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"content": "\u003cp>Jacob Beeman’s transfer goals were pushed back by about a year because he was taking the wrong community college classes to transfer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had been jumping through all these hoops to try and get the right classes I needed to transfer and going off the advice of people who I trusted to know what they were doing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except Beeman, 26, who was interested in transferring into the University of California system to study chemical engineering, said he was incorrectly advised by three different advisers while attending Fresno City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Different advisers thought I needed one particular class — a communications class,” he said. “And then I found out later that that particular class UC didn’t accept, so I had to sign up for another one. And then I was told the UC doesn’t actually require a communications class at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beeman’s experience is familiar to many students. A recent EdSource special report, “\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/despite-decades-of-calls-to-action-california-community-college-students-face-roadblocks-to-transfer/689984\">A broken system of university transfers\u003c/a>,” detailed the barriers for students who want to transfer into the state’s public universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a\u003ca href=\"https://collegecampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/imported-files/Chutes-or-Ladders-final-web.pdf\"> 2021 study (PDF)\u003c/a> found, only 2.5% actually do so in two years or less and 23% in four years or less. EdSource also conducted a survey of current and former students, which revealed that over half had difficulties with the transfer process. The responses reflect the problems that the state, universities and two-year colleges have addressed or are working to improve but former and current students say they continue to experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to understanding the courses they needed to take to transfer, among 586 respondents, more than 52% agreed with Beeman that the process was difficult to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most current students indicated they had successfully transferred to a four-year university, but nearly half said they had found the transfer process difficult to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Do you agree with this statement: The transfer process from a community college to a university is easy to understand\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-u1H78\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/u1H78/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"300\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 700 people responded, with 45% identifying as current students and nearly 47% as former students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his experience, Beeman said his attitude about transfer changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It empowered me to take it into my own hands,” said Beeman who started by reading the detailed transfer agreements between the California community colleges, the California State University system and the UC system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jacob Beeman, incoming UC Riverside student\"]‘I had been jumping through all these hoops to try and get the right classes I needed to transfer and going off the advice of people who I trusted to know what they were doing.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beeman said it wasn’t easy. He would compare the agreements to figure out which classes he needed and return to the transfer center to see if they agreed with his assessment. Finally, he was able to put together a plan that worked for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beeman graduated from Fresno City College this spring with plans to attend UC Riverside this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aisha Lowe, the community college system’s vice chancellor for educational services, said she understands students’ frustrations and confusion with the transfer process. She cited “local authority” that allows individual CSU campuses to determine whether certain associate degrees will be accepted for transfer into their campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really leaves our students in a position where if they want to be competitive, they end up taking a multiplicity of courses so that they can align to a diversity of requirements across any particular set of university institutions that they’re trying to gain admissions into,” Lowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC also makes its own rules about transfers and last week declared its opposition to automatically admitting students who complete an “associate degree for transfer,” saying it would leave some students unprepared for their majors because they would enter lacking required courses. CSU has adopted the pathway, and lawmakers are pushing it as a way to ease transfer from community colleges to the nine UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Years to transfer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For some community college students, current and former, it’s taken years or even decades to complete their transfer goal. Among current students who took the survey, more than 68% reported it’s taking them more than two years to complete their community college degree, with nearly 8% of them reporting it’s taking more than four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Marvin Espinoza, current CSU San Bernardino student\"]‘I was working full-time and going to school at night. Most of my classmates relied heavily on each other to keep informed.’[/pullquote]Marvin Espinoza said he found there was little support for working students when he first enrolled in community college in 1991. He would eventually transfer to CSU Dominguez Hills in 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was working full-time and going to school at night,” he said. “Most of my classmates relied heavily on each other to keep informed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espinoza, who was also supporting a family while in college, said he ultimately transferred with more than 100 credit hours because, at the time, he had to take a host of remedial classes, which don’t offer credit. The vast majority of remedial education in California’s community colleges was\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/dozens-of-community-colleges-offer-remedial-classes-bill-to-ban-them-awaits-newsoms-signature/677640\"> banned only\u003c/a> last year when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1705.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very discouraging,” said Espinoza, who dropped and withdrew from a variety of classes during his community college time while studying child development at LA Southwest. After being placed on academic probation, Espinoza had to appeal to the college that he would gradually pass his classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to get out of there,” he said, adding that it was his determination and his work within Los Angeles Unified School District to move up the career ladder that encouraged him to get his degree and pursue a transfer. At the time, Espinoza worked as a teaching aide and traveling playground supervisor for the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Espinoza is pursuing his doctoral degree from CSU San Bernardino where he’s working on a dissertation examining the experiences of Black and Latino males’ transitioning to college. Espinoza, who describes himself as Black, said he wants to use his experience to help other men of color earn their degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most respondents — nearly 77% of 648 of them — said they took breaks or dropped out of college for financial, academic, family or work obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Arlene Del Bene nearly 40 years, and three community colleges, to eventually transfer to UC Davis. She first enrolled in Hartnell College shortly after graduating from high school in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on California Community Colleges' tag='california-community-colleges']“I had always wanted to go to UC, even when I was in high school,” Del Bene said. “I’m a first-generation college student, or at least I was at the time. I was the oldest in my family, but I didn’t know how to get (to UC).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Bene said there wasn’t a road map for transferring. And eventually, other priorities like getting married, having children, and maintaining a job became more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Bene watched her younger siblings and children attend and graduate from college. But she remained determined to earn a UC degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2000 that Del Bene enrolled once again at Los Medanos College to try to transfer again. By then she had four children and was working full-time. It would be another 15 years before she would transfer to UC Davis in 2015, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The importance of counseling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Out of 648 respondents, nearly 82% reported they had an adviser who guided them in selecting their college courses. And of the 18% of respondents who said they didn’t have an adviser, 32% said having help would have made the process easier for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Do you agree with this statement: It is or was easy to schedule a timely appointment with my counselor or adviser\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-1mZg8\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/1mZg8/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"300\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mauricio Gonzalez became so disillusioned with California’s transfer process, both as a student and later as a college counselor, that he decided to do something about it: He left his job to launch a tech startup to help students navigate the college experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, originally from King City in Salinas Valley, enrolled at Cuesta College in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mauricio Gonzalez, college counselor\"]‘I’m going straight to the students and their families. My wife and I said enough is enough. We left our jobs to revolutionize how people survive higher ed. And I say ‘survive’ because it’s survival.’[/pullquote]A first-generation college student, Gonzalez said he likely would have dropped out if not for Janet Flores, a counselor he met by chance at Cuesta. Flores, who was Latina, helped keep him motivated and eventually became his mentor. Before being introduced to Flores, Gonzalez said he never met faculty or staff “who resembled me” or who understood him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understood why I didn’t really have a goal or a plan. She understood all that, and she took me under her wing and started counseling me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gonzalez entered college, he didn’t know what he wanted to study but decided on Chicano studies after Flores introduced him to her own undergraduate major.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before those classes, I never saw my people in history books. I was only taught white history. We were taught that we are farmworkers, that we are the labor, that we are the cleaners of the home, the construction workers. But those classes changed my life. I now understood systematic racism and discrimination,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He eventually transferred to Sonoma State University and, drawing inspiration from Flores, would go on to get his master’s degree in counseling at San Jose State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since finishing his master’s in 2001, Gonzalez has worked as a counselor at community colleges, most recently at Sacramento City College. But he became discouraged when, as one of 10 counselors, he could only see a maximum of 10 students a day for 30 minutes at a time. It wasn’t enough time with students, and Gonzalez realized that most students aren’t fortunate enough to build relationships with counselors like he did with Flores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s hoping he can make more of an impact with his new company, called \u003ca href=\"https://inspirame.com/\">Inspirame\u003c/a> — or “inspire me” in Spanish. One of its main features is to take information about courses and degree programs and simplify it for students. Students can also find out what financial aid they are eligible to receive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going straight to the students and their families. My wife and I said enough is enough. We left our jobs to revolutionize how people survive higher ed. And I say ‘survive’ because it’s survival,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Confusing pathways\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Confusion over what courses to take also affects students who return to community colleges for advanced training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Jennings had already had her teaching degree when she moved from Delaware to California with her military husband. But, in order to continue teaching special education in the state, Jennings needed certifications in autism and English as a second language. So, in 2013, she enrolled at Solano Community College near Travis Air Force Base, where her husband was stationed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Laura Jennings, special education teacher\"]‘Figuring out which classes to take was difficult and the advisers really had no clue about state licensure or how any of the courses related to what I was trying to accomplish in terms of career movement. That was frustrating.’[/pullquote]“Figuring out which classes to take was difficult and the advisers really had no clue about state licensure or how any of the courses related to what I was trying to accomplish in terms of career movement,” Jennings, 41, said. “That was frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings, who worked as a teacher on a provisional license at the time, said she contacted the military veterans representative in Solano County for help and reached out to the state’s teacher credentialing office, which eventually helped her figure out that she needed six autism and eight ESL classes. But Solano’s class schedules required her to take them one at a time, which meant finishing in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always did look at the community college and thinking this is the place where you get the lowest cost, and usually you can enroll, do the class, and be done,” she said. “You don’t have to do the huge admissions process of a university, but it’s just really hard to get classes that you want at the time that you want them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings learned that she could finish the credentials online in one year at the former non-profit Brandman University, now UMass Global. Although choosing a private, nonprofit or for-profit institution tends to cost students more than attending a community college, Jennings said she worked as a teacher on a provisional license and her school covered her tuition costs. Jennings said she also didn’t qualify for any financial aid at the community college because she already had a degree and is married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe if I was about to get my degree, I would’ve advocated more and said, ‘Hey, we need to change this, it needs to be easier,” Jennings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings was among the 5% who said they did not complete their program or degree. She ended up becoming a website builder with skills she learned from Google training through Coursera, an open online learning platform that partners with businesses, universities and colleges to provide degrees and certifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would rather have taken those classes in person, too,” she said. “But the community colleges don’t really offer those accelerated programs that are online.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A smooth transfer for some\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the barriers to transfer, 36% of respondents said it was easy for them to understand which courses they needed to take for transfer, of which nearly 8% reported it was extremely easy to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How easy was/is it for you to know which courses are needed for transfer?\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cxior\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cxior/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"274\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A transfer system often described as complex and confusing was anything but that for Alex Moxon, something he attributes to his counselors at Butte College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moxon started at the University of Arizona, but after a semester returned to his hometown near Chico and enrolled in 2019 at Butte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at Butte, Moxon met regularly with an adviser who helped guide him through his computer science bachelor’s degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first showed up for orientation, I met with this adviser and she asked me what my goals were and what I was thinking degree-wise and where I wanted to go. 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She credits this to her assertive nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in Contra Costa County, Torres always dreamed of attending Berkeley. Her aunt, the first in their family to go to college, attended Berkeley. Torres’ dad would also often take her to volleyball games at Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on the UC System' tag='university-of-california']After Torres was rejected from most of UC’s campuses when she was a senior in high school, she decided to attend a community college, Los Medanos, and try to transfer to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres aimed to finish her classes at Los Medanos within one year, an ambitious but doable goal because she entered with 23 credits from Advanced Placement and dual enrollment classes she took in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transferring within one year was “really stressful,” said Torres, who took classes last summer and over the winter term. 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There was a deeper problem in that lab.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel cleared him of the most serious allegation, that a 2009 paper published in the scientific journal Nature, was the subject of a fraud investigation and that fraud was found. The paper proposed a model of neurodegeneration, which could have great potential for Alzheimer’s disease research and therapy, the panel wrote in its report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the panel also concluded the paper had multiple problems, including a lack of rigor in its development and that the research that went into the paper and its presentation contained “various errors and shortcomings.” The panel did not find evidence that Tessier-Lavigne was aware of the lack of rigor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The review, however, did find that Tessier-Lavigne did not work hard enough to get some of the problematic papers retracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Scientific Panel has concluded that at various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged … [he] failed to decisively and forthrightly correct mistakes in the scientific record,” the review stated. “… timely correction or retraction and/or more forthright and transparent actions toward correcting the scientific record would have better-served science and all concerned.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matthew Schrag, assistant professor of neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center\"]‘This is not one single episode — and this has been pointed out to him and to the scientific community in various forums for quite a lot of years.’[/pullquote]Matthew Schrag, assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told KQED he understands how people could also look at this pattern as somewhat eyebrow-raising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not one single episode — and this has been pointed out to him and to the scientific community in various forums for quite a lot of years — to the point that you see that he initiated some corrective steps years ago that were never completed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the supervising scientists become aware, they acquire a responsibility,” Schrag added. “It doesn’t mean they’re at fault for what happened, but they do have a responsibility to correct it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tessier-Lavigne said he’s stepping down because he expects continued debate about his ability to lead the university. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>To view the campus reports, \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/titleix/Pages/cozen-title-ix-assessment.aspx\">click this link\u003c/a>. There’s a dropdown for each campus.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Auditor found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> routinely failed to address sexual harassment allegations across some of its 23 campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2022-109/index.html#section1\">The audit\u003c/a>, released Tuesday, continues to shed light on a system in disarray and disorder. The state auditor reviewed multiple alleged cases of sexual harassment and several investigations to determine that, in some cases, universities improperly closed cases and failed to provide adequate discipline or take action against offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit arrives one day after the release of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/cal-state-fails-to-fully-address-sexual-harassment-and-discrimination-complaints/694120\">a year-long independent investigation\u003c/a> ordered by the CSU Board of Trustees to review the system’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/sex-discrimination/title-ix-education-amendments/index.html\">Title IX\u003c/a> practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/titleix/Documents/california-state-university_systemwide-report_july-17-2023.pdf\">That report (PDF)\u003c/a>, assembled by Cozen O’Connor law firm, also found that the nation’s largest public university system fails to respond adequately to sexual harassment and discrimination complaints from employees and students because of few resources and little staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state auditor reviewed 40 CSU sexual harassment cases from 2016 to 2022 that showed employees potentially engaging in sexual harassment. Twenty-one of those cases led to a formal investigation and four led to an informal resolution agreement. Out of 15 cases that were closed upon their first assessments, the audit found that campuses did not provide clear reasons for closing 11 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those cases, the campuses did not move forward with a formal investigation, even though the cases contained concerning allegations that may have warranted an investigation,” according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit gives one such example of a student who alleged that a faculty member made, “inappropriate comments about her body, consistently walked her toward her residence after class, talked about his personal and romantic life, and compared her to women he dated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student filed a written complaint, met with a campus official and made it clear she wanted to take action. But the campus, which is unnamed in the audit, declined to investigate stating that the alleged conduct was “on the border” of the campus’s purview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor found that some campuses did not contact all the complainants before closing cases or made little effort to pursue investigating allegations if the complainants chose not to participate in the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Individual, according to the audit\"]‘In those cases, the campuses did not move forward with a formal investigation, even though the cases contained concerning allegations that may have warranted an investigation.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor also found issues with the way CSU conducts investigations. Seven investigations contained “deficiencies that caused us to question the campuses’ determinations that sexual harassment had not occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another example from the audit, a contractor reported that a faculty member made “inappropriate comments to her on multiple occasions, hugged her, touched her hair, and kissed a different staff member without that person’s consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university substantiated the allegations but found the conduct “did not meet the definition of sexual harassment in CSU’s policy — an outcome we question, given the details of the case and deficiencies in the campus’ investigative analysis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In seven cases, the audit found that the university failed to implement action even when campuses determined an employee’s behavior required discipline. Three cases were closed by campuses that also referred those cases to a different university department for possible corrective action, such as having a conversation with the accused person or a letter of reprimand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another example, an unnamed campus found a male professor responsible for sexual harassment, sexual violence, and stalking in 2016 but failed to take disciplinary action for more than five years. The campus did issue a letter reprimanding the professor for his conduct, but nothing else because the campus determined it missed the statute of limitations for any other disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that letter wasn’t given to the professor until six years later in 2022 when a new report alleged he engaged in inappropriate conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This professor is also participating in a faculty early-retirement program that reduces his employment to half-time until his anticipated retirement,” according to the audit. “The personnel administrator for that campus stated that given the professor’s past behavior, the campus is making every effort to keep him away from the classroom and engaged only in projects that do not involve students.”[aside postID=news_11950873 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490480975-1020x680.jpg']The Joint Legislative Audit Committee called for the audit last summer after multiple reports showed poor responses to sexual harassment complaints from faculty, administrators and students. The committee requested access to sexual harassment complaints against employees at the chancellor’s office, San Jose State, Fresno State and Sonoma State campuses where there had been publicly reported allegations of misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found that from 2018 to 2022, the system received 1,251 sexual harassment reports against CSU employees across the 23 campuses. However, the audit cautions that the data from the chancellor’s office is unreliable and inconsistent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit also found that of the 40 cases, 24 were missing documents, making it difficult for auditors to assess if campuses handled the allegations appropriately. Those missing documents included interview notes, relevant evidence, outreach to complainants, and timeline extensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also identified two cases in which a campus’s lack of accessible documentation about the outcome of a previous case may have affected its handling of a new allegation of sexual harassment against the same” individual, according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the corrective actions were not severe enough to stop individuals from misconduct. In another example from the audit, a female student reported a male faculty member repeatedly asked her out, hugged and kissed her. When the Title IX coordinator and a personnel administrator met with the faculty member to address his behavior. But three years later, the faculty member was the subject of similar allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In four cases, campuses reached settlement agreements that contained conditions like suspension without pay, voluntary resignation, training, or a letter of reprimand in exchange for monetary awards or removal of disciplinary documents from a personnel file. Those actions could allow the employees to be hired elsewhere with no information shared on the allegations that led to the settlements.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jolene Koester, interim chancellor, California State University\"]‘We agree with and will implement the recommendations provided in the audit report … to strengthen our culture of care and compliance and advance the CSU’s core values of equity, diversity and inclusion.’[/pullquote]The chancellor’s office has partially addressed this issue by creating a new policy that doesn’t award positive letters of recommendation to any employee that has been fired or separated from the system due to sexual misconduct. But the audit found that the new policy would not cover seven cases where employees had findings of sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the professor that committed sexual harassment, violence and stalking could still receive a letter of positive recommendation because the discipline in that case didn’t lead to his firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor also found that CSU needs a way to address unprofessional behavior that isn’t sexual harassment. In one case, the audit cited an investigation that found the behavior inappropriate and recommended the individual’s supervisor address it, but there was no evidence the campus took any action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chancellor’s office also failed to collect data and analysis adequately across the 23 campuses, so “it lacks complete and accurate information about the total number of cases of alleged sexual harassment,” according to the audit. The office also doesn’t have standard practices for preventing, detecting or addressing sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the Chancellor’s Office has both the responsibility and the authority to ensure that campuses consistently and adequately address sexual harassment concerns,” according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Auditor Grant Parks, in his letter to the legislature, said: “The problems and inconsistencies we found during this audit warrant system-wide changes at CSU. In particular, the Chancellor’s Office must take a more active approach to overseeing campuses’ efforts to prevent and address sexual harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks recommends the chancellor’s office close gaps in its policies, collect and analyze critical data, and regularly review its campuses for compliance with legal requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the audit, interim Chancellor Jolene Koester said, “We agree with and will implement the recommendations provided in the audit report, as well as those identified in the Cozen assessment, to strengthen our culture of care and compliance and advance the CSU’s core values of equity, diversity and inclusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koester said that CSU will strengthen its accountability and prioritize prevention, mitigating barriers to reporting and ensuring appropriate response and support systems.[aside postID=news_11946741 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMUndergrads01-1020x680.jpg']Mike Fong, chair of the Assembly Higher Education committee, said he would work with the university system, faculty and students to “address the identified problems and provide avenues for healing for all those involved. 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Questions asked included whether parents could pay for food, child care and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Philip Fisher, director, Stanford Center on Early Childhood\"]‘If we’re concerned about the well-being of kids, we should be concerned about the well-being of adults in the lives of children.’[/pullquote]“The combination, where you have higher prices to pay for basic things like food and gas and you have these tax credits and other payments that went away, that’s where you see people really falling over the edge,” said Philip Fisher, director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11955877\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM-800x478.png\" alt=\"A graph from the RAPID survey showing families reporting hardship over time.\" width=\"800\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM-800x478.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM-1020x609.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM-160x96.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM.png 1196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher said researchers found what he calls a “chain reaction to hardship” — when parents can’t afford to pay for child care or food in a given week, that causes them higher levels of distress, and then their children begin struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11947683,news_11952349,news_11949679\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“If we’re concerned about the well-being of kids, we should be concerned about the well-being of adults in the lives of children,” Fisher said. “Policies that support families’ economic stability and sufficiency are critical for supporting children’s early learning, and when we see those policies go away, we’re placing additional burden on the education system to make up for the ground that’s lost for families having this kind of hardship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for families with young children in California said that though the survey is nationwide, California policymakers can learn from it and put in place more policies to help children from an early age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families with infants and toddlers have largely been told, ‘You’re on your own,’” said Stacy Lee, chief learning officer and senior managing director for early childhood at the advocacy organization Children Now. “The more we can do earlier on to support families, we know that that results in good outcomes for our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said she applauds California legislators and the governor for funding or expanding several programs in this year’s budget that will help low-income families, such as increasing subsidies for child care and capping the amount families have to pay for subsidized child care to 1% of their income. 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We have to ask ourselves, why can’t it always be this way?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez said it is urgent for California to do something to help young children keep health insurance now that pandemic-era requirements to keep continuous Medi-Cal coverage have ended. She said an estimated 2 million to 3 million Californians could lose coverage, including between 800,000 and 1 million children. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Part One of this story about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955680/explaining-303-creative-decision\">the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on LGBTQ+ discrimination\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last days of June, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, opened the door to LGBTQ+ discrimination and outlawed the Biden administration’s plan to forgive student loans. These are monumental rulings that directly affect people of color, queer folks, prospective students and the 43 million Americans who would have had some relief from their student debt — leaving many devastated and fearful for the future.[aside label='More Supreme Court Explainers' tag='explaining-the-supreme-court']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/explaining-the-supreme-court\">our series on the ramifications of these Supreme Court decisions\u003c/a>, we’re unpacking how they’ll affect you — and what can be done about it. In this explainer, we hear from experts about the Supreme Court’s two decisions that affect students: namely, the court’s rulings against affirmative action, and student loan forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you need to know if you’re a current or prospective student? How will these decisions impact social mobility and diversity — not only in higher education but in the workforce and society more broadly? And how can you empower yourself in the face of these rulings that have proven devastating news for many?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking in front of an assembled crowd at Manny’s, a San Francisco community space, was the panel:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Courtney Liss\u003c/strong>, associate at San Francisco law firm Keker, Van Nest and Peters\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Cody Harri\u003c/strong>s, partner at Keker, Van Nest and Peters\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Matthew Coles\u003c/strong>, professor of practice at UC Law SF (formerly UC Hastings)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>June 29: The Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the case \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf\">Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College\u003c/a>, the Supreme Court declared that race cannot be a factor in admissions. Colleges and admissions can no longer consider an applicant’s race as one of many factors in deciding who to admit.[aside label='More Stories on Affirmative Action' tag='affirmative-action']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s conservative majority effectively overturned cases reaching back 45 years in invalidating admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest private and public colleges, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decision for the court majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that the nation’s colleges and universities must use colorblind criteria in admissions. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first-ever Black female justice on the Supreme Court, wrote in her dissent that “with let-them-eat-cake obliviousness,” the court’s majority “pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1181138066/affirmative-action-supreme-court-decision\">Read more on the affirmative action ruling from NPR.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What prospective students need to know about these changes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can technically still, in your main essay, write about diversity,” said San Francisco lawyer Courtney Liss, “as long as you are discussing how it individually strengthens \u003cem>your \u003c/em>application.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving the example of her own background, Liss said that she herself could write in her application essay about how “growing up with a mom who’s a refugee, who didn’t know how to navigate social systems, made me want to go to law school.” But then, Liss added, college admissions officers now have to consider, “Did my race impact me personally in being braver?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t say, ‘Yeah, it’s automatically hard to have parents who don’t speak English.’ Even though it is often very hard,” Liss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who’s behind this case?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affirmative action cases were brought by conservative activist Edward Blum, the founder of Students for Fair Admissions — the group that filed the lawsuits against both schools in 2014. The group’s argument was that the Constitution forbids the use of race in college admissions and called for overturning earlier Supreme Court decisions that said otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Courtney Liss, lawyer, Keker, Van Nest and Peters\"]‘You can technically still, in your main essay, write about diversity,” said San Francisco lawyer Courtney Liss, “as long as you are discussing how it individually strengthens your application.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students for Fair Admissions’ suit claimed that the schools particularly discriminated against Asian American students. Liss noted that as an Asian American who was the first in her family to go to college, she found this case “really tragic” in how she saw the Asian American community being “pitted against or used against, like as a wedge, in the broader community of color in which we are — and should be considered — part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noted the plurality of experiences among Asian Americans, saying, “So many of which are so far removed from this lawsuit” — and how the perception that “Asians are harmed by affirmative action practices” is based on this notion of the community as a monolith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How this ruling could impact students and society now\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, NPR reported on places where affirmative action has already been eliminated and found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1181138066/affirmative-action-supreme-court-decision\">there was a severe drop in admissions of people of color\u003c/a> — particularly among Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of people protest holding signs and yelling in each other's faces.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-affirmative action supporters and counterprotesters shout at each outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These places include the University of California, which \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/university-of-california-looks-to-share-expertise-after-decades-without-affirmative-action/693374\">in 1996, was prohibited from considering race as a factor in admissions\u003c/a> after the state’s voters passed a ballot measure against affirmative action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Supreme Court’s decision on June 29, UC President Michael Drake wrote that without being able to consider race in the admissions process, institutions would now have to “work much harder to identify and address the root causes of societal inequities that hinder diverse students in pursuing and achieving a higher education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Courtney Liss, lawyer, Keker, Van Nest and Peters\"]‘We live in a country where there are so few CEOs of color, and this only strengthens that — and it only strengthens the pipeline for white students, against the interests of students of color.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Striking down affirmative action, Liss said, will not only hold back individuals, but society more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have fewer students of color in college, you have fewer students of color in med school and fewer students of color who become doctors … already, we live in a country with some of the highest maternal mortality rates, especially for Black mothers,” Liss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in a country where there are so few CEOs of color, and this only strengthens that — and it only strengthens the pipeline for white students, against the interests of students of color,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>June 30: The Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s student loan forgiveness program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By ruling against the Biden administration in the case \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-506_nmip.pdf\">Biden v. Nebraska\u003c/a>, the Supreme Court effectively \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954741/supreme-court-student-loan-decision-how-affects-you\">killed the White House’s $400 billion plan\u003c/a> to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts for millions of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 6-3 decision, with conservative justices in the majority, said the Biden administration overstepped its authority with the plan, and it left borrowers on the hook for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954741/supreme-court-student-loan-decision-how-affects-you\">repayments that are expected to resume in the fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s loan forgiveness plan would have canceled up to $20,000 in federal student loans for 43 million people. Of those, 20 million would have had their remaining student debt erased completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the student loans case will impact prospective students\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing the practical impact of this decision on student loans, Liss said: “A lot of students like me, and like a lot of other people, won’t go [to college] … or they won’t be able to afford to go.” It was a decision, she said, that would undoubtedly “disproportionately affect people of color and people from other underrepresented backgrounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those students who would still take on massive student loans to be able to go to college, Liss expressed deep concern about how the decision could change “the shape of their lives” on account of the sheer amount of debt they’d undertake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When thinking about the professions that many graduates now wouldn’t feel able to embark upon — “students who might be future doctors or lawyers or legislators” — because they couldn’t afford to, Liss said it was “really f—— sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My education has been not just like a door for me, but a door for my whole family,” Liss said. “And it’s like, just slamming that door shut in people’s faces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the future of student loan forgiveness after this ruling?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the Supreme Court’s decision, Biden vowed to push ahead with a new plan to provide student loan relief for millions of borrowers, while blaming Republican “hypocrisy” for triggering the decision that wiped out his original plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have student loans,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954741/supreme-court-student-loan-decision-how-affects-you\"> payment requirements for student loans will resume in October\u003c/a>. But Biden said that in the coming weeks, he’ll work under the authority of the Higher Education Act to begin a new program designed to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-new-proposal-biden-b74e9dd2b535c97a7ce0f43b600fa28b\">ease borrowers’ threat of default\u003c/a> if they fall behind over the next year. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-new-proposal-biden-b74e9dd2b535c97a7ce0f43b600fa28b\">Read more about the White House’s plans for student debt forgiveness after the Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s SAVE Plan, framed as “a student loan safety net,” would also allow millions of Americans with student loans to enroll in a new repayment plan that offers some of the most lenient terms ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interest won’t pile up as long as borrowers make regular payments. Millions of people will have monthly payments reduced to $0. And in as little as 10 years, any remaining debt will be canceled. The Education Department says the SAVE Plan will be available to all borrowers in the Direct Loan Program who are in good standing on their loans, and that borrowers will be notified when the new application process launches this summer. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/student-loans-debt-college-cancellation-forgiveness-34152bb5000128a413efd2287887a37a\">Read more about the SAVE Plan.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, more than 800,000 federal student loan borrowers will still have their student loan debts automatically erased, independent of the Supreme Court’s recent decision — as part of a one-time “account adjustment” for those borrowers specifically impacted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/19/1093310151/student-loans-income-based-repayment\">the White House’s controversial income-driven repayment (IDR) plans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This targeted student loan forgiveness is the result of the Biden administration’s 2022 pledge to help these borrowers after multiple complaints, lawsuits and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/01/1089750113/student-loan-debt-investigation\">an NPR investigation into IDR plans\u003c/a> into mismanagement by the department and loan servicers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1187660793/student-loan-forgiveness-income-driven-repayment\">Read more about student loan forgiveness for these borrowers around IDR plans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Answering more questions about the Supreme Court\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it’s important to engage with Supreme Court rulings — even when the content is painful\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris issued a general urge for audiences to read and educate themselves about Supreme Court cases by finding and downloading them online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“They’re daunting at first,” he acknowledged. “But you get used to them as you read them” — adding that people shouldn’t worry if they want to “skip the boring parts and kind of get to the guts.” Eventually, Harris said, their Supreme Court-reading “muscle” will develop and they’ll “get the feel for what these things are like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why \u003cem>should \u003c/em>you read Supreme Court cases for yourself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we just leave these issues to people like us — lawyers, professors — that’s you sort of giving away your birthright,” Harris warned. “This is part of the country. This is part of our charter of government. These people — these nine people, these lawyers in robes — are making a lot of decisions that affect all of us very personally — and our country and how it operates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incumbent upon all of us as Americans,” Harris urged, “to engage with it — as difficult as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could the Supreme Court be changed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With these recent rulings on affirmative action, student loan forgiveness, discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and the constitutional right to an abortion, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority has led many to question what’s even possible in terms of reforming the Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could there, hypothetically, be another court \u003cem>above \u003c/em>the Supreme Court?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The answer is no,” Harris confirmed. “The Constitution only provides for one court, which is the Supreme Court. It doesn’t say how many justices have to be in it, but it’s just one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cody Harris, lawyer, Keker, Van Nest and Peters\"]‘This hasn’t been a steady march towards equality. It’s like a sine wave. It’s gone up and down — and up and down.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris was nonetheless keen to provide context and perspective for how the Supreme Court’s rulings have, historically, “changed over time” depending on the composition of its justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This hasn’t been a steady march towards equality,” he said. “It’s like a sine wave. It’s gone up and down — and up and down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key focus of reform advocates has been the term limits of Supreme Court justices. On June 30, California Representative Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) reintroduced the \u003ca href=\"https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/khanna-and-beyer-reintroduce-scotus-term-limits-bill-following-court-blocking\">Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act\u003c/a>, specifically prompted by the Supreme Court’s decision that blocked the Biden administration’s plan to forgive student loan debt. Khanna’s bill aims to enact 18-year term limits for the justices and to “stop extreme partisanship” in a court he described as “regressive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955326/supreme-court-reform-would-ro-khannas-term-limit-proposal-work\">Read more about how Khanna’s bill would work, and its potential chances of success.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED.jpg\" alt='People hold signs reading \"Cancel Student Debt Now!\" in front of the columned facade of the supreme court.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1536x1000.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1920x1250.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student debt relief activists participate in a rally at the US Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does the Supreme Court care about public opinion?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Dobbs in 2022 to affirmative action last month, the Court’s recent rulings have drawn sharp criticism and spurred many public protests. Does this dissent have an impact on the justices?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps, Harris said — who noted that throughout its history, the Supreme Court has been “very mindful of its legitimacy — and its jealously guards it because it’s all it has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-executive-branch/\">the executive branch\u003c/a> of the United States government, which includes the military, the Supreme Court “doesn’t have an army to enforce its rules and its rulings,” Harris stressed. So amid the absence of that ability to enforce its rules, “what they have is legitimacy — that when they speak, everyone up to and including the President of the United States and the military [says] ‘OK, the court has spoken.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that accord was to ever go away, Harris said, “That’s how you get what’s called a constitutional crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they’re beginning to get sensitive to the notion that there’s wide, ever-growing public belief that some of what they’re doing is not legitimate,” said Matthew Coles of the conservative justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important if you think what they’re doing is not legitimate, to keep voicing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students for Fair Admissions’ suit claimed that the schools particularly discriminated against Asian American students. Liss noted that as an Asian American who was the first in her family to go to college, she found this case “really tragic” in how she saw the Asian American community being “pitted against or used against, like as a wedge, in the broader community of color in which we are — and should be considered — part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noted the plurality of experiences among Asian Americans, saying, “So many of which are so far removed from this lawsuit” — and how the perception that “Asians are harmed by affirmative action practices” is based on this notion of the community as a monolith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How this ruling could impact students and society now\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, NPR reported on places where affirmative action has already been eliminated and found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1181138066/affirmative-action-supreme-court-decision\">there was a severe drop in admissions of people of color\u003c/a> — particularly among Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of people protest holding signs and yelling in each other's faces.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION-GETTY-IMAGES-KN-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-affirmative action supporters and counterprotesters shout at each outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These places include the University of California, which \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/university-of-california-looks-to-share-expertise-after-decades-without-affirmative-action/693374\">in 1996, was prohibited from considering race as a factor in admissions\u003c/a> after the state’s voters passed a ballot measure against affirmative action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Supreme Court’s decision on June 29, UC President Michael Drake wrote that without being able to consider race in the admissions process, institutions would now have to “work much harder to identify and address the root causes of societal inequities that hinder diverse students in pursuing and achieving a higher education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Nebraska\u003c/a>, the Supreme Court effectively \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954741/supreme-court-student-loan-decision-how-affects-you\">killed the White House’s $400 billion plan\u003c/a> to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts for millions of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 6-3 decision, with conservative justices in the majority, said the Biden administration overstepped its authority with the plan, and it left borrowers on the hook for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954741/supreme-court-student-loan-decision-how-affects-you\">repayments that are expected to resume in the fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s loan forgiveness plan would have canceled up to $20,000 in federal student loans for 43 million people. Of those, 20 million would have had their remaining student debt erased completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the student loans case will impact prospective students\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing the practical impact of this decision on student loans, Liss said: “A lot of students like me, and like a lot of other people, won’t go [to college] … or they won’t be able to afford to go.” It was a decision, she said, that would undoubtedly “disproportionately affect people of color and people from other underrepresented backgrounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those students who would still take on massive student loans to be able to go to college, Liss expressed deep concern about how the decision could change “the shape of their lives” on account of the sheer amount of debt they’d undertake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When thinking about the professions that many graduates now wouldn’t feel able to embark upon — “students who might be future doctors or lawyers or legislators” — because they couldn’t afford to, Liss said it was “really f—— sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My education has been not just like a door for me, but a door for my whole family,” Liss said. “And it’s like, just slamming that door shut in people’s faces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the future of student loan forgiveness after this ruling?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the Supreme Court’s decision, Biden vowed to push ahead with a new plan to provide student loan relief for millions of borrowers, while blaming Republican “hypocrisy” for triggering the decision that wiped out his original plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have student loans,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954741/supreme-court-student-loan-decision-how-affects-you\"> payment requirements for student loans will resume in October\u003c/a>. But Biden said that in the coming weeks, he’ll work under the authority of the Higher Education Act to begin a new program designed to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-new-proposal-biden-b74e9dd2b535c97a7ce0f43b600fa28b\">ease borrowers’ threat of default\u003c/a> if they fall behind over the next year. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-new-proposal-biden-b74e9dd2b535c97a7ce0f43b600fa28b\">Read more about the White House’s plans for student debt forgiveness after the Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s SAVE Plan, framed as “a student loan safety net,” would also allow millions of Americans with student loans to enroll in a new repayment plan that offers some of the most lenient terms ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interest won’t pile up as long as borrowers make regular payments. Millions of people will have monthly payments reduced to $0. And in as little as 10 years, any remaining debt will be canceled. 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Khanna’s bill aims to enact 18-year term limits for the justices and to “stop extreme partisanship” in a court he described as “regressive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955326/supreme-court-reform-would-ro-khannas-term-limit-proposal-work\">Read more about how Khanna’s bill would work, and its potential chances of success.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED.jpg\" alt='People hold signs reading \"Cancel Student Debt Now!\" in front of the columned facade of the supreme court.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1536x1000.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1920x1250.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student debt relief activists participate in a rally at the US Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does the Supreme Court care about public opinion?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Dobbs in 2022 to affirmative action last month, the Court’s recent rulings have drawn sharp criticism and spurred many public protests. Does this dissent have an impact on the justices?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps, Harris said — who noted that throughout its history, the Supreme Court has been “very mindful of its legitimacy — and its jealously guards it because it’s all it has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-executive-branch/\">the executive branch\u003c/a> of the United States government, which includes the military, the Supreme Court “doesn’t have an army to enforce its rules and its rulings,” Harris stressed. So amid the absence of that ability to enforce its rules, “what they have is legitimacy — that when they speak, everyone up to and including the President of the United States and the military [says] ‘OK, the court has spoken.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that accord was to ever go away, Harris said, “That’s how you get what’s called a constitutional crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they’re beginning to get sensitive to the notion that there’s wide, ever-growing public belief that some of what they’re doing is not legitimate,” said Matthew Coles of the conservative justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important if you think what they’re doing is not legitimate, to keep voicing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Program director Rupa Chaturvedi said she thought driving six hours a day in those conditions would be too dangerous for the kids. “We’re super happy that we were able to produce a roadworthy car, but pushing the limits, based on the weather conditions didn’t make any sense,” she said.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sunday, Palo Alto High School and 19 other student-led teams have embarked on an eight-day, 1,400-mile trip for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.solarcarchallenge.org/challenge/teams2023.shtml\">30th annual Solar Car Challenge\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/students\">Students\u003c/a> from across the country built roadworthy solar cars and are driving them on freeways from the starting point in Fort Worth, Texas, to Palmdale, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palo Alto team, made up of 13 sophomores and juniors, spent six months building their car, which they’ve named “The Beast.” At the end of each school day, students would meet at an off-campus workshop to design, weld and tinker. The work typically involved late nights to problem-solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought we’d actually make a whole car,” said Alice Jambon, 16, the project’s build lead. “And when we saw it finally run perfectly, it was mind-blowing, honestly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Beast has three wheels on an ATV suspension system that the students welded to an open metal frame. Its flat roof is completely covered with solar panels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The car’s electric motor can go up to 50 mph, but the team is driving it at about 20 to 30 mph. The Solar Car Challenge is not a race. 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They also made some effort to clear up confusion conflating courses in data literacy, which all 21st-century students need, with a more rigorous, math-intensive data science course that, together with calculus, would prepare students for a data science major in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the framework didn’t discuss, however, is a related controversy \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-university-of-california-changed-its-math-standards-some-faculty-arent-happy?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_7204756_nl_Academe-Today_date_20230707&cid=at&source=&sourceid=\">roiling the University of California and California State University faculties\u003c/a> over whether a growing list of UC-authorized data science courses, with minimal advanced math content, will leave students unprepared for math-intensive courses in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, a committee of the UC faculty senate, called BOARS, which oversees high school course qualifications, publicly acknowledged it is having second thoughts on the approved courses. In \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Math-Framework-Final-BOARS-let-070723.pdf\">a July 7 letter to the state board (PDF)\u003c/a>, the chair of BOARS asked that the revised framework delete references in the text and in a diagram (see below) indicating that data science courses can substitute as a math requirement for Algebra II. The letter indicated that BOARS planned to look into the issue further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a chart.\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1042\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM-800x439.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM-1020x559.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM-160x88.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM-1536x842.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BOARS, the UC faculty committee overseeing the criteria for high school courses meeting the A-G requirements for admission to the University of California and California State University, is asking that the State Board of Education delete Data Science I and II from the circle indicating the current high school data science courses that can be substituted for Algebra II. \u003ccite>(Source: UNE 26, 2023 Revision of the California Mathematics Framework, page 30, Chapter 8)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The writers of the latest revision \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/deep-divisions-further-delay-for-californias-math-guidelines/675881\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://edsource.org/2022/deep-divisions-further-delay-for-californias-math-guidelines/675881&source=gmail&ust=1689110802672000&usg=AOvVaw0aekap1bu-59WRFtjSHtum\">rephrased or removed some citations of works\u003c/a> in the prior version, on neuroscience and other topics. Some of the citations of work support the instructional methods promoted by math instruction experts, including Stanford University math education professor Jo Boaler, one of the original framework’s team of authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least some critics who had hoped that a year of work would fix the numerous problems they raised remain dissatisfied. The most prolific, if not most influential of them, Brian Conrad, professor of mathematics and director of undergraduate studies in math at Stanford, once again called for rejection of the framework due to shortcomings he cited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cawqhfgphnIJxOf01XzP4KvAzsvUv3Y9/view\">a nine-page update\u003c/a> of his dissertation-length critique from a year ago, he pointed to remaining citation misrepresentations, and inconsistencies that could lead to contradictory interpretations of the framework and data science issues. “Critical concerns remain, and the (framework) does not live up to the standards of a document that sets state-wide education policy,” he wrote in a public comment last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Philosophy intact\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the past year’s effort went into clarifying, shortening and reorganizing the massive document. The focus of rewriting was on a half-dozen chapters, including the first two, laying out how to develop positive mindsets about math, like the belief that all students can succeed in math, and use students’ diverse backgrounds as “cultural assets.” Vignettes useful for teachers that lengthened chapters were moved to an appendix.[aside label=\"More Education Stories\" tag=\"education\"]Most significantly, the new draft didn’t retreat from its primary charge to make math engaging and relevant for the many students who, particularly once they hit middle school, see math as abstract and inaccessible. That was the guidance of focus groups of teachers, an advisory group of California educators called the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/mathcfccapplicants.asp\">Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee\u003c/a>, and the state board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using “open, engaging tasks” and “inviting student questions and conjectures” will be among the classroom strategies the framework cites as ways to meet the needs of diverse students; another is to “teach toward social justice,” such as creating graphs of student homelessness or doing data analysis of air and ground pollutants by neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teaching towards social justice is really about using activities and discussions that really highlight some of the inequities in the world,” Boaler said during a June 29 webinar with writers of the original draft following the release of the new draft.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discouraging Algebra 1 in eighth grade\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The earlier writers weren’t involved in the latest rewrite, but, during the webinar, they generally praised the result. Brian Lindaman, co-faculty director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Instruction at Chico State, and the lead of five authors of the earlier framework, said that based on the chapters he had read, “I have liked and appreciated the changes by and large,” including improvements in “the readability, the flow, the coherence of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised framework also didn’t back off the previous recommendation that nearly all students shouldn’t take Algebra I until ninth grade. It does acknowledge that “some students will be ready to accelerate” into Algebra I in eighth grade, affording them greater access to advanced courses in high school. But those students should be tested for algebra readiness, and schools should consider offering them summer courses, like \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://algebra.org/wp/\">Bob Moses’ Algebra Project\u003c/a>, which has successfully prepared underrepresented students for algebra, the framework states.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Cole Sampson, administrator of professional learning and student support, Kern County superintendent’s office\"]‘If we can wait to hold the tracking off until at least eighth grade, we’ve given more kids opportunities to stay on the pathway to get high-level math classes.’[/pullquote]Districts have the authority to decide which students can take algebra in eighth grade; a 2015 state law, the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-education-code/title-2-elementary-and-secondary-education/division-4-instruction-and-services/part-28-general-instructional-programs/chapter-2-required-courses-of-study/article-3-courses-of-study-grades-7-to-12/section-512247-california-mathematics-placement-act\">Math Placement Act\u003c/a>, requires districts to adopt objective criteria for placing students in math courses, and consistently apply their policies. But many districts will take their lead from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To discourage widespread enrollment in eighth-grade algebra, the framework’s diagram laying out STEM and non-STEM course pathways omits eighth-grade algebra as an option. To justify its position, the framework cites California’s experience in the early 2000s, when the state pressured districts to offer eighth-grade algebra; studies showed many students were unprepared and ended up repeating the course, with no better outcome. “Success for many students was undermined,” the framework said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Conrad counters that the more recent experience in San Francisco Unified, forcing all students to learn algebra in ninth grade, “was a total failure, exacerbating the very inequities it aimed to prevent, and is especially misguided since this country faces a dire shortage of STEM professionals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A “common ninth-grade experience” in math also is a strategy to prevent tracking, the practice of identifying potentially advanced math students as early as elementary school. That can have the effect of stunting the self-image, aspirations and abilities of non-tracked students. These students, predominantly low-income Black and Hispanic children, tend to end up with the least inspiring curriculums and least experienced teachers, Brown said. The harmful effects of tracking, he said, are real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can wait to hold the tracking off until at least eighth grade, we’ve given more kids opportunities to stay on the pathway to get high-level math classes,” said Cole Sampson, a member of the education advisory group to the framework and administrator of professional learning and student support for the Kern County superintendent’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But placing algebra-ready students into a heterogeneous classroom of students with a wide range of skills can compound the challenges for teachers. It also denies eighth graders ready for algebra a jump-start to high-school math. To get to calculus, they must now double up math courses, enroll in a summer course or take a challenging compression math course, with supplemental help if they’re lucky. For low-income students holding down jobs, the obstacles hindering acceleration can force them to abandon plans for a STEM concentration in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shorter path to calculus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As an alternative to eighth-grade algebra, the framework recommends that a task force investigate whether eliminating redundancies in the content of current courses could reduce four courses — Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II and Precalculus — to three and reach advanced math like calculus by senior year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is confident this could be done. Conrad is skeptical, noting the framework drafters have had three years to come up with an alternative and haven’t. Mathematics professor Katherine Stevenson, the director of developmental mathematics at CSU Northridge, finds herself in between: It won’t be possible to pare down a course sequence without first looking at the 2013 Common Core math standards through the lens of what standards students will need in 2030, and then redesign a course sequence based on those standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most students don’t major in STEM in college or take calculus. The biggest challenge to high school math is to design courses that will enable students to “exercise choice about their futures” by, the framework says, providing them “more opportunities to make choices that reflect their interests and aspirations.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"california-schools\"]School districts have considerable latitude to design third- and fourth-year courses, and the framework cites Financial Algebra, comparable in rigor to Algebra II, where students do mathematical modeling related to personal finance. Another is \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://bridgecourses.calstate.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/TCMS%20Brochure%20_2.pdf\">Transition to College Math and Statistics (PDF)\u003c/a>, which Stevenson designed in partnership with Los Angeles Unified. It provides math practices, like reading and interpreting data from two-way frequency tables and bar graphs, for high school seniors uncertain of their plans for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal should be flexibility, keeping students’ options open. The framework cites examples of students’ journeys: A student who plans to major in non-STEM graphics arts discovers an interest in software applications, so she takes Pre-calculus as a senior with a support class, setting herself up for freshman calculus and programming classes. After the standard first two years of math, another student who plans to work in a fabrication shop after graduation takes a course in modeling to understand the math of three-dimensional printing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High school sequences have drawn the most contention, but it’s the underlying instructional strategies that could create the framework’s biggest impact. The approach, which academics call constructivism, underlies the math standards that were adopted in California in the early 1990s, then abandoned after \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/27/us/california-goes-to-war-over-math-instruction.html\">a grassroots revolt\u003c/a> in 1997. While the changes wouldn’t be new, they could be drastic, fundamentally turning classroom instruction on its head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework defines the difference in contrasting the beliefs in “unproductive” and “productive” roles of teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former, found in many classrooms, is “to tell students exactly what definitions, formulas, and rules they should know and demonstrate how to use this information to solve mathematics problems. The role of the student is to memorize information that is presented and then use it to solve routine problems on homework, quizzes, and tests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter should be “to engage students in tasks that promote reasoning and problem-solving and facilitate discourse that moves students toward shared understanding of mathematics. The role of the student is to be actively involved in making sense of mathematics tasks by using varied strategies and representations, justifying solutions, making connections to prior knowledge or familiar contexts and experiences, and considering the reasoning of others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Connecting to the world around them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Math isn’t working for the majority of students, the framework says, because there’s no context or connection with what they learn from one day to the next or to the world around them. A year is divided into units of “power standards,” which are taught individually, demonstrated with a procedure, and then assessed, before moving on to the next one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alternative is to tap into students’ curiosity with the goal of building deep understanding of math ideas. Classes should start with student-based questions about math and explore from there. Teachers should anchor lessons to “big ideas” in each grade that connect clusters of standards within the topic, like number sense, and across domains to show how algebra relates to geometry. Big ideas in third grade include fractions as relationships and number flexibility to 100; in sixth grade, they include relationships between variables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The framework is saying that we really need to make sure that the conceptual precedes the procedure to provide the understanding, so that when we get to those steps later on, we understand the why behind it. It’s not a mystery any more,” said Sampson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A teacher might start off this way, said Stevenson: “Here’s the situation: What do you notice and wonder about it? Here’s a bunch of things that we’re going to talk about today. Which ones do you already know?” Answers will lead to procedures needed to solve it, whether how to do two-digit multiplication or to calculate the volume of a cylinder.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Cole Sampson, administrator of professional learning and student support, Kern County superintendent’s office\"]‘The framework is saying that we really need to make sure that the conceptual precedes the procedure to provide the understanding, so that when we get to those steps later on, we understand the why behind it. It’s not a mystery any more.’[/pullquote]“Just the idea of the big ideas is huge, so that teachers aren’t feeling they’re teaching things in isolation,” said Vicki Murray, a learning coordinator in Buellton Unified who has taught elementary grades math, agrees. “Jo Boaler has really done an amazing job showing the mile-high view, that this idea connects to all these different other pieces of math.” Buellton is a 600-student district north of Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of K-6 teachers are super excited about it, and it makes sense to them,” Stevenson said. “It’s actually asking them to teach math the same way they teach a lot of other things,” like the Next Generation Science Standards. But high school teachers may feel disoriented with the approach and burdened by the complex set of rubrics around which teachers should design lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I support the idea that we need to teach differently. I do agree that what we’re doing right now is not working. We’re trying to teach too much too fast,” Stevenson said. “I wonder if there isn’t a simpler formulation of what they (the authors) are trying to get at.” At the end of a class, she said, students may walk away with a “muddy sense of what they were to have learned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Loveless, an education researcher who now lives near Sacramento, a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of a book on the Common Core standards, gave a harsh assessment of the framework’s philosophy. The authors, he said, created a “false dichotomy” about the need for “conceptual understanding before procedural fluency. Good teachers teach both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The math framework should be organized around the content of the Common Core standards, not around “rather fuzzy ideas about process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he is sympathetic with the critics that math facts and procedures have been taught poorly. “But there will be a toll paid for pushing them in the background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The previous framework was very clear that math fluency involves speed and accuracy. The proposed framework rejects speed as being even part of fluency, and that’s a problem,” he said.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Tom Loveless, education researcher\"]‘The previous framework was very clear that math fluency involves speed and accuracy. The proposed framework rejects speed as being even part of fluency, and that’s a problem.’[/pullquote]Math facts learned and stored in long-term memory can be retrieved effortlessly when students take on more-complex cognitive tasks, he \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/californias-new-math-framework-doesnt-add-up/\">wrote in a recent article\u003c/a>. Contrary to the requirements of the Common Core standards, the framework calls for pushing back fluency in multiplication and division tables until late elementary grades. The delay will carry forward, and he expects fewer students will be prepared for algebra in ninth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has been the experience of Jane Molnar, who has been teaching math for 43 years as a math specialist working in classrooms and as a tutor. “If you don’t master certain things in first grade, second grade, third grade and instead you’re just exploring and talking about numbers, kids just can’t keep up. And when the same thing continues through middle school, students who wouldn’t know how to divide with ease using the division algorithm would find trying to divide polynomials in algebra way too complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Training is essential\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates of the framework agree that intensive training will be critical and a heavy lift for teachers who lack strong content knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be some discomfort for sure at the front end for those who really have a very regimented routine about how math should be taught,” said Sampson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said his biggest hope is that the framework “will really influence the way that teachers think about teaching and engaging their students.” His biggest fear is that “the state will not really fully fund the rollout and provide teachers with the support they need to really implement it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Brown, the framework’s original authors said the payoff would be huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the missions of this framework is to get rid of ways of thinking that only some students can do mathematics to high levels and open up this beautiful subject of mathematics for everyone,” said Boaler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Ford, a math professor at Sonoma State University, said, “If my students start arriving at university understanding mathematics as a set of lenses for exploring questions that they’re actually interested in, I would be ecstatic. And that is one of the goals of this framework.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loveless, however, predicts history will repeat itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as more parents now are demanding an end to whole-language instruction and adoption of reading curricula with basic literacy skills, parents seeing poor results in math will demand change in a few years, as they did in the ’90s, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Math facts are to math as phonics is to reading,” Loveless said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/next-maybe-last-big-test-for-californias-controversial-math-framework/693653\">This story was originally published by EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The State Board of Education is poised to approve a nearly 1,000-page guidance for math instruction this week with the ambitious, much-contested goal of transforming how math is taught in California, where only a third of students — and 1 in 5 low-income students — met standards in the latest state standardized test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the adoption of new textbooks, it may take years of intensive teacher training on a magnitude the state has not funded in decades before it becomes clear whether \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/\">the revised Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools\u003c/a> will move the needle of student engagement and achievement. Many teachers are confident it will, but there are skeptics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised framework is nearly four years in the making. The third and likely last version, in response to more than 900 comments and petitions pro and con, took 14 months to complete. It was drafted by a new set of writers connected with \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.wested.org/project/region-15-comprehensive-center/\">the Region 15 Comprehensive Center\u003c/a> of WestEd, the San Francisco-based research and service organization contracted by the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state board \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/\">released the new draft\u003c/a> on June 26; it accepted comments only through noon on July 7. After a final hearing scheduled for Wednesday, the board is expected to pass it, perhaps with minor changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those who will urge the board to adopt the final draft is Kyndall Brown, a former high school math teacher who is the executive director of the state-funded California Mathematics Project Statewide Office. Saying he was pleased that the “spirit” of the framework remains intact, Brown added, “This is the most equity-focused math framework I have ever seen as an educator in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Thousands of university STEM professionals signed petitions criticizing a proposed high school pathway that appeared to favor data science over the traditional course sequence to calculus, which is required for college students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math. Parents of students with advanced math skills and 6,000 others \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.change.org/p/protect-advanced-students-from-the-california-department-of-education-removing-advanced-math-classes-and-options-for-acceleration\">who signed a related petition\u003c/a> were angry that the framework discouraged districts from starting algebra in eighth grade. The early start would give students a leg up on fitting in calculus before high school graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the new writers did eliminate the call for a new data science pathway; instead, they wove data skills into math instruction throughout grade spans. They also made some effort to clear up confusion conflating courses in data literacy, which all 21st-century students need, with a more rigorous, math-intensive data science course that, together with calculus, would prepare students for a data science major in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the framework didn’t discuss, however, is a related controversy \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-university-of-california-changed-its-math-standards-some-faculty-arent-happy?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_7204756_nl_Academe-Today_date_20230707&cid=at&source=&sourceid=\">roiling the University of California and California State University faculties\u003c/a> over whether a growing list of UC-authorized data science courses, with minimal advanced math content, will leave students unprepared for math-intensive courses in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, a committee of the UC faculty senate, called BOARS, which oversees high school course qualifications, publicly acknowledged it is having second thoughts on the approved courses. In \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Math-Framework-Final-BOARS-let-070723.pdf\">a July 7 letter to the state board (PDF)\u003c/a>, the chair of BOARS asked that the revised framework delete references in the text and in a diagram (see below) indicating that data science courses can substitute as a math requirement for Algebra II. The letter indicated that BOARS planned to look into the issue further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a chart.\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1042\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM-800x439.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM-1020x559.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM-160x88.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-07-at-11.00.51-PM-1536x842.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BOARS, the UC faculty committee overseeing the criteria for high school courses meeting the A-G requirements for admission to the University of California and California State University, is asking that the State Board of Education delete Data Science I and II from the circle indicating the current high school data science courses that can be substituted for Algebra II. \u003ccite>(Source: UNE 26, 2023 Revision of the California Mathematics Framework, page 30, Chapter 8)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The writers of the latest revision \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/deep-divisions-further-delay-for-californias-math-guidelines/675881\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://edsource.org/2022/deep-divisions-further-delay-for-californias-math-guidelines/675881&source=gmail&ust=1689110802672000&usg=AOvVaw0aekap1bu-59WRFtjSHtum\">rephrased or removed some citations of works\u003c/a> in the prior version, on neuroscience and other topics. Some of the citations of work support the instructional methods promoted by math instruction experts, including Stanford University math education professor Jo Boaler, one of the original framework’s team of authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least some critics who had hoped that a year of work would fix the numerous problems they raised remain dissatisfied. The most prolific, if not most influential of them, Brian Conrad, professor of mathematics and director of undergraduate studies in math at Stanford, once again called for rejection of the framework due to shortcomings he cited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cawqhfgphnIJxOf01XzP4KvAzsvUv3Y9/view\">a nine-page update\u003c/a> of his dissertation-length critique from a year ago, he pointed to remaining citation misrepresentations, and inconsistencies that could lead to contradictory interpretations of the framework and data science issues. “Critical concerns remain, and the (framework) does not live up to the standards of a document that sets state-wide education policy,” he wrote in a public comment last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Philosophy intact\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the past year’s effort went into clarifying, shortening and reorganizing the massive document. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Most significantly, the new draft didn’t retreat from its primary charge to make math engaging and relevant for the many students who, particularly once they hit middle school, see math as abstract and inaccessible. That was the guidance of focus groups of teachers, an advisory group of California educators called the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/mathcfccapplicants.asp\">Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee\u003c/a>, and the state board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using “open, engaging tasks” and “inviting student questions and conjectures” will be among the classroom strategies the framework cites as ways to meet the needs of diverse students; another is to “teach toward social justice,” such as creating graphs of student homelessness or doing data analysis of air and ground pollutants by neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teaching towards social justice is really about using activities and discussions that really highlight some of the inequities in the world,” Boaler said during a June 29 webinar with writers of the original draft following the release of the new draft.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discouraging Algebra 1 in eighth grade\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The earlier writers weren’t involved in the latest rewrite, but, during the webinar, they generally praised the result. Brian Lindaman, co-faculty director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Instruction at Chico State, and the lead of five authors of the earlier framework, said that based on the chapters he had read, “I have liked and appreciated the changes by and large,” including improvements in “the readability, the flow, the coherence of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised framework also didn’t back off the previous recommendation that nearly all students shouldn’t take Algebra I until ninth grade. It does acknowledge that “some students will be ready to accelerate” into Algebra I in eighth grade, affording them greater access to advanced courses in high school. But those students should be tested for algebra readiness, and schools should consider offering them summer courses, like \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://algebra.org/wp/\">Bob Moses’ Algebra Project\u003c/a>, which has successfully prepared underrepresented students for algebra, the framework states.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Districts have the authority to decide which students can take algebra in eighth grade; a 2015 state law, the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-education-code/title-2-elementary-and-secondary-education/division-4-instruction-and-services/part-28-general-instructional-programs/chapter-2-required-courses-of-study/article-3-courses-of-study-grades-7-to-12/section-512247-california-mathematics-placement-act\">Math Placement Act\u003c/a>, requires districts to adopt objective criteria for placing students in math courses, and consistently apply their policies. But many districts will take their lead from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To discourage widespread enrollment in eighth-grade algebra, the framework’s diagram laying out STEM and non-STEM course pathways omits eighth-grade algebra as an option. To justify its position, the framework cites California’s experience in the early 2000s, when the state pressured districts to offer eighth-grade algebra; studies showed many students were unprepared and ended up repeating the course, with no better outcome. “Success for many students was undermined,” the framework said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Conrad counters that the more recent experience in San Francisco Unified, forcing all students to learn algebra in ninth grade, “was a total failure, exacerbating the very inequities it aimed to prevent, and is especially misguided since this country faces a dire shortage of STEM professionals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A “common ninth-grade experience” in math also is a strategy to prevent tracking, the practice of identifying potentially advanced math students as early as elementary school. That can have the effect of stunting the self-image, aspirations and abilities of non-tracked students. These students, predominantly low-income Black and Hispanic children, tend to end up with the least inspiring curriculums and least experienced teachers, Brown said. The harmful effects of tracking, he said, are real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can wait to hold the tracking off until at least eighth grade, we’ve given more kids opportunities to stay on the pathway to get high-level math classes,” said Cole Sampson, a member of the education advisory group to the framework and administrator of professional learning and student support for the Kern County superintendent’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But placing algebra-ready students into a heterogeneous classroom of students with a wide range of skills can compound the challenges for teachers. It also denies eighth graders ready for algebra a jump-start to high-school math. To get to calculus, they must now double up math courses, enroll in a summer course or take a challenging compression math course, with supplemental help if they’re lucky. For low-income students holding down jobs, the obstacles hindering acceleration can force them to abandon plans for a STEM concentration in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shorter path to calculus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As an alternative to eighth-grade algebra, the framework recommends that a task force investigate whether eliminating redundancies in the content of current courses could reduce four courses — Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II and Precalculus — to three and reach advanced math like calculus by senior year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is confident this could be done. Conrad is skeptical, noting the framework drafters have had three years to come up with an alternative and haven’t. Mathematics professor Katherine Stevenson, the director of developmental mathematics at CSU Northridge, finds herself in between: It won’t be possible to pare down a course sequence without first looking at the 2013 Common Core math standards through the lens of what standards students will need in 2030, and then redesign a course sequence based on those standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most students don’t major in STEM in college or take calculus. The biggest challenge to high school math is to design courses that will enable students to “exercise choice about their futures” by, the framework says, providing them “more opportunities to make choices that reflect their interests and aspirations.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>School districts have considerable latitude to design third- and fourth-year courses, and the framework cites Financial Algebra, comparable in rigor to Algebra II, where students do mathematical modeling related to personal finance. Another is \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://bridgecourses.calstate.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/TCMS%20Brochure%20_2.pdf\">Transition to College Math and Statistics (PDF)\u003c/a>, which Stevenson designed in partnership with Los Angeles Unified. It provides math practices, like reading and interpreting data from two-way frequency tables and bar graphs, for high school seniors uncertain of their plans for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal should be flexibility, keeping students’ options open. The framework cites examples of students’ journeys: A student who plans to major in non-STEM graphics arts discovers an interest in software applications, so she takes Pre-calculus as a senior with a support class, setting herself up for freshman calculus and programming classes. After the standard first two years of math, another student who plans to work in a fabrication shop after graduation takes a course in modeling to understand the math of three-dimensional printing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High school sequences have drawn the most contention, but it’s the underlying instructional strategies that could create the framework’s biggest impact. The approach, which academics call constructivism, underlies the math standards that were adopted in California in the early 1990s, then abandoned after \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/27/us/california-goes-to-war-over-math-instruction.html\">a grassroots revolt\u003c/a> in 1997. While the changes wouldn’t be new, they could be drastic, fundamentally turning classroom instruction on its head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework defines the difference in contrasting the beliefs in “unproductive” and “productive” roles of teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former, found in many classrooms, is “to tell students exactly what definitions, formulas, and rules they should know and demonstrate how to use this information to solve mathematics problems. The role of the student is to memorize information that is presented and then use it to solve routine problems on homework, quizzes, and tests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter should be “to engage students in tasks that promote reasoning and problem-solving and facilitate discourse that moves students toward shared understanding of mathematics. The role of the student is to be actively involved in making sense of mathematics tasks by using varied strategies and representations, justifying solutions, making connections to prior knowledge or familiar contexts and experiences, and considering the reasoning of others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Connecting to the world around them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Math isn’t working for the majority of students, the framework says, because there’s no context or connection with what they learn from one day to the next or to the world around them. A year is divided into units of “power standards,” which are taught individually, demonstrated with a procedure, and then assessed, before moving on to the next one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alternative is to tap into students’ curiosity with the goal of building deep understanding of math ideas. Classes should start with student-based questions about math and explore from there. Teachers should anchor lessons to “big ideas” in each grade that connect clusters of standards within the topic, like number sense, and across domains to show how algebra relates to geometry. Big ideas in third grade include fractions as relationships and number flexibility to 100; in sixth grade, they include relationships between variables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The framework is saying that we really need to make sure that the conceptual precedes the procedure to provide the understanding, so that when we get to those steps later on, we understand the why behind it. It’s not a mystery any more,” said Sampson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A teacher might start off this way, said Stevenson: “Here’s the situation: What do you notice and wonder about it? Here’s a bunch of things that we’re going to talk about today. Which ones do you already know?” Answers will lead to procedures needed to solve it, whether how to do two-digit multiplication or to calculate the volume of a cylinder.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Just the idea of the big ideas is huge, so that teachers aren’t feeling they’re teaching things in isolation,” said Vicki Murray, a learning coordinator in Buellton Unified who has taught elementary grades math, agrees. “Jo Boaler has really done an amazing job showing the mile-high view, that this idea connects to all these different other pieces of math.” Buellton is a 600-student district north of Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of K-6 teachers are super excited about it, and it makes sense to them,” Stevenson said. “It’s actually asking them to teach math the same way they teach a lot of other things,” like the Next Generation Science Standards. But high school teachers may feel disoriented with the approach and burdened by the complex set of rubrics around which teachers should design lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I support the idea that we need to teach differently. I do agree that what we’re doing right now is not working. We’re trying to teach too much too fast,” Stevenson said. “I wonder if there isn’t a simpler formulation of what they (the authors) are trying to get at.” At the end of a class, she said, students may walk away with a “muddy sense of what they were to have learned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Loveless, an education researcher who now lives near Sacramento, a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of a book on the Common Core standards, gave a harsh assessment of the framework’s philosophy. The authors, he said, created a “false dichotomy” about the need for “conceptual understanding before procedural fluency. Good teachers teach both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The math framework should be organized around the content of the Common Core standards, not around “rather fuzzy ideas about process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he is sympathetic with the critics that math facts and procedures have been taught poorly. “But there will be a toll paid for pushing them in the background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The previous framework was very clear that math fluency involves speed and accuracy. The proposed framework rejects speed as being even part of fluency, and that’s a problem,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Math facts learned and stored in long-term memory can be retrieved effortlessly when students take on more-complex cognitive tasks, he \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/californias-new-math-framework-doesnt-add-up/\">wrote in a recent article\u003c/a>. Contrary to the requirements of the Common Core standards, the framework calls for pushing back fluency in multiplication and division tables until late elementary grades. The delay will carry forward, and he expects fewer students will be prepared for algebra in ninth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has been the experience of Jane Molnar, who has been teaching math for 43 years as a math specialist working in classrooms and as a tutor. “If you don’t master certain things in first grade, second grade, third grade and instead you’re just exploring and talking about numbers, kids just can’t keep up. And when the same thing continues through middle school, students who wouldn’t know how to divide with ease using the division algorithm would find trying to divide polynomials in algebra way too complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Training is essential\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates of the framework agree that intensive training will be critical and a heavy lift for teachers who lack strong content knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be some discomfort for sure at the front end for those who really have a very regimented routine about how math should be taught,” said Sampson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said his biggest hope is that the framework “will really influence the way that teachers think about teaching and engaging their students.” His biggest fear is that “the state will not really fully fund the rollout and provide teachers with the support they need to really implement it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Brown, the framework’s original authors said the payoff would be huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the missions of this framework is to get rid of ways of thinking that only some students can do mathematics to high levels and open up this beautiful subject of mathematics for everyone,” said Boaler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Ford, a math professor at Sonoma State University, said, “If my students start arriving at university understanding mathematics as a set of lenses for exploring questions that they’re actually interested in, I would be ecstatic. And that is one of the goals of this framework.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loveless, however, predicts history will repeat itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as more parents now are demanding an end to whole-language instruction and adoption of reading curricula with basic literacy skills, parents seeing poor results in math will demand change in a few years, as they did in the ’90s, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Math facts are to math as phonics is to reading,” Loveless said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In a statement, Stanford said it looks forward to working in good faith with the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, June 1:\u003c/strong> Graduate workers at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford-university\">Stanford University\u003c/a> voted this week on whether to form a union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the campaign succeeds, thousands of graduate students who provide teaching and research duties could represent one of the nation’s largest bargaining units among graduate workers at a private university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote comes months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891301/48000-academic-workers-strike-across-university-of-california-campuse\">academic workers at the University of California walked off the job\u003c/a> in the largest higher education strike in U.S. history, and is part of a wave of union drives among graduate workers nationwide. Graduate workers at \u003ca href=\"https://news.yale.edu/2023/01/09/yale-graduate-students-vote-form-labor-union\">Yale University\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-17/usc-graduate-student-workers-vote-yes-to-unionization\">University of Southern California\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2023/3/17/23645593/graduate-students-unionize-university-chicago-teaching-research\">University of Chicago\u003c/a> all voted to unionize this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of the election at Stanford is \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/05/18/graduate-student-union-election-scheduled/\">expected this summer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid soaring housing costs and a tumultuous academic job market, graduate workers at Stanford and elsewhere are pushing to increase wages and improve benefits. They say academic hierarchies and low pay can leave graduate workers vulnerable to harassment, bullying and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate workers see collective bargaining as a way to change that, and to create more fair, effective grievance processes when graduate employees do file complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/23/491090762/nlrb-rules-graduate-students-are-employees-with-the-right-to-unionize#:~:text=The%20National%20Labor%20Relations%20Board%20ruled%203%2D1%20Tuesday%20that,the%20right%20to%20collective%20bargaining.\">National Labor Relations Board ruled in 2016\u003c/a> that graduate students working as teaching or research assistants at private universities are employees. But graduate workers say the process for filing harassment complaints through the Title IX office — officially known as the SHARE (Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Education) Title IX Office — is not equipped to support graduate student employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A complaint process designed for students, not graduate workers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chloé Brault, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at Stanford, said graduate workers need a process that treats reports of abuse or predatory behavior like workplace safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A shot of the back of a woman's black T-shirt that reads, "Stanford works because we do."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chloé Brault, a Stanford Ph.D. candidate, shows the back of her T-shirt, which says, ‘Stanford Works Because We Do,’ near Wallenberg Hall on the Stanford campus on May 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The idea of power abuse — if you define harassment as power abuse — is very familiar to any graduate worker at Stanford,” Brault said. “This might look like bullying, it might look like retaining pay, it may look like undermining in a meeting in a professional setting, it might look like stalking. Frankly, I’ve heard it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brault said over the past six years, she’s been involved in three cases filed with the Title IX office as a witness, and she’s seen how traumatizing the process can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chloé Brault, Stanford Ph.D. candidate\"]‘The idea of power abuse — if you define harassment as power abuse — is very familiar to any graduate worker at Stanford.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulations adopted during the Trump administration narrowed the definition of sexual harassment to conduct that is “so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive” it denies a person’s access to their education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.equalrights.org/issue/the-title-ix-process/\">Title IX process can take several months or longer\u003c/a>, and focus on determining whether allegations meet that federal definition of sexual harassment rather than providing support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get told, ‘This meets the threshold, this does not, the grievance process will proceed whether you like it or not, we’ll give you options to opt in or opt out, but otherwise the investigation is happening with or without you,’” Brault said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brault added that international student workers face additional barriers to reporting, and for them taking a leave of absence can mean losing campus housing, income and visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A push for a fairer, more transparent, more effective complaint process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Through unionizing, Stanford graduate workers could bargain for an official grievance process that takes those concerns into account, and be provided with union representation in disciplinary proceedings. They’re also advocating for contingency plans for graduate workers when supervisors are accused of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A shot of a college campus from inside an arched tunnel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Stanford campus, on May 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriela Basel, a third-year Ph.D. student studying chemical engineering, said she knows too many people at Stanford who have gone through the Title IX process only to see no changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s just gut-wrenching to hear these stories of power abuse and sexual abuse from supervisors and knowing that there’s nothing that graduate employees can do, there’s nowhere we can go,” Basel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a union, she said, Stanford will have no choice but to listen and sit down with workers at the bargaining table.[aside postID=news_11950873 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490480975-1020x680.jpg']Stett Holbrook, senior director of media relations and issues management at Stanford, said in a statement that the university values the many contributions graduate students make to Stanford’s mission of teaching and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook also noted that the university is encouraging every eligible graduate student to educate themselves about what it means to become a member of a union and then to exercise their right to vote in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook said the university is committed to providing a campus that is free of sex-based discrimination, sexual harassment and all forms of sexual misconduct. He said the school’s Title IX office has been working with the Graduate Life Office to increase its visibility within the graduate student community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford graduate workers are not alone in organizing to improve protections for those who experience abuse on the job. Student workers at \u003ca href=\"http://harvardgradunion.org/times-up-committee/nocarveout/\">Harvard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/07/columbia-university-strike-ends/\">Columbia\u003c/a> both have pushed for the option of third-party arbitration for discrimination and harassment complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Labor movement meets the fight against gender-based violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Labor movements must think about sexual harassment and discrimination as a labor issue, said Erin O’Callaghan, an incoming assistant professor at Colorado State University who participated in two strikes while she was a graduate student worker at the University of Illinois at Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Callaghan co-authored a paper, ‘‘\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34661481/#full-view-affiliation-1\">Sexual Harassment in the Academy: Harnessing the Growing Labor Movement in Higher Education to Address Sexual Harassment Against Graduate Workers\u003c/a>,” that calls for structural changes in academia to address gender-based violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a study cited in that paper, \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0361684316644838\">nearly 60% of female graduate students reported experiencing sexual harassment\u003c/a> from other students, and 38% of female graduate students reported sexual harassment by faculty or staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut.jpg\" alt=\"On a college campus hundreds of students are gathered in a quad-like area surrounded by chunky buildings and green trees. It's a sea of students.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather for a union rally at Stanford on April 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Fletcher Chapin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is that because [graduate workers] are such a cheap form of labor, and there’s another one to take your place, there’s no incentive to protect people that are in that type of working environment,” O’Callaghan said. “You could have four graduate students working under you as a faculty member and their collective salary would not come close to what you are paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union organizers are aiming to address some of that power imbalance by campaigning for a living wage, affordable housing and better benefits like full dental and vision coverage and subsidized child care.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Erin O’Callaghan, assistant professor, Colorado State University\"]‘The bottom line is that because [graduate workers] are such a cheap form of labor, and there’s another one to take your place, there’s no incentive to protect people that are in that type of working environment.’[/pullquote]Working conditions can be particularly precarious for \u003ca href=\"https://facts.stanford.edu/academics/graduate/\">international students, who make up about 35% of all graduate students at Stanford\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miikka Jaarte, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate from Finland who is studying philosophy, said an estimated 45% of his annual take-home pay goes toward rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year I was in Stanford housing, I would get a little pay bump and I would get a larger rent bump,” Jaarte said. “We would just like our wages to keep up with the cost of housing and with inflation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union organizers are also pushing for better protections for international student workers, like improving legal resources and creating a grievance procedure for graduate workers who have been unjustly terminated and fear deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Workers organizing amid a bleak academic job market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Allen Nie, a fourth-year computer science Ph.D. student, unionizing is a way to acknowledge the value graduate student workers bring to the university, and their identities as workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut.jpg\" alt=\"College students in hoodies with backpacks chat on campus on a sunny day. Many students are on a quad area with trees and big tan buildings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Nie, a fourth-year Stanford Ph.D. student, attends a rally on campus on April 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Fletcher Chapin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even though there is some enrichment of our knowledge, we’re not just purely passively receiving that from the university,” he said. “To those of my fellow workers, I would say, ‘Take a hard look at how much you’re getting from the university and take a look at how much you’re contributing to the scientific community.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wave of graduate workers organizing appears poised to continue. According to Bloomberg Law, \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/college-university-strike-wave-continues-its-swell-into-2023\">professors, graduate teaching and research assistants and other academic workers went on strike 15 times in 2022\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/unionelections/status/1599824581325336576\">largest union election petitions last year were filed by graduate workers\u003c/a>, according to Daily Union Elections.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sarah Mason, graduate student researcher, UC Santa Cruz Center for Labor and Community\"]‘We need to be fighting now for what we need. And more than that, those fights can be the basis for truly transforming the university on our terms.’[/pullquote]Workers in higher education are responding to structural changes in academia over the last few decades, said Sarah Mason, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology and a graduate student researcher at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Labor and Community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Departments and divisions have been financially gutted, workloads have exploded and tenured faculty positions have been replaced by a precarious workforce, Mason said. She added that students are crushed by private debt and described the prospects for future employment as incredibly bleak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s an increasing sense that these problems are not going to be solved by the people who created them,” Mason said. “We need to be fighting now for what we need. And more than that, those fights can be the basis for truly transforming the university on our terms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Stett Holbrook, senior director of media relations and issues management at Stanford, said in a statement that the university values the many contributions graduate students make to Stanford’s mission of teaching and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook also noted that the university is encouraging every eligible graduate student to educate themselves about what it means to become a member of a union and then to exercise their right to vote in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook said the university is committed to providing a campus that is free of sex-based discrimination, sexual harassment and all forms of sexual misconduct. He said the school’s Title IX office has been working with the Graduate Life Office to increase its visibility within the graduate student community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford graduate workers are not alone in organizing to improve protections for those who experience abuse on the job. Student workers at \u003ca href=\"http://harvardgradunion.org/times-up-committee/nocarveout/\">Harvard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/07/columbia-university-strike-ends/\">Columbia\u003c/a> both have pushed for the option of third-party arbitration for discrimination and harassment complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Labor movement meets the fight against gender-based violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Labor movements must think about sexual harassment and discrimination as a labor issue, said Erin O’Callaghan, an incoming assistant professor at Colorado State University who participated in two strikes while she was a graduate student worker at the University of Illinois at Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Callaghan co-authored a paper, ‘‘\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34661481/#full-view-affiliation-1\">Sexual Harassment in the Academy: Harnessing the Growing Labor Movement in Higher Education to Address Sexual Harassment Against Graduate Workers\u003c/a>,” that calls for structural changes in academia to address gender-based violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a study cited in that paper, \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0361684316644838\">nearly 60% of female graduate students reported experiencing sexual harassment\u003c/a> from other students, and 38% of female graduate students reported sexual harassment by faculty or staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut.jpg\" alt=\"On a college campus hundreds of students are gathered in a quad-like area surrounded by chunky buildings and green trees. It's a sea of students.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather for a union rally at Stanford on April 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Fletcher Chapin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is that because [graduate workers] are such a cheap form of labor, and there’s another one to take your place, there’s no incentive to protect people that are in that type of working environment,” O’Callaghan said. “You could have four graduate students working under you as a faculty member and their collective salary would not come close to what you are paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union organizers are aiming to address some of that power imbalance by campaigning for a living wage, affordable housing and better benefits like full dental and vision coverage and subsidized child care.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Working conditions can be particularly precarious for \u003ca href=\"https://facts.stanford.edu/academics/graduate/\">international students, who make up about 35% of all graduate students at Stanford\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miikka Jaarte, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate from Finland who is studying philosophy, said an estimated 45% of his annual take-home pay goes toward rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year I was in Stanford housing, I would get a little pay bump and I would get a larger rent bump,” Jaarte said. “We would just like our wages to keep up with the cost of housing and with inflation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union organizers are also pushing for better protections for international student workers, like improving legal resources and creating a grievance procedure for graduate workers who have been unjustly terminated and fear deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Workers organizing amid a bleak academic job market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Allen Nie, a fourth-year computer science Ph.D. student, unionizing is a way to acknowledge the value graduate student workers bring to the university, and their identities as workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut.jpg\" alt=\"College students in hoodies with backpacks chat on campus on a sunny day. Many students are on a quad area with trees and big tan buildings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Nie, a fourth-year Stanford Ph.D. student, attends a rally on campus on April 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Fletcher Chapin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even though there is some enrichment of our knowledge, we’re not just purely passively receiving that from the university,” he said. “To those of my fellow workers, I would say, ‘Take a hard look at how much you’re getting from the university and take a look at how much you’re contributing to the scientific community.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wave of graduate workers organizing appears poised to continue. According to Bloomberg Law, \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/college-university-strike-wave-continues-its-swell-into-2023\">professors, graduate teaching and research assistants and other academic workers went on strike 15 times in 2022\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/unionelections/status/1599824581325336576\">largest union election petitions last year were filed by graduate workers\u003c/a>, according to Daily Union Elections.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>What time is it? \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x42aPmtnVDg\">Summertime.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summer is the best few months of the year for most students everywhere. For some, it may conjure expectations of canoes, lakes and sleepaway experiences. This time of year can also mean day camps that are close to home — and they likely have specialized activities such as sports, art or science for an enriching vacation time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for parents and caregivers facing an annual, prohibitive expense, summertime can be a stressful period of hustling to find — and secure — a spot for their kids in the increasingly harried and pricey summer camp landscape. One KQED listener shared with KQED Forum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893505/why-summer-camp-is-a-hot-mess-for-parents\">during a recent show about summer camp\u003c/a> just how difficult it can be: “I found getting into camps harder than getting Bruce Springsteen tickets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if getting a space in camp feels like a race against the clock and a tremendous strain on the wallet — especially if you didn’t secure one in January — you are not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893505/why-summer-camp-is-a-hot-mess-for-parents\">KQED Forum\u003c/a> spoke to three experts to learn how the United States developed such an expensive summer camp scene and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893505/why-summer-camp-is-a-hot-mess-for-parents\">how to provide the best summer camp experience for your kids at a more reasonable price\u003c/a>. (And if you’re one of the many parents who \u003cem>don’t \u003c/em>send your kids to camp, these experts can help provide a glimpse into the experience.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kiesling\u003c/strong>, journalist and author. Kiesling’s most recent piece for Bloomberg is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-06-01/rising-2023-summer-camp-costs-show-waitlists-have-usurped-fun#xj4y7vzkg\">How Summer Camp Became Such a Hot Mess for Parents\u003c/a>.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Eduardo Caballero\u003c/strong>, co-founder and executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://edmo.org/\">EDMO, a summer camp in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jessica Calarco\u003c/strong>, an expert on inequalities in education and family life, and associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>You are seriously not alone — it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>wild out there\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Journalist Lydia Kiesling said she made a super spreadsheet to track down all the most attractive camps, nailing down prices, locations and more. And she learned she wasn’t the only one after posting questions on social media to learn from other parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not expecting to hear the word ‘spreadsheet’ so many times,” she said. “I want to emphasize that if you are having a spreadsheet, you’re probably already in a position of relative privilege compared to many parents who are not in a position to start that scramble in January, and be doing that like a complex whiteboard — with all your maps and pins of figuring out how it’s going to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lydia Kiesling, journalist and author\"]‘It is very complex. Parents are really finding that it takes just a massive amount of logistical arranging to figure out a whole summer of care.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With camps, however, having special weekly schedules — and with some parents trying to secure spots for multiple kids — it’s become a worryingly expensive dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is very complex. Parents are really finding that it takes just a massive amount of logistical arranging to figure out a whole summer of care,” Kiesling said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How did summer camps become a part of American life?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In many ways, summer camps reveal a lot about child care and the social safety net in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Calarco, an associate professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said workers in other countries like France get ample paid vacation time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That means that most families don’t have to worry about what to do with their kids during the summer because they have that time off to travel or to spend time with their kids at home,” Calarco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the U.S., we don’t provide those protections for families,” she added. “We don’t provide guaranteed paid time off for workers. And that means that most families can’t afford to just stay home with their kids while schools are closed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, said Calarco, this mismatch “disproportionately gets pushed onto moms to deal with, because we haven’t structured our society and our economy in ways that make it possible for families to try to fill these gaps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These aren’t new anxieties for American parents and caregivers. Kiesling, the journalist, used newspaper archives to look at the development of attitudes toward summer camps over the decades, dating as far back as the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were these articles that were targeted to relatively affluent readers of \u003cem>The [New York] Times\u003c/em>, [that] were really kind of stoking that concern, like, ‘It’s January. What is your child going to do? What exciting and enriching experience are you going to give them? All these camps fill up very quickly. You’ve got to get ready.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that just sort of ramped up over the years,” said Kiesling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As sleepaway camps shut down in the 1970s due to economic factors, day camps began to evolve, and computer camps became all the rage in the ’80s. Then, Kiesling said, “There would be a backlash article: ‘What are we doing to our kids? They’re so overscheduled.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Which is exactly what people say today,” she noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Before you say, ‘Back in my day … ’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>American life has changed a lot in the past few decades. Namely, more two-parent families have both parents working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many American adults may remember childhood feeling much looser when it came to supervision. And while Kiesling said she doesn’t want to “impugn anybody’s memory of their childhood,” she believes there’s “a little bit of selective memory on that front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are adults now of all ages who remember this kind of pastoral childhood where they could go out in the morning and come back in the evening. I think often that was possible because they perhaps had a parent at home who was likely a mom at home,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiesling emphasized that while women have always been working outside of the home, that number soared in the middle of the 20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some kids who had wonderful kind of latchkey experiences, but then there were others who did not — who were placed with family members, or neighbors or really just left to kind of rattle around … [in] possibly unsafe situations,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiesling stressed that she wants to “honor the experiences that people have had of kind of unstructured childhoods,” but said she can’t help but feel skeptical when she perceives people using their own childhoods “as a cudgel to sort of beat modern parents with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while some people call it “helicopter” parenting, Kiesling points out that the lack of a social safety net has left parents and kids on their own for a long time in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If you don’t send your kids to camp, you’re not alone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Calarco said it’s important to remember that camp is not a universal experience. Not every kid will attend one, and of the ones who do, many may choose a less expensive option — such as those run by the Boys and Girls Clubs, which offer enriching activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only about a third of kids in the U.S. go to camp during the summer, and less than 10% of them go to overnight camp,” Calarco said. “And essentially, summer is one of the most segregated times of the year, in part because of the high cost of camps. And that those kids who are going to summer camp are disproportionately affluent white kids.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessica Calarco, associate professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison\"]‘Only about a third of kids in the U.S. go to camp during the summer, and less than 10% of them go to overnight camp.’[/pullquote]“I think certainly we need a whole host of new programs for families that provide the kind of support they need, both logistically in terms of paid time off and also in terms of ample support for child care,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, most American families still tend to live near their extended families. But the state of the economy may make the option of leaving your kid with the grandparents even harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are retiring later because of the financial precarity that we’re in right now,” Calarco said. “And so, Grandma may not be \u003cem>available \u003c/em>during the summer, if she’s still around to provide that kind of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think short of making child care a universal public system — which many countries have done in terms of providing year-round care for kids, making sure that parents are able to be in the workforce when they don’t have that paid time off — that the next steps that we can do are to provide kind of ample subsidies for families,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the same time, I think it’s hard to do that in a way that is equitable,” Calarco added. “Given the differences in the kinds of camps that families want and that families are able to pay for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Here’s where you can find a summer camp\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to Eduardo Caballero, director of the Bay Area-based, out-of-classroom educational program EDMO, preregistration for the summer camps he oversees starts as early as November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At EDMO, 40% of the spots are filled by the end of February, he said. But that still leaves more than half available.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eduardo Caballero, director, EDMO\"]‘I always recommend that families do a program for at least two weeks so that kids can build relationships with other kids and also the staff.’[/pullquote]“I imagine this year, [enrollment is] back to probably close to pre-pandemic levels,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always recommend that families do a program for at least two weeks so that kids can build relationships with other kids and also the staff,” Caballero recommended. “It takes time for that staff to get to know your child, takes time for your staff to get your child to understand the culture of that camp, that specific camp, and build those lasting relationships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, a longer stay like this is not going to be possible for all families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://edmo.org/partner/summer-partners\">comprehensive directory of programs is available on EDMO’s website\u003c/a>; many of the camps are partnered with school districts. If you’re seeking financial assistance, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfoHOWNhIiRuX0yAXm04g4AnLbRHK5oeVXvTu_6fyKrK8xWSg/viewform\">fill out this form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A few summer camp options around the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of EDMO’s programs is the \u003ca href=\"https://edmo.org/partners/dcyf-teca-summer-2023\">Thomas Edison Charter Academy\u003c/a>, which has a three-week-long session that costs $30; it’s open to any child living in San Francisco who meets certain requirements, as well as those who identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For kids closer to their teens, Caballero said, volunteering at camps is a great leadership opportunity. 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UC over the years has also ramped up its outreach to lower-income students and students enrolled at underserved high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those efforts have been far from perfect, however.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Drake, UC's systemwide president\"]‘We stand ready to share our expertise and lessons learned as we collaborate with our partners to achieve a higher education landscape that reflects the rich diversity of our nation.’[/pullquote]In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/232355/20220801134931730_20-1199%20bsac%20University%20of%20California.pdf\">UC officials acknowledged in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court last fall (PDF)\u003c/a> that it has failed to enroll a sufficiently diverse student body or one that is representative of the state’s demographics. 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That raises concerns that UC is not enrolling sufficient students with diverse perspectives, and that it will not be perceived as open to, and welcoming of, all students across the State — which in turn threatens its legitimacy in the eyes of citizens of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the court’s decision on Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2023/06/29/biden-slams-scotus-this-is-not-a-normal-court-00104223?tab=most-read\">President Joe Biden\u003c/a> and Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed similar concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right-wing activists — including those donning robes — are trying to take us back to the era of book bans and segregated campuses,” Newsom said in a press statement. “While the path to equal opportunity has now been narrowed for millions of students, no court case will ever shatter the California Dream. 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Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire point of the Equal Protection Clause is that treating someone differently because of their skin color is not like treating them differently because they are from a city or from a suburb, or because they play the violin poorly or well,” Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, bringing a long-sought conservative goal to fruition, comes nearly 30 years after California voters \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1996/prop209_11_1996.html\">passed Proposition 209\u003c/a>, which prohibited the state’s public universities — including those in the University of California and California State University systems — from considering race and gender in admissions and hiring decisions. But that law did not apply to the state’s private colleges, including University of San Francisco, Stanford and Santa Clara universities, who until now have continued to consider race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of numerous private colleges across California were quick to denounce the court’s decision, calling it a major setback to efforts aimed at diversifying campuses and to expand opportunities for underrepresented student populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ruling is quite disturbing and really quite challenging to us,” said Rev. Paul Fitzgerald, president of the University of San Francisco. “We’ve spent decades building out an academic program to welcome a student population that looks like the future of our nation. 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That’s a stark inequity that arts education advocates have long labored to rectify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creativity is a muscle, not a gene, and if it’s a muscle then you can make it stronger,” said Jessica Mele, a program officer specializing in arts education at the Hewlett Foundation. “The problem is that arts education in this country has historically been ruled by assumptions about who can and should be allowed to participate in the arts and a lot of that has to do with race and class and geography.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that grim state of affairs is set to change, in the wake of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/prop28artsandmusicedfunding.asp\">Proposition 28\u003c/a> — the groundbreaking Arts and Music in Schools initiative that will provide arts funding to schools — experts say many challenges lie ahead, from uncertainties about how the program will roll out to the ongoing teacher shortage. Such growing pains are to be expected, some say, as the roughly $1 billion program ramps up this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are doing in California with Prop. 28 is truly seismic,” said Austin Beutner, author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/proposition-28-arts-education\">Proposition 28\u003c/a>. “It’s the largest investment in arts and music in our nation’s history. It’s never been done before.”[aside postID=news_11928837,news_11934191 label='Funding for Arts Education']The vast scale of the program may also explain why there’s a niggling fear among arts insiders that this huge boost of funding, which is expected to land sometime this fall, must be too good to be true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks in the arts education feel like they’ve been marginalized for so long that it’s hard for them to conceive of something that centers them,” said Mele. “There are a lot of people in the field who still say, ‘I’ll believe it when the money gets to my school.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key challenge is the lack of clarity regarding the details of exactly how the game-changing program will work. Many remain unsure about the rules, from waivers to audits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thrust is clear. All the money must go to arts and music education, but that is broadly defined. The disciplines include (but are not limited to) dance, media arts, music, theater and visual arts including folk art, painting, sculpture, photography, craft arts and creative expression including graphic arts and design, computer coding, animation, music composition, ensembles, script writing, costume design, film and video. Each school community is invited to tailor the program to the needs of its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take inventory, talk to your families,” said Allison Gamlen, visual and performing arts coordinator for the San Mateo County Office of Education. “Is it important to you that your child does dance? Or has access to music or visual art? Do you want your kids to learn media arts skills so that they can get careers in Silicon Valley? Survey your students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some arts education advocates worry a lack of specificity may undermine the program. \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/dave.heckler7741/viz/Prop28ArtsEducationFunding/Sheet1\">Estimates of how much funding each district will receive\u003c/a> are available, but some say \u003ca href=\"https://createca.org/prop-28-what-we-know-so-far/\">the rules on how to spend it\u003c/a> remain unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lack of guidance is hampering local planning for the funds,” said Abe Flores, deputy director of policy and programs at \u003ca href=\"https://createca.org/\">Create CA\u003c/a>, an arts advocacy group. “Without staff or timely guidance, we fear the prop is being set up for failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say that the CDE, which is administering the program, has not as yet been responsive enough about how to navigate the complexities of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to reiterate the lack of guidance from CDE around calculating the baseline, critical to ensure the ‘supplement, not supplant’ requirement, and outlining the waiver process,” Flores said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/06/26/voters-passed-prop-28-to-fund-arts-education-but-schools-face-challenges-in-rollout/kqed_richmond_orchestra-5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11954101\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A music classroom with a piano in the front and a group of students sitting in chairs, playing instruments with sheet music, as a white man conducts them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music director Andrew Wilke conducts orchestra class at Richmond High School on Oct. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Marlena Sloss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schools with more than 500 students must use 80% of the funds on staff. Also, this money must be used to supplement existing funds, not supplant them. If a school spends $100 this year, they are expected to spend $100 plus their new allocation next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/191WGiI79mbU4s5jumZ_qFzCiLidegSOy/view\">Some school administrators (PDF)\u003c/a> argue that this existing funding, the baseline that Proposition funds can not replace, should not include one-time donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Superintendent Malia Vella clarified that the baseline is defined as all existing funding, and that “it doesn’t provide exemptions currently.” However, she is also awaiting cleanup language in upcoming trailer bills to the state budget before issuing technical guidance. She also notes the California Department of Education is updating its website with \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/prop28artsandmusicedfundingfaq.asp\">frequently asked questions\u003c/a> and advises arts administrators to subscribe to the Proposition 28 listserv at join-prop28@mlist.cde.ca.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do hope to get clarity and provide audit guidelines,” Villa said. “It’s hard to issue guidance and then say the appropriation has changed, that’s the technical side of things. “I don’t think it serves our LEAs to issue guidance that then gets changed immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one reason why, at this point, many arts educators are taking \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativesonoma.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/www.creativesonoma.org/images/2023/04/Proposition-28_-A-Case-for-Slowing-Down-_-SSC.pdf\">a wait-and-see approach (PDF)\u003c/a>. It should be noted that schools have three years to use the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve tossed around some ideas, but honestly, I don’t want principals in schools to start making a lot of plans until we’re pretty sure what they can do with it,” said Phil Rydeen, coordinator of visual and performing arts at Oakland Unified School District. “There’s still some general fuzziness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge will be staffing. An estimated 15,000 arts teachers will be needed statewide, but experts say there are only about 5,000 credentialed arts teachers in the field right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Against the backdrop of the existing teacher shortage, some fear a hiring frenzy may ensue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are more jobs than there are people,” said Eric Engdahl, professor emeritus at CSU East Bay and past president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccte.org/\">California Council on Teacher Education\u003c/a>. “We’ve been starving for so long, and suddenly we’re being presented with a banquet, and we don’t know what to do with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that \u003ca href=\"http://www.ctc.ca.gov/commission/reports/data/approved-institutions-and-programs\">the arts credential pipeline\u003c/a> has shrunk after decades of cutbacks. While there are 64 programs in the state that offer a music credential and 57 that offer a visual arts credential, there are only four programs that focus on theater and two that specialize in dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, experts suggest the talent pool is wider than it looks because there are numerous \u003ca href=\"https://cacountyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/California-County-Superintendents-Teacher-Brief.pdf\">workarounds (PDF)\u003c/a>. For instance, physical education teachers who were credentialed before 2022 already have dance embedded in their credential, experts say. The same goes for some English teachers automatically having a theater credential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, you don’t technically need a credential to teach the arts. Proposition 28 requires that at least 80% of the funding be used to hire staff, but they may be “certificated or classified” staff. That means working artists can, and some say should, be part of the mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are blessed with a diversity of talent in California. We have a tremendous diversity of practicing artists, some of whom can become great arts educators,” said Beutner, former LAUSD superintendent. “Right now, the talent and the school don’t meet. So we’re trying to make that initial connection as seamless as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beutner hopes to connect working artists with the schools in their midst. The schools get access to professional artists and the artists get a measure of financial stability that’s rare in the arts. Plus, if they discover a passion for teaching, they may decide to pursue a credential, which ensures higher pay.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessica Mele, Hewlett Foundation\"]‘There is this tension that has always existed in the field between the value of teaching artists and the value of credentialed teachers.’[/pullquote]“There’s something really incredible about a professional artist who comes into the classroom,” said Mele. “They represent what it’s like to be an artist. They show kids that this is a possible career path. They are also not part of the school community, so kids can often open up to teaching artists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connecting the two worlds is critical, as Beutner sees it. One of the ideas is a twist on JammCard, an app that would work like LinkedIn for the arts, \u003ca href=\"https://schoolgig.us/\">Schoolgig\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some believe that arts teachers ought to be credentialed because education requires specific expertise. Artists may not be ready for the rigors of the classroom, some warn, particularly in the post-pandemic era with its rampant learning loss and misbehavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a great artist or musician doesn’t necessarily mean you are a great teacher,” said Tom DeCaigny, executive director of Create CA, an arts advocacy group. “Model programs typically require significant training on things like classroom management, child development theory, curriculum frameworks, modalities of learning, pedagogy … In other words, good teaching is not a ‘gig.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best-case scenario, many suggest, is finding ways to tap into the talents of both kinds of art teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is this tension that has always existed in the field between the value of teaching artists and the value of credentialed teachers,” Mele said, “but they are both valuable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from staffing costs, the rest of the funding can be used for other needs including training, supplies and partnerships with arts education organizations. No more than 1% can go to administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some arts administrators wish there was more wiggle room in how the funds are spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had my way, if I could wave a magic wand,” said Rydeen, “I would want that flexibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beutner argues that investing heavily in arts teachers will pay off in the vitality of the school community at large, bolstering its social-emotional culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One would hope a school builds a program around a dedicated teacher who becomes a part of the community,” he said. “Continuity of people and programs both matter.”[aside label='Understanding Prop. 28' link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/proposition-28-arts-education,KQED Election Guide: Arts Education Funding']You can apply for a waiver from the 80/20 rule if you need to invest in musical instruments or a kiln, for instance, to launch a new program, but you must show “good cause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An example of a good cause would be a school which is starting a music program. First year, they might need to buy instruments and thereafter just replace or repair a small portion of them,” Beutner said. “So they could ask for a waiver to spend 40% of the funds for the first year for instruments and in subsequent years they would be spending 90% on teaching staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To clarify the process and share ideas, Beutner is currently cooking up a YouTube channel with how-to videos and best practices from arts educators across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This cross-fertilization of great ideas is not going to happen overnight, but that’s what we’re trying to foster and facilitate,” said Beutner. “We’ve got to build capacity and empower people to make good decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In arts education, as in the arts, collaboration is often the key. A small school in a rural district might join forces with another school to share a dance teacher, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way that this is going to work best is as a coalition, a collaboration between everybody who has skin in the game. It’s teachers, it’s parents, it’s students, it’s arts organizations, it’s teaching artists, it’s school districts, it’s teacher education programs,” said Engdahl. “It’s a big tent, but we all have a part to play, and we all need to be working together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/prop-28-a-windfall-for-arts-education-but-implementation-poses-challenges/692858\">This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Arts education has long been hailed for its transformative power, a way to boost everything from \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1029864915623613?journalCode=msxa\">test scores\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/arts-education-and-social-emotional-learning-outcomes\">social-emotional learning\u003c/a>. Unfortunately, budget woes have cut arts education so close to the bone that only 11% of California schools offer a comprehensive arts education, \u003ca href=\"https://createca.org/CreativityChallenge/\">research suggests\u003c/a>. That’s a stark inequity that arts education advocates have long labored to rectify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creativity is a muscle, not a gene, and if it’s a muscle then you can make it stronger,” said Jessica Mele, a program officer specializing in arts education at the Hewlett Foundation. “The problem is that arts education in this country has historically been ruled by assumptions about who can and should be allowed to participate in the arts and a lot of that has to do with race and class and geography.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that grim state of affairs is set to change, in the wake of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/prop28artsandmusicedfunding.asp\">Proposition 28\u003c/a> — the groundbreaking Arts and Music in Schools initiative that will provide arts funding to schools — experts say many challenges lie ahead, from uncertainties about how the program will roll out to the ongoing teacher shortage. Such growing pains are to be expected, some say, as the roughly $1 billion program ramps up this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are doing in California with Prop. 28 is truly seismic,” said Austin Beutner, author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/proposition-28-arts-education\">Proposition 28\u003c/a>. “It’s the largest investment in arts and music in our nation’s history. It’s never been done before.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The vast scale of the program may also explain why there’s a niggling fear among arts insiders that this huge boost of funding, which is expected to land sometime this fall, must be too good to be true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks in the arts education feel like they’ve been marginalized for so long that it’s hard for them to conceive of something that centers them,” said Mele. “There are a lot of people in the field who still say, ‘I’ll believe it when the money gets to my school.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key challenge is the lack of clarity regarding the details of exactly how the game-changing program will work. Many remain unsure about the rules, from waivers to audits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thrust is clear. All the money must go to arts and music education, but that is broadly defined. The disciplines include (but are not limited to) dance, media arts, music, theater and visual arts including folk art, painting, sculpture, photography, craft arts and creative expression including graphic arts and design, computer coding, animation, music composition, ensembles, script writing, costume design, film and video. Each school community is invited to tailor the program to the needs of its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take inventory, talk to your families,” said Allison Gamlen, visual and performing arts coordinator for the San Mateo County Office of Education. “Is it important to you that your child does dance? Or has access to music or visual art? Do you want your kids to learn media arts skills so that they can get careers in Silicon Valley? Survey your students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some arts education advocates worry a lack of specificity may undermine the program. \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/dave.heckler7741/viz/Prop28ArtsEducationFunding/Sheet1\">Estimates of how much funding each district will receive\u003c/a> are available, but some say \u003ca href=\"https://createca.org/prop-28-what-we-know-so-far/\">the rules on how to spend it\u003c/a> remain unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lack of guidance is hampering local planning for the funds,” said Abe Flores, deputy director of policy and programs at \u003ca href=\"https://createca.org/\">Create CA\u003c/a>, an arts advocacy group. “Without staff or timely guidance, we fear the prop is being set up for failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say that the CDE, which is administering the program, has not as yet been responsive enough about how to navigate the complexities of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to reiterate the lack of guidance from CDE around calculating the baseline, critical to ensure the ‘supplement, not supplant’ requirement, and outlining the waiver process,” Flores said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/06/26/voters-passed-prop-28-to-fund-arts-education-but-schools-face-challenges-in-rollout/kqed_richmond_orchestra-5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11954101\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A music classroom with a piano in the front and a group of students sitting in chairs, playing instruments with sheet music, as a white man conducts them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59099_Richmond_Orchestra_013-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music director Andrew Wilke conducts orchestra class at Richmond High School on Oct. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Marlena Sloss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schools with more than 500 students must use 80% of the funds on staff. Also, this money must be used to supplement existing funds, not supplant them. If a school spends $100 this year, they are expected to spend $100 plus their new allocation next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/191WGiI79mbU4s5jumZ_qFzCiLidegSOy/view\">Some school administrators (PDF)\u003c/a> argue that this existing funding, the baseline that Proposition funds can not replace, should not include one-time donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Superintendent Malia Vella clarified that the baseline is defined as all existing funding, and that “it doesn’t provide exemptions currently.” However, she is also awaiting cleanup language in upcoming trailer bills to the state budget before issuing technical guidance. She also notes the California Department of Education is updating its website with \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/prop28artsandmusicedfundingfaq.asp\">frequently asked questions\u003c/a> and advises arts administrators to subscribe to the Proposition 28 listserv at join-prop28@mlist.cde.ca.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do hope to get clarity and provide audit guidelines,” Villa said. “It’s hard to issue guidance and then say the appropriation has changed, that’s the technical side of things. “I don’t think it serves our LEAs to issue guidance that then gets changed immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one reason why, at this point, many arts educators are taking \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativesonoma.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/www.creativesonoma.org/images/2023/04/Proposition-28_-A-Case-for-Slowing-Down-_-SSC.pdf\">a wait-and-see approach (PDF)\u003c/a>. It should be noted that schools have three years to use the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve tossed around some ideas, but honestly, I don’t want principals in schools to start making a lot of plans until we’re pretty sure what they can do with it,” said Phil Rydeen, coordinator of visual and performing arts at Oakland Unified School District. “There’s still some general fuzziness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge will be staffing. An estimated 15,000 arts teachers will be needed statewide, but experts say there are only about 5,000 credentialed arts teachers in the field right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Against the backdrop of the existing teacher shortage, some fear a hiring frenzy may ensue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are more jobs than there are people,” said Eric Engdahl, professor emeritus at CSU East Bay and past president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccte.org/\">California Council on Teacher Education\u003c/a>. “We’ve been starving for so long, and suddenly we’re being presented with a banquet, and we don’t know what to do with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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