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He bought her her meals and gifts, and spent time alone with her in the windowless theater room, the suit claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following school year, Weible allegedly abused her in the theater room on campus in the middle of the night. The school’s alarm system went off and police responded, the suit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, the former student, who asked not to be named for this story, said that Weible shoved her into a closet after hearing police arrive, and she snuck out, running through the middle of campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009621 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SchoolLockers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1251\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SchoolLockers.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SchoolLockers-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SchoolLockers-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SchoolLockers-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SchoolLockers-1536x961.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SchoolLockers-1920x1201.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Ramon Valley Unified is paying nearly $7 million to settle a lawsuit over sexual abuse by former educator Ryan Weible. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If they checked their security cameras the next day, they would have seen me running across campus at full speed, just afraid and panicking and not sure what to do,” she said. “I was never approached by the school about it; they never talked to me about it. They never talked to me about him at all, actually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through his attorney, Weible denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records obtained by KQED from San Ramon Valley Unified show that in 2011, police and district personnel found unused condoms on the desk, a condom wrapper on the ground and a used condom in the garbage can. The district reprimanded him, instructing him to “refrain from inappropriate conduct while on school property” and to stop staying overnight on school property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the records, Weible argued that the professional theatre industry uses condoms as a protective measure against the moisture damage of wireless body microphone transmitters. He said his sound manager had accidentally purchased the wrong type of condoms.[aside postID=news_12050036 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DeltaSFOGetty.jpg']The suit claimed that Weible’s inappropriate behavior was frequently on display. He gave students side hugs, hand massages and had female students sit on his lap, the suit alleged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re an institution managing multiple schools, and you’re just going to keep blowing clear, crazy red flags off? How many kids are you going to hurt to protect your reputation?” Doe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, district Superintendent CJ Cammack said the allegations are deeply disturbing, and the case does not reflect “the high quality of our SRVUSD teachers and staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cammack said the district followed all legally required hiring practices and, in recent years, has made comprehensive improvements to its hiring and background check procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that our current staff are committed to acting responsibly and with vigilance in support of student safety,” Cammack wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weible resigned from San Ramon Valley Unified in 2012. Records obtained by KQED show that as part of his separation agreement, the district promised only to share basic details of his job, like dates of employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also agreed not to provide any negative comments or give a negative impression about Weible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who does that protect?” said Lauren Cerri, the attorney representing the victims. “It doesn’t protect the students. 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The injunction and other terms UCLA has agreed to demonstrate real progress in the fight against antisemitism,” the plaintiffs said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the $6.4 million settlement, the University of California system and UCLA itself will contribute $2.33 million to eight organizations that combat antisemitism and support the UCLA Jewish community. An additional $320,000 will be distributed to UCLA’s ongoing Initiative to Combat Antisemitism, which the school announced in March. 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That order would also cover excluding people based on religious beliefs concerning the Jewish state of Israel.[aside postID=news_12049389 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-02-KQED.jpg']The settlement is pending court approval. But a filing on Tuesday by an attorney representing five professors and faculty members from UCLA could upend the settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Harvey, a civil rights attorney, filed a motion to intervene in the case on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Harvey, in order for Judge Mark Scarsi to grant the permanent injunction requested in the settlement agreement, he would need to reopen the case, which was dismissed in July when the parties entered into a settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey’s clients dispute the plaintiffs’ claims that the encampment created a “Jew Exclusion Zone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ There were Shabbat ceremonies. There was a seder ceremony that occurred in the encampment,” Harvey said. “Jewish faculty members and students were instrumental in creating the encampment. So the idea that this was a quote, ‘Jewish-exclusion zone’ was absurd on its face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey said UCLA “refused to meet its duty to defend the case adequately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestine protesters attempt to block a counter-protester with an Israeli flag at UCLA on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Attendees rallied to protest ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University last year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“UCLA never challenged a single solitary claim made by the plaintiff. They didn’t do one deposition. They didn’t put on a witness, they did no discovery,” Harvey said. “It was never established under any evidentiary hearing that any of these things happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement agreement comes as institutions of higher education across the nation, including UC Berkeley, are under a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034707/federal-antisemitism-investigations-california-higher-education-explained\">deluge of civil rights investigations\u003c/a> by the Trump administration into their responses to allegations of antisemitism on campus, after a 2023–24 school year marked by student protests and encampments against Israel’s war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil suits like the one against UCLA have also been filed against universities in the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"https://brandeiscenter.com/stanford-university-sued-for-alleged-anti-semitism/\">Stanford is currently the defendant\u003c/a> in a lawsuit brought by a former postdoctoral researcher there who alleged their work was sabotaged by colleagues who discriminated against him because he is Israeli and Jewish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons testified \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047251/chancellor-lyons-to-testify-in-house-hearing-on-uc-berkeley-antisemitism-policies\">about his school’s response to antisemitism\u003c/a> on campus as part of a Trump administration task force announced earlier this year. In his testimony, Lyons acknowledged the fine line universities have to walk to allow free speech but prevent hate speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In universities, there is a freedom to express one’s views — even if there’s some learning that needs to happen through that process,” Lyons said. “If somebody is expressing pro-Palestine views, that’s not necessarily antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past school year, the UC system enacted a number of policy changes in response to the previous year’s protests and encampments, including prohibitions on encampments and restrictions on free movement, and reiterating a ban on student governments and other school entities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046971/uc-caves-to-trump-pressure-and-bans-israel-boycotts\">boycotting any country\u003c/a>, including Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-taxpayer-subsidization-of-postsecondary-education-illegal-aliens\">press release\u003c/a>, the department said it will enforce it starting Aug. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adult schools ask students to voluntarily share their Social Security numbers, which are only available for those with a legal right to work in the U.S. Of the more than 500,000 adult learners taking classes in California, about 10% voluntarily share their numbers with their schools, Tillery said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools across the state say that they are waiting for more guidance from state and federal agencies before barring students from any classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What if you don’t return?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>V., a student at Huntington Beach Adult School, has been taking a beginner-level English-language class for the past two years, in person, Monday through Thursday, for two and a half hours a day. 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After about two weeks of online school, V. returned to class in person, despite her kids’ fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Curiel, the principal, said the school is allowing students without legal status to attend, at least for now, until the education department provides more guidance about its new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a month now, adult schools have been managing uncertainty over federal policy and funding. Federal funding for adult schools typically comes through on a yearly basis, with the fiscal year beginning July 1, and it provides as much as 30% of a school’s budget. The education department \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/07/education-funding-california/\">withheld the money\u003c/a> for a month, leading California Attorney General Rob Bonta to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-trump-lawsuits/\">sue\u003c/a> Education Secretary Linda McMahon. 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"content": "\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is releasing billions of dollars in withheld grants for schools, the Education Department said Friday, ending weeks of uncertainty for educators around the country who rely on the money for English language instruction, adult literacy, and other programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s administration had suspended more than \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-summer-school-english-language-grants-fac670e8f60fab397fbd68dfed866ea1\">$6 billion in funding\u003c/a> on July 1, as part of a review to ensure spending \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-mental-health-grants-dei-26e421e2150c87baf7b9e8fcac701bfa\">aligned with the White House’s priorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding freeze had been challenged by several lawsuits as educators, Congress members from both parties and others called for the administration to release the money. Congress had appropriated the money in a bill signed this year by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the Education Department said it would release $1.3 billion of the money for after-school and summer programming. Without the money, school districts and nonprofits such as the YMCA and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/boys-girls-club-trump-grant-freeze-6f5bd3204d2973784d466e3f0fdb38b4\">Boys and Girls Club of America\u003c/a> had said they would have to close or scale back educational offerings this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Management and Budget had completed its review of the programs and will begin sending the money to states next week, the Education Department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">GOP senators pressed the Trump administration to release the money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A group of 10 Republican senators on July 16 sent a letter imploring the administration to allow the frozen education money to be sent to states, saying the withheld money supported programs and services that are critical to local communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The programs are ones that enjoy longstanding, bipartisan support,” U.S. Sen. 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On Friday, AASA, an association of superintendents, thanked members of Congress for pressing to release the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25195724697543-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25195724697543-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25195724697543-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25195724697543-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25195724697543-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25195724697543-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Education Secretary Linda McMahon speaks during a Senate Appropriations hearing, Tuesday, June 3, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Grants supported camps and other programs for working families\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Harford County, Maryland, some of the withheld federal money made up more than half the budget for the district’s annual summer camp for kids learning English. The money helps the district hire certified teachers to staff the camp, incorporating learning into children’s play for four weeks during the summer. The program helps kids keep their English and academic momentum over the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district serves roughly 1,100 students who are non-native English speakers. Many of them are born in the U.S. to parents who came to the area seeking job opportunities, often in the restaurants and warehouses that have popped up in the past decades in the region northeast of Baltimore. During the school year, the soon-to-be-released federal money pays for tutors for kids learning English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, more than 350 children filled the second floor of Bel Air High School for the second-to-last day of summer camp. Young learners crowded around an alphabet wheel, jostling with each other to push each letter button as they thought of foods starting with letters from A to Z.[aside postID=news_12030028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Middle school students watched a robotics team demonstration, and a few sheepishly raised their hands when asked if they would be interested in joining. High school student volunteers, some of whom had been campers learning English themselves not many years ago, helped the youngest children with art projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty around the funding was an unnecessary distraction for schools, said U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of spending the last many weeks figuring out how to improve after-school options and get our kids’ reading and math scores up, because of President Trump, communities across the country have been forced to spend their time cutting back on tutoring options and sorting out how many teachers they will have to lay off,” Murray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grants that were under review included $2 billion for teachers’ professional development and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/teacher-shortage\">efforts to reduce class size\u003c/a>; $1 billion for academic enrichment grants, often used for science and math education and accelerated learning; $890 million for students who are learning English; $376 million to educate the children of migrant workers; and $715 million to teach adults how to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It added up to millions of dollars for the nation’s largest school districts. Data available from the Census for three of the grant programs — teacher development, academic enrichment, and bilingual education — shows the Los Angeles Unified School District, for example, received $62 million in the 2022–23 school year. Philadelphia’s school district got $28 million, while Miami’s got over $24 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller districts got more modest amounts, but they still would have represented sizable gaps in their budgets. For example, schools in Burlington, Vermont; Pine Bluff, Arkansas; and Norristown, Pennsylvania, each got more than $300 per student from the same three grant programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Sharon Lurye in Philadelphia contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press’ education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. 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As part of the training, educators will learn how to recognize immigration warrants and respond if they’re valid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s expected to go into effect after the school board gives it final approval on Aug. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s current \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzyLgkvBuUpqS1P035V_Mn8cZBCjV4V5/view\">policy\u003c/a>, which was updated in December 2024, protects all students from immigration enforcement activity on school grounds and prohibits district personnel from sharing information relating to students’ immigration statuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the updated plan, shared last week at the school board meeting, requires administrators to receive annual training on how to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-Subpoenas-Warrants_.pdf\">differentiate\u003c/a> between administrative and judicial warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049415\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The West Contra Costa School District Offices in Richmond on July 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Judicial warrants are formal written orders by federal or state judges that authorize law enforcement officers to make arrests, seizures or searches. 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Schools are not legally required to comply with administrative warrants and can refuse entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Labor and Education Center’s Executive Director Brenda Muñoz said that while the district has good intentions, there are some potential issues that could arise from the new policy.[aside postID=news_12049124 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Out-of-ICE-SF-sign.jpg']Muñoz, who specializes in policymaking and education, said differentiating between warrants “is very difficult to do if you don’t have a legal background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sees a better solution in UC Berkeley’s protocol for dealing with ICE agents, which entails redirecting them to a central office where legally trained employees can verify their right to enforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board at last week’s meeting announced that the district’s safety and emergency preparedness consultant, Michael Booker, is creating signage for school entrances, “so that families, students, staff, and law enforcement know our procedures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of these preparations, the board directed administrators to train faculty and staff on the updated policy, especially secretaries who are the first to communicate with outside visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials have partly attributed decreased school attendance to fears of immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The West Contra Costa School District Offices in Richmond on July 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After Mr. Trump was elected, he made it very clear that immigration and deportation was a priority,” Board President Leslie Reckler told KQED. “And so, I think people were very scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a board meeting in April, the district’s director of positive school climate, LaShante Smith, presented data that showed attendance rates fell by 1% in February alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a real shift in our political climate,” Smith said. “We did see the impact and the effects of students not coming to school as regularly as before.”[aside postID=news_12047018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg']Aside from protecting students from unlawful enforcement activity, the training should curb the concerns that have prevented students from attending, according to Superintendent Cheryl Cotton’s presentation at last week’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that families know, students know, school is a safe place for them to be,” Cotton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Muñoz said the new training is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to boosting attendance rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said even if the student is a citizen, they could have undocumented parents who fear dropping their kids off at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, there’s a negative impact when their kid’s not going to school,” Muñoz said. “But there’s a higher risk if they were to get deported and their kid is left here without parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mandatory immigration enforcement training is slated to begin for administrators before school starts on Aug. 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Muñoz, who specializes in policymaking and education, said differentiating between warrants “is very difficult to do if you don’t have a legal background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sees a better solution in UC Berkeley’s protocol for dealing with ICE agents, which entails redirecting them to a central office where legally trained employees can verify their right to enforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board at last week’s meeting announced that the district’s safety and emergency preparedness consultant, Michael Booker, is creating signage for school entrances, “so that families, students, staff, and law enforcement know our procedures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of these preparations, the board directed administrators to train faculty and staff on the updated policy, especially secretaries who are the first to communicate with outside visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials have partly attributed decreased school attendance to fears of immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The West Contra Costa School District Offices in Richmond on July 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After Mr. Trump was elected, he made it very clear that immigration and deportation was a priority,” Board President Leslie Reckler told KQED. “And so, I think people were very scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a board meeting in April, the district’s director of positive school climate, LaShante Smith, presented data that showed attendance rates fell by 1% in February alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a real shift in our political climate,” Smith said. “We did see the impact and the effects of students not coming to school as regularly as before.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The deaths of at least 27 children and staff at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas have some parents and guardians questioning the safety of summer camps, especially as global warming increases risks of extreme weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of summer camp’s allure is that children are outside in nature. But that can also raise the possibility of heat illness and risks from greater proximity to wildfire or flood-prone areas, says Tracey Gaslin, chief executive of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://allianceforcamphealth.org/\">\u003cu>Alliance for Camp Health\u003c/u>\u003c/a> in Kentucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of regulations that apply to all businesses, there are no federal standards that are specific to camps, says Henry DeHart, interim chief executive of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acacamps.org/\">\u003cu>American Camp Association\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (ACA). The ACA has a national accreditation program that includes some health and safety standards, but it’s voluntary and only about 12% of the country’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.acacamps.org/resources/national-economic-impact-study-camp-industry\">\u003cu>roughly 20,000\u003c/u>\u003c/a> camps have participated, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the state level, DeHart says some state agencies conduct camp health and safety inspections. But oversight and protections vary considerably from state to state, and some states have very little regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of states that have very little or no regulation related to camp,” DeHart says. “The regulatory framework is wide and varied and, in some places, it’s not very robust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the gaps in the current regulatory framework, some experts on climate-related risks say parents and guardians should ask more detailed questions about campers’ safety. Chad Berginnis, the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.floods.org/about/staff/\">\u003cu>Association of State Floodplain Managers\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, dropped off his 8-year-old daughter at Girl Scout Camp earlier this month, and realized he, too, had many more questions about his daughter’s camp’s flood precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even as a floodplain manager,” he says, “I don’t think I even had appreciation for what, as a parent, I should be thinking about when sending kids to camp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Berginnis has a list of points to cover. For parents or guardians sending children to any kind of camp, here are the top questions experts say you should be asking about increased risks of heat, wildfires and floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camps can be great for kids, but can also expose them to heat. Children and teenagers’ developing bodies aren’t as good at regulating their body temperatures as adult bodies. \u003ccite>(Serhii Bezrukyi/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">\u003cstrong>What is the camp doing to reduce risk of heat-related illness and death?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This question is important because heat-related illness and death are major and growing risks in the U.S. — and that threat is often underestimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12045055 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1450590312-2000x1334.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, children and teenagers’ developing bodies aren’t as good at regulating their body temperatures as adult bodies, says Rupa Basu, senior science advisor for the University of California, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://climatehealth.ucsf.edu/\">\u003cu>Center for Climate Health and Equity\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. That makes them more at risk for heat illness, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that people don’t even think of children often as being high risk populations,” Basu says. “ But they absolutely are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For these reasons, Gaslin at the Alliance for Camp Health thinks parents and guardians should be asking camps how they are thinking about heat and hydration. She suggests parents and guardians ask about how the camp’s physical site is designed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you have things like shade structures? Misting systems?” Gaslin says. “A really solid infrastructure build is important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaslin also thinks parents and guardians should be asking about how “climate-aware” the campers’ schedules are. That can look like an activity in a cool location, then an activity outside in a warmer location, then back into the cool, she says. Also it’s important to ask about how frequently counselors are reminding campers to hydrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really about giving conscious thought to how do we manage that impact of heat,” she says. “If we’re gonna be outdoors, guess what? Water activities are a great thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048823\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chad Berginnis, the executive director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers, thinks parents and guardians need to know if their kids’ camp is in a floodplain, and what the camp is doing about it. \u003ccite>(Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What is the camp doing to reduce risks from flooding?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This question is key because many camps are located in flood-prone areas, Berginnis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says — in many ways — that’s understandable. “To me, it makes logical sense that you’d have a lot of camps there because it has really interesting habitats. It has interesting animals and geology and everything, and kids can learn a lot there,” Berginnis says.[aside postID=news_11834305 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44514_GettyImages-1261921915-qut.jpg']But he thinks parents and guardians need to know if their kids’ camp is in a floodplain, and what the camp is doing about it. Berginnis says adults can look up risks on this \u003ca href=\"https://msc.fema.gov/portal/home\">\u003cu>FEMA website\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Parents and guardians can also plug in \u003ca href=\"https://firststreet.org/\">\u003cu>addresses to this database from First Street\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, a climate risk modeling company. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The deaths of at least 27 children and staff at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas have some parents and guardians questioning the safety of summer camps, especially as global warming increases risks of extreme weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of summer camp’s allure is that children are outside in nature. But that can also raise the possibility of heat illness and risks from greater proximity to wildfire or flood-prone areas, says Tracey Gaslin, chief executive of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://allianceforcamphealth.org/\">\u003cu>Alliance for Camp Health\u003c/u>\u003c/a> in Kentucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of regulations that apply to all businesses, there are no federal standards that are specific to camps, says Henry DeHart, interim chief executive of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acacamps.org/\">\u003cu>American Camp Association\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (ACA). The ACA has a national accreditation program that includes some health and safety standards, but it’s voluntary and only about 12% of the country’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.acacamps.org/resources/national-economic-impact-study-camp-industry\">\u003cu>roughly 20,000\u003c/u>\u003c/a> camps have participated, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the state level, DeHart says some state agencies conduct camp health and safety inspections. But oversight and protections vary considerably from state to state, and some states have very little regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of states that have very little or no regulation related to camp,” DeHart says. “The regulatory framework is wide and varied and, in some places, it’s not very robust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the gaps in the current regulatory framework, some experts on climate-related risks say parents and guardians should ask more detailed questions about campers’ safety. Chad Berginnis, the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.floods.org/about/staff/\">\u003cu>Association of State Floodplain Managers\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, dropped off his 8-year-old daughter at Girl Scout Camp earlier this month, and realized he, too, had many more questions about his daughter’s camp’s flood precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even as a floodplain manager,” he says, “I don’t think I even had appreciation for what, as a parent, I should be thinking about when sending kids to camp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Berginnis has a list of points to cover. For parents or guardians sending children to any kind of camp, here are the top questions experts say you should be asking about increased risks of heat, wildfires and floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camps can be great for kids, but can also expose them to heat. Children and teenagers’ developing bodies aren’t as good at regulating their body temperatures as adult bodies. \u003ccite>(Serhii Bezrukyi/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">\u003cstrong>What is the camp doing to reduce risk of heat-related illness and death?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This question is important because heat-related illness and death are major and growing risks in the U.S. — and that threat is often underestimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco’s school district\u003c/a> is planning to open a new kindergarten through eighth-grade Mandarin immersion school in the fall of 2027, Superintendent Maria Su announced Wednesday, citing a need for more seats in multilingual classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking over as superintendent in October, Su said she’s “consistently heard from families the need for more Mandarin immersion programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is an international city, and we need to do all that we can to produce global citizens,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement — which was sparse on details — comes as the district faces enrollment decline and an ongoing budget deficit threatening to force school consolidations. It also comes as the school board prepares to vote on a parent-led effort to open a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dragongateacademy.org/\">new K–8 Mandarin Immersion charter school\u003c/a>, which could siphon more funding away from the district if approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably not a coincidence,” Bruce Fuller, a professor emeritus in UC Berkeley’s education department, said of the timing for both school proposals. “I’ve seen a similar dynamic where there’s budget concerns by the school board, there’s sort of recalcitrance around, ‘This is going to be challenging to do. 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While private options have expanded in recent years, SFUSD has not launched a new Mandarin immersion program since the 2007–08 school year. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters.\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students don’t have the same incentives to talk to their professors — or even their classmates — anymore. Chatbots like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/chatgpt\">ChatGPT\u003c/a>, Gemini and Claude have given them a new path to self-sufficiency. Instead of asking a professor for help on a paper topic, students can go to a chatbot. Instead of forming a study group, students can ask AI for help. These chatbots give them quick responses, on their own timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For students juggling school, work and family responsibilities, that ease can seem like a lifesaver. And maybe turning to a chatbot for homework help here and there isn’t such a big deal in isolation. 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Rhodes doesn’t begrudge students integrating chatbots into their workflows, as many of their professors have, but she worries that students will get inferior answers to even simple-sounding questions, like, “How do I change my major?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chatbot might point a student to the registrar’s office, Rhodes said, but had a student asked the question of an advisor, that person may have asked important follow-up questions — why the student wants the change, for example, which could lead to a deeper conversation about a student’s goals and roadblocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand the broader context of students’ lives,” Rhodes said. “They’re smart but they’re not wise, these tools.”[aside postID=news_12048270 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Teens-and-AI-Chatbots_web-img.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhodes and one of her former doctoral students, Sarah Schwartz, created a program called Connected Scholars to help students understand why it’s valuable to talk to professors and have mentors. The program helped them hone their networking skills and understand what people get out of their networks over the course of their lives — namely, social capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connected Scholars is offered as a semester-long course at U Mass Boston, and a forthcoming paper examines outcomes over the last decade, finding that students who take the course are three times more likely to graduate. Over time, Rhodes and her colleagues discovered that the key to the program’s success is getting students past an aversion to asking others for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students will make a plethora of excuses to avoid asking for help, Rhodes said, ticking off a list of them: “‘I don’t want to stand out,’ ‘I don’t want people to realize I don’t fit in here,’ ‘My culture values independence,’ ‘I shouldn’t reach out,’ ‘I’ll get anxious,’ ‘This person won’t respond.’ If you can get past that and get them to recognize the value of reaching out, it’s pretty amazing what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Connections are key\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Seeking human help not only leaves students with a resolution to a single problem, but it also gives them a connection to another person. And that person, down the line, could become a friend, a mentor or a business partner — a “strong tie,” as social scientists describe their centrality to a person’s network. They could also become a “weak tie” that a student may not see often, but could, importantly, still offer \u003ca href=\"https://news.mit.edu/2022/weak-ties-linkedin-employment-0915\">a job lead\u003c/a> or crucial \u003ca href=\"https://www.mariosmall.com/_files/ugd/4a8452_e96d220a75184b14aee623b41c7e7f30.pdf\">social support\u003c/a> one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Chambliss, a retired sociologist from Hamilton College, emphasized the value of relationships in his 2014 book, “How College Works,” co-authored with Christopher Takacs. Throughout their research, the pair found that the key to a successful college experience boiled down to relationships, specifically two or three close friends and one or two trusted adults. 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Last time she was on campus, ChatGPT existed, but it wasn’t widely used. Now she knows she’s returning to a college where ChatGPT is deeply embedded in students’ as well as faculty and staff’s lives, but Pacheco expects she’ll go back to her old habits — going to her professors’ office hours and sticking around after class to ask them questions. She sees the value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She understands why others might not. Today’s high schoolers, she has noticed, are not used to talking to adults or building mentor-style relationships. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:30 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> Chancellor Rich Lyons’ turn in the hot seat on Capitol Hill Tuesday, as he testified on the school’s efforts to prevent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034707/federal-antisemitism-investigations-california-higher-education-explained\">antisemitic discrimination and harassment\u003c/a> on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons appeared before the Committee on Education and Workforce, in a hearing titled: “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology.” The committee has held a number of hearings with university leaders since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the war in Gaza that followed. The interim president of Georgetown University and the Chancellor of the City University of New York also testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This hearing will focus on the underlying factors instigating antisemitic upheaval and hatred on campus,” committee chair Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Michigan, said in a press release, “Until these factors — such as foreign funding and antisemitic student and faculty groups — are addressed, antisemitism will persist on college campuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the meeting, Walberg identified a number of groups that he said “incite antisemitism on college campuses,” including faculty and student groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine, Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, faculty unions and Middle East Studies centers, as well as DEI policies and funding sources from outside the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walberg said the hearing marked the “next phase” of the committee’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons was questioned by the committee on several issues, including collective bargaining with pro-Palestinian labor groups, foreign investments in the university, progressive leanings in higher education, doxxing and student safety. He was also repeatedly asked about Ussama Makdisi, a UC Berkeley history professor who was made the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003861/uc-berkeley-launches-new-palestinian-studies-program-this-fall\">inaugural chair of Palestinian and Arab Studies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1536x1051.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1920x1313.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley history professor Ussama Makdisi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sofia Liashcheva via UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hearing is part of a crusade by the Trump administration to root out what it describes as pervasive antisemitism at some of the top universities in the country. UC Berkeley now joins a list of schools that have appeared before the committee, which includes Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, both of whose presidents resigned after their hearings in December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these and other hearings, the Republican House majority has also threatened to revoke federal funding if some schools don’t comply with requested reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also comes at a time when institutions of higher education are under a flurry of investigations by the administration — not just for antisemitism, but also for race and sex based hiring practices, and other programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Critics of the administration see it as a thinly veiled attempt to exert influence on higher education and an attack on academic freedoms.[aside postID=news_12034707 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg']During the hearing, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Maryland) characterized diversity, equity and inclusion practices as fundamentally divisive. He questioned the chancellors about whether a practice that categorizes people on the basis of “oppressor or oppressed” makes college campuses safer for Jewish students. Similar language appeared in President Donald Trump’s executive order on so-called “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ This whole crusade against antisemitism is a Trojan horse,” said Amanda Goldstein, a Jewish associate professor of English at UC Berkeley and a member of the group \u003ca href=\"https://speaklearnteach.org/2025/04/16/about-bff2l/\">Berkeley Faculty for the Freedom to Learn\u003c/a>. “ They feel threatened by our form of free inquiry and free thought, and they’re using antisemitism as a pretext to crack down on very many aspects of our legitimate and rigorous research and teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein said BFF2L formed in the spring in response to what she calls an escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, including revoking student visas based on their perceived political views and making federal funding contingent on things like the “severe curtailment of faculty input and governance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of Jewish faculty members from UC Berkeley has penned an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVjAp1A88aXlahHxCtKEqHvy2UQFH_zW7CUlP96dLvvkpTpQ/viewform\">open letter\u003c/a> to Lyons ahead of his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students hold up homemade signs and shirts to protest against UC Berkeley during the 2024 commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, California, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This letter does not dismiss the real challenges Jewish students, staff, and faculty have faced, including moments of unease and, at times, physical threats. Isolated incidents of hostile speech and even acts of violence have occurred,” the letter said. “However, as Jewish faculty who frequently engage with campus leadership and remain vigilant about the well-being of the Jewish campus community, we reject the claim that Berkeley is an antisemitic campus or that widespread antisemitism exists here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein called the previous hearings by the Committee on Education and Workforce a “bad-faith show trial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that that capitulation has not worked to protect the important work of education and research that we do in our universities, and we hope that our chancellor will continue to clearly and forcefully defend the research, teaching and scholarship that we do at UC Berkeley.”[aside postID=news_11985335 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2152066925-1020x680.jpg']In a reflection of the tensions that have existed on college campuses since Oct. 7, 2023, the hearing was punctuated by multiple interruptions from pro-Palestinian protestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chancellor Lyon, you are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. Free Palestine, free Palestine,” shouted one protester, who was quickly removed from the room. Another shouted, “You’re burning children alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former Justice Department employees are alarmed at how the Trump administration is using its authority to extract concessions out of universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that the Trump administration is doing right now is subverting institutional norms,” said Jen Swedish, a former lawyer with the employment litigation section of the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ. “It’s weaponizing the department and in this situation, it’s using civil rights laws as a way to bully employers and other entities into doing what it wants them to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swedish pointed to a recent example: the Trump administration successfully \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/uva-president-resigns-jim-ryan-trump.html\">demanded the resignation\u003c/a> of the president of the University of Virginia as a condition to settle a civil rights investigation into the school’s diversity practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of threatening a university president to resign as a way to settle a Title VII case is completely out of the norm,” Swedish said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Singh (center), a pro-Israel student at Berkeley, counter-protests a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The DOJ is currently investigating whether the UC system allowed an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029887/trump-doj-investigate-university-california-over-antisemitism-allegations\">antisemitic hostile work environment\u003c/a>” to exist for professors, staff and other employees, while UC Berkeley itself is one of 60 schools being \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment\">investigated\u003c/a> by the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly failing to “fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus, including uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons is the second Berkeley education official to be called before the committee to testify about antisemitism in schools. In May 2024, Enikia Ford Morthel, the superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985335/berkeley-schools-chief-rejects-allegations-of-pervasive-antisemitism-in-capitol-hill-testimony\">firmly denied accusations\u003c/a> that antisemitism had become “pervasive” in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons took the helm as chancellor of Berkeley just over a year ago in July 2024. He inherited a UC system that has beefed up rules \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000770/uc-president-orders-new-rules-on-encampments-masks-as-students-return-to-school\">preventing student encampments\u003c/a> and restricted how students can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000859/uc-system-implements-new-rules-on-protests-encampments\">protest on campuses\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12047925 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/RobBontaSFAP-1020x680.jpg']“In universities, there is a freedom to express one’s views — even if there’s some learning that needs to happen through that process,” Lyons said during his testimony. “If somebody is expressing pro-Palestine views, that’s not necessarily antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Michigan) and several other representatives questioned Lyons on statements Makdisi had made regarding the Hamas attack on Israel. McClain said the professor previously described the attack as an act of “resistance” and said he could have been one of the people “who broke through on the siege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a celebration of the terrorist attack on Oct. 7,” Lyons said after being questioned by McClain on the subject for several minutes. He also referred to Makdisi several times throughout the hearing as a “fine scholar,” and acknowledged the professor’s academic contributions to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, 2023, university campuses across the Bay Area have become hotbeds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">student-led demonstrations\u003c/a> decrying Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza. During the 2023–24 school year, students led monthslong encampments calling for divestment from companies that supported Israel’s military, among other demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish students and allies on those same campuses responded with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978998/uc-berkeley-jewish-community-members-march-on-campus-amid-rising-tensions\">marches and demonstrations\u003c/a> of their own, claiming they felt unsafe at school due to outspoken activism against Israel and Israeli soldiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first month in office, Trump signed an executive order aimed at fighting antisemitism, particularly on college campuses. The administration’s DOJ formed a multi-agency task force to combat antisemitism shortly after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students hold signs that read “No Votes for Genocide” at a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Lyon’s testimony isn’t explicitly linked to the multitude of investigations into the UC System and UC Berkeley itself, it certainly is related, according to Swedish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swedish said if the UC system is found to have engaged in a pattern or practice of workplace discrimination against Jewish employees, the DOJ would enter into a settlement agreement with the UC System “ to take certain measurable steps that we believe would prevent it from happening again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crackdown on Harvard University may foreshadow other potential impacts upon the UC system or UC Berkeley itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 30, the DOJ’s joint antisemitism task force notified Harvard that its investigation found that the university was in “violent violation” of the Civil Rights Act for failing to adequately protect Jewish students from antisemitism on campus.” The task force said in a press release that “failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice does not currently have an open investigation into whether the UC system or UC Berkeley has violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by failing to prevent antisemitism on campus. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During the hearing, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Maryland) characterized diversity, equity and inclusion practices as fundamentally divisive. He questioned the chancellors about whether a practice that categorizes people on the basis of “oppressor or oppressed” makes college campuses safer for Jewish students. Similar language appeared in President Donald Trump’s executive order on so-called “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ This whole crusade against antisemitism is a Trojan horse,” said Amanda Goldstein, a Jewish associate professor of English at UC Berkeley and a member of the group \u003ca href=\"https://speaklearnteach.org/2025/04/16/about-bff2l/\">Berkeley Faculty for the Freedom to Learn\u003c/a>. “ They feel threatened by our form of free inquiry and free thought, and they’re using antisemitism as a pretext to crack down on very many aspects of our legitimate and rigorous research and teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein said BFF2L formed in the spring in response to what she calls an escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, including revoking student visas based on their perceived political views and making federal funding contingent on things like the “severe curtailment of faculty input and governance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of Jewish faculty members from UC Berkeley has penned an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVjAp1A88aXlahHxCtKEqHvy2UQFH_zW7CUlP96dLvvkpTpQ/viewform\">open letter\u003c/a> to Lyons ahead of his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students hold up homemade signs and shirts to protest against UC Berkeley during the 2024 commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, California, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This letter does not dismiss the real challenges Jewish students, staff, and faculty have faced, including moments of unease and, at times, physical threats. Isolated incidents of hostile speech and even acts of violence have occurred,” the letter said. “However, as Jewish faculty who frequently engage with campus leadership and remain vigilant about the well-being of the Jewish campus community, we reject the claim that Berkeley is an antisemitic campus or that widespread antisemitism exists here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein called the previous hearings by the Committee on Education and Workforce a “bad-faith show trial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that that capitulation has not worked to protect the important work of education and research that we do in our universities, and we hope that our chancellor will continue to clearly and forcefully defend the research, teaching and scholarship that we do at UC Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He also referred to Makdisi several times throughout the hearing as a “fine scholar,” and acknowledged the professor’s academic contributions to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, 2023, university campuses across the Bay Area have become hotbeds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">student-led demonstrations\u003c/a> decrying Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza. 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