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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. 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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. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of Los Angeles teachers returned to work Wednesday after voting to ratify a deal between their union and school officials, ending a six-day strike in the nation’s second-largest district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Great! It can’t be better!” exclaimed Helen Han, a kindergarten Mandarin language teacher, as she returned to Castelar Elementary in Chinatown. “I wasn’t really worried because the parents were totally behind us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The return to a normal day across the vast district followed days of marches and picketing and then marathon bargaining over the past weekend that led to a ratification vote Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I voted ‘yes,’ to approve,” said second-grade teacher Wendy Perez. “I think the union negotiated in good faith, and I’d like to believe the district did too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crowd of teachers roared its approval after the tentative deal was announced at City Hall following a 21-hour bargaining session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While all votes hadn’t been counted by Tuesday night, union President Alex Caputo-Pearl said preliminary balloting showed educators overwhelmingly approving the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A vast supermajority are voting ‘yes’ … therefore, ending the strike and heading back to schools tomorrow,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Eric Garcetti, accompanied by leaders of United Teachers Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Unified School District, called it an “historic agreement” that will usher in a “new day” for public education in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal came as teachers in Denver voted to go on strike as soon as next Monday. More than 5,000 educators would be affected. The main sticking point is increasing base pay and lessening teachers’ reliance on one-time bonuses for having students with high test scores or working in a high-poverty school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some teachers called in sick last week\u003c/a> as part of an unofficial rally over their contract negotiations, which also hinge partly on a demand for smaller class sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\">Oakland Teachers Rally, Hold One-Day Sickout Over Stalled Contract Talks\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0202-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Teachers hoped to build on the “Red4Ed” movement that began last year in West Virginia and moved to Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona, Colorado and Washington state. It spread from conservative states with “right to work” laws that limit the ability to strike to the more liberal West Coast with strong unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, thousands of boisterous educators and their supporters cheered as the tentative contract agreement was announced earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal includes a 6 percent pay hike and a commitment to reduce class sizes over four years, according to statements from the district and the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will also add more than 600 nursing positions over the next three school years, which pleased Perez. Teachers had complained that some schools only had a nurse on campus one day a week, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a matter of time before a student got very sick, with no nurse around,” Perez said. “We’ve got kids with peanut allergies, asthma, diabetes. We need nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional counselors and librarians are also part of the planned increase in support staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new contract also eliminates a longstanding clause that gave the district authority over class sizes, officials said. Many schools will see a class size reduction of about four students in three years — though 90 high-needs campuses will see six fewer students per class during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those reductions were the main reason teacher Charles Pak voted to ratify — but he said he was happy with the deal as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got almost everything we asked for, just about,” said Pak, who teaches 8th grade English. “So I think the strike was positive overall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Superintendent Austin Beutner said he was delighted the deal was reached. But he hinted that financial challenges remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue has always been how do we pay for it?” Beutner said. “That issue does not go away now that we have a contract. We can’t solve 40 years of underinvestment in public education in just one week or just one contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement, the district, the union and the mayor’s office will work jointly to “advocate for increased county and state funding” for Los Angeles schools, according to the UTLA summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district maintained that the union’s demands could bankrupt the school system, which is projecting a half-billion-dollar deficit this budget year and has billions obligated for pension payments and health coverage for retired teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Education was expected to move quickly to ratify the deal, which would expire at the end of June 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Maloney said students at the downtown Los Angeles high school where he teaches English told him they’re ready to return to normal after spending a week in large groups supervised by small numbers of substitute teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re bored,” he said of his 12th grade pupils. “Going back is going to be a big transition for everyone— students, administrators, teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Brian Melley, John Antczak and John Rogers contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow Weber at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WeberCM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https://twitter.com/WeberCM\u003c/a> .\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The main sticking point is increasing base pay and lessening teachers’ reliance on one-time bonuses for having students with high test scores or working in a high-poverty school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some teachers called in sick last week\u003c/a> as part of an unofficial rally over their contract negotiations, which also hinge partly on a demand for smaller class sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\">Oakland Teachers Rally, Hold One-Day Sickout Over Stalled Contract Talks\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719149/oakland-teachers-rally-hold-one-day-sickout-over-stalled-contract-negotiations\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0202-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Teachers hoped to build on the “Red4Ed” movement that began last year in West Virginia and moved to Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona, Colorado and Washington state. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Friday night, roommates Jason Jones and Tamiko Panzella were hanging out in the Oakland apartment they shared, laughing about an epic gym workout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get there and we have to take our shoes and socks off,” Jones said, laughing. “I’m like, oh no, she got me into yoga. She tricked me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What made the yoga session jarring was that it was Jones’ first full day of freedom after more than a decade behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah they tell me to get into Downward Dog,” Jones said, as Panzella chuckled. “That’s the one position you don’t want to be in, in prison. The second day out! I look over there and she’s dying laughing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one level, it’s all normal, life-with-roommates kind of stuff, but this is new for Jones, 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently was released on parole, serving nearly 14 years in a series of California prisons for felony assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Panzella are part of a first-of-its-kind program that’s providing vitally needed housing for inmates released from prison. The program also aims to break down misconceptions and fear surrounding the formerly incarcerated in a nation that \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imprisons more people than any other\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project in California’s Alameda County is matching prisoners being released after long sentences with homeowners and renters, who want to take part in the experiment. The nonprofit behind the program pays the former inmates’ rent for six months and actively supports the partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s the first time I felt like I’m actually part of a family, you know what I mean?” said Jones.’\u003ccite>Jason Jones, former inmate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Call it the social justice arm of the sharing economy. “The sharing economy with a conscience, with values,” said Alex Busansky, a former prosecutor and Justice Department lawyer. He now runs \u003ca href=\"https://impactjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Impact Justice\u003c/a>, the group behind the novel housing initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project provides cash subsidies to homeowners in exchange for renting a room to a former inmate, Busansky said. It is similar to how Airbnb allows people to monetize their extra living spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people getting out of prison, the penalty hasn’t ended and re-entry is its own obstacle course that everybody has to navigate,” Busansky said. “Housing is essential to being able to get through that obstacle course: If you don’t have a place to sleep, to shower, to keep your things, it’s very difficult to think about doing anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How it works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Finding stable, affordable housing — especially in the San Francisco Bay Area — is often one of the biggest barriers to ex-inmates, along with finding a decent job and getting their life back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, most inmates getting out after serving a lengthy sentence are offered some kind of transitional housing or a slot in a halfway house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That usually involves communal living in cramped quarters with other ex-convicts. Often, there are strict curfews, limits on visitors and other prison-like rules and restrictions. Some former inmates chafe at those limits, because it can limit their ability to reconnect with family or find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this program has none of that. Participants come and go as they please. Issues that arise are worked out like any normal roommate situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Project Homecoming says you’re a person and we’re going to treat you like a person and give you the footholds and the scaffolding to be able to come back home and to be a full member of society just like anybody else,” Busansky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ex-inmates and home hosts are both carefully screened, through interviews and home visits, to make sure it’s a good match. Hosts agree to rent their space for at least six months. There is training for the hosts before anyone gets a key to the home and follow-up support for all of them on the often unique and formidable challenges facing the formerly imprisoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take a hard look at people’s pasts,” said the program’s coordinator, Terah Lawyer, who, as a formerly incarcerated woman, knows about the challenges of transitioning back from prison. “We have to look at their past as an indicator of what they’ve become over time. Most of our hosts are familiar with redemption and change and want to be a part of helping be the stepping stone for someone’s second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the experiment is small. It launched just a few months ago with six male ex-convicts paired with local hosts — couples and families — around the Bay Area. Impact Justice hopes to expand it to 25 participants by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella said she was initially apprehensive. But she had volunteered at a local prison and knew the challenges facing the formerly incarcerated. The more she learned, the more she and her boyfriend became excited to take part in the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it’s not just working with the person in front of you,” Panzella said. “If it’s successful, this is something that could be replicated” in other American cities for smooth re-entry for former prisoners. In the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 600,000 people\u003c/a> are released from prison every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The larger goal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A larger and perhaps more elusive goal is to demystify and to humanize the often abstract debates around criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people, the story of prison in America is not a story they know,” said Busansky. “They don’t know people who are in prison or people who are getting out of prison.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busansky said the biggest obstacle to growing the program was finding enough hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s fear,” said Busansky. “There’s apprehension, a sense of the unknown. It’s hard to tell people, ‘This is a great idea and you should try it; bring a stranger getting out of prison into your home.’ Not a conversation that most people are used to having.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s one Busansky believes America has to have — especially now — as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/05/21/trump-prison-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing bipartisan\u003c/a> national movement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/18/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive district attorneys\u003c/a>, reform groups and businesses work to unwind decades of drug war-fueled mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In This San Quentin Class, Inmates Write Their Way Into a Better Future\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/20110917_1100E-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One recent report estimated former inmates were almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 times more likely\u003c/a> to become homeless than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to increase our host numbers, but we can’t just say ‘Yes’ to anyone and everyone,” Lawyer said. “We’re not going to house people in unsafe neighborhoods that are not nurturing” or would put ex-inmates at greater risk for re-offending or falling back into old habits, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Part of a family’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jones grew up in Tulare, a mostly farming and dairy city in California’s Central Valley. His path to prison is a familiar one: Absent parents and little oversight led to a cycle of police trouble and being in and out of foster care and group homes starting around age 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the households I’ve been in consisted of some kind of abuse either mentally, verbally, physically — whatever it was, or some type of drug use in the household,” he said. He called growing up “a horrible experience” and that he started to not trust people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said he felt like one of the lucky ones. Most inmates released from the California prison system got just $200 and were sent off to figure things out on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones had much more than that: He learned how to code with the backing of \u003ca href=\"https://thelastmile.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last Mile\u003c/a>, a computer tech and business training program for inmates. He had a software job waiting for him with the pop culture movie, games and TV website \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fandom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he didn’t have a home to go back to and initially had reservations about the Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, man, this feel like adult foster care, like I’m getting adopted again,” he said. “Going into a stranger’s household, getting judged all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short months he and hosts Panzella and her boyfriend, Joe Klein, have become genuine friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel kind of weird even saying we’re in a ‘program’ because it doesn’t really feel like that,” Panzella said. “I think we just have a really strong friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones agreed. He called it one of the only stable homes he has ever known. He recently spent the holiday season with Panzella’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said the key difference with this program and others is that former inmates get to see and experience the day-to-day life of people on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re in the community — in someone’s home — able to watch how they buy groceries, clean their home, live a normal life, get up go to work and come home enjoy a TV show,” said Lawyer. “What that really looks like in real time is essential as an example to our participants, who have been completely out of society for 10-plus years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella and Klein have been with Jones through a dizzying number of firsts since he left prison, including going to the beach, to a bowling alley, using a smartphone, getting on social media and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what to order,” said Jones on his experience of seeing some restaurant menus that made his head spin. “I’m just like I don’t know what this food is like. 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She is now in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jones, coming back has been complicated and difficult, but his new roommates — with support from Impact Justice — have helped him navigate it all. “It’s the first time I felt like I’m actually part of a family, you know what I mean?” said Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the program is something he didn’t expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, if it wasn’t for this situation and the sacrifices and things that Joe and Tamiko were able to do, I don’t know exactly how far along I would be,” said Jones. “I’m only able to start work and do all this stuff because of that assistance that they gave me immediately when I got out.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently was released on parole, serving nearly 14 years in a series of California prisons for felony assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Panzella are part of a first-of-its-kind program that’s providing vitally needed housing for inmates released from prison. The program also aims to break down misconceptions and fear surrounding the formerly incarcerated in a nation that \u003ca href=\"http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imprisons more people than any other\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project in California’s Alameda County is matching prisoners being released after long sentences with homeowners and renters, who want to take part in the experiment. The nonprofit behind the program pays the former inmates’ rent for six months and actively supports the partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s the first time I felt like I’m actually part of a family, you know what I mean?” said Jones.’\u003ccite>Jason Jones, former inmate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Call it the social justice arm of the sharing economy. “The sharing economy with a conscience, with values,” said Alex Busansky, a former prosecutor and Justice Department lawyer. He now runs \u003ca href=\"https://impactjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Impact Justice\u003c/a>, the group behind the novel housing initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project provides cash subsidies to homeowners in exchange for renting a room to a former inmate, Busansky said. It is similar to how Airbnb allows people to monetize their extra living spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people getting out of prison, the penalty hasn’t ended and re-entry is its own obstacle course that everybody has to navigate,” Busansky said. “Housing is essential to being able to get through that obstacle course: If you don’t have a place to sleep, to shower, to keep your things, it’s very difficult to think about doing anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How it works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Finding stable, affordable housing — especially in the San Francisco Bay Area — is often one of the biggest barriers to ex-inmates, along with finding a decent job and getting their life back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, most inmates getting out after serving a lengthy sentence are offered some kind of transitional housing or a slot in a halfway house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That usually involves communal living in cramped quarters with other ex-convicts. Often, there are strict curfews, limits on visitors and other prison-like rules and restrictions. Some former inmates chafe at those limits, because it can limit their ability to reconnect with family or find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this program has none of that. Participants come and go as they please. Issues that arise are worked out like any normal roommate situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Project Homecoming says you’re a person and we’re going to treat you like a person and give you the footholds and the scaffolding to be able to come back home and to be a full member of society just like anybody else,” Busansky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ex-inmates and home hosts are both carefully screened, through interviews and home visits, to make sure it’s a good match. Hosts agree to rent their space for at least six months. There is training for the hosts before anyone gets a key to the home and follow-up support for all of them on the often unique and formidable challenges facing the formerly imprisoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take a hard look at people’s pasts,” said the program’s coordinator, Terah Lawyer, who, as a formerly incarcerated woman, knows about the challenges of transitioning back from prison. “We have to look at their past as an indicator of what they’ve become over time. Most of our hosts are familiar with redemption and change and want to be a part of helping be the stepping stone for someone’s second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the experiment is small. It launched just a few months ago with six male ex-convicts paired with local hosts — couples and families — around the Bay Area. Impact Justice hopes to expand it to 25 participants by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella said she was initially apprehensive. But she had volunteered at a local prison and knew the challenges facing the formerly incarcerated. The more she learned, the more she and her boyfriend became excited to take part in the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it’s not just working with the person in front of you,” Panzella said. “If it’s successful, this is something that could be replicated” in other American cities for smooth re-entry for former prisoners. In the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 600,000 people\u003c/a> are released from prison every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The larger goal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A larger and perhaps more elusive goal is to demystify and to humanize the often abstract debates around criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people, the story of prison in America is not a story they know,” said Busansky. “They don’t know people who are in prison or people who are getting out of prison.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busansky said the biggest obstacle to growing the program was finding enough hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s fear,” said Busansky. “There’s apprehension, a sense of the unknown. It’s hard to tell people, ‘This is a great idea and you should try it; bring a stranger getting out of prison into your home.’ Not a conversation that most people are used to having.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s one Busansky believes America has to have — especially now — as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/05/21/trump-prison-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing bipartisan\u003c/a> national movement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/18/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive district attorneys\u003c/a>, reform groups and businesses work to unwind decades of drug war-fueled mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In This San Quentin Class, Inmates Write Their Way Into a Better Future\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843559/in-this-san-quentin-class-inmates-write-their-ways-into-better-futures\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/20110917_1100E-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One recent report estimated former inmates were almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 times more likely\u003c/a> to become homeless than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to increase our host numbers, but we can’t just say ‘Yes’ to anyone and everyone,” Lawyer said. “We’re not going to house people in unsafe neighborhoods that are not nurturing” or would put ex-inmates at greater risk for re-offending or falling back into old habits, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Part of a family’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jones grew up in Tulare, a mostly farming and dairy city in California’s Central Valley. His path to prison is a familiar one: Absent parents and little oversight led to a cycle of police trouble and being in and out of foster care and group homes starting around age 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the households I’ve been in consisted of some kind of abuse either mentally, verbally, physically — whatever it was, or some type of drug use in the household,” he said. He called growing up “a horrible experience” and that he started to not trust people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said he felt like one of the lucky ones. Most inmates released from the California prison system got just $200 and were sent off to figure things out on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones had much more than that: He learned how to code with the backing of \u003ca href=\"https://thelastmile.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last Mile\u003c/a>, a computer tech and business training program for inmates. He had a software job waiting for him with the pop culture movie, games and TV website \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fandom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he didn’t have a home to go back to and initially had reservations about the Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, man, this feel like adult foster care, like I’m getting adopted again,” he said. “Going into a stranger’s household, getting judged all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short months he and hosts Panzella and her boyfriend, Joe Klein, have become genuine friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel kind of weird even saying we’re in a ‘program’ because it doesn’t really feel like that,” Panzella said. “I think we just have a really strong friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones agreed. He called it one of the only stable homes he has ever known. He recently spent the holiday season with Panzella’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said the key difference with this program and others is that former inmates get to see and experience the day-to-day life of people on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re in the community — in someone’s home — able to watch how they buy groceries, clean their home, live a normal life, get up go to work and come home enjoy a TV show,” said Lawyer. “What that really looks like in real time is essential as an example to our participants, who have been completely out of society for 10-plus years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzella and Klein have been with Jones through a dizzying number of firsts since he left prison, including going to the beach, to a bowling alley, using a smartphone, getting on social media and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what to order,” said Jones on his experience of seeing some restaurant menus that made his head spin. “I’m just like I don’t know what this food is like. 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"content": "\u003cp>After more than a year and a half without a contract, Oakland teachers are preparing to vote on a strike. But teachers frustrated with how slowly the formal bargaining process works say they want to show the district they’re willing to strike. So for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711221/oakland-high-school-teachers-planning-non-union-sanctioned-work-stoppage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the second time\u003c/a> in two months some teachers plan to call in sick en masse Friday in what they’re calling a “sickout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland teachers are sick,” said \u003ca href=\"http://lifeacademyoak.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life Academy of Health and Bioscience\u003c/a> teacher Matt Hayes, “sick of being underappreciated, sick of the low pay. We’re walking out tomorrow because we want to show the district we want a fair contract and we want it now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes listed grievances that ranged from the proliferation of charter schools in Oakland to the state of school facilities. He has helped organize the action and says he’s heard from teachers at 10 schools who plan to take part, plus students and parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They plan to hold a rally in front of Oakland Technical High School from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and then march to the Oakland Unified School District office, where they plan to rally into the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5687893-Letter-to-Teachers-Regarding-Sick-Out-Google-Docs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to staff\u003c/a> sent this week, district officials reminded teachers the action is illegal, writing: “Teachers participating in sick-outs will be subject to disciplinary action and will lose pay for time missed as these coordinated actions present significant safety and instructional problems for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenine Lindsey, the district’s director of labor strategy, said there’s a reason state law lays out a process for resolving labor disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows school districts to prepare for strikes and to put safety measures in place to ensure that there aren’t incidents with students,” she said. “We also know that the quality of instruction is heavily impacted by illegal and unlawful sickouts and walkouts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district anticipates schools will stay open and instruction will continue, with central office staff filling in. Some schools may run on modified schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sickout, like the last, isn’t sanctioned by the teachers union, the Oakland Education Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the frustrations of our teachers,” said OEA president Keith Brown. “Our teachers are willing to take action for the schools that Oakland students deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s action comes after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717869/photos-hundreds-rally-in-oakland-over-school-funding-closures-and-pending-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rally last weekend\u003c/a> that drew hundreds of teachers, parents and labor leaders to downtown Oakland to call for increased funding for education and to protest looming budget cuts and school closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719011/talks-resume-in-effort-to-end-strike-by-l-a-teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles teachers striking\u003c/a>, six states have now seen educators stage walkouts to protest underfunding in the last year. It’s looking increasingly likely that Oakland will be the next battleground in the national debate about how we fund public education and pay teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in L.A., Oakland’s negotiations snagged on teacher pay and class size, among other things. The Oakland teachers union wants to see a 12 percent salary increase over three years, while the district’s final offer is a 5 percent increase over three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pay is too low in Oakland, and the rent is very high,” Brown said. “It is important that our teachers have a living wage so they’re able to stay in the community and give our students the support they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average teacher salary in Oakland Unified is $63,149. That’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/cs/documents/j90summary1718.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lower than all other districts\u003c/a> in Alameda County, though that figure doesn’t account for benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools#have-a-question,We want to hear from you. What stories should we cover?\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified’s Lindsey argues that OUSD teachers don’t see benefits deducted from their paychecks, while teachers in some other districts do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The showdown over pay and working conditions is playing out as budget cuts and school closures roil the district. Oakland Unified is faced with tens of millions of dollars in cuts over the next three years, and the bailout money available from the state hinges on the district showing that it’s taking steps to become financially stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg\" label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Follow our coverage of the strikes, closures, and more.\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools#have-a-question,We want to hear from you. What stories should we cover?\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Oakland Unified is looking to cut millions of dollars from next year’s budget, while moving to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711497/with-oakland-schools-on-the-chopping-block-community-looks-to-organize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">close and merge schools\u003c/a>. District officials estimate they need to cut down the district’s footprint by 24 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this is aggravating the frustrations teachers already had about their working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes said he understands the position the district is in, “but that’s not the fault of the teachers,” he said. “I feel like we’re being punished for OUSD’s mismanagement of funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" tag=\"ousd-news\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, district officials say they want to pay teachers more. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/17859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The district has identified\u003c/a> boosting teacher pay and settling the contract as priorities for improving teacher retention and ultimately improving student outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given their budget constraints, it’s a matter of coming up with the money. District officials say they’re looking for places to cut, but have not given specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg\" label=\"More Oakland Coverage\" tag=\"ousd-qa\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final step in the formal negotiation process is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.perb.ca.gov/laws/statutes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-finding hearing\u003c/a> set for Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. The union and district could reach an agreement during the hearing. If they don’t, they expect a recommendation for a settlement from the fact-finding panel by mid-February. 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He said teachers were on the front lines “fighting the war against ignorance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers with the independent Accelerated Schools charter network — who are also union members but negotiated contracts separately from LAUSD — walked off the job Tuesday to demand better working conditions and to support public school educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials are urging the union to resume negotiations. They have said the union’s demands could bankrupt the school system, which had 640,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need our educators back in our classrooms helping inspire our students,” Superintendent Austin Beutner said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 1,240 K-12 schools in the district are open, a departure from many strikes in other states. Administrators have hired hundreds of substitutes to replace tens of thousands of teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11718790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students walk a picket line with their teachers and parents on the third day of the teachers' strike on January 16, 2019, in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11718790\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk a picket line with their teachers and parents on the third day of the teachers’ strike on January 16, 2019, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first day of the walkout Monday saw attendance plunge to about 144,000 students. That number grew to 159,000 on Tuesday. Students who missed classes during the strike will be marked absent, but each school’s principal will decide whether those students would face consequences, the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents, who sent their kids to school, wondered how much teaching was happening as students were being gathered into large groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Biener, a parent in the district, said his son and daughter completed worksheets in math and history, while sitting on the gym floor at their middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not an ideal situation, obviously, but there was some learning going on,” he said Tuesday. “It wasn’t a free-for-all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union rejected the district’s latest offer to hire nearly 1,200 teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians and reduce class sizes by two students. It also included a previously proposed 6-percent raise over the first two years of a three-year contract. The union wants a 6.5 percent hike at the start of a two-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caputo-Pearl, the union president, said members are “prepared to go as long as it takes” to get a fair contract. The last strike in 1989 lasted nine days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beutner, the superintendent, urged the teachers to join him in pushing for more funding from the state, which provides 90 percent of the district’s money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAUSD said teachers’ demands run up against an expected half-billion-dollar deficit this budget year and billions obligated for pension payments and health coverage for retired teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The painful truth is we just don’t have enough money,” Beutner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues that the district is hoarding reserves of $1.8 billion. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers with the independent Accelerated Schools charter network — who are also union members but negotiated contracts separately from LAUSD — walked off the job Tuesday to demand better working conditions and to support public school educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials are urging the union to resume negotiations. They have said the union’s demands could bankrupt the school system, which had 640,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need our educators back in our classrooms helping inspire our students,” Superintendent Austin Beutner said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 1,240 K-12 schools in the district are open, a departure from many strikes in other states. Administrators have hired hundreds of substitutes to replace tens of thousands of teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11718790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students walk a picket line with their teachers and parents on the third day of the teachers' strike on January 16, 2019, in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11718790\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/StudentsWithTeachers.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk a picket line with their teachers and parents on the third day of the teachers’ strike on January 16, 2019, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first day of the walkout Monday saw attendance plunge to about 144,000 students. That number grew to 159,000 on Tuesday. Students who missed classes during the strike will be marked absent, but each school’s principal will decide whether those students would face consequences, the district said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents, who sent their kids to school, wondered how much teaching was happening as students were being gathered into large groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Biener, a parent in the district, said his son and daughter completed worksheets in math and history, while sitting on the gym floor at their middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not an ideal situation, obviously, but there was some learning going on,” he said Tuesday. “It wasn’t a free-for-all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union rejected the district’s latest offer to hire nearly 1,200 teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians and reduce class sizes by two students. It also included a previously proposed 6-percent raise over the first two years of a three-year contract. The union wants a 6.5 percent hike at the start of a two-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caputo-Pearl, the union president, said members are “prepared to go as long as it takes” to get a fair contract. The last strike in 1989 lasted nine days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beutner, the superintendent, urged the teachers to join him in pushing for more funding from the state, which provides 90 percent of the district’s money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAUSD said teachers’ demands run up against an expected half-billion-dollar deficit this budget year and billions obligated for pension payments and health coverage for retired teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The painful truth is we just don’t have enough money,” Beutner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues that the district is hoarding reserves of $1.8 billion. It represents more than 30,000 teachers, who earn between $44,000 and $86,000 a year, depending on their education level and experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP’s John Antczak contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/profiles/erin-mchenry-sorber-449857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erin McHenry-Sorber\u003c/a> is an assistant professor of higher education at West Virginia University. She does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond her academic appointment. This was originally published in \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first mass teacher labor action of 2019 is unfolding in California as United Teachers Los Angeles walked out for the first time in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/16/us/teacher-strike-spreads-chaos-in-los-angeles.html\">30 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This strike, which began on Jan. 14, isn’t just about what’s going on in Los Angeles. Here are three reasons the nation should pay attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718284/thousands-of-teachers-strike-in-los-angeles\">Thousands of Teachers Strike in Los Angeles\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718284/thousands-of-teachers-strike-in-los-angeles\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-1082809894-e1547602605416.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch2>1. The L.A. case is different\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The L.A. strike is a standout due to its sheer size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/district/Los-Angeles/Los-Angeles-Unified\">640,000 students\u003c/a>, and about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/08/682190775/why-los-angeles-teachers-are-about-to-go-on-strike\">500,000\u003c/a> enrolled in the district’s public schools, Los Angeles represents the \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_104.asp\">second-largest school district\u003c/a> in the United States. It is second only to New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The L.A. strike also involves 34,000 teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To compare, the statewide 2018 teacher strike in West Virginia – where I am \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13603116.2014.964571\">researching\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13603116.2014.964571\">teacher strikes\u003c/a> and teacher shortages – involved about 20,000 teachers and affected approximately \u003ca href=\"https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/16/west-virginia-drop-public-school-enrollment/\">270,000 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the political context is different. When West Virginia teachers walked out of the classroom, they were battling a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/us/teacher-walkouts-threaten-republican-grip-on-conservative-states.html\">conservative state legislature\u003c/a> in a largely rural, majority-white state. Los Angeles is urban, far more diverse and located in a state that has voted mostly Democratic in presidential elections \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-voting-history/\">since 1992\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified School District’s \u003ca href=\"https://achieve.lausd.net/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=47248&dataid=68431&FileName=Fingertip%20Facts2018-19_EnglishFinalDS.pdf\">student population\u003c/a> is 73 percent Latino, 10.5 percent white, 8.2 percent black and 4.2 percent Asian. The district serves over 150,000 students and their first language is not English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation for the L.A. teachers union is also different in several ways. For instance, it is engaged in an active fight against the rapid growth of charter schools. Los Angeles is home to \u003ca href=\"https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/1816\">277 charter schools\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2018/10/12/how-are-charter-schools-influencing-lausd-labor-negotiations/\">largest number of such institutions\u003c/a> in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2008, the charter industry in Los Angeles has grown 287 percent. According to the L.A. teachers union, the charter schools are effectively siphoning away \u003ca href=\"https://www.utla.net/campaigns-issues/campaigns/all-respect\">$550 million per year\u003c/a> from the district’s traditional public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues that LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner is a \u003ca href=\"http://www.governing.com/topics/education/gov-lausd-teacher-strike-education-policy.html\">pro-charter school superintendent\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"http://laindependent.com/lausd-superintendent-pick-called-unconventional/\">no education experience\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers union has proposed greater transparency and more accountability for \u003ca href=\"https://www.utla.net/campaigns-issues/campaigns/all-respect\">L.A. charter schools\u003c/a> and has called for an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2018/12/21/teachers-union-demands-immediate-cap-on-new-charter-schools-in-lausd-days-after-setting-strike-date/\">immediate cap\u003c/a> on charter school growth in the school district. The district has provided no counteroffer to these demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers in Los Angeles have negotiated the current contract under dispute for over \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-last-negotiations-teachers-strike-20190106-story.html\">20 months\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/13/684645947/los-angeles-teachers-are-moving-forward-with-a-strike\">over a year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not uncommon. For example, Oakland teachers in Northern California have been working without a contract for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Oakland-teachers-without-a-contract-for-more-13419865.php\">more than a year\u003c/a>. A recent contract resolution following a Pennsylvania school district strike came after teachers worked without a contract for \u003ca href=\"https://wnep.com/2018/06/18/dallas-teachers-demand-contract/\">3½ years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. It’s not just about better pay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like strikes in Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, Colorado and North Carolina, the Los Angeles teachers’ strike is essentially about greater investment in public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For L.A. teachers, this includes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2019/1/13/18181010/los-angeles-teachers-strike\">6.5 percent salary increase\u003c/a> to make up for what the union calls “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lausd-strike-more-than-30000-teachers-on-strike-in-los-angeles/\">stagnant wages\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average teacher makes almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/teacher-pay-gap-2018/\">19 percent less in wages\u003c/a> than comparable workers. In California, specifically, this figure is about 15 percent. L.A. teachers make between \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l-teachers-join-u-s-movement-against-under-funded-schools-n957031\">$50,000 and $80,000 a year\u003c/a>, but the cost of living in the city is so high that a two-bedroom apartment requires a \u003ca href=\"https://smartasset.com/mortgage/the-income-needed-to-pay-rent-2017-edition\">six-figure income\u003c/a>. This means many teachers have two, or in some cases, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l-teachers-join-u-s-movement-against-under-funded-schools-n957031\">three jobs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond wages, teachers have begun to demand a greater commitment to investment in public education from their governing bodies, either school boards or state legislatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oklahoma, for example, striking teachers protested inadequate instructional materials, including outdated and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/04/the-larger-concerns-behind-the-teachers-strikes/557171/\">deteriorating textbooks\u003c/a>. In Los Angeles, striking teachers are demanding, among other things, a reduction in classroom sizes, which can be up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.utla.net/get-involved/issues/class-size\">46 students\u003c/a> in some classrooms based on their current contract. Teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/01/why-are-la-teachers-striking-lausd-wages-class-size/579511/\">argue\u003c/a> the large class sizes make it difficult to meet the needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also want an increase in school nurses, librarians and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/13/684645947/los-angeles-teachers-are-moving-forward-with-a-strike;%20https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/UTLA-LAUSD-to-Hold-More-Negotiations-Today-504222571.html\">counselors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These issues get at the heart of student learning. Students need adequate supplies, individual teacher attention and access to mental health services, such as counselors, if they are expected to thrive in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ability of public schools to provide for all of these instructional and social support needs has become increasingly difficult as states have continued to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-punishing-decade-for-school-funding\">underfund\u003c/a> their public education systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. L.A. strike could spur other teacher strikes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The L.A. teachers strike suggests that the wave of teacher protests is not over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teacher strikes and work stoppages have been preceded by a nationwide teacher shortage that continues to grow across many states, which do not have enough certified math, special education, science and, in increasing cases, elementary teachers to meet the needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/teacher-shortage-us-education/\">80 percent of districts\u003c/a> reported a teacher shortage in the 2017 to 2018 school year. Teacher shortages are most often \u003ca href=\"https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/teacher-shortage-us-education/\">blamed\u003c/a> on low teacher pay, one of the commonalities across teacher strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These shortages are arguably exacerbated by an increase in the “\u003ca href=\"http://neatoday.org/2017/07/17/teacher-pay-penalty-driving-educators-away-from-profession/\">teacher pay penalty\u003c/a>,” the term used to describe disparities in teacher salary compared to professions requiring comparable levels of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time teachers find themselves increasingly undervalued, most states are still funding their public education systems at levels \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-punishing-decade-for-school-funding\">below\u003c/a> that of the 2008 recession. This includes California, which ranked \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/jan/17/delaine-eastin/does-california-rank-41st-student-spending-no-1-pr/\">41st\u003c/a> nationwide in per pupil spending when adjusted for cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as public schools remain underfunded, the nation can expect to see more teacher strikes in other school districts and states in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/profiles/erin-mchenry-sorber-449857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erin McHenry-Sorber\u003c/a> is an assistant professor of higher education at West Virginia University. She does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond her academic appointment. This was originally published in \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first mass teacher labor action of 2019 is unfolding in California as United Teachers Los Angeles walked out for the first time in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/16/us/teacher-strike-spreads-chaos-in-los-angeles.html\">30 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This strike, which began on Jan. 14, isn’t just about what’s going on in Los Angeles. Here are three reasons the nation should pay attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718284/thousands-of-teachers-strike-in-los-angeles\">Thousands of Teachers Strike in Los Angeles\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718284/thousands-of-teachers-strike-in-los-angeles\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-1082809894-e1547602605416.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch2>1. The L.A. case is different\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The L.A. strike is a standout due to its sheer size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/district/Los-Angeles/Los-Angeles-Unified\">640,000 students\u003c/a>, and about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/08/682190775/why-los-angeles-teachers-are-about-to-go-on-strike\">500,000\u003c/a> enrolled in the district’s public schools, Los Angeles represents the \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_104.asp\">second-largest school district\u003c/a> in the United States. It is second only to New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The L.A. strike also involves 34,000 teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To compare, the statewide 2018 teacher strike in West Virginia – where I am \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13603116.2014.964571\">researching\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13603116.2014.964571\">teacher strikes\u003c/a> and teacher shortages – involved about 20,000 teachers and affected approximately \u003ca href=\"https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/16/west-virginia-drop-public-school-enrollment/\">270,000 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the political context is different. When West Virginia teachers walked out of the classroom, they were battling a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/us/teacher-walkouts-threaten-republican-grip-on-conservative-states.html\">conservative state legislature\u003c/a> in a largely rural, majority-white state. Los Angeles is urban, far more diverse and located in a state that has voted mostly Democratic in presidential elections \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-voting-history/\">since 1992\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified School District’s \u003ca href=\"https://achieve.lausd.net/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=47248&dataid=68431&FileName=Fingertip%20Facts2018-19_EnglishFinalDS.pdf\">student population\u003c/a> is 73 percent Latino, 10.5 percent white, 8.2 percent black and 4.2 percent Asian. The district serves over 150,000 students and their first language is not English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation for the L.A. teachers union is also different in several ways. For instance, it is engaged in an active fight against the rapid growth of charter schools. Los Angeles is home to \u003ca href=\"https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/1816\">277 charter schools\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2018/10/12/how-are-charter-schools-influencing-lausd-labor-negotiations/\">largest number of such institutions\u003c/a> in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2008, the charter industry in Los Angeles has grown 287 percent. According to the L.A. teachers union, the charter schools are effectively siphoning away \u003ca href=\"https://www.utla.net/campaigns-issues/campaigns/all-respect\">$550 million per year\u003c/a> from the district’s traditional public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues that LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner is a \u003ca href=\"http://www.governing.com/topics/education/gov-lausd-teacher-strike-education-policy.html\">pro-charter school superintendent\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"http://laindependent.com/lausd-superintendent-pick-called-unconventional/\">no education experience\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers union has proposed greater transparency and more accountability for \u003ca href=\"https://www.utla.net/campaigns-issues/campaigns/all-respect\">L.A. charter schools\u003c/a> and has called for an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2018/12/21/teachers-union-demands-immediate-cap-on-new-charter-schools-in-lausd-days-after-setting-strike-date/\">immediate cap\u003c/a> on charter school growth in the school district. The district has provided no counteroffer to these demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers in Los Angeles have negotiated the current contract under dispute for over \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-last-negotiations-teachers-strike-20190106-story.html\">20 months\u003c/a>, and have been working without a contract for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/13/684645947/los-angeles-teachers-are-moving-forward-with-a-strike\">over a year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not uncommon. For example, Oakland teachers in Northern California have been working without a contract for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Oakland-teachers-without-a-contract-for-more-13419865.php\">more than a year\u003c/a>. A recent contract resolution following a Pennsylvania school district strike came after teachers worked without a contract for \u003ca href=\"https://wnep.com/2018/06/18/dallas-teachers-demand-contract/\">3½ years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. It’s not just about better pay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like strikes in Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, Colorado and North Carolina, the Los Angeles teachers’ strike is essentially about greater investment in public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For L.A. teachers, this includes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2019/1/13/18181010/los-angeles-teachers-strike\">6.5 percent salary increase\u003c/a> to make up for what the union calls “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lausd-strike-more-than-30000-teachers-on-strike-in-los-angeles/\">stagnant wages\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average teacher makes almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/teacher-pay-gap-2018/\">19 percent less in wages\u003c/a> than comparable workers. In California, specifically, this figure is about 15 percent. L.A. teachers make between \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l-teachers-join-u-s-movement-against-under-funded-schools-n957031\">$50,000 and $80,000 a year\u003c/a>, but the cost of living in the city is so high that a two-bedroom apartment requires a \u003ca href=\"https://smartasset.com/mortgage/the-income-needed-to-pay-rent-2017-edition\">six-figure income\u003c/a>. This means many teachers have two, or in some cases, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l-teachers-join-u-s-movement-against-under-funded-schools-n957031\">three jobs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond wages, teachers have begun to demand a greater commitment to investment in public education from their governing bodies, either school boards or state legislatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oklahoma, for example, striking teachers protested inadequate instructional materials, including outdated and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/04/the-larger-concerns-behind-the-teachers-strikes/557171/\">deteriorating textbooks\u003c/a>. In Los Angeles, striking teachers are demanding, among other things, a reduction in classroom sizes, which can be up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.utla.net/get-involved/issues/class-size\">46 students\u003c/a> in some classrooms based on their current contract. Teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/01/why-are-la-teachers-striking-lausd-wages-class-size/579511/\">argue\u003c/a> the large class sizes make it difficult to meet the needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also want an increase in school nurses, librarians and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/13/684645947/los-angeles-teachers-are-moving-forward-with-a-strike;%20https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/UTLA-LAUSD-to-Hold-More-Negotiations-Today-504222571.html\">counselors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These issues get at the heart of student learning. Students need adequate supplies, individual teacher attention and access to mental health services, such as counselors, if they are expected to thrive in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ability of public schools to provide for all of these instructional and social support needs has become increasingly difficult as states have continued to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-punishing-decade-for-school-funding\">underfund\u003c/a> their public education systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. L.A. strike could spur other teacher strikes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The L.A. teachers strike suggests that the wave of teacher protests is not over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teacher strikes and work stoppages have been preceded by a nationwide teacher shortage that continues to grow across many states, which do not have enough certified math, special education, science and, in increasing cases, elementary teachers to meet the needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/teacher-shortage-us-education/\">80 percent of districts\u003c/a> reported a teacher shortage in the 2017 to 2018 school year. Teacher shortages are most often \u003ca href=\"https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/teacher-shortage-us-education/\">blamed\u003c/a> on low teacher pay, one of the commonalities across teacher strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These shortages are arguably exacerbated by an increase in the “\u003ca href=\"http://neatoday.org/2017/07/17/teacher-pay-penalty-driving-educators-away-from-profession/\">teacher pay penalty\u003c/a>,” the term used to describe disparities in teacher salary compared to professions requiring comparable levels of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time teachers find themselves increasingly undervalued, most states are still funding their public education systems at levels \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-punishing-decade-for-school-funding\">below\u003c/a> that of the 2008 recession. This includes California, which ranked \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/jan/17/delaine-eastin/does-california-rank-41st-student-spending-no-1-pr/\">41st\u003c/a> nationwide in per pupil spending when adjusted for cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as public schools remain underfunded, the nation can expect to see more teacher strikes in other school districts and states in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\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. And with a labor strike brewing, teachers around the city are seizing on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this week’s Oakland Unified School District board meeting, teachers, parents and school staff came to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These students are the reason I’m prepared to go on strike, why all the teachers here are prepared to go on strike,” East Oakland Pride Elementary School teacher Adi Hoag said to cheers. “We can make this fight. I’m not planning to go back in there if they close any schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoag pledged to keep Roots Academy open by any means necessary, throwing out the possibility of a sit-in at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots Academy families also plan to join teachers in a \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.carpe-diem.events/calendar/9094197-rally-to-fund-public-education-now-oakland-contingent-at-frank-ogawa-plaza/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teachers union rally \u003c/a> in downtown Oakland on Saturday that’s aimed at boosting education funding in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11717460 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0981-e1547161997544.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some community members opposed to the closure of Roots Academy say they will join in a teachers union rally on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly before the winter holiday break, district officials announced their plan to close Roots. Officials cited the middle school’s dwindling enrollment and poor teacher retention as reasons for shuttering the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to make sure that our students were given the opportunity to make a transition to a higher performing school before any adverse conditions at Roots grew any more challenging,” district spokesman John Sasaki said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday night’s meeting, school board members listened in silence as parents vented their anger and sadness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to know why are you attacking our communities,” parent Concepcion Resendiz told the board, explaining that her son struggled in school until he found what felt like family at Roots. “We are the ones that you left always behind, and instead of giving us a hand you just throw us away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members did not discuss the proposed closure of Roots Academy at the meeting, but assured community members they’d take up the conversation at their next meeting on Jan. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District is in the process of developing a controversial plan to pare down the number of schools in the district by as many as 24. It’s a move the district says is critical to shoring up finances in the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials had \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3727236&GUID=2F788976-5A80-4BBA-B940-0E878F99B445&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assured the community they’d be heard\u003c/a> throughout the process, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716967/oaklands-school-closure-plans-off-to-a-rough-start-for-some-parents\">some Roots Academy parents say that hasn’t happened\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\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\u003cp>Jan. 9, 2019\u003c/p>\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.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“For it to come down this way without us really knowing and having a seat, that’s what bothers me more than anything,” said parent Gwen McWilliams, whose daughter, Robyn, is in sixth grade at Roots. “I think we should have had some say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, McWilliams said she wanted a chance to ask decision-makers the questions that still nag at her. “What could we have done differently that we didn’t know about in time? What could we do to keep it open?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McWilliams’ daughter, Robyn, worries about having to leave her friends when she goes to a different school. “It feels like the people don’t really care about our education,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11717461 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Parents, teachers and community members attend an Oakland school board meeting. Jan. 9, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875.jpg 1602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, teachers and community members attend an Oakland school board meeting on Jan. 9, 2019 \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district has not yet determined how the placement process for Roots students would work if the school closes. “We will work with families with incoming seventh- and eighth-grade students to find the best placement for their children,” Sasaki said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McWilliams says she will consider other Oakland schools, but if she doesn’t like her options she’s ready to look elsewhere. “If push comes to shove I’ll have to go out of the district,” McWilliams said, “possibly moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board plans to hold a final vote on the Roots closure in the next two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\u003cp>Jan. 9, 2019\u003c/p>\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.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“For it to come down this way without us really knowing and having a seat, that’s what bothers me more than anything,” said parent Gwen McWilliams, whose daughter, Robyn, is in sixth grade at Roots. “I think we should have had some say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, McWilliams said she wanted a chance to ask decision-makers the questions that still nag at her. “What could we have done differently that we didn’t know about in time? What could we do to keep it open?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McWilliams’ daughter, Robyn, worries about having to leave her friends when she goes to a different school. “It feels like the people don’t really care about our education,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11717461 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Parents, teachers and community members attend an Oakland school board meeting. Jan. 9, 2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/IMG_0985-e1547162049875.jpg 1602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, teachers and community members attend an Oakland school board meeting on Jan. 9, 2019 \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district has not yet determined how the placement process for Roots students would work if the school closes. “We will work with families with incoming seventh- and eighth-grade students to find the best placement for their children,” Sasaki said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McWilliams says she will consider other Oakland schools, but if she doesn’t like her options she’s ready to look elsewhere. “If push comes to shove I’ll have to go out of the district,” McWilliams said, “possibly moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board plans to hold a final vote on the Roots closure in the next two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There were three Oakland City Council seats up for grabs on the ballot in November, and every one of them will be filled by a newcomer to the business side of City Hall. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One council member, Annie Campbell Washington, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/04/12/frustrated-oakland-city-councilwoman-wont-run-for-re-election/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decided not to run again\u003c/a>, and her District 4 seat will be filled by \u003ca href=\"https://www.shengforoakland.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheng Thao\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the case of the District 2 and District 6 seats, challengers defeated incumbents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen history, so to speak,” said John Jones III, a prominent local activist, touching on how rare this was. “This is the first time I’ve known, in a long time, that two incumbents actually were defeated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.lorentaylor.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Loren Taylor\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nikki4oakland.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikki Fortunato Bas\u003c/a>, both seated in the crowd among the folding chairs and comfy couches, at a recent event at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastsideartsalliance.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastside Cultural Center\u003c/a> in East Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunato Bas, the new District 2 council member, and Jones go way back. Jones called her to the front of the room and wrapped her in a giant hug. Fortunato Bas is tiny, Jones broad-shouldered and tall. He engulfed his old friend in his arms and giggled with glee. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just had a moment,” he said. “My friend is now in office, so I just had this moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember the day we met,” Bas said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frustration With the Status Quo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friendship between the two activists reveals a lot about Fortunato Bas and her politics. She comes from the organizing, progressive side of the aisle and campaigned with progressive mayoral candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101867984/election-2018-oakland-mayoral-candidates-pamela-price-and-cat-brooks\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cat Brooks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 2 runs from East Oakland to Lake Merritt, including much of the lake and Chinatown, where Fortunato Bas started organizing in the 1990s, bringing together Asian women in the neighborhood to fight against wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been committing my life to social justice,” she said. “I just have not seen the leadership from my district, or across the city, that matches the progressive values of our residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunato Bas said a lot of people had asked her to take on District 2 incumbent Abel Guillen. Those doing the asking were many of the same folks who had backed Guillen four years ago, but who told Fortunato Bas they were disappointed with his time in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillen started his term by walking into \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/03/16/oakland-city-council-advances-controversial-public-land-sale-behind-closed-doors\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a controversy\u003c/a> not of his making. He arrived at City Hall just as the council was finalizing a deal to sell city-owned land to a for-profit developer. Activists complained that the price tag was scandalously low, calling it a corporate giveaway at a time when land had finally become valuable, and the whole transaction received harsh scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS19986_14772659073_f7e7f00d0a_k-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716252\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS19986_14772659073_f7e7f00d0a_k-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS19986_14772659073_f7e7f00d0a_k-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS19986_14772659073_f7e7f00d0a_k-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS19986_14772659073_f7e7f00d0a_k-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS19986_14772659073_f7e7f00d0a_k-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“We need to maintain the culture, the blackness, of this city,” said Loren Taylor, newly elected Oakland City Council member. “East Oakland is the last part of the city where we can actually hold on to it.” \u003ccite>(Mike Linksvayer/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guillen was known as a deal-maker and compromise broker on the council, but Fortunato Bas said voters told her they wanted a more progressive advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see some real challenges in progressive policies not coming out of City Hall,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not that Oakland has not passed progressive policies in the past few years, according to Fortunato Bas. She pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Oakland_Minimum_Wage_Increase_Initiative,_Measure_FF_(November_2014)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raise in the minimum wage\u003c/a>, an effort to create a more \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/03/22/oakland-citizen-police-commission-to-have-independent-staff/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">independent citizen-led police commission\u003c/a>, along with housing and homeless measures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But none of those were approved by the City Council. Rather they were given the green light by voters at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meanwhile all of those could have been more efficiently passed by our city council as policy,” said Fortunato Bas. “That has not been the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunato Bas said constituents also told her what people care about has dramatically shifted, from crime to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the first election cycle where safety was not the number one issue. Housing affordability was the number one issue,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘We Need to Maintain the Culture, the Blackness of This City’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The struggle over who can afford to live in Oakland and who cannot is something Loren Taylor has also heard a lot about in his East Oakland neighborhood, District 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to maintain the culture, the blackness of this city,” Taylor said. “East Oakland is the last part of the city where we can actually hold on to it.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other parts of the city have been quicker to gentrify. East Oakland was once perceived as too far, too dangerous, too remote to be desirable to newcomers, but that’s not necessarily the case anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor is young and fresh-faced, with wire-rimmed glasses and a wide smile. He grew up in Oakland in a middle-class black family. He said he feels a responsibility to uplift, not uproot, the neighborhood he now represents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a responsibility to the legacy that my grandparents created when they moved here from the segregated South in the 1940s,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703960/libby-schaaf-holds-big-lead-in-race-for-second-term-as-oakland-mayor\">Libby Schaaf Wins Second Term as Oakland Mayor\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703960/libby-schaaf-holds-big-lead-in-race-for-second-term-as-oakland-mayor\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33682_110618_AW_Election_11-qut-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Taylor is a biomedical engineer turned managerial consultant and a new face to Oakland’s political scene. To get to City Hall, he had to defeat a prominent figure in Oakland politics, Desley Brooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks, a longtime councilwoman, was a favorite of progressives, who felt she was their champion on the council. But a scuffle between Brooks and former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-to-pay-2-2-million-to-settle-ex-Black-13067564.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cost the city $2.2 million\u003c/a> in a lawsuit, leading to bad press. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several groups spent a lot of money to defeat Brooks, but some speculate that what really cost her the seat was that she was rarely visible leading up to the election, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Where-is-Desley-Brooks-An-Oakland-13324758.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even missing council meetings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Taylor, who was also supported by Mayor Libby Schaaf, did the once unthinkable and pulled off an upset. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one of his major priorities will be strengthening local businesses. District 6 has long suffered from the kind of economic disinvestment common to traditionally black areas in cities like Oakland. Now that money is flooding into Oakland, his constituents should get a piece of it, Taylor said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to create a strong, solid economic foundation so that District 6 and East Oakland in general becomes a thriving economic hub,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that involves incubating local black and brown businesses, he said, something Taylor said he is already working on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new members of the City Council will be sworn in on Jan. 7, and their first official meeting is scheduled for the same day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is hard to know exactly what role either Fortunato Bas or Taylor will take up on the new council, but the two unequivocally have one thing in common: they rode a wave of frustration with the status quo to defeat incumbents.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She comes from the organizing, progressive side of the aisle and campaigned with progressive mayoral candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101867984/election-2018-oakland-mayoral-candidates-pamela-price-and-cat-brooks\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cat Brooks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 2 runs from East Oakland to Lake Merritt, including much of the lake and Chinatown, where Fortunato Bas started organizing in the 1990s, bringing together Asian women in the neighborhood to fight against wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been committing my life to social justice,” she said. “I just have not seen the leadership from my district, or across the city, that matches the progressive values of our residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunato Bas said a lot of people had asked her to take on District 2 incumbent Abel Guillen. Those doing the asking were many of the same folks who had backed Guillen four years ago, but who told Fortunato Bas they were disappointed with his time in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillen started his term by walking into \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/03/16/oakland-city-council-advances-controversial-public-land-sale-behind-closed-doors\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a controversy\u003c/a> not of his making. He arrived at City Hall just as the council was finalizing a deal to sell city-owned land to a for-profit developer. 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She pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Oakland_Minimum_Wage_Increase_Initiative,_Measure_FF_(November_2014)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raise in the minimum wage\u003c/a>, an effort to create a more \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/03/22/oakland-citizen-police-commission-to-have-independent-staff/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">independent citizen-led police commission\u003c/a>, along with housing and homeless measures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But none of those were approved by the City Council. Rather they were given the green light by voters at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meanwhile all of those could have been more efficiently passed by our city council as policy,” said Fortunato Bas. “That has not been the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunato Bas said constituents also told her what people care about has dramatically shifted, from crime to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the first election cycle where safety was not the number one issue. Housing affordability was the number one issue,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘We Need to Maintain the Culture, the Blackness of This City’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The struggle over who can afford to live in Oakland and who cannot is something Loren Taylor has also heard a lot about in his East Oakland neighborhood, District 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to maintain the culture, the blackness of this city,” Taylor said. “East Oakland is the last part of the city where we can actually hold on to it.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other parts of the city have been quicker to gentrify. East Oakland was once perceived as too far, too dangerous, too remote to be desirable to newcomers, but that’s not necessarily the case anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor is young and fresh-faced, with wire-rimmed glasses and a wide smile. He grew up in Oakland in a middle-class black family. He said he feels a responsibility to uplift, not uproot, the neighborhood he now represents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a responsibility to the legacy that my grandparents created when they moved here from the segregated South in the 1940s,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703960/libby-schaaf-holds-big-lead-in-race-for-second-term-as-oakland-mayor\">Libby Schaaf Wins Second Term as Oakland Mayor\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703960/libby-schaaf-holds-big-lead-in-race-for-second-term-as-oakland-mayor\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33682_110618_AW_Election_11-qut-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Taylor is a biomedical engineer turned managerial consultant and a new face to Oakland’s political scene. To get to City Hall, he had to defeat a prominent figure in Oakland politics, Desley Brooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks, a longtime councilwoman, was a favorite of progressives, who felt she was their champion on the council. But a scuffle between Brooks and former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-to-pay-2-2-million-to-settle-ex-Black-13067564.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cost the city $2.2 million\u003c/a> in a lawsuit, leading to bad press. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several groups spent a lot of money to defeat Brooks, but some speculate that what really cost her the seat was that she was rarely visible leading up to the election, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Where-is-Desley-Brooks-An-Oakland-13324758.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even missing council meetings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Taylor, who was also supported by Mayor Libby Schaaf, did the once unthinkable and pulled off an upset. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one of his major priorities will be strengthening local businesses. District 6 has long suffered from the kind of economic disinvestment common to traditionally black areas in cities like Oakland. Now that money is flooding into Oakland, his constituents should get a piece of it, Taylor said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to create a strong, solid economic foundation so that District 6 and East Oakland in general becomes a thriving economic hub,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that involves incubating local black and brown businesses, he said, something Taylor said he is already working on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new members of the City Council will be sworn in on Jan. 7, and their first official meeting is scheduled for the same day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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