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"content": "\u003cp>When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 86 into law on Friday, he marshaled the state’s mighty resources to facilitate a return to classroom learning in thousands of public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His signature also ends, for now, the state government’s direct involvement in California’s clamorous school reopening dispute — the latest skirmish in a decades-long debate over whether school policy in California should be driven by state or local officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863208/california-legislature-approves-plan-to-reopen-schools\">Under the legislation\u003c/a>, the state is paying for improved school ventilation, cleaning, tutoring and counseling needed to bring the state’s youngest kids back to class in the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill does \u003cem>not\u003c/em> force districts to bring back in-person education, thus leaving the most important details for many parents and students (reopening dates, school-day length, classroom setup) in the hands of locally elected school boards.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Pat Reilly, Democratic political consultant\"]‘Having individual school districts try to negotiate with their labor partners in the thousand-plus school districts in California, from my perspective, is like setting off a bunch of brush fires across the state.’[/pullquote]Legislators of both parties hailed AB 86 as a victory for local control, the concept of leaving decision-making power to officials closest to the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody loves to talk about local control, it’s kind of like something sacred, like motherhood and apple pie,” said Gloria Romero, the former Democratic chair of the state Senate Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics of the approach believe many school boards are proving ineffectual\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in the face of competing local pressures\u003c/a>. In San Francisco, parent groups want to change how school boards are constructed, arguing that a switch to mayoral appointments may produce more competent boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others think that the decision to reopen schools is simply too important to delegate to an entanglement of forces working between the Capitol building and California classrooms — what Romero calls the “Byzantine labyrinth” that includes elected school boards, powerful teachers unions, county and state offices of education and the independently elected superintendent of public instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re finding out that local control … there are so many fingers in the pot stirring it, blocking it, adding in poison pills,” said Romero, a longtime charter school advocate. “Despite how convoluted that is, the governor has the bully pulpit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fear of Local ‘Brush Fires’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Critics of Newsom have for months called on him to use executive authority to force teachers back into the classroom — potentially by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/to-help-get-kids-back-in-school-california-should-temporarily-suspend-local-collective-bargaining/646857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suspending collective bargaining\u003c/a> at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He should have shown leadership,” said Romero. “He was just, I think, embarrassingly weak and without a backbone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the fate of reopening will likely be decided through the contentious negotiations taking place between school districts and unions representing teachers, bus drivers, custodians and administrators. Many large districts, including Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, are unlikely to reopen by April 1, after which, the amount of grant funding in AB 86 starts to decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having individual school districts try to negotiate with their labor partners in the thousand-plus school districts in California, from my perspective, is like setting off a bunch of brush fires across the state,” said Pat Reilly, a Democratic political consultant and advocate with the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.openschoolsca.com/\">OpenSchoolsCA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of distance learning, legislative leaders grew impatient with the progress of local reopening talks. Some appeared flummoxed that districts hadn’t done more to resume in-person schooling when infection rates ebbed in September and October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am normally a huge proponent of local control, but this year, local control has been a complete failure,” said state Assembly Budget Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, in a hearing last month on the school reopening plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘A First Step’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the end, however, local control carried the day. Lawmakers hailed AB 86 for setting a uniform standard of “flexibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"school-reopening\"]But without a mandate, the bill might not move the needle in the most stubborn negotiations. And the legislation has no effect at all on the vast majority of middle and high school students. The plan only provides grants to bring back elementary school grades, along with one grade of middle or high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday’s virtual bill-signing ceremony, Ting was left to describe the bill he authored as “a first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to go home to all our districts and beg all our districts to open up, use this money,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, the deference that Newsom and the Legislature have given to local decision-making is borne of the vast differences in public schools throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at 58 counties, a thousand-plus school districts, this truly is a challenge at scale that no other state in the country is faced with,” Newsom said as he signed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, former Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, a Democrat who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/magazine/school-reopenings-rhode-island.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gained national recognition\u003c/a> for her work in reopening schools last year, dealt with roughly 60 districts — and the state already had control over its largest school district, in Providence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s new legislation ensures the state will not be a hurdle for districts keen on opening their doors: There are no mandates to vaccinate teachers or reach collective bargaining agreements with unions — and districts located in counties outside of California’s purple COVID-19 tier will not be required to test students and staff for the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the bill’s guarantee that 10% of the state’s vaccine doses be set aside for school employees (codifying an earlier promise made by Newsom) may be the most important provision in nudging teachers back into the classroom. In just the last week, an increasing vaccine supply and the hope of a continued decline in infections has accelerated the progress of reopening schools in large districts like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863665/questions-linger-as-san-francisco-schools-aim-to-reopen-next-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article249615263.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresno\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are generally supportive of handing authority to local governments; the leading Republicans seeking to challenge Newsom in a potential recall election this year said they would also not have suspended collective bargaining rights to force reopenings. Just four GOP legislators in the state Senate and Assembly voted against the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, R-Yucaipa, argued that “it is essential that we have local control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled a recent meeting with constituents, when a frustrated audience member asked her who bears responsibility for the decisions being made at his local school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘You are, you are ultimately in control of your local schools,’ ” said Ochoa Bogh, who served on the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District before her election to the Senate last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not happy then, lo and behold, go ahead and find candidates that reflect your values and your vision of education and get them elected,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Attention on School Boards \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a number of cities across the state, many parents aren’t waiting for the next election to decide the fate of their school boards. Recall campaigns against individual board members have been launched in Benicia, La Mesa and San Ramon. And in San Francisco, critics of the board are pursuing a recall and a wholesale change in how members are selected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing both impatient Sacramento lawmakers and exasperated parents, “school boards have really been stuck in the middle,” said Troy Flint, senior director of communications for the California School Boards Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re dealing with parent communities which are often rife with division on this issue,” he said. “And they don’t really have the framework needed to effectively pursue negotiations on reopening, because there hasn’t until now been the standard for the state on what acceptable measures of safety are to reopen.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nBy and large, parents furious with the lack of progress on reopenings argue their elected boards are too aligned with local teachers unions — and thus more likely to prioritize the safety of educators over the education and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/18/953581851/ive-tried-everything-pandemic-has-cut-options-for-kids-with-mental-illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mental well-being\u003c/a> of students, which have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/who-is-losing-ground-with-distance-learning-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suffered greatly\u003c/a> during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That perceived imbalance is likely a result of shifts in education decision-making over the last half century, said Gary Hart, the former state secretary of education under Gov. Gray Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the 1970s, school boards had greater control over decisions to tax and spend on local schools. That provided an incentive for business-minded community members to run for seats on the board to provide a check on members more sympathetic to teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That began to change in 1971, when the California Supreme Court ruled that the state’s education funding scheme \u003ca href=\"https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/serrano-v-priest-27628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disadvantaged students in low-income neighborhoods\u003c/a> where fewer local taxes could be raised to pay for schools. Then, in 1978, voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, the landmark initiative that dramatically shrunk the amount of local property tax revenue that schools had traditionally relied on, forcing districts to feed from the trough of state revenue controlled by the Legislature and governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School boards no longer had much overall control of their school budgets, particularly as it related to increases in spending,” Hart said. “So as a result of that, I think there was a diminishment of civic leaders serving on school boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their place, he said, emerged increasingly diverse school board candidates who were more aligned with the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Mayoral Involvement\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Beyond recall campaigns, parent advocates and some supervisors in San Francisco say the answer is to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11861151/new-pac-targets-san-francisco-school-board-over-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">move away from a citywide election of school board members\u003c/a> — either by splitting the election into districts, or by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/Should-S-F-City-Hall-control-the-school-board-16005019.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">giving the mayor direct power\u003c/a> to appoint the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there needs to be some change, what that change is, is yet to be determined,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101882236/2010101882236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent interview on KQED Forum\u003c/a>, when asked about the possibility of appointing the board. “I know that folks who don’t even have kids in the school district are paying very close attention to the fact that the leaders of our school district are not up for the task of doing what’s necessary to get our kids back in school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who has joined parents at recent rallies to support reopening, was reluctant to endorse more mayoral control over schools. She told KQED she believes “shared governance in our city is the best model right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]‘I think that there needs to be some change, what that change is, is yet to be determined.’[/pullquote]Mayors in cities such as Chicago and New York (where schools have opened) appoint a controlling share of their local school boards. But in California, efforts by mayors to play a larger role in school policy have largely fallen flat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, then-Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795095/direct-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">convinced voters to pass Measure D\u003c/a>, giving him three appointments to the school board. But still lacking a majority, Brown wrestled with the board for the next few years before turning his attention to creating his own charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Los Angeles, former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, an adamant proponent of charter schools, received permission from the Legislature to take control of individual schools and hire the district’s superintendent. But months after those changes were enacted, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6663370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they were ruled unconstitutional \u003c/a>by a Superior Court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, school boards have trended toward even greater localized control — with hundreds of districts \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/california-school-district-latest-to-change-board-elections-to-better-reflect-diversity-of-community/609854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">switching to electing members\u003c/a> from individual geographic districts, rather than through citywide elections. Most recently, voters in San Diego (who rejected the idea of appointed school board members in 2010), \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/nov/03/election-2020-san-diego-measures-c-d/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opted to move away\u003c/a> from at-large elections altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over reopening schools brings to a head the conflicting feelings of voters, said Larry Tramutola, a political strategist known for his work in school campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would like to have school boards to be more competent and represent all people,” he said. “But on the other hand, they want district elections, where school board members are elected by basically small neighborhoods, so it’s often difficult to find quality people — experienced, knowledgeable — to run for these seats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those school board seats often become launching pads for elected officials aspiring to reach higher office — though the reopening debate is certain to test the veracity of that narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can be a stepping stone,” Tramutola said. “But it can be a step into quicksand, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sara Hossaini contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been a couple of days since the San Francisco Unified School District \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-preparing-offer-person-learning-some-schools-beginning-april-12\">announced a tentative agreement\u003c/a> with the teachers union to start reopening some schools for in-person learning on April 12 — but teachers and parents still say they don’t know the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Quelx lives in the Mission District and has eight children. Four of them are in elementary school. On Saturday, she wasn’t aware that some schools would reopen and that SFUSD had presented a timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like for someone to let me know, for someone to tell me or my kids because I had no idea,” she said. Quelx doesn't use a computer or speak English so she has a hard time keeping up to date with every school development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Maureen Sullivan, teacher-librarian at Dolores Huerta Elementary School\"]'How will we be teaching distance learning students as well as in-person learning students at the same time?'[/pullquote]While the \u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/\">United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a> announced on Friday they’ve reached an agreement that outlines how hybrid learning will work, some teachers still don’t have the details, said Maureen Sullivan, a bilingual teacher-librarian at Dolores Huerta Elementary School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How will we be teaching distance learning students as well as in-person learning students at the same time?” Sullivan asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF plans to hold a meeting on Monday to give teachers more information. The union expects to roll out in-person learning in phases and is initially focusing on students in prekindergarten to second grade. The agreement still needs to be approved by union membership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took a lot of hard work and a lot of time and compromise and back-and-forth,” said UESF President Susan Solomon. “The focus is on pre-K to second grade first and then expanding to fifth grade and then all students in special education programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are expected to vote on the tentative agreement this week. It allows students to remain with the teacher they had for remote learning, and class sizes will continue to be 22 students in the primary grades. The deal also requires that face masks, hand sanitizer and personal protective equipment be available to all educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863674\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1208px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1208\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout.jpg 1208w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from the SFUSD presentation 'Return to In-Person Learning Update,' published on Feb. 9, 2021, which shows what a typical classroom layout could look like in schools that are allowed to reopen. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFUSD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school district also plans to install plexiglass partitions on each teacher’s desk. Additionally, each student will be offered a box with school supplies to avoid sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union hasn’t committed to providing in-person learning to students at the middle and high school level before the end of the semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel pretty unlikely,” Solomon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union believes that these protections — in addition to increased ventilation, frequent testing of students and vaccinations for on-site staff — will keep teachers safe, said Solomon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD said on Twitter it’s “on track to offer in-person learning options at a select number of schools for the District’s youngest students starting on April 12, 2021.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are pleased to let you know that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/SFUSD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SFUSD\u003c/a> is on track to offer in-person learning options at a select number of schools for our youngest students starting on April 12, 2021. Additional students will be offered in-person options before the end of April.\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/J8c56yGP0R\">https://t.co/J8c56yGP0R\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/TVMknb4XGL\">pic.twitter.com/TVMknb4XGL\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— SF public schools (@SFUnified) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFUnified/status/1368065384650309632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On its website, the district stated not all elementary schools will open. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/services/health-wellness/covid-19-coronavirus-resources-families-students/august-2020-fall-semester-learning-plans/phase-2-hybrid-model/phase-2a-small-cohortgroup-return/wave-1-schools\">six elementary schools are currently ready\u003c/a> to welcome back students: Alvarado, Cobb, Glen Park, Lawton, Muir and Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district is allowing families to choose whether to send their children back to their classrooms or continue with distance learning. They plan to offer every eligible student up to five days of in-person instruction per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Unclear Daily Logistics\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the union, teachers at the selected schools will have two weeks to prepare their classrooms and lesson plans before they’re asked to return. Sullivan, the teacher-librarian at Dolores Huerta Elementary School, is relieved the union has reached a deal with the district, but still has a lot of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still don’t have a clear understanding of what recess will be like and how lunchtime will work. And what the day-to-day schedule looks like,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='education']Sullivan has two children — ages 9 and 13 — and her partner works as a nurse at San Francisco General Hospital. She wants the union and the district to explain what resources the agreement provides for teachers who have children that are still learning remotely. One solution she’d like is for the district to open its small in-person learning hubs to the children of teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel comfortable leaving [my daughter] at home by herself all day,” Sullivan said. “I’d like to know what the plan is and if educators will have the chance to get their kids into learning hubs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan's school, Dolores Huerta Elementary, is on the border of Noe Valley and Bernal Heights. SFUSD has assigned it to reopen in the next wave of in-person learning. No official date has been given as to when that will begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 parents, teachers and community members from Dolores Huerta Elementary \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SkF6GLVsoCCU_LEXv0FWb7owPIopJmuXn2GePcJtc_0/edit?fbclid=IwAR2xP9ExZKxn9ydZadaxbdjXICCbcytCbItT4zM5gVASLzppPim7SVmU2aI\">signed a letter\u003c/a> addressed to San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors asking that officials provide clearer information on issues like access to public transportation for parents when the school opens up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A Sense of Urgency\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Parents like Quelx, who lives in the Mission, say the school district hasn’t done a good job communicating with parents who don’t speak English or don't have easy access to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Quelx fears that schools may be reopening too quickly, she believes that the best place for her kids to learn is inside a classroom. She says it's been difficult for her them to participate in online learning at the same time. There are bandwidth issues, and also the noise. Her children wear headphones during their lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11863208\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47516_GettyImages-1229643858-qut-1020x571.jpg\"]And while she is trying to support them, Quelx says she can’t keep up with the various challenges, which range from the Wi-Fi dropping out, to keeping on top of her kids’ schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re still little, so it’s been hard for me,” she explained. “I really want my kids to go back to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quelx is worried about their health. A few months ago, she and some of her children got very sick with COVID-19. She doesn’t want to go through that again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quelx said her decision will be based on getting information about the protections the school district committed to putting in place. 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Cheng says her online classes go for thirty-five minutes each, which means a lot material is now condensed into a much shorter school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melina Kritikopoulos, a senior at Santa Clara High School has classes that last eighty minutes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a whole different awfulness,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, students like \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Isabella Brenneman, a junior at Kit Carson International Academy in Sacramento, have concerns about reopening schools — though no one has really asked her or her peers what it’ll take for them to feel safe returning to school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like the people who aren’t being affected are the ones that are making all of the decisions,” Brenneman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this episode of The Bay, host Devin Katayama talks with three high schoolers about how distance learning is going, what it’ll take for them to feel safe going back to school, and how they’re coping in the meantime. 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Like, how different is it?’ It is just as hard for us as it is for you, potentially even harder because a lot of teachers have not changed their curriculum to be more compatible with this system. They’re even doing more sometimes. And schoolwork is just as hard as whatever job you have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>Brenneman: \u003c/strong>Mostly for parents, I wish they would understand how difficult it is to get up and get into your Zoom. They might think it’s really easy just because you can roll over in bed and get on it. But it’s just really tiring. It’s really difficult to have any motivation to do homework and that sort of thing. And I also wish teachers would understand that I’m trying my best and it is really difficult to get everything done whenever you want it. And I know it’s hard on them too. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California state Legislature approved a $6.6 billion plan on Thursday to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862538/newsom-legislative-leaders-reach-deal-to-push-schools-to-reopen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">encourage school districts to resume in-person education\u003c/a> for the youngest public school students in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB86\">Assembly Bill 86\u003c/a> was the Legislature's most decisive action yet to reopen schools, in the face of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising political pressure\u003c/a> from parents who have dealt with nearly a year of distance learning in many districts. But the legislation falls short of actually mandating a reopening; the decision of when and how to bring students and teachers back to class will now be decided in hundreds of local school districts across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[AB 86] really does provide an incentive for people to reopen. It really enables people to open,\" said state Sen. John Laird, D-Santa Cruz, who acknowledged that \"we let the school boards decide, we let the locals decide how it best works.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill cleared the state Senate on a 36-0 vote, followed by a 72-4 vote in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom could sign the bill into law as soon as Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"education,school-reopening\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 86 sets a deadline of April 1 for districts to begin reopening their doors. Each day after that date that schools stay closed, districts will have to return a portion of the $2 billion in incentive grants, with a deadline of May 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining $4.6 billion will be budgeted to help mitigate learning loss — through extra tutoring, counseling and potentially expanded summer school. Most of that money will only go to schools that return children to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To receive the money, districts will have to return grades K-2 to in-person instruction. And districts in counties with lower rates of COVID-19 spread — the \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/\">state's red tier\u003c/a> — will have to bring back all elementary school grades, and one grade of middle or high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats defended the plan as a path of least resistance to resuming live classroom instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By dropping \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860986/democratic-state-legislators-split-with-newsom-on-school-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous ideas\u003c/a> to require vaccines for teachers, collective bargaining agreements and asymptomatic testing, the Legislature is \"creating a pathway for more in-person instruction,\" said state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 86 sets a deadline of April 1 for districts to begin reopening their doors. Each day after that date that schools stay closed, districts will have to return a portion of the $2 billion in incentive grants, with a deadline of May 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining $4.6 billion will be budgeted to help mitigate learning loss — through extra tutoring, counseling and potentially expanded summer school. Most of that money will only go to schools that return children to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To receive the money, districts will have to return grades K-2 to in-person instruction. And districts in counties with lower rates of COVID-19 spread — the \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/\">state's red tier\u003c/a> — will have to bring back all elementary school grades, and one grade of middle or high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats defended the plan as a path of least resistance to resuming live classroom instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By dropping \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860986/democratic-state-legislators-split-with-newsom-on-school-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous ideas\u003c/a> to require vaccines for teachers, collective bargaining agreements and asymptomatic testing, the Legislature is \"creating a pathway for more in-person instruction,\" said state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the bill sets aside 10% of the state's vaccine supply for education workers and only requires a testing regimen in schools located in the state's most restrictive purple tier that have not opened by April 1. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860883/trusted-leaders-are-fighting-covid-19-vaccine-fears-in-black-and-latino-communities\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]uz María Abonce llegó a San José hace más de 15 años. A lo largo del tiempo, ha asistido a graduaciones, quinceañeras y talleres, formando nuevas amistades por todo el este de la ciudad. Ahora, durante la pandemia, puede ver de nuevo a muchas de estas amistades, cuando ella toca sus puertas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Salimos a tocar las puertas con muchas ganas, tocamos, a veces nos abren, a veces no nos abren, pero allí estamos ofreciendo nuestros servicios los cuales son las pruebas de COVID-19”, dijo Abonce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella es una promotora, una trabajadora de salud comunitaria que trabaja con META (Mujeres Emprendedoras Tomando Acción) y \u003ca href=\"https://www.somosmayfair.org/\">SOMOS Mayfair\u003c/a>, dos organizaciones sin fines de lucro que colaboran con el departamento de salud pública del condado de Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Las promotoras son líderes confiables en la comunidad”, afirmó Analilia García, gerente de equidad racial y de salud del condado de Santa Clara. “Ellos tienen la confianza y las conexiones que nosotros como condado no tenemos”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Janet Franco Orona, residente de San José\"]‘Cuando la comunidad une todos sus esfuerzos, siempre vamos a abrir la puerta a uno de los nuestros.’[/pullquote]Los latinos representan el \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-demographics-of-cases-and-deaths-es.aspx\">51% de los casos de coronavirus\u003c/a> en el condado de Santa Clara, pese a que tan sólo forman el 25.8% de la población de esa región. Algunos de los códigos postales que \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases-by-zip-code-and-city.aspx\">reportan los índices de infecciones más altos\u003c/a> en el condado se encuentran en el este de San José y Gilroy, zonas mayormente latinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-vaccine-CAIR2.aspx?mc_cid=fe1c613fca&mc_eid=555c140dcd\">datos del condado\u003c/a> publicados el 19 de febrero, 249 mil 442 residentes del condado de Santa Clara han recibido al menos una dosis de la vacuna. Alrededor del 20% de este grupo son latinos, una cifra por debajo del porcentaje de latinos que han sido contagiados o han muerto a causa de complicaciones relacionadas al COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/press-release-2-11-2021-SCC-launches-drop-in-vaccine-clinic-expand-in-areas-hardest-hit.aspx\">autoridades de salud han expandido\u003c/a> los centros de pruebas y sitios de vacunaciones en estas áreas, cerca de lugares del vecindario muy conocidos como La Placita Tropicana y la Plaza de la herencia mexicana en el este de San José y el centro para adultos mayores en Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero el condado reconoce que la apertura de un nuevo plantel no siempre resulta en que más residentes de ese vecindario se puedan vacunar o hacer la prueba de COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para algunos, puede ser una brecha digital. Para otros, puede ser una cuestión de tiempo por los horarios del trabajo o quizás no se sientan cómodos al ir al sitio”, explicó García.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El programa de las promotoras cierra esa brecha, algo que métodos más tradicionales de salud pública no pueden hacer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La trabajadora de salud pública del condado de Santa Clara, Rocío Ramos, prepara un hisopo nasal para Antonio Orona para una prueba de COVID-19 autoadministrada en su casa en San José el 3 de febrero de 2021. El condado espera que a través de estos intercambios puerta por puerta, se formen relaciones personales que pueden limitar el impacto de la desinformación sobre el virus y la vacuna. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García señala que las promotoras forman conexiones profundas con las familias que conocen, algo que en cambio no siempre ocurre en el portal electrónico para agendar una prueba de coronavirus. A menudo, las promotoras logran convencer a familias enteras que se hagan la prueba. Una de esas familias era la de Janet Franco Orona, residente del este de San José. Ella vive con su marido, suegra e hijo de 1 año.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque ya se ha hecho la prueba antes, Franco Orona se siente un poco nerviosa de llevar a su suegra, quien es una persona de la tercera edad, a uno de los centros de pruebas públicos. “¿Habrá mucha gente contagiada? ¿Nos van a cobrar? Todo esto nos preocupa cuando estamos planeado salir de la casa”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero la promotora que tocó su puerta resultó ser una vieja amiga y ex vecina de su suegra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando la comunidad une todos sus esfuerzos, siempre vamos a abrir la puerta a uno de los nuestros”, dijo Franco Orona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junto con Abonce, otras ocho promotoras van puerta por puerta en el este de San José. A cada residente se les ofrece la oportunidad de hacerse la prueba de COVID-19 sin que se tengan que salir de sus hogares. Las promotoras llevan consigo equipos de pruebas y son los habitantes que usan los hisopos para recolectar las muestras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras que los residentes se hacen la prueba, ella les responde cualquier pregunta que tengan. Muchos quieren saber sobre las nuevas cepas del virus o qué puede hacer el condado si\u003cbr>\nes que ellos dan positivo. Pero cada vez recibe más preguntas sobre la vacuna contra COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hemos escuchado muchísimas cosas que a veces decimos, ‘wow, ¡cómo inventan!'”, ella explicó. “Nos dicen, ‘yo no me voy a vacunar, porque la sacaron bien rápido’, ‘porque me dijeron que sólo le están poniendo pura agua’, otros dicen que le están poniendo un chip a la vacuna”, dijo Abonce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Después de hacerse la prueba de COVID-19, los residentes pueden hacer preguntas a las promotoras sobre el virus o los recursos que ofrece el condado para quienes dan positivo. Sin embargo, las promotoras ahora escuchan a menudo los temores y desinformación de los residentes sobre la vacuna contra el coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“Me voy a vacunar pero no confío en la vacuna”: En donde la historia choca con los miedos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Incluso antes de que la Administración de medicamentos y alimentos (o FDA por sus siglas en inglés) aprobara una vacuna contra coronavirus para usos de emergencia, activistas en favor de la equidad en la salud pública \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">aconsejaban a las autoridades estatales\u003c/a> que se modificara la estrategia para distribuir las vacunas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según estos grupos, cualquier plan de distribución \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">debería tomar en cuenta el impacto inmediato\u003c/a> que ha tenido la pandemia en las comunidades de color California y también las lecciones aprendidas de los esfuerzos para realizar pruebas dentro de estas poblaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En California, \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/es/vaccines/\">ya se han otorgado\u003c/a> 9 millones de vacunas y tan sólo 2.9% de quienes han sido vacunados se consideran afroamericanos pese a que este grupo conforma el 6.2% de las muertes por coronavirus en el estado. Los latinos representan el 46.2% de las \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/es/state-dashboard/\">muertes relacionadas al COVID-19\u003c/a> en California pero sólo han recibido el 16% de las inmunizaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11856006\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Vaccination-Prep-1020x680.jpg\"]Cambios repentinos en el \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\">plan de vacunación del estado\u003c/a> han provocado confusión entre los californianos y un bajo suministro de dosis ha limitado el impacto que pudiesen tener los centros de vacunación masiva, lo que podría complicar aún más el proceso para conectar las vacunas con las poblaciones que más las necesitan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maurice Foster y Paula Petty, una pareja de Oakland, tienen miedo de enfermarse y han hecho todo lo posible para evitar contraer COVID-19. Pero cuentan que perdieron la poca confianza que tenían en las autoridades federales y estatales para que estas provean una vacuna segura cuando vieron la manera en que California ha distribuido las dosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me voy a vacunar pero no confío en la vacuna”, dijo Foster. “Yo no confío en el gobierno. He visto que el Presidente y la primera dama se han vacunado pero aún así. Me voy a vacunar porque no quiero morir, no porque confío en la vacuna,” agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él cree que el proceso para desarrollar la vacuna no fue transparente y le preocupa que el gobierno de Donald Trump influyó la investigación por razones políticas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No pienso que los afroamericanos son más vulnerables a COVID-19”, él afirmó. “Pienso que el gobierno tiene más prejuicio en contra los afroamericanos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1971px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1971\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg 1971w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1971px) 100vw, 1971px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula Petty, izquierda, y Maurice Foster, residentes de Oakland, han hecho todo lo posible para evitar contraer COVID-19. Consideran que tomar la vacuna es un riesgo necesario pero peligroso. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>En San Francisco, Dara Montejo Chel es una estudiante del último año de preparatoria quien ha aprendido sobre los múltiples casos de negligencia médica en las comunidades de color, en especial los casos de esterilizaciones poco éticos que han reportado mujeres afroamericanas y latinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Dawn Wooten, una enfermera de un albergue de migrantes detenidos en Georgia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/inmigracion/denuncian-irregularidades-en-carcel-de-ice-en-georgia-entre-ellas-histerectomias-a-indocumentadas\">presentó una queja\u003c/a> el septiembre pasado, el cual afirma que médicos del plantel estaban realizando histerectomías en las mujeres migrantes sin tener su consentimiento fundamentado, Montejo Chel sintió una corriente de ansiedad por todo su cuerpo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella sabe que la vacuna contra COVID-19 no es una herramienta para esterilizar a la población y cree en la ciencia de la inmunidad. Pero esta historia prevalece en su mente. “Cuando hablamos de investigaciones médicas, nosotros las minorías siempre somos quienes corren más riesgo”, ella dijo. “Por mucho tiempo, el campo médico no ha demostrado que se preocupe por nosotros”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dra. Alicia Fernández, UCSF\"]‘Reconozco que hay muchas razones para que la gente no confíe en sus doctores en este tipo de situación. Resurge la historia de los casos de abusos en Puerto Rico, como en la República Dominicana y otros lugares.’[/pullquote]La doctora \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/alicia.fernandez\">Alicia Fernández\u003c/a>, profesora de medicina en la Universidad de California en San Francisco (UCSF), ha escuchado algo similar cuando plática con sus pacientes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernández investiga cómo expandir el acceso que tienen las comunidades inmigrantes y latinas a cuidados primarios y forma parte de la iniciativa ‘\u003ca href=\"https://unitedinhealth.org/\">Unidos en Salud\u003c/a>‘ que ha desarrollado varios centros de pruebas de COVID-19 en el distrito de la Misión en San Francisco y el distrito de Fruitvale en Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los miedos por la vacuna, afirma Fernández, se encuentran en todos los sectores demográficos pero factores como el acceso a información médica de calidad y las experiencias de vida pueden crear distinciones entre estos sentimientos. Ella ha identificado unas cuantas categorías que le ayudan responder a estas ansiedades de una manera más efectiva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La primera categoría es la desinformación”, dijo ella. La desinformación incluye las creencias que la vacuna tiene efectos secundarios peligrosos (como la infertilidad y una mutación) o que fue desarrollada de una manera muy repentina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La segunda categoría incluye lo que Fernández describe como creencias alternativas de la salud: ideas que están profundamente arraigadas sobre la medicina profesional o que complican que un individuo busque ser inoculado. Creencias alternativas sobre el bienestar algunas a veces pueden tener raíz en tradiciones familiares o la necesidad de recibir atención médica cuando no se puede ir al hospital a causa de falta de cobertura médica o fluidez del idioma en inglés.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Una de estas creencias podría ser nunca vacunarse, nunca poner algo dentro de su cuerpo”, explicó ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y luego hay todo lo demás, pero Fernández señaló que detrás de todas estas experiencias, existe una gran preocupación sobre la salud y la experiencia de recibir atención médica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo que trato de hacer es poner en orden todo lo que la gente está sintiendo. Reconozco que hay muchas razones para que la gente no confíe en sus doctores en este tipo de situación”, dijo ella. “Resurge la historia de los casos de abusos en Puerto Rico, como en la República Dominicana y otros lugares”, agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Cobertura Relacionada' tag='kqed-en-espanol']A lo largo del siglo 20, el Consejo de eugenesia de Puerto Rico \u003ca href=\"https://www.lanoticia.com/estados-unidos-tiene-una-larga-historia-de-esterilizaciones-forzadas/\">impulsó y monitoreó cientos de miles de esterilizaciones\u003c/a> de mujeres en la isla como un método para controlar el crecimiento de la población. Muchas de estas mujeres no recibieron suficiente información por parte de su doctor sobre el procedimiento y tenían la impresión de que la cirugía podría ser revertida fácilmente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las pláticas en persona entre un paciente y su doctor son cruciales, sostiene Fernández, porque es en ese momento que un médico puede escuchar e intentar comprender todo lo que siente su paciente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si el doctor se siente cómodo haciéndolo, es importante compartir un poco de nuestras historias de porque decidimos tomar la vacuna”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poder hablar de su propia experiencia con la vacuna ha resultado ser una estrategia bastante efectiva para el doctor Adrian James, jefe de medicina de la clínica \u003ca href=\"https://westoaklandhealth.org/\">West Oakland Health Council\u003c/a> (o WOHC por sus siglas en inglés), quien ha tenido que resolver las preocupaciones no sólo de sus pacientes sino también de su personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WOHC atiende a casi 8 mil pacientes al año, muchos de ellos son residentes afroamericanos del este de la Bahía. El pasado diciembre, WOHC anunció una colaboración con el sistema de salud estatal Covered California para enfrentar los miedos de la vacuna en las comunidades afroamericanas en el estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hago claro que este es un problema comunitario”, dijo James. “Esto es de todos. Esto no es el experimento Tuskegee, cuando sólo se trataba de hombres afroamericanos. Esta es una situación que involucra a toda la comunidad. Le estamos pidiendo a todos que se vacunen”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Adrian James, jefe de médicina, West Oakland Health Council\"]‘Como pueblo, sí tenemos razón para tener dudas. Pero ahora no es el tiempo para eso. Hay mucha gente que se está muriendo.’[/pullquote]James se refiere al estudio de 1932 por el Servicio de salud pública de Estados Unidos y el Instituto de Tuskegee sobre la salud de un grupo de hombres afroamericanos que trabajaban como aparceros en Alabama. Se les informó a estos hombres que recibirían atención médica gratuita. Sin embargo, nunca se les dijo que en verdad eran parte de un estudio para observar los efectos de la sífilis cuando esta enfermedad no es tratada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando los detalles de este experimento salieron a la luz 40 años después, cientos de participantes murieron sin saber que tenían la enfermedad y nunca recibieron tratamiento. Ahora, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/967011614/in-tuskegee-painful-history-shadows-efforts-to-vaccinate-african-americans\">líderes de la comunidad afroamericana en Alabama\u003c/a> laboran para recuperar la confianza de residentes que conectan el experimento de Tuskegee con la vacuna de COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como pueblo, sí tenemos razón para tener dudas”, dijo James. “Pero ahora no es el tiempo para eso. Hay mucha gente que se está muriendo”.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Yo quiero ser una de ellos que se está vacunando’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Durante los últimos nueve meses, el grupo de trabajo Latino Task Force, una colaboración compuesta de decenas de organizaciones sin fines de lucro, el Departamento de salud pública de San Francisco y el programa Unidos en Salud de UCSF, ha ofrecido sitios de pruebas de COVID-19 cada semana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En estos centros, Jon Jacobo, jefe de salud del grupo de trabajo, ha podido hablar con cientos de residentes latinos e inmigrantes mientras esperan hacer la prueba del coronavirus o ser vacunados contra la influenza. Ha notado que los sentimientos acerca de vacunarse, tanto para la influenza como para COVID-19, pueden diferir según la generación y la experiencia de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando tuvimos el taller para recibir la vacuna contra la influenza el septiembre pasado, las personas que venían a vacunarse más eran por gran parte quienes sólo hablan español”, dijo él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según Jacobo, los inmigrantes que acababan de llegar al país eran los que estaban más entusiasmados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En nuestros países, quizás no tienes acceso a cuidado de salud gratuito. Y ahora que estás en Estados Unidos y esto se ofrece, podría ser una muy buena idea aprovechar de esta oportunidad”, explicó Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jon Jacobo, jefe de salud, Latino Task Force\"]‘No creo que ninguno de nosotros quiera volver a ignorar las desigualdades y las dolorosas y flagrantes realidades que viven los desposeídos de la ciudad.’[/pullquote]Por otro lado, es entre los hijos y nietos de inmigrantes y los residentes más jóvenes en donde él ha notado que existen más dudas acerca de la vacuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para quienes nacieron y fueron criados aquí, hay mucha más desinformación en las redes sociales”, dijo Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, él señala que a pesar de todo, estos sentimientos negativos son mucho menos comunes de lo esperado. El mes pasado, Latino Task Force logró sondear a más de 6 mil personas en su sitios de pruebas ubicado en la esquina de las calles Misión y 24. Jacobo calcula que más del 80% de quienes respondieron a la encuesta tienen una opinión muy favorable de la vacuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él espera que su equipo pueda publicar todos los datos de la encuesta en los próximos meses, pero según Jacobo, los resultados iniciales indican que los encuestados confían mucho menos en las autoridades locales y estatales que en los doctores e iniciativas comunitarias como Latino Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que la ciudad debe de aprender que está bien no siempre tener todas las respuestas a cada momento”, explicó él. “A veces no siempre tenemos que tener una respuesta lista. Tenemos que sentirnos cómodos con decir, ‘Estamos trabajando en eso y llegaremos a ese punto’ “.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero factores como la confusión sobre dónde y cómo se puede vacunar uno y una falta de acceso a estos lugares puede provocar desconfianza para la vacuna en lugares en donde esto no existía antes, agregó Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El primer centro comunitario de vacunación en San Francisco abrió sus puertas el pasado \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11858171/san-francisco-opens-mission-district-vaccine-site\">2 de febrero\u003c/a>, en el distrito de la Misión, gracias en parte a los esfuerzos de de Latino Task Force, que hizo claro la necesidad de proveer vacunas en el corazón de la Misión, a una cuadra de la estación del BART de la calle 24, donde se ofrecen pruebas cada semana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esfuerzos comunitarios, como Latino Task Force, necesitan a proveedores de salud y autoridades de salud pública tanto como estos necesitan a la comunidad para proveer confianza y credibilidad a los esfuerzos de vacunación, dijo Jacobo. Esta colaboración es efectiva cuando miembros de la comunidad lideran e influyen las iniciativas mientras que los otros dos colaboradores escuchan siguen y financian de una manera activa este trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como una médico académica, en verdad me ha ayudado mucho trabajar más de cerca con organizaciones de la comunidad”, dijo Fernández de UCSF. Ella piensa que este modelo diseñado para contener la pandemia y ampliar el acceso a la vacuna puede ser replicado para combatir otras crisis que afectan de manera desproporcionada a poblaciones afroamericanas y latinas, como la diabetes y la obesidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vamos a necesitar mucho más cambio estructural, que conlleva cambiar los factores determinantes de la salud y eso va a requerir que todos nosotros trabajemos juntos”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En cuanto al futuro de la coalición, estos esfuerzos no deben terminar después de que termine la pandemia, dijo Jacobo. “Sé que a partir de ahora, vamos a estar trabajando con la ciudad en esta nueva normalidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agregó, “No creo que ninguno de nosotros quiera volver a ignorar las desigualdades y las dolorosas y flagrantes realidades que viven los desposeídos de la ciudad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2023px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863135\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2023\" height=\"1349\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n.jpg 2023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2023px) 100vw, 2023px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Torres, un estudiante de primer año en City College of San Francisco, ayuda cada semana como voluntario en el centro de alimentos en ‘Mission Food Hub’, donde ha escuchado a los adultos mayores de su comunidad lo emocionados que están de recibir la vacuna. Pero no fue hasta que vio a los miembros de Latino Task Force vacunarse que se sintió completamente preparado para vacunarse (cuando esto sea una opción para él). \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>En enero, Jacobo, junto con otros miembros de Latino Task Force que laboran en los esfuerzos para proveer pruebas, recibió su vacuna. Algunos voluntarios lograron presenciar el momento de primera mano. Uno de ellos era Esteban Torres, un estudiante de primer año de la universidad comunitaria City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ya por varias semanas, Torres se había sentido inseguro de recibir la vacuna durante algunas semanas. Pero cuando vio a sus amigos y parientes más cercanos tomar la vacuna, sintió un gran alivio. Y también una gran responsabilidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando vi eso, supe en ese instante que quería ser parte de eso. Quería ser una de esas personas tomando la vacuna, haciendo lo necesario para mi familia y lo más que pueda para mi comunidad”, dijo él.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED ha preparado información sobre cómo y dónde puede vacunarse contra el coronavirus en el Área de la Bahía y está respondiendo las preguntas que tenga sobre el proceso. Revise nuestra guía, disponible en \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\">español\u003c/a> e \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">inglés\u003c/a> aquí.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Los latinos representan el \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-demographics-of-cases-and-deaths-es.aspx\">51% de los casos de coronavirus\u003c/a> en el condado de Santa Clara, pese a que tan sólo forman el 25.8% de la población de esa región. Algunos de los códigos postales que \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases-by-zip-code-and-city.aspx\">reportan los índices de infecciones más altos\u003c/a> en el condado se encuentran en el este de San José y Gilroy, zonas mayormente latinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-vaccine-CAIR2.aspx?mc_cid=fe1c613fca&mc_eid=555c140dcd\">datos del condado\u003c/a> publicados el 19 de febrero, 249 mil 442 residentes del condado de Santa Clara han recibido al menos una dosis de la vacuna. Alrededor del 20% de este grupo son latinos, una cifra por debajo del porcentaje de latinos que han sido contagiados o han muerto a causa de complicaciones relacionadas al COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/press-release-2-11-2021-SCC-launches-drop-in-vaccine-clinic-expand-in-areas-hardest-hit.aspx\">autoridades de salud han expandido\u003c/a> los centros de pruebas y sitios de vacunaciones en estas áreas, cerca de lugares del vecindario muy conocidos como La Placita Tropicana y la Plaza de la herencia mexicana en el este de San José y el centro para adultos mayores en Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero el condado reconoce que la apertura de un nuevo plantel no siempre resulta en que más residentes de ese vecindario se puedan vacunar o hacer la prueba de COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para algunos, puede ser una brecha digital. Para otros, puede ser una cuestión de tiempo por los horarios del trabajo o quizás no se sientan cómodos al ir al sitio”, explicó García.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El programa de las promotoras cierra esa brecha, algo que métodos más tradicionales de salud pública no pueden hacer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La trabajadora de salud pública del condado de Santa Clara, Rocío Ramos, prepara un hisopo nasal para Antonio Orona para una prueba de COVID-19 autoadministrada en su casa en San José el 3 de febrero de 2021. El condado espera que a través de estos intercambios puerta por puerta, se formen relaciones personales que pueden limitar el impacto de la desinformación sobre el virus y la vacuna. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García señala que las promotoras forman conexiones profundas con las familias que conocen, algo que en cambio no siempre ocurre en el portal electrónico para agendar una prueba de coronavirus. A menudo, las promotoras logran convencer a familias enteras que se hagan la prueba. Una de esas familias era la de Janet Franco Orona, residente del este de San José. Ella vive con su marido, suegra e hijo de 1 año.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque ya se ha hecho la prueba antes, Franco Orona se siente un poco nerviosa de llevar a su suegra, quien es una persona de la tercera edad, a uno de los centros de pruebas públicos. “¿Habrá mucha gente contagiada? ¿Nos van a cobrar? Todo esto nos preocupa cuando estamos planeado salir de la casa”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero la promotora que tocó su puerta resultó ser una vieja amiga y ex vecina de su suegra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando la comunidad une todos sus esfuerzos, siempre vamos a abrir la puerta a uno de los nuestros”, dijo Franco Orona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junto con Abonce, otras ocho promotoras van puerta por puerta en el este de San José. A cada residente se les ofrece la oportunidad de hacerse la prueba de COVID-19 sin que se tengan que salir de sus hogares. Las promotoras llevan consigo equipos de pruebas y son los habitantes que usan los hisopos para recolectar las muestras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras que los residentes se hacen la prueba, ella les responde cualquier pregunta que tengan. Muchos quieren saber sobre las nuevas cepas del virus o qué puede hacer el condado si\u003cbr>\nes que ellos dan positivo. Pero cada vez recibe más preguntas sobre la vacuna contra COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hemos escuchado muchísimas cosas que a veces decimos, ‘wow, ¡cómo inventan!'”, ella explicó. “Nos dicen, ‘yo no me voy a vacunar, porque la sacaron bien rápido’, ‘porque me dijeron que sólo le están poniendo pura agua’, otros dicen que le están poniendo un chip a la vacuna”, dijo Abonce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Después de hacerse la prueba de COVID-19, los residentes pueden hacer preguntas a las promotoras sobre el virus o los recursos que ofrece el condado para quienes dan positivo. Sin embargo, las promotoras ahora escuchan a menudo los temores y desinformación de los residentes sobre la vacuna contra el coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“Me voy a vacunar pero no confío en la vacuna”: En donde la historia choca con los miedos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Incluso antes de que la Administración de medicamentos y alimentos (o FDA por sus siglas en inglés) aprobara una vacuna contra coronavirus para usos de emergencia, activistas en favor de la equidad en la salud pública \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">aconsejaban a las autoridades estatales\u003c/a> que se modificara la estrategia para distribuir las vacunas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según estos grupos, cualquier plan de distribución \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">debería tomar en cuenta el impacto inmediato\u003c/a> que ha tenido la pandemia en las comunidades de color California y también las lecciones aprendidas de los esfuerzos para realizar pruebas dentro de estas poblaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En California, \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/es/vaccines/\">ya se han otorgado\u003c/a> 9 millones de vacunas y tan sólo 2.9% de quienes han sido vacunados se consideran afroamericanos pese a que este grupo conforma el 6.2% de las muertes por coronavirus en el estado. Los latinos representan el 46.2% de las \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/es/state-dashboard/\">muertes relacionadas al COVID-19\u003c/a> en California pero sólo han recibido el 16% de las inmunizaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cambios repentinos en el \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\">plan de vacunación del estado\u003c/a> han provocado confusión entre los californianos y un bajo suministro de dosis ha limitado el impacto que pudiesen tener los centros de vacunación masiva, lo que podría complicar aún más el proceso para conectar las vacunas con las poblaciones que más las necesitan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maurice Foster y Paula Petty, una pareja de Oakland, tienen miedo de enfermarse y han hecho todo lo posible para evitar contraer COVID-19. Pero cuentan que perdieron la poca confianza que tenían en las autoridades federales y estatales para que estas provean una vacuna segura cuando vieron la manera en que California ha distribuido las dosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me voy a vacunar pero no confío en la vacuna”, dijo Foster. “Yo no confío en el gobierno. He visto que el Presidente y la primera dama se han vacunado pero aún así. Me voy a vacunar porque no quiero morir, no porque confío en la vacuna,” agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él cree que el proceso para desarrollar la vacuna no fue transparente y le preocupa que el gobierno de Donald Trump influyó la investigación por razones políticas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No pienso que los afroamericanos son más vulnerables a COVID-19”, él afirmó. “Pienso que el gobierno tiene más prejuicio en contra los afroamericanos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1971px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1971\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg 1971w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1971px) 100vw, 1971px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula Petty, izquierda, y Maurice Foster, residentes de Oakland, han hecho todo lo posible para evitar contraer COVID-19. Consideran que tomar la vacuna es un riesgo necesario pero peligroso. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>En San Francisco, Dara Montejo Chel es una estudiante del último año de preparatoria quien ha aprendido sobre los múltiples casos de negligencia médica en las comunidades de color, en especial los casos de esterilizaciones poco éticos que han reportado mujeres afroamericanas y latinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Dawn Wooten, una enfermera de un albergue de migrantes detenidos en Georgia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/inmigracion/denuncian-irregularidades-en-carcel-de-ice-en-georgia-entre-ellas-histerectomias-a-indocumentadas\">presentó una queja\u003c/a> el septiembre pasado, el cual afirma que médicos del plantel estaban realizando histerectomías en las mujeres migrantes sin tener su consentimiento fundamentado, Montejo Chel sintió una corriente de ansiedad por todo su cuerpo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella sabe que la vacuna contra COVID-19 no es una herramienta para esterilizar a la población y cree en la ciencia de la inmunidad. Pero esta historia prevalece en su mente. “Cuando hablamos de investigaciones médicas, nosotros las minorías siempre somos quienes corren más riesgo”, ella dijo. “Por mucho tiempo, el campo médico no ha demostrado que se preocupe por nosotros”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>La doctora \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/alicia.fernandez\">Alicia Fernández\u003c/a>, profesora de medicina en la Universidad de California en San Francisco (UCSF), ha escuchado algo similar cuando plática con sus pacientes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernández investiga cómo expandir el acceso que tienen las comunidades inmigrantes y latinas a cuidados primarios y forma parte de la iniciativa ‘\u003ca href=\"https://unitedinhealth.org/\">Unidos en Salud\u003c/a>‘ que ha desarrollado varios centros de pruebas de COVID-19 en el distrito de la Misión en San Francisco y el distrito de Fruitvale en Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los miedos por la vacuna, afirma Fernández, se encuentran en todos los sectores demográficos pero factores como el acceso a información médica de calidad y las experiencias de vida pueden crear distinciones entre estos sentimientos. Ella ha identificado unas cuantas categorías que le ayudan responder a estas ansiedades de una manera más efectiva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La primera categoría es la desinformación”, dijo ella. La desinformación incluye las creencias que la vacuna tiene efectos secundarios peligrosos (como la infertilidad y una mutación) o que fue desarrollada de una manera muy repentina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La segunda categoría incluye lo que Fernández describe como creencias alternativas de la salud: ideas que están profundamente arraigadas sobre la medicina profesional o que complican que un individuo busque ser inoculado. Creencias alternativas sobre el bienestar algunas a veces pueden tener raíz en tradiciones familiares o la necesidad de recibir atención médica cuando no se puede ir al hospital a causa de falta de cobertura médica o fluidez del idioma en inglés.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Una de estas creencias podría ser nunca vacunarse, nunca poner algo dentro de su cuerpo”, explicó ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y luego hay todo lo demás, pero Fernández señaló que detrás de todas estas experiencias, existe una gran preocupación sobre la salud y la experiencia de recibir atención médica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo que trato de hacer es poner en orden todo lo que la gente está sintiendo. Reconozco que hay muchas razones para que la gente no confíe en sus doctores en este tipo de situación”, dijo ella. “Resurge la historia de los casos de abusos en Puerto Rico, como en la República Dominicana y otros lugares”, agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A lo largo del siglo 20, el Consejo de eugenesia de Puerto Rico \u003ca href=\"https://www.lanoticia.com/estados-unidos-tiene-una-larga-historia-de-esterilizaciones-forzadas/\">impulsó y monitoreó cientos de miles de esterilizaciones\u003c/a> de mujeres en la isla como un método para controlar el crecimiento de la población. Muchas de estas mujeres no recibieron suficiente información por parte de su doctor sobre el procedimiento y tenían la impresión de que la cirugía podría ser revertida fácilmente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las pláticas en persona entre un paciente y su doctor son cruciales, sostiene Fernández, porque es en ese momento que un médico puede escuchar e intentar comprender todo lo que siente su paciente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si el doctor se siente cómodo haciéndolo, es importante compartir un poco de nuestras historias de porque decidimos tomar la vacuna”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poder hablar de su propia experiencia con la vacuna ha resultado ser una estrategia bastante efectiva para el doctor Adrian James, jefe de medicina de la clínica \u003ca href=\"https://westoaklandhealth.org/\">West Oakland Health Council\u003c/a> (o WOHC por sus siglas en inglés), quien ha tenido que resolver las preocupaciones no sólo de sus pacientes sino también de su personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WOHC atiende a casi 8 mil pacientes al año, muchos de ellos son residentes afroamericanos del este de la Bahía. El pasado diciembre, WOHC anunció una colaboración con el sistema de salud estatal Covered California para enfrentar los miedos de la vacuna en las comunidades afroamericanas en el estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hago claro que este es un problema comunitario”, dijo James. “Esto es de todos. Esto no es el experimento Tuskegee, cuando sólo se trataba de hombres afroamericanos. Esta es una situación que involucra a toda la comunidad. Le estamos pidiendo a todos que se vacunen”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Yo quiero ser una de ellos que se está vacunando’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Durante los últimos nueve meses, el grupo de trabajo Latino Task Force, una colaboración compuesta de decenas de organizaciones sin fines de lucro, el Departamento de salud pública de San Francisco y el programa Unidos en Salud de UCSF, ha ofrecido sitios de pruebas de COVID-19 cada semana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En estos centros, Jon Jacobo, jefe de salud del grupo de trabajo, ha podido hablar con cientos de residentes latinos e inmigrantes mientras esperan hacer la prueba del coronavirus o ser vacunados contra la influenza. Ha notado que los sentimientos acerca de vacunarse, tanto para la influenza como para COVID-19, pueden diferir según la generación y la experiencia de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando tuvimos el taller para recibir la vacuna contra la influenza el septiembre pasado, las personas que venían a vacunarse más eran por gran parte quienes sólo hablan español”, dijo él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según Jacobo, los inmigrantes que acababan de llegar al país eran los que estaban más entusiasmados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En nuestros países, quizás no tienes acceso a cuidado de salud gratuito. Y ahora que estás en Estados Unidos y esto se ofrece, podría ser una muy buena idea aprovechar de esta oportunidad”, explicó Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Por otro lado, es entre los hijos y nietos de inmigrantes y los residentes más jóvenes en donde él ha notado que existen más dudas acerca de la vacuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para quienes nacieron y fueron criados aquí, hay mucha más desinformación en las redes sociales”, dijo Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, él señala que a pesar de todo, estos sentimientos negativos son mucho menos comunes de lo esperado. El mes pasado, Latino Task Force logró sondear a más de 6 mil personas en su sitios de pruebas ubicado en la esquina de las calles Misión y 24. Jacobo calcula que más del 80% de quienes respondieron a la encuesta tienen una opinión muy favorable de la vacuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él espera que su equipo pueda publicar todos los datos de la encuesta en los próximos meses, pero según Jacobo, los resultados iniciales indican que los encuestados confían mucho menos en las autoridades locales y estatales que en los doctores e iniciativas comunitarias como Latino Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que la ciudad debe de aprender que está bien no siempre tener todas las respuestas a cada momento”, explicó él. “A veces no siempre tenemos que tener una respuesta lista. Tenemos que sentirnos cómodos con decir, ‘Estamos trabajando en eso y llegaremos a ese punto’ “.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero factores como la confusión sobre dónde y cómo se puede vacunar uno y una falta de acceso a estos lugares puede provocar desconfianza para la vacuna en lugares en donde esto no existía antes, agregó Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El primer centro comunitario de vacunación en San Francisco abrió sus puertas el pasado \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11858171/san-francisco-opens-mission-district-vaccine-site\">2 de febrero\u003c/a>, en el distrito de la Misión, gracias en parte a los esfuerzos de de Latino Task Force, que hizo claro la necesidad de proveer vacunas en el corazón de la Misión, a una cuadra de la estación del BART de la calle 24, donde se ofrecen pruebas cada semana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esfuerzos comunitarios, como Latino Task Force, necesitan a proveedores de salud y autoridades de salud pública tanto como estos necesitan a la comunidad para proveer confianza y credibilidad a los esfuerzos de vacunación, dijo Jacobo. Esta colaboración es efectiva cuando miembros de la comunidad lideran e influyen las iniciativas mientras que los otros dos colaboradores escuchan siguen y financian de una manera activa este trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como una médico académica, en verdad me ha ayudado mucho trabajar más de cerca con organizaciones de la comunidad”, dijo Fernández de UCSF. Ella piensa que este modelo diseñado para contener la pandemia y ampliar el acceso a la vacuna puede ser replicado para combatir otras crisis que afectan de manera desproporcionada a poblaciones afroamericanas y latinas, como la diabetes y la obesidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vamos a necesitar mucho más cambio estructural, que conlleva cambiar los factores determinantes de la salud y eso va a requerir que todos nosotros trabajemos juntos”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En cuanto al futuro de la coalición, estos esfuerzos no deben terminar después de que termine la pandemia, dijo Jacobo. “Sé que a partir de ahora, vamos a estar trabajando con la ciudad en esta nueva normalidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agregó, “No creo que ninguno de nosotros quiera volver a ignorar las desigualdades y las dolorosas y flagrantes realidades que viven los desposeídos de la ciudad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2023px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863135\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2023\" height=\"1349\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n.jpg 2023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2023px) 100vw, 2023px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Torres, un estudiante de primer año en City College of San Francisco, ayuda cada semana como voluntario en el centro de alimentos en ‘Mission Food Hub’, donde ha escuchado a los adultos mayores de su comunidad lo emocionados que están de recibir la vacuna. Pero no fue hasta que vio a los miembros de Latino Task Force vacunarse que se sintió completamente preparado para vacunarse (cuando esto sea una opción para él). \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>En enero, Jacobo, junto con otros miembros de Latino Task Force que laboran en los esfuerzos para proveer pruebas, recibió su vacuna. Algunos voluntarios lograron presenciar el momento de primera mano. Uno de ellos era Esteban Torres, un estudiante de primer año de la universidad comunitaria City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ya por varias semanas, Torres se había sentido inseguro de recibir la vacuna durante algunas semanas. Pero cuando vio a sus amigos y parientes más cercanos tomar la vacuna, sintió un gran alivio. Y también una gran responsabilidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando vi eso, supe en ese instante que quería ser parte de eso. 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"content": "\u003cp>Repulsive. Bullying. Disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the words Berkeley parents are using to describe an attack-style video posted over the weekend by a group calling itself “Guerilla Momz.” The video shows Berkeley Federation of Teachers President Matt Meyer dropping off his daughter at in-person preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín issued a statement about the video on Tuesday, calling to calm conflict and division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all have the same goal and want what is best for our children,” he wrote. “Stalking the President of the Berkeley Teachers Federation and his young child unnecessarily stokes divisions and creates polarization at a time when we need unity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11862469\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Guerilla Momz group claimed hypocrisy on the part of a union leader who fought for teacher vaccinations for safety reasons before returning his teachers to classrooms, and for publicly questioning how well kids could adhere to masking requirements. The video soon went viral. Local outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862469/after-leading-school-closures-berkeley-teachers-union-president-spotted-dropping-daughter-off-at-in-person-preschool\">KQED\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Video-of-Berkeley-teachers-union-chief-taking-15990654.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/01/video-berkeley-teachers-union-president-criticized-as-hypocrite-for-taking-kid-to-school/\">Mercury News\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/03/01/covid-group-calls-berkeley-teachers-union-leader-a-hypocrite-for-taking-child-to-private-preschool/\">KPIX\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/berkeley-teachers-union-leader-criticized-after-video-surfaces/2480330/\">NBC Bay Area covered it\u003c/a>, splashing the video across television sets around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also retweeted by Donald Trump Jr., and landed on the homepage of national outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-does-california-teachers-union-president-send-own-child-person-school-1572992\">Newsweek\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2021/03/01/california-teachers-union-head-slammed-for-taking-kid-to-school/\">New York Post\u003c/a>, Fox News and conservative websites like The Blaze and Breitbart, where it was derided by political conservatives. Soon, people across the nation furious over the pace of school reopenings set their sights on Berkeley, and its teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that fury took an emotional toll on some Berkeley teachers and parents. And some firmly disagreed with groups pushing for reopening schools that any “hypocrisy” had taken place at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GuerillaMomz\">Guerilla Momz\u003c/a> seized specifically on one issue: a high-profile union official with the power over thousands of families’ futures who publicly argued teachers needed vaccines in order to safely mingle with children from varying households, and that schools could not be reopened until that criterion was met, but who then freely allowed his own child to mingle with other households and caregivers who may not necessarily have been vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, they argued his public statements did not meet his private life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Peter Ross, Berkeley Unified parent\"]‘Rather than attacking our teachers, community members should be advocating for more resources for them. What is at risk here is the community’s overall support of a healthy education system that serves all of our children.’[/pullquote]But many in the community instead seized on the idea of a public school versus private, and argued there are no public preschools for children the age of Meyer’s toddler, rendering the argument a nonissue. They also saw a union leader working hard to represent the voices of his union members, and did not believe his role in deciding school reopenings met the threshold to publicly debate his private choices. They said he was a parent who, like many parents, faced few good choices about how to provide child care for a toddler while balancing work and community life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If folks want to do something, the productive thing is to create a community dialogue where you bring together different stakeholders and you do it in a constructive, positive way, not hiding behind anonymous Twitter names,” said Peter Ross, a Berkeley parent. “Instead, put your name out there and do something productive, bring folks together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents and teachers alike also critiqued the reopening schools groups for amplifying the voices of predominantly white, affluent parents who were crying out for “equity” in the name of marginalized students while ignoring the needs and desires of those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED heard from many who were disheartened and felt their voices were lost in the outcry of more privileged parents who have been the most vocal for reopenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have collected some of the testimonials, here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“My heart is heavy. My community is falling apart. My instinct is to run away and hide. I don’t like that.” — Sara Hougan, Berkeley Unified parent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s frankly revolting to attack teachers at this time, because every educator I know is working more hours with more stress to care for our children than they ever have before. Vilifying our teachers and their union is completely unproductive. Rather than attacking our teachers, community members should be advocating for more resources for them. What is at risk here is the community’s overall support of a healthy education system that serves all of our children well.” — Peter Ross, Berkeley Unified parent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What exactly is the hypocrisy? …that some teachers have found private child care for their young children so that they can do their jobs while working tirelessly to figure out the incredibly complex issue surrounding school’s opening in person? Is the hypocrisy that there is a small, minority of parents who have used their privilege and power to create a public narrative which claims to speak for us all, but actually doesn’t?” — Allison Krasnow, Willard Middle School eighth grade math teacher, via her blog\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really upsetting as a parent to sort of see the narrative building of parents versus teachers, because I don’t actually think that’s a fair representation of where we truly are as a community. I’m a parent volunteer and so I do a lot of work on the PTA working closely with the principals to find out exactly how parents can volunteer. Support is going to be the only way we can be actually helpful. I don’t see how fighting is going to be helpful. — Chaghig Walker, Berkeley Unified parent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As someone who serves two elementary schools, I’m in touch with families every single day, I know that the sentiments and the concerns about returning to in-person school are there. They’re real and they’re complex.” — Laura Rivas, Berkeley Unified parent and a family engagement specialist for the district\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just deeply distressing because it goes so far beyond the bounds of decency. And my fear is that it breaks a really important bond that we have with our teachers. We entrust them to teach our children, not just all of these subjects, but how to be good people and how to make friends and how to have a social consciousness … To bully them in this way is horrifying to me.” — Christine Staples, former Berkeley Unified parent and PTA leader\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Taking note of the outcry of parents and teachers, Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Brent Stephens addressed the video in a message to the school community, condemning the video as an invasion of privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing is served by treating members of our community, including our teachers … as the enemy,” he wrote. “We compromise our collective well-being if we don’t respect one another and treat each other with compassion. We have a path forward. It’s one we have to walk together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='school-reopening']The group behind the video declined to identify its members for fear of retaliation, prompting others to criticize their unwillingness to extend the same courtesy to Meyer and his young daughter. Though the 2-year-old’s image is blurred in the video, Meyer told KQED being followed and filmed frightened her and other children in the vicinity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862469/after-leading-school-closures-berkeley-teachers-union-president-spotted-dropping-daughter-off-at-in-person-preschool\">he told KQED\u003c/a> one of the self-identified moms following his family “scared my kid and the others in the vicinity. It was super inappropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s school district and teachers union announced a tentative agreement in February, saying teachers should be vaccinated to pave the way for a hybrid system of in-person and remote learning that is set to begin rollout in this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the Guerilla Momz did not identify themselves, and their message comes in a broader movement that some parents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">are concerned about coming overwhelmingly from affluent white voices\u003c/a>, parents and teachers worry the voices of Black, Latino and Asian families are being lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various Bay Area school district surveys in San Francisco and the East Bay show those communities are less enthusiastic about returning to in-person learning than white families, to various degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The bill does not require school staff to be vaccinated or offered vaccines, but it does codify Newsom's promise that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11862207/california-to-dedicate-75000-doses-per-week-for-teachers-education-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10% of the state's doses\u003c/a> will be reserved for education workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today’s proposed agreement includes the multi-tiered safety measures educators have been calling for,\" said California Teachers Association President E. Toby Boyd, in a statement. \"It recognizes community transmission rates and the importance of prioritizing educators for the COVID-19 vaccine before reopening for in-person instruction. We commend the governor and the Legislature for recognizing those concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal also comes with a stricter timeline than those floated since December, when Newsom first unveiled a framework to resume in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the deal is enacted, districts have three weeks to post a reopening plan. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated March 2\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#statement\">Read a KQED editorial statement about this story\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent groups are crying “hypocrisy” after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjfxgDx9xFA&feature=emb_title\">video\u003c/a> surfaced showing the president of the Berkeley teachers union dropping off his 2-year-old daughter at an in-person preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Meyer, president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, has fought for what he called the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/02/17/berkeley-unified-announces-tentative-plan-to-return-to-hybrid-learning-this-spring\">gold standard\u003c/a>” for the teachers he represents — saying Berkeley schools should only reopen to in-person learning when educators are vaccinated, among other criteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tentative plan between the Berkeley Unified School District and Berkeley Federation of Teachers in mid-February would see preschoolers through second grade returning to class at the end of March and other grades staggering back to in-person learning through April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/02/17/berkeley-unified-announces-tentative-plan-to-return-to-hybrid-learning-this-spring\">according to Berkeleyside\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some Berkeley parents have claimed that the union is moving too slow and are pushing for earlier school reopenings. They have long argued — and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has agreed — that schools are safe to reopen without vaccinations for all teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jonathan Zachreson, founder of Reopen California Schools\"]‘Why is that safe for him and those people who work there (at the preschool), but not for all of the kids in Berkeley Unified and the teachers? The answer is: It is safe.’[/pullquote]Looking to prove a double-standard by the Berkeley Federation of Teachers union president, they followed Meyer and his 2-year-old daughter to her preschool, camera in hand. The footage they captured has ignited the ire of parents groups fighting teachers unions — and Meyer in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Shelene Stine treats COVID-19 patients at Highland Hospital’s Department of Internal Medicine, but she’s also a parent of 3-year-old twins who attend the same preschool as Meyer’s daughter. Stine also has a 5-year-old attending kindergarten at a Berkeley Unified School District school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The divide between the quality in-person teaching her twins receive at the preschool — which includes “play-based learning” — compared to the senses-dulling video screens her 5-year-old looks at for distance learning is a yawning chasm, she said. She has spoken at rallies to reopen public schools and written public letters to the Berkeley Unified School District to push them to reopen safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley teachers have claimed that kids may not honor masking requirements, which Stine says her personal experience contradicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a physician. It is definitively the scientific agreement that it is possible to deliver safe in-person education,” Stine said. “It’s infuriating to know Matt Meyer says kids can’t wear masks when kids in his preschool wear them all day long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer, for his part, said the incident was an intrusion on his child’s privacy. While the group who filmed his family, who call themselves “Guerilla Momz,” did blur out his daughter in their video, they managed to spook her, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have my two-year-old in preschool. Unfortunately, there are not public schools for kids her age. We are excited that we will be reopening soon with a plan that our members and the district supports,” Meyer said in a text message to KQED Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that of the people following him and his daughter, one “scared my kid and the others in the vicinity. It was super inappropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email addressed to the Berkeley Unified community on Monday, BUSD Superintendent Brent Stephens said the Guerilla Momz video “invade[d] the privacy of a family in our school community and target[ed] one of our educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephens appealed to both parents and educators for calm and mutual respect as the district prepares for reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In less than a month, we will have the opportunity to be together again on our school campuses,” Stephens wrote. “We will need each other in order to stay safe. Looking to what’s ahead of us … nothing is served by treating members of our community, including our teachers – and the teacher who represents them as their union president – as the enemy. We compromise our collective well-being if we don’t respect one another and treat each other with compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GuerillaMomz\">@guerillaMomz\u003c/a> group declined to identify individual members by name, fearing retaliation against their kids at school. But they refuted that they scared his child, claiming they were walking quietly to avoid catching audio on the video they recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d heard for a while that he sent his kid to private preschool and we’ve been hearing him make crazy claims at the school board meetings — it was ‘too dangerous’ for schools to open because kids wouldn’t wear masks. Meanwhile, his kid is wearing a mask at school,” the group said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though KQED is not identifying the preschool Meyer’s child was attending by name, the school’s website says for every one teacher there are four to five children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video has surfaced at a unique political moment. Groups representing parents have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\">emerged as a major political force in California\u003c/a> and are vehemently pushing for school reopenings putting them at odds with teachers unions who largely want vaccines before they feel safe restarting in-person instruction. Those parent groups have protested in Berkeley, called for the ouster of school board members in Oakley, California, and rallied against San Francisco Unified School District teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity has emerged as a fault line in those discussions, with white parents overwhelmingly wishing for the return to in-person instruction \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">in SFUSD surveys\u003c/a>, while Black and brown parents show less enthusiasm about returning and Asian parents are on the opposite end of the spectrum, feeling cautious about the return to in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in this environment, is Meyer’s move to bring his daughter into preschool truly hypocrisy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More on Education' tag='education']Yalda Modabber thinks in-person preschool could pose more risks for those teachers. She’s the executive director of the El Cerrito nonprofit preschool and elementary school \u003ca href=\"https://golestankids.com/\">Golestan Education, \u003c/a>and its accompanying educational consultancy firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before her career as an educator, Modabber spent 15 years as an immunologist. She is also the parent of two students, ages 14 and 17, in the Berkeley Unified School District. And she is on an advisory panel for Berkeley school reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modabber didn’t want to speak specifically about the preschool Meyer’s child is attending because she hasn’t looked into it. But in general, she is concerned about the safety of preschool teachers, even \u003cem>more so \u003c/em>than that of elementary school teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The older the children are, the more able they are to control their bodies and they need less physical comforting. So in a preschool setting, you have children that will throughout the day need to be comforted and held,” Modabber said. “And so there’s no way to maintain that proximity (like social distancing).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did caution that smaller children aren’t as likely to spread COVID-19 due to lower lung capacity and fewer of the cell receptors that make viral transmission more viable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So in seeing this video, I’m sort of torn,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Shelene Stine, Highland Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine\"]‘It’s infuriating to know Matt Meyer says kids can’t wear masks when kids in his preschool wear them all day long.’[/pullquote]On the other hand, with Berkeley’s school district, “we’re talking about 10,000 students and the class sizes are large. So you have one teacher for 20 to 30 kids. It’s very different from a preschool or day care where they may have one teacher for six kids,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the comparison of public schools with more children to private ones with fewer class sizes, Meyer agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer said that his job is to advocate for the will of the teachers in his union, and where he sends his own children is a “personal choice.” Preschools, he said, are “a completely different universe from an elementary school in terms of size, services provided, outside space and public health guidelines. I don’t have elementary school-aged children,” he said. “So I haven’t had to make those choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to many parents, those distinctions are a moot point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely opposite of what he’s pushing,” said Jonathan Zachreson, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ReopenCASchools/status/1365963005679181829\">Reopen California Schools\u003c/a>, which counts Berkeley parents among many of its members. “So why is that safe for him and those people who work there (at the preschool), but not for all of the kids in Berkeley Unified and the teachers? The answer is: It is safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley parent Mara Kolesas, \u003ca href=\"https://marakolesas.medium.com/false-oppositions-unions-equity-and-education-as-a-public-good-7fe0731c592a\">a former PTA Berkeley Council president\u003c/a>, said while she understands the anger felt by parents — and agrees schools should be opened — following Meyer’s 2-year-old with a camera crosses a line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not agree with it at all,” Kolesas said. Conflating private preschools and public schools is one mistake, she said. Another is mixing the political with the personal, which to her dilutes the clearer message that most science agrees schools can reopen safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, you don’t need to attack people personally, you need to address it politically. 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So I have to be that backbone for them, I have to be that support that I wish I had.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be the first time the 22-year-old has had stable housing since he was kicked out of his home at age 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no words to describe how good it feels to be here,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://youthspiritartworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/YSA_Overview.pdf\">Tiny House Empowerment Village\u003c/a> on Hegenberger Road just south of the Oakland Coliseum will operate as a transitional housing center for young people ages 18-25 in 26 tiny houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://youthspiritartworks.org/\">Youth Spirit Artworks\u003c/a>, a Berkeley-based nonprofit arts and job training program for low-income youth, spearheaded the tiny house project since planning began in 2017. Artists, activists and over 2,000 volunteers from the community and faith-based organizations built the village over two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1702px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11862025 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1702\" height=\"1241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2.jpg 1702w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2-800x583.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2-1020x744.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2-1536x1120.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1702px) 100vw, 1702px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘That used to be me. I used to sleep on the bus, on abandoned roofs, sleeping behind the dumpster, that was my bed for the night,’ said Ernie Sandoval, who moved into the Tiny House Empowerment Village in Oakland on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(MJ Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sean Williams-McCreary, 20, a community organizer for YSA, has been involved in the planning and building of the village since its inception. As someone who has faced homelessness and housing insecurity since he was 11 years old, he said finally seeing the village completed is overwhelming and cathartic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like watching a seed grow, and people that care a whole lot water it,” said Williams-McCreary, who will live on-site at the village as a resident assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to build a familial environment,” he said. “So I have to be that backbone for them, I have to be that support that I wish I had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Williams-McCreary, community organizer for Youth Spirit Artworks, stands outside the Tiny House Empowerment Village for unhoused youth on Feb. 19, 2021 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(MJ Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each tiny house measures 8 feet by 10 feet, and includes a pull-out bed, a desk and chair, closet space, electricity and heating. Shared bathrooms, communal kitchens, gardens and community spaces within the village are part of the services on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Transportation Working Group donated bicycles for all the residents. Residents will be able to stay for up to two years and receive opportunities for employment and jobs training from YSA programs. Four resident assistants, including Williams-McCreary, will also live in the village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/its_mjj/status/1364732438878953472\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval said his dream is to one day be a film editor, and that he spoke with a case manager from YSA about applying to film school. But his first priority is getting his basic needs met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A good night’s sleep, a place where I don’t have to hold onto my backpack, that’s what I’m actually really looking forward to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019HIRDReport_Berkeley_2019-Final.pdf\">A 2019 study\u003c/a> on homelessness in Alameda County found that unhoused young people have a harder time accessing services including shelter, medical care and employment due to stigma and a lack of knowledge about available resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 8,022 people experiencing homelessness in Alameda County, 9% are transition-age youth, 18-24 years old, according to the 2019 point-in-time count. 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