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She said that antisemitism is not pervasive in Berkeley schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Berkeley parents and advocates who believe the district has continuously failed to investigate alleged antisemitism praised the new investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s necessary and … good because the complaints against Berkeley Unified have not yet been resolved,” said Marci Miller, the Director of Legal Investigations with the Brandeis Center, which is run by a former education department official from Trump’s first administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, because when the Superintendent was called before Congress last time, there seemed to be a lack of accountability or even acknowledging that there was an issue in the first place,” she continued.[aside postID=news_11985599 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2152066925-1020x680.jpg']The committee letter cited specific incidents of antisemitism at BUSD schools in recent years, including an allegation that during a pro-Palestinian walkout at Berkeley High School in 2023, students yelled “\u003ca href=\"https://brandeiscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Brandeis-Center-ADL-Complaint.pdf\">Kill the Jews\u003c/a>,” and that a teacher at the school displayed a photo of a fist destroying the Star of David, describing it as “\u003ca href=\"https://defendinged.org/incidents/berkeley-high-school-teacher-displays-image-to-class-of-a-fist-destroying-the-star-of-david-over-israel/\">standing up for social justice\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Ilana Pearlman, who pulled one of her children out of BUSD over antisemitism concerns, said she’s filed multiple complaints with the district that have gone unaddressed for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s that sense of, ‘I told my parents something, I told my teacher something that happened, and nobody did anything,’” she told KQED. “That’s kind of how I feel in the district in general. 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If passed, these changes would go into effect ahead of the 2027-2028 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While still in early stages, the conversation foreshadows an uphill battle to get either the school reorganization or the assignment system to the finish line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Su was appointed superintendent by then-Mayor London Breed last October, she shelved a plan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">to close up to three schools and merge up to 16\u003c/a>, which had been plagued with delays, data issues and equity and transparency concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She turned to addressing SFUSD’s massive budget crisis, and is now in the second of a two-year plan to eliminate a structural deficit by slashing more than $150 million in district spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Strong Schools Resolution,” introduced Tuesday, appears to outline her next directives from the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12010831 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-49-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-49-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-49-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-49-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-49-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-49-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-49-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-Mayor London Breed and Superintendent Maria Su speak with students at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It details the district’s continuing enrollment decline and unequal demand for classroom seats across San Francisco neighborhoods and programs. While some schools, especially those with language immersion tracks, have long waitlists, others are half-empty and stand to lose more students in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Expanding some schools and consolidating others will ultimately allow all of our schools to be stronger by reinvesting in teachers, programs, and facilities and making the best use of our real estate portfolio, so that we can continue to improve academics while maintaining our financial stability long term to better serve students,” the draft resolution reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It echoes the district’s reasoning for pursuing closures last year, which failed to garner community support and ultimately led to Superintendent Matt Wayne’s resignation under fire.[aside postID=news_12064366 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED.jpg']Families, the teachers’ union and some board members accused the district of not communicating effectively why closures were necessary, using the budget crisis as an excuse despite determining that the closures themselves wouldn’t yield significant savings. SFUSD was also criticized for not engaging schools in the process, a lack of transparency in determining which should shutter and trying to push the plan through on a tight timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing also put board members up for reelection in a tough position: discussing the potential closure of voters’ schools weeks before election day. Tuesday’s resolution would set up a similar timeline, putting a vote on any closure plan Su brings forward next fall, around November’s general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overhauling the district’s enrollment strategy is likely to be more popular, since there’s broad alignment that the current system is dysfunctional, stressful and bad for stabilizing enrollment. But there doesn’t appear to be consensus that a zone-based system approved in 2020 is the right solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That December, SFUSD passed legislation that would transition from a school assignment lottery, which allows families to request any campus across the city, to a system that assigns students to one of a few schools closest to their homes. It was meant to go into effect for students entering elementary schools in the fall of 2023, but has been put off for years due to the pandemic, possible school closures and the ongoing budget crisis — and because the district has found it nearly impossible to implement equitably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11931650\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with a grey suit over a blue sweater speaks into a microphone at an event\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-San Francisco Unified School District board candidate, Alida Fisher, speaks at an election night event at El Rio in San Francisco on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Board member Alida Fisher said Tuesday that the plan was opposed by community advisory committees, which warned at the time that the assignments would disadvantage children in the Southeast part of the city, where schools faced years of underinvestment, ailing facilities and less robust staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also ran into issues creating maps that ensured access to language immersion and special education programs, and balancing three key factors laid out in the legislation — predictability, proximity and diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Matt Alexander said he wanted to see more concrete steps from the superintendent, like asking the board to pick two of those three factors to prioritize. He questioned why the resolution was necessary and why the superintendent didn’t just bring forward a proposal for a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The late-night discussion yielded little concrete progress toward either goal and more questions than answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher posed chief among them: “What is going to be different this time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Families, the teachers’ union and some board members accused the district of not communicating effectively why closures were necessary, using the budget crisis as an excuse despite determining that the closures themselves wouldn’t yield significant savings. SFUSD was also criticized for not engaging schools in the process, a lack of transparency in determining which should shutter and trying to push the plan through on a tight timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing also put board members up for reelection in a tough position: discussing the potential closure of voters’ schools weeks before election day. Tuesday’s resolution would set up a similar timeline, putting a vote on any closure plan Su brings forward next fall, around November’s general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overhauling the district’s enrollment strategy is likely to be more popular, since there’s broad alignment that the current system is dysfunctional, stressful and bad for stabilizing enrollment. But there doesn’t appear to be consensus that a zone-based system approved in 2020 is the right solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That December, SFUSD passed legislation that would transition from a school assignment lottery, which allows families to request any campus across the city, to a system that assigns students to one of a few schools closest to their homes. It was meant to go into effect for students entering elementary schools in the fall of 2023, but has been put off for years due to the pandemic, possible school closures and the ongoing budget crisis — and because the district has found it nearly impossible to implement equitably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11931650\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with a grey suit over a blue sweater speaks into a microphone at an event\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-San Francisco Unified School District board candidate, Alida Fisher, speaks at an election night event at El Rio in San Francisco on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Board member Alida Fisher said Tuesday that the plan was opposed by community advisory committees, which warned at the time that the assignments would disadvantage children in the Southeast part of the city, where schools faced years of underinvestment, ailing facilities and less robust staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also ran into issues creating maps that ensured access to language immersion and special education programs, and balancing three key factors laid out in the legislation — predictability, proximity and diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Matt Alexander said he wanted to see more concrete steps from the superintendent, like asking the board to pick two of those three factors to prioritize. He questioned why the resolution was necessary and why the superintendent didn’t just bring forward a proposal for a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The late-night discussion yielded little concrete progress toward either goal and more questions than answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher posed chief among them: “What is going to be different this time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As Oakland’s school district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062643/oakland-unified-wins-budget-approval-but-faces-dire-warning-on-financial-future\">faces fiscal insolvency\u003c/a>, its top budget official is warning that the school board’s unwillingness to cut services could make it impossible to balance a budget next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a>’s board directed staff to prepare two plans that cut $100 million from the 2026–27 budget to stay afloat. That demand came with broad parameters: no school closures or mergers, maintaining school resources and student-facing roles and reducing the district’s administrative arm — the “central office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a school district. And a school district’s majority of its funds are in schools,” Chief Business Officer Lisa Grant-Dawson said. “There’s not $100 million in the central office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two budget scenarios staff plan to present to the school board on Wednesday would cut far less than their goal. The more scant version would total $21.8 million in savings and recommends cutting 53 roles across administrative offices, with the greatest reductions in communications and the Superintendent’s office, a department which trains and supports new employees, fiscal services and academics. The other would only cut six roles and save the district $16.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President Jennifer Brouhard, who co-authored the resolution directing staff to propose the cuts, said it was an “initial direction,” but that she and other board members “understood from the start that further discussions with the Superintendent would be necessary to identify additional cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041367 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed-1920x1263.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District board president Jennifer Brouhard speaks during a meeting at Metwest High School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said the board also asked staff to consider other elements of the district’s spending, including a potential restructuring of its school “networks,” or groups of schools that are under the purview of a network superintendent, and plans to increase revenue through enrollment and identification of services that the district can deliver in-house instead of contracting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At our next special meeting on Dec. 3, I am excited to see plans for the remaining components of the resolution,” Brouhard said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget crisis comes after years of warnings from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027158/how-oakland-and-sf-ended-up-among-7-ca-school-districts-who-cant-pay-their-bills\">state watchdogs\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059238/alameda-county-to-oakland-schools-reduce-costs-or-lose-financial-independence-again\">county and district officials\u003c/a> that OUSD is outspending its revenue, setting it on the path toward bankruptcy. The district did declare bankruptcy in 2003 and was bailed out by a loan from the state that came with decades of intense oversight, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043062/as-ousd-gets-closer-to-controlling-its-finances-new-budget-challenges-loom\">made its final loan payment over the summer\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12059238 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OUSD-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Even so, the past few years have been rocky — OUSD has outspent its revenue by up to $4 million per month, forcing service cuts and spending down a strong reserve fund built up during the pandemic, when schools received hefty relief payments from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some board members and the teachers’ union have long blamed OUSD’s central office for the overspending problem, calling it bloated and pointing to the high salaries of top officials. But Grant-Dawson said recent cuts have already relied heavily on shrinking the administration, making deeper reductions to non-student services difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board accepts a proposed reduction in its number of cleaning staff, Grant-Dawson said the district will ask school sites to utilize fewer classrooms and buildings on their campuses. Likewise, laying off employees in the budget office means school sites will have less flexibility in how they spend their site-specific funding, since there won’t be a district staff member to help implement those changes in the larger budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to be able to do less,” Grant-Dawson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A slim, four-member board majority led by Brouhard passed the resolution calling for the reduction plans last month, after hours of circling debate over how to address OUSD’s dire budget situation, while maintaining student and school resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912882\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Kids play outside at school.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students play a game during recess at Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland on April 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The same contingent, which is backed by the teachers’ union, has pushed through a number of controversial proposals since January, including amendments to last year’s budget reduction plan that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041279/ousd-cancels-controversial-after-school-cuts-but-deep-divisions-within-school-board-remain\">unintentionally cut after-school programs\u003c/a> and had to be reversed and a shocking deal to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037315/oakland-school-board-votes-remove-superintendent-sparking-worries-instability\">part with longtime Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell\u003c/a> before the end of her contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the year, the board’s already tense relationship with district staff, and each other, has grown increasingly tenuous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring, Grant-Dawson said she warned the board that their budget-balancing amendments could have unintended consequences, like the after-school program funding snafu, before it passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we did do that, it was like, ‘The staff is trying to keep us from [doing what we want],’” Grant-Dawson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board takes public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland, California, on Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having to present the plan that made the cuts, then later reverse them, created more work for her team. So has developing budget-balancing plans year after year at the board’s direction, then watching as many go unimplemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OUSD’s history reveals an undeniable pattern: requesting plans, then disregarding them; rejecting staff recommendations; changing direction and directions, and, when difficult decisions are finally made, rescinding them shortly thereafter,” Alameda County Superintendent Alysse Castro said in a letter to OUSD last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told KQED that balancing the budget under the current circumstances “is absolutely 100% possible, but it would require a really significant change of pattern and action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our business team has been alerting the Board and the community about these oncoming financial challenges for several years,” Interim Superintendent Denise Saddler, who took over this summer while the district searches for a new permanent leader, wrote in a letter to families earlier this month. “We could see the need to take measures to mitigate the financial drop off on the horizon, and we have made clear the need to make hard choices long before now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056737 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District parents, students and community leaders rally in support of improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at Metwest High School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saddler said it would be impossible to make the massive budget reduction — which equals about 20% of the district’s unrestricted funding — without impacting students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People we know and care about will lose their jobs. Programs our students love will be reduced or eliminated. Services our families depend on will change,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all of the staff reductions in either budget scenario would necessarily come through layoffs. The district plans to offer employees who are over the age of 55 and have served in OUSD for at least five years an early retirement buy-out in June, and the school board directed the superintendent to implement a hiring freeze last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is supposed to vote on its budget cut plan next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant-Dawson said prior to Wednesday’s meeting, she hadn’t discussed the partial proposals with board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in that place,” she said. “They haven’t reached out. They don’t reach out like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two budget scenarios staff plan to present to the school board on Wednesday would cut far less than their goal. The more scant version would total $21.8 million in savings and recommends cutting 53 roles across administrative offices, with the greatest reductions in communications and the Superintendent’s office, a department which trains and supports new employees, fiscal services and academics. The other would only cut six roles and save the district $16.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President Jennifer Brouhard, who co-authored the resolution directing staff to propose the cuts, said it was an “initial direction,” but that she and other board members “understood from the start that further discussions with the Superintendent would be necessary to identify additional cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041367 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-18_qed-1920x1263.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District board president Jennifer Brouhard speaks during a meeting at Metwest High School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said the board also asked staff to consider other elements of the district’s spending, including a potential restructuring of its school “networks,” or groups of schools that are under the purview of a network superintendent, and plans to increase revenue through enrollment and identification of services that the district can deliver in-house instead of contracting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At our next special meeting on Dec. 3, I am excited to see plans for the remaining components of the resolution,” Brouhard said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget crisis comes after years of warnings from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027158/how-oakland-and-sf-ended-up-among-7-ca-school-districts-who-cant-pay-their-bills\">state watchdogs\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059238/alameda-county-to-oakland-schools-reduce-costs-or-lose-financial-independence-again\">county and district officials\u003c/a> that OUSD is outspending its revenue, setting it on the path toward bankruptcy. The district did declare bankruptcy in 2003 and was bailed out by a loan from the state that came with decades of intense oversight, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043062/as-ousd-gets-closer-to-controlling-its-finances-new-budget-challenges-loom\">made its final loan payment over the summer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even so, the past few years have been rocky — OUSD has outspent its revenue by up to $4 million per month, forcing service cuts and spending down a strong reserve fund built up during the pandemic, when schools received hefty relief payments from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some board members and the teachers’ union have long blamed OUSD’s central office for the overspending problem, calling it bloated and pointing to the high salaries of top officials. But Grant-Dawson said recent cuts have already relied heavily on shrinking the administration, making deeper reductions to non-student services difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board accepts a proposed reduction in its number of cleaning staff, Grant-Dawson said the district will ask school sites to utilize fewer classrooms and buildings on their campuses. Likewise, laying off employees in the budget office means school sites will have less flexibility in how they spend their site-specific funding, since there won’t be a district staff member to help implement those changes in the larger budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to be able to do less,” Grant-Dawson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A slim, four-member board majority led by Brouhard passed the resolution calling for the reduction plans last month, after hours of circling debate over how to address OUSD’s dire budget situation, while maintaining student and school resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912882\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Kids play outside at school.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55654_027_KQED_GrassValleyElementarySchoolOakland_04282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students play a game during recess at Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland on April 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The same contingent, which is backed by the teachers’ union, has pushed through a number of controversial proposals since January, including amendments to last year’s budget reduction plan that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041279/ousd-cancels-controversial-after-school-cuts-but-deep-divisions-within-school-board-remain\">unintentionally cut after-school programs\u003c/a> and had to be reversed and a shocking deal to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037315/oakland-school-board-votes-remove-superintendent-sparking-worries-instability\">part with longtime Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell\u003c/a> before the end of her contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the year, the board’s already tense relationship with district staff, and each other, has grown increasingly tenuous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring, Grant-Dawson said she warned the board that their budget-balancing amendments could have unintended consequences, like the after-school program funding snafu, before it passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we did do that, it was like, ‘The staff is trying to keep us from [doing what we want],’” Grant-Dawson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board takes public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland, California, on Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having to present the plan that made the cuts, then later reverse them, created more work for her team. So has developing budget-balancing plans year after year at the board’s direction, then watching as many go unimplemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OUSD’s history reveals an undeniable pattern: requesting plans, then disregarding them; rejecting staff recommendations; changing direction and directions, and, when difficult decisions are finally made, rescinding them shortly thereafter,” Alameda County Superintendent Alysse Castro said in a letter to OUSD last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told KQED that balancing the budget under the current circumstances “is absolutely 100% possible, but it would require a really significant change of pattern and action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our business team has been alerting the Board and the community about these oncoming financial challenges for several years,” Interim Superintendent Denise Saddler, who took over this summer while the district searches for a new permanent leader, wrote in a letter to families earlier this month. “We could see the need to take measures to mitigate the financial drop off on the horizon, and we have made clear the need to make hard choices long before now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056737 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District parents, students and community leaders rally in support of improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at Metwest High School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saddler said it would be impossible to make the massive budget reduction — which equals about 20% of the district’s unrestricted funding — without impacting students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People we know and care about will lose their jobs. Programs our students love will be reduced or eliminated. Services our families depend on will change,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all of the staff reductions in either budget scenario would necessarily come through layoffs. The district plans to offer employees who are over the age of 55 and have served in OUSD for at least five years an early retirement buy-out in June, and the school board directed the superintendent to implement a hiring freeze last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is supposed to vote on its budget cut plan next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant-Dawson said prior to Wednesday’s meeting, she hadn’t discussed the partial proposals with board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in that place,” she said. “They haven’t reached out. They don’t reach out like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010687/sfs-new-school-superintendent-is-on-the-job-little-about-it-is-business-as-usual\">San Francisco’s interim superintendent of schools,\u003c/a> Maria Su, is set to become a permanent district employee on Tuesday, more than a year after she took the reins amid a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">leadership and budgetary crisis\u003c/a> last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su will be selected as the permanent Superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District, and have her contract term extended through the 2027-2028 academic year, under the agreement expected to be passed by school board members on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said her hope is to build on the trust she’s earned with families during her tenure, while continuing to stabilize the district financially — a goal that means more budget cuts, and potentially school closures, in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited that the board and I are going to continue to commit to ensure that we stay focused on stability, stay focused on our students [and] stay focused on the basics of what SFUSD and school districts should be all about,” she said. “We actually did some really, really hard things last year … where we took very bold steps to reduce our budget by $114 million to help stabilize us. We now need another year of cuts so that we can finally get full control of our budget, so that we can stand on our own two feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su was tapped last October \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010687/sfs-new-school-superintendent-is-on-the-job-little-about-it-is-business-as-usual\">to head S\u003c/a>\u003cu>FUSD\u003c/u> after the exit of embattled Superintendent Matt Wayne during a botched rollout of a plan to close and merge schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then-Mayor London Breed released her from her position as head of the city’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families and loaned her to the school district under a temporary agreement that maintained her status as a city employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she stepped into the role, Su shelved the school closure plan and turned to the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>. The district was able to make $114 million in cuts without laying off teachers, instead relying on hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">early retirement buy-outs\u003c/a>, a strict staffing model and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036914/more-sfusd-layoffs-to-target-central-office-bringing-budget-gap-closer-to-zero\">administrative cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meredith Dodson, who runs the nonprofit parent organization San Francisco Parent Coalition, said it feels like the district has moved away from chaos under Su’s leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not out of the woods yet with the budget and it sounds like the district is starting to talk about potential closures again, but regardless, what this new superintendent has been able to do over the last 12 months … she did start to make some significant decisions that put the district back on track and we’ve started to see some progress and some stabilization,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School Board President Phil Kim said the district’s work over the last year has ensured greater fiscal and operational health for SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The board looks forward to working with Superintendent Su to continue on these efforts to bring greater stability and continuity to SFUSD,” he said.[aside postID=news_12059537 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20240827_SFUSDProtest_GC-5_qed.jpg']This year, the district will need to identify another roughly $48 million in ongoing expenses to cut from its annual budget, which Su said will be harder with all of last year’s cuts already in place. The district is currently holding a series of town hall meetings at schools to decide where best to direct the funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board has also warned that the district needs to resume its conversation around school closures — a proposal bound to be widely unpopular regardless of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Oct. 28 meeting, board members said they would likely direct Su to present plans that address the enrollment decline and budget constraints that sparked talk of school closures in 2024. That plan proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008405/these-san-francisco-schools-could-close-list-isnt-final\">closing 11 schools\u003c/a>, merging many of them with other campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conditions have not changed: Declining enrollment, increased costs, empty seats in our school buildings, these are things that we continue to struggle with that we absolutely need to address in order to ensure long-term sustainability,” he told KQED. “We believe that that work is critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said there are some schools in the district that have less than 50% of seats filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is closing one small high school, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/academy-san-francisco-mcateer/announcements/2025-10-01-important-update-academy-2026-27\">The Academy\u003c/a>, this spring, and moving its dual enrollment program with City College to Wallenberg High School, but Su has said the decision wasn’t indicative of a wider school closure conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, she’s strayed away from the topic, instead floating a repurposing of existing school sites as dedicated early learning centers, expanded special education services or specialized schools, like a forthcoming K-8 Mandarin immersion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process, though, could mean current school operations would have to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that we look at all of our schools and ensure that we have a balanced school portfolio that meets those needs,” she told KQED. “And yes, we might have schools that we will have to close and that will be part of the reorganization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the board and some parents seem pleased with Su’s first year, others have expressed concerns with the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061790/as-sf-expands-transitional-kindergarten-some-classes-still-lack-permanent-teachers\">expansion of transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> and certain \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046580/sf-school-district-wont-cancel-ethnic-studies-but-pauses-its-homegrown-curriculum\">ethnic studies\u003c/a> course materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover the fence in front of Spring Valley Science Elementary School in San Francisco during a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, to push for city intervention in SFUSD’s school closure plans. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the city’s teachers union said it believes someone with more of a background in education should be at the helm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maria Su is not an educator,” United Educators of San Francisco President Cassondra Curiel said. “We feel that it is irresponsible of the board to continue to a contract for this for multiple years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do think it’s critical that the highest decision-maker in our district has a perspective of how schools run,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Su said she brings other experience, including 20 years running a city department, and is hiring a deputy superintendent of educational services to oversee instruction and student services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I bring lots of other things and a lot of other skills to the table,” she said. “And I look forward to bringing that here within SFUSD, and I look forward to continue to work with our educators and our administrators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members will vote on the new contract during Tuesday night’s school board meeting. If passed, it will maintain her salary of $385,000 for the first year and add a potential 2% raise in her second year, based on a performance evaluation. Kim said the change in status from a city to district employee won’t impact the cost of her employment to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/wcruz\">\u003cem>Billy Cruz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited that the board and I are going to continue to commit to ensure that we stay focused on stability, stay focused on our students [and] stay focused on the basics of what SFUSD and school districts should be all about,” she said. “We actually did some really, really hard things last year … where we took very bold steps to reduce our budget by $114 million to help stabilize us. We now need another year of cuts so that we can finally get full control of our budget, so that we can stand on our own two feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su was tapped last October \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010687/sfs-new-school-superintendent-is-on-the-job-little-about-it-is-business-as-usual\">to head S\u003c/a>\u003cu>FUSD\u003c/u> after the exit of embattled Superintendent Matt Wayne during a botched rollout of a plan to close and merge schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then-Mayor London Breed released her from her position as head of the city’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families and loaned her to the school district under a temporary agreement that maintained her status as a city employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she stepped into the role, Su shelved the school closure plan and turned to the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>. The district was able to make $114 million in cuts without laying off teachers, instead relying on hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">early retirement buy-outs\u003c/a>, a strict staffing model and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036914/more-sfusd-layoffs-to-target-central-office-bringing-budget-gap-closer-to-zero\">administrative cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meredith Dodson, who runs the nonprofit parent organization San Francisco Parent Coalition, said it feels like the district has moved away from chaos under Su’s leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not out of the woods yet with the budget and it sounds like the district is starting to talk about potential closures again, but regardless, what this new superintendent has been able to do over the last 12 months … she did start to make some significant decisions that put the district back on track and we’ve started to see some progress and some stabilization,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School Board President Phil Kim said the district’s work over the last year has ensured greater fiscal and operational health for SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The board looks forward to working with Superintendent Su to continue on these efforts to bring greater stability and continuity to SFUSD,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This year, the district will need to identify another roughly $48 million in ongoing expenses to cut from its annual budget, which Su said will be harder with all of last year’s cuts already in place. The district is currently holding a series of town hall meetings at schools to decide where best to direct the funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board has also warned that the district needs to resume its conversation around school closures — a proposal bound to be widely unpopular regardless of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Oct. 28 meeting, board members said they would likely direct Su to present plans that address the enrollment decline and budget constraints that sparked talk of school closures in 2024. That plan proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008405/these-san-francisco-schools-could-close-list-isnt-final\">closing 11 schools\u003c/a>, merging many of them with other campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conditions have not changed: Declining enrollment, increased costs, empty seats in our school buildings, these are things that we continue to struggle with that we absolutely need to address in order to ensure long-term sustainability,” he told KQED. “We believe that that work is critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said there are some schools in the district that have less than 50% of seats filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is closing one small high school, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/academy-san-francisco-mcateer/announcements/2025-10-01-important-update-academy-2026-27\">The Academy\u003c/a>, this spring, and moving its dual enrollment program with City College to Wallenberg High School, but Su has said the decision wasn’t indicative of a wider school closure conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, she’s strayed away from the topic, instead floating a repurposing of existing school sites as dedicated early learning centers, expanded special education services or specialized schools, like a forthcoming K-8 Mandarin immersion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process, though, could mean current school operations would have to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that we look at all of our schools and ensure that we have a balanced school portfolio that meets those needs,” she told KQED. “And yes, we might have schools that we will have to close and that will be part of the reorganization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the board and some parents seem pleased with Su’s first year, others have expressed concerns with the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061790/as-sf-expands-transitional-kindergarten-some-classes-still-lack-permanent-teachers\">expansion of transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> and certain \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046580/sf-school-district-wont-cancel-ethnic-studies-but-pauses-its-homegrown-curriculum\">ethnic studies\u003c/a> course materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover the fence in front of Spring Valley Science Elementary School in San Francisco during a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, to push for city intervention in SFUSD’s school closure plans. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the city’s teachers union said it believes someone with more of a background in education should be at the helm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maria Su is not an educator,” United Educators of San Francisco President Cassondra Curiel said. “We feel that it is irresponsible of the board to continue to a contract for this for multiple years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do think it’s critical that the highest decision-maker in our district has a perspective of how schools run,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Su said she brings other experience, including 20 years running a city department, and is hiring a deputy superintendent of educational services to oversee instruction and student services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I bring lots of other things and a lot of other skills to the table,” she said. “And I look forward to bringing that here within SFUSD, and I look forward to continue to work with our educators and our administrators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members will vote on the new contract during Tuesday night’s school board meeting. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of University of California workers plan to go on a two-day strike across the state, nearly two years after they began negotiating a contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike, set for Monday and Tuesday, will be led by AFSCME 3299, which represents more than 40,000 custodians, food service workers, patient care assistants and hospital technicians. They had expected to be joined by roughly 25,000 nurses with the California Nurses Association, who had planned to strike in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Registered nurses reached a tentative agreement with the university, prompting the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United to cancel the sympathy strike with AFSCME Local 3299. The agreement covered more than 25,000 nurses across 19 UC-operated facilities, who had been bargaining since June. Thousands of nurses still planned to join AFSCME picket lines while off duty, and UC nurses will vote on the tentative agreement later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations began in January of 2024 but reached a deadlock in April, with AFSCME and university blaming each other for failing to make meaningful compromises, particularly on wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university recently reached a deal with another union, UPTE-CWA, prompting its roughly 21,000 members to withdraw from the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But UC and AFSCME last met at the bargaining table on April 16 and currently have no sessions scheduled, leaving little hope that the strike can be averted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been hell,” said Kathreen Bedford, a member of the AFSCME 3299’s executive board, describing her time sitting across the bargaining table from university representatives. “We have members pouring their heart out. We have members that are living in their car and we’re telling them these stories across the table and they just bluntly ignore us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re telling them how we’re getting hurt at work because we don’t have enough [staff] and they haven’t listened. It’s like they don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bedford has worked in the UC system for nearly three decades, first as a bus driver and for the past 15 years as a groundskeeper at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Bedford said wages have failed to keep up with the rising cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite growing up in Oakland and spending most of her adult life in the Bay Area, Bedford said she moved to Stockton in 2020 because she felt she could no longer afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It kind of just uprooted me from my family, my comfortability… I went from 15 minutes to get to work to an hour and a half. It’s frustrating,” Bedford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the university issued its “last, best and final offer,” a five-year contract including wage increases of 5% in 2025; 4% in 2026; and 3% in 2027, 2028 and 2029. In the last posted bargaining update, the union said it was seeking a three-year contract with increases of 8.5% in 2025 and 7.5% in 2026 and 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a time of potentially catastrophic state and federal funding cuts, we have increased our last best and final offer to support UC’s workforce,” Associate Vice President for Systemwide Labor and Employee Relations Missy Matella said in April.[aside postID=news_12062080 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250929_UCBERKELEY_GC-5-KQED.jpg']University officials said in a statement they implemented other parts of their offer this summer, including a $25 minimum wage, “to ensure these employees receive meaningful and immediate pay and benefit increases.” The union had sought to make that minimum wage retroactive to 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Perlman, AFSCME 3299’s executive director, said the university’s offer failed to account for post-pandemic inflation and that the union’s demands are meant to keep up with rising costs. She also questioned the university’s claims of financial strain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They literally just bought and acquired two new hospitals here in the Bay Area, six hospitals down in Southern California,” Perlman said. “If you’re broke, you don’t go on a shopping spree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perlman also said uncompetitive wages and persistent short staffing have driven high turnover, with more than 13,000 workers leaving voluntarily over the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bedford said she believes short staffing in her department is partially responsible for a rotator cuff injury that she suffered earlier this year. The injury has put her out of work — and created more work for her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described the physical strain of hauling weedwackers across the lab’s hilly terrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough people to cover all the areas, so we’re doubling back to do another area and another area, repetitive with the same heavy equipment. So it takes a wear and tear on your body,” Bedford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurses who had planned to join the strike in solidarity said the impacts of short staffing and turnover are clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maggie Ming, an intensive care unit nurse in the float pool — meaning they are assigned wherever ICUs are short-staffed — said an ongoing hiring freeze means people are quitting faster than the positions can be filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get one respiratory therapist in an ICU to 16 patients, like there’s gonna be such a high amount of burnout and such an amount of moral distress that you can’t take care of everyone, that, of course, people are quitting,” Ming said. “Add on top the fact that the benefits aren’t really that amazing and that the pay isn’t really great. They’re not making it very competitive for people to want to work at UC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ming said they hoped that nurses joining in a sympathy strike would underscore the importance of the technical workers they rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their struggle is our struggle,” Ming said. “I can’t work unless the respiratory therapists are working, unless the nurses’ aides are here. I need them and they need me, and we work together to hopefully create a good patient experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite being out of work recovering from her shoulder injury, Bedford said she still plans to commute from Stockton to join the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a sling and all, I am going to be on a picket line because enough is enough,” Bedford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063886/at-least-1-person-shot-at-oaklands-skyline-high-school\">student was shot at an Oakland high school this week\u003c/a>, school district leaders are calling for more violence-prevention resources on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a key program aimed at reducing school-site violence could sunset this spring as city funding lapses and the Oakland Unified School District looks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062643/oakland-unified-wins-budget-approval-but-faces-dire-warning-on-financial-future\">cut $100 million from its budget\u003c/a> amid a major fiscal crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moments like this are when our school partners and our students expect us to show up,” said Joseph Griffin, the executive director of the nonprofit Youth ALIVE!, which has partnered with the Oakland Unified School District on its School Violence Intervention and Prevention program since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we can show up is if we know we have the resources and the funding to keep these programs going,” he told KQED on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When gunfire shook Skyline High School’s campus on Wednesday afternoon, a violence interruptor was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school-based staffers identify and proactively mediate conflicts between students and intervene when tensions escalate. They’ve been embedded at OUSD high schools since 2023 through a pilot program with the city’s Department of Violence Prevention, launched to reduce high rates of violence on the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063888\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063888\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A football practice at Skyline High School on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the 2021-2022 school year, \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.granicus.com/player/clip/6096?view_id=2&redirect=true\">more than 670 OUSD high school students\u003c/a> were suspended for physical violence. In recent years, there have been at least six shootings at Oakland schools, including three on Skyline’s campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, three minors were arrested on assault and firearm charges in connection with another \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/alameda-county-da-charges-oakland-skyline-high-school-shooting/3319431/\">shooting at the school\u003c/a> that resulted in no injuries. The following year, three people were injured in a shooting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987651/multiple-suspects-sought-after-shooting-injures-2-at-oakland-graduation\">just after the school’s graduation ceremony\u003c/a>. And on Wednesday, a student was shot in the bathroom of a building on campus, according to school board member Mike Hutchinson.[aside postID=news_12063886 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251112-SKYLINE-HIGH-SHOOTING-MD-01-KQED.jpg']The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and two minors were taken into custody, according to Oakland Police. Police said two firearms were recovered at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The role that violence interrupters play is to focus on the time immediately before and after an incident of violence,” Griffin said. “We can understand when tensions are getting high and can get in front of that … and in the case when there is violence, we can be there in the immediate aftermath to try to bring down the tensions to make sure that retaliation doesn’t occur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The School Violence Intervention and Prevention program evolved out of a partnership between the district, the city and local nonprofits to bring intervention and gender-based violence workers and life coaches into schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, violence interrupters rotated across multiple campuses, but in fall of 2023, they were assigned at seven high schools and continuing schools throughout the district, and have expanded to more sites, including Skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the program’s first year, OUSD saw a \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.granicus.com/player/clip/6096?view_id=2&redirect=true\">10% reduction\u003c/a> in suspensions for physical violence across its high schools. In 2024, interrupters mediated more than 260 conflicts, according to Griffin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Offices in Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When violence occurs on campus, Griffin said, interrupters help ensure conflicts don’t lead to retaliation and identify whether it might spill off campus. He said in the hours after the shooting at Skyline on Wednesday, other Youth ALIVE! interruptors working throughout the city came to the school site to provide support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the moment where we could start to coordinate between our school-based programs and our community-based programs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said this week’s shooting underscores a need to expand the program — not let it expire when funding dries up this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city allocated $5.4 million to the program in its 2023-2025 budget, and the district also received a nearly $1 million grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to fund three additional interrupters for three years.[aside postID=news_12059238 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OUSD-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Additional funding has been allocated for 2025-2026, but there are no plans to continue funding the positions after this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Superintendent Denise Saddler \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communications-public-affairs/newsroom/news/~board/ousd-news/post/a-difficult-conversation-about-our-budgetand-our-future\">warned of a dire budget crisis\u003c/a>, and next week, OUSD staff is expected to present scenarios that strip $100 million from the district’s budget next year to avoid insolvency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried that we can even continue them, let alone have the resources to expand those programs at Skyline, where there’s an obvious need for some sort of work to be done,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teacher’s union president Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said the union has been advocating for the continuation of violence-prevention resources such as interrupters, along with on-site psychologists and other staff who help students feel safe and connected to campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is just a systemic disinvestment in resources in Oakland schools in general, but specifically at Skyline High School,” she said. “When staffing is cut, when mental health supports are inadequate, campuses are left without the resources that they need to help students do their best. 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"content": "\u003cp>Iracema Torres was starting a new job as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-cruz\">Santa Cruz\u003c/a> County public health worker when her daughter’s Head Start center closed more than two weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job was promising: She liked the benefits, hours and coworkers and felt good about helping single parents like herself recover from substance abuse, domestic violence and other life struggles. The center’s closure, however, meant she had to take an unpaid leave to care for her 2-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am just stuck because I don’t have anyone to help me with child care,” Torres said. “It’s been super hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government was starting to reopen on Thursday, but the fallout of the longest shutdown in U.S. history will last longer for more than 200 low-income families who send their children to a Head Start program run by Encompass Community Services, the largest nonprofit in Santa Cruz County, and 95 teachers and staffers who were laid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encompass was the only Head Start grantee in California to close its classrooms during the shutdown after running low on government dollars. The agency was due to receive its annual funding on Nov. 1, but staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were furloughed and couldn’t process payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those federal workers are back at work, but it was unclear when Encompass will get funding to restart its program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064105\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064105\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Daisy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Daisy1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Daisy1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Daisy1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A shuttered Head Start center. \u003ccite>(Daisy Nguyen/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re preparing to reopen, but we don’t know when that’s going to be,” said Kim Morrison, the agency’s chief financial officer and interim CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She didn’t know the timeline because about 140 other Head Start programs around the country are also awaiting new funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED asked a spokesperson for the federal Administration for Children and Families how long it may take for money to flow to Head Start grantees, they acknowledged the inquiry but did not have an immediate answer.[aside postID=news_12061802 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-CHILD-CARE-PRICES-MD-05-1-KQED.jpg']Adding to the uncertainty is that Congress approved a spending package that funds the government only through January. 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The event comes exactly 2 months after co-founder Charlie Kirk’s death. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several additional clashes broke out between Kirk supporters and protesters. In one altercation, a man selling “Freedom” T-shirts got into a fistfight. His face was bloodied as police detained him and one of the demonstrators involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police arrested at least two people. A Berkeley police spokesperson said no further details were available, except that the cases involved “fighting amongst themselves.” University police arrested one other person, according to Mogulof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first it was a little scary when rocks and paint in glass bottles started coming over,” said Pacifica resident Eli Mehrling, 25, a Turning Point USA supporter, referring to objects thrown by protesters at police across the barricades. “But it’s really just kind of infuriating that when we have an event, they try to shut it down. We’re not the fascists. The people who shut us down with violence are a lot more akin to the fascists than we are.”[aside postID=news_12055641 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00438_TV-KQED.jpg']Kirk, a self-described free speech advocate and outspoken Christian, rose to national prominence as the co-founder of Turning Point USA, which promotes conservative values on high school and college campuses. He helped mobilize young conservatives on issues, including abortion, LGBTQ rights and DEI policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization, which once created a website identifying college instructors it claimed discriminated against conservative students, expanded beyond campus activism to become a major engine for Trump’s 2024 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after Kirk’s death in September, the Trump administration used the killing to justify a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055641/after-kirks-death-trump-targets-critics-in-expanding-free-speech-fight\">crackdown on political dissent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What Charlie Kirk and Turning Point has been trying to do isn’t champion free speech or open debate. 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The mood was upbeat as attendees filed in to The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If only we had this kind of security at the border,” joked comedian Joebob Taeliefi, who warmed up the crowd and took aim at the “blue-haired” protesters outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_UCBTURNINGPOINT_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_UCBTURNINGPOINT_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_UCBTURNINGPOINT_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_UCBTURNINGPOINT_GC-32-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Paul Leon, president of Turning Point USA’s UC Berkeley chapter, speaks at the group’s event at UC Berkeley on Nov. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the headliners — actor Rob Schneider and Christian author and activist Frank Turek spoke — Turning Point’s UC Berkeley chapter president, John Paul Leon, led a moment of silence for Kirk. An empty chair on stage bore a white T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sad truth is the left is not your friend,” Leon said during the event. “To all those protesters outside, I have one thing to say: It is clear to us which side is winning when your side becomes the violent agitators. When you try to win with force and not reason, you have already lost the intellectual battle. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kirk, a self-described free speech advocate and outspoken Christian, rose to national prominence as the co-founder of Turning Point USA, which promotes conservative values on high school and college campuses. He helped mobilize young conservatives on issues, including abortion, LGBTQ rights and DEI policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization, which once created a website identifying college instructors it claimed discriminated against conservative students, expanded beyond campus activism to become a major engine for Trump’s 2024 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after Kirk’s death in September, the Trump administration used the killing to justify a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055641/after-kirks-death-trump-targets-critics-in-expanding-free-speech-fight\">crackdown on political dissent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What Charlie Kirk and Turning Point has been trying to do isn’t champion free speech or open debate. It’s to try and bully and intimidate people into silence and we won’t accept that,” said Hoku Jeffrey, one of the organizers of Monday’s protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside a sold-out Zellerbach Hall, a sea of red “Make America Great Again” hats filled the seats. The mood was upbeat as attendees filed in to The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If only we had this kind of security at the border,” joked comedian Joebob Taeliefi, who warmed up the crowd and took aim at the “blue-haired” protesters outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_UCBTURNINGPOINT_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_UCBTURNINGPOINT_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_UCBTURNINGPOINT_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251110_UCBTURNINGPOINT_GC-32-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Paul Leon, president of Turning Point USA’s UC Berkeley chapter, speaks at the group’s event at UC Berkeley on Nov. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the headliners — actor Rob Schneider and Christian author and activist Frank Turek spoke — Turning Point’s UC Berkeley chapter president, John Paul Leon, led a moment of silence for Kirk. An empty chair on stage bore a white T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sad truth is the left is not your friend,” Leon said during the event. “To all those protesters outside, I have one thing to say: It is clear to us which side is winning when your side becomes the violent agitators. When you try to win with force and not reason, you have already lost the intellectual battle. They want to destroy any ounce of conservatism that they can get their filthy paws on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Turning Point supporters said the organization promotes free speech and conservative values, many protesters saw Monday’s event as an affront to human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it’s more important now than ever for us to be united here as students and really make it absolutely clear that this amount of hate and this rhetoric of destruction and eliminating people’s dignity has no place here in Berkeley,” said Sofia Ruiz, a freshman political science major who joined the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley has experience with protests ignited by incendiary speakers. In 2017, violent protests \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11296586/milo-yiannopoulos-event-at-uc-berkeley-canceled\">forced the cancellation\u003c/a> of a speech by conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Protests are expected as Turning Point USA, the conservative student group founded by Charlie Kirk, makes its final college tour stop at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> on Monday evening, two months after the controversial founder was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056113/charlie-kirks-assassination-and-the-rise-of-political-violence\">shot and killed\u003c/a> at a Utah university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk was originally set to headline the sold-out appearance as part of the American Comeback Tour, a series of college campus visits across the country that were meant to mark a triumphant year for the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Republicans’ sweeping 2024 congressional wins to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the theme was “definitely very resonant of the current climate on the national level,” said John Paul Leon, the president of UC Berkeley’s TPUSA chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055641/after-kirks-death-trump-targets-critics-in-expanding-free-speech-fight\">Kirk was killed\u003c/a> during the opening leg of his tour in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, though, the organization has rebranded the events to memorialize him, calling the dozen or so stops that resumed two weeks after his death “This is the Turning Point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “a sort of notion that everyone’s now coming together to play their part and try to fill in the gap that was the giant that Charlie Kirk left,” Leon told KQED. Appearances at the University of Mississippi and Auburn University have featured his wife, Erika, Vice President JD Vance, Eric and Lara Trump, among other high-profile conservative figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300 people are expected to attend Monday’s event at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, which will feature comedian and actor Rob Schneider and author and “Christian apologist” Frank Turek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063635\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UCBerkeleyZellerbachHallGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UCBerkeleyZellerbachHallGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UCBerkeleyZellerbachHallGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UCBerkeleyZellerbachHallGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California, on Oct. 9, 2018. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s also likely to draw protesters, as previous TPUSA appearances at University of California campuses have. In 2019, conservative activist Hayden Williams and anti-TPUSA protesters got into a fight on Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza, where he’d been invited to recruit students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At nearby UC Davis, protesters and counter-protesters, some wearing Proud Boys apparel, clashed with pepper spray and knocked over security barricades ahead of a planned speaker event in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 12:30 a.m., three people were arrested while trying to hang a cardboard bug and post anti-TPUSA fliers on Sather Gate in protest, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/3-arrested-at-uc-berkeley-while-installing-large-bug-ahead-of-tpusa-event/article_c65ad4c0-2c69-4d6f-b630-ba111573fd5a.html\">the \u003cem>Daily Californian\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Kirk’s shooting, UC President James Milliken sent a letter \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/uc-operations/systemwide-community-safety/_files/letter-from-president-milliken-chancellors-re-high-visibility-event-guidance.pdf\">advising campuses\u003c/a> to review procedures for events “where speakers or performers and the crowds they draw require extra security attention.” The letter urged schools to use indoor venues and add longer and more thorough “door opening” protocols such as security sweeps, bag checks and ticket scanning.[aside postID=news_12055641 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00438_TV-KQED.jpg']Leon said Berkeley’s TPUSA club is taking additional security measures to ensure safety. Attendees will need a photo ID and won’t be allowed to bring bags or water bottles into the venue. Noisemakers, signs and banners are also prohibited, and other items could be deemed prohibited at the door, according to the event’s description online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the school would not share its security planning ahead of Monday’s tour stop, but he said it will follow campus policies for major events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Kirk’s killing, Leon said TPUSA has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/after-charlie-kirks-assassination-young-conservatives-work-to-carry-on-his-message-2\">significant growth\u003c/a>, even at the notoriously progressive campus in Berkeley. Last year’s weekly meetings averaged fewer than 30 students, he said, but their smallest crowd this fall has been about 60.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a national movement,” Leon said, adding that many Berkeley students who were previously afraid to join “have this deep, deep sense that they need to do something about what’s going on in the world,” blaming the left for a rise in political violence and polarizing rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Kirk, who founded TPUSA at 18, advocated for free speech, limited government and values that “maintain the traditions and cultures of the West, not destroy them, not hate the West.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics, however, have long considered Kirk’s positions and debate style to be divisive if not outright bigoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2234173687-scaled-e1762806816541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Kirk throws hats to the crowd after arriving at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah. 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