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The commission also would be required to make annual reports to the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie Littman, CTA vice president, said that the amendments retaining the test were “disappointing” but that the creation of the work group is a positive step toward addressing the concerns that union members have had with the assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that the way it was going to go, possibly the bill might not have made it out of the Legislature,” Littman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Many teachers say the test is a waste of time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 1263 was originally introduced by Sen. Josh Newman, D-Fullerton, chair of the Senate Education Committee, who said in April that eliminating the assessment would encourage more people to enter the teaching profession. He also said that it duplicates other requirements teachers must fulfill to earn a credential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K-12 teachers who commented on \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/california-moves-a-step-closer-to-eliminating-one-of-the-states-last-teacher-assessments/710227\">EdSource stories \u003c/a>about the legislation were overwhelmingly critical of the assessment, stating that it is too time-consuming, caused anxiety and does not help prepare teachers for the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California teacher candidates must pass either the California Teaching Performance Assessment (CalTPA), the Educative Teaching Performance Assessment (edTPA) or the Fresno Assessment of Student Teachers (FAST) before they can earn a preliminary teaching credential. The tests cost $300 total, or $150 per cycle, according to Littman.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Education advocates call the test a valuable tool\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Education Stories\" tag=\"education\"]\u003cbr>\nProponents of the teacher performance assessments, however, say that eliminating them would have removed a valuable tool for evaluating teacher preparation programs and new teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know when parents drop kids off at school, the most important thing in front of those kids is that teacher, and they want to make sure … that teacher is prepared to teach effectively, and that’s what the TPAs help do,” said Marshall Tuck, CEO of EdVoice, an education advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism of the bill to eliminate the assessment grew when its authors amended it in late spring to remove the requirement that candidates for a preliminary, multiple-subject or education specialist credential pass a test that evaluates their ability to teach reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move came less than three years after legislators passed \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/californias-plan-to-change-literacy-instruction-advances/692569\">Senate Bill 488\u003c/a>, which next July will replace the unpopular written Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) with a literacy teaching performance assessment. 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In April, the system \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/budget/Documents/fy-budget-coded-memos/B_2024-01_Preliminary_Budget_Allocations_Memo.pdf\">released a preliminary budget document (PDF)\u003c/a> sketching how the system could reallocate $32 million in enrollment funding from 12 campuses that didn’t meet resident enrollment targets or target increases and shift it into nine campuses where 2024–25 resident enrollment targets have been increased. A CSU spokesperson said the system is finalizing those plans over the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system expects more budgetary trade-offs going forward, CSU Chief Financial Officer Steve Relyea said to trustees at their July meeting. Major expenses include a backlog of facilities and infrastructure projects, employee compensation costs and obligations the schools must meet under legal mandates such as Title IX, the federal law barring sex-based discrimination in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We anticipate negative impacts on academic offerings and student support services,” Relyea said. “The funding that we’re receiving, while it’s more, is still not sufficient to cover the increased cost on our current operations, and at this point universities will likely have to redirect significant dollars from existing university budgets to cover employee compensation commitments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Enrollment drops lead to cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CSU earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/cal-state-faculty-approve-new-salary-agreement\">agreed to a 10% raise\u003c/a> for faculty represented by the California Faculty Association following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-22/csu-and-faculty-reach-surprise-tentative-agreement-ending-strike\">one-day strike\u003c/a>. Trustees last week voted to approve salary increases for four campus leaders over the objections of some speakers during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grim forecast underscores the challenges facing CSU at a time of \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/retention/2024/03/13/doubts-about-value-are-deterring-college-enrollment\">flagging student enrollment\u003c/a> across higher education amid \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/508352/americans-confidence-higher-education-down-sharply.aspx\">declining public trust\u003c/a> in the value of a college degree. Systemwide, fall 2023 enrollment stood \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/facts-about-the-csu/enrollment\">more than 30,000 students shy\u003c/a> of its 2020 peak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus efforts to entice students back to campus include \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cal-states-new-online-transfer-planner-aims-to-ease-burden-on-community-college-students/707467\">easing transfers\u003c/a> into the system, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/california-state-university-adopts-new-approach-to-entice-students-back/663928\">reengaging students\u003c/a> who started but did not finish a degree and more support for \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/csu-campuses-focus-on-new-strategies-to-help-students-of-color/707174\">students of color\u003c/a>. And CSU leaders say they remain focused on long-term goals like boosting graduation rates for historically underrepresented students and rebuilding trust in Title IX and other anti-discrimination programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding those priorities will require hard choices. Officials anticipate they can partially plug holes in the budget with reserve funds, but they said school presidents and the system itself must tighten their belts to cover the rest — cuts they acknowledged could prove painful and unpopular. The university system also will have to contend with pressure from faculty, who argue they should have a greater say in university decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuts are nothing new at some CSU campuses. In recent years, as enrollment fell more than 15% from pre-pandemic levels at schools including \u003ca href=\"https://www.csuci.edu/apb/documents/2023-staffingplan-justificationform.pdf\">Cal State Channel Islands (PDF)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/anticipating-less-state-aid-csu-campuses-start-making-cuts/705092\">San Francisco State\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/updates/2023/2023-24-campus-budget-plan%C2%A0\">Sonoma State\u003c/a>, campus leaders have held off on filling some open positions or launched voluntary separation programs to reduce staffing costs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereyherald.com/2024/05/23/csu-monterey-bay-announces-layoffs/\">Cal State Monterey Bay\u003c/a> in May announced 16 layoffs and an additional 86 departures under an early retirement program. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.csueastbay.edu/administration/sandeen-messages/staff-reduction-faq.html\">Cal State East Bay\u003c/a>, another campus that has seen a dip in enrollment, campus leaders in May \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypioneers.com/news/2024/5/8/water-polo-cal-state-east-bay-announces-discontinuation-of-womens-water-polo-sponsorship.aspx\">announced\u003c/a> that the school would no longer sponsor its women’s water polo to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Upending 19 student-athletes’ East Bay careers is without precedent,” said Jeff Newcomb, a lecturer and president of the California Faculty Association’s East Bay executive board, at the July meeting. “Going forward, authentic shared governance — it’s hard— but it’s crucial if we are to emerge from austerity measures with trust and strategic vitality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Sonoma State as another example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/18938489/embed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school has weathered enrollment declines with serious cost-cutting. To manage a budget shortfall, spokesperson Jeffery Keating said in a statement, Sonoma State has trimmed $21.4 million from its base budget since 2020–21 and plans an additional $7.5 million cut in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those savings have come from reducing the number of faculty and staff, including through attrition and early retirement programs. Keating said faculty and staff headcount fell 22% between 2019 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim has been “to protect student services and academic programs,” according to the statement, and the school doesn’t plan to scale back areas like financial aid, health services or career counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the school sees some positive signs on the horizon: It projects that net student headcount will rise in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the system, CSU anticipates a $218 million shortfall this school year, according to a budget presentation. Making up the difference in funds likely will require tapping into reserves and “aggressively pursuing new students and working to retain current students,” said Ryan Storm, the system’s assistant vice chancellor for budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget presentation was not the first time Cal State has flashed financial warning signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of educating CSU students far outstrips the money the system actually has to educate them, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2023/Documents/FIN-May-21-24-2023.pdf\">2023 report by CSU leaders found (PDF)\u003c/a>. Trustee Diego Arambula reminded colleagues last week that the gap between what the system estimated it \u003cem>should\u003c/em> spend to meet student needs and what it \u003cem>does\u003c/em> spend was $1.5 billion, and could grow as campuses trim their budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The search for savings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The search for cost savings starts with the central office, Chancellor Mildred García said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chancellor’s Office is reviewing each of its divisions in pursuit of “not efficiency for its own sake or purely for cost savings, but for mission-driven efficiency,” she said in a report to the trustees. In that vein, the office will split the division of academic and student affairs into two, a reorganization García said was estimated to save at least $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The July meeting also highlighted CSU’s smallest university — Cal Maritime — as both a cautionary tale and a possible inspiration for how the system’s campuses might share costs and academic programs in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board considered a proposal to merge the maritime academy into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in a bid to save the Vallejo-based maritime school following a steep drop in enrollment and rising overhead costs. The board will resume those discussions in September and make a final decision in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Maritime interim President Michael J. Dumont \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cal-state-trustees-weigh-bid-to-merge-cal-maritime-cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/715959\">told the board\u003c/a> the school has “taken a chainsaw to every expense on our campus” in pursuit of financial sustainability. Trustees praised the proposal to integrate the maritime academy into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as an “elegant solution” that would save costs as the campuses consolidate administrative services and other operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU officials have left the door open for future campus mergers but say no additional integrations are immediately planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A document \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2024/Documents/July-22-24-2024-Full-Binder.pdf\">announcing the integration proposal (PDF)\u003c/a> said it’s in keeping with CSU’s goal to look for cost savings “from consolidation of certain administrative functions and from inter-campus cooperation and collaboration in the offering of programs and services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about whether future campus mergers are likely, a CSU spokesperson cited a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/cal-poly-maritime-integration.aspx\">document\u003c/a> that says CSU “must remain open to considering all options in the future to ensure the financial health of the system and its universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2024/Documents/Full-BoT-Agenda-Mar-24-27-2024.pdf\">ongoing initiatives to save money (PDF)\u003c/a> short of full mergers, such as negotiating systemwide contracts with vendors and purchasing electricity for multiple campuses on the wholesale energy market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of tools in the toolkit in addition to an integration like this,” CFO Relyea told trustees last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Relyea noted that the $1 billion budget gap forecast for the 2025–26 school year is an estimate based on assumptions that could prove flawed. A shortfall could be avoided by making permanent cuts this school year, pausing new investments, bridging the gap with reserves and successfully lobbying the state for additional money, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some campuses might try to streamline their budgets in ways students won’t notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the goal at Cal State Northridge, where administrators said that measures like cutting nonessential staff travel or delaying plans to replace older technology and equipment were among the ways they hope to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that’s related to student success, we’re trying to shield that as much as we can,” said Edith Winterhalter, who leads the university’s budget department. “It’s really on the administrative side that we’re doing a lot of strategies to reduce our costs as much as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A painful year’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A wild card in CSU’s finances is its reliance on the California Legislature, which has funded \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/facts-about-the-csu/csu-funding\">roughly 60% of the school system’s operating costs\u003c/a> in recent years. That can expose the university system to swings in state revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU dodged the worst in this year’s budget. \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/gov-newsom-proposes-to-shield-schools-community-colleges-from-drop-in-state-revenue/703711\">Early budget drafts\u003c/a> proposed pushing a 5% funding hike that had been promised for 2024–25 into the following year. The \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/gov-newsoms-twists-and-tricks-to-spare-cuts-to-schools-and-community-colleges-in-state-budget/714604\">final budget\u003c/a> landed on a compromise: a one-time cut of $75 million, offset by an ongoing increase of $240 million. Staff attributed the improvement to an energetic lobbying campaign on behalf of the universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11986301,news_11961149,news_11990668\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget outlook going forward is less rosy. Anticipating more lean years ahead, state legislators envision an 8% cut to CSU’s ongoing state funding in 2025–26, according to a CSU budget presentation. On top of that, state legislators have proposed that CSU front $252 million in the 2025–26 school year, which the state would subsequently reimburse in 2026–27. A similar spend-and-reimburse maneuver would occur in the 2026–27 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such an arrangement could prove risky for Cal State, Storm observed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we spend, in advance, hundreds of millions of dollars and the state does not reimburse us, it would significantly deplete our one-time balances and reserves, and we could be left with new ongoing commitments and no new funding to support them,” \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/nm9x5Umylek?feature=shared&t=3267\">he said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reality has compelled Cal State to look to grow other funding sources, including what students pay to attend its universities. Trustee Christopher Steinhauser defended the board’s previous decision to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/cal-state-students-will-see-6-tuition-hike/697358\">increase tuition by 6% annually\u003c/a> starting this fall, saying the additional revenue will allow the system to save hundreds of jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard earlier in the spring we have to do less with less,” Steinhauser said. “This is going to be a painful year. … If we didn’t pass that tuition, we would be in a whole big mess, much bigger than we’re in now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU leaders have also pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://senate.humboldt.edu/sites/default/files/senate/8-24-5%20Draft%20Report%20of%20the%20CSU%20Sustainable%20Financial%20Model%20Task%20Force.pdf\">other possible sources of funding (PDF)\u003c/a>, including operating campuses year round and pursuing more public-private partnerships. Trustee Larry L. Adamson urged university presidents to think creatively about raising money from philanthropic sources as one additional revenue stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many endowed chairs do we do every year in the CSU? And I think the answer is few to none,” he said during last week’s meeting. “We have to start doing more and more of that kind of thinking, as the UCs and privates do constantly. And instead of trying to just raise money for buildings, which we do a lot of, let’s start trying to raise money that offsets our actual ongoing expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cal-state-board-anticipates-a-painful-year-as-campuses-cut-costs/716849\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California State University is taking the forecast of a snowballing budget gap so seriously, even a recent message touting a new hire came with the equivalent of a financial weather advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s largest university system \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/sonoma-state-interim-president-appointed-2024.aspx\">welcomed Emily F. Cutrer as the new interim president of\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/sonoma-state-interim-president-appointed-2024.aspx\"> Sonoma State University\u003c/a> last week with the stern reminder that she must address “enormous financial pressures” facing the university, where fall 2023 enrollment was down more than 36% over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sobering message was repeated to the system’s 23 campuses at the last board of trustees meeting before the fall term — a moment of truth when campus leaders aiming to reverse declines in student enrollment will find out if their bids to attract and retain students worked. Even if efforts to boost enrollment succeed, cutting costs could prove a necessity on many campuses, CSU officials warned. Board Chair Jack B. Clarke Jr., addressing school presidents directly, said they ultimately will determine how to manage limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Presidents, we understand that you’re going to have to make some hard decisions and, within your campus communities and your general communities, you’re going to be criticized,” he said. “Understand that we’re behind you in terms of making the hard decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU could be staring down a $1 billion budget gap in the 2025–26 school year as the result of dwindling state support for higher education and rising costs, staff said at the July board of trustees meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU has also unveiled a plan to reshuffle dollars from campuses that fall short of enrollment goals. In April, the system \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/budget/Documents/fy-budget-coded-memos/B_2024-01_Preliminary_Budget_Allocations_Memo.pdf\">released a preliminary budget document (PDF)\u003c/a> sketching how the system could reallocate $32 million in enrollment funding from 12 campuses that didn’t meet resident enrollment targets or target increases and shift it into nine campuses where 2024–25 resident enrollment targets have been increased. A CSU spokesperson said the system is finalizing those plans over the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system expects more budgetary trade-offs going forward, CSU Chief Financial Officer Steve Relyea said to trustees at their July meeting. Major expenses include a backlog of facilities and infrastructure projects, employee compensation costs and obligations the schools must meet under legal mandates such as Title IX, the federal law barring sex-based discrimination in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We anticipate negative impacts on academic offerings and student support services,” Relyea said. “The funding that we’re receiving, while it’s more, is still not sufficient to cover the increased cost on our current operations, and at this point universities will likely have to redirect significant dollars from existing university budgets to cover employee compensation commitments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Enrollment drops lead to cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CSU earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/cal-state-faculty-approve-new-salary-agreement\">agreed to a 10% raise\u003c/a> for faculty represented by the California Faculty Association following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-22/csu-and-faculty-reach-surprise-tentative-agreement-ending-strike\">one-day strike\u003c/a>. Trustees last week voted to approve salary increases for four campus leaders over the objections of some speakers during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grim forecast underscores the challenges facing CSU at a time of \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/retention/2024/03/13/doubts-about-value-are-deterring-college-enrollment\">flagging student enrollment\u003c/a> across higher education amid \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/508352/americans-confidence-higher-education-down-sharply.aspx\">declining public trust\u003c/a> in the value of a college degree. Systemwide, fall 2023 enrollment stood \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/facts-about-the-csu/enrollment\">more than 30,000 students shy\u003c/a> of its 2020 peak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus efforts to entice students back to campus include \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cal-states-new-online-transfer-planner-aims-to-ease-burden-on-community-college-students/707467\">easing transfers\u003c/a> into the system, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/california-state-university-adopts-new-approach-to-entice-students-back/663928\">reengaging students\u003c/a> who started but did not finish a degree and more support for \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/csu-campuses-focus-on-new-strategies-to-help-students-of-color/707174\">students of color\u003c/a>. And CSU leaders say they remain focused on long-term goals like boosting graduation rates for historically underrepresented students and rebuilding trust in Title IX and other anti-discrimination programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding those priorities will require hard choices. Officials anticipate they can partially plug holes in the budget with reserve funds, but they said school presidents and the system itself must tighten their belts to cover the rest — cuts they acknowledged could prove painful and unpopular. The university system also will have to contend with pressure from faculty, who argue they should have a greater say in university decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuts are nothing new at some CSU campuses. In recent years, as enrollment fell more than 15% from pre-pandemic levels at schools including \u003ca href=\"https://www.csuci.edu/apb/documents/2023-staffingplan-justificationform.pdf\">Cal State Channel Islands (PDF)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/anticipating-less-state-aid-csu-campuses-start-making-cuts/705092\">San Francisco State\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/updates/2023/2023-24-campus-budget-plan%C2%A0\">Sonoma State\u003c/a>, campus leaders have held off on filling some open positions or launched voluntary separation programs to reduce staffing costs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereyherald.com/2024/05/23/csu-monterey-bay-announces-layoffs/\">Cal State Monterey Bay\u003c/a> in May announced 16 layoffs and an additional 86 departures under an early retirement program. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.csueastbay.edu/administration/sandeen-messages/staff-reduction-faq.html\">Cal State East Bay\u003c/a>, another campus that has seen a dip in enrollment, campus leaders in May \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypioneers.com/news/2024/5/8/water-polo-cal-state-east-bay-announces-discontinuation-of-womens-water-polo-sponsorship.aspx\">announced\u003c/a> that the school would no longer sponsor its women’s water polo to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Upending 19 student-athletes’ East Bay careers is without precedent,” said Jeff Newcomb, a lecturer and president of the California Faculty Association’s East Bay executive board, at the July meeting. “Going forward, authentic shared governance — it’s hard— but it’s crucial if we are to emerge from austerity measures with trust and strategic vitality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Sonoma State as another example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/18938489/embed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school has weathered enrollment declines with serious cost-cutting. To manage a budget shortfall, spokesperson Jeffery Keating said in a statement, Sonoma State has trimmed $21.4 million from its base budget since 2020–21 and plans an additional $7.5 million cut in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those savings have come from reducing the number of faculty and staff, including through attrition and early retirement programs. Keating said faculty and staff headcount fell 22% between 2019 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim has been “to protect student services and academic programs,” according to the statement, and the school doesn’t plan to scale back areas like financial aid, health services or career counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the school sees some positive signs on the horizon: It projects that net student headcount will rise in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the system, CSU anticipates a $218 million shortfall this school year, according to a budget presentation. Making up the difference in funds likely will require tapping into reserves and “aggressively pursuing new students and working to retain current students,” said Ryan Storm, the system’s assistant vice chancellor for budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget presentation was not the first time Cal State has flashed financial warning signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of educating CSU students far outstrips the money the system actually has to educate them, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2023/Documents/FIN-May-21-24-2023.pdf\">2023 report by CSU leaders found (PDF)\u003c/a>. Trustee Diego Arambula reminded colleagues last week that the gap between what the system estimated it \u003cem>should\u003c/em> spend to meet student needs and what it \u003cem>does\u003c/em> spend was $1.5 billion, and could grow as campuses trim their budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The search for savings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The search for cost savings starts with the central office, Chancellor Mildred García said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chancellor’s Office is reviewing each of its divisions in pursuit of “not efficiency for its own sake or purely for cost savings, but for mission-driven efficiency,” she said in a report to the trustees. In that vein, the office will split the division of academic and student affairs into two, a reorganization García said was estimated to save at least $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The July meeting also highlighted CSU’s smallest university — Cal Maritime — as both a cautionary tale and a possible inspiration for how the system’s campuses might share costs and academic programs in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board considered a proposal to merge the maritime academy into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in a bid to save the Vallejo-based maritime school following a steep drop in enrollment and rising overhead costs. The board will resume those discussions in September and make a final decision in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Maritime interim President Michael J. Dumont \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/cal-state-trustees-weigh-bid-to-merge-cal-maritime-cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/715959\">told the board\u003c/a> the school has “taken a chainsaw to every expense on our campus” in pursuit of financial sustainability. Trustees praised the proposal to integrate the maritime academy into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as an “elegant solution” that would save costs as the campuses consolidate administrative services and other operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU officials have left the door open for future campus mergers but say no additional integrations are immediately planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A document \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2024/Documents/July-22-24-2024-Full-Binder.pdf\">announcing the integration proposal (PDF)\u003c/a> said it’s in keeping with CSU’s goal to look for cost savings “from consolidation of certain administrative functions and from inter-campus cooperation and collaboration in the offering of programs and services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about whether future campus mergers are likely, a CSU spokesperson cited a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/cal-poly-maritime-integration.aspx\">document\u003c/a> that says CSU “must remain open to considering all options in the future to ensure the financial health of the system and its universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2024/Documents/Full-BoT-Agenda-Mar-24-27-2024.pdf\">ongoing initiatives to save money (PDF)\u003c/a> short of full mergers, such as negotiating systemwide contracts with vendors and purchasing electricity for multiple campuses on the wholesale energy market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of tools in the toolkit in addition to an integration like this,” CFO Relyea told trustees last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Relyea noted that the $1 billion budget gap forecast for the 2025–26 school year is an estimate based on assumptions that could prove flawed. A shortfall could be avoided by making permanent cuts this school year, pausing new investments, bridging the gap with reserves and successfully lobbying the state for additional money, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some campuses might try to streamline their budgets in ways students won’t notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the goal at Cal State Northridge, where administrators said that measures like cutting nonessential staff travel or delaying plans to replace older technology and equipment were among the ways they hope to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that’s related to student success, we’re trying to shield that as much as we can,” said Edith Winterhalter, who leads the university’s budget department. “It’s really on the administrative side that we’re doing a lot of strategies to reduce our costs as much as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A painful year’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A wild card in CSU’s finances is its reliance on the California Legislature, which has funded \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/facts-about-the-csu/csu-funding\">roughly 60% of the school system’s operating costs\u003c/a> in recent years. That can expose the university system to swings in state revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU dodged the worst in this year’s budget. \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/gov-newsom-proposes-to-shield-schools-community-colleges-from-drop-in-state-revenue/703711\">Early budget drafts\u003c/a> proposed pushing a 5% funding hike that had been promised for 2024–25 into the following year. The \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/gov-newsoms-twists-and-tricks-to-spare-cuts-to-schools-and-community-colleges-in-state-budget/714604\">final budget\u003c/a> landed on a compromise: a one-time cut of $75 million, offset by an ongoing increase of $240 million. Staff attributed the improvement to an energetic lobbying campaign on behalf of the universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>To stem an outflow of teachers from schools across the state, California’s Department of Education encourages districts to venture into a different business: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/housing\">housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Tony Thurmond on Tuesday announced an initiative that aims to establish the department as a go-to resource for districts looking to build homes for teachers on their property. The move comes as the state faces a housing affordability crisis and a shortage of some \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/94729ab1648d43b1811c1698a748c136\">2.5 million homes\u003c/a>. School districts lose, on average, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csba.org/-/media/CSBA/Files/Advocacy/LegislativeAdvocacy/ResearchReport.ashx\">12% of their staff\u003c/a> each year to retirements and turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a strategy to help allow us to keep our workforce,” Thurmond said. “This is part of a larger plan to make sure that people can afford to live where they work, that they can afford the American dream and to buy a home, and that they have earnings that support them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly 11,000 school districts across the state control more than 151,000 acres of total property. A 2021 analysis by UC Berkeley and UCLA found that of that land, there are enough developable parcels to support \u003ca href=\"https://www.csba.org/-/media/CSBA/Files/Advocacy/LegislativeAdvocacy/ResearchReport.ashx\">2.3 million new homes\u003c/a> or more than 90% of the state’s estimated shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts have shown recent success in overcoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-jose-unified-teachers-react-affordable-housing-proposal/\">opposition\u003c/a> to affordable housing for teachers. In Menlo Park, voters in 2022 defeated an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929505/from-menlo-park-to-laguna-beach-residents-turn-to-ballot-box-to-fight-new-california-housing-mandates\">block a teacher housing project\u003c/a> in a single-family neighborhood. And in San Jose, school district leaders voted last week to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/26/1-2-billion-south-bay-school-facilities-bond-headed-for-november-ballot/\">place a $1.2 billion bond\u003c/a> on the November ballot, part of which would fund new teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond plans to convene a housing summit on Aug. 14, bringing together members of the construction and building trades, labor unions, school districts and others to identify barriers to housing development and ensure the Department of Education can make it easier for districts to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998056\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Superintendent Tony Thurmond on Tuesday announced an initiative that aims to establish the Department of Education as a go-to resource for districts looking to build homes for teachers on their property. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Thurmond Campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The school districts have one of the most important parts of being able to create educator housing: They own land,” Thurmond said. “So there’s no need to make a purchase, to acquire land to develop that land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts can use local bonds and \u003ca href=\"https://ahcd.assembly.ca.gov/sites/ahcd.assembly.ca.gov/files/AB%203308_Gabriel_AHCD_ABPCA.pdf\">state tax credits\u003c/a>, some $500 million of which were approved for educator housing as part of the 2020 state budget. And in 2022, the Legislature approved AB 2295, which \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2295/id/2609196#:~:text=This%20bill%20would%20deem%20a,objective%20design%20review%20standards%2C%20as\">essentially rezoned\u003c/a> school properties to allow housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, despite the additional tax credit funding and legislation, only a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1CZW87xekMzSDEidilfGRyzE-QlbosGo&ll=36.526851860206364%2C-120.4401245&z=6\">handful of districts\u003c/a> across the state have completed educator housing projects, though dozens more have \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/leadership/more-districts-are-building-housing-for-teachers-heres-what-to-know/2023/11\">expressed interest\u003c/a> or are in various stages of the development process, according to the California School Boards Association. Andrew Keller, a senior director with the association, said one big reason is that not enough districts know how to go about building housing.[aside postID=news_11996949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/005_KQED_Housing_Berkeley_ShadowStandards_02272020__qed-1-1020x680.jpg']“Chief among those roadblocks, actually, is the fact that schools aren’t in the housing business,” Keller said. “This is something that’s new to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board association leads workshops for district staff on approaching and constructing housing on their properties, including connecting them with developers and financial institutions. But uptake has been slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond said he was hoping to accelerate that with the new initiative, which will include creating a “scalable blueprint” for districts to use to develop housing and exploring potential legislation that may include allowing school bond funds to go toward housing for families in the district, not just teachers and staff members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Lie, a trustee of the Jefferson Union High School District in San Mateo County, said he’s seen the impact of educator housing firsthand. The district faced a 25% staff turnover before completing a 122-unit apartment complex in May 2022. 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Six months later, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/west-contra-costa-responds-to-complaints-filed-over-teacher-vacancies/710724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three complaints were filed\u003c/a> to address teacher vacancies at Stege Elementary, Helms Middle and Kennedy High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Williams complaint process, school districts have 30 days to remedy the issues and 45 days to respond in court. West Contra Costa officials have not resolved the problems within the legally allowed time, according to Public Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of trying to fill open teaching positions legally, Provenza said, the district has relied on substitutes who aren’t authorized for long periods, which is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials could not immediately be reached for comment. But in response to the teacher vacancy complaints, West Contra Costa officials acknowledged their practice of relying on substitutes isn’t lawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials said vacancies weren’t filled because of teacher transfers and late notices from teachers who left the district in the 2022–23 school year. The district also blames statewide systemic issues for contributing to the problem. Beginning in 2021, California schools had significant increases in teacher vacancies and declines in the number of new teachers, the response said, as the pandemic caused many educators to leave the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When substitutes aren’t available, other teachers in the buildings have to take on more work and sacrifice prep times to cover classes, Provenza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Contra Costa’s failure to address poor conditions at schools and teacher vacancies “creates a vicious cycle,” said co-counsel Dane Shikman from Munger, Tolles, & Olson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers leave or don’t apply for a position, in part, because of poor facilities at the school,” Shikman said in a statement. “And resulting teacher vacancies drive down student performance and attendance, causing stakeholders — including District administrators — to lose confidence and reduce investment in the school and its facilities. This suit is intended to break that cycle, so that WCCUSD students have a fighting chance to succeed in school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parent at Stege Elementary, Darrell Washington, who is not a complainant, said his son hasn’t been set up for success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year he had two or three different teachers,” Washington said in a statement. “It felt like a chaotic game of musical chairs. This system is not supportive for my child or any child at Stege. As a community activist, I want to raise awareness about what is happening at the school, not just for my son, but because it is a disservice to all of our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students without a permanent teacher become less engaged and curious about learning, said Raka Ray, an English teacher at Kennedy High. Ray has also observed that students are more likely to skip class, get in fights and be “addicted to their phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teacher vacancies are also disproportionately affecting students of color. \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/enrethlevels.aspx?agglevel=School&year=2022-23&cds=07617966004972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stege Elementary\u003c/a> has about 38% Black or African American students and 34% Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022–23 school year, according to data from the state Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 83% of students at \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ed-data.org/school/Contra-Costa/West-Contra-Costa-Unified/Helms-Middle/1000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Helms Middle\u003c/a> are Hispanic or Latino and about 7% are Black or African American, data show. About 73% of students at \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ed-data.org/school/Contra-Costa/West-Contra-Costa-Unified/John-F_Dot_-Kennedy-High\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kennedy High\u003c/a> are Hispanic or Latino and nearly 18% are Black or African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For marginalized students who come from high-trauma backgrounds, having a sense of stability is extremely important for their academic success,” Ray said in a statement. “What I’ve seen with the vacancies is that my students have lost hope in the educational system to provide them with a better future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Addressing teacher vacancies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Chris Hurst addressed teacher vacancies at Wednesday’s board meeting, saying the human resources team is “working hard” to fill positions before school resumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this week, Hurst said, there are 76 open elementary teacher positions, 23 vacancies for secondary teachers, and 13 openings for special education teachers. There are also 247 open classified positions in the district, most being paraprofessionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elementary schools with three or more vacancies include Stege, Bayview, Coronado, Harding, Verde, and West County Mandarin. Secondary schools with three or more vacancies are Korematsu, Pinole Valley, Richmond, and Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has been to 37 job fairs in the last year and relies on partnerships to hire and recruit teachers, Hurst said. West Contra Costa has partnerships with 35 universities, Teach for America, teacher residency programs, and retired teachers. The district also utilizes various job boards and has three upcoming job fairs this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has already hired 10 teachers in the last two weeks, Camille Johnson, associate superintendent of human resources, said at the meeting. However, if not every teacher vacancy is filled this summer, Johnson said the district will fall back on substitutes. There are day-to-day, 30-day and 60-day substitutes, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/west-contra-costa-sued-over-poor-building-conditions-teacher-vacancies/715978\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2023, 45 complaints were submitted to address facility issues at Stege Elementary School, including moldy walls, broken floor tiles and inoperable windows, according to the statement. Six months later, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/west-contra-costa-responds-to-complaints-filed-over-teacher-vacancies/710724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three complaints were filed\u003c/a> to address teacher vacancies at Stege Elementary, Helms Middle and Kennedy High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Williams complaint process, school districts have 30 days to remedy the issues and 45 days to respond in court. West Contra Costa officials have not resolved the problems within the legally allowed time, according to Public Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of trying to fill open teaching positions legally, Provenza said, the district has relied on substitutes who aren’t authorized for long periods, which is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials could not immediately be reached for comment. But in response to the teacher vacancy complaints, West Contra Costa officials acknowledged their practice of relying on substitutes isn’t lawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials said vacancies weren’t filled because of teacher transfers and late notices from teachers who left the district in the 2022–23 school year. The district also blames statewide systemic issues for contributing to the problem. Beginning in 2021, California schools had significant increases in teacher vacancies and declines in the number of new teachers, the response said, as the pandemic caused many educators to leave the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When substitutes aren’t available, other teachers in the buildings have to take on more work and sacrifice prep times to cover classes, Provenza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Contra Costa’s failure to address poor conditions at schools and teacher vacancies “creates a vicious cycle,” said co-counsel Dane Shikman from Munger, Tolles, & Olson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers leave or don’t apply for a position, in part, because of poor facilities at the school,” Shikman said in a statement. “And resulting teacher vacancies drive down student performance and attendance, causing stakeholders — including District administrators — to lose confidence and reduce investment in the school and its facilities. This suit is intended to break that cycle, so that WCCUSD students have a fighting chance to succeed in school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parent at Stege Elementary, Darrell Washington, who is not a complainant, said his son hasn’t been set up for success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year he had two or three different teachers,” Washington said in a statement. “It felt like a chaotic game of musical chairs. This system is not supportive for my child or any child at Stege. As a community activist, I want to raise awareness about what is happening at the school, not just for my son, but because it is a disservice to all of our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students without a permanent teacher become less engaged and curious about learning, said Raka Ray, an English teacher at Kennedy High. Ray has also observed that students are more likely to skip class, get in fights and be “addicted to their phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teacher vacancies are also disproportionately affecting students of color. \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/enrethlevels.aspx?agglevel=School&year=2022-23&cds=07617966004972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stege Elementary\u003c/a> has about 38% Black or African American students and 34% Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022–23 school year, according to data from the state Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 83% of students at \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ed-data.org/school/Contra-Costa/West-Contra-Costa-Unified/Helms-Middle/1000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Helms Middle\u003c/a> are Hispanic or Latino and about 7% are Black or African American, data show. About 73% of students at \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ed-data.org/school/Contra-Costa/West-Contra-Costa-Unified/John-F_Dot_-Kennedy-High\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kennedy High\u003c/a> are Hispanic or Latino and nearly 18% are Black or African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For marginalized students who come from high-trauma backgrounds, having a sense of stability is extremely important for their academic success,” Ray said in a statement. “What I’ve seen with the vacancies is that my students have lost hope in the educational system to provide them with a better future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Addressing teacher vacancies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Chris Hurst addressed teacher vacancies at Wednesday’s board meeting, saying the human resources team is “working hard” to fill positions before school resumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this week, Hurst said, there are 76 open elementary teacher positions, 23 vacancies for secondary teachers, and 13 openings for special education teachers. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: On July 18, the full board approved the webpage policy, with one “No” vote.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After seven months and three voting delays, the University of California Board of Regents is on the verge of approving a \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2.pdf\">pared-down policy (PDF)\u003c/a> outlining how academic departments should publish political and social opinions on university websites — largely embracing a set of standards that faculty themselves adopted in 2022. The journey to a consensus reenergized longstanding debates about academic freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While entirely a faculty matter, some pro-Palestinian students condemned previous versions of the regents’ proposed policy, which they interpreted as part of a crackdown on free speech that punished protests against Israel. Student anguish over the war in Gaza — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike/\">and their anger\u003c/a> with UC leadership for so far not calling for a cease-fire or divesting from weapons manufacturers and companies tied to Israel — helped to amplify the faculty’s alarm over the regents’ initial proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university will need to clarify its rules on speech and expression further by this fall. The latest state budget is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB108#:~:text=Of%20the%20funds%20appropriated%20in%20this%20item%2C%20%2425%2C000%2C000%20shall%20be%20released%20only%20if%20the%20Director%20of%20Finance%20certifies\">withholding $25 million\u003c/a> from the UC until system leadership\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB108#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20California%20Office%20of%20the%20President%20will%20develop%20a%20systemwide%20framework%20to%20provide%20for%20consistency%20with%20campus%20implementation%20and%20enforcement.\"> sends a report to the governor’s office\u003c/a> explaining its policies for public demonstrations and other free speech matters. While the two concepts — what faculty can do under academic freedom and how students can express themselves under free speech rules — are distinct issues, they’re often enmeshed publicly, especially over themes as contentious as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/11/israeli-palestinian-conflict-california-college/\">Islamophobia, antisemitism and its connection to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most regents were vague about the impetus for the plan, but one regent, Hadi Makarechian, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-homelessness-count/#:~:text=Mikhail%E2%80%99s%20story.-,Also%20from%20Mikhail%3A,-The%20undocumented%20students\">said in January\u003c/a> that the proposal emerged “because some people were making some political statements related to Hamas and Palestinians.” That meeting was occasionally testy, with another regent urging his peers to practice “decorum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the new policy would do\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new rules, passed on Wednesday by a joint committee that will be voted on by the full board on Thursday, require that writings which depart from research, course information and other administrative announcements not be posted on the homepages of academic departments and other divisions. Instead,\u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach1.pdf#page=2\"> they can appear (PDF)\u003c/a> on other departmental web pages designated for opinions. Full-board approval is likely; the rules would take hold immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one regent, student member Josiah Beharry, voted no on the measure on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These so-called “discretionary expressions,” which are writings “that comment on institutional, local, regional, global or national events, activities or issues,” also need to be clearly labeled as opinions that don’t necessarily reflect the position of the university or campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach1.pdf\">specifically avoids (PDF)\u003c/a> restricting academic research, course content or other “scholarly endeavors” — an undefined term — that may touch on political or social matters from appearing on the homepage. This was\u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach2.pdf\"> new wording (PDF)\u003c/a> that emerged since the last \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-crime-expungement-victims/#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20California%20regents%20decided%20Wednesday%20to%20postpone%20a%20vote%20on%20a%20policy%20to%20restrict%20how%20academic%20departments%20at%20its%20campuses%20publish%20%E2%80%9Cpolitical%20or%20controversial%E2%80%9D%20statements%20on%20their%20websites.%C2%A0\">draft in March\u003c/a>. Nor does the policy proscribe speech on non-campus websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were satisfied that the current policy does not violate principles of academic freedom or free speech,” said James Steintrager, chair of the Academic Senate, in an interview with CalMatters in May, when the proposal was on the agenda but ultimately never heard. “We’re still concerned about the drive for and necessity of a policy in this area, but we think that with the input of the senate, the Board of Regents has ended up in a much better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is a departure from how faculty initially received the policy proposal in January, which was saddled with confusion over the scope of the measure and what it sought. One possible takeaway was that the January plan intended to bar any expression of faculty opinion on administrative websites, “a draconian policy,” Steintrager said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regents also postponed votes in January and March after discussing the matter publicly each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s regents meeting, Steintrager reaffirmed his praise and critique of the rules, adding that “public comment assertions to the contrary, this is not a ban on discretionary or political statements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Leib, a regent member and former chair of the board who has viewed some of the chants at student protests against the war in Gaza as antisemitic, said that “this whole topic about free speech is all BS because what we’re trying to do is show transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does it go too far or not far enough?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But if it were up to senate members, including most full-time professors across the system, the regents would just adopt the policy the senate approved in 2022. Unlike the regents’ approach, the 2022 policy provided guidance — using words like “should” rather than “must” to encourage academic departments to distinguish their opinions from the positions of the university. The Academic Senate policy also recommended that departments “\u003ca href=\"https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/rh-senate-divs-recs-for-dept-statements.pdf\">solicit minority or opposition statements” as well (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academic Senate believes that “the UC community at the level of departments and other units of the sort largely governs itself appropriately, and we favor policies that enable successful self-regulation over more restrictive measures,” Steintgrater \u003ca href=\"https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/js-rl-regents-policy-discretionary-statements.pdf\">wrote to the regents May 1 (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regents’ proposal stopped short of that, preferring a mandatory set of publishing guidelines in part because few academic units or campuses “have followed the June 2022 Academic Senate advisory guidance,” a board document representing the regents said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.jfrg.org/home\">Jewish faculty\u003c/a> wanted the regents to ban all department statements and said the proposed rules don’t go far enough. “A claim that a department of a public university takes as a political position will be taken as the official stance of the university, no matter how it is delivered and no matter what qualifications are added,” said Jeffrey Young, a clinical psychologist at UCLA, during public comment on Tuesday. Several other professors voiced similar sentiments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Focus on ethnic studies departments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regent Jay Sures pushed for the policy, arguing in January that opinions on homepages “will be mistaken as the position of the institution itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Statement-on-bias-in-UC-statements-1.pdf\">In late October (PDF)\u003c/a>, he excoriated an Oct. 16 letter by UC ethnic studies faculty that faulted the UC for calling Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel an act of terrorism. \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1053yck657ENep688zvPTs6njfAGWBvE6/view\">The ethnic studies letter,\u003c/a> which didn’t name Hamas, said that “to hold the oppressed accountable for ‘terrorism’ reinscribes a colonial narrative that seeks to have the world believe that history began on Oct. 7, 2023.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sures wrote that the council’s members should “commit to learning more about antisemitism and all forms of hate and how it lives on our campuses where you are tasked and trusted with educating our next generation of students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homepage for UC Santa Cruz’s critical race and ethnic studies department as of Wednesday still contains language calling on scholars and organizers to “act now to end Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza,” a statement that’s been appearing since at least Oct. 25 of last year, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231025234505/https://cres.ucsc.edu/\">web archiving tool Wayback Machine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department was following Academic Senate guidance, department chairperson Felicity Amaya Schaeffer said in an interview, as the guidance wasn’t mandatory and deferred to campus departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the regents committees’ backing of a mandatory rule, Schaeffer said key questions remain unanswered, mainly whether the department’s call to action counts as discretionary speech that needs to be moved to a different webpage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the regents policy is an attack on academic freedom. She also believes the regents are overreaching rather than deferring to faculty expertise on their own subjects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have three faculty who work specifically on Palestine, who were hired by the university to do this kind of research,” she said. “So for us, this is not at all opinion, this is about the expertise of the department in which many of us write critically about state power, war, genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rule like the one the regents is proposing is a poor fit for an ethnic studies department, Schaefer said, because “the lines between what gets called political or discretionary and research are completely entangled and inseparable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego’s ethnic studies department, however, appears to have relocated its statements of support for Palestinians to a secondary page reserved for “statements and commentaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 4, 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231204215827/https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/\">snapshot of its homepage\u003c/a> shows a statement calling “for an immediate end to the war crimes and genocide taking place against the Palestinian people (50% of whom are children).” But by Dec. 14, the homepage \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231214080803/https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/\">underwent an overhaul\u003c/a>, with political statements moved from the homepage to the new “statements and commentaries” section beneath the “About Us” tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic department leaders will be responsible for implementing the rules. “The expectation then is that the unit leadership enforce the policy,” said Charlie Robinson, general counsel for the UC, at Wednesday’s regents meeting, “and if there are any concerns about it, then you go up the hierarchy to make sure that it’s being enforced properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university will need to clarify its rules on speech and expression further by this fall. The latest state budget is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB108#:~:text=Of%20the%20funds%20appropriated%20in%20this%20item%2C%20%2425%2C000%2C000%20shall%20be%20released%20only%20if%20the%20Director%20of%20Finance%20certifies\">withholding $25 million\u003c/a> from the UC until system leadership\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB108#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20California%20Office%20of%20the%20President%20will%20develop%20a%20systemwide%20framework%20to%20provide%20for%20consistency%20with%20campus%20implementation%20and%20enforcement.\"> sends a report to the governor’s office\u003c/a> explaining its policies for public demonstrations and other free speech matters. While the two concepts — what faculty can do under academic freedom and how students can express themselves under free speech rules — are distinct issues, they’re often enmeshed publicly, especially over themes as contentious as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/11/israeli-palestinian-conflict-california-college/\">Islamophobia, antisemitism and its connection to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most regents were vague about the impetus for the plan, but one regent, Hadi Makarechian, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-homelessness-count/#:~:text=Mikhail%E2%80%99s%20story.-,Also%20from%20Mikhail%3A,-The%20undocumented%20students\">said in January\u003c/a> that the proposal emerged “because some people were making some political statements related to Hamas and Palestinians.” That meeting was occasionally testy, with another regent urging his peers to practice “decorum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the new policy would do\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new rules, passed on Wednesday by a joint committee that will be voted on by the full board on Thursday, require that writings which depart from research, course information and other administrative announcements not be posted on the homepages of academic departments and other divisions. Instead,\u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach1.pdf#page=2\"> they can appear (PDF)\u003c/a> on other departmental web pages designated for opinions. Full-board approval is likely; the rules would take hold immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one regent, student member Josiah Beharry, voted no on the measure on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These so-called “discretionary expressions,” which are writings “that comment on institutional, local, regional, global or national events, activities or issues,” also need to be clearly labeled as opinions that don’t necessarily reflect the position of the university or campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach1.pdf\">specifically avoids (PDF)\u003c/a> restricting academic research, course content or other “scholarly endeavors” — an undefined term — that may touch on political or social matters from appearing on the homepage. This was\u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach2.pdf\"> new wording (PDF)\u003c/a> that emerged since the last \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-crime-expungement-victims/#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20California%20regents%20decided%20Wednesday%20to%20postpone%20a%20vote%20on%20a%20policy%20to%20restrict%20how%20academic%20departments%20at%20its%20campuses%20publish%20%E2%80%9Cpolitical%20or%20controversial%E2%80%9D%20statements%20on%20their%20websites.%C2%A0\">draft in March\u003c/a>. Nor does the policy proscribe speech on non-campus websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were satisfied that the current policy does not violate principles of academic freedom or free speech,” said James Steintrager, chair of the Academic Senate, in an interview with CalMatters in May, when the proposal was on the agenda but ultimately never heard. “We’re still concerned about the drive for and necessity of a policy in this area, but we think that with the input of the senate, the Board of Regents has ended up in a much better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is a departure from how faculty initially received the policy proposal in January, which was saddled with confusion over the scope of the measure and what it sought. One possible takeaway was that the January plan intended to bar any expression of faculty opinion on administrative websites, “a draconian policy,” Steintrager said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regents also postponed votes in January and March after discussing the matter publicly each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s regents meeting, Steintrager reaffirmed his praise and critique of the rules, adding that “public comment assertions to the contrary, this is not a ban on discretionary or political statements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Leib, a regent member and former chair of the board who has viewed some of the chants at student protests against the war in Gaza as antisemitic, said that “this whole topic about free speech is all BS because what we’re trying to do is show transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does it go too far or not far enough?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But if it were up to senate members, including most full-time professors across the system, the regents would just adopt the policy the senate approved in 2022. Unlike the regents’ approach, the 2022 policy provided guidance — using words like “should” rather than “must” to encourage academic departments to distinguish their opinions from the positions of the university. The Academic Senate policy also recommended that departments “\u003ca href=\"https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/rh-senate-divs-recs-for-dept-statements.pdf\">solicit minority or opposition statements” as well (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academic Senate believes that “the UC community at the level of departments and other units of the sort largely governs itself appropriately, and we favor policies that enable successful self-regulation over more restrictive measures,” Steintgrater \u003ca href=\"https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/js-rl-regents-policy-discretionary-statements.pdf\">wrote to the regents May 1 (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regents’ proposal stopped short of that, preferring a mandatory set of publishing guidelines in part because few academic units or campuses “have followed the June 2022 Academic Senate advisory guidance,” a board document representing the regents said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.jfrg.org/home\">Jewish faculty\u003c/a> wanted the regents to ban all department statements and said the proposed rules don’t go far enough. “A claim that a department of a public university takes as a political position will be taken as the official stance of the university, no matter how it is delivered and no matter what qualifications are added,” said Jeffrey Young, a clinical psychologist at UCLA, during public comment on Tuesday. Several other professors voiced similar sentiments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Focus on ethnic studies departments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regent Jay Sures pushed for the policy, arguing in January that opinions on homepages “will be mistaken as the position of the institution itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Statement-on-bias-in-UC-statements-1.pdf\">In late October (PDF)\u003c/a>, he excoriated an Oct. 16 letter by UC ethnic studies faculty that faulted the UC for calling Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel an act of terrorism. \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1053yck657ENep688zvPTs6njfAGWBvE6/view\">The ethnic studies letter,\u003c/a> which didn’t name Hamas, said that “to hold the oppressed accountable for ‘terrorism’ reinscribes a colonial narrative that seeks to have the world believe that history began on Oct. 7, 2023.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sures wrote that the council’s members should “commit to learning more about antisemitism and all forms of hate and how it lives on our campuses where you are tasked and trusted with educating our next generation of students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homepage for UC Santa Cruz’s critical race and ethnic studies department as of Wednesday still contains language calling on scholars and organizers to “act now to end Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza,” a statement that’s been appearing since at least Oct. 25 of last year, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231025234505/https://cres.ucsc.edu/\">web archiving tool Wayback Machine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department was following Academic Senate guidance, department chairperson Felicity Amaya Schaeffer said in an interview, as the guidance wasn’t mandatory and deferred to campus departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the regents committees’ backing of a mandatory rule, Schaeffer said key questions remain unanswered, mainly whether the department’s call to action counts as discretionary speech that needs to be moved to a different webpage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the regents policy is an attack on academic freedom. She also believes the regents are overreaching rather than deferring to faculty expertise on their own subjects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have three faculty who work specifically on Palestine, who were hired by the university to do this kind of research,” she said. “So for us, this is not at all opinion, this is about the expertise of the department in which many of us write critically about state power, war, genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rule like the one the regents is proposing is a poor fit for an ethnic studies department, Schaefer said, because “the lines between what gets called political or discretionary and research are completely entangled and inseparable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego’s ethnic studies department, however, appears to have relocated its statements of support for Palestinians to a secondary page reserved for “statements and commentaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 4, 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231204215827/https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/\">snapshot of its homepage\u003c/a> shows a statement calling “for an immediate end to the war crimes and genocide taking place against the Palestinian people (50% of whom are children).” But by Dec. 14, the homepage \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231214080803/https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/\">underwent an overhaul\u003c/a>, with political statements moved from the homepage to the new “statements and commentaries” section beneath the “About Us” tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic department leaders will be responsible for implementing the rules. “The expectation then is that the unit leadership enforce the policy,” said Charlie Robinson, general counsel for the UC, at Wednesday’s regents meeting, “and if there are any concerns about it, then you go up the hierarchy to make sure that it’s being enforced properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom signed the education trailer bill as part of the 2024–25 budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan must be operative by July 1, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local educational agencies — school districts, charter schools and county offices of education — that do not develop an instructional continuity plan as part of their \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ss/vp/cssp.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">school safety plan \u003c/a>will not be eligible to recover lost state attendance funding if schools close or a significant number of students are unable to attend because of an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate action, the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trailer bill\u003c/a> also addresses chronic absenteeism by authorizing school districts to provide attendance recovery programs during school breaks, weekends or after school to allow students to make up for up to 10 days of school missed for any reason. Beginning next July, districts that offer the programs will be able to recover state funds lost when students in the program were previously absent from school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The legislation\u003c/a> comes four years after California schools closed for more than a year because of a worldwide pandemic. Since then, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/californias-dramatic-jump-in-chronically-absent-students-part-of-a-nationwide-surge/695439\">chronic absenteeism rates \u003c/a>have more than doubled. 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Students who are reassigned during an emergency will not have to comply with any residency requirements for attendance in that district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Penalties removed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legislation has changed dramatically since the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://esd.dof.ca.gov/trailer-bill/public/trailerBill/pdf/1093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May budget revision\u003c/a>, which would have given districts five days to offer students instruction after an emergency and penalized them financially if they didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revisions are due, in part, to heavy opposition from a coalition of nine education organizations, including the California Teachers Association, California School Boards Association and \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://cacountysupts.org/members/staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California County Superintendents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are countless instances where the physical infrastructure and human capacity necessary to comply with this requirement does not exist: roads, landlines, internet connectivity, access to devices, access to shelter, family and staff displacement, etc.,” said California County Superintendents in a May letter to the chairs of the Senate and Assembly budget committees. “When this occurs, a LEA may find it impossible to offer remote instruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derick Lennox, senior director for governmental relations and legal affairs for the association, said, “There was the feeling that the state does not understand the challenges that schools face to locate and serve the basic needs of their students and families during a serious emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an alternative, the coalition asked for a proactive planning process without financial penalties, and lawmakers agreed, Lennox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Dorado County Superintendent of Schools Ed Manansala said that the proactive, constructive tone of the new legislation is more productive than the punitive tack legislators took in the original version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manansala said it isn’t feasible to expect schools to deliver instruction 10 days after schools close in an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Dorado County has had at least 70 wildfires of varying sizes between 2004 and 2023, the largest being in August 2021, according to \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalFire\u003c/a>. It burned 221,835 acres and razed Walt Tyler Elementary School in Grizzly Flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had teachers and students that were being displaced out of their communities,” Manansala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino County Superintendent of Schools Nicole Glentzer first experienced the extended closure of schools in 2017 when a fire burned 36,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glentzer, who worked at nearby Ukiah Unified School District at the time, had to evacuate her home. She moved into the district office and went to work making decisions about school closures. The district’s schools were closed for five days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the county on the state’s north coast has been ravaged by numerous fires, including two of the nation’s largest, which together burned more than 1.41 million acres in multiple counties in 2018 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools in Mendocino County also have been closed recently because of flooding and power outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glentzer said that while she is satisfied with the revamped language in the legislation, she cringes when she hears that small districts, with small staffs, are expected to come up with plans similar to larger districts. 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It burned 221,835 acres and razed Walt Tyler Elementary School in Grizzly Flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had teachers and students that were being displaced out of their communities,” Manansala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino County Superintendent of Schools Nicole Glentzer first experienced the extended closure of schools in 2017 when a fire burned 36,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glentzer, who worked at nearby Ukiah Unified School District at the time, had to evacuate her home. She moved into the district office and went to work making decisions about school closures. 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Meanwhile, 15 of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred in the past decade. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-california-kansas-missouri-gulf-coast-78d043f305799deb83860b09e65096ef\">Heat waves\u003c/a> are getting longer and more severe, placing public safety at risk, and intense winter storms have caused damaging floods in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something that’s more tangible for people here and more real because they’ve seen it so much,” said Melissa Romero, deputy legislative director for California Environmental Voters, an advocacy group that supports the bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1993540,news_11992853,news_11992997\"]Negotiations over the education bond have been ongoing for nearly two years, and the final result did not please everyone. 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Schools desperately need the money: The current fund for school repairs is nearly empty and the voters rejected the state’s last school facilities bond in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone agrees on the need for money to fix dry rot and build new science labs. However, some superintendents, as well as the civil rights law firm Public Advocates, had been pushing for a more equitable way to distribute the money. Currently, the state doles out facilities funding through 50–50 matching grants, so districts that can raise a lot of money locally — typically, higher-income areas — can get more state money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Advocates has threatened to sue California if it doesn’t adopt a wider sliding scale for distributing the money. The current deal does include a sliding scale, but it’s only from 60% to 65%, not the 5% to 90% that Public Advocates wanted. Under the deal’s scale, the state’s wealthiest districts would only get slightly less than its poorest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, under the current proposal, schools could get more money if they hire union contractors for their construction projects. That would give an edge to urban areas, where union labor is easier to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooke Patton, spokeswoman for the State Building and Trades Council of California, said hiring union workers would benefit any school project because the workers are highly trained and efficient. Union projects also include apprentices, who may be from the local community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only does California end up with new school facilities, but also a new generation of workers who can afford to live in California and contribute to our economy for years to come — a worthy investment of public funds,” Patton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill still needs to pass both houses with a two-thirds majority and be signed by the governor this week. To go into effect, it needs approval from a simple majority of voters in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s a compromise’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the bill doesn’t satisfy every need for California’s schools, some education advocates said this week that it’s better than nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect; it’s a compromise,” said Derick Lennox, senior director at California County Superintendents, representing school administrators and supporting the bill. “(The bond) takes incremental, important steps toward equity that will do a lot of good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill includes some help for smaller and low-income districts, such as providing extra money to hire project managers and expanding the number of districts that qualify for hardship funds. It also sets aside 10% of the money for small districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California School Boards Association also supports the bill, along with a companion bill, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2831?slug=CA_202320240AB2831\">AB 2831\u003c/a>, sponsored by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/josh-hoover-165420\">Josh Hoover\u003c/a>, a Republican from Folsom, that would provide more relief for small and low-income districts if the school bond passes in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re more than sympathetic to the needs of small districts,” association spokesperson Troy Flint said. “But times are tight, and we feel it’s crucial to get a school bond on the ballot. … It’s not what we need, but it’s what we could get. Now we have to focus on getting it passed for the health and safety of California students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Old heaters, outdated kitchens, no AC\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trinity County Superintendent Fabio Robles said that some of the schools in his county are so dilapidated that any money is welcome. Passing local bonds is almost impossible, he said, because the county is so poor. So, schools are almost totally reliant on the state for repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11989857,mindshift_64123,news_11991798\"]In Lewiston, the gym has no air conditioning and the kitchen dates from the 1950s, Robles said. At Van Duzen Elementary, a small K–8 school in the mountains, the heater is 40 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would a 5%–90% sliding scale have been better? Yes. 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