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"content": "\u003cp>Half a billion dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how much more California State University’s budget gap will grow in two years under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom-may-proposal/\">proposed spending plan\u003c/a> for next year. This fiscal chasm may prompt hiring freezes, raid precious reserves and bring larger class sizes and fewer courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to do less with less,” Cal State trustee member Christopher J. Steinhauser said. “We are going to have fewer programs, fewer positions. And anyone listening to this meeting, if they think that we can do this without doing that, they’re really kidding themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior finance officers from Cal State’s chancellor’s office debuted the sobering figures at last week’s board of trustees meeting. The forecasted deficit could change — legislators and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/gavin-newsom/\">Newsom\u003c/a> have until late June to finalize a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/california-budget/\">state budget\u003c/a> that could include more money for the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protecting Cal State, community college and University of California ongoing funding from cuts \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-no-3-education-finance-20240522?time%5bmedia-element-3548%5d=2205.027925\">“wherever possible” is a priority\u003c/a>, said \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/david-alvarez-112993\">David Alvarez\u003c/a>, a Democratic assembly member from Chula Vista and chair of the Assembly’s budget subcommittee on education, last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got to stick with the commitments we’re making to the students of California \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257992?t=932&f=4e3a5b720eefa3f44944e5f34b23a31c\">in the budget\u003c/a>,” said \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/greg-wallis-165439\">Greg Wallis\u003c/a>, a Republican assembly member from Rancho Mirage, at the same hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Newsom’s May budget update becomes law, Cal State would face a three-year operating deficit of $831 million through 2025–26 — more than $500 million greater than what was estimated last September, said Ryan Storm, an assistant vice chancellor at Cal State overseeing the system’s finances, at a trustees meeting last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Budget math\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The yawning gap is the result of two forces: Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/california-budget/\">heavily scaling back his promises of growing financial support\u003c/a> for Cal State due to the state’s multibillion-dollar deficit and ever-increasing labor costs fueled by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/02/cal-state-faculty-contract/\">recent 5% pay hikes\u003c/a> to much of the system’s roughly 60,000 unionized workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other expenses include nearly $80 million in higher health care premiums to provide insurance to its employees in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s May spending plans for Cal State, the UC and other state agencies are complex, prompting the Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/may-22-sub-3-agenda-and-memo.pdf#page=14\"> to call them\u003c/a> “opaque and unnecessarily complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a mix of cuts in 2024–25 and far less new spending in 2025–26 than initially promised, Cal State would see new state revenues that are $470 million less than they anticipated last fall, according to \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/US5QqNnXhac?si=IzY2Y7gLmiTmGRW8&t=2257\">summary tables Storm showed the trustees\u003c/a>. A promise to backfill faculty raises to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2024/01/cal-state-strike/\">end a strike\u003c/a> earlier this year added roughly $30 million to the system’s budget gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State was already projecting a three-year budget gap of more than $300 million last September. That was even with the assumption of nearly $500 million more in state support through 2026 and roughly $200 million more in new tuition revenue after the board approved tuition hikes of 34% across five years starting this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half a billion dollars is equivalent to the entire operating budget of San Diego State University, among the system’s largest campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Campus strategies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Presidents of the 23 campuses at Cal State gathered in April to quantify what the budget shortfall of more than $800 million would mean for student learning and hiring decisions. It was more of a thought exercise than an implementation plan. The presidents and \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/US5QqNnXhac?si=Yel-gg1AimqvN0Zg&t=2491\">system leadership assumed\u003c/a> no new state spending in the next two years — despite Newsom’s May plans. It also assumed workers would get raises in 2024–25 but not in 2025–26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campuses\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/US5QqNnXhac?si=4rNELs6nduiwNJlr&t=2655\"> are considering\u003c/a> increasing class sizes, reducing the number of available courses to reflect student demand and bringing down the number of part-time faculty and lecturers — actions that \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/SK22GFX2Kkk?si=fXw8wXV-Q0LO7mol&t=3041\">some campuses undertook\u003c/a> this spring to close a combined $138 million budget gap. Other potential cost-cutting measures include leaving various positions unfilled, not replacing staff and faculty who retire and early-retirement programs at some campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the system is not recommending layoffs, but it expects the various hiring freezes and unfilled vacancies will lead to “a reduction of about 450 faculty and staff positions through 25–26,” Storm said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campuses also intend to use more than $500 million in reserves through 2025–26, depleting 22% of the system’s one-time funds intended for emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The April meeting also calculated a projected 2026–27 systemwide deficit of more than $200 million — the cost equivalent of 12,500 classes taught, 1,500 faculty or 1,100 managers, representing a quarter of all the managers at Cal State.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Effect on classes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal State trustees in March learned that campuses cut or suspended 137 academic programs and other areas of study in 2024 — a huge jump compared to 2023 and 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/board-of-trustees/past-meetings/2024/Documents/EDPOL-binder-Mar-24-27-2024.pdf#page=28\">when only a combined 47 were cut or put on pause\u003c/a>. 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A promise to backfill faculty raises to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2024/01/cal-state-strike/\">end a strike\u003c/a> earlier this year added roughly $30 million to the system’s budget gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State was already projecting a three-year budget gap of more than $300 million last September. That was even with the assumption of nearly $500 million more in state support through 2026 and roughly $200 million more in new tuition revenue after the board approved tuition hikes of 34% across five years starting this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half a billion dollars is equivalent to the entire operating budget of San Diego State University, among the system’s largest campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Campus strategies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Presidents of the 23 campuses at Cal State gathered in April to quantify what the budget shortfall of more than $800 million would mean for student learning and hiring decisions. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly a third of the academic and graduate student workers of the University of California are on strike after the union of 48,000 members escalated its labor standoff by walking off the job at UCLA and UC Davis this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With as many as 2,000 UC Santa Cruz graduate students and academic workers picketing since last Monday, Tuesday’s job action brings 12,000 more out of classrooms and laboratories, potentially crippling the university’s mission of educating the roughly 80,000 undergraduates at the three campuses, just two weeks before students begin to take their end-of-quarter finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers, including teaching assistants, academic researchers and graders, are striking not over pay and benefits \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike-protests/\">but instead over the UC’s response\u003c/a> to pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested by police or suspended from their campuses. Some union members were arrested or suspended for their role in the protests. Core to the union’s demands is that the UC offer “amnesty for those who experienced arrest or are facing University discipline,” the union’s public writings state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 60 academic workers began picketing at Royce Quad at UCLA by 9 a.m., where just weeks ago, students at a large pro-Palestinian encampment were attacked by counterprotesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC, UC you’re no good, treat your workers like you should,” the picketing academic workers chanted, their ranks gradually growing as more striking workers arrived under a gray sky. “When free speech is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back,” went another chant, the rhythmic pulses of a snare drum accompanying the picketers, who grew to more than 200 by 10:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Origins of strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC’s Office of the President \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-statement-uaw-vote-conduct-unlawful-strike\">calls the strike illegal\u003c/a>, saying that its contract with the union — itself the result of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">a six-week-long strike in late 2022\u003c/a> — includes a no-strike provision. The union, UAW 4811, vehemently disagrees with that analysis, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=20\">citing legal precedent\u003c/a> that a union can strike over unfair labor practices that fall outside the scope of a union contract. It’s a view shared \u003ca href=\"https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/16/op-ed-uc-offers-deceptive-claims-about-illegality-of-strike-in-letter-to-union-members\">by at least one UCLA law professor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides have leaned heavily on the state’s Public Employment Relations Board to adjudicate their disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11987737,news_11987499,news_11986910\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Two days after police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/ucla-protest-palestine-police/\">swept the encampments at UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/\">arrested scores of protesters\u003c/a>, the union \u003ca href=\"https://www.uaw4811.org/2024-ulp-charges\">filed an unfair labor practice violation\u003c/a> with the labor relations board. The union then filed similar violations after police cleared encampments at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2024/05/06/chp-raids-ucsd-gaza-solidarity-encampment\">UC San Diego\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/police-converge-on-pro-palestinian-protest-at-uc-irvine-students-are-told-to-shelter-in-place\">UC Irvine, which \u003c/a>also led to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/\">arrests of protesters\u003c/a> — and \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">another alleging\u003c/a> that the UC changed its disciplinary rules unilaterally to punish academic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By summoning the police to forcibly arrest and/or issuing interim suspensions to these employees, the University has violated their employee rights,“ the union wrote in one of its submissions to the labor relations board. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=3\">The union said\u003c/a> its workers were not only rallying against the war in Gaza but also seeking ways to remove academic research funding sources \u003ca href=\"https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2024/05/how-uc-researchers-began-saying-no-military-work\">tied to the U.S. military\u003c/a>. Workers also oppose “the discrimination and hostile work environment directed towards Palestinian, Muslim, and pro-Palestine Jewish employees and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike a systemwide strike, this “stand up” strike will pursue labor stoppages at certain campuses, a strategy employed by Detroit autoworkers in their \u003ca href=\"https://labornotes.org/2023/10/big-3-buckled-stand-strike-spread\">successful campaign for higher compensation last year\u003c/a>. The approach is meant to apply gradual pressure to management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the strike is technically distinct from the larger protest movement against the war, the two movements are related. Last Thursday, several hundred UCLA members of the UAW 4811 held a rally in support of their impending strike. Moments later, they joined a student-led protest demanding that the UC call for a cease-fire and divest from weapons manufacturers and the Israeli economy. That same day, protesters erected a short-lived encampment and temporarily took \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/#:~:text=Meanwhile%2C%20also%20in,class%C2%A0%20from%20entering.\">over a campus building before being pushed out by police\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a clear sign that, despite hundreds of arrests in May, thousands of students, union members and some faculty remain passionate about their pro-Palestinian advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legality of strike debated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost 20,000 of the union’s 48,000 members voted on whether to strike two weeks ago and nearly 80% of those who did vote approved the strike authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC sought an injunction to legally halt the strike, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_IR_Denial.pdf\">but the labor relations board wrote\u003c/a> last week that UC hadn’t established that an injunction is “just and proper.” The union hailed the ruling. However, the board wrote that it was leaving UC’s request open in the event the university provided better evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a partial victory for the university, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_CC1.pdf\">the board issued a complaint that the union\u003c/a> “failed to provide adequate advance notice of its work stoppage, and failed and refused to meet and confer in good faith.” The UC press office, in announcing the board’s response, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor-news/uaw-news-and-updates-2/#:~:text=PERB%20issues%20complaint%20against%20UAW%C2%A0\">wrote that the labor board\u003c/a> “found enough evidence to suggest that a violation may have occurred, and further examination is warranted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues in its latest unfair labor practice violation that the UC unilaterally implemented a disciplinary policy that affects UAW 4811 workers. The union \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">seeks an order\u003c/a> telling the UC to “cease and desist from unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of employment related to discipline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the UC Office of the President disputes that characterization, writing that these policies aren’t new and reaffirm existing rules. The spokesperson, Heather Hansen, sought to invalidate the central thrust of the union’s demands, writing to CalMatters last week: “By requesting amnesty, UAW is asking the University not to follow its processes but rather to make an exception for its members so that they are not subject to the same accountability measures applicable to all other members of the UC community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Effect on student learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all unionized workers have jobs with labor to withhold. Some are paid with fellowships to advance their own research. But most perform a job duty that’s integral to the academic mission of the university. Systemwide, about 20,000 workers are graduate student teaching assistants, tutors or other instructional assistants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate students teach classes, especially introductory courses, run discussion sections and grade student work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, about 60% to 70% of UC Santa Cruz workers who could withhold their labor did, estimated Rebecca Gross, the unit chair of the union at the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the social media platform Reddit, individuals identifying themselves as UCLA students wrote that some of their discussion sessions are \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/1d1g2rq/classes_affected_by_the_strike/\">being canceled\u003c/a> and that some of their courses are moving online. It “is tragic for me bc I learn 80% of the material from discussion and problem-solving sessions,” wrote one poster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’ll pick up the work that the striking workers won’t do is an open question. The governing body of UCLA faculty \u003ca href=\"https://senate.ucla.edu/news/academic-senate-guidance-uaw-strike\">sent a message to professors that\u003c/a> “faculty members cannot be required to take on additional responsibilities for teaching related to a work stoppage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Graduate worker anger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most protesters, including UAW 4811 members, who were arrested, were cited for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/210-people-arrested-from-ucla-police-chief-confirms/3403435/#:~:text=LAPD%20Interim%20Chief%20Dominic%20Choi,in%20a%20social%20media%20posting.\">failing to follow police orders to disperse\u003c/a>. At UCLA, administrators sent a notice to students and protesters on April 30, a day before police cleared the encampment, that “the established encampment is unlawful and violates university policy” and asked the participants to leave the area or face sanctions. The notice also said that “law enforcement is prepared to arrest individuals, in accordance with applicable law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice added that “for students, those sanctions could include disciplinary measures such as interim suspension that, after proper due process through the student conduct process, could lead to dismissal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the encampment replied the same day, writing in part, “We will continue to remain here steadfast in our demands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, counterprotesters attacked those in the encampment with pepper spray, wooden sticks and at least one firework as police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/#:~:text=Counterprotesters%20had%20set%20off%20fireworks%20around%2010%3A30%20p.m.%20Tuesday%2C%20and%20later%2C%20armed%20with%20pepper%20and%20bear%20spray%2C%20physically%20attacked%20those%20residing%20in%20the%20pro%2DPalestinian%20encampment.\">stood by for hours\u003c/a> and made no arrests. Local and national news outlets brought around-the-clock coverage of the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next afternoon, police ordered members of the encampment to disperse. Hours after those orders, police arrested more than 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In contrast to the lack of police response to the violent attack by anti-Palestine counterprotesters on April 30, 2024, the University summoned a massive number of police officers on the evening of May 1, 2024, for the purpose of ejecting and arresting the employees engaged in peaceful protest in the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment,” union lawyers wrote in one of the unfair labor practice violations \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=5\">submitted to the state labor relations board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kye Shi, a mathematics doctoral student at UCLA, pushed back on the reason to call the police in the first place. “Just because the police say it’s unlawful doesn’t mean that they’re right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unlawful assembly is an excuse by the university to shut us down,” Shi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego issued at least 40 suspensions in the middle of May related to the pro-Palestinian protests, the union wrote in one of its unfair labor practice violations. “Such extreme disciplinary measures in response to peaceful protest activity suppress free expression of ideas and violate the First Amendment,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=11\">it read\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are standing up for justice in the workplace, in a way that directly affects not just us, but our students,” said Anny Viloria Winnett, the unit chair of the local UCLA union chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the union is taking on a “fight for our ability to be safe on campus, our ability to have free speech and protest on our campus, but it’s also a fight that our students led … and we’re just a continuation of that.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly a third of the academic and graduate student workers of the University of California are on strike after the union of 48,000 members escalated its labor standoff by walking off the job at UCLA and UC Davis this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With as many as 2,000 UC Santa Cruz graduate students and academic workers picketing since last Monday, Tuesday’s job action brings 12,000 more out of classrooms and laboratories, potentially crippling the university’s mission of educating the roughly 80,000 undergraduates at the three campuses, just two weeks before students begin to take their end-of-quarter finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers, including teaching assistants, academic researchers and graders, are striking not over pay and benefits \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike-protests/\">but instead over the UC’s response\u003c/a> to pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested by police or suspended from their campuses. Some union members were arrested or suspended for their role in the protests. Core to the union’s demands is that the UC offer “amnesty for those who experienced arrest or are facing University discipline,” the union’s public writings state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 60 academic workers began picketing at Royce Quad at UCLA by 9 a.m., where just weeks ago, students at a large pro-Palestinian encampment were attacked by counterprotesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC, UC you’re no good, treat your workers like you should,” the picketing academic workers chanted, their ranks gradually growing as more striking workers arrived under a gray sky. “When free speech is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back,” went another chant, the rhythmic pulses of a snare drum accompanying the picketers, who grew to more than 200 by 10:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Origins of strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC’s Office of the President \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-statement-uaw-vote-conduct-unlawful-strike\">calls the strike illegal\u003c/a>, saying that its contract with the union — itself the result of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">a six-week-long strike in late 2022\u003c/a> — includes a no-strike provision. The union, UAW 4811, vehemently disagrees with that analysis, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=20\">citing legal precedent\u003c/a> that a union can strike over unfair labor practices that fall outside the scope of a union contract. It’s a view shared \u003ca href=\"https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/16/op-ed-uc-offers-deceptive-claims-about-illegality-of-strike-in-letter-to-union-members\">by at least one UCLA law professor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two days after police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/ucla-protest-palestine-police/\">swept the encampments at UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/\">arrested scores of protesters\u003c/a>, the union \u003ca href=\"https://www.uaw4811.org/2024-ulp-charges\">filed an unfair labor practice violation\u003c/a> with the labor relations board. The union then filed similar violations after police cleared encampments at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2024/05/06/chp-raids-ucsd-gaza-solidarity-encampment\">UC San Diego\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/police-converge-on-pro-palestinian-protest-at-uc-irvine-students-are-told-to-shelter-in-place\">UC Irvine, which \u003c/a>also led to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/\">arrests of protesters\u003c/a> — and \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">another alleging\u003c/a> that the UC changed its disciplinary rules unilaterally to punish academic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By summoning the police to forcibly arrest and/or issuing interim suspensions to these employees, the University has violated their employee rights,“ the union wrote in one of its submissions to the labor relations board. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=3\">The union said\u003c/a> its workers were not only rallying against the war in Gaza but also seeking ways to remove academic research funding sources \u003ca href=\"https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2024/05/how-uc-researchers-began-saying-no-military-work\">tied to the U.S. military\u003c/a>. Workers also oppose “the discrimination and hostile work environment directed towards Palestinian, Muslim, and pro-Palestine Jewish employees and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike a systemwide strike, this “stand up” strike will pursue labor stoppages at certain campuses, a strategy employed by Detroit autoworkers in their \u003ca href=\"https://labornotes.org/2023/10/big-3-buckled-stand-strike-spread\">successful campaign for higher compensation last year\u003c/a>. The approach is meant to apply gradual pressure to management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the strike is technically distinct from the larger protest movement against the war, the two movements are related. Last Thursday, several hundred UCLA members of the UAW 4811 held a rally in support of their impending strike. Moments later, they joined a student-led protest demanding that the UC call for a cease-fire and divest from weapons manufacturers and the Israeli economy. That same day, protesters erected a short-lived encampment and temporarily took \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/campus-protest-arrests-suspensions/#:~:text=Meanwhile%2C%20also%20in,class%C2%A0%20from%20entering.\">over a campus building before being pushed out by police\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a clear sign that, despite hundreds of arrests in May, thousands of students, union members and some faculty remain passionate about their pro-Palestinian advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legality of strike debated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost 20,000 of the union’s 48,000 members voted on whether to strike two weeks ago and nearly 80% of those who did vote approved the strike authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC sought an injunction to legally halt the strike, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_IR_Denial.pdf\">but the labor relations board wrote\u003c/a> last week that UC hadn’t established that an injunction is “just and proper.” The union hailed the ruling. However, the board wrote that it was leaving UC’s request open in the event the university provided better evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a partial victory for the university, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SFCO246H_CC1.pdf\">the board issued a complaint that the union\u003c/a> “failed to provide adequate advance notice of its work stoppage, and failed and refused to meet and confer in good faith.” The UC press office, in announcing the board’s response, \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor-news/uaw-news-and-updates-2/#:~:text=PERB%20issues%20complaint%20against%20UAW%C2%A0\">wrote that the labor board\u003c/a> “found enough evidence to suggest that a violation may have occurred, and further examination is warranted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union argues in its latest unfair labor practice violation that the UC unilaterally implemented a disciplinary policy that affects UAW 4811 workers. The union \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ccDronvAQSWJlm1unuqCjACupKmRkkWb/view\">seeks an order\u003c/a> telling the UC to “cease and desist from unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of employment related to discipline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the UC Office of the President disputes that characterization, writing that these policies aren’t new and reaffirm existing rules. The spokesperson, Heather Hansen, sought to invalidate the central thrust of the union’s demands, writing to CalMatters last week: “By requesting amnesty, UAW is asking the University not to follow its processes but rather to make an exception for its members so that they are not subject to the same accountability measures applicable to all other members of the UC community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Effect on student learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all unionized workers have jobs with labor to withhold. Some are paid with fellowships to advance their own research. But most perform a job duty that’s integral to the academic mission of the university. Systemwide, about 20,000 workers are graduate student teaching assistants, tutors or other instructional assistants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate students teach classes, especially introductory courses, run discussion sections and grade student work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, about 60% to 70% of UC Santa Cruz workers who could withhold their labor did, estimated Rebecca Gross, the unit chair of the union at the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the social media platform Reddit, individuals identifying themselves as UCLA students wrote that some of their discussion sessions are \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/1d1g2rq/classes_affected_by_the_strike/\">being canceled\u003c/a> and that some of their courses are moving online. It “is tragic for me bc I learn 80% of the material from discussion and problem-solving sessions,” wrote one poster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’ll pick up the work that the striking workers won’t do is an open question. The governing body of UCLA faculty \u003ca href=\"https://senate.ucla.edu/news/academic-senate-guidance-uaw-strike\">sent a message to professors that\u003c/a> “faculty members cannot be required to take on additional responsibilities for teaching related to a work stoppage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Graduate worker anger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most protesters, including UAW 4811 members, who were arrested, were cited for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/210-people-arrested-from-ucla-police-chief-confirms/3403435/#:~:text=LAPD%20Interim%20Chief%20Dominic%20Choi,in%20a%20social%20media%20posting.\">failing to follow police orders to disperse\u003c/a>. At UCLA, administrators sent a notice to students and protesters on April 30, a day before police cleared the encampment, that “the established encampment is unlawful and violates university policy” and asked the participants to leave the area or face sanctions. The notice also said that “law enforcement is prepared to arrest individuals, in accordance with applicable law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice added that “for students, those sanctions could include disciplinary measures such as interim suspension that, after proper due process through the student conduct process, could lead to dismissal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the encampment replied the same day, writing in part, “We will continue to remain here steadfast in our demands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, counterprotesters attacked those in the encampment with pepper spray, wooden sticks and at least one firework as police \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-campus-protests/#:~:text=Counterprotesters%20had%20set%20off%20fireworks%20around%2010%3A30%20p.m.%20Tuesday%2C%20and%20later%2C%20armed%20with%20pepper%20and%20bear%20spray%2C%20physically%20attacked%20those%20residing%20in%20the%20pro%2DPalestinian%20encampment.\">stood by for hours\u003c/a> and made no arrests. Local and national news outlets brought around-the-clock coverage of the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next afternoon, police ordered members of the encampment to disperse. Hours after those orders, police arrested more than 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In contrast to the lack of police response to the violent attack by anti-Palestine counterprotesters on April 30, 2024, the University summoned a massive number of police officers on the evening of May 1, 2024, for the purpose of ejecting and arresting the employees engaged in peaceful protest in the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment,” union lawyers wrote in one of the unfair labor practice violations \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=5\">submitted to the state labor relations board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kye Shi, a mathematics doctoral student at UCLA, pushed back on the reason to call the police in the first place. “Just because the police say it’s unlawful doesn’t mean that they’re right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unlawful assembly is an excuse by the university to shut us down,” Shi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego issued at least 40 suspensions in the middle of May related to the pro-Palestinian protests, the union wrote in one of its unfair labor practice violations. “Such extreme disciplinary measures in response to peaceful protest activity suppress free expression of ideas and violate the First Amendment,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-20240517135607SecondAmendedUnfairPracticeCharge_v2-1.pdf#page=11\">it read\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are standing up for justice in the workplace, in a way that directly affects not just us, but our students,” said Anny Viloria Winnett, the unit chair of the local UCLA union chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 42,000 fewer students in California applied for federal student aid in 2024 than last year after a major overhaul of the application process resulted in serious technical problems for would-be college applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than half of California high school seniors completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid — or FAFSA — form this year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncan.org/page/FAFSAtracker\">May 17 data from the National College Attainment Network\u003c/a> (NCAN), a nonprofit that aims to increase postsecondary degree access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to NCAN’s latest available figures, which are still being updated as more forms are processed, the California class of 2024 saw a 14% decrease in FAFSA completions compared to the same time last year. (Due to the delayed launch of the 2024-25 FAFSA the data for that year starts in January, as shown in the graph below, rather than in October as in previous years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extended deadline for California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957693/applying-for-fafsa-in-2023-will-be-different-what-to-know-including-deadlines\">state aid was May 2\u003c/a>, although \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/fafsa-deadlines#fafsa-deadlines-2024-25\">students can still apply to FAFSA to assess their potential eligibility\u003c/a> for other types of aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California's total FAFSA Completions since 2017\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Uon0q\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Zp4Bd/4\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the drop in FAFSA applications was even higher: A 16% decrease compared to the class of 2023. California was ranked ninth in highest among U.S. states and territories for FAFSA completion, a position that has nonetheless improved in the past two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"High school seniors' FAFSA completions in 2024\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Uon0q\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/vX50o/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NCAN measured FAFSA completion data rather than just submissions, meaning the application has been submitted \u003cem>and \u003c/em>not sent back to the student for any corrections. The nonprofit’s data comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office and includes both public and private high schools. As it continues to report the submission numbers that are still coming in, NCAN also mounted \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncan.org/page/DoTheFAFSA\">a social campaign to highlight the national FAFSA statistics lagging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill DeBaun, NCAN’s senior director, said the submission data “really raises the question about how many students actually started the application but didn’t finish, because of the glitches in the application — or because of whatever complication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s applying for financial aid — and who’s not?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>NCAN’s data also reveals demographic disparities in who’s applying for financial aid in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income schools, defined as schools where at least half of the students are qualified for free or reduced-priced lunch, saw a FAFSA completion rate of 47%. This means, over 165,000 lower-income students did not complete the FAFSA this year compared to 2023 — a 15% decrease. By comparison, higher-income schools saw a 56% completion rate among their students and a 13% decrease from last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data is similar when examining completions among students of color in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than half of seniors in “high-minority” schools (which NCAN defines as enrolling 40% or more Black and/or Hispanic students) completed the FAFSA for 2024 — a 15% drop in this same group from last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, a higher percentage of seniors in “low-minority schools” — 56% — completed the FAFSA this year, with a smaller decrease of 12% in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monitoring the relative levels of FAFSA completion matters, DeBaun said, because the numbers give an idea of how many young people intend to enroll in college in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we see FAFSA completion go up, we see immediate college enrollment also go up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For mixed-status students, a particular burden\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As school counselors like Piedmont Hills’ Jill Shoopman can attest, applying to the FAFSA is already a dreaded process for most high school seniors who aim to attend postsecondary institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">the bungled rollout\u003c/a> had Shoopman fearing that many high school students would give up trying to complete the form entirely and miss out on aid they could be qualified for, especially those who need it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many in similar positions, Shoopman saw the particular impact on students from California’s mixed-status families. Mixed-status students \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">found themselves blocked from completing the FAFSA application\u003c/a> if one of their parents didn’t have a Social Security number due to their immigration status. Shoopman recalled how one of her favorite students, a senior from a mixed-status family, would stop by her office each week to anxiously ask, “Is there a fix? Is there a fix?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understands, even at her young age, how important this is,” Shoopman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counselors, high schools and college-prep organizations say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957693/applying-for-fafsa-in-2023-will-be-different-what-to-know-including-deadlines\">the delayed rollout of the relaunched FAFSA\u003c/a> — a revamp intended to streamline and simplify the process for students — was no big surprise. Further complicating the process were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63005/exclusive-the-education-department-says-it-will-fix-its-1-8-billion-fafsa-mistake\">glitches \u003c/a>with Social Security numbers and instances where students could not create accounts entirely, which created real panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The application launched on Dec. 30, 2023, but students from mixed-status families could only complete the application starting March 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t know how they didn’t anticipate that [mixed-status families not being able to apply] was going to be a concern,” Shoopman said — especially in a state like California, where \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantdataca.org/indicators/mixed-status-families?breakdown=by-age-group\">20% of Californians under 18 are either undocumented or living with undocumented family members\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Families, support staff and schools under pressure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For David Alvarez, the director of college readiness and success at Alpha Public Schools in San José, it was “the worst financial aid application season that I’ve ever experienced” in his 15 years in education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that us as a team, as well as fellow educators, tried our absolute best to improve completion rates from years to the next,” Alvarez said. “But the system [this year] didn’t really allow for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez’s school has a large number of first-generation and Latino students, he explained. In preparation for the application season, the school prepared FAFSA workshops and early morning hours for seniors to work on their application to provide specialized attention to students — trying to work around the complications of the form.[aside postID=news_11984551 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-SAT-III-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg']During those workshops, Alvarez managed the growing frustrations of students and their parents. He said some had taken time off work to attend a workshop and faced unanswered questions exacerbated by FAFSA glitches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience has become a nightmare when you realize that applications weren’t working properly, that you didn’t always have the answers when you were troubleshooting things … and that created a lot of distrust from students and parents,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, they might see it as, ‘Hey, you don’t have the answers. You might be incompetent. You don’t know what you’re talking about,’” Alvarez said. “And the reality is: It’s so much bigger than us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community is losing out on both the time and the money that, let’s be real, we didn’t really have in the first place to begin with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oftentimes, students would question the purpose of even doing the application, Alvarez said. Some four-year eligible students instead planned to go to community college, potentially overloading the community college system, which is unsure who will be attending in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With a delay in FAFSA, it delayed the ability for schools to present financial aid award letters,” Alvarez said. The FAFSA delays also delayed schools’ ability to present financial aid award letters, Alvarez said — meaning that “ultimately, students and parents can’t confidently select the institution that they want to go to — because they’re just unaware of how much money they will receive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many states extended their college application deadlines, this led to institutions not knowing who would attend their school in the fall. According to DeBaun, this impacts course schedules, staffing and residential halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a limit to how far back institutions can push these deadlines and still be prepared to receive students for the fall semester,” he said. Shoopman also said it can keep students on college waitlists in limbo as others consider if they can afford to enroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For students in California, or anywhere in America right now, we should be concerned about what full enrollment would look like based on the FAFSA completion declines that we’re seeing,” DeBaun said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Examining the reasons behind FAFSA declines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One factor to consider in this year’s sharp fall in FAFSA submissions is the record number of applications the state saw last year, according to California State Aid Commission (CSAC) spokesperson Shelveen Ratnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the agency’s widespread \u003ca href=\"https://campussuite-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/1558523/0672826e-a84b-11e7-9779-0ae3e1d9783c/2627890/325d1d6e-1cfb-11ee-b757-02b0137163b1/file/all_in_for_fafsa_ca_dream_act_fact_sheet.pdf\">“All in for FAFSA/CA Dream” campaign\u003c/a> promoted awareness of FAFSA, encouraging California high schools to have all students fill out an application or actively opt out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like every state that also implemented this policy, California saw a large jump in FAFSA completion numbers last year, DeBaun said. By September 2023, 62% of the class of 2023 had completed the FAFSA — compared to 58% of the class of 2022 in the same period that year.[aside postID=news_11982354 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240408-UCLAWSF-014-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']States that have traditionally done well with FAFSA completion, like California and Texas, are also seeing major drops this year, DeBaun said. However, for him, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fafsa\">the delay in this year’s FAFSA application\u003c/a> is at least partly responsible for these marked decreases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think about it this way: Every day, [successful states] are relatively more effective at getting more students to complete a FAFSA than their peers,” DeBaun said. “So when you take 90 days out of the FAFSA cycle … every single one of those days, relatively speaking, costs that state more in terms of FAFSA completion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The class of 2024 [has] just had a much smaller window in which to complete the FAFSA,” DeBaun said — and all the while — “the fall semester isn’t getting pushed back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratnam described the trend in data — and the technical difficulties that students faced — as “definitely alarming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Financial aid is] one of the most important things that students or families think about when it comes to deciding if they want to pursue higher education,” Ratnam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alvarez noted that FAFSA submission numbers have increased in the last weeks, likely helped by the fact that the previous glitches with the form had been fixed, he said that distrust of the process among students and their families is still noticeable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As this winter’s initial FAFSA errors might have been resolved, “tell that to someone who’s come to the high school five, six, seven, eight times already,” Alvarez said. “And that’s really what we’re facing: Just re-energizing the students and the parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As difficult as it is, it has long-term impacts, and we want to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do students still have time to apply?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the May 2 deadline for in-state aid has passed, CSAC is encouraging students to still apply to the FAFSA to see if they qualify for other types of financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/cal-grant-community-college-entitlement-award\">Cal Grant Community College Entitlement Award FAFSA application\u003c/a> is due on Sept. 2\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez said the FAFSA is often the first college-related struggle students face. But he tells his students to apply for financial aid to keep the door open to college enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to parents, Alvarez said his message on the importance of financial aid’s role in getting a student to college often comes when their children are graduating: “They’re literally transcending their circumstances; they’re narrowing that achievement gap,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re breaking barriers for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During those workshops, Alvarez managed the growing frustrations of students and their parents. He said some had taken time off work to attend a workshop and faced unanswered questions exacerbated by FAFSA glitches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience has become a nightmare when you realize that applications weren’t working properly, that you didn’t always have the answers when you were troubleshooting things … and that created a lot of distrust from students and parents,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, they might see it as, ‘Hey, you don’t have the answers. You might be incompetent. You don’t know what you’re talking about,’” Alvarez said. “And the reality is: It’s so much bigger than us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community is losing out on both the time and the money that, let’s be real, we didn’t really have in the first place to begin with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oftentimes, students would question the purpose of even doing the application, Alvarez said. Some four-year eligible students instead planned to go to community college, potentially overloading the community college system, which is unsure who will be attending in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With a delay in FAFSA, it delayed the ability for schools to present financial aid award letters,” Alvarez said. The FAFSA delays also delayed schools’ ability to present financial aid award letters, Alvarez said — meaning that “ultimately, students and parents can’t confidently select the institution that they want to go to — because they’re just unaware of how much money they will receive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many states extended their college application deadlines, this led to institutions not knowing who would attend their school in the fall. According to DeBaun, this impacts course schedules, staffing and residential halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a limit to how far back institutions can push these deadlines and still be prepared to receive students for the fall semester,” he said. Shoopman also said it can keep students on college waitlists in limbo as others consider if they can afford to enroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For students in California, or anywhere in America right now, we should be concerned about what full enrollment would look like based on the FAFSA completion declines that we’re seeing,” DeBaun said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Examining the reasons behind FAFSA declines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One factor to consider in this year’s sharp fall in FAFSA submissions is the record number of applications the state saw last year, according to California State Aid Commission (CSAC) spokesperson Shelveen Ratnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the agency’s widespread \u003ca href=\"https://campussuite-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/1558523/0672826e-a84b-11e7-9779-0ae3e1d9783c/2627890/325d1d6e-1cfb-11ee-b757-02b0137163b1/file/all_in_for_fafsa_ca_dream_act_fact_sheet.pdf\">“All in for FAFSA/CA Dream” campaign\u003c/a> promoted awareness of FAFSA, encouraging California high schools to have all students fill out an application or actively opt out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like every state that also implemented this policy, California saw a large jump in FAFSA completion numbers last year, DeBaun said. By September 2023, 62% of the class of 2023 had completed the FAFSA — compared to 58% of the class of 2022 in the same period that year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>States that have traditionally done well with FAFSA completion, like California and Texas, are also seeing major drops this year, DeBaun said. However, for him, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fafsa\">the delay in this year’s FAFSA application\u003c/a> is at least partly responsible for these marked decreases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think about it this way: Every day, [successful states] are relatively more effective at getting more students to complete a FAFSA than their peers,” DeBaun said. “So when you take 90 days out of the FAFSA cycle … every single one of those days, relatively speaking, costs that state more in terms of FAFSA completion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The class of 2024 [has] just had a much smaller window in which to complete the FAFSA,” DeBaun said — and all the while — “the fall semester isn’t getting pushed back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratnam described the trend in data — and the technical difficulties that students faced — as “definitely alarming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Financial aid is] one of the most important things that students or families think about when it comes to deciding if they want to pursue higher education,” Ratnam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alvarez noted that FAFSA submission numbers have increased in the last weeks, likely helped by the fact that the previous glitches with the form had been fixed, he said that distrust of the process among students and their families is still noticeable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As this winter’s initial FAFSA errors might have been resolved, “tell that to someone who’s come to the high school five, six, seven, eight times already,” Alvarez said. “And that’s really what we’re facing: Just re-energizing the students and the parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As difficult as it is, it has long-term impacts, and we want to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do students still have time to apply?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the May 2 deadline for in-state aid has passed, CSAC is encouraging students to still apply to the FAFSA to see if they qualify for other types of financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/cal-grant-community-college-entitlement-award\">Cal Grant Community College Entitlement Award FAFSA application\u003c/a> is due on Sept. 2\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez said the FAFSA is often the first college-related struggle students face. But he tells his students to apply for financial aid to keep the door open to college enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to parents, Alvarez said his message on the importance of financial aid’s role in getting a student to college often comes when their children are graduating: “They’re literally transcending their circumstances; they’re narrowing that achievement gap,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re breaking barriers for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>About 1,500 graduate teaching assistants, researchers and others at UC Santa Cruz have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986910/uc-santa-cruz-academic-workers-strike-in-support-of-pro-palestinian-protesters\">walked off the job\u003c/a>, the first and so far only campus to take action after the union representing academic workers across the University of California authorized a strike over the recent handling of pro-Palestinian protests on its campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rolling walkout, in which campuses will be called on to join the picket line at times unbeknownst to the UC, is part of what the UAW 4811 union representing the academic workers is calling a “stand-up strike.” It’s a tactic that the local’s parent United Auto Workers union — which has roughly 100,000 members working for universities — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/12/1211602392/uaw-auto-strike-deals-ratified-big-three-shawn-fain\">rolled out against the Big Three automakers\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After 58 years of sharing her passion for music and the arts with City College of San Francisco students, music department chair Madeline Mueller may finally get what she’s always wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the college’s longest-tenured employee, Mueller is just as committed to advocating for a much overdue performing arts auditorium as she is to using her vast musical knowledge, sharp eye for detail and willingness to do any job to keep the music department running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only then, Mueller said, will she consider retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could have retired years ago,” Mueller said. “But I made a promise to myself and to the administration that I wouldn’t retire — I used to say until they built the auditorium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mueller, the issue is simple: City College is an incomplete campus without a proper auditorium to support its performing arts majors, including music and theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has been discussing the project for years and even came close to breaking ground in 2012. However, after budget cuts and state roadblocks, Mueller said she was left feeling more like Charlie Brown from the \u003cem>Peanuts\u003c/em> comic strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like Lucy and the football,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucy is the state, the administration and budget cuts — everything that has stopped the theater from being built. Mueller is Charlie Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, with renewed plans for the theater to go to the state for approval, City College seems closer than ever to building the performing arts auditorium of Mueller’s dreams. The project has an architect, design plans and a contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"What appear to be detailed architectural renderings, including mock-up illustrations of an interior space, are displayed in a glass case\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plans for a new performing arts center hang in the City College of San Francisco music department on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City College is hopeful the state will approve the plans before the end of 2024, and media reports have the auditorium tentatively \u003ca href=\"https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/06/21/new-theatre-building-will-house-famous-diego-rivera-mural-in-san-francisco\">scheduled to open in 2027\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s been working for over 40 years to get our performing arts center designed,” said Steven Brown, horticulture department chair, who sits on the facilities committee with Mueller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before Mueller started her quest for a major auditorium at City College, she was an aspiring concert pianist, following in Beethoven’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘She’s a brilliant pianist’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a girl in Bakersfield, Mueller studied under Ethel McManus Shaver, her link to an illustrious chain of five pianists that stretches back to Beethoven. But like many aspiring performers, Mueller needed a backup plan, and hers was a community college teaching credential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, two weeks into its fall semester, City College’s band director departed for a new position at San Francisco State, leaving his old post vacant. The music department suddenly needed a full-time substitute teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A detailed close-up photograph of hands playing a piano\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music department chair Madeline Mueller plays piano at the City College of San Francisco on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mueller stepped into her new teaching role that year. She fell in love with the college immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was enchanted,” she said. “The school had such diversity. And the students were so smart and appreciative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after she began teaching, Mueller continued to perform — and not just at faculty recitals — at concerts throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She could have gone on to a career as an accompanist,” said Lenny Carlson, a retired City College music professor and jazz musician. “She’s a brilliant pianist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson often chose Mueller, who’s premiered a lot of modern music as a soloist and as a part of an ensemble, to debut his compositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really enjoy writing music that has humor in it because I know that she will get it, however subtle it is,” Carlson said, who’s an accomplished jazz guitarist and composer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Mueller’s colleagues agree she has been the primary force in shaping the college’s music department over the decades. Her influence, whether teaching music or championing the department’s auditorium, is significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This department wouldn’t exist without Madeline,” said Lynette Warfield, the former music department secretary. “And if it did, it would be an empty shell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman wearing glasses and a pink coat speaks to a younger student as he plays a grand piano\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music department chair Madeline Mueller works with piano student Francisco Guijarro at the City College of San Francisco on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once, Warfield said she witnessed an intradepartmental argument reach what she described as the point of no return — one person accused the other of having a terrible voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After they talked to Madeline, the two were singing together,” Warfield said. “When Madeline is in the office, there’s harmony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly 60 years, Mueller’s advocacy for the performing arts department at City College was witnessed at local gatherings with City College’s Board of Trustees, the Academic Senate and the Facilities Committee. Without fail, Mueller always made it a point to be present, often remaining until she was the sole occupant in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s always been an advocate,” Carlson said. “She was one of the founders of the Academic Senate and the Department Chairs’ Council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller also serves on the Facilities Committee, which has overseen the planning of the new performing arts theater. Now, the project is the top priority on the Facilities Committee’s latest five-year plan and has a $185 million budget. Plans for the new theater are currently in front of the Division of the State Architect — and the committee hopes to have approval by December 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re clawing back’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As plans slowly inch forward, City College’s lack of an auditorium to support its performing arts majors continues to be a goal Mueller and other faculty members rally around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the only school in the whole system that doesn’t have an auditorium,” Mueller said. “It’s embarrassing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk down steps leading to the planned site for a new performing arts center at the City College of San Francisco on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The music department is not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, of the City College horticulture department, recalled a faculty meeting from early in his tenure with such a large number of participants that it couldn’t be hosted at the school’s Diego Rivera Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to rent the Riordan auditorium,” Brown said. “The private Catholic high school across the street has a bigger auditorium than City College, even though City College’s student body is 10 times bigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her tenure, Mueller said she’s watched CCSF prioritize other department buildings over the proposed performing arts center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, Mueller said planning for a new auditorium began in earnest. Yet, after the performing arts and PE departments expressed a need for new facilities in 2001, an internal agreement stipulated that the PE department would prioritize the first portion of the construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wellness Center, which contains new gym facilities, was completed in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986919\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music department chair Madeline Mueller looks through a 2016 issue of Etc Magazine, which features photos of herself at the City College of San Francisco on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the following years, the college hired an architecture firm, TEF Design, to draw up plans for the new performing arts center, but it was unable to obtain state-matching funds for several years. Instead, City College prioritized the construction of the new Multi-Use Building (MUB).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The MUB was finished in 2012 and cost $77 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2000, when the initial planning for the performing arts center began, San Francisco voters have passed three propositions to fund new CCSF construction. These propositions in 2000, 2005 and 2020, all called Proposition A, authorized nearly $1.3 billion combined in bond funds for City College.[aside postID=news_11966741 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-24-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Still, Mueller points to the delays her department has endured over the last 20 years as tantamount to ignoring the will of the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Three times the voters of San Francisco have put up major funding for this project,” Mueller said. “They said: Do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But City College hindered its progress, Mueller claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior College (ACCJC) produced a “show-cause” order against CCSF, accusing the college of poor financial management. A show-cause order is a warning that a college is in danger of losing its accreditation unless it changes its practices. City College had to make immediate budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a February 2013 interview with \u003cem>The Guardsman\u003c/em>, interim chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman announced that she asked the board not to move forward with constructing the new performing arts center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in September 2013, special trustee Robert Agrella officially announced that the project would not break ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The college has no means to fund this excess cost,” Agrella said in an open letter to the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986923\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-24-BL.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman wearing glasses and a pink coat smiles as she leans on a grand piano\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-24-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-24-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-24-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-24-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-24-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-24-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music department chair Madeline Mueller poses for a portrait at the City College of San Francisco on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mueller felt like Charlie Brown once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Madeline wasn’t happy about it, but there was nothing she could do,” said Brown, who is also the co-chair of the Facilities Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the frustration, Folsom Lake College, another California community college campus, received what Carlson deemed as “an exact replica of the design” that was meant for CCSF. Folsom’s performing arts theater was completed in 2011 before Agrella announced that CCSF’s project would be delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was personal,” Carlson said. “This was a thumb in Madeline’s eye by administrators at the state level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay had a financial cost, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College had to forfeit $22 million in matching funds from the state that it had planned to use in the construction of the performing arts theater.[aside postID=news_11966749 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230928-ArleneOwseichik-024-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg']In 2017, the ACCJC reaffirmed City College’s accreditation status, restoring some stability to the struggling school. Mueller, who had spent the last four years fighting against budget cuts in the music department, once again started to think about a new performing arts theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re clawing back,” she said. “We’ve got our band back, we’ve got our choir back, and we’re desperately nagging them to get my orchestra back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in years, she’s cautiously optimistic about the future of the performing arts center. In late December, plans for it went before California’s Division of the State Architect, a key part of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the first time we’ve had all our ducks in a row,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talks to build the new theater were restarted in 2020, according to Mueller, the same year San Francisco voters approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/voter-guide/2020-03/sf-prop-a-city-college-facilities-bond#:~:text=What%20the%20Measure%20Would%20Do,major%20renovations%20since%20the%201970s.\">Proposition A, an $845 million bond measure for City College\u003c/a>. In 2021, the City College board approved a new design for the Performing Arts Center. Two years later, the architects for the new building, LMN Architects and TEF Design, were officially announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was one change to the design: a large glass lobby to hold Diego Rivera’s \u003cem>Pan American Unity\u003c/em> mural, one of City College’s crown jewels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the component we never thought of,” Mueller said. “It did raise the cost, but it will preserve the iconic mural.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many projects on her plate, it’s hard to imagine Mueller retiring any time soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of her career, her promise to bow out once the performing arts center was complete was an empty threat. Now, that time may come, after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll play it by ear,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mueller, the issue is simple: City College is an incomplete campus without a proper auditorium to support its performing arts majors, including music and theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has been discussing the project for years and even came close to breaking ground in 2012. However, after budget cuts and state roadblocks, Mueller said she was left feeling more like Charlie Brown from the \u003cem>Peanuts\u003c/em> comic strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like Lucy and the football,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucy is the state, the administration and budget cuts — everything that has stopped the theater from being built. Mueller is Charlie Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, with renewed plans for the theater to go to the state for approval, City College seems closer than ever to building the performing arts auditorium of Mueller’s dreams. The project has an architect, design plans and a contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"What appear to be detailed architectural renderings, including mock-up illustrations of an interior space, are displayed in a glass case\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plans for a new performing arts center hang in the City College of San Francisco music department on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City College is hopeful the state will approve the plans before the end of 2024, and media reports have the auditorium tentatively \u003ca href=\"https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/06/21/new-theatre-building-will-house-famous-diego-rivera-mural-in-san-francisco\">scheduled to open in 2027\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s been working for over 40 years to get our performing arts center designed,” said Steven Brown, horticulture department chair, who sits on the facilities committee with Mueller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before Mueller started her quest for a major auditorium at City College, she was an aspiring concert pianist, following in Beethoven’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘She’s a brilliant pianist’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a girl in Bakersfield, Mueller studied under Ethel McManus Shaver, her link to an illustrious chain of five pianists that stretches back to Beethoven. But like many aspiring performers, Mueller needed a backup plan, and hers was a community college teaching credential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, two weeks into its fall semester, City College’s band director departed for a new position at San Francisco State, leaving his old post vacant. The music department suddenly needed a full-time substitute teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A detailed close-up photograph of hands playing a piano\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-23-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music department chair Madeline Mueller plays piano at the City College of San Francisco on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mueller stepped into her new teaching role that year. She fell in love with the college immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was enchanted,” she said. “The school had such diversity. And the students were so smart and appreciative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after she began teaching, Mueller continued to perform — and not just at faculty recitals — at concerts throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She could have gone on to a career as an accompanist,” said Lenny Carlson, a retired City College music professor and jazz musician. “She’s a brilliant pianist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson often chose Mueller, who’s premiered a lot of modern music as a soloist and as a part of an ensemble, to debut his compositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really enjoy writing music that has humor in it because I know that she will get it, however subtle it is,” Carlson said, who’s an accomplished jazz guitarist and composer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Mueller’s colleagues agree she has been the primary force in shaping the college’s music department over the decades. Her influence, whether teaching music or championing the department’s auditorium, is significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This department wouldn’t exist without Madeline,” said Lynette Warfield, the former music department secretary. “And if it did, it would be an empty shell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman wearing glasses and a pink coat speaks to a younger student as he plays a grand piano\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music department chair Madeline Mueller works with piano student Francisco Guijarro at the City College of San Francisco on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once, Warfield said she witnessed an intradepartmental argument reach what she described as the point of no return — one person accused the other of having a terrible voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After they talked to Madeline, the two were singing together,” Warfield said. “When Madeline is in the office, there’s harmony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly 60 years, Mueller’s advocacy for the performing arts department at City College was witnessed at local gatherings with City College’s Board of Trustees, the Academic Senate and the Facilities Committee. Without fail, Mueller always made it a point to be present, often remaining until she was the sole occupant in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s always been an advocate,” Carlson said. “She was one of the founders of the Academic Senate and the Department Chairs’ Council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller also serves on the Facilities Committee, which has overseen the planning of the new performing arts theater. Now, the project is the top priority on the Facilities Committee’s latest five-year plan and has a $185 million budget. Plans for the new theater are currently in front of the Division of the State Architect — and the committee hopes to have approval by December 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re clawing back’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As plans slowly inch forward, City College’s lack of an auditorium to support its performing arts majors continues to be a goal Mueller and other faculty members rally around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the only school in the whole system that doesn’t have an auditorium,” Mueller said. “It’s embarrassing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-33-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk down steps leading to the planned site for a new performing arts center at the City College of San Francisco on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The music department is not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, of the City College horticulture department, recalled a faculty meeting from early in his tenure with such a large number of participants that it couldn’t be hosted at the school’s Diego Rivera Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to rent the Riordan auditorium,” Brown said. “The private Catholic high school across the street has a bigger auditorium than City College, even though City College’s student body is 10 times bigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her tenure, Mueller said she’s watched CCSF prioritize other department buildings over the proposed performing arts center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, Mueller said planning for a new auditorium began in earnest. Yet, after the performing arts and PE departments expressed a need for new facilities in 2001, an internal agreement stipulated that the PE department would prioritize the first portion of the construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wellness Center, which contains new gym facilities, was completed in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986919\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240517-CCSFProfileMadelineMueller-02-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music department chair Madeline Mueller looks through a 2016 issue of Etc Magazine, which features photos of herself at the City College of San Francisco on May 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the following years, the college hired an architecture firm, TEF Design, to draw up plans for the new performing arts center, but it was unable to obtain state-matching funds for several years. Instead, City College prioritized the construction of the new Multi-Use Building (MUB).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The MUB was finished in 2012 and cost $77 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2000, when the initial planning for the performing arts center began, San Francisco voters have passed three propositions to fund new CCSF construction. These propositions in 2000, 2005 and 2020, all called Proposition A, authorized nearly $1.3 billion combined in bond funds for City College.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2017, the ACCJC reaffirmed City College’s accreditation status, restoring some stability to the struggling school. Mueller, who had spent the last four years fighting against budget cuts in the music department, once again started to think about a new performing arts theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re clawing back,” she said. “We’ve got our band back, we’ve got our choir back, and we’re desperately nagging them to get my orchestra back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in years, she’s cautiously optimistic about the future of the performing arts center. In late December, plans for it went before California’s Division of the State Architect, a key part of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the first time we’ve had all our ducks in a row,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talks to build the new theater were restarted in 2020, according to Mueller, the same year San Francisco voters approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/voter-guide/2020-03/sf-prop-a-city-college-facilities-bond#:~:text=What%20the%20Measure%20Would%20Do,major%20renovations%20since%20the%201970s.\">Proposition A, an $845 million bond measure for City College\u003c/a>. In 2021, the City College board approved a new design for the Performing Arts Center. Two years later, the architects for the new building, LMN Architects and TEF Design, were officially announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was one change to the design: a large glass lobby to hold Diego Rivera’s \u003cem>Pan American Unity\u003c/em> mural, one of City College’s crown jewels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the component we never thought of,” Mueller said. “It did raise the cost, but it will preserve the iconic mural.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many projects on her plate, it’s hard to imagine Mueller retiring any time soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of her career, her promise to bow out once the performing arts center was complete was an empty threat. Now, that time may come, after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll play it by ear,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990145/en-el-condado-de-sonoma-padres-inmigrantes-luchan-para-recuperar-el-enlace-bilingue-de-las-escuelas\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My only goal in this country is that my children go to college,” Sandra Cruz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz first arrived in Santa Rosa in 2006 with her husband and two children. Originally from Puerto Vallarta in Mexico, they had left everything behind to start all over again in the North Bay — where she enrolled her two kids in the Oak Grove Union School District, which serves families in west Santa Rosa and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite not speaking English and working as a housecleaner, Cruz wanted to be a part of her children’s education and began volunteering at school events and field trips. “It was like finding a family,” she said, “even though we didn’t speak the language, folks opened doors for us at every school event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the roughly 800 students enrolled in Oak Grove’s two school sites, about a third are Latino, and many of them are also learning English as a second language. As her children grew up and moved on to a different district for high school, Cruz kept many of the friendships she made with parents and teachers. When she and her husband had a third child, a girl, she knew she wanted to go back to Oak Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her youngest is now 9 years old, a third-grader in Oak Grove Elementary. This time around, Cruz said that Spanish-speaking students are even more integrated into the classrooms, thanks to Ana Castillo-Williams, the district’s part-time bilingual liaison. Castillo-Williams makes sure all communication to parents is available in both English and Spanish, translates in parent-teacher meetings and helps organize the district’s multicultural events like the Día de los Niños celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s earned the trust of families as many parents don’t feel comfortable coming to the schools because they don’t know the language,” Cruz said. “But she works with them so they have the courage to show up, and she also makes sure that their voices are heard even when they don’t speak English.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, on March 13, the Oak Grove Board of Trustees \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/13QfcRaf_zQFgwVCBQvkgyvNvZlgrCzh7/view\">voted to cut the hours of 10 positions\u003c/a> — eliminating the bilingual liaison — as the district seeks to close budget gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the district’s announcement, Cruz and dozens of other parents \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/oak-grove-union-spanish-speaking-parents-protest-district-firing-its-only-t/\">have been leading weekly protests demanding the district revert its decision\u003c/a>. They’ve garnered the support of the community at large, including the teachers’ union and groups like the North Bay Organizing Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All over Bay Area school districts, immigrant parents have shown their organizing power — with or without English. In Oakland, Mam-speaking parents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855640/how-native-speakers-are-helping-1300-mam-students-in-oakland-through-remote-learning\">mobilized to help out Indigenous families struggling with remote learning during the pandemic\u003c/a>. Over in San Francisco, Cantonese-speaking parents led the efforts to pass Proposition N in 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sf-school-board-non-citizen-voting-upheld-proposition-n-california-court-of-appeal/\">allowing noncitizen parents and guardians to vote in school board elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oak Grove, families argue that without the bilingual liaison position, the gap between Latino students and their peers will continue to grow. And parents said they’re not planning to step back on their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A fight for ‘language justice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On March 8, Oak Grove trustees were scheduled to have their first meeting since approving the staff layoffs. Even before the meeting began, dozens of parents were already protesting outside the gym of Willowside Middle School, where the board meets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With signs that read, “Keep our bilingual liaison” and “Language justice,” parents and community members chanted: “¡Amber, escucha, estamos en la lucha!” — “Amber, listen to us, we’re in this fight!” referring to district Superintendent Amber Stringfellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986141\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1536x1008.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1920x1260.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willowside Middle School in Santa Rosa on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Stringfellow told KQED that the Sonoma County Office of Education has directed the district to cut back on spending to match projected state funding. The \u003cem>Press Democrat\u003c/em> first reported in February \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/state-budget-better-than-expected-but-sonoma-county-school-districts-still/\">that Oak Grove is one of three districts in the county facing the most financial stress\u003c/a>, with cash reserves running below state requirements. With all the staff cuts announced in March, the district hopes to save $237,242, but officials are still looking for more ways to rein in spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district understands and is committed to providing avenues of communication for our community, including our parents and guardians who are not fluent in English,” Stringfellow said. She added that the district provides stipends to other bilingual staff who pitch in with translation services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, for some teachers, getting other district employees to fill the shoes of the bilingual liaison isn’t a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have 13 people getting a stipend for bilingualism,” said sixth-grade teacher Cari Cardle, who is also the co-president of the Oak Grove Union Elementary Educators Association. “But you know what? Those 13 people have a job. And it’s not to be the bilingual liaison. It’s not to be an interpreter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardle has taught at Oak Grove for 25 years. Whatever the topic is, she can teach it, she said — but adds that over time, what teachers are responsible for has grown considerably. “The mental health, physical health, the social media aspect, all of those things combined have changed this job so dramatically,” she said, “and that’s the part that’s hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all of this goes into forming relationships with students and their families, she said. This is especially important for students learning English as a second language, who have to learn material twice as fast to catch up with their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing that matters in a school system for student success is relationships,” Cardle said. “If you don’t have a relationship, you’re not going to get the best out of the kid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Castillo-Williams would play a key role as bilingual liaison, she explains. When something was going on at home, Spanish-speaking parents would call the bilingual liaison — not teachers or school administrators. Parents told KQED that Castillo-Williams felt like the only staff member they could comfortably talk about delicate family issues. (Castillo-Williams herself was not available to talk to KQED for this story.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s not just the families that are benefiting. It’s also the teachers who can then help the kids because we have an avenue to find out what’s going on,” Cardle said. In its March meeting, over 90% of the Educators Association voted in favor of supporting parents’ demand to bring back the bilingual liaison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you reach that kid who doesn’t have what they need?” Cardle said. “If they’re hungry, they can’t learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We cannot stay quiet’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School districts up and down California are struggling with widening deficits. San Francisco Unified \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978035/sfusd-considers-school-closures-and-mergers-amid-declining-enrollment\">could see a $100 million budget shortfall next year,\u003c/a> and the district projects student enrollment will continue to shrink for the rest of the decade. Over in Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-08/thousands-rally-over-expected-cuts-to-l-a-schools-a-rebuke-to-lausds-no-layoff-claims\">LAUSD could see a deficit of roughly $1.75 billion next year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite recent promises from Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-again-pledges-to-spare-cuts-for-schools-and-community-colleges-but-not-for-csu-and-uc/711722\">to protect K–12 funding at the state level\u003c/a>, federal grants that helped buoy up school districts during the pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/1239609135/the-190-billion-in-emergency-funds-given-to-schools-during-the-pandemic-is-endin\">have essentially run out\u003c/a>. “What to cut?” is the top question at many school board meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, cutting the bilingual liaison could specifically make it harder for Latino students to make up lost learning, parents said.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='education']According to \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp-elpac.ets.org/caaspp/DashViewReportSB?ps=true&lstTestYear=2023&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1&lstGrade=13&lstSchoolType=A&lstCounty=49&lstDistrict=70839-000&lstSchool=0000000&lstFocus=a\">state testing data\u003c/a>, approximately 52% of all students in Oak Grove schools met or exceeded English Language Arts (ELA) standards at the end of the 2022–23 school year. In math, that number was 42%. Among students who identify as Latino or Hispanic, the numbers were lower: 42% in ELA and 28% in math. While research has confirmed that testing results \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2024/02/10/research-shows-what-state-standardized-tests-actually-measure/?sh=352fad7375e5\">are rarely good indicators of student success\u003c/a>, this data can be used to identify student needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot stay quiet while we see the needs of our Hispanic community ignored,” said parent María Gayosso at the district’s March 8 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if one group of students is struggling, that could also affect other students, said Rhianna Casesa, associate professor at Sonoma State University. She focuses on bilingual education and works with many young educators who want to teach in Sonoma schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 2017, Sonoma County has gone through one trauma after another, with fires, COVID-19, flooding,” she said. “If you don’t know what it’s like from a child’s perspective or from a parent’s perspective, it’s really hard to appropriately teach that child in that classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is why it’s so important for parents to speak up, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something that I’ve seen happening more and more is that parents are demanding what they deserve,” she said. “Parents now feel that they have the agency to make these demands because, ultimately, it’s their tax money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oak Grove, the school board is considering a process for reinstating positions once next year’s budget is finalized in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Cruz says she and other parents will keep protesting every week until they get the bilingual liaison back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the most important thing is the seed we plant in our children,” she said. “The courage we show them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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They’ve garnered the support of the community at large, including the teachers’ union and groups like the North Bay Organizing Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All over Bay Area school districts, immigrant parents have shown their organizing power — with or without English. In Oakland, Mam-speaking parents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855640/how-native-speakers-are-helping-1300-mam-students-in-oakland-through-remote-learning\">mobilized to help out Indigenous families struggling with remote learning during the pandemic\u003c/a>. Over in San Francisco, Cantonese-speaking parents led the efforts to pass Proposition N in 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sf-school-board-non-citizen-voting-upheld-proposition-n-california-court-of-appeal/\">allowing noncitizen parents and guardians to vote in school board elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oak Grove, families argue that without the bilingual liaison position, the gap between Latino students and their peers will continue to grow. And parents said they’re not planning to step back on their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A fight for ‘language justice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On March 8, Oak Grove trustees were scheduled to have their first meeting since approving the staff layoffs. Even before the meeting began, dozens of parents were already protesting outside the gym of Willowside Middle School, where the board meets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With signs that read, “Keep our bilingual liaison” and “Language justice,” parents and community members chanted: “¡Amber, escucha, estamos en la lucha!” — “Amber, listen to us, we’re in this fight!” referring to district Superintendent Amber Stringfellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986141\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1536x1008.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240514_OAKGROVEUNIONDISTRICTPARENTS-10-KQED-1920x1260.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willowside Middle School in Santa Rosa on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Stringfellow told KQED that the Sonoma County Office of Education has directed the district to cut back on spending to match projected state funding. The \u003cem>Press Democrat\u003c/em> first reported in February \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/state-budget-better-than-expected-but-sonoma-county-school-districts-still/\">that Oak Grove is one of three districts in the county facing the most financial stress\u003c/a>, with cash reserves running below state requirements. With all the staff cuts announced in March, the district hopes to save $237,242, but officials are still looking for more ways to rein in spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district understands and is committed to providing avenues of communication for our community, including our parents and guardians who are not fluent in English,” Stringfellow said. She added that the district provides stipends to other bilingual staff who pitch in with translation services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, for some teachers, getting other district employees to fill the shoes of the bilingual liaison isn’t a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have 13 people getting a stipend for bilingualism,” said sixth-grade teacher Cari Cardle, who is also the co-president of the Oak Grove Union Elementary Educators Association. “But you know what? Those 13 people have a job. And it’s not to be the bilingual liaison. It’s not to be an interpreter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardle has taught at Oak Grove for 25 years. Whatever the topic is, she can teach it, she said — but adds that over time, what teachers are responsible for has grown considerably. “The mental health, physical health, the social media aspect, all of those things combined have changed this job so dramatically,” she said, “and that’s the part that’s hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all of this goes into forming relationships with students and their families, she said. This is especially important for students learning English as a second language, who have to learn material twice as fast to catch up with their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing that matters in a school system for student success is relationships,” Cardle said. “If you don’t have a relationship, you’re not going to get the best out of the kid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Castillo-Williams would play a key role as bilingual liaison, she explains. When something was going on at home, Spanish-speaking parents would call the bilingual liaison — not teachers or school administrators. Parents told KQED that Castillo-Williams felt like the only staff member they could comfortably talk about delicate family issues. (Castillo-Williams herself was not available to talk to KQED for this story.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s not just the families that are benefiting. It’s also the teachers who can then help the kids because we have an avenue to find out what’s going on,” Cardle said. In its March meeting, over 90% of the Educators Association voted in favor of supporting parents’ demand to bring back the bilingual liaison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you reach that kid who doesn’t have what they need?” Cardle said. “If they’re hungry, they can’t learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We cannot stay quiet’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School districts up and down California are struggling with widening deficits. San Francisco Unified \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978035/sfusd-considers-school-closures-and-mergers-amid-declining-enrollment\">could see a $100 million budget shortfall next year,\u003c/a> and the district projects student enrollment will continue to shrink for the rest of the decade. Over in Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-08/thousands-rally-over-expected-cuts-to-l-a-schools-a-rebuke-to-lausds-no-layoff-claims\">LAUSD could see a deficit of roughly $1.75 billion next year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite recent promises from Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-again-pledges-to-spare-cuts-for-schools-and-community-colleges-but-not-for-csu-and-uc/711722\">to protect K–12 funding at the state level\u003c/a>, federal grants that helped buoy up school districts during the pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/1239609135/the-190-billion-in-emergency-funds-given-to-schools-during-the-pandemic-is-endin\">have essentially run out\u003c/a>. “What to cut?” is the top question at many school board meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, cutting the bilingual liaison could specifically make it harder for Latino students to make up lost learning, parents said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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However, the university agreed to review its global exchange and internship programs to ensure they are not violating the UC’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, Christ said in her letter, adding that any programs found in violation will be remedied or terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Future programs will also be evaluated on a continuing basis, and the campus will develop a transparent process for reviewing complaints about academic programs by December. Christ said the UCB Divest Coalition and the Academic Senate Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Campus Climate will be invited to participate in the development of this process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ also said she would make a public statement “by the end of the month sharing my personal support for government officials’ efforts to secure an immediate and permanent cease-fire. 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