also stressed that no employees at Roots would be at risk of losing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district wants to expand Coliseum College Prep Academy (CCPA), a higher-performing sixth- through 12th-grade school located on the same campus as Roots. Under the proposal, the school would double the number of sixth-grade seats it offers, taking on an additional 79 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As part of a controversial consolidation effort, Oakland’s school district recently revealed a plan to merge two distinct elementary schools located in different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls for shuttering Kaiser Elementary School in the Claremont Hills and relocating its students to Sankofa Academy, which is located in a roomy building in Oakland’s Bushrod neighborhood. If approved by the school board, the move would combine schools with dramatically different socioeconomic and racial profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, all 275 students at Kaiser, along with its teachers, would join the 187 students at Sankofa by the start of the 2020-21 school year. The school board is tentatively expected to vote on the proposal in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser teachers said district officials informed them of the move last Wednesday, and told the school’s families the following day. Sankofa teachers were not informed until Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents and teachers at Kaiser have already expressed fierce opposition to the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s heartbreaking that they would take away a really beautiful, well-functioning school that is a choice for Oakland children and just end it,” said Mary Grace McGhee, a second grade teacher who has worked at Kaiser for 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not how OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell sees it. She’s billing the move as a way to give more students the opportunity to attend a good school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to put a high quality school in every neighborhood that’s accessible to every family who wants their student to attend,” she said in a statement to KQED on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">Oakland’s School Closure Plans Off to a Rough Start for Some Parents\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proposed merger is part of Oakland Unified’s contentious plan to close up to 24 of the district’s 87 school sites in an effort to regain financial stability and improve school quality. In December, the district announced that Roots International Academy, a small middle school in East Oakland, would be the first school on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser and Sankofa are only about three miles away from each other, but in many respects the two schools are leagues apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa has an abysmal academic performance record: only about 4 percent of students met state math standards last year, while less than 8 percent met English language arts standards, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=0110254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=6001895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well over half\u003c/a> of Kaiser students met both math and reading standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This discrepancy is not surprising given the schools’ differing demographics: About \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612590110254&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y&ro=y&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90 percent\u003c/a> of Sankofa’s students are economically disadvantaged, as compared to \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612596001895&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only a quarter\u003c/a> of those at Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ample body of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/equal-resources-equal-outcomes-the-distribution-of-school-resources-and-student-achievement-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research has found\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/school-district-socioeconomic-status-race-and-academic-achievement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strongest predictor\u003c/a> of test scores in a school isn’t teacher quality or curriculum, but rather the percentage of its students who live below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa also has a much higher percentage of students with special needs: 17 percent vs. 7 percent at Kaiser. And unlike at Kaiser, the school reports having several homeless students and foster youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District officials cite limited space for expansion as one reason to merge Kaiser with another school with room to grow. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s lots of trauma and food insecurity in our kids,” said Marisa Mills, a Sankofa teacher. “We are academically failing, but we’re not nothing, and we bristle at that idea. We have some extremely talented students. We’re also the hardest working teachers I’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparities between the two schools are also striking along racial lines. At Kaiser, roughly 22 percent of students are black, 17 percent are Latino and 34 percent are white, according to state data. By comparison, Sankofa is about 67 percent black, 13 percent Latino and 4 percent white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills said she’s not surprised that Sankofa has been targeted by the district. The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/12/20/two-oakland-schools-escape-closure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrowly escaped closure\u003c/a> in 2007, and for years has performed poorly and been consistently under-enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been fighting so hard and so long to try to save Sankofa,” she said. “There’s a sense of inevitability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills raised some concerns about the possible merger, including the fact that Kaiser teachers and parents were notified about the plan first. She also expressed concern about whether Sankofa would remain eligible for Title I grant funding that’s reserved for schools with high proportions of low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mills said the merger could have real benefits for Sankofa’s students if it’s executed thoughtfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47765/how-socioeconomic-diversity-in-schools-helps-all-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research suggests\u003c/a> that socioeconomic integration is good for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s far from clear, though, if the majority of Kaiser parents would warm to the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parin Shah’s daughter is a fourth-grader at Kaiser and lives within walking distance of Sankofa. He said his family considered Sankofa before deciding Kaiser’s tranquil setting was a better fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great learning environment, it’s incredibly diverse. It represents much of why we moved to Oakland,” he said of his daughter’s school. “To merge Kaiser with any school and rip that fabric apart brings up a mix of real deep sorrow and loss, and then anger turning to creativity about how we’re not going to allow that to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In justifying the merger, district officials point to a recent analysis that found relatively few Kaiser students actually live in the Claremont Hills neighborhood. But a significant number live in Sankofa’s attendance zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said he’s deeply distrustful that the district can actually pull off what sounds like a well-intentioned proposal. He thinks it should focus on improving Sankofa, not disrupt a school that’s already working well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The notion that a merger and bringing resources from one school and blending them with another will improve both is a little bit false,” said Shah. He referenced an informal poll of Kaiser parents at a recent PTA meeting suggesting that many would pull their kids out of the district before sending them to a merged school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a conscious choice to come to this learning environment,” he said. “We’re ready to care for the community we’ve all created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district, Kaiser parents who don’t want to send their kids to the merged school may be able to take advantage of a policy being considered by the school board — what’s being called an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712318/oakland-considers-opportunity-ticket-to-funnel-more-minority-students-into-top-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opportunity ticket\u003c/a>” that would give them priority enrollment at a school of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kaiser fourth and fifth grade teacher Steve Neat, a 16-year veteran of the school, said he plans to ensure Kaiser parents won’t have to look elsewhere. Neat said he was around when the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-proposes-eliminating-13-schools-2308672.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considered closing \u003c/a>Kaiser in 2011 because of its small student body and limited potential for expansion. He credited a strong mobilization by the school community for saving it, and said he expects the same this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have families who live in every school board member’s district,” Neat said. “We have people who are very familiar with the legal system and know how to use it. We have people who don’t play around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there is some community support for the district’s efforts to create quality options in the city’s flatlands. Lakisha Young, who runs the parent advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandreach.org/\">Oakland REACH\u003c/a> has been working with Sankofa parents for months in preparation for a change at the school. She had expected Sankofa to merge with Peralta Elementary School, a high performing, in-demand school located just blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new proposal came as a surprise to Young, but she said her group will keep working to support Sankofa parents as it moves forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us it’s ultimately about these kids getting a great education,” Young said. “They could do something amazing on that Sankofa campus, but a lot of people don’t trust the system to merge schools and keep quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “At the end of the day, parents are going to be thinking about what’s best for their babies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As part of a controversial consolidation effort, Oakland’s school district recently revealed a plan to merge two distinct elementary schools located in different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls for shuttering Kaiser Elementary School in the Claremont Hills and relocating its students to Sankofa Academy, which is located in a roomy building in Oakland’s Bushrod neighborhood. If approved by the school board, the move would combine schools with dramatically different socioeconomic and racial profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, all 275 students at Kaiser, along with its teachers, would join the 187 students at Sankofa by the start of the 2020-21 school year. The school board is tentatively expected to vote on the proposal in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser teachers said district officials informed them of the move last Wednesday, and told the school’s families the following day. Sankofa teachers were not informed until Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents and teachers at Kaiser have already expressed fierce opposition to the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s heartbreaking that they would take away a really beautiful, well-functioning school that is a choice for Oakland children and just end it,” said Mary Grace McGhee, a second grade teacher who has worked at Kaiser for 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not how OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell sees it. She’s billing the move as a way to give more students the opportunity to attend a good school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to put a high quality school in every neighborhood that’s accessible to every family who wants their student to attend,” she said in a statement to KQED on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">Oakland’s School Closure Plans Off to a Rough Start for Some Parents\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RootsIntlAcademy-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proposed merger is part of Oakland Unified’s contentious plan to close up to 24 of the district’s 87 school sites in an effort to regain financial stability and improve school quality. In December, the district announced that Roots International Academy, a small middle school in East Oakland, would be the first school on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser and Sankofa are only about three miles away from each other, but in many respects the two schools are leagues apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa has an abysmal academic performance record: only about 4 percent of students met state math standards last year, while less than 8 percent met English language arts standards, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=0110254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2018/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2018&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=6001895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well over half\u003c/a> of Kaiser students met both math and reading standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This discrepancy is not surprising given the schools’ differing demographics: About \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612590110254&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y&ro=y&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90 percent\u003c/a> of Sankofa’s students are economically disadvantaged, as compared to \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/EnrCharterSub.aspx?cds=01612596001895&agglevel=School&year=2017-18&ro=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only a quarter\u003c/a> of those at Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ample body of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/equal-resources-equal-outcomes-the-distribution-of-school-resources-and-student-achievement-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research has found\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/school-district-socioeconomic-status-race-and-academic-achievement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strongest predictor\u003c/a> of test scores in a school isn’t teacher quality or curriculum, but rather the percentage of its students who live below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa also has a much higher percentage of students with special needs: 17 percent vs. 7 percent at Kaiser. And unlike at Kaiser, the school reports having several homeless students and foster youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_1012.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District officials cite limited space for expansion as one reason to merge Kaiser with another school with room to grow. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s lots of trauma and food insecurity in our kids,” said Marisa Mills, a Sankofa teacher. “We are academically failing, but we’re not nothing, and we bristle at that idea. We have some extremely talented students. We’re also the hardest working teachers I’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparities between the two schools are also striking along racial lines. At Kaiser, roughly 22 percent of students are black, 17 percent are Latino and 34 percent are white, according to state data. By comparison, Sankofa is about 67 percent black, 13 percent Latino and 4 percent white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills said she’s not surprised that Sankofa has been targeted by the district. The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/12/20/two-oakland-schools-escape-closure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrowly escaped closure\u003c/a> in 2007, and for years has performed poorly and been consistently under-enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been fighting so hard and so long to try to save Sankofa,” she said. “There’s a sense of inevitability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills raised some concerns about the possible merger, including the fact that Kaiser teachers and parents were notified about the plan first. She also expressed concern about whether Sankofa would remain eligible for Title I grant funding that’s reserved for schools with high proportions of low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mills said the merger could have real benefits for Sankofa’s students if it’s executed thoughtfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47765/how-socioeconomic-diversity-in-schools-helps-all-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research suggests\u003c/a> that socioeconomic integration is good for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s far from clear, though, if the majority of Kaiser parents would warm to the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parin Shah’s daughter is a fourth-grader at Kaiser and lives within walking distance of Sankofa. He said his family considered Sankofa before deciding Kaiser’s tranquil setting was a better fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great learning environment, it’s incredibly diverse. It represents much of why we moved to Oakland,” he said of his daughter’s school. “To merge Kaiser with any school and rip that fabric apart brings up a mix of real deep sorrow and loss, and then anger turning to creativity about how we’re not going to allow that to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In justifying the merger, district officials point to a recent analysis that found relatively few Kaiser students actually live in the Claremont Hills neighborhood. But a significant number live in Sankofa’s attendance zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said he’s deeply distrustful that the district can actually pull off what sounds like a well-intentioned proposal. He thinks it should focus on improving Sankofa, not disrupt a school that’s already working well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The notion that a merger and bringing resources from one school and blending them with another will improve both is a little bit false,” said Shah. He referenced an informal poll of Kaiser parents at a recent PTA meeting suggesting that many would pull their kids out of the district before sending them to a merged school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a conscious choice to come to this learning environment,” he said. “We’re ready to care for the community we’ve all created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district, Kaiser parents who don’t want to send their kids to the merged school may be able to take advantage of a policy being considered by the school board — what’s being called an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712318/oakland-considers-opportunity-ticket-to-funnel-more-minority-students-into-top-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opportunity ticket\u003c/a>” that would give them priority enrollment at a school of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kaiser fourth and fifth grade teacher Steve Neat, a 16-year veteran of the school, said he plans to ensure Kaiser parents won’t have to look elsewhere. Neat said he was around when the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-proposes-eliminating-13-schools-2308672.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considered closing \u003c/a>Kaiser in 2011 because of its small student body and limited potential for expansion. He credited a strong mobilization by the school community for saving it, and said he expects the same this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have families who live in every school board member’s district,” Neat said. “We have people who are very familiar with the legal system and know how to use it. We have people who don’t play around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there is some community support for the district’s efforts to create quality options in the city’s flatlands. Lakisha Young, who runs the parent advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandreach.org/\">Oakland REACH\u003c/a> has been working with Sankofa parents for months in preparation for a change at the school. She had expected Sankofa to merge with Peralta Elementary School, a high performing, in-demand school located just blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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