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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland’s school board\u003c/a> has been on rocky ground for years — board members bicker, and tensions at public meetings often run high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New board president Jennifer Brouhard said that when she tells school representatives from other cities that she represents Oakland, it’s not uncommon for them to ask, “How do you do it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been seen as a board that can’t get things done, that’s divisive,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the board’s reputation — and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">$95 million budget deficit\u003c/a> looming over its head — Brouhard and some other education officials feel the current group is coming together as it faces significant challenges to start the year. But infighting on the board is far from gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am more optimistic about this board than I have been for a while,” said Alameda County Superintendent Alysse Castro, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023461/ousd-on-track-run-out-of-cash-after-avoiding-hard-decisions-scathing-letter-says\">stepped up oversight of the district\u003c/a> in January after the board certified a negative interim budget for the first time in over 20 years, spurring dire warnings that its members were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027158/how-oakland-and-sf-ended-up-among-7-ca-school-districts-who-cant-pay-their-bills\">avoiding difficult decisions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the battles play out over two new proposals this month will offer insight into whether the school board has truly turned a corner.\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>As the board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029001/oakland-school-board-approves-over-100-layoffs-a-day-after-similar-vote-in-sf\">approved layoff notices\u003c/a> and slung accusations about unprofessionalism during last week’s meeting, Brouhard read into the record the first proposal, which she introduced with Vice President Valarie Bachelor. It’s a set of “alternative budget adjustments” meant to supplement rather than replace the budget proposals passed by the board in December, Brouhard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The intent is really to give the board more direction in things,” she told KQED. “A lot of times it feels to us that we’re in charge of making sure that the district is financially solvent, but we don’t always have the ways to direct that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alternatives would add more guardrails to the budget proposed by district staff for next year and aim to make spending cuts away from school sites, limiting their direct effect on students, according to Brouhard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Mike Hutchinson, who heads the Budget and Finance Committee, was highly critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028120 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00479-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be embarrassed to submit that with my name on it,” Hutchinson said, adding that the budget-balancing proposal passed in December has the district on track. “There’s been no work to even develop a real alternative plan. If that’s what they wanted to do — five bullet points — when we’ve been working on this for five months, [it] doesn’t cut it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The short document instructs the district to cap spending on contracts with outside vendors, confidential employees, and books and supplies, a line item that Brouhard said is often used to fund other expenses that arise throughout the year. It would also require staff to alert the board of any new ongoing funds that become available and prioritize rescinding potential layoff notices the board approved sending to staff this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said that the board doesn’t cap spending categorically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta said she was “cautiously supportive” of the proposal and looking forward to discussing its merits with the whole board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson also took issue with the other proposal, which new board member Rachel Latta introduced with Brouhard and would create a task force to do a deep dive on the district’s spending on services and contracts. It would be made up of representatives from OUSD labor partners, parent groups, student board delegates and a board member with district staff, and look for excessive or repetitive contracts with third-party vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029603 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DSC06407_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DSC06407_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DSC06407_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DSC06407_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DSC06407_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DSC06407_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DSC06407_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School Board member Mike Hutchinson delivered a speech to the media with the OUSD’s response to an ongoing teacher’s strike on May 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have a Budget and Finance Committee,” Hutchinson said. “If this is something that people want the board to address and discuss, then the board should do that — and the board does the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested that creating a task force would allow board members to outsource the work of sifting through spending to others. However, Latta’s reasoning for the makeup of the group is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to honor the expertise that every stakeholder brings, and so I think it’s worth [the] little extra time to get their input,” she told KQED, saying that it “upholds a value that I have around meaningful community engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the background of Hutchinson’s ire with both proposals, there seems to be a larger frustration with this year’s board leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s accused Brouhard of “locking” the school board into the budget-balancing plan passed by last year’s board by canceling meetings in February, including a study session on the budget set for Feb. 5 and a meeting originally scheduled for Feb. 20, when an item regarding the layoffs would have been agendized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-013_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-013_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-013_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-013_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-013_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-013_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-013_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexandria Poole, right, comforts Navie Davis, left, as she becomes emotional while making a public comment to the Oakland Unified School District Board about a proposed merger 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>“President Brouhard has canceled a series of meetings, taking away any opportunity to introduce any alternatives or even discuss the budget adjustments recommendations,” he wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MikeHutchinson4SchoolBoard/posts/pfbid02KTnBqYyuWwawwWeKijzG9yG5Y6rCLmmy3in2k7ZVwSEUPCf53MwEdiwwp2CoRXBLl\">Facebook\u003c/a> ahead of the layoff notice vote. “Now she hasn’t even put a vote on the $95M budget adjustments package (attachment C) on the agenda for a vote.” That package was approved by the former school board on Dec. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only time there was a discussion was at the February Budget and Finance Committee [meeting] because I set the agenda for that committee,” he told KQED, adding that instead of a discussion, Brouhard gave Castro time to present her plan to support OUSD’s budgeting in an expanded oversight role during one of the district’s two monthly meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple board members said a meeting slated for Feb. 20 was canceled after district staff told the board they would not be prepared to present layoff data by that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t prepared yet with the financials and the number of [preliminary layoff] March 15 letters. So that meeting was canceled because I felt if you’re not ready for it, you don’t want to hand these things out to people who may not get them,” Brouhard told KQED.[aside postID=news_12029289 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/StanfordAthleticsGetty-1020x680.jpg']She said staff also hadn’t been prepared to have the discussion scheduled for Feb. 5, and that at the time, the board was “figuring out what our relationship was, how we’re going to navigate this thing with the county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those were opportunities that we could have wrestled with some of these issues in public a little bit more, in a slightly less formal manner,” according to Latta. “But I’ll just also name that because the county wanted to run that meeting. I think there was like an internal tension on the board of ‘Is that what we want to do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she doesn’t agree that board leadership has stifled discussion about the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to be to the strictest letter of the law, the Brown Act, because with the county also being involved, it kind of adds an additional layer of complexity,” Latta said. “I understand why it feels like maybe things have come from on high, but some decisions also come through the county that we don’t have any control over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board does seem to agree on a few key things, though: passing a balanced budget in June and regaining full local control by next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now less than 18 months away from leaving receivership; we’ve taken away the cloud of fear hanging over our school sites,” Hutchinson said. “But, projecting forward, we do have to figure out how our district needs to be built going forward, and we can’t stay the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very unfortunate that in Oakland, we elected some school board members who are not prepared for the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta said she expects bickering at board meetings to continue but is “confident we’re going to pass a balanced budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve already identified well over the amount of cuts in dollars than our projected deficit; we’re projected to beat our enrollment targets that all of our funding is based on,” she said. “Even though people see arguing, they see tension; I would just want to reassure people that that doesn’t mean that we’re not going to get our work done for the students of the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It would also require staff to alert the board of any new ongoing funds that become available and prioritize rescinding potential layoff notices the board approved sending to staff this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said that the board doesn’t cap spending categorically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta said she was “cautiously supportive” of the proposal and looking forward to discussing its merits with the whole board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson also took issue with the other proposal, which new board member Rachel Latta introduced with Brouhard and would create a task force to do a deep dive on the district’s spending on services and contracts. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She said staff also hadn’t been prepared to have the discussion scheduled for Feb. 5, and that at the time, the board was “figuring out what our relationship was, how we’re going to navigate this thing with the county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those were opportunities that we could have wrestled with some of these issues in public a little bit more, in a slightly less formal manner,” according to Latta. “But I’ll just also name that because the county wanted to run that meeting. I think there was like an internal tension on the board of ‘Is that what we want to do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she doesn’t agree that board leadership has stifled discussion about the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to be to the strictest letter of the law, the Brown Act, because with the county also being involved, it kind of adds an additional layer of complexity,” Latta said. “I understand why it feels like maybe things have come from on high, but some decisions also come through the county that we don’t have any control over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board does seem to agree on a few key things, though: passing a balanced budget in June and regaining full local control by next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now less than 18 months away from leaving receivership; we’ve taken away the cloud of fear hanging over our school sites,” Hutchinson said. “But, projecting forward, we do have to figure out how our district needs to be built going forward, and we can’t stay the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very unfortunate that in Oakland, we elected some school board members who are not prepared for the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latta said she expects bickering at board meetings to continue but is “confident we’re going to pass a balanced budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve already identified well over the amount of cuts in dollars than our projected deficit; we’re projected to beat our enrollment targets that all of our funding is based on,” she said. “Even though people see arguing, they see tension; I would just want to reassure people that that doesn’t mean that we’re not going to get our work done for the students of the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But saving those eight positions jeopardizes funding for services for at-risk students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, with these decisions, our students will suffer the most without the staff that is needed to provide them with an excellent education that they deserve and which is necessary to decrease the longstanding education gaps for the district’s Black and brown students,” said Sheryl Lane, executive director of \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.fierceadvocates.org/mission-vision\">Fierce Advocates\u003c/a>, a Richmond organization focused on working with parents of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the positions that are being eliminated, 122 are already vacant, according to district officials. 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Every single cabinet member has my direct phone number. Every board member has my phone number. We have been excluded from the decision-making process and in the collaboration since the new administration took over. This situation has been imposed on us, but we’re ready to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A split board\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It took nine amended resolutions for a vote to pass on Wednesday night. Trustee Demetrio Gonzalez-Hoy attempted to save high school teachers, school counselors, social workers, psychologists, speech therapists, and career technical education educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board was split.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President Leslie Reckler and trustee Guadalupe Enllana voted down the motions while Gonzalez-Hoy and trustee Cinthia Hernandez were determined to save some staffing positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The successful resolution saved one part-time psychologist position, one part-time and seven full-time high school teachers. Reckler voted down the resolution and trustee Jamela Smith-Folds was absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to EdSource, Reckler argued the board had already approved the fiscal solvency plan and if the cuts weren’t passed, “it shows the board to be an unreliable steward of public funds, and I will not be lumped into that category.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My prime responsibility is to ensure the long-term fiscal solvency of the school district and ensure continued local control in decision-making,” Reckler said. “Last night’s vote will make it more difficult for the school district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top priority for Gonzalez-Hoy was to save the high school teacher positions because cutting them would have caused some schools to go from a seven-period day to six, he said. English learners, students with disabilities and students who need more academic support would be most affected because they often need to take on extra courses and benefit from having more class periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could not in good conscience make those reductions, knowing the unintended impact they would have,” he said. “Even though it was a very difficult conversation and decision, I did vote to cut the majority of the positions, in part due to our ability to possibly retain some of those positions through grants, but also due to our financial situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Enllana said the board and district can no longer continue to be “driven by individual interests but must prioritize the needs of all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a clear distinction between needs and wants. Our first responsibility is to secure what our students need, and then work towards fulfilling the wants under our current budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California schools are in a budget crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This week, other Bay Area school boards also made the difficult decision to lay off employees for the coming school year. Oakland’s school board voted to cut 100 positions, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-school-board-tiptoes-back-fiscal-cliff-20187724.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>. \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028317/sf-schools-brace-hundreds-layoffs-including-teachers-librarians-counselors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to KQED\u003c/a>, San Francisco Unified will also send pink slips to more than 500 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Contra Costa Unified has to balance between the need for fiscal solvency and keeping the schools adequately staffed with teachers, social workers, psychologists and other support staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These decisions by the school board are tough ones and speak to the structural changes needed at the state level to change the revenue it receives that can go towards funding local school districts, like WCCUSD,” Lane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has been under financial stress since last year and could risk insolvency if its fiscal plan isn’t followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When districts can’t get out of deficits, they risk being taken over by the state and losing local control over budget decisions. Twenty-six years ago, West Contra Costa became the first district in the state to go insolvent and received a $29 million bailout loan, which took 21 years to pay off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To stay out of a deficit, West Contra Costa has to cut $32.7 million in costs between 2024 and 2027. District officials have said about 84% of the budget is used to pay salaries and benefits — the reason staffing cuts would be unavoidable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district needs to put forth a fiscal solvency plan approved by the Contra Costa County Office of Education to avoid going insolvent and risking a takeover, Moses said. The staffing cuts are tied to the plan and must happen for the district to stay on track. The board \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2025/west-contra-costa-school-board-slashes-staffing-to-avoid-deficit/726423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">approved the plan\u003c/a> earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be multiple millions of dollars of impact to the general fund if we don’t take action,” Moses said during the meeting. “The response to the county, if that is the case, I think we would be sending a strong message that we are not addressing our fiscal stability, and that would not be advisable as they are oversight agents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The price of compromise\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Saving the high school teacher and psychologist positions will add $1.5 million to $1.75 million to the deficit, Moses said. The district doesn’t have a choice but to use funds that are meant for student services and will likely have to dip into the $4 million set aside for math curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We value all staff and their dedication to our community; however, the fiscal health of our district has to be prioritized as the foundation for our ability to continue normal district operations,” Moses said in a news release Thursday. “I am concerned about the added fiscal uncertainty we face after last night’s board meeting.”[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='west-contra-costa-unified-school-district']Cutting the money for teacher and math support is a step backward for the district, which makes it more difficult for educators to help students improve, said Natalie Walchuk, vice president of local impact at \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://gopublicschoolswcc.org/our-organization/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GO Public Schools\u003c/a>, an organization advocating for equitable public education.\u003cem> \u003c/em>In West Contra Costa, only \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://bit.ly/kidscan24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1 in 4 students are performing at grade level in math\u003c/a> and just 6.1% of seniors are ready for college-level math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers need the right tools and resources to support their students, yet the district has lagged for years in adopting a new math curriculum,” Walchuk said. “While we recognize the difficult financial decisions the board had to make, it is critical that the district prioritizes student learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The positions on the chopping block came from two pots of money — the general fund, which accounts for 40 positions, and grants, which cover 137 positions. Money for grant-funded positions is either expiring or has been used faster than projected, said Camille Johnson, associate superintendent of human resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to save the grant-funded positions would add to the deficit, Moses said. Although the district staff is working to secure more grants, the funds districts receive from the federal government are uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were not in a position to consult the (teachers) union because we do not have money to pay for these positions,” Moses said during the meeting. “Negotiations in terms of what stays and what goes was not possible in this scenario because it’s strictly driven by money that is expiring or money we aren’t responsible for assigning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district doesn’t have a choice but to eliminate some positions because they are dependent on school sites approving the positions in their budgets, Moses said. 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Every board member has my phone number. We have been excluded from the decision-making process and in the collaboration since the new administration took over. This situation has been imposed on us, but we’re ready to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A split board\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It took nine amended resolutions for a vote to pass on Wednesday night. Trustee Demetrio Gonzalez-Hoy attempted to save high school teachers, school counselors, social workers, psychologists, speech therapists, and career technical education educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board was split.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President Leslie Reckler and trustee Guadalupe Enllana voted down the motions while Gonzalez-Hoy and trustee Cinthia Hernandez were determined to save some staffing positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The successful resolution saved one part-time psychologist position, one part-time and seven full-time high school teachers. Reckler voted down the resolution and trustee Jamela Smith-Folds was absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to EdSource, Reckler argued the board had already approved the fiscal solvency plan and if the cuts weren’t passed, “it shows the board to be an unreliable steward of public funds, and I will not be lumped into that category.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My prime responsibility is to ensure the long-term fiscal solvency of the school district and ensure continued local control in decision-making,” Reckler said. “Last night’s vote will make it more difficult for the school district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top priority for Gonzalez-Hoy was to save the high school teacher positions because cutting them would have caused some schools to go from a seven-period day to six, he said. 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Oakland’s school board voted to cut 100 positions, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-school-board-tiptoes-back-fiscal-cliff-20187724.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>. \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028317/sf-schools-brace-hundreds-layoffs-including-teachers-librarians-counselors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to KQED\u003c/a>, San Francisco Unified will also send pink slips to more than 500 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Contra Costa Unified has to balance between the need for fiscal solvency and keeping the schools adequately staffed with teachers, social workers, psychologists and other support staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These decisions by the school board are tough ones and speak to the structural changes needed at the state level to change the revenue it receives that can go towards funding local school districts, like WCCUSD,” Lane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has been under financial stress since last year and could risk insolvency if its fiscal plan isn’t followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When districts can’t get out of deficits, they risk being taken over by the state and losing local control over budget decisions. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Maximus Simmons cast his ballot in November, he could only fill it out for one election — his Oakland school board representative — because he was among the first 16- and 17-year-olds \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012537/young-people-in-oakland-and-berkeley-are-casting-ballots-for-the-first-time-heres-what-it-looks-like\">allowed to vote in Oakland and Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay cities allowed teens to vote in school board elections for the first time last year, following years of youth advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Filling out the ballot is easy once you get it, but actually making sure to go and turn in your ballot, even I struggled with that a little bit,” said Simmons, who also serves as student director on the Oakland school board. “It was a matter of making time to drop it off and also figuring out how to drop it off because a lot of kids are on their parents’ schedule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons said the experience empowered him and his peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How was youth voter turnout?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly 1,500 youth voters were registered by Election Day in Berkeley and Oakland, with about a third casting ballots. The numbers are low compared to turnout among adults who voted in the same school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities run their school board elections differently. In Oakland, residents select candidates based on the district they live in and only half of the districts are up for an election at any given time. In Berkeley’s at-large system, the candidates with the most votes overall are elected to available seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youth turnout in Oakland & Berkeley 2024 school board elections\" aria-label=\"Donut Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MJZF4\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MJZF4/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just under 600 young people exercised their right to vote in school board races. Those who did cast ballots had similar vote splits to the general population — except for one race in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District 5, which includes the diverse Fruitvale and Jingletown neighborhoods with a large Spanish-speaking population, saw different voting patterns. While adults elected Patrice Berry, youth voters preferred Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez. Both candidates advocated for diversity and equity efforts in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the results in District 5 weren’t close enough to be affected by the youth vote, it was by far the tightest race: Just 885 votes separated Berry from Ritzie-Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lessons from 2024\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The historic youth vote was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002068/in-oakland-and-berkeley-16-and-17-year-olds-can-now-vote-for-school-board\">years in the making\u003c/a>. Berkeley passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921973/berkeley-and-oakland-passed-measures-to-let-16-and-17-year-olds-participate-in-school-board-elections-so-why-cant-they-vote-yet\">Measure Y1\u003c/a> in 2016, amending the city charter to allow teens to vote in school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, students formed the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition to attempt the same thing with help from the nonprofit Oakland Kids First, led by executive director Lukas Brekke-Miesner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lukas Brekke-Miesner, executive director of Oakland Kids First, at Willard Park in Berkeley, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. He helped launch youth voting in Oakland back in 2019. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It took another four years after Oakland’s 2020 measure for teens in both cities to vote, meaning most of the original student advocates had aged out of the youth voting category altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always hard to know if something’s high or low when it’s the first time,” Brekke-Miesner said. “Generally, our feeling is overwhelmingly positive in the sense that every young person who voted was a young person who has never been able to vote before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029001 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logistical issues with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters delayed the implementation of youth voting, Brekke-Miesner said. He didn’t learn until August 2024 that the systems were ready for the upcoming election, a timeline that significantly impacted turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth voters also do not appear on voter rolls because they are minors, Brekke-Miesner said, which meant that there was no way to track registration or follow up with potential voters ahead of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything about our ability to register voters, mobilize voters, educate voters, et cetera, was all condensed to a September, October timeline,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the work, he noted, was led by teens and teachers. At Oakland High School, Simmons said civics teachers would set aside class time to educate students about how to register and fill out a ballot, with a curriculum from the League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville — a critical step to foster civic engagement early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029006 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximus Simmons, of Oakland, is a student director at Oakland Unified and was a first-time youth voter in the 2024 election. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Society is set up for young people to not care about voting,” said Simmons, a junior. “We don’t learn about it in school. We don’t learn about who our political party should be, what each political party means. We’re not taught why voting is important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in Oakland hosted candidate forums at several high schools, which they have done for the past few elections they couldn’t even vote in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley High School, Zamahra Winta Clark went from classroom to classroom with a curriculum developed by a school librarian to educate her peers about the registration process. Clark is also a student director on Berkeley’s school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If students were able to vote in the mayoral election, I feel like it would be a way higher percentage of voter turnout for students,” Clark, a senior, said. “The majority of them were confused on not only how the process works, but how this affects them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons added that the novelty of youth voting could play a role in limiting turnout since students aren’t familiar with the process yet. Simmons said he expects turnout to increase as it has in the few other cities in the U.S. that allow youth voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nationwide momentum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Bay Area, cities on the East Coast states of Vermont, Maryland and New Jersey allow youth voting in local elections. More than a dozen states have active campaigns supported by Vote16USA, a national organization that provides resources to local youth vote advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see in places where we’ve lowered the voting age, 16- and 17-year-olds are voting at a much higher rate than those that are 18 and older,” said LaJuan Allen, the director of Vote16USA. “And not only that, but the voting turnout for folks that are 18 and older continued to increase every election cycle that 16- and 17-year-olds were able to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Takoma Park, Maryland, was the first municipality to expand youth voting in 2013. Only 59 young people cast ballots, marking turnout at 44%. By 2020, turnout had risen to 69%, surpassing the general population rate of 54%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen said he expects a similar pattern in the Bay Area, especially as more cities in the region expand the right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Albany is next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The latest Bay Area city to expand youth voting rights is in neighboring Albany — and it goes a step further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote16USA helped launch Albany’s youth voting ballot measure last year, which voters passed in November. The measure allows young people to cast ballots in school board races and municipal elections — the broadest expansion of youth voting rights on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029005 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lukas Brekke-Miesner, left, of Oakland, is the executive director of Oakland Kids First, which helped launch youth voting in Oakland back in 2019. Maximus Simmons, of Oakland, is a student director at Oakland Unified and was a first-time youth voter in the 2024 election. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alex Li, a freshman at Georgetown University, was a key organizer in the city’s campaign while attending Albany High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is traditional, and I guess more politically intuitive, to go just for school board because there’s that direct connection,” Li said. “But at the same time, it’s not as if we’re not citizens of the city, and we’re not impacted by what happens in the policymaking through ballot measures or the city council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unclear how quickly Albany can implement youth voting, Li said Berkeley and Oakland cut through much of the bureaucratic red tape at the registrar’s office. Brennen Brown, Albany’s public information officer, said the city is coordinating with the county to get that done before the next election.[aside postID=news_12012537 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']More Bay Area cities are expected to follow. Students at the Alameda Science and Technology Institute are putting together a campaign with the help of Vote16USA and the League of Women Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all Bay Area cities are embracing a lower voting age. A San Francisco measure to allow 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in city elections was rejected by voters in 2016 and 2020 — both times, the margin of defeat was slim. Youth advocates began launching a third attempt in April, but nothing tangible came of that effort by the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates believe national politics could also play a role in expanding a lowered voting age. President Donald Trump’s second term is motivating many teens who feel democracy itself is at risk, according to Allen. He also noted that youth frustration with national politics is pushing many to look toward their own communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people are very excited about what their impact could be on the local level as it relates to a more inclusive democracy,” Allen said. “But I think I would be remiss if I didn’t say that young people are disappointed and are thinking about what the next four years are going to look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only for them,” he added. “But for their communities and the people that they love and care about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How was youth voter turnout?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly 1,500 youth voters were registered by Election Day in Berkeley and Oakland, with about a third casting ballots. The numbers are low compared to turnout among adults who voted in the same school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities run their school board elections differently. In Oakland, residents select candidates based on the district they live in and only half of the districts are up for an election at any given time. In Berkeley’s at-large system, the candidates with the most votes overall are elected to available seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youth turnout in Oakland & Berkeley 2024 school board elections\" aria-label=\"Donut Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MJZF4\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MJZF4/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just under 600 young people exercised their right to vote in school board races. Those who did cast ballots had similar vote splits to the general population — except for one race in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District 5, which includes the diverse Fruitvale and Jingletown neighborhoods with a large Spanish-speaking population, saw different voting patterns. While adults elected Patrice Berry, youth voters preferred Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez. Both candidates advocated for diversity and equity efforts in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the results in District 5 weren’t close enough to be affected by the youth vote, it was by far the tightest race: Just 885 votes separated Berry from Ritzie-Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lessons from 2024\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The historic youth vote was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002068/in-oakland-and-berkeley-16-and-17-year-olds-can-now-vote-for-school-board\">years in the making\u003c/a>. Berkeley passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921973/berkeley-and-oakland-passed-measures-to-let-16-and-17-year-olds-participate-in-school-board-elections-so-why-cant-they-vote-yet\">Measure Y1\u003c/a> in 2016, amending the city charter to allow teens to vote in school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, students formed the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition to attempt the same thing with help from the nonprofit Oakland Kids First, led by executive director Lukas Brekke-Miesner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lukas Brekke-Miesner, executive director of Oakland Kids First, at Willard Park in Berkeley, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. He helped launch youth voting in Oakland back in 2019. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It took another four years after Oakland’s 2020 measure for teens in both cities to vote, meaning most of the original student advocates had aged out of the youth voting category altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always hard to know if something’s high or low when it’s the first time,” Brekke-Miesner said. “Generally, our feeling is overwhelmingly positive in the sense that every young person who voted was a young person who has never been able to vote before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logistical issues with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters delayed the implementation of youth voting, Brekke-Miesner said. He didn’t learn until August 2024 that the systems were ready for the upcoming election, a timeline that significantly impacted turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth voters also do not appear on voter rolls because they are minors, Brekke-Miesner said, which meant that there was no way to track registration or follow up with potential voters ahead of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything about our ability to register voters, mobilize voters, educate voters, et cetera, was all condensed to a September, October timeline,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the work, he noted, was led by teens and teachers. At Oakland High School, Simmons said civics teachers would set aside class time to educate students about how to register and fill out a ballot, with a curriculum from the League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville — a critical step to foster civic engagement early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029006 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximus Simmons, of Oakland, is a student director at Oakland Unified and was a first-time youth voter in the 2024 election. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Society is set up for young people to not care about voting,” said Simmons, a junior. “We don’t learn about it in school. We don’t learn about who our political party should be, what each political party means. We’re not taught why voting is important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in Oakland hosted candidate forums at several high schools, which they have done for the past few elections they couldn’t even vote in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley High School, Zamahra Winta Clark went from classroom to classroom with a curriculum developed by a school librarian to educate her peers about the registration process. Clark is also a student director on Berkeley’s school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If students were able to vote in the mayoral election, I feel like it would be a way higher percentage of voter turnout for students,” Clark, a senior, said. “The majority of them were confused on not only how the process works, but how this affects them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons added that the novelty of youth voting could play a role in limiting turnout since students aren’t familiar with the process yet. Simmons said he expects turnout to increase as it has in the few other cities in the U.S. that allow youth voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nationwide momentum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Bay Area, cities on the East Coast states of Vermont, Maryland and New Jersey allow youth voting in local elections. More than a dozen states have active campaigns supported by Vote16USA, a national organization that provides resources to local youth vote advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see in places where we’ve lowered the voting age, 16- and 17-year-olds are voting at a much higher rate than those that are 18 and older,” said LaJuan Allen, the director of Vote16USA. “And not only that, but the voting turnout for folks that are 18 and older continued to increase every election cycle that 16- and 17-year-olds were able to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Takoma Park, Maryland, was the first municipality to expand youth voting in 2013. Only 59 young people cast ballots, marking turnout at 44%. By 2020, turnout had risen to 69%, surpassing the general population rate of 54%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen said he expects a similar pattern in the Bay Area, especially as more cities in the region expand the right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Albany is next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The latest Bay Area city to expand youth voting rights is in neighboring Albany — and it goes a step further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote16USA helped launch Albany’s youth voting ballot measure last year, which voters passed in November. The measure allows young people to cast ballots in school board races and municipal elections — the broadest expansion of youth voting rights on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029005 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lukas Brekke-Miesner, left, of Oakland, is the executive director of Oakland Kids First, which helped launch youth voting in Oakland back in 2019. Maximus Simmons, of Oakland, is a student director at Oakland Unified and was a first-time youth voter in the 2024 election. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alex Li, a freshman at Georgetown University, was a key organizer in the city’s campaign while attending Albany High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is traditional, and I guess more politically intuitive, to go just for school board because there’s that direct connection,” Li said. “But at the same time, it’s not as if we’re not citizens of the city, and we’re not impacted by what happens in the policymaking through ballot measures or the city council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unclear how quickly Albany can implement youth voting, Li said Berkeley and Oakland cut through much of the bureaucratic red tape at the registrar’s office. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:50 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a day after massive staff cuts moved forward across the bay, Oakland’s school board has approved sending preliminary layoff notices to reduce the district’s workforce by more than 100 employees as it also grapples with a massive budget deficit and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023461/ousd-on-track-run-out-of-cash-after-avoiding-hard-decisions-scathing-letter-says\">looming threat of financial insolvency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board voted 6–1 on Wednesday evening to eliminate hundreds of credentialed teaching positions and cut vacant positions as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a> deals with a $95 million shortfall. While the total cuts are over 700, the net loss of employees is about 100 after taking into account new positions and others being added back with different funding sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is set to exit over 20 years of state receivership after paying off its loan in just 18 months, but it risks backsliding after certifying a negative budget in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that we had a larger looming budget adjustment to close the hole projected in next year’s budget,” board member Mike Hutchinson said during the meeting. “It’s because we didn’t make enough of an adjustment last year. A lot of our COVID dollars are sunsetting. We’re still cleaning up the mismanagement of the past. And this is now the way that we project forward as a district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staff cuts are part of the district’s multi-year budget-balancing plan, part of which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">approved by the board in December\u003c/a> to allow staff to realign spending and revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said that declining enrollment, the end of COVID-19 relief dollars and rising costs for teacher salaries and other expenses are forcing districts across the state to make hard choices about how they’ll operate going forward. A day before the OUSD vote, San Francisco’s school board on Tuesday night approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028317/sf-schools-brace-hundreds-layoffs-including-teachers-librarians-counselors\">a plan to send preliminary layoff notices\u003c/a> to hundreds of employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017854\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-016.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017854\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-016.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-016-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-016-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-016-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-016-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-016-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students, families, educators and community members attend the Oakland Unified School District Board Meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We made investments, and now we have to figure out how to pay for it,” Johnson-Trammell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, OUSD \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949458/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district\">teachers got a 10% raise\u003c/a> — sorely needed after years of minimal wage increases — that was partly paid for with one-time pandemic money. But the last of the district’s $300 million in relief funds has been gone since September, Johnson-Trammell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those additional funds also allowed the district to add permanent substitute teachers, known as STIP subs, at campuses where teachers were increasingly out sick. STIP subs are now among those that could receive layoff notices before the statewide deadline of March 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seemed like the most strategic thing to provide them to all the sites, and we had the money to do that,” Johnson-Trammell told the board. “We had the money to increase a lot of the site staff support. And in people’s contracts, it said the end date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028446 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-02.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t feel like we had a deficit growing because we had all of that one-time money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the plan passed Wednesday, OUSD could send pink slips to STIP subs, teachers on special English literacy assignments and community school managers, who liaise between parents and staff, among other roles. Some positions could also be moved from 11-month to 10-month roles to reduce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One STIP substitute who spoke at Wednesday night’s meeting said that she had essentially become the primary teacher for a preschool class, providing stability after their teacher quit in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These educators also cover for teachers when they have individualized education plan meetings with families or need other coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under OUSD’s staff realignment plan, there will be dozens of centralized STIP subs who work at all of the schools when teachers are out. Some parents and teachers pointed out that not having them on the same campuses every day changes the role that they can play, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘“Why on earth would you think it’s a good idea to put STIP subs out of the central office? That just means they’re a sub,” Michael Shane, whose daughter attends Lincoln Elementary School, said during public comment. “What’s the difference?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017853\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017853\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naija Garg, 8, attends the Oakland Unified School District Board Meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The School Board took public comment on a proposed merger of 10 different schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to staffing changes, the district’s Re-envision, Redesign, and Restructure plan recommends centralizing contracts with community agencies and service providers, like those that provide photocopying services. Both have been up to school sites’ discretion in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members said that as they continue to work on finding a new stable point for the district, they hope to increase community engagement and focus on cuts away from students, like in the district’s central office and contracts with outside consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t come on the board to lay people off,” board member Rachel Latta said. “We’re far enough in the process that I feel that I do have to vote on these, but I want to make it clear that I don’t plan to do this anymore. I’m committed to a process where we as a district look at what are the positions that are actually protecting our students, protecting their experience, protecting their achievement, and I don’t feel that we have done that as a district so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t feel like we had a deficit growing because we had all of that one-time money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the plan passed Wednesday, OUSD could send pink slips to STIP subs, teachers on special English literacy assignments and community school managers, who liaise between parents and staff, among other roles. Some positions could also be moved from 11-month to 10-month roles to reduce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One STIP substitute who spoke at Wednesday night’s meeting said that she had essentially become the primary teacher for a preschool class, providing stability after their teacher quit in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These educators also cover for teachers when they have individualized education plan meetings with families or need other coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under OUSD’s staff realignment plan, there will be dozens of centralized STIP subs who work at all of the schools when teachers are out. Some parents and teachers pointed out that not having them on the same campuses every day changes the role that they can play, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘“Why on earth would you think it’s a good idea to put STIP subs out of the central office? That just means they’re a sub,” Michael Shane, whose daughter attends Lincoln Elementary School, said during public comment. “What’s the difference?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017853\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017853\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naija Garg, 8, attends the Oakland Unified School District Board Meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The School Board took public comment on a proposed merger of 10 different schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to staffing changes, the district’s Re-envision, Redesign, and Restructure plan recommends centralizing contracts with community agencies and service providers, like those that provide photocopying services. Both have been up to school sites’ discretion in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members said that as they continue to work on finding a new stable point for the district, they hope to increase community engagement and focus on cuts away from students, like in the district’s central office and contracts with outside consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t come on the board to lay people off,” board member Rachel Latta said. “We’re far enough in the process that I feel that I do have to vote on these, but I want to make it clear that I don’t plan to do this anymore. I’m committed to a process where we as a district look at what are the positions that are actually protecting our students, protecting their experience, protecting their achievement, and I don’t feel that we have done that as a district so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s school board on Tuesday night \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028309/sf-school-board-must-consider-worst-case-scenario-over-800-layoffs\">approved a plan to send layoff notices\u003c/a> to hundreds of educators and other employees amid a major budget shortfall, raising concerns from school workers and families about diminishing student services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final number of layoffs at the end of the year will almost certainly be lower, the district said, but its workforce is still going to shrink. Tuesday’s unanimous vote allows the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> to issue preliminary notices to 559 employees, but it hopes to find not-yet-guaranteed restricted funding to rescind notices for some of the 280 included support staff. Classroom educators are also included, with 115 credentialed teaching positions that won’t be budgeted for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoffs are the board’s first major budget decision of the year as SFUSD rushes to patch a $113 million deficit and regain local control over its spending. Without major changes, the district has reported, it could run out of cash by the middle of next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district has experienced a significant decline in overall enrollment consistent with statewide trends, and yet we’ve kept staffing levels largely the same,” said Board President Phil Kim. “It simply is not sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unclear whether the cuts will come mostly from pink slips, voluntary departures or SFUSD’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">early retirement buyout\u003c/a> plan — which Superintendent Maria Su confirmed Tuesday received more than the minimum 314 applications to go forward — there will be fewer staff positions in the district next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Su speaks at a press event in front of the SFUSD offices in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This could force schools to have more combined-grade classes or fewer full-time support staff, such as English language arts specialists and social workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art teacher Laura Simon said Visitacion Valley Middle School is at risk of losing a full-time counselor and nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My school nurse helped me get vaccinated so that I could come to school, she helped my family find a clinic so that we could go see a doctor — so many of our newcomer students wrote that same thing,” Simon said during the board meeting, reading notes from students. “‘The nurse is always there for me; she talked to me about substance abuse and my feelings; she makes my school feel safe.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Ramos, who has been the librarian at Sanchez Middle School for a decade, said the most notable effect on students would be a lack of enrichment opportunities. Librarian roles, which weren’t included in the preliminary layoff notices approved Tuesday, could be redistributed based on the district’s new staffing model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My only role would probably end up being to just release teachers,” Ramos told KQED. Four days a week, she hosts a whole grade level in the library for almost two hours while their teachers have a planning meeting. But she said this isn’t the part of her job that inspires her — or the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t be able to do any book clubs, I wouldn’t be able to do any special projects. I’ll have no opportunities for collaboration with teachers, to make connections between what I’m doing in library class and what the kids are doing in classrooms,” she continued. “It’s just going to be very basic, and it kind of feels like I’m more of like a substitute than a librarian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028309 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-12-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the school budgets sent to schools last week, Sanchez is budgeted to have a librarian three days a week, according to Ramos. If she takes that role, she would work at another school the other two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under that schedule, Ramos said she probably wouldn’t work with the second and third-grade classes like she has this year — taking them on curriculum-relevant field trips like Mondays to the African American Art and Culture Complex in the Fillmore during second grade’s history of San Francisco unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also wouldn’t host book clubs, which have helped coax some of her more hesitant readers into becoming bookworms but require individualized attention as she gets to know what excites students about reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008731\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and parents protest San Francisco Unified School District for closures in San Francisco on Sept. 24, 2024. Educators claim that the California Department of Education is blocking SFUSD from hiring critical staff such as counselors, nurses, social workers and psychologists. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assistant principals, who focus on issues like chronic absenteeism and managing individualized education programs for students with disabilities, are also not included in the district’s preliminary staffing model. Earlier this month, the school board approved 149 administrator layoffs — all positions considered supplemental by the state and that SFUSD can’t afford to pay for with general funds under its bare-bones staffing plan, according to Su.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fund — which comes from local property taxes and the state — would guarantee the staffing of classroom teachers, a principal, a clerk and janitorial staff at each school site, which are the requirements for “keeping the lights on.”[aside postID=news_12027158 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Other roles would be filled only if the district can find restricted money to allocate to them. Ramos’ position will likely be covered by the Public Education Enrichment Fund, which comes from the city and a portion of which must be used for sports, libraries, arts and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents, teachers and board members have repeatedly implored district staff to cut contracts and positions in the central office first so that SFUSD doesn’t have to issue and later rescind as many layoff notices — which hurts morale and is likely to lead educators to look for jobs elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Receiving a pink slip — and not knowing whether it will be rescinded — “often causes a lot of anxiety and, of course, a real reaction of folks to seek employment elsewhere,” said teachers union president Cassondra Curiel before the vote. “For these layoffs to be coming in at almost 400 when we know that annually in a regular school year, 400 of our educators churn out of education in San Francisco Unified … we really find this to be an unnecessarily high number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said her team would turn to reductions in the central office next but had to look at teacher staffing first because the state requires districts to send out preliminary notices for those positions by March 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total number of educators that will be cut — and how many will be through layoffs — won’t be clear until May, when Gov. Gavin Newsom releases his state budget revision and the district has a better understanding of its attrition and retirement rates. A final vote on layoff notices has to happen before May 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to see the central office reductions. We need to see the contract reductions,” board member Matt Alexander told Su and the budget team, adding that he felt uncomfortable supporting the layoffs while these cuts remained up in the air. “If we get to May 15, I’m not going to vote for this same number of layoffs unless the data shows that that’s what needs to happen — but there needs to be a lot more evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 27: This story was updated to clarify that school librarian cuts were not included in the layoff notices approved Tuesday night. Instead, campuses could have reduced and redistributed librarian roles under the district’s overall staffing model for next year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Other roles would be filled only if the district can find restricted money to allocate to them. Ramos’ position will likely be covered by the Public Education Enrichment Fund, which comes from the city and a portion of which must be used for sports, libraries, arts and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents, teachers and board members have repeatedly implored district staff to cut contracts and positions in the central office first so that SFUSD doesn’t have to issue and later rescind as many layoff notices — which hurts morale and is likely to lead educators to look for jobs elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Receiving a pink slip — and not knowing whether it will be rescinded — “often causes a lot of anxiety and, of course, a real reaction of folks to seek employment elsewhere,” said teachers union president Cassondra Curiel before the vote. “For these layoffs to be coming in at almost 400 when we know that annually in a regular school year, 400 of our educators churn out of education in San Francisco Unified … we really find this to be an unnecessarily high number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said her team would turn to reductions in the central office next but had to look at teacher staffing first because the state requires districts to send out preliminary notices for those positions by March 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total number of educators that will be cut — and how many will be through layoffs — won’t be clear until May, when Gov. Gavin Newsom releases his state budget revision and the district has a better understanding of its attrition and retirement rates. A final vote on layoff notices has to happen before May 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to see the central office reductions. We need to see the contract reductions,” board member Matt Alexander told Su and the budget team, adding that he felt uncomfortable supporting the layoffs while these cuts remained up in the air. “If we get to May 15, I’m not going to vote for this same number of layoffs unless the data shows that that’s what needs to happen — but there needs to be a lot more evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 27: This story was updated to clarify that school librarian cuts were not included in the layoff notices approved Tuesday night. Instead, campuses could have reduced and redistributed librarian roles under the district’s overall staffing model for next year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She appreciated that the school gave generous financial aid to ensure cultural and socioeconomic diversity among its nearly 90 preschool to fifth-grade students while also offering a low ratio of students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you walk into the school, you see all kinds of beautiful ways that they represent the embracing of many different cultures,” Roundfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is on the campus of Mills College at Northeastern University, which gives the children access to the college’s lawns, trails and facilities, and allows them to participate in research projects led by professors and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s a really wonderful thing to be able to bring your child to a setting that’s that stunning and, you know, just open their mind about what’s possible as a kid growing up in East Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lately, Roundfield and several other parents tell KQED they’re concerned about the school’s future after the school canceled tours in the middle of admissions season and stopped enrolling new students for the 2025–26 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parents worry these two things — on top of observations that enrollment hardly grew this year — signal the potential dismantling of a beloved institution. 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Students at Mills College Children’s School get access to campus lawns, trails and facilities. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, Dean Beth Kochly told them by email that the college had no plans for closure in 2025 and would provide “a definitive plan” in the next few weeks after completing an analysis of the Children School’s current operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kochly and a spokeswoman for Boston-based Northeastern University, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888178/mills-college-to-merge-with-northeastern-university-after-months-long-court-battle\">which merged with Mills College in 2022\u003c/a>, would not answer questions about what prompted the review. Debra Brown, the longtime head of the Children’s School, turned down a request for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Schaeffer, a teacher and one of the leaders of the campus staff union, said the administration’s lack of transparency had left her with an unsettling impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in a lot of meetings like bargaining for the contract, so a lot of information that does come out I’m pretty aware of,” she said. “And there’s just been nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said during a recent open house, she met multiple parents searching for a new school because a nearby charter school called Urban Montessori, which enrolls 300 students,\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/01/16/these-five-oakland-charter-schools-may-close-this-year/\"> is closing at the end of this year\u003c/a>. The closure presented an opportunity to grow enrollment at the Children’s School, Schaeffer said, which is why she was perplexed to learn the school stopped enrolling new students for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']Schaeffer has a lot at stake: she earned her teaching credential and master’s degrees from Mills. After a stint teaching middle school for the Oakland Unified School District, she came back to teach at the Children’s School. This year, her daughter is a student in her combined fourth- and fifth-grade class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she hopes administrators take into consideration the Children’s School’s role as a cutting-edge laboratory where researchers, college students and young kids learn from each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, students in her class participated in a study that found their use of artificial intelligence in a debate project helped build their reasoning skills. The education professor who designed the study \u003ca href=\"https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/12/04/ai-in-education-chatgpt-for-kids/\">told Northeastern’s news site\u003c/a> that he wants to next investigate how working with an AI partner might boost those students’ literacy skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaefer’s students are also experimenting with a video game designed by graduate students in Northeastern’s new game science and design program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the face of the uncertainty and fear that people have, myself included, around education in general right now, the last thing we need to do is close a place where kids can be creative, and adults can be creative, and we can teach to question and challenge things,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: This story has been updated to include the proper spelling of Lindsay Schaeffer’s name. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A conservative parents group is targeting new enrichment programming for Black boys at two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-leandro\">San Leandro\u003c/a> schools, alleging in a civil rights complaint that the initiative discriminates against other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education on Monday, Parents Defending Education said the race-based affinity programs, which it said are only open to Black students and teachers, violate equal rights protections under the Civil Rights Act and 14th Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The programs come from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952712/kingmakers-of-oakland-black-history-month-film-festival-music-videos\">Kingmakers of Oakland\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that contracted with San Leandro’s Halkin Elementary School and John Muir Middle School at the start of this school year to roll out a curriculum taught by Black male teachers to Black boys that includes “Black history, cultural knowledge, positive self-identity, literacy and academic mentoring,” according to CEO Christopher Chatmon’s proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents Defending Education said that the specialized course and additional services, with a combined budget of nearly $75,000, “confer a benefit that is not accessible to the entire student and educator body.” The complaint alleges that the San Leandro Unified School District is violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in programs and activities that receive federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Kingmakers nor the San Leandro school district responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Travis Bristol, a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Education, said the district’s curriculum geared toward Black boys helps equalize the education system, which has historically failed marginalized groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12016443 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ClassroomSanctuarySpace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ClassroomSanctuarySpace.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ClassroomSanctuarySpace-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ClassroomSanctuarySpace-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ClassroomSanctuarySpace-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ClassroomSanctuarySpace-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ClassroomSanctuarySpace-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents Defending Education has filed a civil rights complaint against a San Leandro school program that provides Black boys with cultural education and academic mentoring, arguing it discriminates against other students. \u003ccite>(Daisy Nguyen/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What these programs do is they identify the groups that have been the most marginalized based on how they perform in school, based on their experiences outside of school,” Bristol told KQED. “And they say, ‘How do we identify the groups who are at the margins? And how do we help school districts include them to bring them to the center so that they can pursue happiness?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curriculum — and Kingmakers organization — grew from the Oakland Unified School District’s first-of-its-kind African American Male Achievement Program, which started in 2010. The program led to a significant reduction in the number of Black students who dropped out of high schools in Oakland, especially in ninth grade, according to \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/10/access-program-black-male-students-lowered-high-school-dropout-rates\">research by Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis\u003c/a>. The graduation rate among Black boys in OUSD increased from 46% in 2010 to 69% in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Leandro, the contract with Kingmakers gives Halkin Elementary and John Muir Middle access to the classroom curriculum and funds a facilitator position to work with both schools, as well as some annual campus events and training for school staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the curriculum improved outcomes for Black boys, why wouldn’t you want Black boys to do better in school?” Bristol asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028309 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-12-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its complaint, Parents Defending Education calls itself “an interested third-party organization with members who are parents of school children throughout the country.” It is not clear whether any in the group have children in San Leandro schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group cited a 2015 decision by the Department of Education finding that a Black Lives Matter assembly hosted “for African American students only” in the suburbs of Chicago violated Title VI and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights decided in that case that the district did not assess whether there were “race-neutral alternatives” to the event, and the district agreed to host programming open to all students regardless of race in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bristol said that there probably are some components of the Kingmakers’ curriculum in San Leandro that should be taught to all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that we owe it to white children to understand and not have a fairytale rendering of U.S. history that centers only white people and the accomplishments of white people,” he told KQED. “Such a fairytale rendering of history for white children does not set them up for success when they go to college, when they sit in my classroom at UC Berkeley, because such a rendering of history is inaccurate. And then when they [do] have to engage with an accurate telling of history, there becomes a great deal of cognitive dissonance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we see some of that playing out on the national stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint comes as the Trump administration’s Department of Education has called on school districts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027218/how-trumps-drastic-k-12-plans-will-and-wont-change-california-schools\">eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs\u003c/a> across the country. The department said it would begin assessing districts’ compliance with the demand on Feb. 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig Trainor, the department’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said that DEI programs have discriminated against white and Asian students and “indoctrinated students” with a “false premise” of structural racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education has already dissolved two DEI-related councils, canceled trainings, placed employees in DEI roles on paid administrative leave and withdrawn an equity action plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolling back these programs — at both the school district and federal levels — makes schools more, not less, unequal, according to Bristol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole purpose of a democracy is to ensure that everyone is included, that we have diverse perspectives, that everyone feels like they have an equitable and equal opportunity to participate and that they are included,” Bristol said. “That’s what diversity, equity, and inclusion is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools are broken, and they haven’t served the unique needs of Black boys, and in order to fix it, we have to spend special attention and target it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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In an announcement on Friday, SFUSD said that about 80% of its budget goes toward staffing, so cuts across school sites and the district’s central office will be necessary to close its funding gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has been warning of the budget crisis’ effects on school staffing since it launched its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">now-shelved school closure plan\u003c/a> last March. Still, for many, Tuesday’s decision will be a reality check of what campuses could look like next fall when the district starts operating on a staffing plan focused on “keeping the lights on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hear that it is a really tough place to be in right now where we have to make these tough decisions, and these tough decisions are going to, as I shared in our last meeting, impact people that we know and impact our students and impact our schools,” Superintendent Maria Su said at a board meeting earlier this month. “However, we are, at this moment in time, facing a very large deficit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s proposal is part of a worst-case scenario that would see the district issue as many as 837 preliminary layoff notices. If approved, it would give the district permission to send pink slips to 559 student-facing employees such as teachers, counselors and teachers aides. Earlier this month, the board approved a plan to send notices to 149 administrators and release temporary staffers. 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But because it is required by state law to issue preliminary pink slips by March 15 — before it has a complete picture of its budget for the next fiscal year based on resignations, an early retirement buyout plan, and final state and federal funding allocations — it wants to ensure “flexibility” to lay off the necessary number of employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really find this to be an unnecessarily high number, even if they were in good faith doing due diligence in order to make sure their budget matches their staffing,” said Cassondra Curiel, the president of San Francisco’s teachers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have so many families and students without a [permanent] educator in their classroom right now, so the concept of a layoff yet again of educators that are already employed seems counterproductive to ensuring that every student has a qualified credentialed educator in their classroom for next year,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027158 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, students in dozens of classrooms \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">didn’t have a permanent teacher\u003c/a>. There’s also been an uptick in the number of combination classes that schools have to teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, some schools, like Sheridan Elementary School, might have to introduce a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands\">kindergarten-first grade combined class\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not one person who I know has a child in this district sends their child to school to be the teacher. They send their child to school to learn from teachers and educators,” Curiel said. “The district’s cuts [are] ultimately harming what students have to look forward to for the next year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents are also worried that important school-site positions like assistant principal roles won’t be funded. 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The baseline model, which district staff said includes the positions required to keep schools functional, is trim — it includes classroom teachers, a principal, a clerk, janitorial staff and a few other roles. It doesn’t cover wages for many of the social workers or counselors the district employs, though Su said that doesn’t mean they will all be laid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Half of our SFUSD students live in poverty, we have other kids with disabilities. This is just a real kick in the stomach,” parent Brandee Marckmann said of cuts to student support positions. “It’s not fair to basically balance the budget on the backs of our kids when it’s the SFUSD management that has made so many mistakes.”[aside postID=news_12026600 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-Dream-Keeper-Returns-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The board’s decision on Tuesday night won’t include a list of specific employees who’ll get pink slips next month, — only the numbers that will go out. 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"content": "\u003cp>A book chronicling the lives of seniors in the Tenderloin. Job training in the cannabis industry with a focus on social equity. Backpacks for kids. Down payment assistance for families on the brink of being pushed out of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were success stories of the Dream Keeper Initiative, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\">a commitment made by San Francisco officials in 2021\u003c/a> to invest $120 million into the city’s Black community. But this dream was soon deferred — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004947/sf-mayor-breed-pushes-back-against-corruption-criticism-from-opponents\">overshadowed by allegations of corruption\u003c/a> and millions of misspent dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months after former Mayor London Breed froze the program’s funding amid that upheaval, incumbent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> announced last week at the city’s Black History Month celebration that the program would resume under a different name and with vastly more oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Investing in the Black community is a critical component of my administration,” Lurie \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908873/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-takes-your-questions\">told KQED \u003cem>Forum’s\u003c/em> Alexis Madrigal\u003c/a> on Wednesday, adding that this work would continue with “accountability at its core.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to look at every group that has been part of the former Dream Keeper Initiative,” Lurie said. “And if there was malfeasance, they will not be getting funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027266\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coordinator Tina Sataraka-Faitala (left) speaks with program coordinator Jessica Ponce in the All My Usos offices in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, the agency that manages the Dream Keeper Initiative — the city’s Human Rights Commission — took its first steps toward restoring some of those funds for former recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that many organizations and community members have been negatively affected by the pause of contracts, and I want to say again that it is the mayor’s office who determines the release of funds and how those funds are spent,” acting executive director Mawuli Tugbenyoh said during the community meeting at City Hall. “We’ve been and continue to advocate for funding to be released.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials and many prominent voices in San Francisco’s Black community have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009818/sf-dream-keeper-scandal-supervisors-urgency-releasing-funds\">expressed widespread support for the program\u003c/a> and applauded the mayor’s decision to resume funding for nonprofits. Fred Blackwell, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation, a philanthropy that serves the Bay Area, noted the timing of the mayor’s decision amidst an ongoing backlash against DEI and affirmative action policies nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Contrary to the narrative that is being put out right now, one community’s gain does not mean another community’s setback,” Blackwell said. “The way that we get to the kind of society and community that I think we aspire to sometimes means that we have to invest in the communities that have been left behind — and then sometimes kept behind — because we don’t win until we all win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027267\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of community events hang in the offices of the organization All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But with more than a month before the city reopens requests for proposals, Dream Keeper’s former beneficiaries are tired of waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is our money?” asked Jessica Ponce, a program coordinator of All My Usos, an organization that serves Pacific Islanders across the city. At Thursday’s community meeting, Ponce described an annual event at Gilman Park that served more than 1,600 meals and provided access to critical resources last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of our work is at risk because of the lack of receiving our promised funds,” Ponce told the Human Rights Commission. “Our organization has not seen reimbursements for the last seven months. How do you expect us to continue providing care and support to our community when you limit our ability to help?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027158 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, especially those who were involved with the early community conversations with Breed around the program, were frustrated to learn about Lurie’s plans to “rebrand” the program without grassroots input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does rebranding look like? It was a community-led process from the gates,” Diane Gray of Youth Community Developers, whose 100% College Prep program received funding from Dream Keeper, told KQED. “We just want to make sure that that continues and that happens and that we have a voice in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\">introduced the initiative in 2021\u003c/a>. Guided by public surveys and conversations with Black residents, Dream Keeper aimed to direct funding away from law enforcement and toward investment in the Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-plans-to-redirect-120-million-from-15447811.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco\u003c/em> \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that the reallocation of funds was intended to be “a gesture of reparations for decades of city policymaking that have created or exacerbated deep inequities for San Francisco’s African American residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black San Franciscans, who now make up just 3% of the city’s population, continue to face disproportionate challenges, including having the lowest household income and lowest rate of homeownership among all racial groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program coordinator Jessica Ponce sits in the office of All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. Ponce keeps stuffed animals in her office to help create a welcoming space, especially for the children in the community. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are in a state of emergency for the Black community in San Francisco,” said Dr. Jonathan Butler, president of San Francisco’s NAACP chapter, citing negative health outcomes for the Black residents and outmigration due to the city’s limited housing supply as primary reasons why programs such as Dream Keeper are necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between fiscal years 2022–25, the program disbursed $124 million, according to data provided by the HRC. Housing was a critical component of the Dream Keeper’s vision, including \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60de9be61948f62b49a57ef5/t/6501fa3700873e1b5fd6daed/1694628408891/DKI+Progress+and+Impact+in+the+First+Two+Years+2023+%282%29.pdf\">down payment assistance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program suffered a series of setbacks after problematic spending by the Human Rights Commission’s head, Sheryl Davis and several grant recipients were exposed in a series of investigations last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004687/mayor-breed-taps-new-sf-human-rights-director-as-misspending-scrutiny-intensifies\">resigned\u003c/a> amid reports that she misspent Dream Keeper funds, including up to $1.5 million in contracts for Collective Impact, a local nonprofit she ran until 2016, which is currently run by a man with whom she has a close relationship. Davis and James Spingola acknowledged their relationship to the \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/12/san-francisco-dream-keeper-initiative-sheryl-davis-james-spingola-nonprofit/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, but she did not formally disclose it to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026935\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12026935\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-DREAM-KEEPER-08-KQED-1-800x1066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-DREAM-KEEPER-08-KQED-1-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-DREAM-KEEPER-08-KQED-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-DREAM-KEEPER-08-KQED-1.jpg 869w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of Robert, a resident of the Curry Senior Center. The resident’s story appears in the book “My Life, My Stories: The Life Stories of Curry Senior Center Clients,” produced with Dream Keeper Initiative funding. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Curry Senior Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spingola appeared at the Thursday meeting to criticize the city’s decision to cancel various contracts with Collective Impact over what HRC officials described as “significant conflicts of interest” in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They found me guilty — judge, jury and executioner — before they even had a conversation with me,” Spingola told KQED, adding that his organization is committed to its mission of serving hundreds of low-income and at-risk youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the nature of his relationship with Davis and whether it posed a conflict of interest, Spingola said, “At the end of the day, every contract we had went through the city attorney and the controller’s office. Sheryl Davis came from Collective Impact. Why didn’t the city attorney flag it then?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question remains about how Lurie’s iteration of Dream Keeper will look — and how the equity initiatives can avoid those same pitfalls. In an email, Tugbenyoh said the HRC will use a new procurement process, including a new scoring system for applicant organizations, and reorganize its departments to create more separation and compliance in finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are implementing stronger oversight measures to ensure funding reaches the communities it was intended to serve — especially those that have historically been kept out of access to critical resources,” he wrote. “This includes a sharper focus on funding impact and addressing gaps in services to ensure our investments create meaningful, lasting change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Jackson-Simpson, the CEO of Success Centers, said that while cash flow and resources for the city’s legacy organizations are desperately needed, the city needs to take a closer look at how it builds out public-private partnerships.[aside postID=news_12026575 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I truly believe in the ideals of the initiative, but there was very little investment in building out the infrastructure both internally (City) or externally (Organizations) to ensure the foundation was stable,” Jackson-Simpson said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the $1.7 million Success Centers received, Jackson-Simpson said, was funneled to emerging organizations. The problem was that new organizations and their leaders lacked the knowledge required to comply with complex nonprofit regulations, Jackson-Simpson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We anticipated that compliance would be a major challenge,” she said. “It was astonishing that the city did not recognize this need and ensure that these capacities were in place both internally and externally before launching this initiative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One challenge was that Dream Keeper funding was scattered across various city agencies, including the Department of Public Health, the Arts Commission and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, among others. The HRC itself does not have the mechanism to manage procurement, contracts and negotiations, despite Breed consolidating much of the initiative’s funding under the department during her last budget cycle in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some agencies routinely failed to pay the full costs of contracted services on time and did not honor their legal obligations of the contracts they signed, Jackson-Simpson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Minimally, in any given year, [community-based organizations] are expected to float the city for three or four months before invoices are paid,” Jackson-Simpson said. “We don’t get reimbursed for bank fees if we are forced to take out loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Investing in the Black community is a critical component of my administration,” Lurie \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908873/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-takes-your-questions\">told KQED \u003cem>Forum’s\u003c/em> Alexis Madrigal\u003c/a> on Wednesday, adding that this work would continue with “accountability at its core.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to look at every group that has been part of the former Dream Keeper Initiative,” Lurie said. “And if there was malfeasance, they will not be getting funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027266\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coordinator Tina Sataraka-Faitala (left) speaks with program coordinator Jessica Ponce in the All My Usos offices in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, the agency that manages the Dream Keeper Initiative — the city’s Human Rights Commission — took its first steps toward restoring some of those funds for former recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that many organizations and community members have been negatively affected by the pause of contracts, and I want to say again that it is the mayor’s office who determines the release of funds and how those funds are spent,” acting executive director Mawuli Tugbenyoh said during the community meeting at City Hall. “We’ve been and continue to advocate for funding to be released.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials and many prominent voices in San Francisco’s Black community have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009818/sf-dream-keeper-scandal-supervisors-urgency-releasing-funds\">expressed widespread support for the program\u003c/a> and applauded the mayor’s decision to resume funding for nonprofits. Fred Blackwell, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation, a philanthropy that serves the Bay Area, noted the timing of the mayor’s decision amidst an ongoing backlash against DEI and affirmative action policies nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Contrary to the narrative that is being put out right now, one community’s gain does not mean another community’s setback,” Blackwell said. “The way that we get to the kind of society and community that I think we aspire to sometimes means that we have to invest in the communities that have been left behind — and then sometimes kept behind — because we don’t win until we all win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027267\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of community events hang in the offices of the organization All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But with more than a month before the city reopens requests for proposals, Dream Keeper’s former beneficiaries are tired of waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is our money?” asked Jessica Ponce, a program coordinator of All My Usos, an organization that serves Pacific Islanders across the city. At Thursday’s community meeting, Ponce described an annual event at Gilman Park that served more than 1,600 meals and provided access to critical resources last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of our work is at risk because of the lack of receiving our promised funds,” Ponce told the Human Rights Commission. “Our organization has not seen reimbursements for the last seven months. How do you expect us to continue providing care and support to our community when you limit our ability to help?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, especially those who were involved with the early community conversations with Breed around the program, were frustrated to learn about Lurie’s plans to “rebrand” the program without grassroots input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does rebranding look like? It was a community-led process from the gates,” Diane Gray of Youth Community Developers, whose 100% College Prep program received funding from Dream Keeper, told KQED. “We just want to make sure that that continues and that happens and that we have a voice in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\">introduced the initiative in 2021\u003c/a>. Guided by public surveys and conversations with Black residents, Dream Keeper aimed to direct funding away from law enforcement and toward investment in the Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-plans-to-redirect-120-million-from-15447811.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco\u003c/em> \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that the reallocation of funds was intended to be “a gesture of reparations for decades of city policymaking that have created or exacerbated deep inequities for San Francisco’s African American residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black San Franciscans, who now make up just 3% of the city’s population, continue to face disproportionate challenges, including having the lowest household income and lowest rate of homeownership among all racial groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program coordinator Jessica Ponce sits in the office of All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. Ponce keeps stuffed animals in her office to help create a welcoming space, especially for the children in the community. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are in a state of emergency for the Black community in San Francisco,” said Dr. Jonathan Butler, president of San Francisco’s NAACP chapter, citing negative health outcomes for the Black residents and outmigration due to the city’s limited housing supply as primary reasons why programs such as Dream Keeper are necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between fiscal years 2022–25, the program disbursed $124 million, according to data provided by the HRC. Housing was a critical component of the Dream Keeper’s vision, including \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60de9be61948f62b49a57ef5/t/6501fa3700873e1b5fd6daed/1694628408891/DKI+Progress+and+Impact+in+the+First+Two+Years+2023+%282%29.pdf\">down payment assistance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program suffered a series of setbacks after problematic spending by the Human Rights Commission’s head, Sheryl Davis and several grant recipients were exposed in a series of investigations last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004687/mayor-breed-taps-new-sf-human-rights-director-as-misspending-scrutiny-intensifies\">resigned\u003c/a> amid reports that she misspent Dream Keeper funds, including up to $1.5 million in contracts for Collective Impact, a local nonprofit she ran until 2016, which is currently run by a man with whom she has a close relationship. Davis and James Spingola acknowledged their relationship to the \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/12/san-francisco-dream-keeper-initiative-sheryl-davis-james-spingola-nonprofit/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, but she did not formally disclose it to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026935\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12026935\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-DREAM-KEEPER-08-KQED-1-800x1066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-DREAM-KEEPER-08-KQED-1-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-DREAM-KEEPER-08-KQED-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-DREAM-KEEPER-08-KQED-1.jpg 869w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of Robert, a resident of the Curry Senior Center. The resident’s story appears in the book “My Life, My Stories: The Life Stories of Curry Senior Center Clients,” produced with Dream Keeper Initiative funding. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Curry Senior Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spingola appeared at the Thursday meeting to criticize the city’s decision to cancel various contracts with Collective Impact over what HRC officials described as “significant conflicts of interest” in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They found me guilty — judge, jury and executioner — before they even had a conversation with me,” Spingola told KQED, adding that his organization is committed to its mission of serving hundreds of low-income and at-risk youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the nature of his relationship with Davis and whether it posed a conflict of interest, Spingola said, “At the end of the day, every contract we had went through the city attorney and the controller’s office. Sheryl Davis came from Collective Impact. Why didn’t the city attorney flag it then?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question remains about how Lurie’s iteration of Dream Keeper will look — and how the equity initiatives can avoid those same pitfalls. In an email, Tugbenyoh said the HRC will use a new procurement process, including a new scoring system for applicant organizations, and reorganize its departments to create more separation and compliance in finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are implementing stronger oversight measures to ensure funding reaches the communities it was intended to serve — especially those that have historically been kept out of access to critical resources,” he wrote. “This includes a sharper focus on funding impact and addressing gaps in services to ensure our investments create meaningful, lasting change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Jackson-Simpson, the CEO of Success Centers, said that while cash flow and resources for the city’s legacy organizations are desperately needed, the city needs to take a closer look at how it builds out public-private partnerships.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I truly believe in the ideals of the initiative, but there was very little investment in building out the infrastructure both internally (City) or externally (Organizations) to ensure the foundation was stable,” Jackson-Simpson said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the $1.7 million Success Centers received, Jackson-Simpson said, was funneled to emerging organizations. The problem was that new organizations and their leaders lacked the knowledge required to comply with complex nonprofit regulations, Jackson-Simpson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We anticipated that compliance would be a major challenge,” she said. “It was astonishing that the city did not recognize this need and ensure that these capacities were in place both internally and externally before launching this initiative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One challenge was that Dream Keeper funding was scattered across various city agencies, including the Department of Public Health, the Arts Commission and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, among others. The HRC itself does not have the mechanism to manage procurement, contracts and negotiations, despite Breed consolidating much of the initiative’s funding under the department during her last budget cycle in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some agencies routinely failed to pay the full costs of contracted services on time and did not honor their legal obligations of the contracts they signed, Jackson-Simpson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Minimally, in any given year, [community-based organizations] are expected to float the city for three or four months before invoices are paid,” Jackson-Simpson said. “We don’t get reimbursed for bank fees if we are forced to take out loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From private school vouchers to threats over “woke” curriculum, the Trump administration has launched a slew of reforms intended to reshape K–12 schools. But it’s still too soon to determine how — or if — those efforts will play out in California, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a strategy of rapid-fire change, and Trump is very publicly testing his authority,” said Julie Marsh, executive faculty director at Policy Analysis for California Education. “That’s led to a lot of anxiety and uncertainty. But the state still makes most decisions about what happens in schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a barrage of executive orders and promises since he was inaugurated, President Donald Trump has said he wants to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, transferring its duties to other departments;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Legalize school vouchers for parents to send their children to private and religious schools;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Withhold funding from schools that use curriculum focused on race or ethnicity, or offer protections for transgender students;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Overhaul Title IX, which prohibits against discrimination based on gender.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Conservatives are celebrating Trump’s efforts to reshape education. Joseph Komrosky, a member of the Temecula Valley Unified school board who was recalled in June and re-elected in November, said Trump’s orders, particularly those related to “woke” curriculum, will “protect innocent students and empower parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hyper-sensitivity to LGBT issues, race, social justice — those days are over,” Komrosky said. “We need a return to common sense and a focus on the basics of reading, writing and math.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Temecula’s school board was among a handful statewide to adopt a policy requiring school staff to notify parents if a student identifies as transgender. The policy was later \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/12/california-forced-outing-lgbtq-new-laws-2025/\">struck down by the courts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This feels like vindication from the top down,” Komrosky said. “I don’t know how it’s going to play out in California, but I’m optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Trump’s plans have already come to pass, such as eliminating a ban on\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2025/02/trump-executive-orders-immigration/\"> immigration raids at so-called sensitive locations\u003c/a>, including schools. Although there have been few reports of federal agents entering schools, the possibility has led to panic in many parts of California, with parents keeping their children home from school for fear of getting deported. In some areas, superintendents say attendance has declined significantly, a blow to school funding and student learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration and symbolism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Ventura County, the threat of deportation has been a top concern about the Trump presidency, said County Superintendent Cesar Morales. Schools throughout the county have seen drops in attendance over the past few weeks, and school districts are taking steps to reassure families. They’ve held community meetings and set up resource websites, and Morales has done interviews in Spanish on local radio stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the other threats may also have equally serious consequences, particularly for the most vulnerable students, Morales said. With the proposed elimination of the Department of Education, Morales worries about disruptions to special education and Title I funding for students with low income. Special education would likely move to another federal agency, but Project 2025, the conservative policy roadmap, calls for \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-11.pdf\">phasing out Title I (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, districts use their Title I money to hire tutors, classroom aides and counselors; train teachers; and provide other services to students who need extra help. Morales fears that Title I cuts will lead to layoffs, at a time when schools are already grappling with budget uncertainty due to the end of COVID-19 relief grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps the biggest impact of Trump’s actions is symbolic, Morales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have the most powerful country in the world dismantling its Department of Education, it means the interest is not there,” he said. “At a time when we need a renaissance in public education to meet the rapidly changing needs of society, we need to fortify public education, not tear it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Budget may be a bigger concern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Andy Rotherham, a senior partner at Bellwether, an educational consulting organization, noted that most of Trump’s proposals have not happened, and may never happen. States make most decisions about schools, and receive relatively little federal funding — about 8% of their overall education budgets, even though much of that money goes to districts with high poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more urgent concern, he said, is whether — and how — the Republican-controlled Congress will reach a budget agreement before the mid-March deadline. A budget deal could include cuts to education, reflecting Trump’s desire to slash federal spending. That could affect everything from student loans to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/01/rural-schools-2/\">funding for rural schools\u003c/a>. This week, Trump cut nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/11/elon-musk-and-doge-cancel-education-department-research-contracts/\">$900 million\u003c/a> in contracts at the U.S. Department of Education, affecting research and program evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curriculum changes are a little more nuanced, Rotherham said. Activists from both sides have long lobbied for curriculum changes, especially in history and social studies. In California’s ethnic studies curriculum, for example, some want lessons that include the plight of Palestinians, while others want that topic excluded because they say it could be construed as antisemitic. Other fights center on how teachers cover subjects like colonialism, segregation, slavery and capitalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rotherham suspects those fights will continue in California and elsewhere. Also, he said, how much those arguments affect what happens in classrooms varies, because teachers have a lot of leeway in what they teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, it’s too early to predict the impacts from Trump’s proposals, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although there’s a lot of chaos, many of the big-picture ideas are still outstanding,” Rotherham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hatred feels normalized’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s not much comfort for students. Some said they’re already experiencing the aftershocks of Trump’s attacks on immigrants and transgender youth, even if the policies haven’t taken effect yet. They also worry about their futures, especially in light of Trump’s pushback against environmental policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kayla Houston, a senior at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, said that since Trump was elected in November, she’s seen an uptick in racist and homophobic bullying at her school. She’s even seen swastika graffiti on the walls, she said.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021521,news_12020519,news_12013686\"]“It affects how people feel at school,” she said. “Students need to feel safe. … Now hatred feels normalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damian Martinez, a sophomore at Fowler High School in Fowler, south of Fresno, said he has friends who are afraid to leave their homes, even to go to the store, for fear of being deported. The threat of immigration raids has overwhelmed the entire community, a quiet farming town known for its grapes and citrus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond deportations, Martinez worries about the local economy. He wonders who will pick the crops if immigrants are afraid to show up for work, and whether the upheaval in the agricultural industry will drag down the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t just stuff on the news. It’s affecting the people around me,” Martinez said. “It makes me sad because it feels like we’re going in the wrong direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Trump proposal is expanding school vouchers and school choice. School vouchers, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/which-states-have-private-school-choice/2024/01\">already exist in 28 states\u003c/a>, provide tax credits or other incentives for parents to send their children to private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vouchers, which teachers unions strongly oppose, have never been popular in California. In 2000, a ballot initiative that would have legalized vouchers \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_38,_School_Vouchers_Initiative_(2000)\">lost by 70%\u003c/a>. But school choice — families’ right to send children to schools other than their locally assigned school, including charter or magnet schools — has been legal for decades. 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Although there have been few reports of federal agents entering schools, the possibility has led to panic in many parts of California, with parents keeping their children home from school for fear of getting deported. In some areas, superintendents say attendance has declined significantly, a blow to school funding and student learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration and symbolism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Ventura County, the threat of deportation has been a top concern about the Trump presidency, said County Superintendent Cesar Morales. Schools throughout the county have seen drops in attendance over the past few weeks, and school districts are taking steps to reassure families. They’ve held community meetings and set up resource websites, and Morales has done interviews in Spanish on local radio stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the other threats may also have equally serious consequences, particularly for the most vulnerable students, Morales said. With the proposed elimination of the Department of Education, Morales worries about disruptions to special education and Title I funding for students with low income. Special education would likely move to another federal agency, but Project 2025, the conservative policy roadmap, calls for \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-11.pdf\">phasing out Title I (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, districts use their Title I money to hire tutors, classroom aides and counselors; train teachers; and provide other services to students who need extra help. 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States make most decisions about schools, and receive relatively little federal funding — about 8% of their overall education budgets, even though much of that money goes to districts with high poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more urgent concern, he said, is whether — and how — the Republican-controlled Congress will reach a budget agreement before the mid-March deadline. A budget deal could include cuts to education, reflecting Trump’s desire to slash federal spending. That could affect everything from student loans to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/01/rural-schools-2/\">funding for rural schools\u003c/a>. This week, Trump cut nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/11/elon-musk-and-doge-cancel-education-department-research-contracts/\">$900 million\u003c/a> in contracts at the U.S. Department of Education, affecting research and program evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curriculum changes are a little more nuanced, Rotherham said. 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