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"content": "\u003cp>Documents obtained by NPR shed new light on a bitter fight between defrauded student borrowers and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These borrowers — more than 200,000 of them — say some for-profit colleges lied to them about their job prospects and the transferability of credits. They argue they were defrauded and that the Education Department should erase their federal student loan debt under \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/777262292/betsy-devos-and-the-high-stakes-standoff-over-student-loan-forgiveness\">a rule called “borrower defense.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos disagrees: She says most student borrowers still got value from these schools and deserve only \u003cem>partial\u003c/em> relief from their federal loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, internal Education Department memos obtained by NPR show that career staff in the department’s Borrower Defense Unit came down firmly on the side of defrauded borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memos show this unit reviewed thousands of borrower complaints against now-defunct, for-profit colleges, including Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute. Just weeks before DeVos was sworn in as secretary, the unit recommended to the department’s political leadership that these borrowers deserve no less than full relief from their student debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6572882-1-9-2017-Memo\">One memo, dated Jan. 9, 2017\u003c/a>, begins: “Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (‘Corinthian’) consistently represented that all graduates obtained jobs after graduation or, relatedly, that its students were guaranteed employment after graduation. These representations were false and misleading. Accordingly, the Borrower Defense Unit recommends full relief for Corinthian borrower defense (BD) applicants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6572883-1-10-2017-Memo\">Another memo, dated the next day\u003c/a> — Jan. 10, 2017 — arrived at the same conclusion for California-based students who allege they were lied to by ITT Technical Institute, and likewise recommended full relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A Counternarrative to DeVos’ Position\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Until now, these internal department memos have been hidden from public view. Lawmakers had previously requested access to them, but DeVos and her department refused to hand them over. Instead, DeVos has criticized the Obama administration for lack of due diligence in processing borrower defense claims. In a Nov. 7 letter to Rep. 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Instead of limiting students’ debt relief by arguing, as DeVos does, that defrauded borrowers still got some value from their educations, these memos arrive at a different conclusion: that credits earned from Corinthian and ITT schools are essentially worthless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hundreds of unprompted student statements confirm that lack of value of an ITT education, as ITT students time and again report that their education was sub-standard and that their degree or affiliation with the school was an impediment rather than an asset as they sought employment,” reads the Jan. 10, 2017, memo. It concludes: “Given this extensively well-documented, pervasive, and highly publicized misconduct, the Department has determined that the value of an ITT education — like Corinthian — is likely either negligible or non-existent. … Accordingly, it is appropriate for the Department to award eligible borrowers full relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memos also include quotes from individual borrowers. In the Jan, 9, 2017, memo, a Corinthian graduate complains, “I was told I would find a job in my field. … I ‘graduated’ and still can’t find a job that will honor my degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employers will not touch me,” says a borrower quoted in \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6572884-10-24-2016-Memo\">a memo dated Oct. 24, 2016\u003c/a>. “After graduating I posted a resume online. I did not receive any responses until I removed [the school’s name] from my resume.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another borrower says, “People just laugh in my face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘With Extreme Displeasure’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The education secretary has the authority to override the recommendations of department staff, and DeVos has done just that. On Tuesday, the department unveiled a new plan to calculate how much defrauded students benefited from their educations and thus how much, if any, debt relief they deserve. Under this new model, most borrowers are unlikely to qualify for full relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the release, the department’s new plan will compare the median earnings of defrauded borrowers to the earnings of students who attended similar programs at other schools. “If the earnings from the school in question under the [borrower defense] application are lower than the median for that program at all comparable schools, then they will be determined to have suffered harm and will receive student loan relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11782808,news_11637321,news_10908778\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new plan, DeVos said Tuesday, “treats students fairly and ensures that taxpayers who did not go to college or who faithfully paid off their student loans do not shoulder student loan costs for those who didn’t suffer harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos has argued for years that the Obama administration’s full-relief interpretation of the borrower defense rule was too lenient. In a\u003ca href=\"https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/22/mackinac-devos-romney-mcdaniel/105897636/\"> 2017 speech\u003c/a>, she said, “While students should have protections from predatory practices, schools and taxpayers should also be treated fairly as well. Under the previous rules, all one had to do was raise his or her hands to be entitled to so-called free money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When DeVos had to sign off on thousands of borrower defense claims that had already been approved by the previous administration, she added three words below her signature: “with extreme displeasure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Education Department press secretary Angela Morabito tells NPR: ” \u003cem>‘\u003c/em>Full relief’ sounds nice, but it really means ‘full liability’ for taxpayers – and that’s not fair in cases where a borrower is not entitled to it. That’s why it’s imperative that we consider each Borrower Defense claim individually. To force taxpayers to provide blanket forgiveness would be abandoning our duty to be good stewards of tax dollars. The Department will provide student loan relief to those who qualify for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos’ new plan is the department’s second attempt at resolving the more than 200,000 outstanding borrower defense claims. The first attempt was blocked in May 2018 by Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Kim said the department’s use of income data violated students’ privacy, and she ordered DeVos to stop collecting on the debts of certain Corinthian students. In October, Kim fined DeVos $100,000 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/25/773334681/devos-held-in-contempt-of-court-ed-department-fined-100-000-in-student-loan-case\">contempt of court\u003c/a> after it was revealed the department had not stopped collections. The department apologized, calling the collections a mistake, and said it was quickly moving to issue refunds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear whether DeVos’ new use of earnings data will also run afoul of the law. 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"content": "\u003cp>A new production of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thepeoplesconservatory.org/events-1/kola-an-afro-diasporic-remix-of-the-nutcracker\">KOLA: An Afro Diasporic Remix of the Nutcracker\u003c/a>” is hitting the stage in Oakland this holiday season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a twist on the traditional ballet: There’s no nutcracker, there’s no mouse, and there’s no Clara either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790392\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790392\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil Clement dances as Ogun during a rehearsal at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazil Clement dances as Ogun during a rehearsal at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, 13-year-old dancer Amelinda Origunwa performs the lead role of Nzingha, who travels the African diaspora, learning different kinds of dance as the show unfolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s Afro-Haitian, Afro-Cuban, all the different Orisha dances. There’s ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, break-dancing. And flamenco,” said Origunwa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790396\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Samara Cole-Mercado dancing as Yemanja during a rehearsal at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samara Cole-Mercado dancing as Yemanja during a rehearsal at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Report Magazine’s Sasha Khokha spoke with Rozz Nash, the founder and director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.thepeoplesconservatory.org/\">The People’s Conservatory\u003c/a>, the dance company putting on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"RyanNicole Peters, co-writer, co-director and lead dramatist (left) sits with Rozz Nash, executive director of The People’s Conservatory, during a rehearsal at Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in Oakland on Dec. 5, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RyanNicole Peters, co-writer, co-director and lead dramatist (left) sits with Rozz Nash, executive director of The People’s Conservatory, during a rehearsal at Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in Oakland on Dec. 5, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: the quotes below have been edited for clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>On what makes this show different\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nNash: Ours really tours the globe, and focuses on not only the dances and music from different cultures, but also some of their gods, spirits and practices. We work Orishas into our work from the Ife tradition. We’re also focusing on a different, innovative narrative we created, which is not like “The Nutcracker” at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790389\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Break dancers rehearse at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Break dancers rehearse at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>On the plot\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nash: We still have a young girl who’s a protagonist. Nzingha is13, and she’s desperately looking for connection. She’s looking to find her roots and what it is about this world that is meant for her to explore. We take her on a journey along the trans-Aatlantic slave trade from West Africa to Brazil to Cuba to Haiti to Spain, and we end up back in the continental U.S. All this is done through diasporic dances, music, movement and culture. We have an incredible creative team (including local artists Kev Choice, Jennifer Johns, and RyanNicole) that helped make it possible, so we jump from one culture to another through the music and story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790398\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Dancers rehearse for a new production from The People's Conservatory called Kola: An Afro Diasporic Remix of The Nutcracker.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers rehearse for a new production from The People’s Conservatory called ‘Kola: An Afro Diasporic Remix of The Nutcracker.’ \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>On The People’s Conservatory\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nash: The People’s Conservatory started about a year and half ago, but I’ve been working with these youth for five years at a school called \u003ca href=\"http://rosesinconcrete.org/\">Roses in Concrete,\u003c/a> where I was the director of performing and visual arts. We basically created an integrated arts school. Now that we are in 10 schools, we’re able to provide services to many more people and young people, and some of our students have gone off to other places. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new production of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thepeoplesconservatory.org/events-1/kola-an-afro-diasporic-remix-of-the-nutcracker\">KOLA: An Afro Diasporic Remix of the Nutcracker\u003c/a>” is hitting the stage in Oakland this holiday season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a twist on the traditional ballet: There’s no nutcracker, there’s no mouse, and there’s no Clara either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790392\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790392\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil Clement dances as Ogun during a rehearsal at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40401_RS40379__DSC8544_edited-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazil Clement dances as Ogun during a rehearsal at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, 13-year-old dancer Amelinda Origunwa performs the lead role of Nzingha, who travels the African diaspora, learning different kinds of dance as the show unfolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s Afro-Haitian, Afro-Cuban, all the different Orisha dances. There’s ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, break-dancing. And flamenco,” said Origunwa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790396\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Samara Cole-Mercado dancing as Yemanja during a rehearsal at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40403_RS40386__DSC8282_edited-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samara Cole-Mercado dancing as Yemanja during a rehearsal at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Report Magazine’s Sasha Khokha spoke with Rozz Nash, the founder and director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.thepeoplesconservatory.org/\">The People’s Conservatory\u003c/a>, the dance company putting on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"RyanNicole Peters, co-writer, co-director and lead dramatist (left) sits with Rozz Nash, executive director of The People’s Conservatory, during a rehearsal at Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in Oakland on Dec. 5, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40398_RS40355__DSC7322_edited-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RyanNicole Peters, co-writer, co-director and lead dramatist (left) sits with Rozz Nash, executive director of The People’s Conservatory, during a rehearsal at Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in Oakland on Dec. 5, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: the quotes below have been edited for clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>On what makes this show different\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nNash: Ours really tours the globe, and focuses on not only the dances and music from different cultures, but also some of their gods, spirits and practices. We work Orishas into our work from the Ife tradition. We’re also focusing on a different, innovative narrative we created, which is not like “The Nutcracker” at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790389\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Break dancers rehearse at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40399_RS40363__DSC7503_edited-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Break dancers rehearse at Sullivan Community Space in Oakland on Dec. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>On the plot\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nash: We still have a young girl who’s a protagonist. Nzingha is13, and she’s desperately looking for connection. She’s looking to find her roots and what it is about this world that is meant for her to explore. We take her on a journey along the trans-Aatlantic slave trade from West Africa to Brazil to Cuba to Haiti to Spain, and we end up back in the continental U.S. All this is done through diasporic dances, music, movement and culture. We have an incredible creative team (including local artists Kev Choice, Jennifer Johns, and RyanNicole) that helped make it possible, so we jump from one culture to another through the music and story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790398\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Dancers rehearse for a new production from The People's Conservatory called Kola: An Afro Diasporic Remix of The Nutcracker.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40404_RS40361__DSC7456_edited-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers rehearse for a new production from The People’s Conservatory called ‘Kola: An Afro Diasporic Remix of The Nutcracker.’ \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Reeling from a fire-ravaged autumn in which “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/school-closures-california-wildfire-outage-flood-water-electricity-guns-snow-days-disaster/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster days\u003c/a>” have already cost some 800,000 students days and even weeks of instruction, California educators are asking the state to address one of the most sweeping consequences of climate-fueled wildfire: the now-annual mass emergency \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-school-closures-wildfire-middletown-paradise-disaster-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closures of schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, where some schools have lost nearly 40 instructional days in two years to wildfires, floods and power shutoffs, one superintendent is leading a lobbying campaign for “summer disaster relief” school funding to underwrite summer school in fire country. In Butte County, another has told lawmakers that pre-emptive blackouts forced him to choose between educating kids in the dark or risking $107,000 per day in attendance-based state money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]The pleas for more state involvement — expected to be a focus when the Legislature reconvenes in the New Year — are a departure in a state where local control has been the K-12 mantra, not only for districts but also for the state’s powerful teachers unions. The difference, school officials say, is the onset of climate-driven disasters.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the rural North Coast, a state senator and former school board member says he’s planning to push for school-based microgrids in 2020 so classrooms have backup the next time utilities cut the power to avoid sparking another inferno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in letters, meetings and public testimony, alarmed school officials — and, in some cases, students — have called for stronger state action as the state’s public school system struggles to educate some 6 million students in the face of more and more frequent climate emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law requires schools to provide at least 180 days of annual instruction. The Legislature can penalize them financially by withholding attendance-based aid if they don’t meet that threshold, though in natural disasters, the state usually waives those penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond that, schools have broad autonomy under the state constitution, leaving the California Department of Education with little more than the power to advise on such issues as school cancellations. Whether to build emergency days into the school calendar or sacrifice instruction for smoky air or a precautionary power outage is up to each individual district. The result, educators say, has been a patchwork of confusion in a crisis that’s only widening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/866e81c5-fb48-437f-8869-db08556afc0c?src=embed\" title=\"DISASTER DAYS 2 - Schools / Students Impacted by Year\" width=\"800\" height=\"815\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CDE spokesman said the department is soliciting district interest in a disaster response task force and gathering information for a possible policy proposal next year on lost instructional time. Otherwise, the department and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond have mostly urged schools in high-risk areas to adjust their calendars for disasters and to stump for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2019/11/school-bond-2020-support-ppic-poll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school bond initiative\u003c/a> on the March ballot so money will be available for generators and fireproofing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pleas for more state involvement — expected to be a focus when the Legislature reconvenes in the New Year — are a departure in a state where local control has been the K-12 mantra, not only for districts but also for the state’s powerful teachers unions. The difference, school officials say, is the onset of climate-driven disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The occasion by which I would close a school would be about an every-other-year thing based on weather and road conditions. Now, it is common practice to close school at least two to three times a year for most districts,” said Steve Herrington, superintendent of the Sonoma County Office of Education whose career as a school administrator has spanned four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a phenomenon I have not seen in my professional career until the last five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mounting Impact on California Students\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Though wildfire is a natural phenomenon in California, climate change and wildland development \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-worsening-wildfires-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have amplified it\u003c/a> to historic proportions. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-school-closures-wildfire-middletown-paradise-disaster-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As CalMatters found in a recent analysis of nearly two decades of school closure data\u003c/a>, the threat to communities — and core institutions, such as schools — has grown dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since late 2015, wildfires \u003ca href=\"https://disasterdays.calmatters.org/california-school-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have temporarily shut down\u003c/a> thousands of schools statewide, disrupting public education more often, more widely and for longer periods than in years past. Closures lasting days or weeks have ceased to be a rarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last school year, state records showed, wildfires and related outages and smoke pollution sent home more than 1.1 million of the state’s 6 million or so public school students, a record. Four months into this school year, fires and preventative blackouts already have forced closures in at least 34 counties, according to a separate database CalMatters built to track this year’s fire impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]Just four months into the school year, fire-related blackouts and evacuations have already canceled 15 days of instruction in the community of Geyserville.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sweep — surpassing the 29 counties in which schools closed for fire and related issues last year — is also a new record, driven in part by the liability concerns of utilities such as Pacific Gas & Electric, which are increasingly powering down during red flag conditions. In Sonoma County, for example, even before classes dismissed for Thanksgiving, fire-related blackouts and evacuations had already canceled 15 days of instruction in the community of Geyserville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missed school \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/student-absenteeism-who-misses-school-and-how-missing-school-matters-for-performance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">correlates strongly\u003c/a> with lower academic performance, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.attendanceworks.org/data-matters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">host of academic research\u003c/a>. And school days lost to disaster differ from the benign absences of, say, a snow day in the Sierra or on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience of anxiety and trauma that are associated with the fire days is very different,” said John Rogers, professor of education at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Rogers noted that disruptions at the start of a school year are particularly costly, and that days off for disaster come as a result of upheaval, fear, flight and loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natural disasters can generate \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/defense-snow-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-term trauma among children\u003c/a>, impacting both mental health and academic progress. Researchers who tracked students displaced by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w14385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">test scores dropped dramatically\u003c/a> in the years after those disasters; after Katrina, college enrollment rates among displaced suburban students fell by 3.5 percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Lake County community of Middletown, where students have now lost a cumulative 34 days of instruction over the past four years due to fires and power shutoffs, the disasters have had a significant academic impact. After the 2015 Valley Fire, the proportion of graduating seniors in the Middletown Unified district deemed by the state to be “college and career ready” fell from about 50% to 27.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='wildfires' label='California Wildfires']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poverty exacerbates that. Though some of the wealthiest parts of the state, from Malibu to Santa Barbara, lie in the wildland-urban interface \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/115/13/3314#abstract-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">where the most damaging wildfires happen\u003c/a>, those outlying areas where development meets nature are also among the state’s last bastions of affordable housing and cheap land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California’s largest utility, PG&E, blacked out its Northern California service area in October to avoid sparking a wildfire, for instance, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-psps-power-shutoffs-poverty-spoiled-food-hunger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters analysis\u003c/a> of census tracts impacted found that one in ten of the residents — and one in eight children — in the affected area were living below the federal poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lost school time falls particularly hard on low-income students, depriving them not only of instruction but also, in many cases, of critical health services and nutrition. Of the nearly 132,000 students who, by CalMatters’ estimate, have lost a week or more of school this year to outages and wildfires, more than half — 52.6% — rely on free or reduced-price school meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not only the [school] lunch services, but you have to think about the additional types of services that flow through schools, be it mental health services, be it school nurses,” said Kevin Gee, an associate professor at UC Davis who researches the health and educational outcomes of students in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Increasingly, schools are responsible for ensuring the overall well-being of students, so those lost instructional days mean that kids aren’t necessarily being engaged in those services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lose-lose Situation for Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790209\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11790209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1-1200x851.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and Gov. Gavin Newsom at Blue Oak Elementary School in Shingle Springs, which remained open during an earlier power shutoff, Oct. 31, 2019. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Amador County Unified School District, for instance, a district of about 4,000 students southeast of Sacramento, PG&E power shutoffs closed 12 schools for six days during wildfire conditions at the start of the school year. Superintendent Amy Slavensky said parents complained about the threat to their kids’ academics, but she was most worried about the 50% or so of her student body living in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When their power is shut off, yeah, they’re certainly losing learning time and class time, but many of our students are also in situations where they don’t have electricity, they’re cold, they’re not able to bathe properly,” Slavensky said. “They may not be getting three meals a day, or even one or two meals a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote] Given the choice between teaching without power and possibly losing attendance-based state funding, he said, he kept Oroville schools open because the students' need for food and stability outweighed the discomfort.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Yuba County’s sprawling Marysville Joint Unified School District, meanwhile, some schools lost as many as 10 school days because of related power shutoffs. Now, schools superintendent Gary Cena is leaning on guidance from the state Department of Education to secure funding for generators and says he’ll build “shutdown days” into the academic calendar from now on. He hopes the state will push back standardized testing dates this spring in acknowledgment of the academic strain of power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any wiggle room in the schedule now is more geared toward core instruction,” Cena said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even educators in schools that remained open during blackouts – whether by purchasing generators, bottled water and portable toilets, or relying on iPhone flashlights in pitch-black classrooms to power through lessons – described the situation as lose-lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey Willenberg, superintendent of the Oroville Union High School District in Butte County, said he steered $20,000 in funding “that is now no longer available to put toward students and teachers” toward generators, fuel and lanterns to keep schools running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Nov. 18 marathon legislative hearing in Sacramento, Willenberg told lawmakers that, given the choice between teaching without power and possibly losing attendance-based state funding, he kept Oroville schools open because the students’ need for food and stability outweighed the discomfort and risk of conducting classes without electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some classrooms had to be vacated because they hit triple-digits without air conditioning, he added, and kids overall didn’t receive quality instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without electricity, staff was unable to perform daily duties,” Willenberg told lawmakers. “Teachers were unable to properly deliver lessons, and students were not able to perform tasks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Fatigue Has Set In’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790210\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11790210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Mike McGuire questions PG&E officials during a senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee hearing on wildfires and public utilities on November 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the 2015-16 school year, fire-related school closures, which now include preventative power shutoffs, have affected more than 3,300 public schools across the state, according to CalMatters’ analysis. In about half, the loss of instructional time has amounted only to one or two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in fire-prone regions, thousands of students in hundreds of schools have had to evacuate multiple times or have been shut out of school because of toxic air quality. Eighty-two schools in six counties have accumulated four weeks of lost school time since 2015. A CalMatters survey of state data and county education officials indicates that some 8,000 California kids have lost homes in the fires or otherwise been displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sabine Wolpert, a seventh-grader at Salmon Creek Charter School in the Sonoma County community of Occidental, the response has been to organize. As part of the grassroots Schools for Climate Action, Wolpert and her classmates have written scores of letters to education groups and local school boards calling for them to publicly acknowledge the adverse effects that climate-driven disasters have on students and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is personal: Since 2017, students at Salmon Creek have lost 16 days of instruction — essentially a week per year — to fires and floods, according to state records and CalMatters data. The Friday after the Kincade Fire erupted, smoke blanketed the North Coast, creating air quality too hazardous for kids to be outside. Classrooms became hot and stuffy from lack of ventilation. Eventually, 200,000 people were ordered to evacuate, including Wolpert and her classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolpert said she felt scared and stressed during the evacuation. When she returned to Salmon Creek after losing five instructional days, she said class felt like “condensed work” with teachers rushing to get through curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790211\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11790211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1-800x542.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1-1200x813.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabine Wolpert, a seventh grader from Sonoma County, took her message to the California Department of Education on November 6, 2019. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herrington, the Sonoma County superintendent, is urging the state to fund summer school as an option for districts hit hardest by wildfire. CalMatters found more than 360 schools that would be eligible for Herrington’s “summer disaster relief” proposal, which would be open to schools that have lost five or more days of instruction in a school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other educators want the state to fund generators, though that solution, too, has its limits. In the remote Southern Trinity Joint Unified School District, where three of four campuses lost five days of instruction to fire-related outages this year, some buildings are more than 50 years old and likely lack the capacity to support a generator, said superintendent and principal Peggy Canale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wiring in our main building is old, and we’ve probably already overmaxed it with new computer technology that is required” for instruction, Canale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s becoming clear, lawmakers say, is that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/solving-california-wildfires-why-dont-we-do-these-things/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the need for action is as complicated as it is urgent\u003c/a>. “Fatigue has set in” for students and educators, said Sen. Mike McGuire, the Sonoma County Democrat who hopes school-based \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2019/11/california-wildfires-pge-blackouts-microgrids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">microgrids \u003c/a>will at least mitigate future outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire, a former school board member who’s married to an elementary school principal, said recent years have put an “incredible strain on kids and families” in his legislative district. They experienced the devastating Valley Fire in 2015 and Tubbs Fire in 2017, followed by flooding in the Russian River – and then, this fall, the Kincade Fire coupled with a wave of power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents working hourly, low-paying jobs, he said, didn’t earn any income during the shutoffs, which, for some, also spoiled hundreds of dollars worth of groceries. Families have fallen behind on rent and bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t stress this enough – you can see the stress in these kids’ eyes,” McGuire said. “You can see the stress in their parents’ eyes. They’re struggling with money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there is no alternative. Which is why we need to expedite assistance to bring back some normalcy in their lives. And I can’t believe I’m talking to you like this, when we’re almost in the year 2020,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11790212\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-graphic-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1043\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-graphic-2.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-graphic-2-160x303.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law requires schools to provide at least 180 days of annual instruction. The Legislature can penalize them financially by withholding attendance-based aid if they don’t meet that threshold, though in natural disasters, the state usually waives those penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond that, schools have broad autonomy under the state constitution, leaving the California Department of Education with little more than the power to advise on such issues as school cancellations. Whether to build emergency days into the school calendar or sacrifice instruction for smoky air or a precautionary power outage is up to each individual district. The result, educators say, has been a patchwork of confusion in a crisis that’s only widening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/866e81c5-fb48-437f-8869-db08556afc0c?src=embed\" title=\"DISASTER DAYS 2 - Schools / Students Impacted by Year\" width=\"800\" height=\"815\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CDE spokesman said the department is soliciting district interest in a disaster response task force and gathering information for a possible policy proposal next year on lost instructional time. Otherwise, the department and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond have mostly urged schools in high-risk areas to adjust their calendars for disasters and to stump for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2019/11/school-bond-2020-support-ppic-poll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school bond initiative\u003c/a> on the March ballot so money will be available for generators and fireproofing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pleas for more state involvement — expected to be a focus when the Legislature reconvenes in the New Year — are a departure in a state where local control has been the K-12 mantra, not only for districts but also for the state’s powerful teachers unions. The difference, school officials say, is the onset of climate-driven disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The occasion by which I would close a school would be about an every-other-year thing based on weather and road conditions. Now, it is common practice to close school at least two to three times a year for most districts,” said Steve Herrington, superintendent of the Sonoma County Office of Education whose career as a school administrator has spanned four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a phenomenon I have not seen in my professional career until the last five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mounting Impact on California Students\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Though wildfire is a natural phenomenon in California, climate change and wildland development \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-worsening-wildfires-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have amplified it\u003c/a> to historic proportions. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-school-closures-wildfire-middletown-paradise-disaster-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As CalMatters found in a recent analysis of nearly two decades of school closure data\u003c/a>, the threat to communities — and core institutions, such as schools — has grown dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since late 2015, wildfires \u003ca href=\"https://disasterdays.calmatters.org/california-school-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have temporarily shut down\u003c/a> thousands of schools statewide, disrupting public education more often, more widely and for longer periods than in years past. Closures lasting days or weeks have ceased to be a rarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last school year, state records showed, wildfires and related outages and smoke pollution sent home more than 1.1 million of the state’s 6 million or so public school students, a record. Four months into this school year, fires and preventative blackouts already have forced closures in at least 34 counties, according to a separate database CalMatters built to track this year’s fire impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poverty exacerbates that. Though some of the wealthiest parts of the state, from Malibu to Santa Barbara, lie in the wildland-urban interface \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/115/13/3314#abstract-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">where the most damaging wildfires happen\u003c/a>, those outlying areas where development meets nature are also among the state’s last bastions of affordable housing and cheap land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California’s largest utility, PG&E, blacked out its Northern California service area in October to avoid sparking a wildfire, for instance, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-psps-power-shutoffs-poverty-spoiled-food-hunger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters analysis\u003c/a> of census tracts impacted found that one in ten of the residents — and one in eight children — in the affected area were living below the federal poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lost school time falls particularly hard on low-income students, depriving them not only of instruction but also, in many cases, of critical health services and nutrition. Of the nearly 132,000 students who, by CalMatters’ estimate, have lost a week or more of school this year to outages and wildfires, more than half — 52.6% — rely on free or reduced-price school meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not only the [school] lunch services, but you have to think about the additional types of services that flow through schools, be it mental health services, be it school nurses,” said Kevin Gee, an associate professor at UC Davis who researches the health and educational outcomes of students in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Increasingly, schools are responsible for ensuring the overall well-being of students, so those lost instructional days mean that kids aren’t necessarily being engaged in those services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lose-lose Situation for Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790209\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11790209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-2-1-1200x851.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and Gov. Gavin Newsom at Blue Oak Elementary School in Shingle Springs, which remained open during an earlier power shutoff, Oct. 31, 2019. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Amador County Unified School District, for instance, a district of about 4,000 students southeast of Sacramento, PG&E power shutoffs closed 12 schools for six days during wildfire conditions at the start of the school year. Superintendent Amy Slavensky said parents complained about the threat to their kids’ academics, but she was most worried about the 50% or so of her student body living in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When their power is shut off, yeah, they’re certainly losing learning time and class time, but many of our students are also in situations where they don’t have electricity, they’re cold, they’re not able to bathe properly,” Slavensky said. “They may not be getting three meals a day, or even one or two meals a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Yuba County’s sprawling Marysville Joint Unified School District, meanwhile, some schools lost as many as 10 school days because of related power shutoffs. Now, schools superintendent Gary Cena is leaning on guidance from the state Department of Education to secure funding for generators and says he’ll build “shutdown days” into the academic calendar from now on. He hopes the state will push back standardized testing dates this spring in acknowledgment of the academic strain of power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any wiggle room in the schedule now is more geared toward core instruction,” Cena said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even educators in schools that remained open during blackouts – whether by purchasing generators, bottled water and portable toilets, or relying on iPhone flashlights in pitch-black classrooms to power through lessons – described the situation as lose-lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey Willenberg, superintendent of the Oroville Union High School District in Butte County, said he steered $20,000 in funding “that is now no longer available to put toward students and teachers” toward generators, fuel and lanterns to keep schools running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Nov. 18 marathon legislative hearing in Sacramento, Willenberg told lawmakers that, given the choice between teaching without power and possibly losing attendance-based state funding, he kept Oroville schools open because the students’ need for food and stability outweighed the discomfort and risk of conducting classes without electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some classrooms had to be vacated because they hit triple-digits without air conditioning, he added, and kids overall didn’t receive quality instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without electricity, staff was unable to perform daily duties,” Willenberg told lawmakers. “Teachers were unable to properly deliver lessons, and students were not able to perform tasks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Fatigue Has Set In’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790210\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11790210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-3-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Mike McGuire questions PG&E officials during a senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee hearing on wildfires and public utilities on November 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the 2015-16 school year, fire-related school closures, which now include preventative power shutoffs, have affected more than 3,300 public schools across the state, according to CalMatters’ analysis. In about half, the loss of instructional time has amounted only to one or two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in fire-prone regions, thousands of students in hundreds of schools have had to evacuate multiple times or have been shut out of school because of toxic air quality. Eighty-two schools in six counties have accumulated four weeks of lost school time since 2015. A CalMatters survey of state data and county education officials indicates that some 8,000 California kids have lost homes in the fires or otherwise been displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sabine Wolpert, a seventh-grader at Salmon Creek Charter School in the Sonoma County community of Occidental, the response has been to organize. As part of the grassroots Schools for Climate Action, Wolpert and her classmates have written scores of letters to education groups and local school boards calling for them to publicly acknowledge the adverse effects that climate-driven disasters have on students and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is personal: Since 2017, students at Salmon Creek have lost 16 days of instruction — essentially a week per year — to fires and floods, according to state records and CalMatters data. The Friday after the Kincade Fire erupted, smoke blanketed the North Coast, creating air quality too hazardous for kids to be outside. Classrooms became hot and stuffy from lack of ventilation. Eventually, 200,000 people were ordered to evacuate, including Wolpert and her classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolpert said she felt scared and stressed during the evacuation. When she returned to Salmon Creek after losing five instructional days, she said class felt like “condensed work” with teachers rushing to get through curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11790211\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11790211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1-800x542.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/DISASTER-DAYS-PART-3-photo-4-1-1200x813.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabine Wolpert, a seventh grader from Sonoma County, took her message to the California Department of Education on November 6, 2019. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herrington, the Sonoma County superintendent, is urging the state to fund summer school as an option for districts hit hardest by wildfire. CalMatters found more than 360 schools that would be eligible for Herrington’s “summer disaster relief” proposal, which would be open to schools that have lost five or more days of instruction in a school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other educators want the state to fund generators, though that solution, too, has its limits. In the remote Southern Trinity Joint Unified School District, where three of four campuses lost five days of instruction to fire-related outages this year, some buildings are more than 50 years old and likely lack the capacity to support a generator, said superintendent and principal Peggy Canale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wiring in our main building is old, and we’ve probably already overmaxed it with new computer technology that is required” for instruction, Canale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s becoming clear, lawmakers say, is that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/solving-california-wildfires-why-dont-we-do-these-things/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the need for action is as complicated as it is urgent\u003c/a>. “Fatigue has set in” for students and educators, said Sen. Mike McGuire, the Sonoma County Democrat who hopes school-based \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2019/11/california-wildfires-pge-blackouts-microgrids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">microgrids \u003c/a>will at least mitigate future outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire, a former school board member who’s married to an elementary school principal, said recent years have put an “incredible strain on kids and families” in his legislative district. They experienced the devastating Valley Fire in 2015 and Tubbs Fire in 2017, followed by flooding in the Russian River – and then, this fall, the Kincade Fire coupled with a wave of power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents working hourly, low-paying jobs, he said, didn’t earn any income during the shutoffs, which, for some, also spoiled hundreds of dollars worth of groceries. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the first Sunday of every month, a parking lot in the heart of Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood transforms into a vibrant marketplace featuring Indigenous artists, performers and chefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its start over a year ago, the Indigenous Red Market, organized by \u003ca href=\"https://urbannativeera.com\">Urban Native Era\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nativehealth.org/content/oakland-0\"> Native American Health Center,\u003c/a> has become more than a place to buy handcrafted items and mouthwatering foods. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a gathering place where we can come and be Native,” said Noah Gallo (Ysleta del Sur Pueblo) one of the event organizers with the Native American Health Center. “There is this misconception that Natives don’t exist anymore, but we do. We’re human beings. We have jobs. We live out here just like everybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Oakland is home to a number of Native American community centers, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ifhurbanrez.org\">Intertribal Friendship House\u003c/a>, Gallo says it’s important to also have spaces where all Indigenous people — including those from Latin America and the Pacific Islands — can come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11789451 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40309_IRM_KQED-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dance group Calpulli Coatlicue dances at the Indigenous Red Market in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexica (Aztec) dance group Calpulli Coatlicue dances at the Indigenous Red Market in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Joey Montoya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Kickapoo Chili\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The food options cover a wide range, too. At one corner of the market, you might find fry bread tacos. ‘Otai, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/otaimibreeze/\">Tongan watermelon drink, \u003c/a>is sold in another corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"native-americans\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekend, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wahpepahskitchen.com\">Wahpepah’s Kitchen\u003c/a> food stand is slammed with customers waiting to order elderberry hibiscus tea and Kickapoo chili, a thick soup with bison and hominy topped with microgreens. The chef behind the popular food booth is Crystal Wahpepah (Kickapoo/Sac and Fox).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The chili] is something out of Oklahoma,” said Wahpepah. “It’s very inspired by my grandmother and all the Kickapoo ladies from Mexico all the way up to Oklahoma to Kansas to Michigan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahpepah’s family moved to Oakland from Oklahoma not long after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/11/01/uprooted-the-1950s-plan-to-erase-indian-country\">1956 Indian Relocation Act\u003c/a>, which encouraged rural Native Americans to leave their reservations for urban areas. The federal government circulated posters that promised “good jobs” and “happy homes” in places like Oakland, with the expectation that Native Americans would assimilate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of those promises for quality housing and job training didn’t materialize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789453\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-800x997.jpg\" alt=\"A relocation recruitment poster from the 1950s distributed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"997\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-800x997.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-160x199.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-1020x1271.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-963x1200.jpg 963w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-1920x2392.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A relocation recruitment poster from the 1950s distributed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite pressure from the federal government to assimilate, Wahpepah’s family didn’t abandon their culture. Instead, they got involved with the local American Indian movement and held onto their traditional foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahpepah grew up among many Native Americans who also hung out at the Intertribal Friendship House. She wondered why there weren’t any restaurants where her community could eat Indigenous foods. That’s what ultimately inspired her to learn the recipes of her Kickapoo elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward a couple of years, and Wahpepah became the first Native American chef on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/chopped/episodes/tortellini-trials\">Food Network show “Chopped.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowadays, she’s busy running her booming catering company, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/IndigenousRedMarket/\">Indigenous Red Market\u003c/a> is her favorite place to share her food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we do food booths this is the one I like doing, because it represents who I am and where I’m from,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Strong Indigenous Babes All Around Is My Theme’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Indigenous Red Market also provides a platform for activists and artists to report on social issues like the construction happening on sacred lands, including Mauna Kea in Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These issues are at the forefront of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pg/jackiefawnillustrations/photos/?ref=page_internal\">Jackie Fawn’s\u003c/a> (Yurok/Washoe/Filipino) work. Her illustrations of Indigenous women — stylized like the characters of the comic “Sailor Moon” — are on display at her booth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40316_74413575_10163059223725599_3383600945463033856_o-qut-800x801.jpg\" alt=\"One of the many posters artist Jackie Fawn has for sale at the Indigenous Red Market.\" width=\"800\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40316_74413575_10163059223725599_3383600945463033856_o-qut-800x801.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40316_74413575_10163059223725599_3383600945463033856_o-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40316_74413575_10163059223725599_3383600945463033856_o-qut-912x912.jpg 912w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40316_74413575_10163059223725599_3383600945463033856_o-qut-550x550.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40316_74413575_10163059223725599_3383600945463033856_o-qut-470x470.jpg 470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40316_74413575_10163059223725599_3383600945463033856_o-qut.jpg 1001w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the many posters artist Jackie Fawn has for sale at the Indigenous Red Market. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jackie Fawn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My favorite poster is a woman riding a horse into battle. She’s fighting a black snake, which symbolizes the pipelines,” said Fawn. “Strong Indigenous babes all around is my theme of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the market is jewelry maker \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bravensaigeeagle/\">Desiree Adams\u003c/a> (Diné), who blends her Native culture with Bay Area aesthetics. Her handcrafted hoop earrings are intricately beaded in the pattern of Diné baskets and integrate the colors of local sports teams like the Oakland A’s and the Golden State Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not all on reservations. We’re urban. We’re just trying to bring awareness to who we are as people and let society know that we’re still here,” said Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also wants to share the diversity of Native people. “A lot of people think we’re just all one tribe,” said Adams. “We’re multiple tribes, multiple clans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honoring and sharing different histories and identities is what draws many Indigenous people in the Bay Area to this market — and others have come from as far as Sacramento, Los Angeles and New Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For drummer and singer Manny Lieras (Navajo/Comanche), the market is also a place to share powwow drumming and singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To close out the event, he invited the crowd to join his family in a communal dance. Toddlers, 20-somethings and elders linked arms to form a circle. Together they stepped to the beat of the drum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right, give yourselves a big round of applause for being out here at the Indigenous Red Market,” said Lieras. “Thank you for your time. Thank you for your participation. Thank you for your good vibes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then friends, old and new, made plans to see each other at the next market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The market is located at 3124 International Blvd, Oakland. For information on market dates, follow \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/indigenousredmarket/?utm_source=ig_embed\">@indigenousredmarket on Instagram \u003c/a>or the market’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/IndigenousRedMarket/\"> Facebook page.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/B5jeKrXF5QC/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On the first Sunday of every month, a parking lot in the heart of Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood transforms into a vibrant marketplace featuring Indigenous artists, performers and chefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its start over a year ago, the Indigenous Red Market, organized by \u003ca href=\"https://urbannativeera.com\">Urban Native Era\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nativehealth.org/content/oakland-0\"> Native American Health Center,\u003c/a> has become more than a place to buy handcrafted items and mouthwatering foods. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a gathering place where we can come and be Native,” said Noah Gallo (Ysleta del Sur Pueblo) one of the event organizers with the Native American Health Center. “There is this misconception that Natives don’t exist anymore, but we do. We’re human beings. We have jobs. We live out here just like everybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Oakland is home to a number of Native American community centers, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ifhurbanrez.org\">Intertribal Friendship House\u003c/a>, Gallo says it’s important to also have spaces where all Indigenous people — including those from Latin America and the Pacific Islands — can come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11789451 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40309_IRM_KQED-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dance group Calpulli Coatlicue dances at the Indigenous Red Market in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexica (Aztec) dance group Calpulli Coatlicue dances at the Indigenous Red Market in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Joey Montoya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Kickapoo Chili\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The food options cover a wide range, too. At one corner of the market, you might find fry bread tacos. ‘Otai, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/otaimibreeze/\">Tongan watermelon drink, \u003c/a>is sold in another corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekend, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wahpepahskitchen.com\">Wahpepah’s Kitchen\u003c/a> food stand is slammed with customers waiting to order elderberry hibiscus tea and Kickapoo chili, a thick soup with bison and hominy topped with microgreens. The chef behind the popular food booth is Crystal Wahpepah (Kickapoo/Sac and Fox).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The chili] is something out of Oklahoma,” said Wahpepah. “It’s very inspired by my grandmother and all the Kickapoo ladies from Mexico all the way up to Oklahoma to Kansas to Michigan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahpepah’s family moved to Oakland from Oklahoma not long after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/11/01/uprooted-the-1950s-plan-to-erase-indian-country\">1956 Indian Relocation Act\u003c/a>, which encouraged rural Native Americans to leave their reservations for urban areas. The federal government circulated posters that promised “good jobs” and “happy homes” in places like Oakland, with the expectation that Native Americans would assimilate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of those promises for quality housing and job training didn’t materialize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789453\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-800x997.jpg\" alt=\"A relocation recruitment poster from the 1950s distributed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"997\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-800x997.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-160x199.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-1020x1271.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-963x1200.jpg 963w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/come-to-denver-1920x2392.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A relocation recruitment poster from the 1950s distributed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite pressure from the federal government to assimilate, Wahpepah’s family didn’t abandon their culture. Instead, they got involved with the local American Indian movement and held onto their traditional foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahpepah grew up among many Native Americans who also hung out at the Intertribal Friendship House. She wondered why there weren’t any restaurants where her community could eat Indigenous foods. That’s what ultimately inspired her to learn the recipes of her Kickapoo elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward a couple of years, and Wahpepah became the first Native American chef on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/chopped/episodes/tortellini-trials\">Food Network show “Chopped.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowadays, she’s busy running her booming catering company, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/IndigenousRedMarket/\">Indigenous Red Market\u003c/a> is her favorite place to share her food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we do food booths this is the one I like doing, because it represents who I am and where I’m from,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Strong Indigenous Babes All Around Is My Theme’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Indigenous Red Market also provides a platform for activists and artists to report on social issues like the construction happening on sacred lands, including Mauna Kea in Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These issues are at the forefront of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pg/jackiefawnillustrations/photos/?ref=page_internal\">Jackie Fawn’s\u003c/a> (Yurok/Washoe/Filipino) work. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Chytchua Muyco graduated from high school over a decade ago, attending college didn’t feel like an option. Her family couldn’t afford tuition, so her aunt helped her find a job working for San Mateo County. It was a good, stable job that paid well, but Muyco soon discovered its limits. Her supervisor told her she was smart and organized, but that if she wanted to advance she’d need a college degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s why I went back to school, to figure out what job should I do where it’s fully utilizing my potential,” Muyco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of college students in Muyco’s position. Over 40% of California community college students are over the age of 25 and are already working adults. Many go back to school to expand their opportunities — like Muyco — but it’s easy for financial obligations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/24/772018032/vital-federal-program-to-help-parents-in-college-is-a-drop-in-the-bucket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lack of child care\u003c/a> and work demands to get in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muyco was in her early 20s when she started at \u003ca href=\"https://collegeofsanmateo.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">College of San Mateo\u003c/a> (CSM). She couldn’t afford to stop working, but she looked for jobs that had flexible schedules. She also wasn’t sure what she wanted to do — initially she thought she’d try to become a doctor. That dream faded with her first biology class, which she didn’t love. She dabbled in economics, psychology, political science, taking one or two classes a semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muyco was pursuing school, but at the same time her financial obligations — rent, car, food, sending money to family in the Philippines — were more real to her than a degree. She would often drop classes when things got hectic at work. In the midst of it all, she got married and moved to Newark, which made for a brutal commute to school and work. But she never gave up on school completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I initially thought my skills weren’t good enough to pursue something like engineering,” Muyco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of supportive professors at CSM, she found she liked math and was good at it, too. She decided to pursue chemical engineering. Once she found her passion, there were more tough decisions to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"college-try\" label=\"More From The College Try Series\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that if I had kept just taking one or two classes, it would take me forever,” Muyco said. “So I had to really sit down with my husband and talk about finances and really decide to just go full time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muyco’s husband, William Ung, has always supported her dreams of further education, even when it’s been hard to make ends meet living on one salary in the Bay Area. The couple met when they both worked for San Mateo County, and neither had a college degree. Ung was taking classes at San Jose State University, slowly plugging away at a political science degree. But, unlike his wife, he’s never found the thing that drives him. He knows it’s not always easy to find an inspiring career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to afford her the time to find what she was passionate about,” he said. “And then when she finally found it, to pursue it. I never want her to look back and say, ‘I wish I had tried this or I wish I had done this.’ I want her to look back and say, ‘Well, we did everything we could.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Muyco and Ung decided to have a child, she took two years off from school for the pregnancy and the first year of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was actually ready to quit school,” Muyco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/some-college-no-degree-2019/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thirty-six million\u003c/a> Americans — \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/adults-who-started-college-but-never-finished-need-help-returning-for-diplomas/603440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4 million of whom are Californians\u003c/a> — have attended some college, but don’t have a degree. They drop out for all kinds of reasons, but the strain of juggling family responsibilities is a common one. 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Karim (rear left) began to occupy this week. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Moms 4 Housing, via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And so, despite working multiple jobs, Walker has been homeless since coming back to Oakland. She and her daughters have been bouncing between friends and family’s houses, and spending some nights in hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karim, a second-generation Oakland resident with one adult son, is an Oakland Tech graduate studying nursing at Merritt College while also working full time. She became homeless four years ago, she said, when she lost her Section 8 housing voucher after being unable to find a landlord who would accept it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m working 70 hours a week — I know I deserve a roof over my head,” Karim wrote on her group’s website. “I’m doing this so the generations that come after me don’t never have to fight for the right to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the two single moms learned that Oakland had thousands of vacant homes, they decided to take action, insisting that there are more than enough places to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to see all unhoused moms have shelter,” Walker said. 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The two say the house has been vacant for more than two years, and are demanding that the real estate company that owns it either donate or sell it to them at an affordable price. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The house is owned by Catamount Properties 2018 LLC, a subsidiary of the Redondo Beach real estate investment firm Wedgewood Inc., according to Alameda County assessor records. On its website, Wedgewood describes itself as a “leading acquirer of distressed residential real estate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies, they don’t live in these houses,” said Aaron Glantz, an investigative reporter with Reveal who has written extensively about the nationwide housing crisis and whose book “Homewreckers” was recently published. “They don’t live next door to these houses. They don’t live in Oakland. 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The city, meanwhile, found 4,366 \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4134930&GUID=23AE96D2-A4D9-4E2E-911C-DABCB7FDA1F7&Options=&Search=\">vacant privately owned parcels\u003c/a> —including houses and undeveloped land —according to a 2018 report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partly as a result of that discrepancy, Oakland voters last year approved a measure taxing owners of non-occupied properties, which goes into effect in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to see the end of speculators in our community,” Walker said, claiming that the house has been vacant for more than two years. 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"content": "\u003cp>University of California President Janet Napolitano strode into the Hercules High School gymnasium last week to address a couple hundred of the school’s sophomores and juniors as part of a UC college fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first time Napolitano had visited a high school in West Contra Costa County, and Hercules was her choice, she said, because the school’s mix of students represents the future of California. The student body is divided about evenly between Latinx, African American, Asian and Filipino students. About half the school’s students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and many are potential first-generation college goers who come from immigrant families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were Napolitano’s target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get a lot of students from Hercules High,” she told the students. “We want more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano, who plans to retire next year, likes to tout the progress her administration has made to increase the number of first-generation students at UC campuses. Two years ago, UC enlisted over 1,000 faculty throughout the system who were first-generation students themselves to step forward and mentor newcomers. In 2016, there were 88,242 first-generation undergraduates system-wide, about a quarter of them coming in as transfers from California community colleges. Napolitano said by the time she steps down in August, 42% of UC’s undergrads will be the first in their families to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chyna Oyola, college adviser at Hercules High\"]‘[Housing] can be a make-or-break factor. It can be as much as tuition depending on where you are going.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can afford a UC education,” Napolitano told the Hercules students. “If you come from a family that makes less than $80,000 a year, you pay no tuition or fees to attend the University of California. And there is other financial aid available to help you with the cost of housing and books.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those room-and-board costs can be enough to derail a first-generation student’s aspirations, according to Chyna Oyola, a college adviser at Hercules High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it can be a make-or-break factor. It can be as much as tuition depending on where you are going,” said Oyola. “Even if they get scholarships, it takes $10,000 plus to go to a four-year. If there are no scholarships it is either out-of-pocket or you don’t go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hercules High Principal Paul Mansingh said many first-generation college goers from his school have other reasons for not wanting to attend a UC, including distance from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moving away from family, sometimes 600 miles away … there are a lot of reasons why a student would want to stay close to home and go to a community college instead: community, finances, family and food,” said Mansingh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Napolitano’s message resonated with Penelope Wu, a junior at Hercules High. 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Last year 88 students applied, 58 were accepted and 40 ended up enrolling, out of a senior class of 250.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mansingh credits his partnership with the college adviser Oyola with helping get Hercules students through the process. Oyola is one of 52 advisers UC Berkeley sends to high schools across the state to help under-privileged students apply to and afford college. She’s in her second year at Hercules as part of a college advising corps which hires recent college graduates to return to their communities as mentors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to work toward educational equity,” Oyola said. “So when they recruited me I was like ‘Oh wow, I can get paid to do this?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://dcac.berkeley.edu/\">UC Berkeley outreach program\u003c/a> has been around for over a decade but it wasn’t until last year that UC Merced replicated the program. UC Santa Barbara followed suit this year, and UCLA plans to start a similar program in 2020. With the typical ratio of California high school counselors to students \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/many-california-schools-have-police-but-no-counselors-aclu-report-finds/609643\">at nearly 700 to 1\u003c/a>, the addition of these mentors focused on college admissions in under served schools makes a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oyola works to help students like Antania Ford apply and find financial aid, a process parents who haven’t already attended college may not be familiar with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11786227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Antania-Ford-800x988.jpg\" alt=\"Hercules High student Antania Ford wants to attend UCLA, but she says she may opt for Diablo Valley Community College to save money.\" width=\"800\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Antania-Ford-800x988.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Antania-Ford-160x198.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Antania-Ford-1020x1259.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Antania-Ford-972x1200.jpg 972w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Antania-Ford.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hercules High student Antania Ford wants to attend UCLA, but she says she may opt for Diablo Valley Community College to save money. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m thinking about UCLA, Riverside, Santa Barbara. A lot of my family has been there and I’ve been there for breaks and it’s my type of environment,” said Ford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford said she’s willing to pay “whatever,” even if it means borrowing. “It’s really expensive. Sometimes I think about going to a community for two [years] to do the regular basic classes and then transfer to save a little bit more money and help my parents,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Student Housing Costs May Be the Biggest Hurdle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite UC waiving tuition and fees for students from families earning less than $80,000 per year, California’s affordable housing crisis is a huge barrier for an increasing number of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of housing in many instances is higher than the cost of tuition,” said Napolitano. “So covering that housing cost is really important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More From the College Try Series\" tag=\"college-try\"]But progress toward creating more affordable housing for students has been slow, especially in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC Berkeley Master Plan Task Force \u003ca href=\"http://evcp.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/housing_master_plan_task_force_final_draft_january_2017.pdf\">report\u003c/a> found UC Berkeley alone would need 15,600 beds to house 50% of undergrads and 25% of graduate students, about double its current number of beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 2016, the UC was providing housing, on average, for 38.1% of undergraduates and for 19.6% of graduate students across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are on a housing construction binge,” said Napolitano. “Since I announced the presidential student housing initiative in 2016 we have added 17,000 beds and we have another 12,000 beds on the drawing board throughout the system. 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"content": "\u003cp>Classical music plays, silk curtains blow in the wind and comfy couches offer a place to curl up with a book. There are wooden toys, colorful magnetic blocks, and crayons organized by color in glass jars. Children use light projectors to make patterns and shapes on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may sound like a high-end early childhood education center in California, but this is Tijuana. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students and their parents have fled violence in Central America, or other parts of Mexico, and are waiting for their asylum applications to the U.S. to be processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three-year-old Kevin, whose family fled cartel violence in Michoacán, plays at the light table with magnetic blocks at the Nest Tijuana. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A California woman opened this school, the Nest, in September. It’s the first one of its kind attached to a migrant shelter in the Mexican border town. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They welcome children 6 and under, and give them a chance to spend time away from the crowded shelter across the street — and to just be kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a Band-Aid solution,” said founder Alise Shafer Ivey, a veteran early childhood director from Santa Monica. “This isn’t sweetening the day of a child who might be stuck on a mattress in a shelter. Of course we’re sweetening the day of that child, but it’s so much more than that. This is about really setting a trajectory that will have an impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Families Sharing a Single Mattress in Crowded Shelter\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricia’s 2-year-old daughter is one of the new students at the Nest. On the trip to Tijuana, Patricia’s two girls kept asking where their dad was. But how could Patricia tell them? They couldn’t even go to the funeral. It was too dangerous to show up to bury her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782423\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 269px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11782423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39724_Nest_034-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39724_Nest_034-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39724_Nest_034-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39724_Nest_034-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39724_Nest_034-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia and her daughter, 2, fled their home the same day her husband was killed for failing to pay a bribe to members of a cartel in Michoacán. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He had been a small-business owner in the western state of Michoacán, which has seen a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/13-police-killed-by-gunmen-in-mexican-state-of-michoacan/2019/10/14/e84aef6c-eea5-11e9-bb7e-d2026ee0c199_story.html\">recent spike in violence\u003c/a> linked to drug cartels. When some men arrived at his shop demanding a bribe, he asked for more time to get the money. They killed him. Patricia and her girls, the older one is 5, fled that afternoon. (KQED is not using Patricia’s real name to protect her identity.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricia didn’t look back until she got to the shelter in Tijuana. It felt overwhelming: more than 150 people sharing four bathrooms, a single washing machine and one mattress to share with her girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families like Patricia’s are arriving in Tijuana at a time when applications for asylum at the US-Mexico border have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1106366/download\">surging.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many are waiting in crowded shelters at the border for longer periods under the Trump administration’s controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11758516/fear-confusion-and-separation-as-trump-administration-sends-migrants-back-to-mexico\">“Remain in Mexico” program\u003c/a>. Although it’s been challenged in court, the program has required more than 56,000 asylum-seekers (mostly Central Americans) to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, a spike in cartel violence has \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/surge-of-mexican-migrants-is-new-challenge-for-trump-border-crackdown/2019/10/18/c40f6e72-f029-11e9-b648-76bcf86eb67e_story.html\">forced a lot of Mexican families\u003c/a> like Patricia’s to seek asylum in the U.S., too — and find space in overflowing shelters in border towns like Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families wait in line at the shelter to eat a meal donated by students at a local medical college in Tijuana. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These kids have seen things no child should see,” said Ivey. “They’ve been stripped of their homelands, they’ve left their families behind. They’ve been stuffed in trunks of cars and crossed over borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To think we’re going to deliver them to a kindergarten in the U.S. and think it’s going to go well? Not necessarily,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48155/what-the-science-says-about-how-preschool-benefits-children\">Research\u003c/a> shows kids who have a hard time adjusting socially before age 5 have a lot of trouble catching up. If kids who’ve experienced the trauma of fleeing their homes can play and relax away from the stress of the crowded shelter, it could give them some sense of stability, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782409\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A child walks through shapes projected on a wall at \"The Nest\" in Tijuana.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child walks through shapes projected on a wall at the Tijuana Nest. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>An Unlikely Pair Share a Common Mission \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782429\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 334px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11782429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39730_Nest_056-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39730_Nest_056-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39730_Nest_056-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39730_Nest_056-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39730_Nest_056-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alise Shafer Ivey and Leticia Herrera Hernández at the Nest Tijuana in October 2019. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea for the Nest began with a trip Ivey took to Lesvos, Greece, after retiring from decades of directing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.evergreencommunityschool.com/\">Evergreen Community School\u003c/a> in Santa Monica. She met a relief worker who invited her to visit a refugee camp, which then housed mostly Syrian migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children were “digging in the dirt, playing with nails in their pockets,” Ivey said. “They had old cigarette lighters that they had found. There was nothing for children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ivey offered to set up a space for refugee kids to play. She returned to California, raising $10,000 through a nonprofit she helped found, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thinkwithus.org/\">Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles.\u003c/a> She went on to set up Nests in Samos, Greece, then two more in the Congo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early childhood teachers, many from California, use their vacation time to volunteer for a few weeks at the Nests. They train refugees to work with young children, a skill that could help them find a job if they get asylum in a new country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tijuana Nest got its start after Ivey visited the shelter across the street, where Patricia and her girls sought refuge. Ivey instantly connected with Leticia Herrera Hernández, who runs the shelter. They’re both strong believers in prioritizing the needs of children, especially when parents are going through trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viviana Lundgren (left) is an early childhood teacher in La Jolla who uses her vacation days to volunteer at the Nest in Tijuana. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herrera had already worked with a California group\u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-school/at-u-s-mexico-border-a-bus-becomes-a-school-for-migrant-children-in-limbo-idUSKCN1UV25J\"> to set up a makeshift elementary school next to her shelter, in an old bus.\u003c/a> But there was nothing for toddlers and preschool-age kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids would just spend their days playing on their parents’ phones, having tantrums, and we’d be trying to get them to play to entertain themselves,” Herrera said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Alise Shafer Ivey, veteran early childhood director\"]‘This isn’t sweetening the day of a child who might be stuck on a mattress in a shelter. This is about really setting a trajectory that will have an impact.’[/pullquote]So she was thrilled when Ivey proposed renting the house and opening an engaging play space for young children who live in the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera and Ivey make an unlikely pair. Ivey doesn’t speak Spanish and was raised Jewish. She doesn’t count on God or governments to change things. Herrera is a devout Catholic, guided by her unwavering faith that God will provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera came to working with refugee families via a different path than Ivey: through tragedy. She used to own a beauty salon and lived an upper-class life in Tijuana. Then her son was killed in a car accident in 2002 in his mid-20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything I thought was important didn’t matter. … I just wanted to die,” said Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the death of her son, Leticia Herrera Hernández founded a shelter for migrants in Tijuana. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A priest urged her to channel her pain into helping people. In 2010, a friend asked her to go to the border to hand out food to homeless migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It crushed my soul to see people so hungry,” Herrera said. “They were wiping every last drop of food from the pots with a tortilla. I left doubting that I had ever done anything meaningful with my life. I started to try to figure out how I could build a house for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Catholic charity helped Herrera find a space to start a shelter. It became one of the first to house LGBTQ migrants from Central America, attracting the ire of homophobic neighbors who \u003ca href=\"https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/atacan-migrantes-trans-en-albergue-de-tijuana\">tried to burn it down.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, most of the families she houses are from Mexico, fleeing an \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/13-police-killed-by-gunmen-in-mexican-state-of-michoacan/2019/10/14/e84aef6c-eea5-11e9-bb7e-d2026ee0c199_story.html\">uptick in cartel violence in the states of Guerrero and Michoacán. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parents Get a Space to Play, Too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At parent orientation night at the Nest, Ivey did what she would do back at her former school in Santa Monica: lay out a spread with wine and cheese. She talked about brain science and neural pathways, and why memorizing ABCs is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39714_Nest_009-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39714_Nest_009-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39714_Nest_009-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39714_Nest_009-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39714_Nest_009-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39714_Nest_009-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asylum-seekers at the shelter across the street train as teachers at the Nest, gaining valuable skills that could land them a job in the US if they win their asylum case. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='migrants' label='Related Coverage']“The more we talk to children about their ideas and ask them ‘I wonder how that would work?’ Not quizzing them, but just wondering with them, the more all of those parts of the brain are activated\u003ci>,” \u003c/i>Ivey told the parents, many of whom had never been able to send their kids to preschool in their hometowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She encouraged them to try out the magnetic wall where they can build a ramp for a ball to roll down. She showed them the light table, the painting area, the clay. Just like their kids do each day, the parents acted in a short play they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of giggling broke out as Julieta, mom to Kevin, 3, pretended to be a grandmother in a story based on “Little Red Riding Hood.” She walked hunched over, her hands on her back, to meet a wolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other parents whooped and applauded Julieta’s performance. Ivey said it’s the first time she’d seen Julieta smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782422\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39723_Nest_030-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39723_Nest_030-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39723_Nest_030-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39723_Nest_030-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39723_Nest_030-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julieta and her son, Kevin, fled cartel violence in Michoacán. They don’t want to show their faces or use Julieta’s real name for fear of being identified and targeted. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Julieta and Kevin fled cartel violence in Michoacán. When they arrived in Tijuana in August, he had a really hard time accepting the shelter as home. He would hit other kids, yell at them. The Nest has helped him to adjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now he doesn’t fight. He plays with the other kids,” Julieta said in Spanish (KQED isn’t using her real name to protect her identity since she is fleeing violence). “I used to have to grab him so he would turn and listen to me. Now he turns and looks at me. He reaches for my hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39728_Nest_050-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39728_Nest_050-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39728_Nest_050-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39728_Nest_050-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39728_Nest_050-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin, 3, sends scarves up through a plastic tube attached to a fan and shrieks with delight as they suspend in the air above his head. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kevin loves sending silk scarves up through a vertical plastic tube attached to a tiny fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otra Vez! Otra Vez! (Again! Again!)” he shrieked as he watched them float and suspend above his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a scarf got stuck on a ceiling fan, he had to figure out how to retrieve it. At the Nest, kids get to make a lot of decisions. They’ve had so little control over what has happened so far in their young lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Kevin and several other kids lugged over a heavy ladder. A volunteer teacher from San Diego supervised them as they climbed up to get the scarf down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39734_Nest_079-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39734_Nest_079-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39734_Nest_079-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39734_Nest_079-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39734_Nest_079-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39734_Nest_079-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alise Shafer Ivey spent 34 years as the director of a private nonprofit school in Santa Monica, before founding the Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles, which sponsors “Nests” at refugee camps and shelters around the world. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That kind of waiting, watching and letting kids problem-solve has been eye-opening for some parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve learned to be a better dad,” said Alfredo, another asylum-seeker who has been volunteering at the Nest (KQED isn’t using his real name to protect him from being located by a cartel that had targeted his family). “I used to tell them, ‘No, do it this way. Because I said so.’ And I learned that I was wrong. Having them do things on their own gives them more confidence in their decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782408\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39712_Nest_001-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39712_Nest_001-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39712_Nest_001-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39712_Nest_001-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39712_Nest_001-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39712_Nest_001-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paintings dry on a rack in the outdoor art area at the Nest. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Nest also seeks to offer the children a refuge from the crowded shelter, where many of their fellow residents are fleeing life-threatening violence. A few ways they do that: forbidding adults from talking about adult problems and banning cellphones. The adults who volunteer just focus on being with the kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We protect the sacredness of this place,” said Ivey. “This is about children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Classical music plays, silk curtains blow in the wind and comfy couches offer a place to curl up with a book. There are wooden toys, colorful magnetic blocks, and crayons organized by color in glass jars. Children use light projectors to make patterns and shapes on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may sound like a high-end early childhood education center in California, but this is Tijuana. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students and their parents have fled violence in Central America, or other parts of Mexico, and are waiting for their asylum applications to the U.S. to be processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39733_Nest_077-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three-year-old Kevin, whose family fled cartel violence in Michoacán, plays at the light table with magnetic blocks at the Nest Tijuana. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A California woman opened this school, the Nest, in September. It’s the first one of its kind attached to a migrant shelter in the Mexican border town. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They welcome children 6 and under, and give them a chance to spend time away from the crowded shelter across the street — and to just be kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a Band-Aid solution,” said founder Alise Shafer Ivey, a veteran early childhood director from Santa Monica. “This isn’t sweetening the day of a child who might be stuck on a mattress in a shelter. Of course we’re sweetening the day of that child, but it’s so much more than that. This is about really setting a trajectory that will have an impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Families Sharing a Single Mattress in Crowded Shelter\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricia’s 2-year-old daughter is one of the new students at the Nest. On the trip to Tijuana, Patricia’s two girls kept asking where their dad was. But how could Patricia tell them? They couldn’t even go to the funeral. It was too dangerous to show up to bury her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782423\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 269px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11782423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39724_Nest_034-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39724_Nest_034-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39724_Nest_034-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39724_Nest_034-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39724_Nest_034-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia and her daughter, 2, fled their home the same day her husband was killed for failing to pay a bribe to members of a cartel in Michoacán. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He had been a small-business owner in the western state of Michoacán, which has seen a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/13-police-killed-by-gunmen-in-mexican-state-of-michoacan/2019/10/14/e84aef6c-eea5-11e9-bb7e-d2026ee0c199_story.html\">recent spike in violence\u003c/a> linked to drug cartels. When some men arrived at his shop demanding a bribe, he asked for more time to get the money. They killed him. Patricia and her girls, the older one is 5, fled that afternoon. (KQED is not using Patricia’s real name to protect her identity.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricia didn’t look back until she got to the shelter in Tijuana. It felt overwhelming: more than 150 people sharing four bathrooms, a single washing machine and one mattress to share with her girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families like Patricia’s are arriving in Tijuana at a time when applications for asylum at the US-Mexico border have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1106366/download\">surging.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many are waiting in crowded shelters at the border for longer periods under the Trump administration’s controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11758516/fear-confusion-and-separation-as-trump-administration-sends-migrants-back-to-mexico\">“Remain in Mexico” program\u003c/a>. Although it’s been challenged in court, the program has required more than 56,000 asylum-seekers (mostly Central Americans) to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, a spike in cartel violence has \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/surge-of-mexican-migrants-is-new-challenge-for-trump-border-crackdown/2019/10/18/c40f6e72-f029-11e9-b648-76bcf86eb67e_story.html\">forced a lot of Mexican families\u003c/a> like Patricia’s to seek asylum in the U.S., too — and find space in overflowing shelters in border towns like Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39721_Nest_025-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families wait in line at the shelter to eat a meal donated by students at a local medical college in Tijuana. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These kids have seen things no child should see,” said Ivey. “They’ve been stripped of their homelands, they’ve left their families behind. They’ve been stuffed in trunks of cars and crossed over borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To think we’re going to deliver them to a kindergarten in the U.S. and think it’s going to go well? Not necessarily,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48155/what-the-science-says-about-how-preschool-benefits-children\">Research\u003c/a> shows kids who have a hard time adjusting socially before age 5 have a lot of trouble catching up. If kids who’ve experienced the trauma of fleeing their homes can play and relax away from the stress of the crowded shelter, it could give them some sense of stability, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782409\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A child walks through shapes projected on a wall at \"The Nest\" in Tijuana.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39713_Nest_004-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child walks through shapes projected on a wall at the Tijuana Nest. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>An Unlikely Pair Share a Common Mission \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782429\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 334px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11782429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39730_Nest_056-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39730_Nest_056-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39730_Nest_056-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39730_Nest_056-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39730_Nest_056-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alise Shafer Ivey and Leticia Herrera Hernández at the Nest Tijuana in October 2019. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea for the Nest began with a trip Ivey took to Lesvos, Greece, after retiring from decades of directing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.evergreencommunityschool.com/\">Evergreen Community School\u003c/a> in Santa Monica. She met a relief worker who invited her to visit a refugee camp, which then housed mostly Syrian migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children were “digging in the dirt, playing with nails in their pockets,” Ivey said. “They had old cigarette lighters that they had found. There was nothing for children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ivey offered to set up a space for refugee kids to play. She returned to California, raising $10,000 through a nonprofit she helped found, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thinkwithus.org/\">Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles.\u003c/a> She went on to set up Nests in Samos, Greece, then two more in the Congo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early childhood teachers, many from California, use their vacation time to volunteer for a few weeks at the Nests. They train refugees to work with young children, a skill that could help them find a job if they get asylum in a new country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tijuana Nest got its start after Ivey visited the shelter across the street, where Patricia and her girls sought refuge. Ivey instantly connected with Leticia Herrera Hernández, who runs the shelter. They’re both strong believers in prioritizing the needs of children, especially when parents are going through trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39738_Nest_085-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viviana Lundgren (left) is an early childhood teacher in La Jolla who uses her vacation days to volunteer at the Nest in Tijuana. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herrera had already worked with a California group\u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-school/at-u-s-mexico-border-a-bus-becomes-a-school-for-migrant-children-in-limbo-idUSKCN1UV25J\"> to set up a makeshift elementary school next to her shelter, in an old bus.\u003c/a> But there was nothing for toddlers and preschool-age kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids would just spend their days playing on their parents’ phones, having tantrums, and we’d be trying to get them to play to entertain themselves,” Herrera said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So she was thrilled when Ivey proposed renting the house and opening an engaging play space for young children who live in the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera and Ivey make an unlikely pair. Ivey doesn’t speak Spanish and was raised Jewish. She doesn’t count on God or governments to change things. Herrera is a devout Catholic, guided by her unwavering faith that God will provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera came to working with refugee families via a different path than Ivey: through tragedy. She used to own a beauty salon and lived an upper-class life in Tijuana. Then her son was killed in a car accident in 2002 in his mid-20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything I thought was important didn’t matter. … I just wanted to die,” said Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39739_Nest_086-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the death of her son, Leticia Herrera Hernández founded a shelter for migrants in Tijuana. \u003ccite>(Erin Siegal McIntyre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A priest urged her to channel her pain into helping people. In 2010, a friend asked her to go to the border to hand out food to homeless migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It crushed my soul to see people so hungry,” Herrera said. “They were wiping every last drop of food from the pots with a tortilla. I left doubting that I had ever done anything meaningful with my life. I started to try to figure out how I could build a house for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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