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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area civil rights activists and elected leaders reacted with outrage and disappointment Friday to the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, the white teenager who last year shot and killed two people protesting police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project\"]‘If you look who’s funneled into American prisons and if you look whose lives are protected and defended inside of our courtrooms, we see grave disparities where Black, Indigenous and other people of color always end up with the short end of the stick.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, a longtime Oakland activist and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, told KQED that while the news felt like “a punch in the gut,” she was hardly surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks noted that the verdict highlights a glaring contradiction in the U.S. criminal justice system that she said treats white defendants with much greater leniency than it does people of color, particularly Black people.”If you look who’s funneled into American prisons and if you look whose lives are protected and defended inside of our courtrooms, we see grave disparities where Black, Indigenous and other people of color always end up with the short end of the stick,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897023\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11897023\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Image-from-iOS-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands in a black hoodie with a hand on her chest with an expression filled with emotion. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Image-from-iOS-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Image-from-iOS-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Image-from-iOS-2.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks during a protest outside of Ron Dellums Federal Building in Oakland on Nov. 19, 2021, after the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rittenhouse, 18, was found not guilty of all charges Friday after pleading self-defense in the deadly August 2020 shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers and community leaders will continue fighting against racial injustice nationwide, Brooks insisted, despite the profound discouragement from verdicts like this one. Large demonstrations against the verdict are expected to place in scores of cities across the country, including \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CausaJusta1/status/1461792788249513986\">one planned for downtown Oakland on Friday evening\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brooks said she is also increasingly concerned that Rittenhouse’s acquittal could encourage further violence from white nationalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CatsCommentary/status/1461769531949342727\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“White supremacists, right-wing extremists … are watching these trials closely to see what they can get away with,” Brooks said. “And the message that was sent today is that they can literally get away with murder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, was charged with homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangerment for killing two men with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle, and wounding a third, during a tumultuous night of protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white Kenosha police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former police youth cadet from Illinois, Rittenhouse claimed he had gone to Kenosha to protect property from rioters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anonymous jury, whose racial makeup was not disclosed by the court, but appeared from media reports to be overwhelmingly white, deliberated for close to 3 1/2 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rittenhouse could have gotten life in prison if found guilty on the most serious charge, first-degree intentional homicide, or what some other states call first-degree murder. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sf-school-board-recall\">part of a series of interviews\u003c/a> KQED has conducted with all three San Francisco school board members facing recall elections in February.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to recall San Francisco Board of Education members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga is gaining momentum, with high-profile endorsements from state Sen. Scott Wiener and Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters will be asked whether to keep or oust the commissioners in three separate questions on a Feb. 15 special election ballot. If any are recalled, Breed would choose their replacements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall leaders have said they would recall all seven board members if they could, but the other four commissioners were elected last November, and therefore aren’t yet eligible based on city election rules. There have been at least 55 recall attempts of California school board members this year, according to the California School Boards Association.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Faauuga Moliga, SFUSD Board of Education vice president']‘I’m currently running the race to stop the recall of myself. I’m not running in tandem with Gabriela or Alison currently.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the board’s defenders are getting ready to fight back. The group NoSchoolBoardRecall has begun collecting donations, and Moliga, the board’s vice president, has launched his own campaign. The teachers union has so far not undertaken a formal campaign, and its leaders said they will stay focused on educating voters, for now, though on social media the recall’s proponents have accused the union of taking a more active role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED education reporter Vanessa Rancaño spoke with San Francisco Board of Education Vice President Faauuga Moliga about the recall effort against him and his colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview from Nov. 15, has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: Do you see a distinction between yourself, Gabriela Lopez and Alison Collins in terms of whether any of you should be recalled?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Faauuga Moliga:\u003c/strong> There is a recall effort to recall the school board, but, you know, realistically, the school board is not being recalled, three individuals are. Our legislation and the work that we’ve done are very different, in a sense. Like our interests, things they pursue, they’re just very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I constantly wanted schools to be open. I’ve constantly been working at addressing the budget deficit. And I can’t speak for what Gabriela or Alison have done or what their interests have been around those things. I’m currently running the race to stop the recall of myself. I’m not running in tandem with Gabriela or Alison currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed originally appointed you to the board. Now she’s endorsing this recall effort. How do you think about her role in this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I disagree with the mayor in terms of her reasoning to recall me, and I let her know that. Things that she’s mentioned about my work, I just strongly disagree with. I was hoping she was going to stay out of it.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Faauuga Moliga, SFUSD Board of Education vice president']‘I know things weren’t perfect, and if people felt unseen during that time, I personally would just like to say we could have done better.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What role do you think race plays in the recall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the first Pacific Islander to ever run for the school board, it’s critical. One of the reasons I ran is because Pacific Islanders were not doing well. And the reason why they were not doing well was because there’s a lot of systemic barriers that have really been a hindrance for the growth of Pacific Islanders in the city. So having a voice at the table and being able to advocate for things like the Fa’a Sāmoa Initiative, the Samoa Community Development (Center) learning hub, those things just don’t show up if you don’t have a seat at the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of being equitable and being able to serve all your constituents and families that live in the city, you have to have representation, especially for those groups that are marginalized the most. And so race, it really matters to public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the biggest criticisms from recall supporters is around the reopening of schools as well as feelings from parents of not being heard, the board not recognizing their suffering during the pandemic and their kids’ mental health issues. They point specifically to evidence of learning loss among the most marginalized students in the district. What do you say to them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that you didn’t hear a lot during the pandemic publicly was voices from the marginalized communities. So for me, going out there and meeting with families in projects, indigenous communities, Black communities, Latinx immigrant communities and trying to figure out what are their needs (was important) because they’re not the ones that are showing up at the school board meetings. They don’t have that kind of access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This thing around learning loss and the opportunity gap, they kind of go hand in hand. The same students that were facing challenges prior to the pandemic are the same students that were also impacted during the pandemic. Because these are the communities that are currently impacted. If we weren’t able to get resources to them as a city and county and a school district prior to (the pandemic) it is going to be really tough for us to do it now. And so, as a school district, we did our best, we did a lot of things: we opened up lunches every day, breakfast every day, fed the whole entire city of San Francisco. We provided technology for all the kids that didn’t have it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know things weren’t perfect, and if people felt unseen during that time, I personally would just like to say we could have done better. I apologize if that was how people felt during that time, and I’m committed to continue to work and to make sure that all our families are heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In the context of the budget crisis, I hear a lot of criticism about the board’s fiscal stewardship. How do you defend your track record?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that we’re coming out of the pandemic, we’re finally able to address it in a way that makes sense for not only the school district but also our partners, including our labor partners. When I first came on, I knew we were going into a budget deficit. Repeatedly I said we have to continue doing things that are going to cost-save. It’s not an easy issue that we’re working on right now, but I do feel confident that we’re going to be able to get a balanced budget and not have the school district be taken over.[aside postID='news_11893795,forum_2010101886188,news_11892743' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you see any validity in the anger that’s being expressed by some parents through this recall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do, and I understand. I’ve met with parents, sit down and talk with parents, especially the parents that have been feeling unheard. My hope is that we can work together now and in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have greater political ambitions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s never been my intention. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sf-school-board-recall\">a series of interviews\u003c/a> that KQED has conducted with all three San Francisco school board members facing recall elections in February.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to recall San Francisco Board of Education members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga is gaining momentum with high profile endorsements from state Sen. Scott Wiener and Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the board’s defenders are getting ready to fight back. The group NoSchoolBoardRecall has begun collecting donations, and Vice President Moliga has launched his own campaign. \u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/news/uesf-statement-on-board-of-education-recall/\">The union representing San Francisco teachers said it opposes the recall effort\u003c/a>, but for now will remain on the sidelines, with a focus on educating voters, according to its leadership. On social media the recall’s proponents have accused the union of taking a more active role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall leaders argue the board unnecessarily delayed reopening classrooms while prioritizing, and mismanaging, the renaming of schools and the admissions policy change at Lowell High School. But anger directed at Collins has been its own motivating force for some. Collins was stripped of her leadership position on the board over past Twitter comments resurfaced by recall proponent and Lowell alumna Diane Yap. In response, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">Collins sued the district for $87 million.\u003c/a> A judge dismissed the suit, and Collins dropped her effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED education reporter Vanessa Rancaño spoke with San Francisco Board of Education commissioner Alison Collins about that controversy and the broader recall effort.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alison Collins, San Francisco Board of Education commissioner\"]‘One of the things that I think makes me the most sad about this recall effort is that it takes needed energy away from meeting the needs of our most vulnerable communities who are still struggling with the impacts of the pandemic.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview from Nov. 15 has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: Do you draw a distinction between yourself and Gabriela Lopez and Faauuga Moliga in terms of whether you should be recalled? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alison Collins:\u003c/strong> No. We are all representing constituencies that have been underrepresented. We all come from community. We all value community voice. We may not always see eye to eye on how to get there. I think that is normal, healthy part of democracy, and I think it makes our board better that we do represent and reflect a variety of voices and constituencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m really proud of the work that we are doing because that expertise and direct experience inform the work that we’ve been doing, and it’s allowed us to really bridge some of these persistent gaps that have been named in the past, but that we haven’t been able to really address before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you going to campaign with them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think most of what we’ve been doing is doing the work. One of the things that I think makes me the most sad about this recall effort is that it takes needed energy away from meeting the needs of our most vulnerable communities who are still struggling with the impacts of the pandemic. I would much rather be talking to you about, how do we address sexual assault in our schools? How do we fully fund education in California? This is happening nationwide with an unprecedented amount of recalls across the country. It is a political tactic, and it’s unfortunate when politics gets in the way of us doing the work that we were elected to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How are you thinking about the mayor’s role in this recall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, education is always a political issue. Folks often want to use education as a talking point, you know, to engage with voters. Schools are always a very emotional issue. But we’re the ones that are most closely connected to the communities that we serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think four out of seven of us are credentialed educators. I always defer to the folks that are on the ground and are doing the work. And those are going to be the parents, parent leaders, students themselves and our educators that are in the schools. And those are the folks that we’re listening to.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alison Collins, San Francisco Board of Education commissioner\"]‘What happened to me was an information attack and the goal of it was to prevent me and President Lopez and others on our board from doing this racial equity work.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What role do you think race plays in this recall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just about race. But I do think that when you look at some of the criticism directed specifically at the three of us … having a president that’s Latina, a vice president that’s Black and both also being women as well. I do think there are different standards. I think where this really shows up is not in critiques of policies, but in critiques of people. They invariably feed into tropes of certain racial, cultural or gender groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For a lot of parents who are supporting this recall they are frustrated around the reopening of schools, feeling like the board wasn’t listening to them and ignoring concerns about learning loss and mental health issues. They argue, if this board is so worried about equity, why are they doing these “symbolic” things and not reopening, which would help the kids who are most likely to suffer learning loss during the pandemic. What would you want to say to them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We represent all parents and I’m a parent who wanted my teenagers to go back for sure, but there were also families that reached out to us that were worried. Our number one priority was opening schools safely, not opening schools at all costs. I’m proud of the work that our district has done and I think it reflects a wide range of perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This idea about learning loss — every year, the parent advisory council — the [American Indian/Alaskan Native Parent Advisory Council], the [Community Advisory Committee for Special Education for SFUSD], the English Learners Advisory Committee — present an official report to the Board of Education and there is one consistent thing that they say that their children need: they need to see that their community, history and culture is reflected in the curriculum. That motivates kids, so that has a direct impact on achievement. Anybody who’s saying they’re not focused on learning is actually just not aware or hasn’t been involved because that’s the work that we’re currently doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I want to ask you about the tweet controversy. Looking back, how do you judge the way you handled that situation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m very sorry that my words were used in a way that was hurtful to a community that was reeling. I’m very sad that my words were weaponized in that way. And they did cause people pain. During that time, I was listening to many folks and having really hard conversations with people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was about really just stirring up outrage. And I don’t think that’s productive for the Black community. I don’t think it’s productive for the Asian-American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My tweets, what I said, was not racist. My tweets addressed ongoing anti-Black racism at Lowell and throughout SFUSD. Anybody who’s done racial equity work, they understood what I was saying. At the same time, I did not think that having (that) conversation during a time when Asian-Americans were really grieving (was appropriate.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we’re going to talk about what I said, we should be looking at who surfaced what I said and what were their motivations in sharing old tweets about during a time when Asian Americans were going through a lot of fear and pain. If the impact of starting that conversation is more upset, that says a lot about what’s really behind that conversation. And I think this is a part of a larger pattern that we see behind recalls going on nationally.[aside postID='news_11893795,forum_2010101886188,news_11892743' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In terms of your lawsuit, why — in the context of the district’s financial situation, in the context of everything that you just expressed about the pain in Asian-American communities at that time — why was it important to you to sue?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I needed to protect my family, and I also needed to protect the work of the Board of Education and also protect students and families in our district and in our communities. What happened to me was an information attack and the goal of it was to prevent me and President Lopez and others on our board from doing this racial equity work. Specifically, it relates to Lowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If folks want to talk about lawsuits, there’s a lot of lawsuits flying around, right? And there’s a lot of people filing them, and a lot of those lawsuits are being lodged by folks who want to undermine progress for communities of color who are consistently fighting to make sure that their kids have access to high-quality schools and that their kids feel valued and visible in the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had the opportunity to continue my lawsuit and I chose not to continue it when school started because I wanted to focus on meeting the needs of families and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you regret filing it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I don’t, because it reaffirmed my presence on the board. 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And that hit super-personally and changed the way I totally perceived myself — the beauty of having both one foot in Latin culture and one foot in U.S. culture, and how that experience is so unique, but so common.’[/pullquote]But under the new law, not much will change at Berkeley High School, an early adopter of ethnic studies classes. Nearly 30 years ago, the school became one of the first in the country to require its ninth graders to take a semester-long class exploring the dynamics of race, discrimination, privilege and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby Sanchez, now a sophomore at Barnard College in New York, reflected on her experience taking the ethnic studies class when she was in ninth grade at Berkeley High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This class really attacks this fundamental ideology that a ton of Americans have, that America has done no wrong and does nothing but spread this idea of freedom and whatnot, and attacking that bias,” she told KQED. “I remember in ethnic studies, we talked a lot about identity formation. And that hit super-personally and changed the way I totally perceived myself — the beauty of having both one foot in Latin culture and one foot in U.S. culture, and how that experience is so unique, but so common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, Dana Moran, a Berkeley High alum, began teaching ethnic studies at the school, and went on to develop a more comprehensive curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reporter Alexander Gonzalez recently spoke with Moran about how ethnic studies curricula have changed over the years and the impact the new state mandate could have on millions of high school students across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Gonzalez: How did you get involved in this work?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, I’ve been teaching for a really long time. I started my teaching career in Los Angeles, actually in LA Unified. And when I was teaching there (and also working as a “diversity trainer”), Berkeley High started its ethnic studies requirement and I got recruited by the principal at the time to come … specifically to teach the course. I’m a graduate of Berkeley High, so it was intriguing, and I came back and started teaching ethnic studies in 1993 — and I’ve been doing it ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another sort of funny thing about that is [Berkeley High at the time] was having some difficulties and they hired me as — you’re not going to believe this — my actual job title was “racial harmony coordinator.” I wanted to make a plaque and put it on the door — it was just so funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was given one period a day to create racial harmony at Berkeley High, which I didn’t do. 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And that meant about three weeks per group.[aside postID='news_11870309,news_11891396,news_11865712' label='Related Posts']The longer we did it, the more unworkable it seemed, and sort of disingenuous and maybe even disrespectful. It just felt like checking boxes in a way that didn’t feel very authentic. And so now I think we try to frame our ethnic studies classes. We’re very different from some of the other ways that people talk about ethnic studies. I know, for example, in Tucson [in Arizona] and in San Francisco Unified, it’s very based in and grounded in certain groups’ experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ours is a lot more, I would say, like an intro ethnic studies class at the college level, where we’re introducing a lot more conceptual stuff. We just finished our culture unit and we were talking about cultural appropriation versus cultural appreciation and cultural assimilation. And then we sort of talk to kids about race as a social construct, and power and privilege and how people get that and how people are denied that. [We talk about] resistance movements, ways that people have in the past resisted systemic racism or attempted to dismantle it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We use current events or historical events as case studies, but we don’t try to say, ‘Oh, we’re going to teach you everything you need to know about African Americans in this one-semester class.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Has your class recently focused more on the issue of systemic racism, especially since the national uprisings and racial reckoning sparked by George Floyd’s murder last year?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sort of feel like we’ve been doing it forever at Berkeley High anyway. I’ve been teaching “The New Jim Crow” forever. We’ll talk about voter suppression, we’ll talk about mass incarceration, and because here in California there’s been so much anti-Asian and anti-Latino history, we’ll talk about that, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they understand that racism is not just a Black and white thing, that there are all these other people who have dealt with very, very similar things. And that [with] the systems that are in place, racism isn’t just like name-calling and people being mean to each other, and if you’re just nicer to each other, then everything will be fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s easier for us to connect, certainly to current events. But I feel like it’s a framing that we’ve had for a really long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It sounds like you’re an educational specialist in uncomfortable conversations. Would that be a fair way to put it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dana Moran, Berkeley High ethnic studies teacher\"]‘What we really want to do is get them all involved in these conversations about how none of us made these systems, but all of us are inheriting these systems. … So how and why were these systems set up and what can we do about them moving forward?’[/pullquote]Yes, very much so. We try to make it so that it is safe for kids to have these conversations. We’re not trying to make all the white kids feel bad for slavery or other things that just are so unproductive and don’t get anybody anywhere. And we’re also not trying to stir up rage among other communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what we really want to do is get them all involved in these conversations about how none of us made these systems, but all of us are inheriting these systems. So what is it that we think any of us can do about it? 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Black students are \u003ca href=\"http://blog.csba.org/ap-inequities/\">more likely to be placed in classes that don’t adequately prepare them\u003c/a> for college or a career, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/10/black-students-harsh-discipline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subject them to harsher discipline\u003c/a> and fail to address any mental health needs, research shows.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lisa Andrews, California College Guidance Initiative\"]‘It often takes Black counselors to be on the front lines, aggressively advocating for Black students, pushing the needle forward for them, ensuring they have access to rigorous classes.’[/pullquote]“There’s a subconscious mindset that Black students, students in poverty, cannot learn,” said Lisa Andrews, a director at the California College Guidance Initiative and a counseling professor at the University of La Verne, near Pomona. “To change that, school counseling needs to be transformational and revolutionary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School counselors help students choose classes, provide academic guidance, advise students on college applications and career options and offer mental health support. While counselors of any race or background can offer high-quality advising to any student, Black counselors might be more inclined to take extra time, show a little more patience and establish trust with Black students and their families, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Personal experience\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Andrews points to an experience she had while working as a high school counselor. One day she met a group of young Black girls outside her office who lagged academically and were not focused on four-year college goals. She brought them in and explained they needed to focus more on academics if they wanted to go to college, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, they didn’t respond because I sounded like just another authority figure. But then I told them, ‘Listen, I was born in Compton. I have struggled,’” Andrews said. “That changed everything. They knew that I understood, and we could start building a trusting relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She met with the girls weekly to check in on their progress. By the time they became seniors, all 17 had passed the classes needed to attend California’s public universities, Andrews said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It often takes Black counselors to be on the front lines, aggressively advocating for Black students, pushing the needle forward for them, ensuring they have access to rigorous classes,” she said. “If you set the expectations high, the students will respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no data on the racial or ethnic makeup of California’s nearly 10,000 K-12 school counselors. Classroom teachers throughout the state, however, are overwhelmingly white. In the 2018-19 school year, more than 60% of California’s public school teachers were white, even though just 22% of students were white, according to an analysis by \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edtrust.org/educator-diversity/#CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EdTrust West\u003c/a>, a nonprofit education equity organization. Meanwhile, fewer than 4% of teachers — and 5.4% of students — that year were Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2020 \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/edtrustmain/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/08183916/Inequities-in-Advanced-Coursework-Whats-Driving-Them-and-What-Leaders-Can-Do-January-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EdTrust study\u003c/a> showed that Black students are less likely to be placed in advanced math in middle school or in Advanced Placement classes in high school, and many attend schools where AP classes are not offered at all. \u003ca href=\"https://kappanonline.org/meeting-mental-health-needs-black-students-cokley-cody-smith/\">Numerous academic studies have shown that Black students are less likely to attend schools with adequate counseling\u003c/a> staff or access to mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"m_4958875047977244530normaltextrun\">“Representation matters. Whether it’s guidance counselors, teachers, mental health providers or leaders, having a workforce that reflects the racial and ethnic diversity of California directly impacts students’ experiences in school — and their educational outcomes,” said Natalie Wheatfall-Lum, EdTrust West’s director of education policy. “Moreover, counselors can either be the gatekeepers or the connectors to college. We need counselors who believe all students can go to college and challenge the biases they may have about who is and isn’t ‘college-bound.’ Unfortunately, too few California students have access to education professionals who look like them and understand their lived experiences.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recruitment challenges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>School districts and counselor preparation programs can take steps to diversify the field through mentorship, training and retention programs, said Loretta Whitson, executive director of the California Association of School Counselors. Graduate schools can host job fairs and make other outreach efforts to recruit Black students to the counseling field, she added, and ensure they get the support they need to graduate and find jobs.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"education\"]The Los Angeles Unified School District has taken a lead in efforts to hire Black counselors. In February, the district allotted $80 million to fund a Black Student Achievement Plan, which includes several initiatives aimed at improving test scores, attendance and graduation rates at about 100 schools where many Black students are enrolled. So far, as part of the plan, the district has hired about 60 new counselors, many of whom are Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not an easy task, said Jared DuPree, a senior director at the district. For one, the district does not ask job candidates their race or ethnicity, and among the candidates interviewed, only a small percentage are Black, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re fooling ourselves if we think we can reserve these spots just for Black counselors,” DuPree said. “But you don’t have to be Black to support Black students. Counselors of any race can be effective at this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, a counselor’s race can be an important factor in establishing trust, at least in the beginning, he noted. And Black students, he said, might be more likely to ask for help from counselors whose culture, experiences and outlook resemble their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s right or wrong, Black families sometimes feel more comfortable with people who look like them,” he said. “It reduces anxiety. They feel, ‘This person can identify with my lived experiences, to the things I value.’ It’s a source of comfort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘It’s about relatability’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lyndsey Taylor, a student adviser at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, who’s studying to be a high school counselor, said that being Black helps when she’s counseling Black students, but it’s certainly not the only factor that leads to a successful counseling relationship. Patience is key, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because you’re the same race, it’s not going to be instant. You still have to build trust,” Taylor said. “It’s about relatability, being able to see yourself in the person who’s advising you. ‘Here’s someone who looks like me, and authentically wants me to succeed.’ It takes time for students of color to build that trust, break that barrier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavernis Martin, a high school counselor at a group of Southern California charter schools, said that his experience as a student inspired him to pursue counseling as a career. While he grew up in a middle-class, predominantly white suburb of Los Angeles, his cousins lived in a mostly Black neighborhood in the city, he said, and throughout his childhood witnessed the differences in their educational experiences.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lavernis Martin, high school counselor\"]‘As a counselor, I tell my Black students, you are better than what your environment suggests. You are just as capable as your peers. 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Some counties, including Santa Clara, have already started accepting appointments for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to give a lot of parents peace of mind,” said Dr. Norma Perez, a pediatrician and medical director of AltaMed Health Services in Los Angeles. “We’re 20 months into this pandemic, and this is a really important step to get us back to a state of normalcy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinating children will be a crucial step toward achieving herd immunity, where virus transmission tapers off because so many people have been exposed through vaccination or by becoming infected, Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government plans to give California 1.2 million doses of the children’s vaccine, enough to vaccinate all 5- to 11-year-olds in the next few weeks, health authorities said. Vaccines will be available at more than 4,000 clinics and schools across California, and the state is launching a public information campaign to encourage children and their parents to get vaccinated.[aside postID=news_11894138,news_11893985,news_11894903 label='Related Posts']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vaccines are how we end this pandemic, and the ability to vaccinate more children who have remained vulnerable to Covid-19 strengthens our fight against this deadly virus. Californians ages 5-11 can now get the same robust protection that has helped save countless lives,” California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly and director of the California Department of Public Health and State Public Health Officer Dr. Tomás J. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>3 members of the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education will be facing a recall vote in February. The special election encompasses a whole host of polarizing issues in the district: in-person learning, the admissions policy at Lowell High School, the effort to rename schools, a series of 2016 tweets by Commissioner Alison Collins, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout these crises, student voices have often remained on the periphery. So today, we’re revisiting an episode from April where we hear SFUSD students sharing their views — and how they feel about the debate happening around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guest: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HollyMcDede\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Holly J. McDede\u003c/a>, KQED reporter and producer\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode originally aired on April 19, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Reading:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘It’s a Question of Competence’: San Francisco to Hold Recall Election of 3 School Board Members\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893795/all-political-sf-board-of-education-president-gabriela-lopez-on-the-recall-effort-against-her-2-other-board-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘All Political’: SF Board of Education President Gabriela López on the Recall Effort Against Her, 2 Other Board Members\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894065/sf-school-board-recall-funded-mostly-by-local-donors-with-venture-capitalists-topping-the-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF School Board Recall Funded Mostly by Local Donors, With Venture Capitalists Topping the List\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s school board has spent the past year in the national spotlight, garnering the attention of pundits from Fox News to the New York Times editorial pages for its controversial decisions on distance learning, school renamings and admissions policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\">The campaign to recall board members\u003c/a> Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga, however, has relied on a donor network close to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED analysis of campaign filings for the election, slated for Feb. 15, found that at least 76% of the pro-recall cash raised so far is coming from donors in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the recall, who haven’t started fundraising, will likely seek to portray the campaign as spearheaded by forces outside of the city — as has been the case in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049078199/a-look-at-the-groups-supporting-school-board-protesters-nationwide\">a number of other recent school board protests across the country \u003c/a>— said Jason McDaniel, associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University, who reviewed KQED’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I suspect they'll still do that message, but I do think that so far the fact that most of the donations ... are coming from people in San Francisco who are individuals will at least be a counterargument to that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Local networks'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the campaign finance reports filed with the city do reveal some potential political vulnerabilities for the recall campaign: Its top donors are wealthy venture capitalists who could serve as prime foils for the unions likely to bankroll the imperiled board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the recall campaign, at least initially, appears to be more of an “amateur affair” than an orchestrated big money takeover of San Francisco schools, McDaniel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't mean that in an insulting way. There's not maybe a ton of political experience there,” he added. “But what that seems to be is that they're turning to their local networks. ... That's where they're getting their contributions from so far. I suspect that's pretty politically smart as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the $581,240 raised by the recall committee through the end of September, at least $442,834 (76%) came from donors in the city, compared to at least $76,435 (13%) from outside of San Francisco. The remaining 11% of contributions were under $100 — classified as unitemized — meaning the donors did not have to disclose their names or location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11905144\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1531\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png 1531w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-800x549.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-1020x700.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-160x110.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1531px) 100vw, 1531px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nBy comparison, some 63% of the donations made to candidates running for school board last year originated in San Francisco, and local measures on the ballot last November got 60% of their cash from city donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of donors actually are just from our community,” said Siva Raj, a San Francisco public school parent who is co-chair of the recall campaign. “These are parents, teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Hack, who spent 31 years working for the San Francisco Unified School District as a teacher, principal and department supervisor, said he kicked in $75 and volunteered to gather signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've never seen a board like this one,” he said, “and I've been through, over my years in the district, many school board meetings.”[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"san-francisco-school-board\"]Hack said the controversy surrounding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">school board Commissioner Alison Collins’s tweets\u003c/a>, which included derogatory comments about Asian people, moved him to action, but he has plenty of other gripes. And while he fundamentally backed the board’s controversial effort to rename schools and overhaul the admissions policy to increase diversity at Lowell High School, he questioned the timing and handling of both initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not typically ever support recalls, but this is different,” Hack said. “There needs to be a lesson here about their ongoing behavior and refusal to listen to the stakeholders in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some instances, national press coverage of the school board's recent controversies is helping to bring in money from across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Dalzell of Dover, New Hampshire, has no personal ties to the district. He said he chipped in $500 after reading about the issue this summer in The Wall Street Journal. For him, it’s ideological.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years Dalzell chaired the board of a Los Angeles charter school and said he grew frustrated with the district's school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've always been interested in trying to get more advantages for kids in low-income areas,” he said, “and so I view San Francisco as representative of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Venture capitalists top donor list\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some of the recall’s biggest donors also have a history of involvement with education policy and politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top two donors, Arthur Rock and David Sacks, have each put in $49,500. Rock, a self-employed venture capitalist with a record of funding education-related causes, has contributed to organizations with ties to charter schools, including political advocacy arms of the California Charter Schools Association, and the EdVoice for the Kids political action committee. Sacks, a fellow venture capitalist who runs Craft Ventures, contributed $180,000 to the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom and recently hosted a fundraiser in San Francisco for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the top 10 contributors so far to the SF school board recall campaign — all of whom have given at least $10,000 — six identified as partners or investors at venture capital firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1.png\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1.png\" alt=\"A horizontal bar chart showing top 10 donors to SF school board recall.\" width=\"1540\" height=\"915\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11905147\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1.png 1540w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-800x475.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-1020x606.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-160x95.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-1536x913.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1540px) 100vw, 1540px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nIn his campaign against the gubernatorial recall earlier this year, Newsom frequently invoked the donors of the campaign to oust him (including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and the Republican National Committee) as he attempted to tar the effort as out of step with the majority of California voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the three school board members facing removal could point to the recall’s top donors as symbols of the city’s financial elite attempting to strong-arm a local election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it tells me is that so many of the people who live in San Francisco who are wealthy happen to come from that world,” McDaniel said. “I do think that's a potential vulnerability in terms of a political message. But right now, it does not feel like a very credible one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But venture capitalists aren’t the only big spenders. The Chinese American Democratic Club of San Francisco kicked in $10,000. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcadc.org/letter_to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CADC opposed the change to the Lowell admissions policy\u003c/a>, but CADC Education Committee Chair Seeyew Mo says the group's decision to donate was solely prompted by Collins's tweets.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about a policy disagreement in terms of Commissioner Alison Collins. This is about rooting out anti-Asian sentiment and ideology from public education,” Mo said, pointing out that many CADC members volunteered to collect signatures to recall Collins. “A lot of the grassroots movement that you heard about, a lot of them are Chinese Americans who have not been politically active until this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CADC will announce its position on the recall of Lopez and Moliga after holding a membership vote, Mo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group called San Francisco Common Sense Voter Guide, a committee supporting the recall of SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin, contributed $9,000 to the school board recall. That committee receives much of its funding from another political group called Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, which is funded by a handful of wealthy San Francisco investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dropping self-imposed donation limits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Initially, the recall campaign placed a $99.99 cap on donations, even though there’s no legal limit on fundraising for this type of campaign. It was an attempt, leaders said, to prevent any donor from having an outsize voice in the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there were practical reasons, too: Contributions under $100 don’t require record-keeping, which campaign leaders expected they’d have to do themselves and “didn’t want to screw it up,” said campaign co-chair Autumn Looijen, a San Francisco resident whose children live in Los Altos.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Larry Tramutola, political consultant\"]'This is far from a done deal. It's a lot easier collecting signatures for a recall than to recall someone. So I expect a battle royal.'[/pullquote]The self-imposed limit was later increased significantly, to $49,500, to fund paid signature gatherers. State law requires donations of $50,000 or more to be printed on the paper petitions, which Looijen said would leave less space for signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the campaign raised $61,971 in small-dollar donations (under $100). The balance between smaller and larger donations indicates strong grassroots support, said political consultant Larry Tramutola, though he added that larger donations are vital for building a campaign’s infrastructure and legitimacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bigger contributions help you to get smaller contributions,” he added. “No one, even if they don't like the school board, is going to give $100 dollars, $200, if they feel it's a losing effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the recall campaign eschewed its cap on larger contributions, the stream of donations under $100, typically a good barometer for grassroots engagement, has tailed off. The campaign reported raising $49,934 in unitemized donations through May 31, and just $12,038 since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The other side\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the campaign in support of Collins, Lopez and Moliga is just beginning to emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall opponents launched their own effort last week, calling themselves NoSchoolBoardRecall, a self-described “group of parents, educators, and concerned SF residents who care about the needs of our public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s teachers union, United Educators of San Francisco, is not involved in that campaign, though it is opposed to the recall, said its president, Cassondra Curiel. Instead, union leaders have said they are currently focused on member and community education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to educate the community around why this recall is a waste of resources that should be spent on schools and is the first step on a path toward an ill-advised mayoral controlled school district,” Curiel said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel sees it as linked to the wave of recalls across the country — \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/School_board_recalls\">Ballotpedia has tracked 84 school board recall efforts\u003c/a> so far this year, the highest tally on record. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco’s school board has spent the past year in the national spotlight, garnering the attention of pundits from Fox News to the New York Times editorial pages for its controversial decisions on distance learning, school renamings and admissions policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\">The campaign to recall board members\u003c/a> Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga, however, has relied on a donor network close to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED analysis of campaign filings for the election, slated for Feb. 15, found that at least 76% of the pro-recall cash raised so far is coming from donors in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the recall, who haven’t started fundraising, will likely seek to portray the campaign as spearheaded by forces outside of the city — as has been the case in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049078199/a-look-at-the-groups-supporting-school-board-protesters-nationwide\">a number of other recent school board protests across the country \u003c/a>— said Jason McDaniel, associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University, who reviewed KQED’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I suspect they'll still do that message, but I do think that so far the fact that most of the donations ... are coming from people in San Francisco who are individuals will at least be a counterargument to that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Local networks'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the campaign finance reports filed with the city do reveal some potential political vulnerabilities for the recall campaign: Its top donors are wealthy venture capitalists who could serve as prime foils for the unions likely to bankroll the imperiled board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the recall campaign, at least initially, appears to be more of an “amateur affair” than an orchestrated big money takeover of San Francisco schools, McDaniel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't mean that in an insulting way. There's not maybe a ton of political experience there,” he added. “But what that seems to be is that they're turning to their local networks. ... That's where they're getting their contributions from so far. I suspect that's pretty politically smart as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the $581,240 raised by the recall committee through the end of September, at least $442,834 (76%) came from donors in the city, compared to at least $76,435 (13%) from outside of San Francisco. The remaining 11% of contributions were under $100 — classified as unitemized — meaning the donors did not have to disclose their names or location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11905144\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1531\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png 1531w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-800x549.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-1020x700.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-160x110.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1531px) 100vw, 1531px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nBy comparison, some 63% of the donations made to candidates running for school board last year originated in San Francisco, and local measures on the ballot last November got 60% of their cash from city donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of donors actually are just from our community,” said Siva Raj, a San Francisco public school parent who is co-chair of the recall campaign. “These are parents, teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Hack, who spent 31 years working for the San Francisco Unified School District as a teacher, principal and department supervisor, said he kicked in $75 and volunteered to gather signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've never seen a board like this one,” he said, “and I've been through, over my years in the district, many school board meetings.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about a policy disagreement in terms of Commissioner Alison Collins. This is about rooting out anti-Asian sentiment and ideology from public education,” Mo said, pointing out that many CADC members volunteered to collect signatures to recall Collins. “A lot of the grassroots movement that you heard about, a lot of them are Chinese Americans who have not been politically active until this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CADC will announce its position on the recall of Lopez and Moliga after holding a membership vote, Mo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group called San Francisco Common Sense Voter Guide, a committee supporting the recall of SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin, contributed $9,000 to the school board recall. That committee receives much of its funding from another political group called Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, which is funded by a handful of wealthy San Francisco investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dropping self-imposed donation limits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Initially, the recall campaign placed a $99.99 cap on donations, even though there’s no legal limit on fundraising for this type of campaign. It was an attempt, leaders said, to prevent any donor from having an outsize voice in the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there were practical reasons, too: Contributions under $100 don’t require record-keeping, which campaign leaders expected they’d have to do themselves and “didn’t want to screw it up,” said campaign co-chair Autumn Looijen, a San Francisco resident whose children live in Los Altos.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The self-imposed limit was later increased significantly, to $49,500, to fund paid signature gatherers. State law requires donations of $50,000 or more to be printed on the paper petitions, which Looijen said would leave less space for signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the campaign raised $61,971 in small-dollar donations (under $100). The balance between smaller and larger donations indicates strong grassroots support, said political consultant Larry Tramutola, though he added that larger donations are vital for building a campaign’s infrastructure and legitimacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bigger contributions help you to get smaller contributions,” he added. “No one, even if they don't like the school board, is going to give $100 dollars, $200, if they feel it's a losing effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the recall campaign eschewed its cap on larger contributions, the stream of donations under $100, typically a good barometer for grassroots engagement, has tailed off. The campaign reported raising $49,934 in unitemized donations through May 31, and just $12,038 since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The other side\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the campaign in support of Collins, Lopez and Moliga is just beginning to emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall opponents launched their own effort last week, calling themselves NoSchoolBoardRecall, a self-described “group of parents, educators, and concerned SF residents who care about the needs of our public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s teachers union, United Educators of San Francisco, is not involved in that campaign, though it is opposed to the recall, said its president, Cassondra Curiel. Instead, union leaders have said they are currently focused on member and community education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to educate the community around why this recall is a waste of resources that should be spent on schools and is the first step on a path toward an ill-advised mayoral controlled school district,” Curiel said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel sees it as linked to the wave of recalls across the country — \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/School_board_recalls\">Ballotpedia has tracked 84 school board recall efforts\u003c/a> so far this year, the highest tally on record. Meanwhile, the California School Boards Association counts roughly 60 efforts in the state alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a political campaign committee called “Stop the Recall of Faauuga Moliga” filed with the city, an indication that the embattled board members may end up raising money separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Tramutola said, unions will provide the big money against the recall. And he said the local teachers union will likely flex its influence with the city’s Democratic clubs, which hold major sway with voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the recall on the ballot, he said, the real fundraising will begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is far from a done deal. It's a lot easier collecting signatures for a recall than to recall someone,” he said. “So I expect a battle royal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Universal preschool is coming to California in 2025, a major victory, years in the making for early childhood education advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the biggest thing we’ve ever done in California for our youngest learners,” said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Sacramento Democrat who led the push for universal preschool in California during the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty is the architect of the $2.7 billion initiative, which was authorized as part of an education funding bill signed into law in July. The program, called universal transitional kindergarten, will be gradually phased in over the next five years on public school campuses, expanding existing TK classrooms until it covers all 4-year-olds in the state. By the 2025-26 school year, at full implementation, the program is expected to benefit 300,000 children, according to McCarty’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a game changer,” McCarty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Makinya Ward is not celebrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a new mother, the San Leandro resident struggled to find quality preschool for her children. She wanted them to grow and develop through play, and also be nurtured by caring teachers. When she couldn’t find a suitable child care center, Ward started her own in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893799 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a mask kneels beside a young student dribbling something amber-colored onto a cookie sheet.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bri Davis helps a student with a science experiment at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twelve years later, Ward runs five centers, serving 165 children from infants to 5-year-olds in Alameda and San Mateo counties. But the state’s newly minted plan could undo all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While advocates celebrate the addition of this new grade level to the public school system, many of those who currently provide much of California’s early childhood education options, often women of color like Ward, are worried they will be nudged out of the equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fear of losing students\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Early childhood education in California has long been a hard-to-navigate patchwork of government-run preschools, private and nonprofit centers, and family child care sites that are run out of providers’ homes. The state pays for the children from the lowest-income homes, and quality varies widely. The state’s new universal TK program is designed to streamline options, improve quality and reach more children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, in an ironic twist, Ward and other preschool directors fear the universal program could result in less care for infants and toddlers, as private centers might not be able to survive financially if they lose their 4-year-olds to the free school-based program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward worries she will lose up to a third of her little students — many if not all of her 4-year-olds — causing a significant loss of income that could leave her unable to continue paying the rest of her teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business model for preschools is unique, affected by laws that mandate a higher ratio of teachers needed for the youngest children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, child care centers are required by law to have one adult present for every four kids under age 2, while the ratio for 4-year-olds is one adult for every 12 kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You take a loss on infants and toddlers and you make a marginal gain on 4- and 5-year-olds,” said Dave Esbin, executive director of California Quality Early Learning, or CQEL, a nonprofit that supports community-based child care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing tuition from older children will cut into the small padding preschools have to help cover the more expensive care of children under 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893802 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a pink short-sleeved sweater and masks holds up a baby with a pacifier in its mouth.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A teacher takes care of an infant at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It will be difficult for us if we are no longer able to serve 4-year-olds, because we depend on those tuitions in order to pay for the expense of the younger children,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, there were about 290,000 4-year-olds in early childhood education programs, according to American Community Survey data analyzed by the Population Reference Bureau for this story. As many as 200,000 of those 4-year-olds could potentially leave private day care centers for free public school TK come 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“TK extracts the one age group that [private] providers depend upon for stability, so many providers will close forever in the coming years,” Esbin said. “Those that don’t close will need to raise infant and toddler tuition to survive, which will be completely unaffordable for even more families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, parents might win by having free preschool for their 4-year-olds, but that could potentially come at the cost of losing care for their younger children.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Seeking a middle ground\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It didn’t have to be this way, Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like those of us who provide the care were not invited to the table to talk about some ways that we could work collaboratively so that we would minimize the impact and effects on families,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The civil rights group Advancement Project California was at the table during negotiations with lawmakers, pushing for an equitable universal TK plan that would prioritize the state’s many children of color who typically have not had equal access to early childhood education. Khydeeja Alam, the group’s senior policy and advocacy director, acknowledges that many preschools and family child care centers run by women of color will suffer if they are not meaningfully included in the state’s plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those were some of the toughest conversations we had with the Legislature,” Alam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, the state’s new transitional kindergarten offerings will be available at existing public schools. Ward supports a model where centers like hers could also provide the preschool programming that the state pays for, similar to what exists in New York City, in what’s known as a “mixed delivery system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893800\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893800 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An overhead view of a child's head and arm, and a teacher's hands and arms, working together to color in an outline of a farmer.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A teacher works with students on a coloring project at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there are challenges with this model, too. When universal preschool was opened to both public and private providers in New York City in 2014, \u003ca href=\"https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-05-10-the-unintended-consequences-of-universal-preschool\">many private providers shifted to serving more 4-year-olds to benefit from the stable income it provided, while cutting back on more costly infant and toddler care\u003c/a>. The result was a deficit in child care available for children under 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has to be a middle ground, Alam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t see school districts taking on the whole responsibility of UTK on their own,” she said. “We don’t have enough facilities. We don’t have enough teachers. So this is really an opportunity for private providers and school districts to work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esbin, of CQEL, suggests that private providers be allowed to continue serving 4-year-olds, possibly as contractors hired by the local school districts receiving the new state funds. “Other states have implemented mixed-delivery systems and included the entire child care community to take part, and that’s what you have to do to create a healthy child care system to serve all communities,” Esbin said, \u003ca href=\"https://earlychildhood.marylandpublicschools.org/PDG\">pointing to Maryland as one example[aside postID=news_11892267,news_11892891 label='Related Posts']\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Assemblymember McCarty is opposed to the idea. “We don’t contract out eighth grade and fifth grade and third grade, so I don’t know how we’re going to contract out a grade,” McCarty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty also doesn’t believe family child care centers and other private facilities will be forced to close when universal TK is fully implemented in 2025. “There are plenty of 3-year-olds that are going to need service,” he said. “So we’re telling these programs, ‘Hey, you can serve 3-year-olds.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Importance of play\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ward also worries that public schools can’t fully meet the developmental needs of 4-year-olds, something her programs do through experiential learning and play-based curriculum. Her teachers use cooking activities, water play and tricycles to foster early literacy and numerical concepts. For instance, when making pancakes, preschoolers measure ingredients and learn about simple fractions, and with water play, they use different size containers to begin to understand volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, she says, TK looks a lot more like school where “play” is highly structured: For example, using play dough to form numbers or letters, versus free play, which many experts say helps foster learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents like more structure and academics for their preschooler, and some might want a truly play-based model, says Los Angeles preschool director Jennifer Carter. And it’s this ability to choose that parents will lose if free preschool is only available in a TK classroom on an elementary school campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893801 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman and three kids, all wearing masks and the kids in smocks, sit at a round table painting the same jack-o'-lantern in the middle. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Roz Tavares helps students paint a pumpkin at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Four-year-olds should not be sitting at a desk doing worksheets,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also concerns about the well-being of Black children who will be attending preschool as part of the public school system, said Keisha Nzewi, director of public policy at the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern is starting the school-to-prison pipeline even earlier because behaviors that are age-appropriate are not going to be tolerated,” she said. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/11/26/new-federal-data-shows-black-preschoolers-still-disciplined-far-higher-rates-than-whites/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/11/26/new-federal-data-shows-black-preschoolers-still-disciplined-far-higher-rates-than-whites/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-14974\">Black preschoolers are already disciplined and expelled at far higher rates than their white peers\u003c/a>, yet if that now happens earlier, it will follow them for longer throughout their educational careers, Nzewi said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\" Khydeeja Alam, senior policy and advocacy director of Advancement Project California\"]‘I just don’t see school districts taking on the whole responsibility of UTK on their own. We don’t have enough facilities. We don’t have enough teachers.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also logistical challenges. The transition to universal TK, which will be a much shorter day than what is now provided by most private programs, could create challenges for working parents, many of whom will be left scrambling to find new before- and after-care options for their children. Practitioners like Carter doubt they’ll be able to hire and pay enough teachers to work only in the early mornings and late afternoons, and argue that transporting kids back and forth will be a mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an expectation that private centers will transport kids to and from school. The logistics alone are ridiculous,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oversight concerns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Michael Olenick, president and CEO of the Child Care Resource Center in Los Angeles, worries that elementary school campuses do not have the infrastructure to cater to the specific needs of preschool-age children, citing bathrooms as an example. Preschools often have very specific toilets, with half doors and special seats, and they are usually inside the preschool classroom, instead of down the hall or elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four-year-olds, when they need to go, they need to go,” Olenick said. “Does that mean that you’re going to walk 10 or 20 kids all together to the bathroom?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893806 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a mask leans over a low wooden table where a group of masked children are opening tubs of markers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A teacher works with students on an art project at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olenick said he’s encouraged that the state’s new program will mandate a 10:1 student-to-teacher ratio in all public TK classes by 2025. The program will also require the curriculum to be developmentally appropriate and require TK teachers to have at least 24 units of child development study, all of which he says are important “guard rails” for quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]But Olenick worries about school districts complying with these mandates. “Whether anybody will check on that, I don’t know,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in rural areas, focusing just on 4-year-olds will be hard, Olenick adds. Many school districts are so small they already combine TK students with kindergarteners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty is well aware of these concerns. After years of fighting for universal preschool for California, he wants it to work, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some classrooms may not have a bathroom, they may not have little sinks for little kids, so we put several hundred million dollars in this year’s budget [and] we’ll probably do that again next year and the following year to help districts build more [TK] classrooms,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pouring more money into public schools won’t solve all those problems, argues Jennifer Carter, the LA preschool director. She worries that as private centers downsize because of the new state program, the early childhood education workforce will be decimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893803 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A motley, not-quite-straight, line of little kids stands in a bright hallway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bri Davis leads a classroom of children to the gym at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of Black and Brown women are going to be out of work,” Carter said. “I am really worried that the state of early childhood education is going to be catastrophically miserable in about five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khydeeja Alam of Advancement Project California hears the frustrations of providers like Carter and Ward, both Black women who have overcome many obstacles to keep their preschool doors open. She believes there is still time to include the private sector in more meaningful ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s an opportunity for growth, it’s an opportunity for creativity, and it’s an opportunity for partnerships,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is an early childhood reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College, which is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Universal preschool is coming to California in 2025, a major victory, years in the making for early childhood education advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the biggest thing we’ve ever done in California for our youngest learners,” said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Sacramento Democrat who led the push for universal preschool in California during the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty is the architect of the $2.7 billion initiative, which was authorized as part of an education funding bill signed into law in July. The program, called universal transitional kindergarten, will be gradually phased in over the next five years on public school campuses, expanding existing TK classrooms until it covers all 4-year-olds in the state. By the 2025-26 school year, at full implementation, the program is expected to benefit 300,000 children, according to McCarty’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a game changer,” McCarty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Makinya Ward is not celebrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a new mother, the San Leandro resident struggled to find quality preschool for her children. She wanted them to grow and develop through play, and also be nurtured by caring teachers. When she couldn’t find a suitable child care center, Ward started her own in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893799 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a mask kneels beside a young student dribbling something amber-colored onto a cookie sheet.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52121_003_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bri Davis helps a student with a science experiment at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twelve years later, Ward runs five centers, serving 165 children from infants to 5-year-olds in Alameda and San Mateo counties. But the state’s newly minted plan could undo all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While advocates celebrate the addition of this new grade level to the public school system, many of those who currently provide much of California’s early childhood education options, often women of color like Ward, are worried they will be nudged out of the equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fear of losing students\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Early childhood education in California has long been a hard-to-navigate patchwork of government-run preschools, private and nonprofit centers, and family child care sites that are run out of providers’ homes. The state pays for the children from the lowest-income homes, and quality varies widely. The state’s new universal TK program is designed to streamline options, improve quality and reach more children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, in an ironic twist, Ward and other preschool directors fear the universal program could result in less care for infants and toddlers, as private centers might not be able to survive financially if they lose their 4-year-olds to the free school-based program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward worries she will lose up to a third of her little students — many if not all of her 4-year-olds — causing a significant loss of income that could leave her unable to continue paying the rest of her teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business model for preschools is unique, affected by laws that mandate a higher ratio of teachers needed for the youngest children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, child care centers are required by law to have one adult present for every four kids under age 2, while the ratio for 4-year-olds is one adult for every 12 kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You take a loss on infants and toddlers and you make a marginal gain on 4- and 5-year-olds,” said Dave Esbin, executive director of California Quality Early Learning, or CQEL, a nonprofit that supports community-based child care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing tuition from older children will cut into the small padding preschools have to help cover the more expensive care of children under 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893802 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a pink short-sleeved sweater and masks holds up a baby with a pacifier in its mouth.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52126_008_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A teacher takes care of an infant at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It will be difficult for us if we are no longer able to serve 4-year-olds, because we depend on those tuitions in order to pay for the expense of the younger children,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, there were about 290,000 4-year-olds in early childhood education programs, according to American Community Survey data analyzed by the Population Reference Bureau for this story. As many as 200,000 of those 4-year-olds could potentially leave private day care centers for free public school TK come 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“TK extracts the one age group that [private] providers depend upon for stability, so many providers will close forever in the coming years,” Esbin said. “Those that don’t close will need to raise infant and toddler tuition to survive, which will be completely unaffordable for even more families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, parents might win by having free preschool for their 4-year-olds, but that could potentially come at the cost of losing care for their younger children.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Seeking a middle ground\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It didn’t have to be this way, Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like those of us who provide the care were not invited to the table to talk about some ways that we could work collaboratively so that we would minimize the impact and effects on families,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The civil rights group Advancement Project California was at the table during negotiations with lawmakers, pushing for an equitable universal TK plan that would prioritize the state’s many children of color who typically have not had equal access to early childhood education. Khydeeja Alam, the group’s senior policy and advocacy director, acknowledges that many preschools and family child care centers run by women of color will suffer if they are not meaningfully included in the state’s plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those were some of the toughest conversations we had with the Legislature,” Alam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, the state’s new transitional kindergarten offerings will be available at existing public schools. Ward supports a model where centers like hers could also provide the preschool programming that the state pays for, similar to what exists in New York City, in what’s known as a “mixed delivery system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893800\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893800 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An overhead view of a child's head and arm, and a teacher's hands and arms, working together to color in an outline of a farmer.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52122_004_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A teacher works with students on a coloring project at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there are challenges with this model, too. When universal preschool was opened to both public and private providers in New York City in 2014, \u003ca href=\"https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-05-10-the-unintended-consequences-of-universal-preschool\">many private providers shifted to serving more 4-year-olds to benefit from the stable income it provided, while cutting back on more costly infant and toddler care\u003c/a>. The result was a deficit in child care available for children under 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has to be a middle ground, Alam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t see school districts taking on the whole responsibility of UTK on their own,” she said. “We don’t have enough facilities. We don’t have enough teachers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Assemblymember McCarty is opposed to the idea. “We don’t contract out eighth grade and fifth grade and third grade, so I don’t know how we’re going to contract out a grade,” McCarty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty also doesn’t believe family child care centers and other private facilities will be forced to close when universal TK is fully implemented in 2025. “There are plenty of 3-year-olds that are going to need service,” he said. “So we’re telling these programs, ‘Hey, you can serve 3-year-olds.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Importance of play\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ward also worries that public schools can’t fully meet the developmental needs of 4-year-olds, something her programs do through experiential learning and play-based curriculum. Her teachers use cooking activities, water play and tricycles to foster early literacy and numerical concepts. For instance, when making pancakes, preschoolers measure ingredients and learn about simple fractions, and with water play, they use different size containers to begin to understand volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, she says, TK looks a lot more like school where “play” is highly structured: For example, using play dough to form numbers or letters, versus free play, which many experts say helps foster learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents like more structure and academics for their preschooler, and some might want a truly play-based model, says Los Angeles preschool director Jennifer Carter. And it’s this ability to choose that parents will lose if free preschool is only available in a TK classroom on an elementary school campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893801 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman and three kids, all wearing masks and the kids in smocks, sit at a round table painting the same jack-o'-lantern in the middle. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52123_005_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Roz Tavares helps students paint a pumpkin at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Four-year-olds should not be sitting at a desk doing worksheets,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also concerns about the well-being of Black children who will be attending preschool as part of the public school system, said Keisha Nzewi, director of public policy at the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern is starting the school-to-prison pipeline even earlier because behaviors that are age-appropriate are not going to be tolerated,” she said. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/11/26/new-federal-data-shows-black-preschoolers-still-disciplined-far-higher-rates-than-whites/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/11/26/new-federal-data-shows-black-preschoolers-still-disciplined-far-higher-rates-than-whites/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-14974\">Black preschoolers are already disciplined and expelled at far higher rates than their white peers\u003c/a>, yet if that now happens earlier, it will follow them for longer throughout their educational careers, Nzewi said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also logistical challenges. The transition to universal TK, which will be a much shorter day than what is now provided by most private programs, could create challenges for working parents, many of whom will be left scrambling to find new before- and after-care options for their children. Practitioners like Carter doubt they’ll be able to hire and pay enough teachers to work only in the early mornings and late afternoons, and argue that transporting kids back and forth will be a mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an expectation that private centers will transport kids to and from school. The logistics alone are ridiculous,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oversight concerns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Michael Olenick, president and CEO of the Child Care Resource Center in Los Angeles, worries that elementary school campuses do not have the infrastructure to cater to the specific needs of preschool-age children, citing bathrooms as an example. Preschools often have very specific toilets, with half doors and special seats, and they are usually inside the preschool classroom, instead of down the hall or elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four-year-olds, when they need to go, they need to go,” Olenick said. “Does that mean that you’re going to walk 10 or 20 kids all together to the bathroom?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893806 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a mask leans over a low wooden table where a group of masked children are opening tubs of markers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52120_002_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A teacher works with students on an art project at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olenick said he’s encouraged that the state’s new program will mandate a 10:1 student-to-teacher ratio in all public TK classes by 2025. The program will also require the curriculum to be developmentally appropriate and require TK teachers to have at least 24 units of child development study, all of which he says are important “guard rails” for quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Olenick worries about school districts complying with these mandates. “Whether anybody will check on that, I don’t know,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in rural areas, focusing just on 4-year-olds will be hard, Olenick adds. Many school districts are so small they already combine TK students with kindergarteners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty is well aware of these concerns. After years of fighting for universal preschool for California, he wants it to work, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some classrooms may not have a bathroom, they may not have little sinks for little kids, so we put several hundred million dollars in this year’s budget [and] we’ll probably do that again next year and the following year to help districts build more [TK] classrooms,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pouring more money into public schools won’t solve all those problems, argues Jennifer Carter, the LA preschool director. She worries that as private centers downsize because of the new state program, the early childhood education workforce will be decimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893803 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A motley, not-quite-straight, line of little kids stands in a bright hallway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52133_015_SanLeandro_KidsConnectPreschool_10222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bri Davis leads a classroom of children to the gym at Kids Konnect Infant Care and Preschool in San Leandro on Oct. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of Black and Brown women are going to be out of work,” Carter said. “I am really worried that the state of early childhood education is going to be catastrophically miserable in about five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khydeeja Alam of Advancement Project California hears the frustrations of providers like Carter and Ward, both Black women who have overcome many obstacles to keep their preschool doors open. She believes there is still time to include the private sector in more meaningful ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s an opportunity for growth, it’s an opportunity for creativity, and it’s an opportunity for partnerships,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is an early childhood reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College, which is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It was the first time in decades that she’d seen his glow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the California foundry that fired a bust of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Percy Newton, his surviving spouse supervised as a bronze caster put finishing touches on what is now the first permanent public art piece honoring the party in the city of its founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just glowed, like he did,” Fredrika Newton said. “His skin just glistened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unveiling took place Sunday at Dr. Huey P. Newton Way and Mandela Parkway, near the spot where Newton was murdered in 1989. It came as Panther alumni, descendants and others gathered to mark the 55th anniversary of a party that has long been both celebrated and vilified. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fredrika Newton, founder of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation\"]‘I would like for people to see him as a total human being … he wasn’t just an iconic figure in a wicker chair. This was a man with vulnerabilities, with feelings, with insecurities, with frailties, just like anybody.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton remains a divisive figure. Many people still dismiss him as the leader of a band of beret-wearing, gun-toting hustlers — and no doubt would deplore the prospect of an American city memorializing him with a statue. Others say his failings were a drag on the Black Power movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many love him to this day, venerating him as a man who, with Bobby Seale, sought to unite all Black, impoverished and oppressed people against America’s racist, capitalistic and unjust interests. His influence on the Black Lives Matter movement is undeniable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Huey was maybe the only man I’ve ever known that was a truly free man,” said his older brother, Melvin Newton. “He was universal. He felt that no one could be on his back, if he stood up. And he always stood ramrod straight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893574 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with long gray braids and hoop earrings smiles as she stands beside a bronze bust of the head and bare shoulders of Huey P. Newton, who has a '70s-style Afro.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fredrika Newton, founder of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, stands with a sculpture created by Dana King in Oakland on Oct. 24, 2021, near where Newton was murdered in 1989. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The youngest of seven children, Newton was born on Feb. 17, 1942, in Monroe, Louisiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parents, Walter and Armelia Newton, moved the family to Oakland during a wave of the Great Migration, when the promise of work and less overt racial oppression lured thousands of African American families out of the Jim Crow South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton struggled with his education, unable to read or write in high school as he was arrested for petty crimes. It was only after graduation from high school that, one might say, his real education began; a self-taught reader, he studied the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By his late 30s, he had a doctorate in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and he was well on his way to global fame and notoriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton met Seale at a community college in Oakland, and the two founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in October 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton, the minister for defense, and Seale, the chair, were frustrated with the largely Southern civil rights movement spearheaded by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which they felt had failed to address the problems of Black people in the North and West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893575\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893575 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with long gray hair and a purple knitted cap speaks into a microphone, amid people holding umbrellas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS.jpg 1259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sculptor Dana King speaks to the audience at the unveiling at Dr. Huey P. Newton Way and Mandela Parkway in Oakland on Oct. 24, 2021, near where Newton was murdered in 1989. The sculpture is the City of Oakland’s first permanent art installation honoring the Black Panther Party, and the unveiling took place during a commemoration of the party’s 55th anniversary. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Historian Robert W. Widell Jr., who as a graduate student helped catalog Newton’s writings at Stanford University, said Newton was not a natural figurehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My sense is that he sort of pushed himself out there to be this public, confrontational figure on the streets,” said Widell, now the history department chair at the University of Rhode Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I don’t know that that was his natural inclination, personality-wise. He was more of a theoretician. And I think he was pretty surprised at how rapidly [the Panthers] grew in exposure, whether it was fame or infamy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton and Seale wrote the party’s Ten-Point Program, which laid out the party’s beliefs and its demands. The party’s Survival Programs were beloved in nearly 70 communities the U.S. and abroad where it had chapters. The Panthers were known, among other things, for free breakfast programs for schoolchildren and a pioneering sickle cell disease testing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panthers’ antagonistic relationship with law enforcement has long cast a shadow over its legacy. In 1967, Newton was jailed for the shooting death of an Oakland police officer who had pulled him over. Although Newton was himself shot during the encounter and denied being responsible for the officer’s death, he was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While imprisoned, the “Free Huey” campaign helped make him a symbol of racial injustice in the American criminal legal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His conviction was overturned in 1970, and he emerged from prison to discover the party had grown well beyond Oakland. Its image largely centered on armed self-defense, including violent and lethal encounters between Panthers and police, both in Oakland and around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we also need to recognize the very real ways in which a lot of the violence that surrounded the Panthers was instigated and provoked by law enforcement themselves,” Widell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893580\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893580 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of people with umbrellas and masks watch or record with their phone action beyond the frame to the right.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite the rain, the crowd turned out for the unveiling of the Dr. Huey P. 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And when you meet people like that, you don’t forget them.”[aside tag=\"black-panther-party\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it had been in decline for several years, the Black Panther Party didn’t fold until 1982. That was after years of police surveillance, as well as dwindling national membership, infighting, allegations of embezzlement and scandals in which Newton was implicated and criminally charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on Aug. 22, 1989, Newton was murdered in Oakland, California, by a drug dealer. He was 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton’s bust, Fredrika Newton said, is meant to celebrate someone whose life and contributions to American history mean much more than his decline, including addictions to alcohol and drugs, and demise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like for people to see him as a total human being,” said Newton, co-founder of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation. “That he wasn’t just an iconic figure in a wicker chair. 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"content": "\u003cp>Despite this year’s return to in-person learning, districts throughout the state are seeing major declines in both enrollment and average daily attendance, and fear the reductions could result in significant funding cuts next school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without state intervention, many districts face substantial cuts in state funding and could be forced to make significant budget cuts in the 2022-23 school year, due to a drop in enrollment and attendance. Districts’ baseline funding depends on the number of students enrolled, minus the daily average number of absent students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past two school years, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/californias-k-12-funding-formula-likely-to-change-but-disagreement-over-how/655552\">districts were “held harmless” for the declines\u003c/a> during the pandemic and were funded based on their enrollment and attendance figures for the pre-COVID 2019-20 school year. But that will no longer be the case unless the Legislature extends the “hold harmless” rule or takes other action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"education\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/missing-kindergarteners-drive-largest-drop-in-20-years-in-californias-k-12-enrollment/653531\">enrollment in K-12 public schools in California fell by almost 3%\u003c/a>, or 160,000 students, in 2020-21, according to annual data released in April by the California Department of Education. On Oct. 6, districts filed their “census day enrollment” figures, which is used in the state funding formula. Those figures likely won’t be made public until early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Contra Costa Unified, a district of about 26,000 students serving Richmond and surrounding areas, anticipates a loss of around $30 million in the 2022-23 school year barring no change in the funding formula, said Tony Wold, the district’s associate superintendent of business services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified, San Francisco Unified and others also have seen significant enrollment drops over the past two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For West Contra Costa, the reduction would mean a loss of about 10% of the district’s overall budget and likely could result in staff layoffs or force district officials to dip into reserve funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing that approximately 90% of most districts’ budget is spent on people, a 10% reduction would affect people,” Wold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has already endured years of budget hurdles. In early 2020, it projected a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/questions-swirl-about-origins-of-40-million-deficit/621885\">$48 million ongoing structural deficit for 2020-21\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/west-contra-costa-unified-expected-to-break-even-this-year-after-major-budget-cuts/640560\">cut about $30 million\u003c/a> in ongoing expenditures from its 2020-21 budget to break even. The district did, however, receive record one-time state and federal funding this year, and was able to stave off cuts during the current school year thanks to a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/newsoms-proposed-budget-could-stave-off-cuts-for-some-school-districts/649125\">5.5% cost-of-living adjustment\u003c/a> from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and the start of the 2020-21 school year, the district lost about 800 students, Wold said. Though the district had anticipated that many of them would come back or move elsewhere by the following year, the decline more than doubled to just under 2,000 students this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The enrollment drop was spread among every grade level. Some of it was due to families not enrolling their children in kindergarten and transitional kindergarten. Also, fewer students transitioned into high school from middle school and elementary to middle school, Wold said. It’s unclear where they went instead of staying in the district, Wold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also chalked up some enrollment loss to COVID anxiety, especially among families of students who are younger than 12 and not yet able to get a vaccine. 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