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This is a chance to diversify those narratives,” Thurmond said. “This is all happening against the backdrop of where you have governors in other states literally trying to strip out any representation about race, about the experience of LGBTQ+ students, students with disabilities. California’s going in the other direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The session also coincided with heated confrontations this month in some California districts — \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2023/06/20/protests-over-lgbtq-issues-bring-drama-to-glendale-school-board-meeting/?utm_email=549A44C674A504FEC5E3F564EF&lctg=549A44C674A504FEC5E3F564EF&active=yesD&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Story+Button&utm_campaign=scng-ladn-breaking-news&utm_content=alert\">arguments in Glendale Unified\u003c/a> over support of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pride\">Pride month\u003c/a>, and an investigation by the California Department of Education and Attorney General Rob Bonta into the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/%202023/temecula-valley-school-board-fires-superintendent-jodi-mcclay-as-protests-erupt-outside/692340\">Temecula Valley Unified board’s rejection\u003c/a> of a curriculum recommended by a committee of teachers and parents because it mentioned gay activist and leader Harvey Milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1352\">Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, introduced a bill\u003c/a> that would add teeth to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/senatebill48faq.asp\">FAIR Education Act\u003c/a>, a 2011 law that requires textbooks to include the contributions of racial and ethnic groups and LGBTQ+ people while prohibiting their negative portrayals. Along with expressly prohibiting a school board from contradicting state laws requiring “inclusive policies, practices, and curriculum,” it would authorize a school board to censure and, by a two-thirds vote, oust a member who tried to do so. Bonta’s spouse is the state attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond announced the membership of the 10-member task force, co-chaired with Sen. Monique Limon, D-Santa Barbara, with all Democratic legislators, this week. Although the first session focused on school textbooks, Thurmond said the task force would be a source of ideas for developing and advocating for legislation on inclusive practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB5\">AB 5\u003c/a>, by task force member Rick Chavez Zbur, an Assemblymember from Santa Monica, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1078\">AB 1078\u003c/a>, by task force member Corey Jackson, an assemblymember from Perris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 5, backed by the California Teachers Association, would develop training in LGBTQ cultural competency for teachers and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Santa Monica)\"]‘Representation is crucial for youth who may feel that they are all alone.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1078 originally called for school districts to seek state board approval before banning a book from schools or school libraries or seeking to not teach a required curriculum. As currently amended, it would only require the California Department of Education to guide districts and charter schools on how to conduct conversations about race and gender, and how to review instructional materials to ensure they are culturally relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond, task force members and speakers Wednesday said they’d favor more oversight state of school districts to prevent actions like that of the Temecula Valley Unified board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our students have been asking for the right to not be bullied because they’re LGBTQ+ students. They have been bullied by adults simply for raising their voices for what they believe. There is legislation that will address the actions of these school boards,” said Thurmond. 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He warned of potential penalties on school boards that resist state policies on such materials. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oversight of curriculum implementation is critical to ensure that all students are seen, respected and valued,” Zbur said. “Representation is crucial for youth who may feel that they are all alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When districts try to censor history, hold them accountable,” said Don Romesburg, a professor of gender studies and history at Sonoma State. “I know this is a local-control state, and that is wonderful, but that shouldn’t allow ideologues to run roughshod over law, policy and processes based in careful deliberation, public input and scholarship-based evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond used the session both to explain why diverse students benefit when they see themselves in instructional materials and to wheedle pledges for inclusivity from the four textbook companies that attended.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Don Romesburg, professor of gender studies and history, Sonoma State\"]‘When districts try to censor history, hold them accountable.’[/pullquote]“Inclusive education is more than ‘woke education,’ as some have called it. Inclusive education helps our students to have academic success, social success, and to be able to contribute to their communities,” Thurmond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former school board member, Limon said she learned about the Chumash Indians only as an adult.\u003cstrong> “\u003c/strong>Never once did I have access to material, to literature, to content that was reflective of the Native people of the place that I was born and grew up in,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than two decades, California history and social studies standards have required attention to the stories, cultures and accurate histories of California’s diverse racial and ethnic groups. The curriculum frameworks that the state board adopted fleshed out the standards grade by grade with samples of lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They provided guidance for publishers to write textbooks, which were then reviewed in a state adoption process. The state’s voluntary model ethnic studies curriculum, the basis for a mandatory course in high school, starting in 2025–26, concentrates on four groups of people: African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chris Nellum, executive director, Education Trust-West\"]‘As Californians, often we’re too quick to sing our praises. The truth is, the evidence tells us inclusivity in our curriculum is already lacking.’[/pullquote]But those who testified said there are inadequate instructional materials that open windows into the lives of diverse populations and mirror most students’ experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Californians, often we’re too quick to sing our praises,” said Chris Nellum, executive director of the nonprofit Education Trust-West, which advocates for racially diverse groups of students. “The truth is, the evidence tells us inclusivity in our curriculum is already lacking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond said: “We have a wonderfully diverse student body in California, and many of our textbooks haven’t kept up with that diversity. This is a chance to diversify those narratives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pressures and risks for publishers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thurmond asked those at the hearing to applaud representatives from the four textbook publishers that attended the hearing — and indicated that many others declined the invitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies were only given a minute for statements, and then to respond to Thurmond’s and others’ often leading questions to recognize that they have a financial stake in creating content that honors the state’s diverse student population, where students of color make up two-thirds of enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question is,” said Thurmond, “do you believe it is in your financial best interest? These efforts that you’re talking about, do they contribute to a financial benefit to your company — and if they haven’t, do you think that they could?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, he asked, “Are you willing to continue working with this task force? 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As I said, we are committed to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory Walker, senior vice president of The College Board, which administers AP courses and produces course content through its subsidiary SpringBoard, alluded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/college-board-says-it-wont-edit-ap-courses-despite-pressure-from-states/2023/06?utm_source=nl&utm_medium=eml&utm_campaign=cm&M=7065869&UUID=eb9063a251a19af76d00b3069f4a4723&T=9436603\">its response this week to attacks by the state of Florida\u003c/a> for the inclusion of gender identity in its AP Psychology course. “Students who want to become a psychologist need to study that content,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have made hard decisions at The College Board to do what is right for content, curriculum, and for students for their futures,” he said. “And if that means a reduction in market share or revenue, we are OK with that decision because that is the right decision for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to tweet that,” Thurmond said. “That’s a perfect statement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story originally appeared in \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/state-supt-tony-thurmond-elicits-publishers-pledges-for-more-inclusive-textbooks/692818\">EdSource\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1078 originally called for school districts to seek state board approval before banning a book from schools or school libraries or seeking to not teach a required curriculum. As currently amended, it would only require the California Department of Education to guide districts and charter schools on how to conduct conversations about race and gender, and how to review instructional materials to ensure they are culturally relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond, task force members and speakers Wednesday said they’d favor more oversight state of school districts to prevent actions like that of the Temecula Valley Unified board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our students have been asking for the right to not be bullied because they’re LGBTQ+ students. They have been bullied by adults simply for raising their voices for what they believe. There is legislation that will address the actions of these school boards,” said Thurmond. One would impose a fee for any district that bans a book, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11953770 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/Thurmond.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man in a navy business suit, gray tie and white shirt is sitting at a table with a notepad and pen in front of him speaking with his hands extending out. He has a serious face.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/Thurmond.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/Thurmond-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/Thurmond-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/Thurmond-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, along with the support of a newly formed task force meant to monitor textbooks for inclusivity and diversity, said students should have access to frank and positive portrayals of California’s diverse population. He warned of potential penalties on school boards that resist state policies on such materials. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oversight of curriculum implementation is critical to ensure that all students are seen, respected and valued,” Zbur said. “Representation is crucial for youth who may feel that they are all alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When districts try to censor history, hold them accountable,” said Don Romesburg, a professor of gender studies and history at Sonoma State. “I know this is a local-control state, and that is wonderful, but that shouldn’t allow ideologues to run roughshod over law, policy and processes based in careful deliberation, public input and scholarship-based evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond used the session both to explain why diverse students benefit when they see themselves in instructional materials and to wheedle pledges for inclusivity from the four textbook companies that attended.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Jackson implied that the state should use the leverage of state funding to see that districts comply with the state’s recommendations. “If we can’t get commitments from publishers, I can almost guarantee you that there will be a bill to ensure that California doesn’t spend a dime when it comes to purchasing those textbooks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John McCurdy, CEO of Studies Weekly, which produces social studies, science and health materials, said, “It doesn’t happen often but on occasion, we have lost business across the country because people know we support the FAIR Act in California. As I said, we are committed to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory Walker, senior vice president of The College Board, which administers AP courses and produces course content through its subsidiary SpringBoard, alluded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/college-board-says-it-wont-edit-ap-courses-despite-pressure-from-states/2023/06?utm_source=nl&utm_medium=eml&utm_campaign=cm&M=7065869&UUID=eb9063a251a19af76d00b3069f4a4723&T=9436603\">its response this week to attacks by the state of Florida\u003c/a> for the inclusion of gender identity in its AP Psychology course. “Students who want to become a psychologist need to study that content,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have made hard decisions at The College Board to do what is right for content, curriculum, and for students for their futures,” he said. “And if that means a reduction in market share or revenue, we are OK with that decision because that is the right decision for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to tweet that,” Thurmond said. “That’s a perfect statement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story originally appeared in \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/state-supt-tony-thurmond-elicits-publishers-pledges-for-more-inclusive-textbooks/692818\">EdSource\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Cantonese courses at CCSF were previously on the chopping block due to limited funding, even though Cantonese is the most commonly spoken Chinese language throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF only currently offers four conversational courses in the Cantonese curriculum and employs just one part-time Cantonese instructor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new 16-unit program was initially slated to begin in the coming academic year. 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A nine-unit Cantonese certificate program is still on track for approval, but the larger 16-unit course series has been reverted to draft status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having Cantonese education in San Francisco is not just about preserving a language or culture or history,” City College Board President Alan Wong told KQED. “We need to be able to ensure that we have the next generation of public contact workers that are able to speak Cantonese and be able to support the seniors and elders and in the immigrant community that speak Cantonese.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cantonese is the most-spoken Chinese language in the Bay Area, and about one-tenth of San Francisco’s population speaks the language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 2021, Cantonese classes were on the chopping block at CCSF largely due to a lack of funding. Enrollment was not the problem — every Cantonese class at the school has been full since the fall of 2019, according to Wong. But the courses were not eligible for state funding because they couldn’t be transferred to a four-year college and because there was no formal certification program for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"City College Board President Alan Wong\"]‘Having Cantonese education in San Francisco is not just about preserving a language or culture or history.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the school considered cutting the courses, advocates quickly pushed back and organized \u003ca href=\"https://www.savecantonese.org/ccsf\">a campaign to keep Cantonese education\u003c/a> by creating a formalized program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts were successful, and in January 2022, the City College Board of Trustees approved a policy Wong authored that would create two new Cantonese certificates that would enable state funding for the courses while promoting the program to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Trustees ratified the courses and both a nine-unit and a 16-unit Cantonese certificate on Nov. 10, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But about two weeks later, the City College Curriculum Committee retracted its support for the 16-unit certificate. The 16-unit program was then moved back to draft status while the department worked to develop more resources and offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not right that the certificate was taken away from the community because suddenly it is decided that the program needs another class. It was ready to go,” Wong said.[aside label='More Stories on Education' tag='education']At the Board of Trustees meeting on June 22, there will be an action item considering a vote on whether to acknowledge that the college will work to make the 16-unit certificate a reality in the future, Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for the Cantonese programs say they are essential to connecting the Chinese-speaking community with essential services and support. For example, many first responders such as medical workers, police officers and social service providers take courses at CCSF to be able to communicate with that community. The classes are also often filled with people looking to learn about their heritage and talk with relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely unfair that the Cantonese certificate program was yanked off after it had gone through all the proper processes because there is a change of heart for the program by some,” Wong said. “We need to follow through on our commitments and our process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Matthew Cardoza contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Charter school students in California significantly outperformed similar students in nearby traditional public schools in reading and scored about the same in math, according to a comprehensive study of pre-pandemic test results of charter schools nationwide, released earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gap between California charter and district schools in reading achievement has widened since the first report 14 years ago by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University. There has been steady progress in math as well; charter schools’ scores were significantly behind in the first study in 2009.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/5z9Z1/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nThis was particularly true when the difference in test scores was translated into learning gains or losses for multisite charter management organizations operating in California. For example, when compared with similar students in district schools, students in Los Angeles-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.laalliance.org/\">Alliance College-Ready Public Schools\u003c/a> gained the equivalent of 107 days in additional learning, about 40% of a year. Students in Bay Area-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.rocketshipschools.org/\">Rocketship Public Schools\u003c/a> gained three-quarters of a year in additional learning days in math, based on CREDO’s methodology.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PP0UM/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nCREDO designated 32 California charter management organizations as “gap-busters,” whose average achievement exceeded the state average, and whose historically marginalized students showed growth that was strong or stronger than their non-marginalized peers in the same schools; 22 CMOs excelled in both math and reading, including\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.acecharter.org/\"> ACE Charter Schools\u003c/a> in San José, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://paralosninos.org/education-community/\">Para Los Niños\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://kingchavez.org/\">King-Chavez Neighborhood of Schools\u003c/a> in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter schools are independently run public schools. Managed by nonprofit boards of trustees, they are not bound by some requirements of the state education code while being held to many of the same accountability, teacher credentialing and testing mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 9 California public school students — 685,000 out of 5.85 million students — attended one of about 1,300 charter schools in 2022-23. Although California has the largest number of charter schools and students in the nation, CREDO found their performance gains, relative to similar district school students, were smaller than charter students in a dozen of the 29 states covered by the study, plus Washington, D.C., and New York City. Charter school students in a dozen states also outperformed their peers in math; in California, the difference was not significant. The differential was biggest in Massachusetts, Illinois, Rhode Island and New York state charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter school and similar district students in all other states performed about the same, except for one state where charter school students performed worse in reading (Oregon) and three states where they performed worse in math (Oregon, South Carolina and Ohio).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Progress over time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CREDO’s report, released earlier this month, is its third tracking charter school students since 2009. The latest covered 2014–2019 and included four years of test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between the 2009 and 2023 studies, against a backdrop of flat performance for the nation, the trend of learning gains for students enrolled in charter schools is both large and positive,” the report said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/2EyOp/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nAs in its past studies, CREDO’s analysis found wide differences in which students benefited from attending a charter school in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and Hispanic students and students from lower-income families excelled relative to similar students in typical district schools in reading and math, while white students and especially students with disabilities did significantly worse in both math and reading than their peers. English language learners in California charter schools did slightly better than district school peers in reading but significantly better in math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pleased to see that California’s charter schools are performing particularly well with historically underserved students and improving over time,” said Elizabeth Robitaille, chief schools officer for the California Charter Schools Association.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with charter management organizations, students attending homegrown, standalone charter schools showed more modest results, doing significantly better, though to a smaller degree, than similar students in traditional public schools in reading and about the same in math. Granada Hills Charter High School, a popular charter school in Los Angeles, is also the nation’s largest charter school, with 4,600 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As centrally run organizations, CMOs usually have uniform curriculums and instructional practices, and share a common educational philosophy as well as administrative costs. CMOs like \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://aspirepublicschools.org/\">Aspire Public Schools\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.kipp.org/\">KIPP\u003c/a>, and \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://greendot.org/\">Green Dot Public Schools\u003c/a> have located mainly in urban areas and targeted underachieving students of color from lower-income families. In California, CMOs comprise 38% of charter school students — about the same proportion of students as the nation. (California Charter Schools Association’s data put the number of students closer to 50%.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, CMOs “are producing much of the learning gains we observed,” the report said. The ability of CMOs to scale up their success “puts dozens of CMOs at the forefront of efforts to provide education that is both equitable and effective in moving student achievement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, however, some charter management organizationss have \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/parents-want-to-stop-santa-clara-county-sunnyvale-charter-school-closure-summit-denali/\">scaled back their operations\u003c/a> or shifted their growth to the Inland Empire and other states because of declining student enrollment in urban areas, a difficulty hiring teachers and stiff resistance from authorizing school districts to further charter school expansions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Premack, founder and CEO of the Charter Schools Development Center in Sacramento, which advises primarily standalone charter schools, said he disagrees with CREDO’s “unstated assumption that test scores are everything.”[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Eric Premack, founder and CEO, Charter Schools Development Center\"]‘Many (other) charter schools, however, are formed by folks who hate standardized testing and aren’t particularly concerned about their scores. Thus, the generally high relative scores are all the more remarkable.’[/pullquote]“Many charter schools, especially CMO-managed ones, care a lot about test scores and focus on instructional methods designed to boost them,” he said. “Many (other) charter schools, however, are formed by folks who hate standardized testing and aren’t particularly concerned about their scores. Thus, the generally high relative scores are all the more remarkable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robitaille had a different take, saying, “We’ve done reports looking at ways charter schools support students’ socioemotional needs and redefine college and career readiness. Test scores are not the only determining factor of effectiveness, but certainly are important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other studies of academic performance have compared test scores of charter schools and neighboring schools or compared charter school students with those students who were denied admission through a lottery. For its comparison, CREDO paired more than 1.8 million charter school students with “virtual twins” — students with similar racial, ethnic, income, grade and other student characteristics at district schools that charter school students would have attended. CREDO said that more than 80% of tested public school students were included in its data set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a former researcher/methodologist,” Premack said, “I appreciate their novel approach. The ‘virtual twin’ methodology is creative and presumably helps to significantly reduce the potential for selection bias and other comparability issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics in California and other states have discounted comparisons, charging that charter schools weed out poor-performing students or discourage low-performing students from enrolling. CREDO said if there were cherry-picking, then charter school students would show higher academic performance when they enroll. By following students’ growth over time, CREDO’s analysis “found the opposite is true: charter schools enroll students who are disproportionately lower achieving than the students in their former traditional public school,” it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, by measuring individual students’ growth over time — a method of accountability that California has not yet adopted, unlike most states — CREDO is providing “critical information to help us understand the relative effectiveness of schools in helping students grow,” Robitaille said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Losses and gains in days of learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CREDO converted the differences in scores on standardized test scores between charter and district school students in each state into gained or lost days of learning, based on a 180-day school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, charter school students outpaced their peers in district schools by 16 additional learning days in reading and six days in math in this year’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California charter schools outpaced their peers in district schools by 11 days in reading and four days in math; the latter gain was not statistically significant, CREDO said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hispanic students in California charter schools showed the largest growth, relative to district school peers. Special education students showed the most learning loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California CMOs showed 19 days of additional learning in reading; standalone charter schools achieved seven extra learning days. CMOs’ 10 days of growth in math were not statistically significant, CREDO said; nor was the one day of extra learning by standalone charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11953429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4.jpg\" alt=\"Showing the growth and decline in learning days of charter schools students in California by race. \" width=\"1020\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macke Raymond, CREDO’s founder and director, suggested that how charter schools are authorized in states could be one factor in variations of performance. In California, school districts are charged with approving charter schools and overseeing their performance. Until \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/new-era-for-charter-schools-newsom-signs-bill-with-compromises-he-negotiated/618099\">Gov. Gavin Newsom revised the approval and renewal process through legislation in 2019\u003c/a>, the State Board of Education heard all appeals of denials. In other states, like Massachusetts, the state or other entities besides districts, such as universities, play a more active role in working with and holding charters accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was surprised when I looked at California’s results. There is still a proportion that is doing worse than the local district school option,” Raymond said. “That says to me that authorizers are not doing their job or are cognizant of low-performing schools and choose not to act.” [aside label=\"More On Charter Schools\" tag=\"charter-schools\"]In its initial 2009 study, CREDO found that charter school students nationally did significantly worse than their virtual twins in district schools in both reading (six fewer days of learning) and math (17 days behind). The only bright spots in California then were significant growth in reading for Black students and positive gains in both reading and math for English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second study, in 2013, charter school students nationwide were doing nearly as well in math and exceeded their district school peers in reading. The positive trend continued in the latest study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one area of severe poor performance was in online charter schools, which constituted 6% of charter schools nationally before Covid and a tiny proportion in California; seventy-three percent of the 214 online schools in the study did worse in reading and 90% did worse in math. Students in those schools had the equivalent of 58 fewer days of learning in reading and 124 fewer days in math — enough to lower the overall growth of charter school students nationwide by six learning days in math and reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CREDO did not break out the data for California online charter schools. But previous EdSource articles \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2015/online-charter-school-students-learning-less-than-peers-study-finds/89662\">pointed to poor performance during the years of the study\u003c/a> by students at the two largest online operations — K12, which is operated by California Virtual Academies, and California Connections Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/california-charter-school-students-outperform-district-school-twins-in-national-study/692573\">This story was originally published by EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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There has been steady progress in math as well; charter schools’ scores were significantly behind in the first study in 2009.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/5z9Z1/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nThis was particularly true when the difference in test scores was translated into learning gains or losses for multisite charter management organizations operating in California. For example, when compared with similar students in district schools, students in Los Angeles-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.laalliance.org/\">Alliance College-Ready Public Schools\u003c/a> gained the equivalent of 107 days in additional learning, about 40% of a year. Students in Bay Area-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.rocketshipschools.org/\">Rocketship Public Schools\u003c/a> gained three-quarters of a year in additional learning days in math, based on CREDO’s methodology.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PP0UM/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nCREDO designated 32 California charter management organizations as “gap-busters,” whose average achievement exceeded the state average, and whose historically marginalized students showed growth that was strong or stronger than their non-marginalized peers in the same schools; 22 CMOs excelled in both math and reading, including\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.acecharter.org/\"> ACE Charter Schools\u003c/a> in San José, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://paralosninos.org/education-community/\">Para Los Niños\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://kingchavez.org/\">King-Chavez Neighborhood of Schools\u003c/a> in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter schools are independently run public schools. Managed by nonprofit boards of trustees, they are not bound by some requirements of the state education code while being held to many of the same accountability, teacher credentialing and testing mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 9 California public school students — 685,000 out of 5.85 million students — attended one of about 1,300 charter schools in 2022-23. Although California has the largest number of charter schools and students in the nation, CREDO found their performance gains, relative to similar district school students, were smaller than charter students in a dozen of the 29 states covered by the study, plus Washington, D.C., and New York City. Charter school students in a dozen states also outperformed their peers in math; in California, the difference was not significant. The differential was biggest in Massachusetts, Illinois, Rhode Island and New York state charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter school and similar district students in all other states performed about the same, except for one state where charter school students performed worse in reading (Oregon) and three states where they performed worse in math (Oregon, South Carolina and Ohio).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Progress over time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CREDO’s report, released earlier this month, is its third tracking charter school students since 2009. The latest covered 2014–2019 and included four years of test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between the 2009 and 2023 studies, against a backdrop of flat performance for the nation, the trend of learning gains for students enrolled in charter schools is both large and positive,” the report said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/2EyOp/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nAs in its past studies, CREDO’s analysis found wide differences in which students benefited from attending a charter school in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and Hispanic students and students from lower-income families excelled relative to similar students in typical district schools in reading and math, while white students and especially students with disabilities did significantly worse in both math and reading than their peers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Many charter schools, especially CMO-managed ones, care a lot about test scores and focus on instructional methods designed to boost them,” he said. “Many (other) charter schools, however, are formed by folks who hate standardized testing and aren’t particularly concerned about their scores. Thus, the generally high relative scores are all the more remarkable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robitaille had a different take, saying, “We’ve done reports looking at ways charter schools support students’ socioemotional needs and redefine college and career readiness. Test scores are not the only determining factor of effectiveness, but certainly are important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other studies of academic performance have compared test scores of charter schools and neighboring schools or compared charter school students with those students who were denied admission through a lottery. For its comparison, CREDO paired more than 1.8 million charter school students with “virtual twins” — students with similar racial, ethnic, income, grade and other student characteristics at district schools that charter school students would have attended. CREDO said that more than 80% of tested public school students were included in its data set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a former researcher/methodologist,” Premack said, “I appreciate their novel approach. The ‘virtual twin’ methodology is creative and presumably helps to significantly reduce the potential for selection bias and other comparability issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics in California and other states have discounted comparisons, charging that charter schools weed out poor-performing students or discourage low-performing students from enrolling. CREDO said if there were cherry-picking, then charter school students would show higher academic performance when they enroll. By following students’ growth over time, CREDO’s analysis “found the opposite is true: charter schools enroll students who are disproportionately lower achieving than the students in their former traditional public school,” it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, by measuring individual students’ growth over time — a method of accountability that California has not yet adopted, unlike most states — CREDO is providing “critical information to help us understand the relative effectiveness of schools in helping students grow,” Robitaille said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Losses and gains in days of learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CREDO converted the differences in scores on standardized test scores between charter and district school students in each state into gained or lost days of learning, based on a 180-day school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, charter school students outpaced their peers in district schools by 16 additional learning days in reading and six days in math in this year’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California charter schools outpaced their peers in district schools by 11 days in reading and four days in math; the latter gain was not statistically significant, CREDO said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hispanic students in California charter schools showed the largest growth, relative to district school peers. Special education students showed the most learning loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California CMOs showed 19 days of additional learning in reading; standalone charter schools achieved seven extra learning days. CMOs’ 10 days of growth in math were not statistically significant, CREDO said; nor was the one day of extra learning by standalone charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11953429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4.jpg\" alt=\"Showing the growth and decline in learning days of charter schools students in California by race. \" width=\"1020\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/academic-growth-by-ethnicity-v4-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macke Raymond, CREDO’s founder and director, suggested that how charter schools are authorized in states could be one factor in variations of performance. 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These borrowers have also been granted permission to apply for federal student loans again, to complete degrees. Lastly, these defaulted loans are now being reported to credit bureaus as current.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, borrowers must take action if they want to stay out of default after this year-long leniency period ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To eliminate your record of default, you should contact the Education Department’s Default Resolution Group online, by phone or by mail, and ask the group to take the loans out of default via the Fresh Start policy. In four to six weeks, any record of default will be removed from your credit report, and the loans will be placed with a loan servicer. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland A’s fans swarmed into the Coliseum Tuesday night, many wearing green T-shirts emblazoned with the word “Sell” as part of a last-ditch effort to keep the team in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sell the team!” fans chanted thousands of times during the A’s 2–1 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays that gave Oakland a season-best seven-game winning streak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the so-called reverse boycott, which drew the biggest crowd of the season at 27,759, are calling for A’s owner John Fisher to sell the 55-year-old baseball franchise to a buyer committed to keeping the team in Oakland, rather than moving forward with plans to build a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949532/oakland-as-signal-move-to-las-vegas-strip-after-reaching-an-agreement-for-potential-stadium-site\">$1.5 billion stadium on the Las Vegas Strip\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move to the desert came one step closer to reality Tuesday afternoon when the Nevada state Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/2023-legislature/as-ballpark-funding-bill-approved-by-nevada-senate-2793296/\">voted in favor of an amended version\u003c/a> of a proposed $380 million public financing package for the new stadium. The measure must now be approved by the state Assembly and the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952972 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man in a lime green shirt that reads \"sell\" points and smiles at the camera while standing in a parking lot.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Wohl at the reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like my heart is being ripped out. It’s the worst feeling in the world, really,” Matthew Wohl, a lifelong A’s fan, said during a tailgate party before the game Tuesday night. “I’ve barely been watching baseball this year, but I know more than likely they’re leaving. Watching them leave is just killing me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball needs to be in Oakland,” he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s defy the odds and manage to stay “rooted in Oakland,” as its supporters are demanding, the team would face an already bruised and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">devastated fan base\u003c/a> that has united in condemning Fisher and team president Dave Kaval. Both executives, they say, have poorly managed the team and are betraying a city the A’s have called home since moving from Kansas City in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the owner owns the team, but it’s not theirs, it’s the community’s,” said Jorge Leon, president of A’s fan group the Oakland ’68s, at the Coliseum last week. “The A’s [management] have been alienating the fan base for a while. It’s nothing new. And so, now it’s the last straw — and people are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland ’68s are known for sitting in the right-field bleachers, spiritedly rooting for their team. Since news of the potential A’s Vegas move, the group has taken to chanting brazen sentiments such as, “Sell the team,” as they beat on drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd of people wearing Oakland A's clothing fill an outdoor parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather at the Oakland Coliseum as part of a reverse boycott to protest the ownership of the team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, the group raised more than $27,000 from fans in Oakland and farther afield, and teamed up with local clothing company Oaklandish to produce the “Sell” T-shirts that go for $5 a pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Batres, who drove down from Sacramento for Tuesday’s event, was among the thousands donning the green T-shirts. “I’ve had a big love affair with the A’s over the Giants for quite some time. And I felt that it was kind of a personal thing, especially when I consider them my team,” said Batres, who’s been a die-hard fan for four decades. “So even suggesting the fact they’re going to move to Las Vegas is kind of a big deal to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt='Three men stand beside a car with t-shirts that read \"sell\" drinking beer, eating snacks and talking to each other.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Batres (right) joins other Oakland A’s fans during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie Callahan-Cisco said she and her older sister had come both to support the team and as tribute to their father, Dick Callahan, the longtime A’s public address announcer, who died in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so gratifying to see all of these people supporting the team and this reverse boycott,” she said. “The fans really initiated this and then it just really spread like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before first pitch, the A’s announced they would donate all ticket revenue from the game to the Alameda County Community Food Bank and Oakland Public Education Fund — a total of $811,107.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952928 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of seven people stand together to take a photo in an outdoor parking lot, all but one wear t-shirts reading "sell" and several wear Oakland A's hats.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Callahan (second from the right), Cary Kennerley (left of center) and Katie Callahan-Cisco (center) tailgate in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum with their families. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fight to keep the A’s in Oakland comes just three years after the city lost the Raiders — also to Las Vegas. The year before, the Golden State Warriors jumped ship to a new stadium in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s, who play in the American League West, currently sit at the bottom of their division and, at 19–50, have lost more games this season than any other team in the league. Still, they managed to beat the Rays — who have the best record in baseball — on Monday and Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952916 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young men wearing Oakland A's jerseys look at the camera while standing beside a car a large open parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob and Joseph Palpallatoc join other fans of the Oakland A’s during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is ridiculous that they’re trying to move to Las Vegas. I think that we need to keep them here in Oakland,” said Annette Burt, 60, who has been an A’s fan since she was 5 years old. “It’s been a family pastime for me forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burt said she understands the chances of the team staying here are slim, but is still holding out hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s a done deal,” she said. “I think there’s still enough interest, and it can be a very competitive team and it has been in the past. If we had owners backing us up, it would be very successful. And it would be successful for Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Phoebe Quinton and Matthew Green, and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland A’s fans swarmed into the Coliseum Tuesday night, many wearing green T-shirts emblazoned with the word “Sell” as part of a last-ditch effort to keep the team in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sell the team!” fans chanted thousands of times during the A’s 2–1 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays that gave Oakland a season-best seven-game winning streak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the so-called reverse boycott, which drew the biggest crowd of the season at 27,759, are calling for A’s owner John Fisher to sell the 55-year-old baseball franchise to a buyer committed to keeping the team in Oakland, rather than moving forward with plans to build a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949532/oakland-as-signal-move-to-las-vegas-strip-after-reaching-an-agreement-for-potential-stadium-site\">$1.5 billion stadium on the Las Vegas Strip\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move to the desert came one step closer to reality Tuesday afternoon when the Nevada state Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/2023-legislature/as-ballpark-funding-bill-approved-by-nevada-senate-2793296/\">voted in favor of an amended version\u003c/a> of a proposed $380 million public financing package for the new stadium. The measure must now be approved by the state Assembly and the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952972 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man in a lime green shirt that reads \"sell\" points and smiles at the camera while standing in a parking lot.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Wohl at the reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like my heart is being ripped out. It’s the worst feeling in the world, really,” Matthew Wohl, a lifelong A’s fan, said during a tailgate party before the game Tuesday night. “I’ve barely been watching baseball this year, but I know more than likely they’re leaving. Watching them leave is just killing me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball needs to be in Oakland,” he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s defy the odds and manage to stay “rooted in Oakland,” as its supporters are demanding, the team would face an already bruised and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">devastated fan base\u003c/a> that has united in condemning Fisher and team president Dave Kaval. Both executives, they say, have poorly managed the team and are betraying a city the A’s have called home since moving from Kansas City in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the owner owns the team, but it’s not theirs, it’s the community’s,” said Jorge Leon, president of A’s fan group the Oakland ’68s, at the Coliseum last week. “The A’s [management] have been alienating the fan base for a while. It’s nothing new. And so, now it’s the last straw — and people are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland ’68s are known for sitting in the right-field bleachers, spiritedly rooting for their team. Since news of the potential A’s Vegas move, the group has taken to chanting brazen sentiments such as, “Sell the team,” as they beat on drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd of people wearing Oakland A's clothing fill an outdoor parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather at the Oakland Coliseum as part of a reverse boycott to protest the ownership of the team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, the group raised more than $27,000 from fans in Oakland and farther afield, and teamed up with local clothing company Oaklandish to produce the “Sell” T-shirts that go for $5 a pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Batres, who drove down from Sacramento for Tuesday’s event, was among the thousands donning the green T-shirts. “I’ve had a big love affair with the A’s over the Giants for quite some time. And I felt that it was kind of a personal thing, especially when I consider them my team,” said Batres, who’s been a die-hard fan for four decades. “So even suggesting the fact they’re going to move to Las Vegas is kind of a big deal to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt='Three men stand beside a car with t-shirts that read \"sell\" drinking beer, eating snacks and talking to each other.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Batres (right) joins other Oakland A’s fans during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie Callahan-Cisco said she and her older sister had come both to support the team and as tribute to their father, Dick Callahan, the longtime A’s public address announcer, who died in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so gratifying to see all of these people supporting the team and this reverse boycott,” she said. “The fans really initiated this and then it just really spread like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before first pitch, the A’s announced they would donate all ticket revenue from the game to the Alameda County Community Food Bank and Oakland Public Education Fund — a total of $811,107.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952928 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of seven people stand together to take a photo in an outdoor parking lot, all but one wear t-shirts reading "sell" and several wear Oakland A's hats.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Callahan (second from the right), Cary Kennerley (left of center) and Katie Callahan-Cisco (center) tailgate in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum with their families. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fight to keep the A’s in Oakland comes just three years after the city lost the Raiders — also to Las Vegas. The year before, the Golden State Warriors jumped ship to a new stadium in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s, who play in the American League West, currently sit at the bottom of their division and, at 19–50, have lost more games this season than any other team in the league. 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"content": "\u003cp>A music teacher at a TK–8 school in San José had a history of complaints roughly a decade before he was criminally charged with sexually abusing students last year, records obtained by KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel Santiago, 43, was arrested in November under suspicion of sexually abusing 10 students beginning in 2021 at Adelante Dual Language Academy. He faces 12 charges, including multiple counts of molestation and lewd acts on a child by force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year was not the first time a student reported being inappropriately touched by Santiago, according to the records provided by the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24512265/response-to-pra-request-w-documents-05-17-2023-1-3.pdf\">in response to a Public Records Act request\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at two other schools in the district, Sheppard Middle School and Painter Elementary, had reported concerns about Santiago’s behavior to school staff from 2012 through 2014, records show. The district did not provide records of any complaints made to the school in the years that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student said Santiago put his hand on her back and rubbed her back while he praised her. Another said Santiago repeatedly hugged her, asked her for hugs and “picked her up, putting his arms under her legs and carrying her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Santiago has failed to practice good judgment regarding physical contact with students, in particular, females, and I find that conduct to be inappropriate and unprofessional,” former Sheppard Middle School Principal Imee Almazan wrote at the conclusion of a personnel investigation in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alum Rock Union Elementary School District didn’t fire Santiago in 2014, despite the investigation documenting multiple complaints of Santiago inappropriately touching students after repeated warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the district issued a letter of reprimand, and determined he should be transferred to another school in the district.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lauren Cerri, attorney, Corsiglia McMahon and Allard\"]‘These complaints are being made, and he’s moved to another school. What are those administrators told? Are they even told about the prior complaints?’[/pullquote]Santiago started teaching at Adelante in 2015, according to Cesar Torrico, assistant superintendent of human resources at Alum Rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district superintendent, Hilaria Bauer, declined to answer any questions about past complaints against Santiago and how they were handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bauer wrote that the district has since adopted “a clearer and stronger process to prevent these incidents from happening and to encourage any other victims to come forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We provided extra training during our monthly safety meeting on Dec. 7 and directed all site administrators to retake the mandated reporter training from the beginning of the year. This also included all staff,” Bauer wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almazan, who is currently director of social and emotional learning at Alum Rock Union School District, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We don’t feel safe’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Records from the school district’s 2014 investigation include some documentation of prior complaints against Santiago from students at Painter Elementary and Sheppard Middle School in 2012 and 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Hernandez, 22, said she was in Santiago’s band class at Sheppard Middle School in 2012 and had reported his behavior to the principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her friends had been passionate about band and loved playing instruments together, forming a whole community inside the small band room. She mainly played flute, but would dabble in the clarinet and the saxophone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over time, she said, she became increasingly alarmed by her band teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Santiago asked her to stay in the band room during a break between classes to practice a piece she could already play with her eyes closed.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Natalie Hernandez, former student, Sheppard Middle School\"]‘I just remember being so angry, and even to this day, I’m so angry. It’s almost as if they forgot that we were kids.’[/pullquote]“He kept adjusting his chair and my chair so our knees could be touching and we’d be really close to each other,” Hernandez said. “I remember I just felt a really big rush of anxiety. I just did not feel comfortable at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said she told the principal, Almazan, how Santiago would only ask female students to stay after class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I strictly remember telling her we don’t feel safe,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santiago remained at the school until 2014. When Hernandez learned he had been transferred to another school in the district, she was furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember being so angry, and even to this day, I’m so angry,” Hernandez said. “It’s almost as if they forgot that we were kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A father’s written sexual harassment complaint prompts investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The records show that Santiago had been instructed in 2012 not to touch students, particularly female students. But he allegedly continued, and a father filed a written complaint that Santiago sexually harassed his daughter in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s investigation prompted by that complaint included interviews with 15 students, and found “an overall discomfort and/or feeling of insecurity in Mr. Santiago’s band class among female students that were interviewed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of nine female students interviewed, seven said they were not comfortable in the classroom with Santiago, and one female student said she had been touched inappropriately by him on multiple occasions. Two students said Santiago walked in on them during a dress fitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The male students interviewed did not report similar discomfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Not sufficiently severe and pervasive’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almazan also wrote in the report that she had called Child Protective Services to report Santiago in 2014, but was told the allegations against a teacher were “not a reportable CPS case.” CPS offered to take a “courtesy report” that would be forwarded to law enforcement, according to the records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Motta, chief of staff at the Santa Clara County Social Services Agency, declined to comment on any specific cases, but said the agency reports information to law enforcement to pursue criminal investigations when allegations do not involve caregivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José Police Department declined to immediately comment on the past complaints. A police spokesperson previously told \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/south-bay/san-jose-music-teacher-sexual-assault/3085337/\">NBC Bay Area\u003c/a> that an allegation of inappropriate touching was made against Santiago in 2014, but that no charges were filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately Almazan and the school district found that the conduct was not “sufficiently severe and pervasive” to amount to sexual harassment. In the letter of reprimand, the district instructed Santiago again not to touch students and to take a minimum of two hours of training related to sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on Principal Almazan’s recommendation to Human Resources and to the Superintendent we have decided to transfer you out of Sheppard Middle School,” the March 10, 2014, letter of reprimand from the district’s chief human resources officer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santiago worked at Adelante until he was placed on leave last November soon before his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prosecutors investigate recent allegations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://countyda.sccgov.org/news/news-release/sj-music-teacher-charged-touching-students\">According to Santa Clara County prosecutors, at the beginning of the 2021–2022 school year\u003c/a>, Santiago would take children into his office, hold girls on his lap and hug them tightly to his body. Prosecutors say he cupped female students’ buttocks while hugging them on his lap, and stroked the bare skin of a fourth grader’s back.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11911375,news_11935859,news_11928350\"]Santiago, who has not yet entered a plea, remains in custody in Santa Clara County. His next court hearing is scheduled for July 14. Santiago’s defense attorney, Steven Clark, declined to comment on the criminal case or records showing past complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s decision to transfer Santiago may have emboldened his behavior, said Lauren Cerri, an attorney with Corsiglia McMahon and Allard who specializes in childhood sexual abuse cases, and who reviewed the records provided by the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These complaints are being made, and he’s moved to another school,” Cerri said. “What are those administrators told? Are they even told about the prior complaints? Are they told to keep an extra eye on him and supervise him more closely?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cerri is currently representing three women suing the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District for allegedly failing to report abuse by a first grade teacher in the 1970s to authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it appears that this is still happening today in the same district,” Cerri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district disputes the allegations in their court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The community seeks answers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Santiago was arrested, the Alum Rock school board passed a resolution “reaffirming the critical role of school personnel as mandated reporters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution outlines that the district must “provide a hard copy of the mandated reporter training presentation to all staff and the school board” and encourage all district staff to attend annual mandated reporter training in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A children and adults circulate beside a playground behind a chainlink fence.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66174_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-007-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and staff walk through the playground at Adelante Dual Language Academy in San José on June 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, some in the Alum Rock community have voiced frustration during recent school board meetings about a lack of transparency and poor communication by district leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three substitute principals are currently working at Adelante, according to \u003ca href=\"https://adelante.arusd.org/about-us/new-page\">the district’s website\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rosalinda Marquez, former employee, Alum Rock Union Elementary School District\"]‘It just seems par for the course for Alum Rock. They aren’t listening. They don’t know how to listen.’[/pullquote]The principal who reported Santiago, Maria Gutierrez, has been on paid leave since December for an unrelated issue, according to her attorney, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hbblaw.com/dvelez/\">Donald A. Velez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one person doing the right thing is being targeted,” Velez said. “You have all these complaints over all this time. It comes to a head. And the person who has only been there a year is the one who is taking the brunt of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velez declined to describe the specifics of why the principal is on leave but said it stems from an incident between two students, including a school board member’s family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District superintendent Bauer declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosalinda Marquez, who worked for the district until this year, said Alum Rock must begin to take concerns from parents seriously. She said she was not surprised to learn how the district had responded to past complaints against Santiago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hurts my heart that I wasn’t surprised,” Marquez said. “It just seems par for the course for Alum Rock. They aren’t listening. They don’t know how to listen. It just seems like any issue that arises either gets Band-Aid solutions or no solutions at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Smith, 48, became the senior pastor for FAME in October 2020 and said he is optimistic about the new, centrally located facility.[aside postID=news_11943566 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63589_008_KQED_FAMEPastorRodneySmith_03092023-qut-1020x680.jpg']“One of our members had a connection,” he said. “So it was a great opportunity for FAME, being the oldest African American church in the East Bay, to come and have worship in the community center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community space, located on the ground floor of the Uptown Station office building at 1955 Broadway, is operated by Block Inc., a financial services tech company that leases shared offices in the building. Last year, the firm began allowing nonprofits to use the space for free, and more than 50 local groups have hosted events there since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congregation was deciding among several temporary sites in Oakland, but ultimately landed at Uptown Station in large part because of its proximity to FAME’s permanent location, on Telegraph Avenue at 37th Street, where much of its community is from, said Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are excited about being here because our members need to feel some sense of home, even though the physical building is burned,” said Smith, as he walked through the large, still-vacant space on a recent morning. “Just being in this community is encouraging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith expects to use the space for at least the next six months, and estimates it will be years before FAME returns to its fully restored permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the congregation has resumed its food pantry program, which it now runs out of the kitchen facilities at Evergreen Missionary Baptist Church in Oakland’s Mosswood neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952477\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-FAME-NEW-LOCATION-SW-0249-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952477\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-FAME-NEW-LOCATION-SW-0249-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of five people listen to a man speaking in a large space with plants and big windows.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-FAME-NEW-LOCATION-SW-0249-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-FAME-NEW-LOCATION-SW-0249-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-FAME-NEW-LOCATION-SW-0249-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-FAME-NEW-LOCATION-SW-0249-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-FAME-NEW-LOCATION-SW-0249-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Rodney D. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Saw Yunn Nwe, 18, attends the University of Pennsylvania as a freshman this fall, she will be the first person in her family to go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/educationnews\">college in the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also part of San Francisco’s graduating senior class of 2023 — the first group of students to complete the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/\">Kindergarten to College program\u003c/a> (K2C), which, back in 2011, was the first universal college savings program in the country. It started with a limited number of kindergartners before expanding to include every student from that generation. Twelve years later, at the time of their high school graduation, the class of 2023 have been able to save $755,281 overall, which will go to cover college tuition and other education expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when Nwe was in eighth grade, her homeroom teacher passed out envelopes to all the kids in her class. Nwe and her family had just settled in San Francisco after migrating from Myanmar, and she was just getting adjusted to her new classes at James Denman Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People sit and watch a video in a conference hall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a video during the ceremony. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The envelopes carried a message from the school district, reminding them about their accounts and letting them know the city had already deposited $50 in each. As she saw her classmates read their letters, Nwe assumed she didn’t qualify for the program — she had arrived in San Francisco only a few months prior and hadn’t gone to kindergarten in here.[aside label='Guides from KQED' tag='audience-news']But a few weeks later, her teacher gave her an envelope from K2C. “It was kind of shocking … I don’t think this would have been possible back in my country,” she said. “I was really encouraged to save for college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2011, K2C has continued to grow and now opens accounts for every student currently enrolled in an SFUSD school, regardless of when they entered the district. If you add up every account, the total savings amounts to roughly $15 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nwe says that one of her dreams, ever since she emigrated to the U.S., has been to attend an American university. However, when she learned how expensive it is in this country, she became nervous because her parents were already working multiple jobs to support her and her siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952123 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian youth and a white youth smile with dyed orange hair sit behind a podium and smile at an unseen audience.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nwe (left) speaks alongside fellow student Yadira Vazquez. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whenever my parents tried to set money aside for me to go to college, I would feel bad because they couldn’t use it for themselves — like I was putting a burden on them,” she explained, and said that there were times it felt like going to college was not going to be financially possible. “But then my parents reassured me that it was going to be worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nwe and her parents decided they were going to make the most of the K2C account. Her parents would deposit small amounts whenever they had the chance, and Nwe found out that the program also offered cash incentives: Whenever students take time to explore their account or learn more about savings and personal finances, K2C rewards them by adding small amounts into their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my K2C comes from scholarships I earned and from summer jobs,” Nwe explained. “Instead of giving me a check, they put it in [my account].” By the end of her senior year, Nwe was able to save a little over $1,400, which she says isn’t enough to cover tuition at UPenn, but it can cover other necessary expenses, like fees and books for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having young people learn how savings accounts work and talking about personal finances with their families are some of the goals of the K2C program, says San Francisco City Treasurer José Cisneros, who helped design the program with then-Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2011. “It’s not about saving thousands of dollars necessarily,” Cisneros said. “If we give [students] 12 or 13 years to save money, they’re going to have something real there when they graduate high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man with a suit and tie speaks from behind a dais with a university emblem behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros speaks about the first class of graduates from San Francisco high schools using the K2C savings. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re currently an SFUSD student — or a parent or guardian of one — and are heading into summer thinking about college, here’s a quick breakdown of how Kindergarten to College works and how to make the most of your account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can I access my Kindergarten to College account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K2C opens an account for a student automatically, as soon as they enroll in an SFUSD school and regardless of what grade they enroll in or whether they transfer in partway through the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents or guardians do not need to do anything; however, they do need to \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/register-view-balance-online\">visit the K2C portal\u003c/a> and register their student’s information so they can see their account balance and start depositing. To register an account, you will need your student’s K2C account number. SFUSD mails families a letter with their student’s account number several times during elementary and middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if I can’t find my K2C account number?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No worries — K2C has \u003ca href=\"https://newbusiness.sfgov.org/k2cAccountLookup/\">a tool that can help track down your account number\u003c/a>. All you need is your student’s full name, birth date and ZIP code. Once you have the number handy, go back to the K2C portal to register, create a password and check out your account. You should already have $50 dollars in there — that starting amount comes from the city and is allocated from the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you have your account set up, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/how-make-deposit\">there are several ways you can make a deposit\u003c/a>, including through direct deposit, making a deposit in person or mailing a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much is my family expected to save?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each family can engage with their K2C account as much or as little as they see fit. There is no obligation from the city to use the account. Each account already comes with $50, and if you log in to your account at least once a year, the city will add another $20. There are many different types of cash incentives available: Some you can receive by learning more about your account; others are available through special student contests where students can submit original art pieces they created at school; and some are automatically available to students at select elementary schools. \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/earn-incentives\">You can review a more detailed list of incentives on the K2C website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people sit inside a large conference room and look away from the camera. Behind them, a large monitor reads out, \"Congratulations graduates!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a video during the ceremony. Every kindergartner who attends public school in San Francisco receives a college savings account automatically with a $50 incentive. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m a high school senior right now. How can I withdraw what I have in my account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing out your account is pretty straightforward. If you have an automatic direct deposit set up, first make sure you stop these transfers. Then, complete a \u003ca href=\"https://etaxstatement.sfgov.org/K2COnlineForm/\">K2C Account Withdrawal Request Form\u003c/a>, where you will be asked to confirm your personal information, whether you are graduating high school and what you will be using the money for. You have several ways to receive it, including through a Zelle account transfer, a check or a transfer to a ScholarShare 529 account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have not yet graduated high school, but are transferring out of an SFUSD school (for example, you are transferring to a private school in the city or to another school district), you can also request to withdraw your funds. And if you never deposited your own money into your account, you can still request to withdraw the money the city deposited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are students enrolled in charter schools included in the K2C program? What about students in private or parochial schools?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most charter schools in San Francisco are included in K2C. Students at any of these schools qualify for the program:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Creative Arts Charter School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Thomas Edison Charter Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gateway Middle School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP Bayview Academy (middle school)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP San Francisco College Preparatory\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gateway High School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leadership High School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City Arts and Tech High School\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Something important to keep in mind: According to city officials, students at KIPP Bayview Elementary (separate from KIPP Bayview Academy, the middle school) and the New School of San Francisco, a K–8 school, are not included in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K2C does not open accounts for students enrolled in private or parochial schools. Additionally, those currently enrolled in learning institutions affiliated with the San Francisco County Office of Education also are not eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about students who are not enrolled in a San Francisco public school? Are there programs similar to K2C in other parts of California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the creation of K2C, other cities in California have worked with school districts and nonprofit organizations to create their own versions of a universal college savings program. In Oakland, the nonprofit Oakland Promise manages two similar programs, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/kindergarten-to-college/\">Oakland Promise Kindergarten to College\u003c/a>, which helps open savings accounts for families in Oakland public schools and offers scholarships for students who graduate high school, and the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/brilliant-baby/\">Brilliant Baby program\u003c/a>, which opens college savings accounts with $500 already added, for families who recently had a baby and who qualify for Medi-Cal or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://communityinvestmentforfamilies.org/opportunity-la-0\">Opportunity L.A.\u003c/a> opens savings accounts for eligible LAUSD students, with a $50 seed deposit. And in 2022, California launched a statewide college savings initiative, \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/the-basics/what-is-calkids/\">CalKIDS\u003c/a>. Two groups of young Californians are eligible for CalKIDS: children born on or after the creation of the program on July 1, 2022; and current K–12 students enrolled in any California public school who are either unhoused, enrolled in a foster youth program or are considered by the state to come from lower-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families who open an account for their newborn can receive a seed deposit from the state of up to $100, and eligible K–12 students qualify for a $500 deposit. \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/the-basics/who-is-eligible/\">You can check whether your newborn or student qualifies on the CalKIDS website.\u003c/a>\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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Saw Yunn Nwe, 18, attends the University of Pennsylvania as a freshman this fall, she will be the first person in her family to go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/educationnews\">college in the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also part of San Francisco’s graduating senior class of 2023 — the first group of students to complete the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/\">Kindergarten to College program\u003c/a> (K2C), which, back in 2011, was the first universal college savings program in the country. It started with a limited number of kindergartners before expanding to include every student from that generation. Twelve years later, at the time of their high school graduation, the class of 2023 have been able to save $755,281 overall, which will go to cover college tuition and other education expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when Nwe was in eighth grade, her homeroom teacher passed out envelopes to all the kids in her class. Nwe and her family had just settled in San Francisco after migrating from Myanmar, and she was just getting adjusted to her new classes at James Denman Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People sit and watch a video in a conference hall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65682_005_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a video during the ceremony. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The envelopes carried a message from the school district, reminding them about their accounts and letting them know the city had already deposited $50 in each. As she saw her classmates read their letters, Nwe assumed she didn’t qualify for the program — she had arrived in San Francisco only a few months prior and hadn’t gone to kindergarten in here.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But a few weeks later, her teacher gave her an envelope from K2C. “It was kind of shocking … I don’t think this would have been possible back in my country,” she said. “I was really encouraged to save for college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2011, K2C has continued to grow and now opens accounts for every student currently enrolled in an SFUSD school, regardless of when they entered the district. If you add up every account, the total savings amounts to roughly $15 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nwe says that one of her dreams, ever since she emigrated to the U.S., has been to attend an American university. However, when she learned how expensive it is in this country, she became nervous because her parents were already working multiple jobs to support her and her siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952123 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian youth and a white youth smile with dyed orange hair sit behind a podium and smile at an unseen audience.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nwe (left) speaks alongside fellow student Yadira Vazquez. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whenever my parents tried to set money aside for me to go to college, I would feel bad because they couldn’t use it for themselves — like I was putting a burden on them,” she explained, and said that there were times it felt like going to college was not going to be financially possible. “But then my parents reassured me that it was going to be worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nwe and her parents decided they were going to make the most of the K2C account. Her parents would deposit small amounts whenever they had the chance, and Nwe found out that the program also offered cash incentives: Whenever students take time to explore their account or learn more about savings and personal finances, K2C rewards them by adding small amounts into their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my K2C comes from scholarships I earned and from summer jobs,” Nwe explained. “Instead of giving me a check, they put it in [my account].” By the end of her senior year, Nwe was able to save a little over $1,400, which she says isn’t enough to cover tuition at UPenn, but it can cover other necessary expenses, like fees and books for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having young people learn how savings accounts work and talking about personal finances with their families are some of the goals of the K2C program, says San Francisco City Treasurer José Cisneros, who helped design the program with then-Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2011. “It’s not about saving thousands of dollars necessarily,” Cisneros said. “If we give [students] 12 or 13 years to save money, they’re going to have something real there when they graduate high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man with a suit and tie speaks from behind a dais with a university emblem behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros speaks about the first class of graduates from San Francisco high schools using the K2C savings. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re currently an SFUSD student — or a parent or guardian of one — and are heading into summer thinking about college, here’s a quick breakdown of how Kindergarten to College works and how to make the most of your account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can I access my Kindergarten to College account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K2C opens an account for a student automatically, as soon as they enroll in an SFUSD school and regardless of what grade they enroll in or whether they transfer in partway through the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents or guardians do not need to do anything; however, they do need to \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/register-view-balance-online\">visit the K2C portal\u003c/a> and register their student’s information so they can see their account balance and start depositing. To register an account, you will need your student’s K2C account number. SFUSD mails families a letter with their student’s account number several times during elementary and middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if I can’t find my K2C account number?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No worries — K2C has \u003ca href=\"https://newbusiness.sfgov.org/k2cAccountLookup/\">a tool that can help track down your account number\u003c/a>. All you need is your student’s full name, birth date and ZIP code. Once you have the number handy, go back to the K2C portal to register, create a password and check out your account. You should already have $50 dollars in there — that starting amount comes from the city and is allocated from the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you have your account set up, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/how-make-deposit\">there are several ways you can make a deposit\u003c/a>, including through direct deposit, making a deposit in person or mailing a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much is my family expected to save?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each family can engage with their K2C account as much or as little as they see fit. There is no obligation from the city to use the account. Each account already comes with $50, and if you log in to your account at least once a year, the city will add another $20. There are many different types of cash incentives available: Some you can receive by learning more about your account; others are available through special student contests where students can submit original art pieces they created at school; and some are automatically available to students at select elementary schools. \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/earn-incentives\">You can review a more detailed list of incentives on the K2C website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people sit inside a large conference room and look away from the camera. Behind them, a large monitor reads out, \"Congratulations graduates!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a video during the ceremony. Every kindergartner who attends public school in San Francisco receives a college savings account automatically with a $50 incentive. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m a high school senior right now. How can I withdraw what I have in my account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing out your account is pretty straightforward. If you have an automatic direct deposit set up, first make sure you stop these transfers. Then, complete a \u003ca href=\"https://etaxstatement.sfgov.org/K2COnlineForm/\">K2C Account Withdrawal Request Form\u003c/a>, where you will be asked to confirm your personal information, whether you are graduating high school and what you will be using the money for. You have several ways to receive it, including through a Zelle account transfer, a check or a transfer to a ScholarShare 529 account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have not yet graduated high school, but are transferring out of an SFUSD school (for example, you are transferring to a private school in the city or to another school district), you can also request to withdraw your funds. And if you never deposited your own money into your account, you can still request to withdraw the money the city deposited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are students enrolled in charter schools included in the K2C program? What about students in private or parochial schools?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most charter schools in San Francisco are included in K2C. Students at any of these schools qualify for the program:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Creative Arts Charter School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Thomas Edison Charter Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gateway Middle School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP Bayview Academy (middle school)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP San Francisco College Preparatory\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gateway High School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leadership High School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City Arts and Tech High School\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Something important to keep in mind: According to city officials, students at KIPP Bayview Elementary (separate from KIPP Bayview Academy, the middle school) and the New School of San Francisco, a K–8 school, are not included in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K2C does not open accounts for students enrolled in private or parochial schools. 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In Oakland, the nonprofit Oakland Promise manages two similar programs, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/kindergarten-to-college/\">Oakland Promise Kindergarten to College\u003c/a>, which helps open savings accounts for families in Oakland public schools and offers scholarships for students who graduate high school, and the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/brilliant-baby/\">Brilliant Baby program\u003c/a>, which opens college savings accounts with $500 already added, for families who recently had a baby and who qualify for Medi-Cal or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://communityinvestmentforfamilies.org/opportunity-la-0\">Opportunity L.A.\u003c/a> opens savings accounts for eligible LAUSD students, with a $50 seed deposit. And in 2022, California launched a statewide college savings initiative, \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/the-basics/what-is-calkids/\">CalKIDS\u003c/a>. Two groups of young Californians are eligible for CalKIDS: children born on or after the creation of the program on July 1, 2022; and current K–12 students enrolled in any California public school who are either unhoused, enrolled in a foster youth program or are considered by the state to come from lower-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families who open an account for their newborn can receive a seed deposit from the state of up to $100, and eligible K–12 students qualify for a $500 deposit. \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/the-basics/who-is-eligible/\">You can check whether your newborn or student qualifies on the CalKIDS website.\u003c/a>\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. 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"content": "\u003cp>For the first time in state history, child care centers in California had to test their drinking water for possible lead contamination, and preliminary results show about a quarter of those that reported results contained unsafe levels of lead, according to data recently reported by state regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the nearly 6,900 centers whose results have been disclosed, almost 1,700 had lead levels that exceeded 5 parts per billion (ppb) — the state’s allowable limit for child care centers. Of those, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/1-4-california-child-care-centers-found-have-alarming-levels\">13 had lead levels above 500 ppb\u003c/a>, including four in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Petite Academy in San Diego reported the highest levels of lead — 11,300 ppb — of any child care center in the state. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n any given day of the week, you can find retired teacher Mike Peritz on the campus of John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond. Peritz is 79 years old now, and he still speaks with the enthusiasm and optimism he had when he was a 24-year-old rookie on the founding faculty of the school back in 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to say that in my 35 years of teaching, I don’t think I ever had a bad day,” said Peritz. “I always had a good time and I tried to make sure everyone else had a good time. I still believe that enhances learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Peritz, retired teacher, John F. 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He isn’t paid anymore, but Peritz is still at Kennedy High as a volunteer, mentor, advocate, educational guru and fundraiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses in a black hoodie talks to a teenager wearing a gray hoodie with wired ear buds in his ear in a classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/079_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired teacher Mike Peritz speaks with Jeffrey Lopez, one of the student shop assistants, in Benjamin Carpenter’s welding class at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Mike Peritz is Mr. Kennedy,” said Kibby Kleiman, the principal at Pinole Valley High School, who spent nearly 20 years of his own career previously at Kennedy High. “If anyone deserves credit for keeping the heartbeat and legacy of Kennedy High alive, then it’s him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what is that legacy?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A legacy of innovation and integration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 1967, what was then called the Richmond Unified School District opened a brand-new campus designed as a model of innovation. They called it John F. Kennedy High to honor the young president who was assassinated four years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy High was built like a college campus — each department had its own building and opened out to the fresh air. The school was designed for flexible scheduling, team-teaching and big chunks of unstructured time that students could use to work on projects. It was a model that encouraged students to use their non-classroom time wisely and to take responsibility for their own learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A look down a hallway with person accessing a locker in the distance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letters covering windows in a hallway spell out ‘Respect’ at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond, on May 18, 2023. On the other side of the hall, a school employee removes graffiti. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything that was there had a certain creativity, a certain flexibility, a certain intention,” recalls Peritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else was happening too. In what might be considered a special moment in history, \u003ca href=\"https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft9h4nb6db&chunk.id=d0e132&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e132&brand=ucpress\">Kennedy High was fully integrated by race and class\u003c/a> after a vote by the RUSD school board in 1968. A voluntary bussing program brought kids from all over the district to attend Kennedy. The children of professors went to school with the kids of pipefitters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might have been the only school in the country where affluent white parents schemed of ways to get their kids into a school that had lots of minorities because we had some great programs and very good teachers,” said another retired teacher, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chssa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/David-Dansk.pdf\">David Dansky (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dansky led Kennedy High’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.speechanddebate.org/hall-of-fame/\">nationally ranked speech and debate program\u003c/a>. His graduating seniors were routinely admitted to some of the top colleges and universities in the country, including Harvard, Stanford, MIT and the UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo from a page in a yearbook of a white man with glasses wearing a tie, white shirt and vest. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of teacher Mike Peritz in a John F. Kennedy High School yearbook from the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Peritz, a champion of \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/pubs/web/95024-2.asp\">vocational education\u003c/a>, led the school’s Food Education and Service Training program known as FEAST. It was supported by federal and local grants, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://ggra.org/our-mission/\">Golden Gate Restaurant Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support the FEAST program, the school building’s architect designed Kennedy with a 24-seat restaurant laid out in a classroom with a specially designed kitchen. The FEAST program taught students the details of planning, cooking and serving meals, preparing and writing menus, shopping, shipping, sanitation, business English as well as accounting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were so successful with our training program that by 1975, 100% of my senior students had some kind of job before they went out into the world,” said Peritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy High’s FEAST program became a national model, attracting visitors from around the country seeking to replicate its success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A display of awards and trophies. One award in particular reads \"Scholastic Journalist Award.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">School trophies sit in a glass case in the office at John F. Kennedy High School. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Overall, Kennedy High proved that a racially integrated inner city high school with superb academics, athletics and vocational education could succeed. The school had sufficient funding and plenty of support from parents in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a word that Peritz and his teaching peers at Kennedy High use to describe that period when everything seemed possible at the school. They invoke the myth surrounding President John F. Kennedy: \u003ca href=\"https://politicaldictionary.com/words/camelot/\">Camelot\u003c/a>. It refers to the mythical court of King Arthur as compared to the young President Kennedy’s administration, both periods of optimism and opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camelot is really a metaphor for perfection or idealism,” said Peritz. “The students who came together and weren’t supposed to get along, well, everybody was uplifted by each other. So that was our Camelot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anyone familiar with the history of public education in California knows that that period of optimism and innovation would not last.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A challenging decade\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting in the late 1970s, a series of cascading events over a decade slowly changed Kennedy High and not for the better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, California voters approved Proposition 13, which cut property taxes thereby \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/stories/education/\">decimating a main funding source for public schools\u003c/a>. As local property tax revenues dried up, a long series of teacher and staff cutbacks began. The school district also eliminated the voluntary bussing program that brought students in from affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another economic earthquake occurred between 1980 and 1983: \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2018/08/28/after-plant-closings-a-labor-day-story/?sh=25b7a34725b3\">a loss of manufacturing jobs\u003c/a> that sustained working class African American and Latino families. In conjunction, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.governor.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt336/files/documents/20200819-gilles-bissonnette-new-jim-crow-exerpt.pdf\">crack epidemic swept through neighborhoods (PDF)\u003c/a> like South Richmond. President Ronald Reagan called it “an uncontrolled fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1980s, student enrollment in Richmond public schools declined as the baby boom kids graduated. And many more affluent parents, often white, stopped sending their kids to Kennedy High, instead using their privilege and knowledge of the system to transfer their children to El Cerrito High. Waking up to the fact that everything they had built was in jeopardy, Peritz and other teachers wrote an open letter to parents residing within Kennedy High’s boundaries in hopes of staunching the exodus. The letter, written in 1987, told parents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This year we are delighted that five students have been accepted to Stanford, three to Harvard, three to M.I.T., many to Cal and others to Princeton, Cornell, Yale, UCLA, et al…If positive learning were not taking place at JFK right now, these successes in educating our college bound would not have happened. Stanford and Harvard demand performance, not myth.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But their plea didn’t work. A few years later, the district, now known as West Contra Costa County Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/04/20/california-school-district-files-bankruptcy/3bca06c5-998c-4d6a-b0e3-7d993973412b/\">fell into bankruptcy\u003c/a>. The state stepped in to manage the district. Kennedy High never really recovered. By the end of the 1990s, budget cutbacks, bureaucratic meddling and a demoralized faculty led to the end of the speech and debate and FEAST programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Peritz refuses to give up on Kennedy High\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After his retirement in 2001, Mike Peritz shifted into another gear as a champion for Kennedy High and its feeder schools, many of which serve a population that often could use more support than the district provides. Many students are English-language learners, many families are struggling to make ends meet and test scores are often some of the lowest in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peritz co-founded the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/champion-of-richmond-education-1/\">Eagle Foundation\u003c/a> to raise money for Kennedy High. The foundation later folded into a college scholarship program for needy students all over Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/09/08/city-pays-to-keep-three-richmond-schools-open/\">the district threatened to close Kennedy High\u003c/a> due to declining enrollment, Peritz led a community campaign to keep the school open, arguing that it was still a vital institution in South Richmond. (The school remained open after the city of Richmond agreed to give the district approximately $7 million over five years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is sometimes difficult to keep up with all of Peritz’s projects. In 2013, he \u003ca href=\"https://richmondconfidential.org/2013/11/22/music-is-back-at-kennedy-high-school/\">co-created “the Music at Kennedy Committee”\u003c/a> to revive musical instruction at the school. He conducts semi-regular tours of the school, especially for city leaders, to make sure the community understands what is happening on campus. He also arranges tours for elementary school students to familiarize them with the high school they hopefully will attend. Peritz is also a fierce opponent of charter schools, which he says are expanding within the district at the expense of students in schools like Kennedy High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love Mike around here,” said Principal Jarod Scott. “Sometimes you have to be concerned about somebody’s agenda [working inside the school], but with Mike he’s always transparent. He comes to me and says, ‘Here’s what I’d like to do; let me know if it conflicts with what you want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses in a black hoodie talks with a Black man in a collared shirt at a desk with trophies behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired teacher Mike Peritz speaks with Principal Jarod Scott in the office at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past four years, Peritz has devoted much of his attention to Kennedy High’s welding classes, a key component of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wccusd.net/domain/3066\">the school’s Career Technical Education program\u003c/a>. When a former welding instructor passed away, Peritz led an effort to recruit his replacement. The new teacher, Ben Carpenter, had never taught in public schools before. He said of Peritz, “This guy comes up to me and says, ‘Hey, I’m taking this math class so that I can help your students with the math.’ And I kind of looked at him and was tilting my head like a dog, like what?! What?!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpenter says Peritz has been a mentor and huge source of support as he’s learned the ropes of teaching at Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950575\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses in a black hoodie talks to another white man in a black beanie hat and black hoodie in a welding classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welding teacher Benjamin Carpenter talks with retired teacher Mike Peritz in the welding classroom at John F. Kennedy High School. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He said, basically, ‘I’m working for you. You tell me what you need,’” said Carpenter, shaking his head at the memory. “Mike is a character. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone as dedicated to anything as this guy is to this school in this community and these students. It’s incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what keeps him going long after all of his peers have settled into retirement, Peritz slaps his forearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a thicker skin than most people,” he said. “You know, same house, same woman, same kids, same car. I try to maintain things and hang with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pauses, then adds: “No, seriously speaking. I hang with it because we had a mission when I came here and I’m still flying that mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Richard Gonzales is a member of the JFK High Class of 1972 and a retired NPR correspondent.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy High was built like a college campus — each department had its own building and opened out to the fresh air. The school was designed for flexible scheduling, team-teaching and big chunks of unstructured time that students could use to work on projects. It was a model that encouraged students to use their non-classroom time wisely and to take responsibility for their own learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A look down a hallway with person accessing a locker in the distance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/039_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letters covering windows in a hallway spell out ‘Respect’ at John F. 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The children of professors went to school with the kids of pipefitters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might have been the only school in the country where affluent white parents schemed of ways to get their kids into a school that had lots of minorities because we had some great programs and very good teachers,” said another retired teacher, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chssa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/David-Dansk.pdf\">David Dansky (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dansky led Kennedy High’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.speechanddebate.org/hall-of-fame/\">nationally ranked speech and debate program\u003c/a>. His graduating seniors were routinely admitted to some of the top colleges and universities in the country, including Harvard, Stanford, MIT and the UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo from a page in a yearbook of a white man with glasses wearing a tie, white shirt and vest. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_JFKHSYearbook_05242023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of teacher Mike Peritz in a John F. Kennedy High School yearbook from the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Peritz, a champion of \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/pubs/web/95024-2.asp\">vocational education\u003c/a>, led the school’s Food Education and Service Training program known as FEAST. It was supported by federal and local grants, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://ggra.org/our-mission/\">Golden Gate Restaurant Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support the FEAST program, the school building’s architect designed Kennedy with a 24-seat restaurant laid out in a classroom with a specially designed kitchen. The FEAST program taught students the details of planning, cooking and serving meals, preparing and writing menus, shopping, shipping, sanitation, business English as well as accounting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were so successful with our training program that by 1975, 100% of my senior students had some kind of job before they went out into the world,” said Peritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy High’s FEAST program became a national model, attracting visitors from around the country seeking to replicate its success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A display of awards and trophies. One award in particular reads \"Scholastic Journalist Award.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/045_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">School trophies sit in a glass case in the office at John F. Kennedy High School. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Overall, Kennedy High proved that a racially integrated inner city high school with superb academics, athletics and vocational education could succeed. The school had sufficient funding and plenty of support from parents in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a word that Peritz and his teaching peers at Kennedy High use to describe that period when everything seemed possible at the school. They invoke the myth surrounding President John F. Kennedy: \u003ca href=\"https://politicaldictionary.com/words/camelot/\">Camelot\u003c/a>. It refers to the mythical court of King Arthur as compared to the young President Kennedy’s administration, both periods of optimism and opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camelot is really a metaphor for perfection or idealism,” said Peritz. “The students who came together and weren’t supposed to get along, well, everybody was uplifted by each other. So that was our Camelot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anyone familiar with the history of public education in California knows that that period of optimism and innovation would not last.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A challenging decade\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting in the late 1970s, a series of cascading events over a decade slowly changed Kennedy High and not for the better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, California voters approved Proposition 13, which cut property taxes thereby \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/stories/education/\">decimating a main funding source for public schools\u003c/a>. As local property tax revenues dried up, a long series of teacher and staff cutbacks began. The school district also eliminated the voluntary bussing program that brought students in from affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another economic earthquake occurred between 1980 and 1983: \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2018/08/28/after-plant-closings-a-labor-day-story/?sh=25b7a34725b3\">a loss of manufacturing jobs\u003c/a> that sustained working class African American and Latino families. In conjunction, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.governor.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt336/files/documents/20200819-gilles-bissonnette-new-jim-crow-exerpt.pdf\">crack epidemic swept through neighborhoods (PDF)\u003c/a> like South Richmond. President Ronald Reagan called it “an uncontrolled fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1980s, student enrollment in Richmond public schools declined as the baby boom kids graduated. And many more affluent parents, often white, stopped sending their kids to Kennedy High, instead using their privilege and knowledge of the system to transfer their children to El Cerrito High. Waking up to the fact that everything they had built was in jeopardy, Peritz and other teachers wrote an open letter to parents residing within Kennedy High’s boundaries in hopes of staunching the exodus. The letter, written in 1987, told parents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This year we are delighted that five students have been accepted to Stanford, three to Harvard, three to M.I.T., many to Cal and others to Princeton, Cornell, Yale, UCLA, et al…If positive learning were not taking place at JFK right now, these successes in educating our college bound would not have happened. Stanford and Harvard demand performance, not myth.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But their plea didn’t work. A few years later, the district, now known as West Contra Costa County Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/04/20/california-school-district-files-bankruptcy/3bca06c5-998c-4d6a-b0e3-7d993973412b/\">fell into bankruptcy\u003c/a>. The state stepped in to manage the district. Kennedy High never really recovered. By the end of the 1990s, budget cutbacks, bureaucratic meddling and a demoralized faculty led to the end of the speech and debate and FEAST programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Peritz refuses to give up on Kennedy High\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After his retirement in 2001, Mike Peritz shifted into another gear as a champion for Kennedy High and its feeder schools, many of which serve a population that often could use more support than the district provides. Many students are English-language learners, many families are struggling to make ends meet and test scores are often some of the lowest in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peritz co-founded the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/champion-of-richmond-education-1/\">Eagle Foundation\u003c/a> to raise money for Kennedy High. The foundation later folded into a college scholarship program for needy students all over Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/09/08/city-pays-to-keep-three-richmond-schools-open/\">the district threatened to close Kennedy High\u003c/a> due to declining enrollment, Peritz led a community campaign to keep the school open, arguing that it was still a vital institution in South Richmond. (The school remained open after the city of Richmond agreed to give the district approximately $7 million over five years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is sometimes difficult to keep up with all of Peritz’s projects. In 2013, he \u003ca href=\"https://richmondconfidential.org/2013/11/22/music-is-back-at-kennedy-high-school/\">co-created “the Music at Kennedy Committee”\u003c/a> to revive musical instruction at the school. He conducts semi-regular tours of the school, especially for city leaders, to make sure the community understands what is happening on campus. He also arranges tours for elementary school students to familiarize them with the high school they hopefully will attend. Peritz is also a fierce opponent of charter schools, which he says are expanding within the district at the expense of students in schools like Kennedy High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love Mike around here,” said Principal Jarod Scott. “Sometimes you have to be concerned about somebody’s agenda [working inside the school], but with Mike he’s always transparent. He comes to me and says, ‘Here’s what I’d like to do; let me know if it conflicts with what you want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses in a black hoodie talks with a Black man in a collared shirt at a desk with trophies behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/054_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired teacher Mike Peritz speaks with Principal Jarod Scott in the office at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past four years, Peritz has devoted much of his attention to Kennedy High’s welding classes, a key component of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wccusd.net/domain/3066\">the school’s Career Technical Education program\u003c/a>. When a former welding instructor passed away, Peritz led an effort to recruit his replacement. The new teacher, Ben Carpenter, had never taught in public schools before. He said of Peritz, “This guy comes up to me and says, ‘Hey, I’m taking this math class so that I can help your students with the math.’ And I kind of looked at him and was tilting my head like a dog, like what?! What?!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpenter says Peritz has been a mentor and huge source of support as he’s learned the ropes of teaching at Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950575\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with glasses in a black hoodie talks to another white man in a black beanie hat and black hoodie in a welding classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/065_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welding teacher Benjamin Carpenter talks with retired teacher Mike Peritz in the welding classroom at John F. 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