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"content": "\u003cp>A Bay Area school district has settled \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/aclu-sues-bay-area-school-district-over-separate-unequal-and-illegal-special-education-program/661126\">a lawsuit\u003c/a> claiming that Black students and English learners were denied a proper education and were disproportionately suspended, expelled or funneled into special education classrooms offering poor instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg Unified School District in Contra Costa County reached the settlement on Oct. 23 in a suit filed in 2021 by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the agreement, the district agreed to hire two independent consultants to help address the issues raised in the case — the district’s disciplinary practices, special education placement and literacy education for students with disabilities, especially English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an excellent settlement that is an important step in the right direction for Pittsburg Unified,” said Linnea Nelson, senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. “It seeks to dismantle past practices that have marginalized students, particularly Black students, English learners and disabled students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit claimed that the district illegally denied meaningful instruction to Black students, students with disabilities and English learners; that special education teachers were not trained to teach disabled students grade-level standards, and that general education teachers were not trained to differentiate their instruction for disabled students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, one plaintiff, special education teacher Michell Redfoot, claimed that the district dissuaded teachers from holding special education students to the same standards as general education students. Another plaintiff, Mark S., an English learner with autism, spent his school days doing arts and crafts and watching Disney movies instead of learning to read and write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg Unified meted out discipline, including suspensions and expulsions, to disabled students and Black students at disproportionate rates, the complaint stated. The district had one of the largest disparities between Black and white students in the state for days of instruction missed due to disruption or defiance, according to the suit. It also claimed that Black students were transported to psychiatric wards at three times the rate of other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Black said her daughter, who has since graduated from high school, is still traumatized from an incident when she was in the sixth grade, and the school called police, strapped her to a gurney and transported her to a psychiatric ward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that the state sanctions this level of violence — that we pay for with tax dollars — is egregious,” Black said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the approval of the settlement at a meeting on Oct. 23, Pittsburg Unified board President Heliodoro Moreno read a statement on behalf of the board, stating that district practices affecting Black students, English learners and disabled students were not consistent with a district that views itself as a champion of equity and inclusivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For instance, Black/African American students have and continue to have suspensions at a disproportionate rate than their peers,” according to the statement. “Our system requires consistent courage, honest dialogue, and continuous growth to interrupt practices that lead to disproportionate outcomes for our scholars, especially for some of our African American scholars and scholars receiving special education services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The settlement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Janet Schulze said the district had been working to address issues even before the suit was filed and that the settlement process will ultimately improve the district in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The settlement agreement is focused on areas where we still have work to do, and I see it as a positive outcome of a hard process,” Schulze said in a statement to EdSource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district agreed to hire two independent experts to create a plan to address the issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One expert, Mildred Browne, will address how the district disciplines students and places students into special education, while the other, Linda Cavazos, will address the district’s early literacy program for special education students with an emphasis on English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district had previously been working with Browne and recognized the importance of retaining her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will allow us to continue and deepen the work we have been doing and were already doing when we were served with the lawsuit,” Schulze stated in an email to EdSource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement, working with the district, Browne and Cavazos will create a plan by next May and then, through 2028–29, monitor the district’s progress in implementing their recommendations. They will submit reports twice a year that will be publicly presented to the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district had previously come under scrutiny for its special education practices. The 2021 suit alleges that the district failed to implement \u003ca href=\"https://pittsburgusd.net/documents/Departments/Educational-Services/Special-Education/All-of-Our-Students-Succeeding-Task-Force/Program-Evaluation-2015-Stetson-Review.pdf\">recommendations to improve special education evaluations\u003c/a> made in 2016 by Frances Stetson, another consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Stetson’s report, “the positives to report are few and the concerns are many.” It noted that the district fell below the state requirement that disabled students spend at least 80% of their day in a general education classroom — a concern echoed in the 2021 suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson, the ACLU attorney, is hopeful that the district will address the issues this time because the settlement agreement is legally binding with accountability measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the district has already taken important steps demonstrating good faith, such as eliminating “willful defiance” as a reason for suspension, ahead of a statewide requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg Unified was flagged by the California Department of Education for having significant “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/qa/disproportionality.asp\">disproportionality\u003c/a>,” which happens when students of a certain race or ethnicity in a district are three times more likely to be identified as having a disability, receiving discipline or being placed in special education for three years in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black students at Pittsburg Unified were more likely to be identified as having an emotional disability or other health impairment. But Schulze said the district is no longer flagged for significant disproportionality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='education' label='More Education News.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malhar Shah, an ACLU attorney who previously worked on the case as an attorney for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, said the settlement could create a program that is a model for other districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literacy is a hot-button topic in education right now, but Shah said that literacy instruction in California doesn’t always address the individual needs of a student. For instance, plaintiff Mark S. has unique needs as both an English learner and a student with autism. Teachers in California need training on how to best support all students with evidence-based literacy instruction, Shah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Black, one of the parent plaintiffs in the suit, is not optimistic that the settlement will result in the serious change that students like her daughter would have needed. Her daughter’s time at Pittsburg Unified was marked by fighting to get her daughter the social-emotional support and tutoring she needed, Black said. But even under the threat of litigation, her daughter’s education didn’t improve. She said she lost faith in the district and the state of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Black pulled her daughter out of Pittsburg Unified and sent her to St. Paul, Minnesota, to live with family members. She thrived in the school system there, graduating from high school early. A teacher at Pittsburg Unified told her daughter that welding or manual labor was her only career options. Black is proud that her daughter is currently studying to be a registered nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said educators in Minnesota “stopped, paused and listened” to her daughter and “considered what she needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Pittsburg Unified also named the state of California as a defendant, claiming that, by not intervening, the state failed to protect students’ fundamental right to an education. The state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992394/state-and-aclu-agree-on-more-hands-on-approach-to-tracking-discrimination-in-schools\">settled its part of the case\u003c/a> separately this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said the state previously took a “hands-off approach,” relying on school districts to monitor themselves when data showed that school practices disproportionately harmed certain racial or ethnic groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agreed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Mark%20S%20Settlement%20Agreement%20with%20CDE_0.pdf\">in a settlement\u003c/a> to monitor districts much more closely by reviewing individual student files, observing classrooms and conducting interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malhar said this is important because there are plenty of problems in school districts that don’t “pop up on paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Assignments will not be graded. … However, Stanford’s continued refusal to meet the basic needs of its employees leaves thousands of graduate workers with no choice but to walk off the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to Stanford community members on Monday, Provost Jenny Martinez and Vice Provost for Graduate Education Stacey Bent said, “The university takes seriously our obligation to preserve the continuity of learning and research.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university has worked to listen and engage constructively with the union at the negotiating table and to put forward a competitive contract offer. We continue to seek a timely resolution,” the message continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has been in contract negotiations with the university for a year following its formation in July 2023. SGWU authorized a strike last Wednesday when 94% of members voted against the university’s latest contract offer and 89% agreed to walk off the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bargaining team said last week that it had made progress on securing better benefits, but “Stanford is still refusing to offer a living wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NQ76sax0xEolsR14ujLw3QnjzCCSlaEe/view\">most recent offer\u003c/a> included a minimum salary of $53,908 a year. The union said that’s not enough to cover the cost of living in Santa Clara County, which it estimates to be $68,620 based on an MIT livable wage calculator. 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Now that the former president has been reelected, his second term in office is almost certain to spell trouble for public education, including in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>, home to the largest public school system in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California education officials are already calling on President-elect Trump to protect public school funding but are preparing for the worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond addressed concerns at a press conference on Friday, surrounded by teachers holding “Education is for everyone” and “Protect all students” signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a partisan issue,” he said. “This is an issue of continuing to assure that students have access to the resources that they are entitled to under the law. And we will continue to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump follows through on his vow to abolish the Department of Education, California could face a nearly $8 billion loss in funding for public education. If that happens, Thurmond said he would call on the state Legislature and Gov. 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Then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinded Obama’s Title IX guidance for transgender students, which allowed them to use restrooms and locker rooms that matched their gender identity. Trump’s administration also tossed Obama-era civil rights efforts in schools, including a policy aimed at preventing schools from disproportionately disciplining students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every education-related rollback was successful. For instance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/trump-budget-would-make-massive-cuts-to-ed-dept-but-boost-school-choice/2017/03\">Trump tried to cut funding\u003c/a> to the Department of Education by 13% and eliminate popular programs like after-school programs and teacher training, but a Republican-controlled Congress rejected those efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, California educators are worried about the damage a second Trump presidency could do to their schools and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure we have a safe space for every student, regardless of their immigration status,” said Jeff Freitas, president of the California Federation of Teachers and a high school math teacher. “We want to make sure this is a safe space for every LGBTQ+ student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decrease in funding would be especially troublesome in the Bay Area, where local school districts are already under financial strain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Unified School District is currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006395/sf-school-district-should-focus-on-budget-before-deciding-on-campus-closures-breed-says\">facing a massive budget deficit\u003c/a>, which has forced it to consider closing and merging some schools, causing outcry among parents, teachers and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s school district is also grappling with a big budget deficit of $174 million. 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OUSD is on the brink of regaining total local control after a state takeover in 2003, but fiscal uncertainty threatens to thwart that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools the district plans to merge are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>International Community School and Think College Now Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Manzanita Community School and Manzanita SEED Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>United for Success Academy and Life Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Acorn Woodland Elementary and EnCompass Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy and Esperanza Elementary School\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell said in an email to families that the mergers would create schools that better serve students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These changes will allow us to combine resources and staff to create stronger educational programs where our students are now,” the message reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis, a first-term board member who did not run for reelection, said he’s worried that without more closures now, the district could end up under the control of Alameda County — and those closures could come anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very clear what we need to do to become more sustainable,” he told KQED. “And it’s not clear right now what our board’s plan is to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013790\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/019_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/019_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/019_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/019_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/019_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/019_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/019_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers grow in a garden in the schoolyard at International Community School in Oakland on Oct. 20, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These mergers are part of the district’s fiscal stabilization plan. A list of additional campus consolidations, which didn’t have enough board support in smaller meetings held in recent weeks, was dropped and will not be proposed, Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other aspects include considering centralizing contracts with some service manufacturers, like those that provide copiers, at school sites, which are currently done on a school-by-school basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How individual schools contract with community agencies could also be centralized, which Davis said has received pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the one which is more controversial because don’t you want schools to have autonomy to decide which community agencies to contract with rather than it all be centralized?” Davis said. “But, you know, there’s trade-offs either way, and so I think in terms of efficiency, that’s what this is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013684 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ShengThaoPamelaPrice-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools’ discretionary funding from the district could also be impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What will happen once a new board takes office in January, though, is unknown. In January 2023, then-president Mike Hutchinson, who is still on the board, reversed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937906/oakland-school-board-halts-controversial-closure-plan-sparing-5-elementary-schools\">controversial plan to close 11 schools\u003c/a>. The district ended up only closing two, merging one and eliminating middle-school grades at another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis and Board Director Clifford Thompson were the only members who voted against the reversal. Thompson, who was up for reelection this year, is looking likely to hang on to his seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/school#oakland-school-director-district-7\">in initial ballot returns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three new board members will begin terms in January, though. Davis said he feels confident that the new board members seem invested in the city and district, but he knows that Rachel Latta, who will fill his seat, is skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis worries the plan Johnson-Trammell will propose to the board on Wednesday won’t do enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that in a letter to the board on Thursday, Alameda County Superintendent Alysse Castro warned that while the district’s current budget was approved, the district was headed for a “fiscal cliff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we look forward, it is almost inevitable that the District will face a ‘lack of going concern’ or ‘negative certification’ without major and prompt action,” the letter reads. “These designations would lead to [the Alameda County Office of Education] reluctantly implementing additional fiscal interventions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sara Hossaini contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Alejandra Lopez saw swing states that had gone for Joe Biden in 2020 leaning red for Donald Trump on Tuesday night, it felt like déjà vu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really distraught. Honestly, I really would have never thought I would see him having a second term in office,” said Lopez, who is a second-year political science student at Cal Poly Pomona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lopez, the stakes were personal. Both of her parents are undocumented immigrants from Mexico who have lived in the U.S. for almost 20 years. Trump has pledged to enact mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump won for the first time in 2016, Lopez was 11 years old. She remembers feeling scared that her parents — or even she, a U.S. citizen — would be deported and crying all day in class. Now, she feels more angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m angry that he was elected into office again, that he has promised the same thing again, and that people keep perpetuating it and moving it forward, not recognizing how harmful it can be,” she said. “You look back, and you see that time and time again, he’s just rephrased the same hate that he’s spewed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many California children and their families, including immigrants, transgender students and Black and Latino students, among others, are feeling similar fear and uncertainty, after the election of a candidate who has threatened to deport undocumented immigrants en masse, and to cut school funding to states that protect transgender students and promote diversity, equity and inclusion in their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California education leaders and advocates said the fear is palpable and justifiable, but they also urged TK-12 schools, colleges and universities to make sure students and families know about policies to protect their rights, some of which were enacted during the first Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://childrenspartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ChildIsaChild_Immigrant-2024-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 million\u003c/a> California children — about 1 in 10 — have an undocumented immigrant parent, the state estimates. Many more have undocumented family members. About \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/ml/t3immdemgraphics.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">165,000\u003c/a> California students are recent immigrants themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we thought teaching was hard yesterday, wait for today’s questions like, ‘Is Trump going to send me back to the gangs?’ and ‘Is he going to deport my mother/father/brother/cousin?’” wrote teacher Larry Ferlazzo on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xilonin Cruz-González, deputy director of the advocacy organization Californians Together, said schools must reach out now to immigrant families to ensure they feel welcome and safe in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though it feels scary, especially for immigrant families, because of the rhetoric we’ve heard through the election cycle and we anticipate we will continue to hear, it’s important to remember, especially in California, we have legal protections for immigrant students,” Cruz-González said. “We have federal protections that require us to make sure our schools are safe and welcoming for all students. And we have California laws, especially AB 699, that was passed in 2017, that requires school districts to ensure that our immigrant students are welcomed into our public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court established in 1982, in the case Plyler vs. Doe, that all children have a right to a free public education, regardless of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/ab_699_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 699 (PDF)\u003c/a> was passed in response to the previous Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and the fear it caused among immigrant families in California. The bill instructs schools not to collect information about families’ immigration status unless required by law, and requires schools to pass policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement at public schools, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey Bird was a newcomer teacher, working with recent immigrant students in 2016 when Trump was first elected. She said she had Syrian refugee students in tears that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They felt like their humanity was on the ballot, and they lost,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird now works with Teach Plus California, coaching teachers throughout the state on how best to teach English learners. She said teachers are “heartbroken” for their students after Tuesday’s election and eager to share information with their students about their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One teacher told me, ‘I’ll let myself grieve for the remainder of the week, but then I feel like my mama bear mode has been activated because I feel like I have to protect my students,’” Bird said. “So she was asking, ‘How can I protect them? What are my rights? What are their rights?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Megan Stanton-Trehan, a senior attorney at Disability Rights California who represents students with disabilities, said she saw many students with disabilities and students of color struggle during the last Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really concerned about my clients who have disabilities, who are students of color, who are transgender,” said Stanton-Trehan. “In California, we may have a state that is protecting those students to some degree. We have laws that protect them here that are not dependent upon the way the federal government interprets the law, but that’s a lot of burden to put on the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the lessons of that first term, however, are in the power of people standing up to such policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s definitely more than ever a time to really center those students and their needs and, really, their voices too,” Stanton-Trehan said. “They’re the next generation, and they’re living through this as well. They’re the ones at the forefront. If there’s any silver lining, it’s perhaps how galvanizing this can be for young people to say enough is enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Attorney General Rob Bonta has said that his team is preparing to protect immigrants, transgender students and others, with possible litigation against Trump’s expected policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fortunately, and unfortunately, we have four years of Trump 1.0 under our belts. We know what to expect, and we won’t be caught flat-footed,” said a Bonta spokesperson. “California’s Legislature has enacted strong protections for the rights of all students in California, and the Department of Justice will ensure those protections are enforced across the state. We are paying attention to what Trump and his advisers have said about their plans for a second administration, and we will be prepared to defend California’s values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.C. Berkeley political science professor Dan Schnur said Gov. Gavin Newsom has battled Trump before, but faces a new reality with Harris’ loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom’s challenge is going to be balancing what’s best for him as governor and what’s best for him as a potential presidential candidate,” Schnur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Trump recognizes, Schnur said, “how much he can benefit politically with his base by beating up on California. The question is how he decides how much of that political benefit can be realized by threats and how much can be realized through follow-up on those threats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s campaign promise of shutting down the U.S. Department of Education is an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a move “is a long, long, long shot,” Schnur said “Even if Republicans do win a House majority, he’s going to have a lot of members here who are reluctant to cast that vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump’s railing against transgender people and false claims that children receive gender reassignment surgeries at public schools may keep political traction, Schnur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that debate is much more likely to be central to his agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ youth were a major focus of this election season up and down the ballot, according to Jorge Reyes Salinas, communications director for LGBTQ+ civil rights organization Equality California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump attacked transgender women playing sports and gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Local school board candidates promoted policies that outed transgender students to their parents, in opposition to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-signs-bill-to-end-parental-notification-policies-at-schools-but-opponents-say-its-not-over-yet/715767\">a new state law\u003c/a>. Anti-bullying policies at local school districts that specifically name LGBTQ youth have become a flash point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already has laws on the books that protect these communities, and Salinas noted that voters supported Proposition 3, which enshrines the right to same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think being in California does provide a peace of mind,” Salinas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equality California will be working with other organizations to ensure that there are no gaps in protecting LGBTQ+ youth in California, and that state laws that do support them are implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some school districts, including Los Angeles Unified, sent messages out to parents prior to or during Election Day, highlighting protections for students and offering mental health support for students experiencing anxiety or fear after the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union representing teachers in LAUSD, United Teachers Los Angeles, issued a statement saying that\u003cstrong> “\u003c/strong>Ensuring that students and their families are informed and safe will always be our top priority. 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Hong himself is a DACA recipient. If the program gets terminated, he wouldn’t be able to keep his job and would be at risk of deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong called on UC leaders, including the system’s board of regents, to support immigrant students and staff, both with public statements of support and by advocating for more funding for programs like the Dream Resource Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully they think through what are some creative ways to proactively support immigrant students on and off campus,” Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin R. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump won for the first time in 2016, Lopez was 11 years old. She remembers feeling scared that her parents — or even she, a U.S. citizen — would be deported and crying all day in class. Now, she feels more angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m angry that he was elected into office again, that he has promised the same thing again, and that people keep perpetuating it and moving it forward, not recognizing how harmful it can be,” she said. “You look back, and you see that time and time again, he’s just rephrased the same hate that he’s spewed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many California children and their families, including immigrants, transgender students and Black and Latino students, among others, are feeling similar fear and uncertainty, after the election of a candidate who has threatened to deport undocumented immigrants en masse, and to cut school funding to states that protect transgender students and promote diversity, equity and inclusion in their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California education leaders and advocates said the fear is palpable and justifiable, but they also urged TK-12 schools, colleges and universities to make sure students and families know about policies to protect their rights, some of which were enacted during the first Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://childrenspartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ChildIsaChild_Immigrant-2024-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 million\u003c/a> California children — about 1 in 10 — have an undocumented immigrant parent, the state estimates. Many more have undocumented family members. About \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/ml/t3immdemgraphics.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">165,000\u003c/a> California students are recent immigrants themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we thought teaching was hard yesterday, wait for today’s questions like, ‘Is Trump going to send me back to the gangs?’ and ‘Is he going to deport my mother/father/brother/cousin?’” wrote teacher Larry Ferlazzo on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xilonin Cruz-González, deputy director of the advocacy organization Californians Together, said schools must reach out now to immigrant families to ensure they feel welcome and safe in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though it feels scary, especially for immigrant families, because of the rhetoric we’ve heard through the election cycle and we anticipate we will continue to hear, it’s important to remember, especially in California, we have legal protections for immigrant students,” Cruz-González said. “We have federal protections that require us to make sure our schools are safe and welcoming for all students. And we have California laws, especially AB 699, that was passed in 2017, that requires school districts to ensure that our immigrant students are welcomed into our public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court established in 1982, in the case Plyler vs. Doe, that all children have a right to a free public education, regardless of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/ab_699_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 699 (PDF)\u003c/a> was passed in response to the previous Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and the fear it caused among immigrant families in California. The bill instructs schools not to collect information about families’ immigration status unless required by law, and requires schools to pass policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement at public schools, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey Bird was a newcomer teacher, working with recent immigrant students in 2016 when Trump was first elected. She said she had Syrian refugee students in tears that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They felt like their humanity was on the ballot, and they lost,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird now works with Teach Plus California, coaching teachers throughout the state on how best to teach English learners. She said teachers are “heartbroken” for their students after Tuesday’s election and eager to share information with their students about their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One teacher told me, ‘I’ll let myself grieve for the remainder of the week, but then I feel like my mama bear mode has been activated because I feel like I have to protect my students,’” Bird said. “So she was asking, ‘How can I protect them? What are my rights? What are their rights?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Megan Stanton-Trehan, a senior attorney at Disability Rights California who represents students with disabilities, said she saw many students with disabilities and students of color struggle during the last Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really concerned about my clients who have disabilities, who are students of color, who are transgender,” said Stanton-Trehan. “In California, we may have a state that is protecting those students to some degree. We have laws that protect them here that are not dependent upon the way the federal government interprets the law, but that’s a lot of burden to put on the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the lessons of that first term, however, are in the power of people standing up to such policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s definitely more than ever a time to really center those students and their needs and, really, their voices too,” Stanton-Trehan said. “They’re the next generation, and they’re living through this as well. They’re the ones at the forefront. If there’s any silver lining, it’s perhaps how galvanizing this can be for young people to say enough is enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Attorney General Rob Bonta has said that his team is preparing to protect immigrants, transgender students and others, with possible litigation against Trump’s expected policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fortunately, and unfortunately, we have four years of Trump 1.0 under our belts. We know what to expect, and we won’t be caught flat-footed,” said a Bonta spokesperson. “California’s Legislature has enacted strong protections for the rights of all students in California, and the Department of Justice will ensure those protections are enforced across the state. We are paying attention to what Trump and his advisers have said about their plans for a second administration, and we will be prepared to defend California’s values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.C. Berkeley political science professor Dan Schnur said Gov. Gavin Newsom has battled Trump before, but faces a new reality with Harris’ loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom’s challenge is going to be balancing what’s best for him as governor and what’s best for him as a potential presidential candidate,” Schnur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Trump recognizes, Schnur said, “how much he can benefit politically with his base by beating up on California. The question is how he decides how much of that political benefit can be realized by threats and how much can be realized through follow-up on those threats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s campaign promise of shutting down the U.S. Department of Education is an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a move “is a long, long, long shot,” Schnur said “Even if Republicans do win a House majority, he’s going to have a lot of members here who are reluctant to cast that vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump’s railing against transgender people and false claims that children receive gender reassignment surgeries at public schools may keep political traction, Schnur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that debate is much more likely to be central to his agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ youth were a major focus of this election season up and down the ballot, according to Jorge Reyes Salinas, communications director for LGBTQ+ civil rights organization Equality California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump attacked transgender women playing sports and gender-affirming care for transgender youth. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the months preceding this week’s election, some California history and social studies teachers have proceeded cautiously in covering the presidential campaign, while others have embraced the opportunity confidently and comprehensively. But most included instruction about the presidential election in their courses, according to responses to an EdSource survey of California history and social science teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their responses underscore that most teachers understood the potential pitfalls of teaching politics in polarized times, compounded by a contagion of misinformation on social media. \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/EdSource-Election-Survey-October-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/EdSource-Election-Survey-October-2024.pdf\">(Go here to read the questionnaire.)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of kids are turned off about government and politics. We in the classroom are giving them a sense of access and empowerment,” said Rachel Reinhard, who teaches 12th grade U.S. History and Government at Oakland High School. “We’re showing that elections are ways that individuals can exert power on the system and make sense of an incredibly fast-paced and changing world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet some teachers have struggled to explain how Republican Donald Trump’s rhetoric, threats of retribution, and vows to expel undocumented immigrants have added anxiety to an unprecedentedly tense and divisive election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dilemma for any responsible teacher right now is to explain the stakes while being nonpartisan,” said Mike Fishback, who teaches seventh- and eighth-grade social studies at Almaden Country Day School, a private school in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ccss.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Council for the Social Studies\u003c/a> agreed to send EdSource’s survey to its 2,000-member email list, which includes more than 500 active members, most of them teachers. Of those, 64 teachers — about 1 in 8 member teachers — returned the survey by the Oct. 16 deadline. EdSource did not require teachers to submit their names or their schools, although 16 teachers did identify themselves, and many said they were willing to be contacted for an EdSource article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the top-line results of the survey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>More than three-quarters of teachers who answered the survey said they are teaching about the election and the presidential campaign, and most of those who aren’t said it was their choice, not a district mandate.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked if they planned to discuss the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, 37% said no, 29% said yes, and 34% said maybe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked if they planned to discuss potential election interference, 39% said no, 23% said yes, and 38% said maybe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked to express their level of concern about student incivility in dealing with the election, 44% said they were slightly or not at all concerned; 23% said they were somewhat concerned; and 15% said they were moderately, very or greatly concerned. An additional 19% said they were neutral on the issue.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/5pDLx/1/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/2bhJN/2/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Inoculating for incivility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Creating a classroom culture of respect is critical to promoting openness and avoiding disrespect amid disagreements, Barrett Vitol, a U.S. History and Government teacher at Aptos High in Pajaro Valley Unified, told EdSource. He characterized the district as politically and economically diverse with “extreme wealth and hard poverty,” where some students in farmworker families “are genuinely worried” about the outcome of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we come together in August, we spend a lot of time helping to build community,” said Vitol, who said he shares with students his own experience as a volunteer for the 2000 Democratic presidential campaign for then Vice President Al Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to role model someone who will be politically active without disrespecting other people,” he said, adding that he also relies on humor to defuse tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Kelly, a U.S. History and Government teacher at the 500-student Minarets High and Charter High School in Chawanakee Unified, also set class norms early in the year, with a “social compact that holds the students accountable to being respectful to each other,” he said. The rural school district abuts Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Aster, who teaches U.S. Government at Carlsbad High School, said that his goal “is to teach civil discourse from day one.” He tells his students, ‘If you demonize your opponent, you will not get their ears.’ That’s a big theme in all my classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the teachers cited guides and resources they drew on to promote civil dialogue, bridge differences of opinion and lay out frameworks for discussions. Popular sources include\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://braverangels.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Braver Angels\u003c/a>, a volunteer-led national nonprofit, and Boston-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves\u003c/a>, which offers lessons, explainers and activities on teaching the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sources of misinformation have proliferated on the internet, so have tools to expose them. Teachers pointed to sites like\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://adfontesmedia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> adfontesmedia.com\u003c/a>,\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.allsides.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> AllSides.com\u003c/a> and\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> mediafactcheck.com\u003c/a> that analyze news sources’ reliability and point to alternative sources with different political perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard refers to encouraging students to seek trustworthy and accurate news sources as building a “muscle memory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am hoping they would create a habit to counter what they are seeing on social media,” said Reinhard, who is in her second year teaching high school in Oakland after serving as director of the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project; it supports K-12 teachers in planning for history instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing glasses and a navy blue shirt leans over teenage girls looking at a book.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-800x488.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1536x937.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-2048x1249.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1920x1171.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland High teacher Rachel Reinhard interacts with students during a U.S. Government class last week. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed / EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karen Clark Yamamoto, who chairs the history department at Western High in the Anaheim Union High School District, said students found the revelations of bias in their favorite sites enlightening. “They realized, ‘I don’t know as much as I thought I did,’” she said. [aside postID=\"mindshift_63681,news_11967044\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help students clarify their own political views, several teachers had students take the\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw-JG5BhBZEiwAt7JR67sJVk_oKJyHx_hO26tGTmCNHjZ8DRY8J9FYXI4rbMIif8adXmTVzxoCJNgQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pew Media Typology Quiz\u003c/a>, whose questions reveal whether students have conservative or liberal philosophies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Classroom priorities and strategies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The EdSource questionnaire asked teachers to describe the focus of their instruction and their plans for covering the election. The consensus was that a teacher should give students the tools to make informed choices about candidates and ballot issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Yates, a teacher at Stellar Charter School in Redding, wrote, “I will teach my students how to investigate each candidate. I want them to look past the rumors and prejudice to see who will really help our country thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly wrote, “We focus on helping the students make sense of the offices, candidates and propositions by understanding which issues matter to them the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we focus on students informing themselves and using their own ideology to decide what is best,” said Jon Resendez, a U.S. Government and Economics teacher at Portola High in Irvine Unified. He has found that students, unlike some of their parents, are open when forming their political beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s normal for teenagers to be more flexible than adults in their perspective as they learn more,” he said. “They adjust their voting behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little outside criticism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Slightly more than a third of teachers responded to the question about whether they had experienced any criticism from teaching about the presidential election. The majority — 16 of 23 — said they had not, but five reported being criticized by parents, three by students and two by administrators or other colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight teachers EdSource spoke with said they were unconcerned about parental pressure or criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No parents are reaching out to express concern,” said Resendez. “Parents assume we will tackle issues head-on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, uses his students’ work to inform parents about the elections. His students created election guides that they shared at the school’s back-to-school showcase in late October. It included separate objective profiles of Democrat Kamala Harris and Trump, drafted by students chosen because they didn’t support the candidates, Kelly said, along with summaries of local candidates and statewide ballot propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his back-to-school night, Fishback, of the Almaden County Day School in San Jose, encourages parents of his middle school students to discuss election issues and candidates with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that he tells them, “’I need you. If you have not passed along your political values, now is the time to do it. I want them to come to class knowing what families believe and why. My job is to help the students encounter and engage with different perspectives on a variety of contentious issues.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the teachers taught and how\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The survey asked teachers to check off a list of topics for presenting the presidential election and to add to it. Of 48 teachers who responded to the question, 37 said they reviewed candidates’ positions on key issues and 35 discussed the Electoral College; 28 asked students to explain issues that are important to them and 23 included fact-checking candidates’ claims and statements. Fifteen said they discussed claims that there would be widespread voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One teacher included discussing gerrymandering, and another said classes would focus on differences among political parties but not the candidates themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers reported that they approached the topics with different strategies. Some had students participate in the traditional statewide mock election organized by the California Secretary of State or held their own elections. Some teachers held candidates’ debates, while others intentionally did not, focusing instead on objective analyses of candidates’ positions and the accuracy of media coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in debates,” said Reinhard of Oakland High. “Debates often create false parity. I’m not interested in having students try to win a debate around some information I find problematic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto asks her students in Anaheim to pick five issues they care about and investigate the positions of the parties and the candidates’ websites to determine which party more closely aligns with their views. Inflation, health care and reproductive rights were among the issues. They did the same process with the 10 state initiatives on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett organized a model Congress for his students at Aptos High. Students wrote their own bills and had to persuade committee chairs and each legislative house to pass them. “Extreme” bills on immigration didn’t make the cut; those that did pass include creating affordable health care, limiting homework, requiring those over 70 to take an extra diving test, taxing billionaires, and granting immigrants who pay taxes for five years a path to citizenship, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students become deeply invested in their bills, but usually they can control themselves, Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aster, of Carlsbad, and Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, continued what they have done for years: bringing in outside speakers to represent parties and candidates for a debate run by students. “We seek regular folks, not politicians,” said Aster. “It’s always civil, and students see that you can be gracious while speaking strongly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several teachers said they didn’t avoid controversy, including looking at the rhetoric of the campaign: Trump’s racist language and post-election authoritarian threats and Democrats’ calling him a “fascist” and a “clown.” But students looked at the furor through an analytical lens to keep discussions “from going off the rails,” said Fishback. He asked his students, How would you characterize Trump, and what has been the impact of his language on the campaign?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most teachers emphasized they kept their own presidential preferences to themselves. “I work hard to be objective; I want it to be a mystery as to my views, though I don’t want them to think I don’t care,” said Aster. Kelly said he would tell students after the election whom he voted for if they asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much I like to lean into politics, the line I don’t cross is siding with one candidate over another,” said Fishback.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seeing themselves as voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aster has been teaching high school for more than three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see part of my job is to be a cheerleader for the American system and to have them look forward to participating in it,” Aster said. “I don’t want them to come away thinking the system is rigged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, when it appeared likely to be Trump vs. Joe Biden, students in Reinhard’s Government class at Oakland High had no interest in the election. “They were deadened by it,” she said. The nomination of Harris, the hometown candidate and a younger woman of color, however, at least sparked interest, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-block_3a9750b17c8b42182e2da4169cf80342\" class=\"block-going-deeper alignfull\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\u003ch2>More findings in the EdSource questionnaire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>The teachers were from all regions of the state, with 27% from Southern California, 17% from the Central Valley and Central Coast and 17% from the San Francisco Bay Areas, 14% from the Sacramento area, 10% from Northern California, 9% from the San Diego area and 3% from the Inland Empire of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Of the teachers who said they aren’t teaching about the presidential election, only three – two who teach in a largely Democratic district and one from a largely Republican district – said it was their school’s and/or district’s policy not to discuss the subject. Another teacher is discussing the election but not the candidates.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offered multiple choices to explain their reasons for not teaching the election to their students, the majority said there is too much other course material to get through, especially AP courses in U.S. History and Economics and one semester in Government. However, one-third of the 24 respondents to this question said they were concerned about complaints from parents, and five teachers said they had reservations that students would discuss the election respectfully. Five teachers said they were unsure how to address the subject.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Teachers were evenly split on how much time to spend on the election, with 39% of 49 respondents spending more than one week on it and 39% spending between two days and a week. Several said they spread discussion of the election out over time, based on topics in the courses they were teaching, and another teacher said five to 10 minutes per day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Most of the respondents were high school teachers who teach multiple subjects; 43% introduced the election in a 12th grade Government course, while 42% taught it in 11th grade American History; 27% taught it in 9th grade Ethnic Studies and 25% introduced it in 10th grade World History. A quarter of respondents were middle school social studies teachers. Individual teachers taught it in AP Psychology, ninth grade Geography, and an English course in persuasive essays.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n",
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EdSource did not require teachers to submit their names or their schools, although 16 teachers did identify themselves, and many said they were willing to be contacted for an EdSource article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the top-line results of the survey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>More than three-quarters of teachers who answered the survey said they are teaching about the election and the presidential campaign, and most of those who aren’t said it was their choice, not a district mandate.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked if they planned to discuss the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, 37% said no, 29% said yes, and 34% said maybe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked if they planned to discuss potential election interference, 39% said no, 23% said yes, and 38% said maybe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked to express their level of concern about student incivility in dealing with the election, 44% said they were slightly or not at all concerned; 23% said they were somewhat concerned; and 15% said they were moderately, very or greatly concerned. An additional 19% said they were neutral on the issue.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/5pDLx/1/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/2bhJN/2/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Inoculating for incivility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Creating a classroom culture of respect is critical to promoting openness and avoiding disrespect amid disagreements, Barrett Vitol, a U.S. History and Government teacher at Aptos High in Pajaro Valley Unified, told EdSource. He characterized the district as politically and economically diverse with “extreme wealth and hard poverty,” where some students in farmworker families “are genuinely worried” about the outcome of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we come together in August, we spend a lot of time helping to build community,” said Vitol, who said he shares with students his own experience as a volunteer for the 2000 Democratic presidential campaign for then Vice President Al Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to role model someone who will be politically active without disrespecting other people,” he said, adding that he also relies on humor to defuse tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Kelly, a U.S. History and Government teacher at the 500-student Minarets High and Charter High School in Chawanakee Unified, also set class norms early in the year, with a “social compact that holds the students accountable to being respectful to each other,” he said. The rural school district abuts Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Aster, who teaches U.S. Government at Carlsbad High School, said that his goal “is to teach civil discourse from day one.” He tells his students, ‘If you demonize your opponent, you will not get their ears.’ That’s a big theme in all my classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the teachers cited guides and resources they drew on to promote civil dialogue, bridge differences of opinion and lay out frameworks for discussions. Popular sources include\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://braverangels.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Braver Angels\u003c/a>, a volunteer-led national nonprofit, and Boston-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves\u003c/a>, which offers lessons, explainers and activities on teaching the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sources of misinformation have proliferated on the internet, so have tools to expose them. Teachers pointed to sites like\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://adfontesmedia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> adfontesmedia.com\u003c/a>,\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.allsides.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> AllSides.com\u003c/a> and\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> mediafactcheck.com\u003c/a> that analyze news sources’ reliability and point to alternative sources with different political perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard refers to encouraging students to seek trustworthy and accurate news sources as building a “muscle memory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am hoping they would create a habit to counter what they are seeing on social media,” said Reinhard, who is in her second year teaching high school in Oakland after serving as director of the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project; it supports K-12 teachers in planning for history instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing glasses and a navy blue shirt leans over teenage girls looking at a book.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-800x488.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1536x937.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-2048x1249.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1920x1171.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland High teacher Rachel Reinhard interacts with students during a U.S. Government class last week. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed / EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karen Clark Yamamoto, who chairs the history department at Western High in the Anaheim Union High School District, said students found the revelations of bias in their favorite sites enlightening. “They realized, ‘I don’t know as much as I thought I did,’” she said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help students clarify their own political views, several teachers had students take the\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw-JG5BhBZEiwAt7JR67sJVk_oKJyHx_hO26tGTmCNHjZ8DRY8J9FYXI4rbMIif8adXmTVzxoCJNgQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pew Media Typology Quiz\u003c/a>, whose questions reveal whether students have conservative or liberal philosophies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Classroom priorities and strategies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The EdSource questionnaire asked teachers to describe the focus of their instruction and their plans for covering the election. The consensus was that a teacher should give students the tools to make informed choices about candidates and ballot issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Yates, a teacher at Stellar Charter School in Redding, wrote, “I will teach my students how to investigate each candidate. I want them to look past the rumors and prejudice to see who will really help our country thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly wrote, “We focus on helping the students make sense of the offices, candidates and propositions by understanding which issues matter to them the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we focus on students informing themselves and using their own ideology to decide what is best,” said Jon Resendez, a U.S. Government and Economics teacher at Portola High in Irvine Unified. He has found that students, unlike some of their parents, are open when forming their political beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s normal for teenagers to be more flexible than adults in their perspective as they learn more,” he said. “They adjust their voting behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little outside criticism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Slightly more than a third of teachers responded to the question about whether they had experienced any criticism from teaching about the presidential election. The majority — 16 of 23 — said they had not, but five reported being criticized by parents, three by students and two by administrators or other colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight teachers EdSource spoke with said they were unconcerned about parental pressure or criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No parents are reaching out to express concern,” said Resendez. “Parents assume we will tackle issues head-on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, uses his students’ work to inform parents about the elections. His students created election guides that they shared at the school’s back-to-school showcase in late October. It included separate objective profiles of Democrat Kamala Harris and Trump, drafted by students chosen because they didn’t support the candidates, Kelly said, along with summaries of local candidates and statewide ballot propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his back-to-school night, Fishback, of the Almaden County Day School in San Jose, encourages parents of his middle school students to discuss election issues and candidates with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that he tells them, “’I need you. If you have not passed along your political values, now is the time to do it. I want them to come to class knowing what families believe and why. My job is to help the students encounter and engage with different perspectives on a variety of contentious issues.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the teachers taught and how\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The survey asked teachers to check off a list of topics for presenting the presidential election and to add to it. Of 48 teachers who responded to the question, 37 said they reviewed candidates’ positions on key issues and 35 discussed the Electoral College; 28 asked students to explain issues that are important to them and 23 included fact-checking candidates’ claims and statements. Fifteen said they discussed claims that there would be widespread voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One teacher included discussing gerrymandering, and another said classes would focus on differences among political parties but not the candidates themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers reported that they approached the topics with different strategies. Some had students participate in the traditional statewide mock election organized by the California Secretary of State or held their own elections. Some teachers held candidates’ debates, while others intentionally did not, focusing instead on objective analyses of candidates’ positions and the accuracy of media coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in debates,” said Reinhard of Oakland High. “Debates often create false parity. I’m not interested in having students try to win a debate around some information I find problematic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto asks her students in Anaheim to pick five issues they care about and investigate the positions of the parties and the candidates’ websites to determine which party more closely aligns with their views. Inflation, health care and reproductive rights were among the issues. They did the same process with the 10 state initiatives on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett organized a model Congress for his students at Aptos High. Students wrote their own bills and had to persuade committee chairs and each legislative house to pass them. “Extreme” bills on immigration didn’t make the cut; those that did pass include creating affordable health care, limiting homework, requiring those over 70 to take an extra diving test, taxing billionaires, and granting immigrants who pay taxes for five years a path to citizenship, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students become deeply invested in their bills, but usually they can control themselves, Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aster, of Carlsbad, and Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, continued what they have done for years: bringing in outside speakers to represent parties and candidates for a debate run by students. “We seek regular folks, not politicians,” said Aster. “It’s always civil, and students see that you can be gracious while speaking strongly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several teachers said they didn’t avoid controversy, including looking at the rhetoric of the campaign: Trump’s racist language and post-election authoritarian threats and Democrats’ calling him a “fascist” and a “clown.” But students looked at the furor through an analytical lens to keep discussions “from going off the rails,” said Fishback. He asked his students, How would you characterize Trump, and what has been the impact of his language on the campaign?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most teachers emphasized they kept their own presidential preferences to themselves. “I work hard to be objective; I want it to be a mystery as to my views, though I don’t want them to think I don’t care,” said Aster. Kelly said he would tell students after the election whom he voted for if they asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much I like to lean into politics, the line I don’t cross is siding with one candidate over another,” said Fishback.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seeing themselves as voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aster has been teaching high school for more than three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see part of my job is to be a cheerleader for the American system and to have them look forward to participating in it,” Aster said. “I don’t want them to come away thinking the system is rigged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been about a year since Angela Vergara anxiously opened an email in her Oakland Tech guidance counselor’s office that would change her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was venting to her counselor about the stress of waiting for college decisions when the message from Northeastern University Oakland arrived in her inbox — she had gotten into a new partner program between the university and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a> offering admission and funding for four years of college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cried when I saw it. I had to take a lap around the school; I could not believe it,” Vergara said this week, walking past her dorm room and the grassy, secluded campus’ mental health center. “I called my mom right away, like, ‘Mom, you won’t believe it,’ and she also cried — we all cried. It was just a really, really amazing opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara, who moved to Oakland from the Philippines in middle school, is one of seven OUSD students who started at Northeastern’s Bay Area campus this fall through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program. They are the first class to enroll in the scholarship program since Northeastern University opened on the former site of Mills College in 2022 after the two merged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara applied to many schools, but she was considering going to a community college for two years to lessen the financial burden on her parents, who are already putting her two sisters — all of them first-generation college students — through school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program, she will be able to graduate without debt or straining her parents’ finances. Students — who must qualify for a Pell Grant, which is awarded to students with \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/grants/pell\">great financial need\u003c/a> — receive free tuition, room and board for four years of education, which comes out to more than $340,000 each, according to OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The campus of Northeastern University, formerly Mills College, on Oct. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program is an extension of a similar one on Northeastern University’s Boston campus. Officials hope to expand the Oakland program from seven to 10 students in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seemed natural when we came to Oakland to bring that kind of program here, where we’re equally invested in growing and supporting the greater Oakland community,” Northeastern Oakland Dean Daniel Sachs told KQED. “One of those ways, of course, is by supporting the youth and the students in the public school system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland public schools have had more than their share of problems. Amid steadily declining enrollment, the district faces a huge budget deficit that could lead to a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011731/oakland-school-closures-are-back-on-the-table-less-than-2-years-after-plan-was-axed\">shutter some campuses\u003c/a>, and a persistent lead contamination issue plaguing many of its schools is likely to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007326/lead-problems-in-oakland-schools-drinking-water-could-cost-over-50-million-to-fix\">cost tens of millions of dollars to fix\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students who come up through the embattled Oakland school district don’t end up in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, only about 44% of OUSD graduates enrolled in a four-year university or community college. That’s far below the 72% of Bay Area graduates who went to college that year, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011731 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1382772776.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s figures showed improvement, with about 35% of OUSD’s graduating seniors enrolling in four-year universities and 20% more in two-year programs, but Oakland is still behind the curve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scholarship model like the Oakland Opportunity program, though, helps students not only get into college but earn a degree, said Tolani Britton, a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what the research tells us is that it’s not simply that students need more information to get to and through college. They need wraparound services,” she said. “Students are actually guaranteed housing, food, tuition and fees so that they can put their energies in many ways towards succeeding in that environment as opposed to trying to figure out how they stay there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scholarship students applied through the general Northeastern application and selected the Oakland campus as their top choice for their first year. Most were nominated by a counselor or another staff member at their high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the OUSD students complete their first year in Oakland, they can choose to stay in the Bay Area or transfer to any of Northeastern’s 13 campuses in three countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If more local students attend college close to home and potentially join the workforce there after they graduate, it benefits the whole community economically, Britton said. But whether they stay in the area or not, it can also affect future generations of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to the resources you’re bringing after you graduate to your family, there’s also, I absolutely believe, a role model factor, particularly if you’re still local,” Britton said. “You may have that younger cousin who didn’t necessarily see four-year college as a possibility. That younger cousin then sees you graduate and the opportunity that you had. It means something about what is possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011587\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Vergara is one of seven OUSD students who started at Northeastern’s Bay Area campus this fall through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vergara, who is studying politics, philosophy and economics, plans to transfer to Boston next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m definitely making the most out of my opportunity,” she said. “My plan is [that] after this year, I’m going to transition to Boston and then hopefully London and as many campuses as I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s most excited about the opportunity to do one of Northeastern’s cooperative education programs, which connect students with semester-long, full-time work experiences. Vergara isn’t 100% sure what she wants to pursue after graduation, but she said she hopes to explore law during her co-op semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The campus is in the heart of Boston, which opens you up to so many opportunities,” she said. “There’s lots of law firms there that [Northeastern] has connections with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she’s in Oakland, though, she’s already taking full advantage of the school’s resources. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara, who moved to Oakland from the Philippines in middle school, is one of seven OUSD students who started at Northeastern’s Bay Area campus this fall through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program. They are the first class to enroll in the scholarship program since Northeastern University opened on the former site of Mills College in 2022 after the two merged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara applied to many schools, but she was considering going to a community college for two years to lessen the financial burden on her parents, who are already putting her two sisters — all of them first-generation college students — through school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program, she will be able to graduate without debt or straining her parents’ finances. Students — who must qualify for a Pell Grant, which is awarded to students with \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/grants/pell\">great financial need\u003c/a> — receive free tuition, room and board for four years of education, which comes out to more than $340,000 each, according to OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The campus of Northeastern University, formerly Mills College, on Oct. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program is an extension of a similar one on Northeastern University’s Boston campus. Officials hope to expand the Oakland program from seven to 10 students in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seemed natural when we came to Oakland to bring that kind of program here, where we’re equally invested in growing and supporting the greater Oakland community,” Northeastern Oakland Dean Daniel Sachs told KQED. “One of those ways, of course, is by supporting the youth and the students in the public school system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland public schools have had more than their share of problems. Amid steadily declining enrollment, the district faces a huge budget deficit that could lead to a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011731/oakland-school-closures-are-back-on-the-table-less-than-2-years-after-plan-was-axed\">shutter some campuses\u003c/a>, and a persistent lead contamination issue plaguing many of its schools is likely to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007326/lead-problems-in-oakland-schools-drinking-water-could-cost-over-50-million-to-fix\">cost tens of millions of dollars to fix\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students who come up through the embattled Oakland school district don’t end up in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, only about 44% of OUSD graduates enrolled in a four-year university or community college. That’s far below the 72% of Bay Area graduates who went to college that year, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Director Mike Hutchinson said he was confident that Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell would not bring forward a plan this year that includes school consolidations, apart from the possible mergers of five pairs of schools that already share campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything beyond that should not be coming forward,” he told KQED. “We have not done the work as a district yet to produce any plans further than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki said district staffers plan to bring several cost reduction options to the board in November, which will likely include plans to decrease the number of school sites. The specifics are still being decided, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost 85% of our funds go to pay teachers, school staff, and all support staff across the district,” Sasaki said via email. “Because so much of the budget is dedicated to people, there are limited other options for closing the gap, which is one reason this situation is so challenging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility of closing schools isn’t new for Oakland Unified. In 2021, a plan to close 11 campuses \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">spurred a hunger strike\u003c/a> and led to outrage from many parents and educators, who believed it would have disproportionately affected low-income and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942006/reversal-of-oakland-school-closures-renews-hope-of-reparations-for-black-students\">underrepresented student\u003c/a>s. The plan was approved in February 2022 but overturned by a newly elected school board — led by then-President Hutchinson — in January 2023. Davis and Board Director Clifford Thompson voted against rescinding the closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district ended up closing two schools, merging one and eliminating middle-school grades at another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD’s budget challenges are also ongoing. The district was taken over by the state in 2003, though it is expected to regain full local control in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials have said it needs to “reduce its footprint” because it has far fewer students than it used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrollment has been declining in Oakland schools since 2002 when the district had more than 50,000 students. It now has just over 34,000, and earlier this month, the district projected it could lose 20% of its students between 2022 and 2032.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007326 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-OUSD-LEAD-FOLO-MD-03-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the board approved a budget-balancing resolution, which called for the development of possible cuts as well as “restructuring schools” in alignment with a new state law that requires districts facing financial challenges to perform an equity impact analysis before proposing any possible closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said this analysis was requested by the board in June and is still underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very first time it was on our agenda was actually my first meeting as president [at the start of the year],” he told KQED. “It’s been something we’ve been talking about all year long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district currently has 77 school sites. Though an analysis geared only toward efficiency suggested the district should only operate 46, Davis said the true number that OUSD should maintain, considering equity and other factors, likely falls somewhere in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing the budget this year and reducing the number of schools OUSD operates could allow the board to focus more on curriculum and other educational advancements, Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a board member, I feel like our board meetings are budget, budget, budget, austerity, austerity, austerity,” he said. “At some point, that’s not what any of us got elected to [and] want to do. We want to be able to talk about the future and planning for the future and student outcomes and instructional strategies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the board approved a budget-balancing resolution, which called for the development of possible cuts as well as “restructuring schools” in alignment with a new state law that requires districts facing financial challenges to perform an equity impact analysis before proposing any possible closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said this analysis was requested by the board in June and is still underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very first time it was on our agenda was actually my first meeting as president [at the start of the year],” he told KQED. “It’s been something we’ve been talking about all year long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district currently has 77 school sites. Though an analysis geared only toward efficiency suggested the district should only operate 46, Davis said the true number that OUSD should maintain, considering equity and other factors, likely falls somewhere in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing the budget this year and reducing the number of schools OUSD operates could allow the board to focus more on curriculum and other educational advancements, Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a board member, I feel like our board meetings are budget, budget, budget, austerity, austerity, austerity,” he said. “At some point, that’s not what any of us got elected to [and] want to do. We want to be able to talk about the future and planning for the future and student outcomes and instructional strategies. Until we get past this, we’re not going to be able to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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