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The agency failed to conduct some on-site inspections and levy appropriate fines, even when doing so would have better protected workers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2024-115/\">the report \u003c/a>published July 17 said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Auditor identified severe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049005/california-osha-inspectors-dont-visit-worksites-even-when-workers-are-injured\">staffing shortages\u003c/a> and outdated policies and practices as “root causes,” including handling investigations primarily on paper, which makes it difficult to track more than 12,000 complaints Cal/OSHA receives annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employers who put workers in danger are not being held accountable,” Assemblymember Liz Ortega, D-San Leandro, told Cal/OSHA officials at the hearing, including agency Chief Debra Lee. “What I really hope my colleagues and the public understand is the severity of Cal/OSHA’s failure to protect workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has some of the nation’s strongest workplace safety laws, but advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875988/minimal-to-non-existent-safety-inspector-shortage-worsened-in-pandemic-leaving-california-workers-vulnerable\">long complained\u003c/a> that weak enforcement leaves \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932758/health-and-safety-are-at-risk-only-1-california-safety-inspector-is-bilingual-in-chinese-or-vietnamese\">employees at risk\u003c/a>, especially in construction, manufacturing and agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1997px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC3491_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1997\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC3491_qed.jpg 1997w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC3491_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC3491_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1997px) 100vw, 1997px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Liz Ortega, D-San Leandro, speaks at a rally in front of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on Sept. 6, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA, also known as the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, is generally supposed to send inspectors to a workplace soon after receiving a report of a fatality, serious injury or danger. On-site inspections can result in fines for the employer if violations are found. Less serious hazards are often addressed through letters asking employers to self-investigate and correct issues, without monetary penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor found Cal/OSHA closed complaints and accident reports without verifying employers had fixed safety hazards and declined to conduct on-site inspections even when state law likely required them. Some cases involved serious injuries, including a chainsaw laceration resulting in surgery and weeks of recovery, and a skull fracture rendering a worker unconscious for several minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also reduced penalties without documenting a rationale. In one case, a forklift accident that caused a worker’s death resulted in a $21,000 fine, though penalties could have been twice as high, according to the audit, which reviewed 60 complaints and accident files handled by Cal/OSHA between 2019 and 2024.[aside postID=news_12049005 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/070125-Farmworker-Harvest-LV-CM-54-copy.jpg']Staffing was another major issue. The agency had 32% of its positions unfilled last year, but vacancies were more severe in enforcement, where critical industrial hygienist positions were 81% unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Auditor Grant Parks told lawmakers that the agency needs enough staff, clear policies and systems to monitor employee performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problems that Cal-OSHA is facing is really a sort of a three-legged stool,” Parks said. “And currently, we don’t have any of those three legs fully fleshed out, in our opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, D-Los Angeles, chair of the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee, said lawmakers must ensure Cal/OSHA implements needed changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredible that an agency that has been around for decades doesn’t have any legs to its stool,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, a 30-year employee at Cal/OSHA before she was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to head the agency in 2024, seemed at times nervous and tepid in her responses. At one point, she referred to a manual before responding to a question by Ortega about when the agency refers cases for criminal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega repeatedly cited three workers who died after being crushed by machinery at a metal manufacturing and recycling plant in her district, without sufficient consequences for the employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054063\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley on Aug. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When do you decide that it’s time to hold an employer accountable? Is it after the first death? Is it the second death? Is it after the third death?” Ortega asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee quoted related labor codes but acknowledged that the agency does not yet have a clear policy for referring cases to district attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I acknowledge the audit’s findings and their recommendations, which makes it clear and certain that improvements are needed at Cal/OSHA,” Lee said. “My priority is to improve the lives of California workers and empower employers to provide a safe workplace. In fact, under my leadership, Cal/OSHA was already working to fix issues identified by the state auditor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show the agency issued progressively stiffer \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.search?p_logger=1&establishment=Alco+Iron&State=CA&officetype=all&Office=all&sitezip=&p_case=all&p_violations_exist=all&startmonth=08&startday=26&startyear=2015&endmonth=08&endday=26&endyear=2025\">penalties\u003c/a> against San Leandro-based Alco Iron & Metal Co., the workplace Ortega referred to: $7,000 for a 2017 worker fatality, $18,185 for a second death in 2022, and $95,500 for a third earlier this year. It is unclear whether the company has paid the fines. Cal/OSHA did not immediately respond to requests for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Michael Bercovic, chief operating officer at Alco Iron & Metal, declined to comment on the two most recent fatalities, which remain under investigation and in legal proceedings. He said that the 2017 accident was caused by a manufacturer’s design flaw in the equipment that crushed the worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employee’s family filed a lawsuit against the equipment manufacturer, and they reached a settlement prior to trial,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA has prioritized hiring, reducing its overall vacancy rate to 12% this year after eliminating 66 positions due to budget cuts, according to Lee. Vacancies remain higher in enforcement, with 30% of field staff positions unfilled, a spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is modernizing operations with a new electronic data management system that spokesperson Daniel Lopez called the “biggest technology project” in Cal/OSHA’s history. Officials said it will help collect and standardize information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state auditor’s office plans to follow up on Cal/OSHA’s progress next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Staffing was another major issue. The agency had 32% of its positions unfilled last year, but vacancies were more severe in enforcement, where critical industrial hygienist positions were 81% unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Auditor Grant Parks told lawmakers that the agency needs enough staff, clear policies and systems to monitor employee performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problems that Cal-OSHA is facing is really a sort of a three-legged stool,” Parks said. “And currently, we don’t have any of those three legs fully fleshed out, in our opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, D-Los Angeles, chair of the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee, said lawmakers must ensure Cal/OSHA implements needed changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredible that an agency that has been around for decades doesn’t have any legs to its stool,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, a 30-year employee at Cal/OSHA before she was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to head the agency in 2024, seemed at times nervous and tepid in her responses. At one point, she referred to a manual before responding to a question by Ortega about when the agency refers cases for criminal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega repeatedly cited three workers who died after being crushed by machinery at a metal manufacturing and recycling plant in her district, without sufficient consequences for the employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054063\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley on Aug. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When do you decide that it’s time to hold an employer accountable? Is it after the first death? Is it the second death? Is it after the third death?” Ortega asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee quoted related labor codes but acknowledged that the agency does not yet have a clear policy for referring cases to district attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I acknowledge the audit’s findings and their recommendations, which makes it clear and certain that improvements are needed at Cal/OSHA,” Lee said. “My priority is to improve the lives of California workers and empower employers to provide a safe workplace. In fact, under my leadership, Cal/OSHA was already working to fix issues identified by the state auditor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show the agency issued progressively stiffer \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.search?p_logger=1&establishment=Alco+Iron&State=CA&officetype=all&Office=all&sitezip=&p_case=all&p_violations_exist=all&startmonth=08&startday=26&startyear=2015&endmonth=08&endday=26&endyear=2025\">penalties\u003c/a> against San Leandro-based Alco Iron & Metal Co., the workplace Ortega referred to: $7,000 for a 2017 worker fatality, $18,185 for a second death in 2022, and $95,500 for a third earlier this year. It is unclear whether the company has paid the fines. Cal/OSHA did not immediately respond to requests for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Michael Bercovic, chief operating officer at Alco Iron & Metal, declined to comment on the two most recent fatalities, which remain under investigation and in legal proceedings. He said that the 2017 accident was caused by a manufacturer’s design flaw in the equipment that crushed the worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employee’s family filed a lawsuit against the equipment manufacturer, and they reached a settlement prior to trial,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA has prioritized hiring, reducing its overall vacancy rate to 12% this year after eliminating 66 positions due to budget cuts, according to Lee. Vacancies remain higher in enforcement, with 30% of field staff positions unfilled, a spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is modernizing operations with a new electronic data management system that spokesperson Daniel Lopez called the “biggest technology project” in Cal/OSHA’s history. Officials said it will help collect and standardize information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state auditor’s office plans to follow up on Cal/OSHA’s progress next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than two years ago, parents of children at Adelante Dual Language Academy in San José called on the district to bring back their principal, Maria Gutierrez. Now, Gutierrez is suing Alum Rock Union School District, alleging she was placed on leave and eventually terminated in retaliation for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990571/east-san-jose-school-conspired-to-hide-teachers-sexual-abuse-11-victims-allege-in-lawsuit\">reporting the school’s music teacher\u003c/a>, Israel Santiago, to authorities for suspected abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutierrez said she was a well-respected principal, known for her dedication to student success and fostering a supportive school culture. But she claims district administrators responded with hostility, engaging in a systemic effort to discredit, intimidate and isolate her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alum Rock Union School District declined to comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, Gutierrez reported Santiago to Child Protective Services and law enforcement in November 2022, triggering a criminal investigation that led to his arrest for multiple counts of molestation and lewd acts on a child by force. Santiago is currently serving a prison sentence for the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after reporting Santiago, Gutierrez said she was placed on administrative leave and later terminated. She alleges the district reported her to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing in an effort to damage her career prospects and prevent future employment in education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants made Plaintiff a scapegoat for their systemic failures in addressing Santiago’s misconduct,” the suit reads. “Rather than taking accountability, they shifted blame onto Plaintiff to protect their reputations and evade responsibility for their inaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign outside Adelante Dual Language Academy is pictured in San José, California on June 8 2023. Records obtained by KQED show a music teacher arrested this year for sexually abusing 10 students at Adelante Academy had complaints at a different school for inappropriately touching students before he was transferred. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Records obtained by KQED show that students at two other district schools had reported Santiago’s behavior from 2012 through 2014. Despite repeated complaints of inappropriate touching, the district issued a letter of reprimand and transferred him to another school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After transferring Santiago to Adelante, the district did not inform site leadership or parents about his history of complaints, according to the lawsuit. Gutierrez alleges she was punished for exposing the district’s institutional failures, while those who failed to report or shielded Santiago were not disciplined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imee Almazan, the former Sheppard Middle School principal who investigated Santiago in 2014, was appointed interim superintendent in 2024, though she is no longer with the district, according to her LinkedIn.[aside postID=news_11990571 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66175_20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-111-KQED-1020x678.jpg']The Alum Rock school board is also facing scrutiny over its decision to close or consolidate schools, and the abrupt firing of its most recent superintendent. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after reporting Santiago, Gutierrez said she was placed on administrative leave and later terminated. She alleges the district reported her to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing in an effort to damage her career prospects and prevent future employment in education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants made Plaintiff a scapegoat for their systemic failures in addressing Santiago’s misconduct,” the suit reads. “Rather than taking accountability, they shifted blame onto Plaintiff to protect their reputations and evade responsibility for their inaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-081_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign outside Adelante Dual Language Academy is pictured in San José, California on June 8 2023. Records obtained by KQED show a music teacher arrested this year for sexually abusing 10 students at Adelante Academy had complaints at a different school for inappropriately touching students before he was transferred. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Records obtained by KQED show that students at two other district schools had reported Santiago’s behavior from 2012 through 2014. Despite repeated complaints of inappropriate touching, the district issued a letter of reprimand and transferred him to another school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After transferring Santiago to Adelante, the district did not inform site leadership or parents about his history of complaints, according to the lawsuit. Gutierrez alleges she was punished for exposing the district’s institutional failures, while those who failed to report or shielded Santiago were not disciplined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imee Almazan, the former Sheppard Middle School principal who investigated Santiago in 2014, was appointed interim superintendent in 2024, though she is no longer with the district, according to her LinkedIn.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The school recently expanded to add Spanish-immersion transitional kindergarten classrooms for the district’s youngest students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayfield and a coalition of 13 other parents wrote in a letter to the district on Wednesday that when they and their 4-year-olds arrived on campus that morning, there was no smiling principal waiting to greet them. That role remains vacant, along with three classroom teaching positions and multiple paraeducator jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are writing to raise urgent concerns about the unsafe and unacceptable conditions at Mission Education Center,” the letter reads. “We love SFUSD. We believe in public education. We trusted the system — and the system failed us and our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD said in a message to families Monday afternoon that it had offered the principal and pre-kindergarten teacher roles to candidates, and extended offers for instructional aide positions to three other people. It said it was still looking for two TK teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please know that we see and understand these challenges, and we are truly grateful for your patience and partnership during this time,” the message, which the district shared with KQED, reads. “We are fully committed to providing the very best care and quality education to each of the 76 students enrolled at MEC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053561\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825-SFUSDMISSIONEDCENTER-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mission Education Center, a bilingual elementary school in the San Francisco Unified School District, in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the children lined up and were led to their classrooms, the site’s interim principal — who himself has been teaching one of the classes, according to Mayfield — corralled worried parents in the cafeteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have teachers. We don’t have staff. We are scrambling to try to get resources here the rest of the week,” Mayfield recalled the interim leader saying. “It’s going to be pretty chaotic and pretty much adjusting targets every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayfield said before the school year started, his daughter’s class had been assigned a teacher, a longtime bilingual educator in SFUSD who taught older classes prior to this year. He met her during a back-to-school event the previous week, but on the first day, she wasn’t there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents showed up and we’re being told, ‘[This teacher’s] class line up here,’” Mayfield said. “We’re lined up, and this woman is in the front of the line, and I said, ‘Well, that’s not [our teacher]. I met her on Friday. 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And literally she’s showing up every day, and she doesn’t know who’s going to be her teacher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission Education Center has operated for years as a small pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade campus meant to serve as a transitional school for newly arrived immigrant students, helping them get up to speed with the district’s grade-level learning standards and move into general education classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppssf.org/news/the-sfusd-transitional-kindergarten-program-is-opening-six-new-sites-in-2022-2023\">it would introduce\u003c/a> Spanish immersion TK at MEC for the 2022–23 school year, and last year, the site had \u003ca href=\"https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/enrgrdlevels.aspx?cds=38684786089585&agglevel=School&year=2024-25&ro=y\">47 TK students\u003c/a>, according to state data. Mayfield explained the site as almost containing two separate schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The early education expansion appears to be where most of MEC’s staffing issues are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday, two of the three TK classes and the pre-kindergarten didn’t have permanent teachers, according to parents. All but one paraeducator position across those classrooms — since state staffing rules say each group of 20 TKers should have two supervising adults — were still vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Mayfield said he and other parents were assured that a principal had been hired in June and was being onboarded over the summer, the interim principal said last week that the position hadn’t been filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from concerned parents to the district said that on the first day, one paraeducator floated between three rooms. By Wednesday, the district had sent in central office employees as support, Mayfield said.[aside postID=news_12052609 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240520-TKParentsDilemma-32-BL_qed.jpg']The letter also said that on the first day, parents anxiously lingering around the school until midmorning saw one child go to the bathroom alone, while others were left in the halls. They say they had to step in to lead early morning circle time for a group of TK kids. Substitute staff sent to teach the Spanish immersion classes, which include some children who only speak Spanish fluently, don’t have the necessary language skills, according to multiple parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These conditions are unsafe, inequitable, and a violation of the state’s expectations for early education,” the parents wrote in their letter. “On-site staff have been transparent and honest about these challenges to us and are doing their best — and for this, we are grateful, we applaud them — but this clearly needs immediate support from the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucia Gonzalezz Ippolito’s daughter, who started TK last week, had been in a Spanish Immersion preschool for the last two years. She said that the program was great, and her daughter could have continued there for one more year before enrolling in kindergarten, but she felt pressure to put her in TK at SFUSD so she would have a better chance of getting one of the district’s competitive Spanish immersion spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I want her in a Spanish immersion program, I have to stay in MEC,” Gonzalez Ippolito said. “If you go to a regular TK or if you stay in preschool, then you’ll probably be like number 50 on the wait list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since she took the helm as superintendent last year, Maria Su has said that one of her goals is to expand the district’s TK offerings, first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052609/as-transitional-kindergarten-opens-to-all-4-year-olds-sf-parents-compete-for-seats\">adding 16 classrooms this year\u003c/a>, and looking at potential locations for more early education programs in the future to meet enrollment demands. 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An orange car drives on the road in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Oct. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pawlitz wrote in a statement that there have been multiple “unauthorized demonstrations involving El Capitan” and that “displaying signs, banners, and flags outside of designated First-Amendment areas detracts from the visitor experience and the protection of the park.” Demonstrations, she added, require a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/management/upload/ep-compendium.pdf\">permit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite has First Amendment \u003ca href=\"https://public-nps.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nps::yosemite-national-park-designated-first-amendment-areas-open-data/about\">zones\u003c/a>, where 25 or more people can gather in permitted demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to emphasize that we take the protection of the park’s resources and the experience of our visitors very seriously, and will not tolerate violations of laws and regulations that impact those resources and experiences,” Pawlitz wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joslin said flying the flag was not a demonstration, but rather a celebration of identity, and criticized the parks service for taking action against them and not others who have similarly displayed flags on the prominent rock wall facing Yosemite Valley.[aside postID=news_12050945 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-1_qed.jpg']In fact, the park changed its flag-flying \u003ca href=\"https://www.climbing.com/news/yosemite-bans-large-flags-on-el-cap-and-other-walls/\">policy \u003c/a>just one day after Joslin scaled the wall, banning large flags over 15 square feet in wilderness areas within the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hanging flags on El Capitan goes back decades,” they said, referring to a recent “\u003ca href=\"https://www.climbing.com/news/stop-the-genocide-banner-from-el-capitan/\">Stop the Genocide” flag\u003c/a> hung in 2024 and an upside-down\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/travel/upside-down-american-flag-firefall-yosemite\"> American flag\u003c/a> flown in February of this year, among many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, “we are the only group of people that have been prosecuted for hanging a flag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Citron Day, \u003ca href=\"https://peer.org/\">general counsel\u003c/a> at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a legal assistance group that plans to assist Joslin in pursuing reinstatement to their position, said Joslin’s firing was arbitrary and “politically motivated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SJ got fired for exercising their First Amendment right — period,” she said. “The message it sends is be scared and be quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ advocates in the Bay Area condemned Joslin’s dismissal as part of the administration’s ongoing attacks on the trans community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pattiegonia.net/\">Pattie Gonia\u003c/a>, a drag queen and environmental activist, who was also involved in hanging the flag, defended Joslin, writing in a statement that their firing “is not just an attack on SJ, but a targeted move by the Trump administration to silence and punish anyone who practices free speech and dares to stand in defiance of the erasure of trans people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11643341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11643341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS16413_GettyImages-476571408-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Some visitors to many parks, monuments and public lands were frustrated with spotty service caused by the government shutdown. 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Many of them keep patients out of the hospital — they’re the ones that triage and catch the problems before they become life-threatening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CNA, which represents about 500 registered nurses at Kaiser facilities in San Rafael, said patients in the health system are already experiencing long wait times. Layoffs would risk further delaying care, the union argued, causing “potentially deadly consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are pregnant women with concerns about their unborn children,” Cronin said. “They want access to a nurse that can reassure them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053049\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-KAISER-SAN-RAFAEL-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-KAISER-SAN-RAFAEL-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-KAISER-SAN-RAFAEL-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-KAISER-SAN-RAFAEL-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Rafael on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nurses with CNA said patients have shared stories of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1991871/systemic-neglect-how-staffing-shortages-in-nursing-homes-leave-patients-trapped-in-hospitals\">delays in care\u003c/a>, long hold times and struggles for older patients using more recent internet-based appointment systems. When told of the planned cuts, Cronin said, patients are shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people recognize that Kaiser is a very large health care provider,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser pushed back on the assertion that patient care would be affected, saying in a statement that “none of these changes will impact the quality of Kaiser Permanente’s patient care and services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit healthcare giant said the staff reductions were made as the volume of care had dropped at its outpatient facilities in San Rafael post-pandemic.[aside postID=news_12051862 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg']“To match staffing and care needs, we are rebalancing resources,” the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurses pointed to Kaiser’s \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/news/press-release-archive/kaiser-foundation-health-plan-hospitals-risant-health-report-2024-financial-results\">net income in 2024\u003c/a>, arguing the company’s justification for the cuts doesn’t hold up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely unacceptable that Kaiser made $13 billion last year, yet is cutting staff,” Colleen Gibbons, a medical-surgical nurse at Kaiser San Rafael and the chief nurse representative, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CNA received notice of the proposed layoffs at the end of June, and they are set to take effect Oct. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the nurses left after the layoffs take effect, the workload will only grow, Cronin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The work doesn’t go away just because the nurses go away,” Cronin said. “There’s still these patients that paid for access to quality medical care … and the nurses will continue to try to provide it despite how Kaiser continues to tie our hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-two workers in San Rafael were initially slated for layoffs, but negotiations with CNA spared a position, reducing the total to 41.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser said the number of total affected positions may change as bargaining with the union continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company pointed to 400 open nursing positions across Kaiser locations in Northern California, saying it wants to “help transition impacted employees to available inpatient positions that are closest to where they live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurses plan to picket the layoffs on Thursday outside Kaiser’s downtown San Rafael clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Clarification, Sept. 24: A previous version of this story said nearly a quarter of nurses at Kaiser’s outpatient clinics in San Rafael would be laid off. Kaiser and the California Nurses Association dispute the impact of the proposed layoffs, with Kaiser saying the cuts would affect 18% of outpatient nurses in San Rafael and the union estimating closer to 23%.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CNA, which represents about 500 registered nurses at Kaiser facilities in San Rafael, said patients in the health system are already experiencing long wait times. Layoffs would risk further delaying care, the union argued, causing “potentially deadly consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are pregnant women with concerns about their unborn children,” Cronin said. “They want access to a nurse that can reassure them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053049\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-KAISER-SAN-RAFAEL-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-KAISER-SAN-RAFAEL-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-KAISER-SAN-RAFAEL-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-KAISER-SAN-RAFAEL-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Rafael on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nurses with CNA said patients have shared stories of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1991871/systemic-neglect-how-staffing-shortages-in-nursing-homes-leave-patients-trapped-in-hospitals\">delays in care\u003c/a>, long hold times and struggles for older patients using more recent internet-based appointment systems. When told of the planned cuts, Cronin said, patients are shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people recognize that Kaiser is a very large health care provider,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser pushed back on the assertion that patient care would be affected, saying in a statement that “none of these changes will impact the quality of Kaiser Permanente’s patient care and services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit healthcare giant said the staff reductions were made as the volume of care had dropped at its outpatient facilities in San Rafael post-pandemic.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Class is back in session for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a>, and the new school year promises lots of change for the nearly 50,000 students and thousands more staffers headed back to campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008405/these-san-francisco-schools-could-close-list-isnt-final\">list of closing schools\u003c/a> is no longer looming overhead, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">leadership feels more stable \u003c/a>without the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005932/sf-mayor-sends-team-to-address-crisis-at-school-district-but-dont-call-it-a-takeover\">flurry of major city elections\u003c/a>, SFUSD is teed up for plenty of changes and growing pains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we’re watching heading into the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad 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Throughout the 2025–26 school year, she said the district will work on a more regulated internal curriculum to bring to the school board for approval ahead of fall 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Payroll problems persist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As teachers returned to classrooms last week, some dealt with what has become a fairly typical point of tension in recent years: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051862/sf-teachers-are-yet-again-having-payroll-issues-just-after-launch-of-costly-new-system\">getting paid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two years and more than $30 million trying to make a payroll system operated by EMPower work, the district ditched it last year, shelling out even more money to purchase new software from companies Frontline and Red Rover to manage paychecks and employee benefits.[aside postID=news_12051862 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg']That program launched in July, but in its first few weeks, some educators are already experiencing familiar issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Educators of San Francisco said some of its members’ dues haven’t been properly deducted from their summer paychecks, while other employees have reported being paid at the wrong rate or missing money for clocked vacation and sick days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said that kinks are expected, and some of the issues are byproducts of the EMPower system, since a lot of data had to be transferred over from that software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin Trujillo, SFUSD’s head of staff, assured board members last week that, unlike issues that arose in EMPower, he’s confident the district can identify and fix the root causes quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Declining enrollment and … a new school?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many of the problems SFUSD has been dealing with for years — long-term enrollment decline, funding shortfalls and teacher retention — persist, Su looks to be betting on new programs to draw in more students and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD saw an uptick in interest for this fall, thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031802/san-francisco-public-schools-see-surge-applications-thanks-transitional-kindergarten-demand\">expanding transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> offerings. 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"content": "\u003cp>Weekdays at the Walgreens parking lot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fruitvale\">Fruitvale\u003c/a> have grown eerily quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a typical morning months ago, upwards of 60 men in work boots and dark hoodies would have been gathered around light poles and pop-up food stands in the large lot, chatting and drinking coffee out of paper cups. But on a recent gloomy Friday, only about a dozen day laborers milled about, hoping to find work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are starting to feel it. I’m scared,” a man in a black hooded sweatshirt, leaning against the Oakland drugstore building, said in Spanish. “It’s not like last year. Right now, I’m just scared. You can’t trust anyone anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other workers who spoke with KQED anonymously, fearing identification by immigration officials, said the number of day laborers gathering there has dwindled in recent months as the immigration raids sweeping through Southern and Central California stoke a foreboding feeling that they’ll hit the Bay Area next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since President Donald Trump took office with a campaign pledge to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s daily arrest targets have swelled as its operations pick up significantly across California. And there’s little sign of a slowdown — in July, Congress granted ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910650/ices-budget-just-tripled-whats-next\">an additional $75 billion\u003c/a> over the next four years to hire more officers and expand detention capacity, making it the largest law enforcement agency in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049999\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A day laborer waits for work at a Walgreens in Oakland on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Raids have shaken gas stations, farms and hardware stores across the state, and ICE officers have taken to arresting people outside immigration courts and local immigration offices where they’re summoned for check-ins on their asylum cases — a tactic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">previously unheard of\u003c/a> by immigrant advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, officials detained six people, including a teenager and a young adult with Down syndrome, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052198/teen-arrested-in-ice-raid-at-an-oakland-home-detained-out-of-state-attorney-says\">raiding a house in East Oakland\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12052198 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2220045842-2000x1334.jpg']Outside the Walgreens in Oakland, the man in the black hoodie said he’s been watching this unfold on the news. Though he is increasingly wary of the risk it puts him in, he still comes here most days because he needs the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he said, he stays more alert and regularly checks his phone for any warning of ICE activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recounted what he’s been told to do if ICE officers appear: “They say, ‘Don’t talk, don’t say anything. If they stop you, if they detain you, you’re never going to say anything. If they take you to the immigration, never say if you have papers. You will never speak and that’s it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he knows his rights and carries a red wallet-sized card that says in both English and Spanish that he does not want to answer questions, speak with immigration officials or hand over any documentation. But he also relies on faith to keep him safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that I have faith in God and I ask God and I am sure that if God tells me that it is my time, then it is my time, my destiny,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A chilling effect’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That morning, a team of outreach workers with Street Level Health Project, an Oakland nonprofit that serves undocumented immigrants and is part of Alameda County’s Rapid Response Network, also headed out of their Fruitvale office onto deserted roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team regularly checks in with day laborers at the Walgreens store on Foothill Boulevard. While walking there, executive director Gabriela Galicia told KQED that Street Level has had fewer clients coming in over the past few weeks, and she’s seeing fewer people on the streets and in stores in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050003 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED-1536x1049.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Galicia, executive director of Street Level Health Project, poses for a photo in Oakland on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely apparent that there is a chilling effect,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Galicia said Street Level saw an increase in weekly clients during the first few months of the Trump administration, she believes some are now worried the office itself could be a target for immigration officers.[aside postID=news_12052249 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250814-OAKLANDPUSHBACK-08-KQED.jpg']“We’ve received community members that have stated very upfront that they are scared to sometimes leave the house, go to work, do their normal activities in the neighborhood or take their kids to summer programming,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One laborer outside Walgreens told KQED he’s drastically reduced how much time he spends out of the house, leaving virtually only to work at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s a way to protect yourself,” he said. “What you can do is avoid going out a lot, and only go out to the [day laborer] stops out of necessity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also altered his work routine. On days he might have once stood around on Foothill through the afternoon, he now waits just a few hours in the morning to see if a truck rolls into the lot with a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only come out here for a bit because there’s no other way, and after that, you get exhausted,” he said. “Before, with more confidence, people stayed longer. You felt more free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Struggling to find work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Laborers said even as their numbers drop, work is becoming harder to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential employers “don’t come” any longer, one told KQED in Spanish. “Some say they are afraid. They are afraid of coming to hire people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers said there have been weeks when they’ve found work for only a few days. Other weeks, there’s been none at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Robles, left, and Norma Calvo, right, both of Street Level Health Project, speak to and offer services to a day laborer waiting for work at a Walgreens in Oakland on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Multiple day laborers told KQED that they used to work for companies but were recently let go or had their hours cut short. 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That software cost the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">cash-strapped district\u003c/a> $20 million more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After careful deliberation with our teams, I am pleased to announce that we will be able to proceed with the transition to Frontline as scheduled on July 1,” Su told reporters in June. “And we’ve done all the due diligence to make sure we are going to be able to do it and not have the hiccups of last time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since July, Lara said about 150 of the union’s 500 or so members who worked over the summer have had payroll issues.[aside postID=news_12048313 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanFranciscoK8SchoolGetty.jpg']Some teachers who worked at district-sponsored enrichment programs over the summer didn’t receive pay at all; others never had union dues deducted from their paychecks like they were supposed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other employees were paid at the incorrect rate or had their paychecks delayed for weeks, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that going into the implementation of Frontline, there were going to be challenges. … with the implementation of any software and program, especially built on top of a system that we know struggled and did not work for our school district,” said Phil Kim, the president of San Francisco’s Board of Education. “The question I think that I’ve been posing to staff and making sure that the superintendent prioritizes is: ‘How fast are we able to resolve these issues?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the union has been especially disappointed by how the district is handling the problems, Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we raised the alarm, we were shocked at how dismissive the staff was in terms of the very real concerns,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a problem arises, everybody starts blaming each other. When we talk to the executive director of payroll … they go, ‘That’s probably an HR thing or a labor relations thing.’ So then we go over to the executive director of HR, and they’re like, ‘We raised these concerns a year ago and they didn’t include that into the system,’” he said. “Then who’s managing the system?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, the union sent a cease and desist letter to district leaders, including Su and Kim, detailing the issues employees had been dealing with since July, and informing the district it would file a state labor complaint if the issues were not resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, UESF sent that complaint to California’s Public Employment Relations Board, writing that after spending a year preparing for the transition to Frontline, “the system cannot actually do the things we need it to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UESF’s expectation is that SFUSD is paying all of our members exactly what they are owed exactly when it is owed, that our member’s benefits are fully and completely available … without delay,” the unfair-practice charge reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the district said it is working quickly to resolve any issues that arise and has created a website for employees with information and a way to report payroll concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As teachers return to their classrooms on Tuesday before the first day of school next week, union leaders plan to rally outside the district’s office, urging officials to resolve the issues quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really concerned now that 6,000 of our members are coming back, especially substitute teachers, that this is going to be a problem,” Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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