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In 2022, only 21% of students met the math standard.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reading scores in Long Beach dropped 11 points, but declines were less steep in math. Math scores fell only 4 points.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Mt. Diablo Unified, one of the few districts to break down the results by subgroup, Black, Latino, English learner, foster and unhoused students had far lower scores compared with 2019 than their white and Asian peers. For example, among English learners, 96% did not meet the math or reading standards.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>By and large, scores show little change from 2021, the first year results were released after the state suspended the 2020 tests due to COVID. The 2021 test was optional for schools to administer, so results were limited and likely not an accurate reflection of students’ progress overall. Just under 25% of students took the test in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lodi Unified saw scores in both math and reading improve from 2021, but they still lag significantly from 2019. That’s not a surprise, considering the difficulties teachers and students faced as they returned from distance learning, said Robert Sahli, assistant superintendent.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lucrecia Santibañez, associate professor of education, UCLA\"]‘COVID was tough for everyone … But these scores signal that we need to make a personalized, intensive effort to help kids catch up and recoup what they’ve lost.’[/pullquote]“Last year, even though we were back in person, it was very challenging,” he said. “Teachers and support staff were working very hard to address learning loss while also responding to the social-emotional impacts on learning and socializing at school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other districts, Lodi has hired more tutors and teachers to help students catch up, beefed up summer school and after-school academic offerings, adopted new curricula and taken other steps to bring students to proficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heather Hough, director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), said the preliminary results are actually better than she expected. Because 2022 is the first year all schools were required to give the test, she anticipated a significant drop from 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought 2022 would be a recovery year, but there was so much chaos — teacher shortages, students missing school — that it turned out to be another pandemic year,” she said. “If the scores are the same (as 2021), that’s actually encouraging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state releases the full data, Hough and her colleagues will pay close attention to differences among subgroups and statistical anomalies. If one district, for example, shows good results for students in special education, it would be worth researching what special steps that district has taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noted that some students thrived during remote learning, so she expects some good news, as well. In any case, schools and districts, as well as statewide policymakers, should use the scores to shape their allocation of resources in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we get this data, we’ll finally be able to see how California is doing, what challenges we’re facing, and how we can best help students as we move forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of the statewide release of test scores, the state last week launched a push for schools to help students regain skills they lost during COVID. The state is emphasizing accelerated learning, rather than remedial lessons, to speed up the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steps like that could be the most useful result of the Smarter Balanced scores, said Lucrecia Santibañez, associate professor of education at UCLA. Closely analyzing the data and using it to forge a path forward — specifically for certain groups of students — is more useful than assigning blame, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“COVID was tough for everyone, and it’s not worth putting blame on anyone. Everyone was trying the best they could. But these scores signal that we need to make a personalized, intensive effort to help kids catch up and recoup what they’ve lost,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the scores are disappointing, they can be an important tool to help schools pinpoint resources in the future, she said. The scores can provide a window into what exact content students have missed, where they’re lagging and which students need the most help, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Mt. Diablo Unified, Raymond Tjen-A-Looi, director of assessment, research and evaluation, told the school board that comparisons with 2021 aren’t helpful because education was still so disrupted due to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re concentrating on using 2022 as a baseline, with the expectation that everything will stay the same going forward — testing will be in person, instruction will be in person,” he said. “So moving forward, hopefully, we’ll be able to do more comparisons and see how well we are making up for what we’ve lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/preliminary-glimpse-at-test-scores-shows-steep-declines-in-reading-math/679898?amp=1\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been clear to Richmond High School junior Angelee Montances that when it comes to arts and music education, all things are not created equal in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Communities like mine, Richmond High, where it’s predominantly brown kids, we don’t get the same opportunity as in like Hercules, which is, you know, predominantly Asian kids and white kids,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montances is a senior who plays viola in the Richmond High orchestra. The East Bay public high school, along with Kennedy High, is located in the West Contra Costa Unified School District, and is made up of 1,511 students, of whom 85.4% are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, you know, it also sucks because I feel like parents, students and teachers have tried here in Richmond High and Kennedy High to get the funding that they have (at Hercules High),” Montances said. “But we don’t have the money, you know.”[aside postID=news_11927353 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/artsed_prop28-1020x626.jpg']Many Richmond High families, including that of Montances, consider themselves working class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really something you think about and not many people say, but it’s also a race thing. It’s a socioeconomic class thing, and it’s just an issue,” said Montances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California education law calls for all public schools to offer comprehensive arts education, but in reality, very few of them do. This November, voters will decide whether or not to guarantee arts funding in public schools, including charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/proposition-28-arts-education\">Proposition 28\u003c/a> would roughly double the amount of funding California gives schools for arts and music education, and it would send 30% of that money to schools serving students from lower-income families. Voters would also be locking in that funding stream for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/21-0036A1%20%28Music%20and%20Art%20Education%29.pdf\">require public schools to spend 80%\u003c/a> of the money on hiring full-time arts and music teachers, which could double the number of arts and music teachers across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, voters in Berkeley, a wealthier part of the Bay Area, raised taxes to boost music education by \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Berkeley_Unified_School_District,_California,_Parcel_Tax,_Measure_E1_(November_2016)\">passing a parcel tax\u003c/a> that raises $2 million annually to pay for music education for all public school kids starting in third grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just 11 miles north, in Richmond, many public elementary school principals have to plead with local community arts organizations to partner with them. Coming out of the pandemic, that cry became even louder, according to Andrea Landin, director of school and neighborhood partnerships at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Andrea Landin, director of school and neighborhood partnerships, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts\"]‘Sometimes kids can’t really name exactly what’s going on emotionally or mentally, but once they start to move or sing or play an instrument or get on stage and pretend to be someone else, then there’s so much healing that goes on, so much realization and growth.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had so many principals call me or email me saying that, ‘My students have been sitting in front of a screen for a year and a half. They need to sing, they need to move, they need to express themselves,’” Landin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaycenter.org/school-and-neighborhood-partnerships\">East Bay Center for the Performing Arts\u003c/a> pays artists who don’t have a teaching credential about $45 an hour to help teach art and music in as many WCCUSD public schools requesting help as they can. However, the center has a hard time competing with tuition-based arts organizations in other parts of the Bay Area, which can pay those same artists between $80 and $100 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landin said there is never enough money or artists to meet the demand, which means lots of kids in the Richmond area are missing out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11929018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white music teacher in his 30s teaches a small orchestra of kids playing various instruments in a high school music classroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music director Andrew Wilke conducts orchestra class at Richmond High School in Richmond on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Richmond High School’s arts programming would benefit from Prop. 28, a measure that would roughly double the amount of funding that California gives schools for arts and music education. ‘We could use it, desperately,’ said Wilke. ‘To not have to worry about finances on top of teaching seven classes would make my job more manageable, which would make me a better teacher and the kids happier.’ \u003ccite>(Marlena Sloss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes kids can’t really name exactly what’s going on emotionally or mentally, but once they start to move or sing or play an instrument or get on stage and pretend to be someone else, then there’s so much healing that goes on, so much realization and growth,” Landin explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved by voters, Proposition 28 would roughly double funding for the arts in schools. The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates it would raise between $800 million and $1 billion annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By some estimates, that would translate to about $166 per student across the state. A school like Richmond High would have about $250,000 more a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would change everything,” said Andrew Wilke, director of the Richmond High Music Department. Wilke teaches seven periods, runs the marching band and the orchestra, and oversees all the instruments, scheduling and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m at rock-bottom emotionally,” Wilke said. “Not only am I trying to hold all these classes together, I’m trying to find money, I’m trying to support the kids, which is the actual real job we all have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, Richmond High’s music programs can only serve 140 students. Wilke said more money would mean hiring another music teacher, and the opportunities the school could create for students wouldn’t be limited by how much time he can commit to it. Wilke noted that, with guaranteed funding, there wouldn’t be a struggle for supplies, or a limit to performances the orchestra and marching band could do for lack of transportation funds. And Richmond High could hire specialized instrument coaches for students like Montances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the approximately $1 billion raised by Proposition 28 each school year, 30% would go to schools serving economically disadvantaged students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Teachers Association \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_28,_Art_and_Music_K-12_Education_Funding_Initiative_(2022)\">has helped get the measure passed by contributing $1 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landin thinks filling these credentialed art and music teaching positions could be a challenge for schools. “I was like, ‘This is beautiful. Where are they going to find all the teachers?,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landin says during COVID, many \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/arts/design/san-francisco-art-market.html\">artists left the Bay Area\u003c/a> for less expensive places. And spoken-word artist and poet \u003ca href=\"http://www.jazzhudson.com/about/\">Jazz Monique Hudson\u003c/a>, who has taught on contract in Oakland schools, has seen arts programs scaled back or eliminated when schools make budget cuts. Hudson had to get full-time employment with the district attorney’s office as a victim advocate to be able to support her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Youth Speaks is very prominent in San Francisco,” Hudson explained, referring to the leading nonprofit presenter of youth poetry slams, spoken-word performance and youth-development programs. “However, they have not been able to maintain and sustain their partnerships with Oakland schools due to funding. I was set to teach at Elmhurst Middle School this semester but could not teach in the art program because there wasn’t enough funding for the spoken-word program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If voters approved Proposition 28, it would lock in funding for the arts, making them less susceptible to budget cuts in tough times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, in fact, is one reason some critics have come out against the measure: They object to so-called “ballot box budgeting” because it locks in funding that can’t be undone, for example, when a recession hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marguerite Roza, who studies education finance at Georgetown University, points out that California schools have more money now than they’ve had in years. The current state budget, which passed in June, increased school spending by 13% over last year. 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Furthermore, she adds, the creation of a separate “categorical” would add extra rules to different pots of funds, which could mean that districts end up spending more time on compliance than on trying to deliver what their students need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This push for separate arts ed money would be a move back to the old model, where legislators dictate how districts carve up their budgets,” Roza said, referring to the period before the implementation of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a> in 2016, which fundamentally changed how all local education agencies (LEAs) in the state are funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Peres Elementary School in Richmond, Principal Christy Chen says she currently has to constantly hustle community partnerships to bring art into the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, thanks to East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, her fourth graders are learning about African rhythms. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had so many principals call me or email me saying that, ‘My students have been sitting in front of a screen for a year and a half. They need to sing, they need to move, they need to express themselves,’” Landin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaycenter.org/school-and-neighborhood-partnerships\">East Bay Center for the Performing Arts\u003c/a> pays artists who don’t have a teaching credential about $45 an hour to help teach art and music in as many WCCUSD public schools requesting help as they can. However, the center has a hard time competing with tuition-based arts organizations in other parts of the Bay Area, which can pay those same artists between $80 and $100 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landin said there is never enough money or artists to meet the demand, which means lots of kids in the Richmond area are missing out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11929018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white music teacher in his 30s teaches a small orchestra of kids playing various instruments in a high school music classroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59095_Richmond_Orchestra_008-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music director Andrew Wilke conducts orchestra class at Richmond High School in Richmond on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Richmond High School’s arts programming would benefit from Prop. 28, a measure that would roughly double the amount of funding that California gives schools for arts and music education. ‘We could use it, desperately,’ said Wilke. ‘To not have to worry about finances on top of teaching seven classes would make my job more manageable, which would make me a better teacher and the kids happier.’ \u003ccite>(Marlena Sloss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes kids can’t really name exactly what’s going on emotionally or mentally, but once they start to move or sing or play an instrument or get on stage and pretend to be someone else, then there’s so much healing that goes on, so much realization and growth,” Landin explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved by voters, Proposition 28 would roughly double funding for the arts in schools. The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates it would raise between $800 million and $1 billion annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By some estimates, that would translate to about $166 per student across the state. A school like Richmond High would have about $250,000 more a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would change everything,” said Andrew Wilke, director of the Richmond High Music Department. Wilke teaches seven periods, runs the marching band and the orchestra, and oversees all the instruments, scheduling and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m at rock-bottom emotionally,” Wilke said. “Not only am I trying to hold all these classes together, I’m trying to find money, I’m trying to support the kids, which is the actual real job we all have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And Richmond High could hire specialized instrument coaches for students like Montances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the approximately $1 billion raised by Proposition 28 each school year, 30% would go to schools serving economically disadvantaged students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Teachers Association \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_28,_Art_and_Music_K-12_Education_Funding_Initiative_(2022)\">has helped get the measure passed by contributing $1 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landin thinks filling these credentialed art and music teaching positions could be a challenge for schools. “I was like, ‘This is beautiful. Where are they going to find all the teachers?,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landin says during COVID, many \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/arts/design/san-francisco-art-market.html\">artists left the Bay Area\u003c/a> for less expensive places. And spoken-word artist and poet \u003ca href=\"http://www.jazzhudson.com/about/\">Jazz Monique Hudson\u003c/a>, who has taught on contract in Oakland schools, has seen arts programs scaled back or eliminated when schools make budget cuts. Hudson had to get full-time employment with the district attorney’s office as a victim advocate to be able to support her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Youth Speaks is very prominent in San Francisco,” Hudson explained, referring to the leading nonprofit presenter of youth poetry slams, spoken-word performance and youth-development programs. “However, they have not been able to maintain and sustain their partnerships with Oakland schools due to funding. I was set to teach at Elmhurst Middle School this semester but could not teach in the art program because there wasn’t enough funding for the spoken-word program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If voters approved Proposition 28, it would lock in funding for the arts, making them less susceptible to budget cuts in tough times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, in fact, is one reason some critics have come out against the measure: They object to so-called “ballot box budgeting” because it locks in funding that can’t be undone, for example, when a recession hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marguerite Roza, who studies education finance at Georgetown University, points out that California schools have more money now than they’ve had in years. The current state budget, which passed in June, increased school spending by 13% over last year. Some of that funding could theoretically go to arts education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929033\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11929033\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59091_Richmond_Orchestra_005-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Students in the school orchestra sit facing their teacher, a black girl on violin, a Latina girl on viola, and a Latino boy on violin.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59091_Richmond_Orchestra_005-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59091_Richmond_Orchestra_005-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59091_Richmond_Orchestra_005-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59091_Richmond_Orchestra_005-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59091_Richmond_Orchestra_005-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelee Montances, a 12th grader at Richmond High School in Richmond, plays the viola during orchestra class on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Marlena Sloss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roza says, if passed, Proposition 28 would require the state and schools to come up with new ways of tracking personnel — since school districts will have to specifically show how they spent their new arts funds — which can be complicated and take time to implement. 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Four activists trying to block officers from entering the lot were arrested and later released. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spokespeople for Caltrans \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the city of Oakland said they are in talks about using other Caltrans properties as shelter sites, but did not provide specific details.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 11 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMore than a dozen unhoused residents this weekend moved to a vacant lot in West Oakland following recent evictions from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925169/residents-activists-decry-evictions-at-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment\">the Wood Street encampment\u003c/a> — which was, until recently, the city’s largest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The residents are hoping the city of Oakland will lease the lot — at 34th Street and Mandela Parkway — from Caltrans to relieve overcrowding on city streets, where residents have moved following the evictions. But it’s still unclear whether that will happen. On Monday, California Highway Patrol officers informed residents they would have one week to leave the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re pushing us to nowhere,” said Wood Street resident LaMonte Ford from behind a chain-link fence protecting the site, which residents had locked to bar the officers from entering. “We have nowhere to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its height, the former Wood Street encampment stretched the length of more than 15 city blocks underneath the I-880 overpass in West Oakland, along the Union Pacific and BNSF Railway, on land owned by Caltrans, the city of Oakland, BNSF and private parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early September, Caltrans began evicting the estimated 300 people who lived there. The move came after a nearly month-long delay, prompted by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919941/closure-of-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment-put-on-hold-for-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit residents filed\u003c/a> against the transportation agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"wood-street\"]A federal judge ultimately lifted the temporary restraining order, citing safety concerns, and ordered Caltrans to work with the city of Oakland and Alameda County to offer alternative housing options to Wood Street residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, 241 people had been offered lodging at Oakland’s community cabin “tuff shed” sites, congregate shelters, transitional housing and RV parking programs, according to Jerri Randrup, spokesperson for the county’s Health Care Services Agency. 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He moved a few blocks down the road, before relocating this weekend to the lot at 34th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford said the idea to move there came from conversations with local city officials. He said he received a handshake agreement from Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin, allowing former Wood Street residents to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At maximum capacity, Ford said the site could accommodate about 20 to 25 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were already discussing this lot as a possibility for us,” Ford said, adding, “With no place to go and [us] spilling into the streets, we kind of just expedited things, if you will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the city did not respond to a request for comment to confirm that agreement. Janis Mara, a spokesperson for Caltrans, said the agency was in talks with the city “regarding leasing available land for people experiencing homelessness,” but she declined to say whether that available land included the lot in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928426\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than a dozen unhoused residents from the former Wood Street encampment moved to a vacant lot in West Oakland, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some neighbors, however, appeared caught off guard by the move. Kathy Kuhner, who lives in the area and owns an adjacent lot, said she was concerned about the possibilities of fires, noise and trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a really terrible homeless problem here in Oakland,” she said. “But the solution isn’t to have the homeless people break into other people’s properties. That can’t be the solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council last week directed staff to pursue the option of using 8 acres at the former Oakland Army Base to house up to 300 people, including many of those displaced from the Wood Street encampment. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A federal judge ultimately lifted the temporary restraining order, citing safety concerns, and ordered Caltrans to work with the city of Oakland and Alameda County to offer alternative housing options to Wood Street residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, 241 people had been offered lodging at Oakland’s community cabin “tuff shed” sites, congregate shelters, transitional housing and RV parking programs, according to Jerri Randrup, spokesperson for the county’s Health Care Services Agency. But only 90 have accepted those offers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those who did not, many have relocated elsewhere in the immediate vicinity — either to adjacent side streets or other vacant lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man puts some items onto a truck\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Murawski fills a truck with his belongings in an attempt to remove the items from an area being cleared by Caltrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ben Murawski, 47, who lived in an RV at Wood Street for the past two years, was one of the first to be evicted. He moved a few blocks down the road, before relocating this weekend to the lot at 34th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford said the idea to move there came from conversations with local city officials. He said he received a handshake agreement from Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin, allowing former Wood Street residents to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At maximum capacity, Ford said the site could accommodate about 20 to 25 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were already discussing this lot as a possibility for us,” Ford said, adding, “With no place to go and [us] spilling into the streets, we kind of just expedited things, if you will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the city did not respond to a request for comment to confirm that agreement. Janis Mara, a spokesperson for Caltrans, said the agency was in talks with the city “regarding leasing available land for people experiencing homelessness,” but she declined to say whether that available land included the lot in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928426\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2670-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than a dozen unhoused residents from the former Wood Street encampment moved to a vacant lot in West Oakland, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some neighbors, however, appeared caught off guard by the move. Kathy Kuhner, who lives in the area and owns an adjacent lot, said she was concerned about the possibilities of fires, noise and trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a really terrible homeless problem here in Oakland,” she said. “But the solution isn’t to have the homeless people break into other people’s properties. That can’t be the solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council last week directed staff to pursue the option of using 8 acres at the former Oakland Army Base to house up to 300 people, including many of those displaced from the Wood Street encampment. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A severe teacher shortage has forced dozens of preschools\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in California to shut down some of their classrooms since the start of the school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The funding for these subsidized classrooms is available, and plenty of children from lower-income families are waiting to enroll. But there aren’t enough teachers — a situation that could get worse as the state begins to pour billions of dollars into transitional kindergarten, threatening to destabilize the early education workforce.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have over 25 classrooms that we can put kids in, but we don’t have employees,” said Donna Sneeringer, chief strategy officer at the Child Care Resource Center, which serves children in Head Start programs in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. When she began comparing notes with other child care agencies in Southern California, the number grew to 100.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her findings prompted a statewide survey of government-contracted early education programs last month. According to the survey, which had about a 20% response rate, there are a total of almost 1,300 unfilled teacher positions. That means, overall, these programs serving the state’s children from lower-income families could be missing 4,000 to 5,000 teachers, according to Christopher Maricle, executive director of Head Start California, which conducted the survey along with the advocacy group EveryChild California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The staggering numbers didn’t surprise him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Low wages were driving away early childhood educators, who are overwhelmingly women of color, long before the pandemic began. But \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/childstudy/news-article/childcare-professionals-endured-higher-rates-of-depression-stress-and-asthma-during-the-pandemic-us-study-reveals/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the physical, mental and financial stress they endured during the public health crisis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the recession, accelerated their Great Resignation. Some teachers moved to more affordable locations, while others chose early retirement or left for better-paying jobs in other industries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some are also shifting to public schools, where they stand to double their salaries as widening access to transitional kindergarten opens new job opportunities for them — and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893791/why-californias-universal-transitional-kindergarten-plan-poses-a-threat-to-some-early-childhood-ed-providers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">threatens to destabilize\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the already fragile child care industry.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s the perfect, horrible storm,” said Maricle, who thinks the expansion of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TK starting this school year in California \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">exacerbated the staffing problem. “You’ve got inflation, you’ve got a rising minimum wage that makes it more attractive for people who are in Head Start to make similar wages at McDonald’s. Then there was the pandemic, which made it harder to enroll families, and the stress of doing the work really increased for the staff.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“All of those pressures together are just putting enormous stress on the system.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Iris Marin-Lima, site manager, Old Gallinas Children's Center\"]'It was really a huge struggle. (I felt) like sometimes crying because really you didn't want to (cancel class) and there was not any other option.'[/pullquote]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TK was established in California a decade ago to provide an extra year of schooling for kids who narrowly miss the cutoff to go to kindergarten. Last year, California lawmakers transformed the state’s early learning system by committing $2.7 billion toward expanding the program to all 4-year-olds. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a victory for advocates, who asserted that a universal program will lift children’s early development and lead to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crocus.georgetown.edu/#_ga=2.34377573.530940750.1663795469-1280683115.1663795469\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">long-term success\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, such as a greater likelihood of graduating high school and attending college. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the 2025-26 school year, universal TK could cover more than 300,000 children. To ensure that they get the attention they need, state law requires significantly lowering the student-to-teacher ratio. In previous years, a teacher could lead a TK classroom of up to 31 students. But starting this school year, the ratio dramatically lowered to one teacher for every 12 students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The demand will require \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/ca-transitional-kindergarten-workforce-brief\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">upward of 15,500 new teachers and 19,500 teacher aides\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by full implementation, according to estimates by the Learning Policy Institute in Palo Alto. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tens of thousands of teachers at home- or community-based preschools who already have a college degree and experience working with 4-year-olds \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/data-snapshot/double-or-nothing-potential-tk-wages-for-californias-early-educators/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">could be qualified to teach TK\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In the Bay Area, a preschool teacher making an average salary of $51,500 could earn nearly $85,000 teaching TK, according to the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state agency in charge of licensing professional educators is working to adopt a credentialing program to teach TK through third grade, and California is investing more than $2.5 billion to train new teachers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s fantastic to see, finally, doors are opening for early childhood educators that are beginning to lead to professional wages,” said Scott Moore, CEO of Kidango, the largest provider of subsidized preschools in the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said that although his nonprofit has been able to raise teacher salaries from a minimum wage of $11 per hour six years ago to $20 per hour now — and soon, he hopes, a living wage of $26 per hour — it won’t be able to compete with school districts that can provide pensions, retirement and better health care benefits. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“These are things that teachers deserve and need. So while we know that it means we’ve got to lose some teachers, and that’s hard, we know it’s best for them,” he said. “It makes us work harder to increase our wages and benefits even more.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Early Childhood Education and Care' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He believes more competitive salaries will attract new workers and create a pipeline of teachers starting in early childhood education and advancing to higher grade levels.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the meantime, child care providers are offering retention bonuses, pay raises, mental health support and other incentives to try to keep the teachers they have. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Old Gallinas Children’s Center in San Rafael, providers closed three classrooms to avoid staff burnout. The school strictly requires one teacher for every eight children. When the omicron variant was spreading in the spring and teachers were calling in sick, managers scrambled to meet that ratio. When they couldn’t, they called parents, sometimes at the last minute, to cancel class.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was really a huge struggle. (I felt) like sometimes crying because really you didn’t want to do it and there was not any other option,” said the school’s site manager, Iris Marin-Lima. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the pandemic, the nonprofit that operates Old Gallinas and other Head Start sites in Marin County served more than 1,000 kids, a majority of them from immigrant households and beginning to learn English. Today, just under 500 are enrolled, according to Chandra Alexandre, CEO of Community Action Marin. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although the county has a reputation of being one of the nation’s wealthiest, census figures show 6% of residents live in poverty.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many providers blend federal and state funding to better pay teachers and offer year-round, full-day preschool to accommodate working families. Moore, the CEO of Kidango in Fremont, said higher state reimbursement rates for serving 3-year-olds, dual language learners and children with special needs has allowed him to increase wages.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local governments are also stepping up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In San Francisco, more than 2,000 teachers and assistant teachers are getting a bump in their paychecks this month as the city institutes a $28-per-hour minimum wage by relying on funds from a commercial real estate tax that was passed by voters. 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We were recognized nationally as having one of the most dramatic and sustained reductions in gun violence that any city (has) ever achieved. And that all went out the window with COVID.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wave of violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fact, homicides were at a 50-year low in the Bay Area throughout much of the 2010s. But the pandemic ushered in a new wave of violence across the region and the country, one that has hit Oakland particularly hard and has yet to recede. 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Armstrong also noted the influence of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/stop-sex-trafficking-in-oakland\">human trafficking\u003c/a>, adding that his department was working closely with the district attorney and the FBI on dealing with the issue. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Human trafficking not only impacts Oakland but the entire Western region,” said Armstrong. “We know that there are those that come to Oakland specifically to traffic.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human trafficking — the buying and selling of people for sex or labor — has been one of the drivers of gang violence that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oakgov.com/health/partnerships/humantrafficking/Pages/default.aspx\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland has been trying to combat with various initiatives\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Too many guns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the biggest issue that all three city leaders touched on was the proliferation of guns.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The number of households that bought guns increased by 18% during the pandemic. … More people, more guns,” said Cespedes. “This is a battle that Oakland is waging, and we need help.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Armstrong also noted the increase in “ghost guns,” a term for firearms that can be easily constructed from kits, and that are untraceable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I mean, just yesterday, we recovered four of those guns from one individual,” he said, adding that the OPD has “already recovered over 1,150 firearms so far this year, which is a 34% increase compared to last year,” saying that a significant number of these firearms have been ghost guns.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“While this spike in Oakland has been historic for us, believe it or not, it matches the national average,” Schaaf said, faulting federal leaders for failing to stop the proliferation of firearms. “We have never seen so many illegal guns on our streets and the failure of the federal government to ban assault weapons, as well as the equipment that turns regular guns into assault weapons, (and) to invest adequately in mental health, conflict resolution, the mental state of people, especially our young people. … These are failures at the federal level.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An emergency medicine resident physician named Henry at Highland Hospital in Oakland wrote in, “I’ve seen a shocking increase in nonfatal violence, gunshot wounds, stabbings, assaults. 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Neither the school district nor the Oakland Education Association has commented on the parents’ proposal yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11915396,news_11921954,news_11920137\" label=\"Related Posts\"]One phase of the negotiating process, called “sunshining,” does allow for public participation. During this period, both the union and the district decide which issues they want to bargain over and disclose those to each other. Under state labor laws, the public has a chance to comment during sunshining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the California School Boards Association called parent participation “a negotiable item and possible if both parties accept that condition. At the same time, no individual party can unilaterally include parents, nor can parents insist on attending negotiations independent of an agreement between the district and union to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new parent coalition is pushing for official support from the district to bring informed parents into the sunshining phase of negotiations, claiming there is a lack of transparency, leaving parents in the dark and unable to take advantage of the moments when they can, in fact, legally have a say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These parents serve different constituents — but are coming together for this common goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given our partnership in coalition with the families in the hills, they need the bridge created as well,” Young said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young started The Oakland REACH in 2016, to empower Black and Latinx parents to advocate for their children. During the pandemic, fearful that flatlands kids were being left behind in distance learning, Young’s group began offering \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879097/the-secret-sauce-how-a-parent-led-project-is-reimagining-public-schools-for-oaklands-black-and-latino-students\">tutoring and classes that showed results\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CA Parent Power, led by Bacigalupi, began in 2020 in response to what some families perceived as a slow response to the reopening of schools during the pandemic, and was largely critical of teachers at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both groups share a distrust in the ability of the teachers union and the Oakland school district to represent their children’s interests during contract negotiations. They point to a long-term failure of Oakland Unified to improve student reading outcomes — with \u003ca href=\"https://www.caschooldashboard.org/reports/01612590000000/2019\">46.9% of Oakland students currently reading below grade level\u003c/a>, and 70.9% performing below grade level in math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keta Brown, another Oakland REACH parent, has looked at the language around the collective bargaining agreement, and she doesn’t see “kids” mentioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got to make certain that the consumer, which is these babies, are a part of your process and that you are keeping them at the forefront,” said Brown, who lives in an area of East Oakland where neighborhood schools have dismal math and reading scores. (She said she’s lucky she got her daughter into Edna Brewer Middle School, one of the district’s stronger middle schools. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout the pandemic, public acrimony dogged the San Francisco school board: There was acrimony over renaming schools, acrimony over when to let kids back into classrooms,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and acrimony over admissions practices at one of SFUSD’s most prestigious high schools, Lowell.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, in February, angry, fed-up voters overwhelmingly removed three commissioners at the center of those controversies from the San Francisco Board of Education in a high-profile recall. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So it stands to reason that most of the six candidates running for those same seats sought to distance themselves from the old school board at a recent forum for parents. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpta.org/guiding-principles/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second District Parent Teacher Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> forum last week, the candidates answered detailed\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">policy questions posed by parents — many candidates voiced support for allowing students to take algebra classes in an earlier year than usual, for instance — but the message behind the message was as obvious as a blaring school bell. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ann Hsu, a tech industry businessperson who was appointed to the board by Mayor London Breed after the recall, plainly laid out those differences.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lisa Weissman-Ward, commissioner, SFUSD Board of Education\"]‘We want to govern, we want to be focused on process. We want the work of the board to be boring. We do not want to be making headlines for performative politics.’[/pullquote]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The school board is shifting to a new way of operating, “where we do not listen to the loudest, or we do not appease the loudest, voice in the room, but we really focus on student outcomes,” Hsu told parents in the forum over Zoom. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu has had \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1554633591933452288\">her own difficult time with loud voices in the room \u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when parents and community members shouted, “Racist!,” at one another during a contentious board vote to admonish Hsu, in August. The successful vote came after she made \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922072/a-slap-in-the-face-sfusd-students-respond-to-ann-hsus-racist-comments\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">racist comments about Black and brown families\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; Hsu later apologized.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Hsu wasn’t alone in delivering the message that the board’s focus needs to change. Lisa Weissman-Ward, an educator at Stanford Law School also appointed to the school board by Breed, took her own jab at the former commissioners.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We want to govern, we want to be focused on process. We want the work of the board to be boring. We do not want to be making headlines for performative politics,” she said. “It doesn’t help our students, it doesn’t help our educators, it doesn’t help our caregivers, doesn’t help our community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In short, she said, she wants to make sure the school district’s budget “has a through line” to improved student academic outcomes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The way the school board ran the district previously “has not worked,” said candidate and commissioner Lainie Motamedi, another Breed appointee. 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