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He and his mom, Rachael Allamby, 41, sleep in his great-grandmother’s living room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 6 a.m., Naseem’s red air mattress is propped against the wall. The couch where his mother sleeps is tidied. And all their bedding and other belongings are tucked in a tight heap in the corner, under a blanket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Naseem lived in North Oakland with his mother, Mr. Spooky the cat and Kudjo the chihuahua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, last fall, they got evicted from their duplex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby says it was a wrongful eviction, that she always paid her rent on time, but that when she was late coming up with some money for repairs, the landlord booted her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They became homeless — a word that's hard for her to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her son had no other choice but to come here, to this small one-bedroom apartment near a leafy park in South San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s great-grandmother is sleeping with her door propped open. He and his mom try not to wake her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Naseem is the main one I worry about, because I know when he’s stressed out, \" Allamby says in a whisper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His living circumstances have taken a toll. He’s had anxiety attacks, temper tantrums, lots of stress eating, “and then traveling from here all the way to Oakland” and back again, Allamby adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that travel? That’s so Naseem can stay in the same school where he’s been since kindergarten. Where they know him, and care about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plenty of \u003ca href=\"http://www.americaspromise.org/report/hidden-plain-sight\">research\u003c/a> shows that students who lose their housing, even briefly, perform more poorly in school. They’re often \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/chron-absent.pdf\">late or miss days\u003c/a>. They’re less likely than any other group to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintaining stability at school after a child loses his or her home, it turns out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4139923/\">can be key to educational success.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it makes for long days for Naseem. His school is 22 miles and three counties away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem stuffs a bag of Dum Dums in his pocket and scrounges for his Pokémon cards, a recent gift. By 6:30 am, Allamby announces it’s time to hit the road. Naseem responds with a loud sigh that borders on a groan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pops,” she reminds him in an urgent whisper, “you need your jacket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grabs a black zip-up hoodie and fetches what he calls his “car,” a scooter with beat-up handlebars and busted front brakes. The BART station is more than a mile away — and the whole trip to Naseem’s Oakland school will take nearly two hours — so the scooter helps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He drags it down the stairs as dawn's light bleeds into morning. “She’s not bad,” he says, almost to himself, “but neither she’s not good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Commute\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Allamby and Naseem take a jogger’s path to the station, teasing and goofing along the way. Mom tosses out the first joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s the name of the vegetable kung fu master?” she asks. Naseem’s right on it with the answer: “Brock Lee,” he squeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby knows how to prioritize her kids’ education. Naseem’s eldest sister just started at UC Berkeley. His mom has big hopes for Naseem, too, which is why she really wants him to maintain some continuity at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be integrating Naseem into the schools here and then we gotta transfer again,” she explains, as Naseem trundles along next to her, gleefully pointing out a cat they often run into, and a duck feeding on weedy muck in the nearby canal. “I want him to keep the same friends and associates at the school as long as he can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping Naseem in the same school? It turns out that’s actually Allamby’s legal right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three decades ago, President Ronald Reagan signed the \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/legis/mv.php\">McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act \u003c/a>into federal law. The big-picture idea: to provide stability. The law \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlchp.org/documents/McKinney-Vento_FAQs\">guarantees \u003c/a>that kids who have lost their fixed housing can stay at the school they’ve been attending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It guarantees other rights too — like the right to enroll immediately at a new school without proof of residence or immunization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most critically for many parents who wish to keep kids in their original school, the act in most circumstances \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/transportation.pdf\">pledges help with transportation costs \u003c/a>to get there and back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby and Naseem could really use that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-960x686.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-520x371.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachael Allamby leans in to talk to Naseem, 10, during their nearly two-hour commute to his Oakland elementary school. They spend much of it on BART. Allamby says their fares cost her nearly $400 a month. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transit Costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When they get to BART, it’s time for an uncomfortable ritual. Allamby has scrounged up two BART tickets. But the combined value isn’t enough. She needs Naseem to run through the emergency gate -- again. She knows she keeps saying it’s the last time, she tells him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem listens. “But it’s never the last time,” he points out quietly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby says transit costs alone run her nearly $400 per month, so it’s a problem. Naseem makes it through without getting stopped, and when he and his mom arrive at Oakland’s MacArthur station, Allamby explains to the station agents that they are just a bit short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They let mother and son exit. These two know her, Allamby says. They saw her bring Naseem to school a lot before summer break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone does.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Need Is Great\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s situation is not unusual. In the 2016-17 school year, the Oakland Unified School District saw an increase of more than 50 percent in its homeless student tally – to nearly 1600 kids, according to data provided by the district’s McKinney-Vento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those are just the families the district knows about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trish Anderson is the district’s new McKinney-Vento liaison. She took over this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, she says, is full of families who’ve been pushed out of stable housing. Many are invisible, doubled up like Naseem is with relatives or friends. Others are living in cars, shelters or motels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about the number of people in that situation in Oakland right now with the housing crisis, that number is bound to be larger than it was in the past,” Anderson says in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinney-Vento \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/new-liaisons.pdf\">mandates\u003c/a> that districts work with schools to identify students who’ve lost their housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District liaisons are also supposed to spread the word at soup kitchens, shelters, motels and laundromats — so that families know that they're entitled to stay in their home school, enroll without proof of an address, get transportation help, access support for school supplies and clothes, and referrals to dental care, housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a big gap between what the law promises and what it delivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is just one person, with a caseload of 1,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s funding for homeless students? It’s stayed flat for the past three school years, at $230,885, and isn’t projected to grow this year either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education doles out federal McKinney-Vento grants to districts to help them comply with the law — but there isn’t enough to go around, and the three-year grants are competitive: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r16/homeless15results.asp\">Fewer than half of the 131 districts that applied in the most recent cycle, in 2015, received one.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified wasn’t among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it hasn’t received any federal grant money through the state since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though a fifth of the nation’s homeless students live in California, the state receives just one-tenth of the funding, according to Leanne Wheeler, the homeless education coordinator for the California Department of Education. And she alone is charged with ensuring that 1,800 districts, county educational offices, and privately-funded charter schools are complying with the law. In contrast, Texas and New York have half a dozen or more such staffers on hand, Wheeler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/es/documents/draftmckinneyvento.doc\">changes to the federal law\u003c/a> require Wheeler to step up training for district liaisons such as Anderson. And Anderson, in turn, is now required to do more to make sure Oakland school personnel — from principals on down — get trained in the law too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, every single school district in the country is now mandated to publicly report achievement, suspension and graduation rates for homeless students, to shine a brighter light out how they’re doing and whether they’re getting the support they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, plenty fall through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621057\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621057\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naseem Bennett, 10, finds his name on the wall on his first day of 5th grade at Oakland's Emerson Elementary School. Naseem and his mom lost their housing in North Oakland last year. He now commutes across three counties so he can maintain some educational stability. It’s his legal right. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How to Spot the Signs \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem and his mom arrive at Emerson Elementary School, in Oakland’s Temescal district, not long before the 8:30 a.m. bell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi Miss Brook!” Naseem yells as he waits for his mother to fill out forms. Allamby recently scored a full-time job as a janitor in San Francisco, so she wasn’t able to register him on time. She catches up now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the staff here know Naseem’s situation. They figured it out last year when he started showing up late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They offered him counseling, and a coach brought Naseem clothes and a new Xbox, since he lost a lot of stuff in the eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Heather Palin says a team that includes teachers and counselors know how to spot the signs that a student might have lost his or her housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even at community schools like Emerson, which make a holistic effort to help kids and families, many employees aren’t that familiar with the McKinney-Vento law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palin’s not sure whether the information on a student’s housing status gets back to the district’s McKinney-Vento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t say necessarily that there’s a lot of training” in the law, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a problem. Palin couldn’t talk about the specifics of Naseem’s case, for privacy reasons. But it turns out, he wasn’t included in the district’s homeless student tally last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cases like this mean that Oakland’s numbers aren’t accurate, which can affect funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, it means no one really spelled out for Allamby her rights under federal law or the services that the district can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, it’s not uncommon for parents and youth to hide their circumstances, due to embarrassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because they don’t fully understand their rights, they’re fearful, too, that their kids might be told that they can’t stay in their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby knows the school has been supportive. But she’s still nervous. When she fills out the registration form for the district, she uses her old Oakland address -- “just to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-960x576.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-520x312.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naseem Bennett, 10, sits in his classroom at Emerson Elementary School on the first day of fifth grade. He’s been in good spirits all morning but his mood shifts once school starts. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>First Day Back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s been in high spirits all morning. But his mood starts to shift when it’s time to file into his classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, he puts his head on his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How're you doing, Naseem,” Miss Grill murmurs to him, leaning in close. “You don’t know? Is today feeling a little hard?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem says he’s hungry. But he turns down the yogurt and apple that the school has provided this morning to all students for breakfast. So Miss Grill reaches into her personal snack bag and gives Naseem a banana.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Drop-in Center\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Parents and youth who have lost their fixed housing are sometimes identified during Oakland Unified’s centralized enrollment process, when they can’t come up with proof of a current address — or if they \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/159/FINAL%20ENROLLMENT%20FORM%20ENG_FILLABLE.pdf\">check a small box on the registration form\u003c/a> that asks whether they are homeless or doubled up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re then told to drop by the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Domain/153\">Transitional Students & Families Unit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Families are described as “in transition” rather than “homeless,” to reduce stigma.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first week of school, Anderson says, her drop-in center was packed. She fixed it up with a donated sofa and comfortable chairs, decorated the walls, and got to work writing letters --to tap private companies, faith-based groups and the nonprofit sector for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is hoping to team up with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mynewredshoes.org/\">My New Red Shoes\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization, to secure shoes for kids and possibly gift cards, too, that families can use to buy school uniforms and other back-to-school clothing. Other nonprofits -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.feedthechildren.org/\">Feed the Children \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandpromise.org/programs/k2c/\">Kindergarten to College\u003c/a> --provide her office with backpacks and school supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the district’s crippling budget crisis in mind, Anderson is now pitching a host of other area businesses, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, oh, don’t think I haven’t thought about approaching Uber or Lyft, the new transportation experts, to ask about donations from them,” she adds. “I’m on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many districts, that community help is the best hope to comply with the McKinney-Vento law, which is clear about \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/transportation.pdf\">transit help.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a parent chooses to keep their child in the school of origin, the law spells out, Oakland Unified under nearly all circumstances must pay for transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the student is temporarily residing within another district’s boundaries, as Naseem is, the two districts are supposed to share the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transit Troubles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But Oakland Unified doesn’t offer BART cards, Anderson said. It’s never had the resources to make that happen. So it doesn’t coordinate with districts outside Alameda County to help get kids to school here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out, other than salaries and overhead, Oakland Unified's entire budget for homeless students goes toward AC Transit bus passes. And even there, it falls short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Around April,” Anderson said, “we’re running out of funding for transportation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Anderson learned from a reporter about Naseem’s circumstances, she arranged to have some passes dropped off at Emerson for him and his mom, since Allamby can’t easily get to the drop-in center. It’s all Anderson can offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby is grateful. But the bus system only covers western Alameda and Contra Costa counties. For her core commute costs on BART, she’s out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Long Day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By the time she and Naseem get back to South San Francisco, it’s almost 8 p.m. They’ve been out of the house for more than 13 hours. They’re exhausted. Allamby worries that her son is not getting enough sleep to focus in school or on homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s trauma that’s harder to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we lost our home, Naseem lost his peace and quiet, his privacy, our pets, so it was just really hard for him,” Allamby says as Naseem eats popcorn and zones out on YouTube videos on her phone. “I don’t think he will ever feel comfortable at someone else’s house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby loves to dream about the home she’ll share with Naseem again one day. She wants him to have his own room, with a loft bed and a desk where he can do his homework. Even his own TV and a mini-fridge, so he can bask in his privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Naseem doesn’t seem to want to play that game. Asked what he misses about Oakland, he breathes heavily. He pauses. He sighs. He doesn’t answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom thinks he just can’t go there right now, that he’s not confident he’ll ever have his own space again.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ahhhh,” he says, “that really stings the mouth!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds like a typical domestic scene, but this isn’t Naseem’s home. He and his mom, Rachael Allamby, 41, sleep in his great-grandmother’s living room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 6 a.m., Naseem’s red air mattress is propped against the wall. The couch where his mother sleeps is tidied. And all their bedding and other belongings are tucked in a tight heap in the corner, under a blanket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Naseem lived in North Oakland with his mother, Mr. Spooky the cat and Kudjo the chihuahua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, last fall, they got evicted from their duplex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby says it was a wrongful eviction, that she always paid her rent on time, but that when she was late coming up with some money for repairs, the landlord booted her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They became homeless — a word that's hard for her to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her son had no other choice but to come here, to this small one-bedroom apartment near a leafy park in South San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s great-grandmother is sleeping with her door propped open. He and his mom try not to wake her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Naseem is the main one I worry about, because I know when he’s stressed out, \" Allamby says in a whisper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His living circumstances have taken a toll. He’s had anxiety attacks, temper tantrums, lots of stress eating, “and then traveling from here all the way to Oakland” and back again, Allamby adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that travel? That’s so Naseem can stay in the same school where he’s been since kindergarten. Where they know him, and care about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plenty of \u003ca href=\"http://www.americaspromise.org/report/hidden-plain-sight\">research\u003c/a> shows that students who lose their housing, even briefly, perform more poorly in school. They’re often \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/chron-absent.pdf\">late or miss days\u003c/a>. They’re less likely than any other group to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintaining stability at school after a child loses his or her home, it turns out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4139923/\">can be key to educational success.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it makes for long days for Naseem. His school is 22 miles and three counties away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem stuffs a bag of Dum Dums in his pocket and scrounges for his Pokémon cards, a recent gift. By 6:30 am, Allamby announces it’s time to hit the road. Naseem responds with a loud sigh that borders on a groan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pops,” she reminds him in an urgent whisper, “you need your jacket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grabs a black zip-up hoodie and fetches what he calls his “car,” a scooter with beat-up handlebars and busted front brakes. The BART station is more than a mile away — and the whole trip to Naseem’s Oakland school will take nearly two hours — so the scooter helps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He drags it down the stairs as dawn's light bleeds into morning. “She’s not bad,” he says, almost to himself, “but neither she’s not good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Commute\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Allamby and Naseem take a jogger’s path to the station, teasing and goofing along the way. Mom tosses out the first joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s the name of the vegetable kung fu master?” she asks. Naseem’s right on it with the answer: “Brock Lee,” he squeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby knows how to prioritize her kids’ education. Naseem’s eldest sister just started at UC Berkeley. His mom has big hopes for Naseem, too, which is why she really wants him to maintain some continuity at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be integrating Naseem into the schools here and then we gotta transfer again,” she explains, as Naseem trundles along next to her, gleefully pointing out a cat they often run into, and a duck feeding on weedy muck in the nearby canal. “I want him to keep the same friends and associates at the school as long as he can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping Naseem in the same school? It turns out that’s actually Allamby’s legal right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three decades ago, President Ronald Reagan signed the \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/legis/mv.php\">McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act \u003c/a>into federal law. The big-picture idea: to provide stability. The law \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlchp.org/documents/McKinney-Vento_FAQs\">guarantees \u003c/a>that kids who have lost their fixed housing can stay at the school they’ve been attending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It guarantees other rights too — like the right to enroll immediately at a new school without proof of residence or immunization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most critically for many parents who wish to keep kids in their original school, the act in most circumstances \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/transportation.pdf\">pledges help with transportation costs \u003c/a>to get there and back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby and Naseem could really use that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-960x686.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6-520x371.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO6.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachael Allamby leans in to talk to Naseem, 10, during their nearly two-hour commute to his Oakland elementary school. They spend much of it on BART. Allamby says their fares cost her nearly $400 a month. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transit Costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When they get to BART, it’s time for an uncomfortable ritual. Allamby has scrounged up two BART tickets. But the combined value isn’t enough. She needs Naseem to run through the emergency gate -- again. She knows she keeps saying it’s the last time, she tells him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem listens. “But it’s never the last time,” he points out quietly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby says transit costs alone run her nearly $400 per month, so it’s a problem. Naseem makes it through without getting stopped, and when he and his mom arrive at Oakland’s MacArthur station, Allamby explains to the station agents that they are just a bit short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They let mother and son exit. These two know her, Allamby says. They saw her bring Naseem to school a lot before summer break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone does.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Need Is Great\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s situation is not unusual. In the 2016-17 school year, the Oakland Unified School District saw an increase of more than 50 percent in its homeless student tally – to nearly 1600 kids, according to data provided by the district’s McKinney-Vento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those are just the families the district knows about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trish Anderson is the district’s new McKinney-Vento liaison. She took over this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, she says, is full of families who’ve been pushed out of stable housing. Many are invisible, doubled up like Naseem is with relatives or friends. Others are living in cars, shelters or motels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about the number of people in that situation in Oakland right now with the housing crisis, that number is bound to be larger than it was in the past,” Anderson says in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinney-Vento \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/new-liaisons.pdf\">mandates\u003c/a> that districts work with schools to identify students who’ve lost their housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District liaisons are also supposed to spread the word at soup kitchens, shelters, motels and laundromats — so that families know that they're entitled to stay in their home school, enroll without proof of an address, get transportation help, access support for school supplies and clothes, and referrals to dental care, housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a big gap between what the law promises and what it delivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is just one person, with a caseload of 1,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s funding for homeless students? It’s stayed flat for the past three school years, at $230,885, and isn’t projected to grow this year either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education doles out federal McKinney-Vento grants to districts to help them comply with the law — but there isn’t enough to go around, and the three-year grants are competitive: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r16/homeless15results.asp\">Fewer than half of the 131 districts that applied in the most recent cycle, in 2015, received one.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified wasn’t among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it hasn’t received any federal grant money through the state since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though a fifth of the nation’s homeless students live in California, the state receives just one-tenth of the funding, according to Leanne Wheeler, the homeless education coordinator for the California Department of Education. And she alone is charged with ensuring that 1,800 districts, county educational offices, and privately-funded charter schools are complying with the law. In contrast, Texas and New York have half a dozen or more such staffers on hand, Wheeler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/es/documents/draftmckinneyvento.doc\">changes to the federal law\u003c/a> require Wheeler to step up training for district liaisons such as Anderson. And Anderson, in turn, is now required to do more to make sure Oakland school personnel — from principals on down — get trained in the law too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, every single school district in the country is now mandated to publicly report achievement, suspension and graduation rates for homeless students, to shine a brighter light out how they’re doing and whether they’re getting the support they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, plenty fall through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621057\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621057\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naseem Bennett, 10, finds his name on the wall on his first day of 5th grade at Oakland's Emerson Elementary School. Naseem and his mom lost their housing in North Oakland last year. He now commutes across three counties so he can maintain some educational stability. It’s his legal right. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How to Spot the Signs \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem and his mom arrive at Emerson Elementary School, in Oakland’s Temescal district, not long before the 8:30 a.m. bell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi Miss Brook!” Naseem yells as he waits for his mother to fill out forms. Allamby recently scored a full-time job as a janitor in San Francisco, so she wasn’t able to register him on time. She catches up now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the staff here know Naseem’s situation. They figured it out last year when he started showing up late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They offered him counseling, and a coach brought Naseem clothes and a new Xbox, since he lost a lot of stuff in the eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Heather Palin says a team that includes teachers and counselors know how to spot the signs that a student might have lost his or her housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even at community schools like Emerson, which make a holistic effort to help kids and families, many employees aren’t that familiar with the McKinney-Vento law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palin’s not sure whether the information on a student’s housing status gets back to the district’s McKinney-Vento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t say necessarily that there’s a lot of training” in the law, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a problem. Palin couldn’t talk about the specifics of Naseem’s case, for privacy reasons. But it turns out, he wasn’t included in the district’s homeless student tally last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cases like this mean that Oakland’s numbers aren’t accurate, which can affect funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, it means no one really spelled out for Allamby her rights under federal law or the services that the district can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, it’s not uncommon for parents and youth to hide their circumstances, due to embarrassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because they don’t fully understand their rights, they’re fearful, too, that their kids might be told that they can’t stay in their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby knows the school has been supportive. But she’s still nervous. When she fills out the registration form for the district, she uses her old Oakland address -- “just to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-960x576.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5-520x312.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/PHOTO5.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naseem Bennett, 10, sits in his classroom at Emerson Elementary School on the first day of fifth grade. He’s been in good spirits all morning but his mood shifts once school starts. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>First Day Back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Naseem’s been in high spirits all morning. But his mood starts to shift when it’s time to file into his classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, he puts his head on his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How're you doing, Naseem,” Miss Grill murmurs to him, leaning in close. “You don’t know? Is today feeling a little hard?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naseem says he’s hungry. But he turns down the yogurt and apple that the school has provided this morning to all students for breakfast. So Miss Grill reaches into her personal snack bag and gives Naseem a banana.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Drop-in Center\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Parents and youth who have lost their fixed housing are sometimes identified during Oakland Unified’s centralized enrollment process, when they can’t come up with proof of a current address — or if they \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/159/FINAL%20ENROLLMENT%20FORM%20ENG_FILLABLE.pdf\">check a small box on the registration form\u003c/a> that asks whether they are homeless or doubled up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re then told to drop by the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Domain/153\">Transitional Students & Families Unit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Families are described as “in transition” rather than “homeless,” to reduce stigma.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first week of school, Anderson says, her drop-in center was packed. She fixed it up with a donated sofa and comfortable chairs, decorated the walls, and got to work writing letters --to tap private companies, faith-based groups and the nonprofit sector for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is hoping to team up with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mynewredshoes.org/\">My New Red Shoes\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization, to secure shoes for kids and possibly gift cards, too, that families can use to buy school uniforms and other back-to-school clothing. Other nonprofits -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.feedthechildren.org/\">Feed the Children \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandpromise.org/programs/k2c/\">Kindergarten to College\u003c/a> --provide her office with backpacks and school supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the district’s crippling budget crisis in mind, Anderson is now pitching a host of other area businesses, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, oh, don’t think I haven’t thought about approaching Uber or Lyft, the new transportation experts, to ask about donations from them,” she adds. “I’m on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many districts, that community help is the best hope to comply with the McKinney-Vento law, which is clear about \u003ca href=\"https://nche.ed.gov/downloads/briefs/transportation.pdf\">transit help.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a parent chooses to keep their child in the school of origin, the law spells out, Oakland Unified under nearly all circumstances must pay for transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the student is temporarily residing within another district’s boundaries, as Naseem is, the two districts are supposed to share the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transit Troubles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But Oakland Unified doesn’t offer BART cards, Anderson said. It’s never had the resources to make that happen. So it doesn’t coordinate with districts outside Alameda County to help get kids to school here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out, other than salaries and overhead, Oakland Unified's entire budget for homeless students goes toward AC Transit bus passes. And even there, it falls short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Around April,” Anderson said, “we’re running out of funding for transportation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Anderson learned from a reporter about Naseem’s circumstances, she arranged to have some passes dropped off at Emerson for him and his mom, since Allamby can’t easily get to the drop-in center. It’s all Anderson can offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby is grateful. But the bus system only covers western Alameda and Contra Costa counties. For her core commute costs on BART, she’s out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Long Day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By the time she and Naseem get back to South San Francisco, it’s almost 8 p.m. They’ve been out of the house for more than 13 hours. They’re exhausted. Allamby worries that her son is not getting enough sleep to focus in school or on homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s trauma that’s harder to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we lost our home, Naseem lost his peace and quiet, his privacy, our pets, so it was just really hard for him,” Allamby says as Naseem eats popcorn and zones out on YouTube videos on her phone. “I don’t think he will ever feel comfortable at someone else’s house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allamby loves to dream about the home she’ll share with Naseem again one day. She wants him to have his own room, with a loft bed and a desk where he can do his homework. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jill Permutt and Joan Tanzer live in different cities, and have never met in person, but now they are connected through a tragic similarity: they have both lost their homes in fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permutt and her husband fled their home in Santa Rosa during the wildfires last week. Tanzer lost her house in the Oakland Hills fire in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until last week, the two women were strangers. But then a mutual friend told Tanzer about Permutt, about how her entire neighborhood in Santa Rosa had just burned to the ground. Tanzer called her right away, and since then they’ve talked several times on the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cb>“You’ve lost everything in your life. Now you have to write it all down.”\u003c/b>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanzer and her husband are retired and now live in the small town of Aptos, south of Santa Cruz. Permutt and her husband are staying at a hotel in Santa Rosa. During her conversations with Permutt, Tanzer is \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sympathetic, but also blunt about how hard the recovery process can be. She says it took her 15 years to really rebuild her life and identity after the Oakland fire.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625182\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11625182 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jill Permutt and her husband are staying in a hotel in Santa Rosa. Their house burned down in the recent fires. \u003ccite>(Sarah Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanzer’s daughter was only 8 at the time of the Oakland fire, so helping her cope was an important part of the process. And that disaster occurred during the pre-Internet age, when you couldn’t save electronic copies of anything to “the cloud.” When the Tanzers fled their home, Joan managed to grab a few photo albums, but the rest of the photos were lost. She did manage to rebuild some of the family history later, by asking friends and relatives to comb through their own collections for photos of the Tanzers, and send her copies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624984\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624984\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-960x631.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-520x342.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut.jpg 1166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanzer and her family in front of their home before it burned down in a fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Joan Tanzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624990\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sculpture Joan Tanzer’s then 8-year old daughter made from burned forks salvaged from the fire that destroyed their home. Sasha Khokha/KQED \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In some ways, the recovery process will be different for Permutt. She kept a lot of financial documents online. Some of her treasured photos are backed up. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And all three of her kids are grown and gone, living elsewhere, with their own careers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Tazner warned Permutt that she and her husband are in for a stressful time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kiss your hubby a lot,” Tanzer advised. “Really, you’ve got to take care of yourself and your twosome. I really think that that got overlooked. We had a support group afterwards. There were 13 of us, seven divorces. These weren’t new marriages, these were established marriages. The strain of even renovation is a big factor in divorce. But doing this is just crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanzer’s support group in Oakland was called the Optimists. The neighbors swapped tips on dealing with insurance, and talked about how to help their kids feel safe again. Tanzer, for example, changed her work schedule so she could spend more time with her young daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Life after fire can be surprising\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanzer says life after the fire was full of surprises, both good and bad. Stores gave her discounts , and co-workers left little gifts on her desk — practical things, like pantyhose and underwear. They even threw her a fire recovery shower — kind of like a bridal shower, to replace all the pots and pans and household things she had lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Rosa, people have been doing wonderful things for Permutt and her husband, too. Some have dropped meals off at the hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625256\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 699px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11625256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Tribune's cover showing the aftermath of the Oakland Hills Fire. \" width=\"699\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117.jpg 699w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117-160x232.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117-240x348.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117-375x544.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117-520x754.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Tribune’s cover showing the aftermath of the Oakland Hills fire.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All that attention can be healing for fire victims, Tanzer said. But it can sometimes feel invasive, too. After the Oakland fire, her neighborhood became a kind of spectacle. For example, a bus full of Japanese tourists once drove through the neighborhood while she was digging through the rubble of her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were coming out of the bus to take our picture, as if it were some other kind of entertainment. That really upset us,” Tanzer recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was almost Halloween, so Tanzer put a pumpkin out, right in front of her burned house. She wrote on it with a marker: “Keep Out! This is still our home!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624987\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-1180x770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-960x627.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-375x245.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-520x339.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut.jpg 1345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanzer says her burnt neighborhood became a tourist spectacle after the 1991 Oakland firestorm. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Joan Tanzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she’s talking to Permutt, Tanzer shares lots of stories like that one — the bizarre and surprising tales, along with the moments of loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One surprise for her was feeling the trauma of losing her home in her body, physically. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When she was cooking in her new kitchen, she’d still reach out to grab for a spatula in the place it used to be, and her had would grab emptiness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t figure out why you have such a bad headache after you made a bunch of pancakes,” Tanzer said. “Because nothing is where you thought it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way Tanzer coped with the fire was through art. For months after the fire, she collected boxes of debris from their old property, remnants of her old life, like blackened coins, twisted forks, and a melted menorah. She used some of the materials to make sculptures and collages. It was a kind of therapy for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624988\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debris collected from the rubble of Tanzer’s house. She uses the pieces to make art pieces. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624989\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art made from the rubble of Tanzer’s burnt home. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tanzer hopes her stories will help Permutt prepare for the strange psychological space she will have to inhabit in the coming months and years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625183\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-800x1242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1242\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-800x1242.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-160x248.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-1020x1584.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-1920x2981.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-1180x1832.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-960x1490.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-240x373.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-375x582.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-520x807.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jill Permutt shows off a dress that she got as a donation from a thrift store. The dress she planned to wear to her son’s wedding was destroyed in the fire. \u003ccite>(Sarah Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Permutt said some of Tanzer’s advice has been great, but she can’t absorb all of it right away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the practical tips have been quite helpful, Permutt said, including Tanzer’s referring her to a trustworthy public adjuster, the same one Tanzer used after the Oakland Hills fire. Public adjusters help catalogue lost belongings and negotiate with insurance, in return for a cut of the claim.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tanzer knows that many people affected by the fire don’t even have insurance. “This is a disaster upon disaster. It’s not just an emotional disaster but it’s such a huge financial disaster. The people who will lose their jobs, as well as their dwellings. And what happens to them? What resources are available to them? What about the people who work for the wineries?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What not to say to a fire survivor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the many Californians who want to reach out and help , Tanzer has advice about what \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to say to a fire victim: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>Don’t say ‘What can I do for you?'” she instructed. “Say ‘First I’m going to bring over this to you’ [or] ‘Where will you be? I’m going to bring this for you,’ ‘What do you want me to store for you because you don’t have a big place…'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Say what you’re going to do,” Tanzer explained. “Don’t make them think. Just make the offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanzer’s phone is ringing a lot these days. Other survivors of the Wine Country fires are calling, eager to hear from someone who’s actually gotten through this, and can talk to them from the other side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s therapeutic for her, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me feel like something good can come out of the fire, if I can help somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay Curious recently gathered \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/20/advice-from-one-wildfire-survivor-to-another/\">advice from fire survivors\u003c/a> and a KQED listener gave \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/19/parenting-through-disaster-advice-from-a-mom-who-did-it/\">advice to parents\u003c/a> during the recovery process.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jill Permutt and Joan Tanzer live in different cities, and have never met in person, but now they are connected through a tragic similarity: they have both lost their homes in fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permutt and her husband fled their home in Santa Rosa during the wildfires last week. Tanzer lost her house in the Oakland Hills fire in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until last week, the two women were strangers. But then a mutual friend told Tanzer about Permutt, about how her entire neighborhood in Santa Rosa had just burned to the ground. Tanzer called her right away, and since then they’ve talked several times on the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cb>“You’ve lost everything in your life. Now you have to write it all down.”\u003c/b>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanzer and her husband are retired and now live in the small town of Aptos, south of Santa Cruz. Permutt and her husband are staying at a hotel in Santa Rosa. During her conversations with Permutt, Tanzer is \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sympathetic, but also blunt about how hard the recovery process can be. She says it took her 15 years to really rebuild her life and identity after the Oakland fire.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625182\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11625182 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27663_IMG_6238-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jill Permutt and her husband are staying in a hotel in Santa Rosa. Their house burned down in the recent fires. \u003ccite>(Sarah Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanzer’s daughter was only 8 at the time of the Oakland fire, so helping her cope was an important part of the process. And that disaster occurred during the pre-Internet age, when you couldn’t save electronic copies of anything to “the cloud.” When the Tanzers fled their home, Joan managed to grab a few photo albums, but the rest of the photos were lost. She did manage to rebuild some of the family history later, by asking friends and relatives to comb through their own collections for photos of the Tanzers, and send her copies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624984\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624984\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-960x631.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut-520x342.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27573_Joan1-qut.jpg 1166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanzer and her family in front of their home before it burned down in a fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Joan Tanzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624990\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27630__DSC0619-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sculpture Joan Tanzer’s then 8-year old daughter made from burned forks salvaged from the fire that destroyed their home. Sasha Khokha/KQED \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In some ways, the recovery process will be different for Permutt. She kept a lot of financial documents online. Some of her treasured photos are backed up. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And all three of her kids are grown and gone, living elsewhere, with their own careers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Tazner warned Permutt that she and her husband are in for a stressful time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kiss your hubby a lot,” Tanzer advised. “Really, you’ve got to take care of yourself and your twosome. I really think that that got overlooked. We had a support group afterwards. There were 13 of us, seven divorces. These weren’t new marriages, these were established marriages. The strain of even renovation is a big factor in divorce. But doing this is just crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanzer’s support group in Oakland was called the Optimists. The neighbors swapped tips on dealing with insurance, and talked about how to help their kids feel safe again. Tanzer, for example, changed her work schedule so she could spend more time with her young daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Life after fire can be surprising\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanzer says life after the fire was full of surprises, both good and bad. Stores gave her discounts , and co-workers left little gifts on her desk — practical things, like pantyhose and underwear. They even threw her a fire recovery shower — kind of like a bridal shower, to replace all the pots and pans and household things she had lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Rosa, people have been doing wonderful things for Permutt and her husband, too. Some have dropped meals off at the hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625256\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 699px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11625256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Tribune's cover showing the aftermath of the Oakland Hills Fire. \" width=\"699\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117.jpg 699w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117-160x232.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117-240x348.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117-375x544.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screencap-102117-520x754.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Tribune’s cover showing the aftermath of the Oakland Hills fire.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All that attention can be healing for fire victims, Tanzer said. But it can sometimes feel invasive, too. After the Oakland fire, her neighborhood became a kind of spectacle. For example, a bus full of Japanese tourists once drove through the neighborhood while she was digging through the rubble of her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were coming out of the bus to take our picture, as if it were some other kind of entertainment. That really upset us,” Tanzer recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was almost Halloween, so Tanzer put a pumpkin out, right in front of her burned house. She wrote on it with a marker: “Keep Out! This is still our home!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624987\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-1180x770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-960x627.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-375x245.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut-520x339.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27572_Joan4-qut.jpg 1345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanzer says her burnt neighborhood became a tourist spectacle after the 1991 Oakland firestorm. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Joan Tanzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she’s talking to Permutt, Tanzer shares lots of stories like that one — the bizarre and surprising tales, along with the moments of loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One surprise for her was feeling the trauma of losing her home in her body, physically. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When she was cooking in her new kitchen, she’d still reach out to grab for a spatula in the place it used to be, and her had would grab emptiness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t figure out why you have such a bad headache after you made a bunch of pancakes,” Tanzer said. “Because nothing is where you thought it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way Tanzer coped with the fire was through art. For months after the fire, she collected boxes of debris from their old property, remnants of her old life, like blackened coins, twisted forks, and a melted menorah. She used some of the materials to make sculptures and collages. It was a kind of therapy for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624988\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27622__DSC0611-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debris collected from the rubble of Tanzer’s house. She uses the pieces to make art pieces. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624989\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27646__DSC0635-qut.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art made from the rubble of Tanzer’s burnt home. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tanzer hopes her stories will help Permutt prepare for the strange psychological space she will have to inhabit in the coming months and years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625183\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-800x1242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1242\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-800x1242.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-160x248.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-1020x1584.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-1920x2981.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-1180x1832.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-960x1490.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-240x373.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-375x582.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27664_alt_646-520x807.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jill Permutt shows off a dress that she got as a donation from a thrift store. The dress she planned to wear to her son’s wedding was destroyed in the fire. \u003ccite>(Sarah Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Permutt said some of Tanzer’s advice has been great, but she can’t absorb all of it right away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the practical tips have been quite helpful, Permutt said, including Tanzer’s referring her to a trustworthy public adjuster, the same one Tanzer used after the Oakland Hills fire. Public adjusters help catalogue lost belongings and negotiate with insurance, in return for a cut of the claim.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tanzer knows that many people affected by the fire don’t even have insurance. “This is a disaster upon disaster. It’s not just an emotional disaster but it’s such a huge financial disaster. The people who will lose their jobs, as well as their dwellings. And what happens to them? What resources are available to them? What about the people who work for the wineries?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What not to say to a fire survivor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the many Californians who want to reach out and help , Tanzer has advice about what \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to say to a fire victim: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>Don’t say ‘What can I do for you?'” she instructed. “Say ‘First I’m going to bring over this to you’ [or] ‘Where will you be? I’m going to bring this for you,’ ‘What do you want me to store for you because you don’t have a big place…'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Say what you’re going to do,” Tanzer explained. “Don’t make them think. Just make the offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanzer’s phone is ringing a lot these days. Other survivors of the Wine Country fires are calling, eager to hear from someone who’s actually gotten through this, and can talk to them from the other side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s therapeutic for her, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me feel like something good can come out of the fire, if I can help somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At 15, Sarah Vang is a confident leader. With her big, persistent smile, she runs her high school Hmong Club meeting with ease, spreading enthusiasm even to the most reluctant participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She founded the club last year as a sophomore. And as president, she takes it upon herself to look out for new Hmong students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of Hmong freshman,” she says, “and I just want to tell them, 'Join the Hmong Club! I’m so happy you’re Hmong!' I feel like I’m the mother of all Hmong people. I love my community so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that love came only after years of wrestling with her identity. Sarah didn’t speak much Hmong growing up, and she didn’t really talk with her parents about their life in Laos or why they came to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/10/tcrmag20171006Hmong.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-1180x885.jpg\" Title=\"Years After Tragedy, Fresno's Hmong Seek Cultural Understanding for Next Generation\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In elementary school, kids tormented her with racist taunts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me want to diminish all Asian or Hmong aspects of me,” she says. “I did not want to associate with any Hmong people. I really hated Hmong people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She felt that way for years. Then eventually, as a teen, she started wanting to know more about her culture. Around the same time, her high school introduced its first Hmong language and history class, and Sarah enrolled. Now every high school in the Fresno Unified School District offers these classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day her teacher showed the class a documentary about the Hmong in Fresno. It included a tragic episode in the community's history -- the suicides of eight teenagers between 1998 and 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'These kids didn't have an identity. They don't know who they are, where they came from, why their parents were involved in the war.'\u003ccite>Peter Vang, Hmong survivor of the Vietnam War\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Once I saw my brother’s face, I started crying,” Sarah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah’s brother was one of those teenagers. He died before she was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My teacher didn’t know that that was my brother, or that the person they were interviewing was my dad,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her brother’s death, Sarah’s dad, Peter Vang, talked to the families and friends of the other teens who had killed themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot save my son anymore because he’s gone,” Vang says, “but I want to make sure other parents save their kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vang learned the kids all had distinct troubles, but he found a common theme: “These kids didn’t have an identity,” he says. “They don’t know who they are, where they came from, why their parents were involved in the war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11620673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Teacher Thae Xiong reads students a book in Hmong.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Thae Xiong reads students a book in Hmong. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vang says that for kids to have a better sense of their identity, they need to learn about that war -- the so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/opinion/heirs-of-the-secret-war-in-laos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secret war\u003c/a> in which the CIA recruited Hmong fighters to help stop the spread of communism in Laos during the Vietnam War. At least 30,000 Hmong died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, many Hmong ended up in the Central Valley, home to the second-largest Hmong community in the United States. Vang says that when his son was in school, this story wasn’t told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing in history books,” he says. \"So schools, when they talked about Vietnam War, the Hmong did not exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Vang and others in the community successfully advocated for California legislation that encouraged schools to teach students about the role of the Hmong in the Vietnam War. And they began pushing for Hmong language and history classes at Fresno schools, like the one Vang’s daughter, Sarah, took for the first time last year. In that class, the secret war got a lot of attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first we were like, 'Why are we learning about this?' We didn’t understand,” Sarah says. “But once we got into depth about it, we realized Hmong people went through a lot of hardships trying to get here. That’s when I started to ask my dad, ‘So tell me a little about the war.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"G1xagEdRDJkUC617msXn4Mg8RjTmi9W1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vang grew up in the war. As a 4-year-old, he remembers the screeching sound of rockets flying through the air, the sight of body parts strewn across the ground, and the stacks of body bags. At one point, his house was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought my parents were dead,” he says. “I realized they were still alive after all the smoke cleared.” Vang’s father fought with the CIA and was injured more than once. He lost multiple fingers to a grenade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing these stories had a big impact on Sarah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really hit home. It made me appreciate everything the elders did,” she says. “Because of them we are here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade, the work of Peter Vang and other community members is paying off: This year Sarah’s school offered a more advanced Hmong class for the first time, and last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnostate.edu/catalog/subjects/linguistics/hmong-mn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresno State University introduced a minor in Hmong\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno Unified has something else in the works, too. It’s testing out a dual immersion class for kindergartners so that kids like 6-year-old Logan can learn Hmong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how to read English,” he says, while looking through a children’s book written in Hmong. “I don’t know how to read Hmong. It’s hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11618123 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Hmong-dual-immersion-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doua Vu works with students Isaac and Cassidy in Fresno Unified School District's Hmong-English dual-immersion pilot class. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Misty Her oversees the new dual-language program. She says the biggest challenge is developing the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really nothing, nothing out there for us,\" she says in terms of models. \"But what’s exciting is we get to build it from the ground up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her says there are very few Hmong dual-immersion programs, and there aren't a lot of Hmong written texts out there to work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our written language only happened about the last 60, 70 years,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids are just a couple of weeks into the after-school class, but Fresno Unified is already planning to offer regular Hmong dual immersion at elementary schools as early as next year. It will be the first in Fresno, and one of\u003ca href=\"http://www.scusd.edu/program/susan-b-anthony-hmong-dual-language-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> just a couple in California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hmong who fled their homeland since the Vietnam War hope this generation -- and those to come -- will walk through the world with confidence. They hope that by knowing their language, their history and exactly where they came from, younger Hmong can decide who they want to be.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me want to diminish all Asian or Hmong aspects of me,” she says. “I did not want to associate with any Hmong people. I really hated Hmong people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She felt that way for years. Then eventually, as a teen, she started wanting to know more about her culture. Around the same time, her high school introduced its first Hmong language and history class, and Sarah enrolled. Now every high school in the Fresno Unified School District offers these classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day her teacher showed the class a documentary about the Hmong in Fresno. It included a tragic episode in the community's history -- the suicides of eight teenagers between 1998 and 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'These kids didn't have an identity. They don't know who they are, where they came from, why their parents were involved in the war.'\u003ccite>Peter Vang, Hmong survivor of the Vietnam War\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Once I saw my brother’s face, I started crying,” Sarah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah’s brother was one of those teenagers. He died before she was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My teacher didn’t know that that was my brother, or that the person they were interviewing was my dad,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her brother’s death, Sarah’s dad, Peter Vang, talked to the families and friends of the other teens who had killed themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot save my son anymore because he’s gone,” Vang says, “but I want to make sure other parents save their kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vang learned the kids all had distinct troubles, but he found a common theme: “These kids didn’t have an identity,” he says. “They don’t know who they are, where they came from, why their parents were involved in the war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11620673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Teacher Thae Xiong reads students a book in Hmong.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27162_RS26637_IMG_42671-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Thae Xiong reads students a book in Hmong. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vang says that for kids to have a better sense of their identity, they need to learn about that war -- the so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/opinion/heirs-of-the-secret-war-in-laos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secret war\u003c/a> in which the CIA recruited Hmong fighters to help stop the spread of communism in Laos during the Vietnam War. At least 30,000 Hmong died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, many Hmong ended up in the Central Valley, home to the second-largest Hmong community in the United States. Vang says that when his son was in school, this story wasn’t told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing in history books,” he says. \"So schools, when they talked about Vietnam War, the Hmong did not exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Vang and others in the community successfully advocated for California legislation that encouraged schools to teach students about the role of the Hmong in the Vietnam War. And they began pushing for Hmong language and history classes at Fresno schools, like the one Vang’s daughter, Sarah, took for the first time last year. In that class, the secret war got a lot of attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first we were like, 'Why are we learning about this?' We didn’t understand,” Sarah says. “But once we got into depth about it, we realized Hmong people went through a lot of hardships trying to get here. That’s when I started to ask my dad, ‘So tell me a little about the war.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vang grew up in the war. As a 4-year-old, he remembers the screeching sound of rockets flying through the air, the sight of body parts strewn across the ground, and the stacks of body bags. At one point, his house was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought my parents were dead,” he says. “I realized they were still alive after all the smoke cleared.” Vang’s father fought with the CIA and was injured more than once. He lost multiple fingers to a grenade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing these stories had a big impact on Sarah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really hit home. It made me appreciate everything the elders did,” she says. “Because of them we are here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade, the work of Peter Vang and other community members is paying off: This year Sarah’s school offered a more advanced Hmong class for the first time, and last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnostate.edu/catalog/subjects/linguistics/hmong-mn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresno State University introduced a minor in Hmong\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno Unified has something else in the works, too. It’s testing out a dual immersion class for kindergartners so that kids like 6-year-old Logan can learn Hmong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how to read English,” he says, while looking through a children’s book written in Hmong. “I don’t know how to read Hmong. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Primary School, a free private school backed by Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is planning to construct a 76,000-square-foot building that will serve as a school and health center in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school just completed its first full year and is temporarily operating out of the Ravenswood Child Development campus. School leaders unveiled for the first time last week renderings of the plans during a community meeting. The campus will sit on 3.5 acres of land on Weeks Street near the East Palo Alto Baylands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school serves low-income students and their families from East Palo Alto and the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renderings show a rooftop playground for students, an 11,000-square-foot gymnasium and several play yards and recreation areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11579453\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11579453 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1676-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1676-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1676-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1676-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1676-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1676-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1676-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1676-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1676-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1676-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An overhead map of the proposed building, which will be built on 3.5 acres of land off Weeks Street in East Palo Alto. The school will have capacity for 511 students (K-8). \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The color scheme, according to \u003ca href=\"http://studiobondy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Studio Bondy Architecture\u003c/a>, is inspired by the changing colors of the Baylands. Twenty-five percent of the building would serve as a community space for \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">adult-learning classrooms, a meeting space for parents, and a parent education library. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first community meeting, some residents expressed concern over increased traffic, and the accessibility of the school for other students, who don’t qualify as low income. City planners said there will be at least two additional community meetings for residents to give their input into the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11579455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11579455 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of the proposed 76,000-square-foot expansion site of The Primary School. The school will have capacity for 511 students (K-8). \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In June, the school held its first graduation ceremony for 51 preschoolers. This coming school year, it will welcome 150 preschoolers and serve an additional 100 infants and toddlers. The ultimate goal is to provide on-site health care services and education to 511 students and their families from birth through eighth grade. The school partners with the Ravenswood Health Clinic to provide health services to its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still a long way to go before the new school campus becomes official. The plans must first go through a city environmental review and traffic analysis this fall and winter. The East Palo Alto City Council will vote on the plan sometime in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11579456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11579456 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An overhead map of the proposed building, which will be built on 3.5 acres of land off of Weeks Street in East Palo Alto. 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Beyond the low-income membership, Schaaf said, “We required that these bike-share stations be in every part of our city, every community, every income level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some activists are pointing out that Ford GoBike’s planned footprint in Oakland leaves out parts of the city where much of the city’s low-income population is concentrated and where such a service might be most badly needed. Those areas include parts of West Oakland and most of East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brytanee Brown, a community planner who wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.transformca.org/sites/default/files/OakMob_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a recent TransForm report\u003c/a> on bike sharing’s role in improving mobility for Oakland flatlands neighborhoods, said the system’s footprint says a lot about who it’s designed to serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that though neighborhood density is one of the major criteria for locating the system’s bike stations, areas in North Oakland, such as the affluent Rockridge district, will get bike stations early on while equally dense sections of the city along the outer reaches of International Boulevard will not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see from the very beginning it’s not meant for certain communities,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other recommendations in her report, Brown suggests that the city partner with a pair of existing organizations in the city — \u003ca href=\"http://www.cyclesofchange.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cycles of Change\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ScraperBikeTeam/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original Scraper Bike Team\u003c/a> — to extend bike share throughout East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scraper Bike Team, a bike-art, bike-activist group, and Cycles of Change, which focuses on bike education for kids, are partnering with other groups to spread the word about Ford GoBike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scraper Bike Team founder Tyrone Stevenson Jr., aka Baybe Champ, said the community can help prove there’s a need for bike sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, to show there is an urgent need for this bike-share program and that it can help kids get to doctor’s appointment or felons get to probation officers — you know, things of that nature, real-life situations that people need to commute,” Stevenson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TransForm’s Stuart Cohen said that community effort, and the use of bike sharing in some of the flatland neighborhoods that will have bike stations later this year, will play a big part in the system’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we want to see in this first year is tremendous ridership in those communities, in Fruitvale, in West Oakland,” Cohen said. “And if we can show that kind of ridership, it will prove that we can continue to expand the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-UlTcg\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/UlTcg/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cem>Editor’s note\u003c/em>: This story contains a \u003ca href=\"#correction\">correction\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 1:50 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 700 Oakland residents are being told they may have to wait as long as 24 hours before they can return to their residences after a massive blaze at a building under construction forced evacuations near downtown Oakland. Fire officials were concerned about debris from damaged scaffolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A temporary shelter was established at Christ the Light Cathedral, and the Red Cross was also setting up a second center at the corner of San Pablo and Grand avenues for anyone who needs overnight shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland fire officials are working with arson investigators, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, but so far they are not commenting on a cause of the blaze that sent flames and smoke high into the early-morning sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a midday news conference fire officials said the fire started in the center of the building and spread very quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called the fire a loss for the city and the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of development is what Oakland needs to get through this moment, where rents are skyrocketing, where housing is in high demand,” she said. “This is a loss for our city and for this region right now. And that is why we are so determined to ensure that we get to the bottom of what caused this, as well as to do everything to prevent another type of loss like this from ever happening again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said the city is working with the construction company for the building to beef up security. The construction site did have security cameras in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Norris, 69, lives in a high-rise next to the site that burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were sound asleep and heard over the loudspeaker system alarms going off, and they said you gotta evacuate the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He praised local police, fire and the Red Cross for helping everyone out safely and providing blankets to evacuees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood Partners, the developer of the Alta Waverly site, responded to the fire in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thanks to the incredible efforts of the Oakland Fire Department, the Oakland Police Department, the Alameda County Fire, Berkeley Fire Department, Albany Fire Department, and Alameda Fire Department, the fire at Alta Waverly has been contained,” said Brian Hansen, development director for Wood Partners’ West Region. “Their rapid and heroic response ensured no injuries were sustained and that nearby buildings were safely evacuated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland firefighters have controlled a four-alarm fire that gutted a massive apartment and commercial building under construction just north of the city’s downtown district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Fire Department said the blaze — at 23rd and Valdez streets, near the Christ the Light Cathedral at the northwest end of Lake Merritt — started about 4:30 a.m. Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire — the fourth time in the past year a major Oakland residential development has gone up in flames — also damaged and endangered buildings adjacent to the fire and forced some nearby residents from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/abc7newsbayarea/status/883321488258060288\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Massive-fire-engulfs-construction-project-in-11272219.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the San Francisco Chronicle’s account\u003c/a> from the scene:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>From a few blocks away, neighbors and area workers watched the building be gutted in the intense heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared,” said Mout Khamphou, 50, who was sitting in her car getting ready to go to work when she saw smoke coming from the building next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said drove away, thinking the fire wasn’t bad. She called her husband who was still at home to warn him of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I called my husband and I said, ‘I saw the fire start. ‘You have to be careful and get ready to get out.’ He called me and said, ‘Oh honey, the fire started getting worse and he asked where my passport and papers are. Our apartment won’t be safe anymore. I was crying a lot, I worried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she turned around and drove back to her neighborhood to find flames shooting from the burning building. “I saw a lot of smoke. Big, big smoke. That’s why I’m shaking and crying a lot,” Khamphou said. “So I’m worried. We have all our stuff in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters were working to contain the inferno and keep nearby buildings from catching fire. A number of streets in the area were blocked off. The cause was under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of surrounding buildings were evacuated by police and firefighters, many stood on the streets outside the burning structure in their pajamas. Black ash was falling from the sky on cars and people in the area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/07/07/oakland-fire-four-alarm-blaze-at-downtown-construction-site/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the East Bay Times/Bay Area News Group\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Rebecca Sills lives across the street from the fire and was awake early to prepare for a flight to New York with her nephew. Shortly before 5 a.m., she said she heard a boom and looked outside her 15th floor window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were already to separate fires right after the boom,” Sills said. She called 911 at 4:58 a.m. and then ran down 15 flights of stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounded like more fireworks in Oakland to be honest, but the boom was lower and deeper,” she said. She got more concerned about the fire when her brother Eli Sills called her to tell her police were evacuating the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could feel the radiant heat. It was just insane,” Eli Sills said. “You could see the glow off the buildings. It was wild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the fire progressed, the Sills said the large crane at the construction site began to rotate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then it started swinging,” Eli Sills said. “It was a wild scene. Debris began falling down everywhere.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>There were no early reports of injuries or immediate estimate of damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building under construction, called Alta Waverly, was to be a mixed-use building with 196 units of housing and 31,000 square feet of retail space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood, part of a two-block-wide corridor east of Broadway between Grand Avenue and 31st Street, is the scene of particularly intense development. About 2,300 housing units, ranging from student housing to luxury condos, have been recently completed or are under construction or in the planning process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze was the fourth time in the past year that a major residential housing project has been destroyed by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those incidents include two blazes, both arson fires, that struck \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/31/massive-4-alarm-fire-near-oaklands-lake-merritt-causes-millions-of-dollars-in-damage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a single site\u003c/a> near MacArthur Boulevard and San Pablo Avenue, on the Emeryville border. Those fires occurred July 6, 2016, and May 13 of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another new residential project \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/31/massive-4-alarm-fire-near-oaklands-lake-merritt-causes-millions-of-dollars-in-damage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">burned\u003c/a> last Oct. 31 just east of Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11553398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11553398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-800x624.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-800x624.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-1020x795.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-1920x1497.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-1180x920.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-960x749.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-240x187.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-375x292.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-520x405.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland police officers talk to onlookers near scene of Friday morning’s four-alarm fire north of downtown. \u003ccite>(Kat Snow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>Correction: This post originally incorrectly identified the address of Friday morning’s fire and the name of the property’s developer. The blaze occurred at 23rd and Valdez streets and the developer of the project is Wood Partners. We regret the error.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cem>Editor’s note\u003c/em>: This story contains a \u003ca href=\"#correction\">correction\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 1:50 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 700 Oakland residents are being told they may have to wait as long as 24 hours before they can return to their residences after a massive blaze at a building under construction forced evacuations near downtown Oakland. Fire officials were concerned about debris from damaged scaffolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A temporary shelter was established at Christ the Light Cathedral, and the Red Cross was also setting up a second center at the corner of San Pablo and Grand avenues for anyone who needs overnight shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland fire officials are working with arson investigators, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, but so far they are not commenting on a cause of the blaze that sent flames and smoke high into the early-morning sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a midday news conference fire officials said the fire started in the center of the building and spread very quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called the fire a loss for the city and the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of development is what Oakland needs to get through this moment, where rents are skyrocketing, where housing is in high demand,” she said. “This is a loss for our city and for this region right now. And that is why we are so determined to ensure that we get to the bottom of what caused this, as well as to do everything to prevent another type of loss like this from ever happening again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said the city is working with the construction company for the building to beef up security. The construction site did have security cameras in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Norris, 69, lives in a high-rise next to the site that burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were sound asleep and heard over the loudspeaker system alarms going off, and they said you gotta evacuate the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He praised local police, fire and the Red Cross for helping everyone out safely and providing blankets to evacuees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood Partners, the developer of the Alta Waverly site, responded to the fire in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thanks to the incredible efforts of the Oakland Fire Department, the Oakland Police Department, the Alameda County Fire, Berkeley Fire Department, Albany Fire Department, and Alameda Fire Department, the fire at Alta Waverly has been contained,” said Brian Hansen, development director for Wood Partners’ West Region. “Their rapid and heroic response ensured no injuries were sustained and that nearby buildings were safely evacuated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland firefighters have controlled a four-alarm fire that gutted a massive apartment and commercial building under construction just north of the city’s downtown district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Fire Department said the blaze — at 23rd and Valdez streets, near the Christ the Light Cathedral at the northwest end of Lake Merritt — started about 4:30 a.m. Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire — the fourth time in the past year a major Oakland residential development has gone up in flames — also damaged and endangered buildings adjacent to the fire and forced some nearby residents from their homes.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Massive-fire-engulfs-construction-project-in-11272219.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the San Francisco Chronicle’s account\u003c/a> from the scene:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>From a few blocks away, neighbors and area workers watched the building be gutted in the intense heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared,” said Mout Khamphou, 50, who was sitting in her car getting ready to go to work when she saw smoke coming from the building next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said drove away, thinking the fire wasn’t bad. She called her husband who was still at home to warn him of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I called my husband and I said, ‘I saw the fire start. ‘You have to be careful and get ready to get out.’ He called me and said, ‘Oh honey, the fire started getting worse and he asked where my passport and papers are. Our apartment won’t be safe anymore. I was crying a lot, I worried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she turned around and drove back to her neighborhood to find flames shooting from the burning building. “I saw a lot of smoke. Big, big smoke. That’s why I’m shaking and crying a lot,” Khamphou said. “So I’m worried. We have all our stuff in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters were working to contain the inferno and keep nearby buildings from catching fire. A number of streets in the area were blocked off. The cause was under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of surrounding buildings were evacuated by police and firefighters, many stood on the streets outside the burning structure in their pajamas. Black ash was falling from the sky on cars and people in the area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/07/07/oakland-fire-four-alarm-blaze-at-downtown-construction-site/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the East Bay Times/Bay Area News Group\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Rebecca Sills lives across the street from the fire and was awake early to prepare for a flight to New York with her nephew. Shortly before 5 a.m., she said she heard a boom and looked outside her 15th floor window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were already to separate fires right after the boom,” Sills said. She called 911 at 4:58 a.m. and then ran down 15 flights of stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounded like more fireworks in Oakland to be honest, but the boom was lower and deeper,” she said. She got more concerned about the fire when her brother Eli Sills called her to tell her police were evacuating the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could feel the radiant heat. It was just insane,” Eli Sills said. “You could see the glow off the buildings. It was wild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the fire progressed, the Sills said the large crane at the construction site began to rotate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then it started swinging,” Eli Sills said. “It was a wild scene. Debris began falling down everywhere.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>There were no early reports of injuries or immediate estimate of damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building under construction, called Alta Waverly, was to be a mixed-use building with 196 units of housing and 31,000 square feet of retail space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood, part of a two-block-wide corridor east of Broadway between Grand Avenue and 31st Street, is the scene of particularly intense development. About 2,300 housing units, ranging from student housing to luxury condos, have been recently completed or are under construction or in the planning process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze was the fourth time in the past year that a major residential housing project has been destroyed by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those incidents include two blazes, both arson fires, that struck \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/31/massive-4-alarm-fire-near-oaklands-lake-merritt-causes-millions-of-dollars-in-damage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a single site\u003c/a> near MacArthur Boulevard and San Pablo Avenue, on the Emeryville border. Those fires occurred July 6, 2016, and May 13 of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another new residential project \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/31/massive-4-alarm-fire-near-oaklands-lake-merritt-causes-millions-of-dollars-in-damage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">burned\u003c/a> last Oct. 31 just east of Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11553398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11553398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-800x624.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-800x624.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-1020x795.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-1920x1497.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-1180x920.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-960x749.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-240x187.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-375x292.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/oaklandfire170707-520x405.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland police officers talk to onlookers near scene of Friday morning’s four-alarm fire north of downtown. \u003ccite>(Kat Snow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>Correction: This post originally incorrectly identified the address of Friday morning’s fire and the name of the property’s developer. The blaze occurred at 23rd and Valdez streets and the developer of the project is Wood Partners. We regret the error.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nestled among rows of wine grapes, Stone Bridge School is a K-8 independent charter school in Napa County. On a recent afternoon, 28 first-graders sang during their main lesson. They can sing, paint, dance and sew. But what they don’t do — and are discouraged from — is use computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Bindewald, principal at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School, says their philosophy around technology isn’t a no-tech approach, but a slow-tech one. He says they place an emphasis on hands-on learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the school hasn’t gone cold turkey. By the time students reach sixth, seventh and eighth grade, they start doing reports and the state’s standardized tests online. The school has also developed a cyberethics curriculum to learn things like finding truthful sources online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you walk into a Stone Bridge classroom, you won’t find any gadgets or screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It helps the student connect to the physical world in a way that the internet simply can’t.’\u003ccite>Greg Greeson, woodworking instructor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>First-grade teacher Michele Conyers sees the slow-tech benefits firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many other things they can be learning,” she says, “Just even learning to play. It’s not just about collecting facts, but about experiencing things or being with others and learning how to get along together to play a game of basketball or the strange games they come up with sometimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conyers thinks it’s better to learn from a human being in the younger years. And more fun. During the morning I spent at the school, I found students doing a range of engaging activities, from making tunics with needle and thread to crafting spoons with wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11359092 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"First grade teacher Michele Conyers teaches watercolor painting to her class at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School in Napa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-grade teacher Michele Conyers teaches watercolor painting to her class at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School in Napa. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Greg Greeson, the school’s woodworking instructor, thinks the school’s internet-free philosophy is vitally important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helps the student connect to the physical world in a way that the internet simply can’t,” he says. “Sometimes all they will do is sand stuff. That’s the hard part. Understanding that it takes work to get the job done, it’s not a button push or a swipe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushes and swipes aside, are these schools placing kids at a digital disadvantage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conyers says that question comes up all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually one of the parents asks, ‘How do you move over to high school with all the computer use?’ ” But studies suggest that the Waldorf learning curriculum works, leading to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224545.1971.9922475?journalCode=vsoc20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">greater creativity\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.journeyschool.net/wp-content/uploads/Waldorf_Graduates_Gerwin_Mitchell.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critical thinking\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://cie.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/cieatasu/article/view/807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One study\u003c/a> found eighth-grade test scores to be competitive with peer-alike public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11359093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"First grader Ryan Halstead holds the paintings he is working on in his watercolor class at Stone Bridge School in Napa, CA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-grader Ryan Halstead holds the paintings he is working on in his watercolor class at Stone Bridge School in Napa. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see them shortchanged in anyway,” says principal Bindewald. He asks graduates if the transition to a digital world is difficult, and he finds most of them learned computer skills at home. He points to Stone Bridge graduates who are in technical fields such as engineering or graphic design. “Very few of them talk about any real difficulty making the transition,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most Waldorf schools are private and expensive, Stone Bridge is public and tuition-free, making the slow-tech option more accessible. Bindewald says Stone Bridge is one of about 25 public Waldorf schools in the state, and about 60 nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Technology will make a good school better, but won’t make a bad school good.’\u003ccite>Mark Warschauer, UC Irvine\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To find out what parents think about all of this, I followed first-grader Ryan Halstead home. I found him and his father, Anthony Halstead, sewing a pillow on Ryan’s new sewing machine. But his brother, Nicolas, sat next to him typing out code. He attends a bilingual school called Napa Valley Language Academy and is currently learning an MIT coding program called Scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mostly in fifth grade now, I learn on the computer and Ryan is knitting and sewing, so it’s different in ways that we learn things,” says Nicolas. “I know that Ryan is eventually going to learn what I’m learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11359106 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan and Nicolas Halstead work on their homework after school in Napa, CA. Ryan is sewing, while his brother is learning to code.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicolas Halstead (L) and his brother, Ryan, (R) work on their homework after school in Napa. Ryan is sewing, while Nicolas is learning to write code. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Halstead let Ryan choose which school to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘Do you wanna go to school with your big brother or do you wanna go to a school where you wanna learn how to sew?’ ” he says. “His interests were different and we wanted him to go to a school that would foster those differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halstead made it clear that it was a philosophical and financial decision they were able to make. But for many low-income students, internet access is not an option. Principal Leo Gonzalez at the Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School in East L.A. says many of the parents can’t afford the price of connecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is how the extension goes from school to home and what access our children have as far as doing assignments,” he says. For Gonzalez, many of his students’ families are more concerned about setting the table and paying rent. 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Once he introduced Chromebooks downloaded with digital programs such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.mobymax.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moby Max\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.achieve3000.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Achieve 3000\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, state standardized test results shot through the roof. In some cases, his students doubled or tripled their scores in math and English. “That’s astronomical,” he says, “That’s huge.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was able to do this through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.school2home.org/full-2014-15-evaluation-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School2Home \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">program with funds from the California Emerging Technology Fund.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Warschauer, a professor in the Education Department at UC Irvine, thinks computers are important but only if you use them correctly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology will make a good school better, but won’t make a bad school good,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warschauer sees the need to develop instructional strategies in and out of school to keep students engaged in positive ways. “If we’re seriously thinking about children developing the scientific skills, the social science research skills, the writing and editing skills they need,” he says, “you can’t really do it without computers and the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.cetfund.org/files/CETF_Annual_Survey_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2016 survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the California Emerging Technology Fund found 84 percent of parents interviewed use the internet to help their kids with homework. And among low-income adults that number is 80 percent. Tamara Straus, director of communications at the fund, says the best way to expand home internet access is to fund organizations that provide outreach for low-cost options.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers are currently reviewing AB 1665, which aims to provide high-speed internet to 98 percent of Californians, focusing on low-income and rural areas. Advocates say this will improve academic achievement for schoolkids who don’t have internet access at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes, we will see more homes with internet service in low-income areas — and more kids with access to it. Except those, of course, going to Waldorf.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many other things they can be learning,” she says, “Just even learning to play. It’s not just about collecting facts, but about experiencing things or being with others and learning how to get along together to play a game of basketball or the strange games they come up with sometimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conyers thinks it’s better to learn from a human being in the younger years. And more fun. During the morning I spent at the school, I found students doing a range of engaging activities, from making tunics with needle and thread to crafting spoons with wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11359092 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"First grade teacher Michele Conyers teaches watercolor painting to her class at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School in Napa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24529_Internet.School-6-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-grade teacher Michele Conyers teaches watercolor painting to her class at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School in Napa. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Greg Greeson, the school’s woodworking instructor, thinks the school’s internet-free philosophy is vitally important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helps the student connect to the physical world in a way that the internet simply can’t,” he says. “Sometimes all they will do is sand stuff. That’s the hard part. Understanding that it takes work to get the job done, it’s not a button push or a swipe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushes and swipes aside, are these schools placing kids at a digital disadvantage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conyers says that question comes up all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually one of the parents asks, ‘How do you move over to high school with all the computer use?’ ” But studies suggest that the Waldorf learning curriculum works, leading to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224545.1971.9922475?journalCode=vsoc20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">greater creativity\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.journeyschool.net/wp-content/uploads/Waldorf_Graduates_Gerwin_Mitchell.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critical thinking\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://cie.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/cieatasu/article/view/807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One study\u003c/a> found eighth-grade test scores to be competitive with peer-alike public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11359093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"First grader Ryan Halstead holds the paintings he is working on in his watercolor class at Stone Bridge School in Napa, CA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24527_Internet.School-15-copy-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-grader Ryan Halstead holds the paintings he is working on in his watercolor class at Stone Bridge School in Napa. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see them shortchanged in anyway,” says principal Bindewald. He asks graduates if the transition to a digital world is difficult, and he finds most of them learned computer skills at home. He points to Stone Bridge graduates who are in technical fields such as engineering or graphic design. “Very few of them talk about any real difficulty making the transition,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most Waldorf schools are private and expensive, Stone Bridge is public and tuition-free, making the slow-tech option more accessible. Bindewald says Stone Bridge is one of about 25 public Waldorf schools in the state, and about 60 nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Technology will make a good school better, but won’t make a bad school good.’\u003ccite>Mark Warschauer, UC Irvine\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To find out what parents think about all of this, I followed first-grader Ryan Halstead home. I found him and his father, Anthony Halstead, sewing a pillow on Ryan’s new sewing machine. But his brother, Nicolas, sat next to him typing out code. He attends a bilingual school called Napa Valley Language Academy and is currently learning an MIT coding program called Scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mostly in fifth grade now, I learn on the computer and Ryan is knitting and sewing, so it’s different in ways that we learn things,” says Nicolas. “I know that Ryan is eventually going to learn what I’m learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11359106 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan and Nicolas Halstead work on their homework after school in Napa, CA. Ryan is sewing, while his brother is learning to code.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Edit-2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicolas Halstead (L) and his brother, Ryan, (R) work on their homework after school in Napa. Ryan is sewing, while Nicolas is learning to write code. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Halstead let Ryan choose which school to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘Do you wanna go to school with your big brother or do you wanna go to a school where you wanna learn how to sew?’ ” he says. “His interests were different and we wanted him to go to a school that would foster those differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halstead made it clear that it was a philosophical and financial decision they were able to make. But for many low-income students, internet access is not an option. Principal Leo Gonzalez at the Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School in East L.A. says many of the parents can’t afford the price of connecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is how the extension goes from school to home and what access our children have as far as doing assignments,” he says. For Gonzalez, many of his students’ families are more concerned about setting the table and paying rent. The internet isn’t going to be a priority if it costs $25 to $30, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11359107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11359107 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Student classrooms still use blackboards and chalk at the Stone Bridge School, a Waldorf-inspired school in Napa, CA. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24513_Internet.School-8-copy-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students still use blackboards and chalk at the Stone Bridge School, which follows the Waldorf model for hands-on teaching. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just as Conyers sees the benefits of Waldorf’s hands-on learning, Gonzalez sees the benefits of technology. Once he introduced Chromebooks downloaded with digital programs such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.mobymax.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moby Max\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.achieve3000.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Achieve 3000\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, state standardized test results shot through the roof. In some cases, his students doubled or tripled their scores in math and English. “That’s astronomical,” he says, “That’s huge.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was able to do this through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.school2home.org/full-2014-15-evaluation-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School2Home \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">program with funds from the California Emerging Technology Fund.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Warschauer, a professor in the Education Department at UC Irvine, thinks computers are important but only if you use them correctly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology will make a good school better, but won’t make a bad school good,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warschauer sees the need to develop instructional strategies in and out of school to keep students engaged in positive ways. “If we’re seriously thinking about children developing the scientific skills, the social science research skills, the writing and editing skills they need,” he says, “you can’t really do it without computers and the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.cetfund.org/files/CETF_Annual_Survey_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2016 survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the California Emerging Technology Fund found 84 percent of parents interviewed use the internet to help their kids with homework. And among low-income adults that number is 80 percent. Tamara Straus, director of communications at the fund, says the best way to expand home internet access is to fund organizations that provide outreach for low-cost options.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers are currently reviewing AB 1665, which aims to provide high-speed internet to 98 percent of Californians, focusing on low-income and rural areas. Advocates say this will improve academic achievement for schoolkids who don’t have internet access at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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