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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District is solidifying plans to close and consolidate schools. Specifics are expected early next year, but just the idea of school closures is alarming some parents, students and teachers who say they’re not about to let their school close without a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, people gathered in downtown Oakland to begin plotting a community response to the looming closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">As Potential Closures Loom, Oakland Parents Want ‘Opportunity Ticket’ to Access Better Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711449/as-potential-closures-loom-oakland-parents-want-opportunity-ticket-to-access-better-schools\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_3937-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There’s only one way that we can stop this, and that’s organizing and making sure that we defend our schools,” local public education activist Mike Hutchinson told the crowd at Geoffrey’s Inner Circle. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we organize one school site, we can’t stop there. We need to organize by neighborhood and citywide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson helped organize the event, which drew about 100 people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today was kind of two-fold,” he said, “to get information to folks so they can understand what the school board is planning to do, and hopefully that would inspire them to start fighting against those plans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711500\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0854-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0854-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0854-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0854-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0854-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0854-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0854.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local public education activist Mike Hutchinson told the crowd to start organizing against the district's plan. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With enrollment down, OUSD officials say they can’t keep all 87 of their schools open. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3727236&GUID=2F788976-5A80-4BBA-B940-0E878F99B445&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initial analysis\u003c/a> projects that five years from now, there’ll be more than 10,000 empty seats. The district’s early estimate is that it needs 24 fewer schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High school teacher Chris Jackson, who attended Sunday’s event, said morale in the district is already low after years of cuts. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After we’ve made cut after cut, the final insult has been to close our schools down,\" Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703765/parents-in-oaklands-worst-schools-want-out-see-open-enrollment-as-their-chance\">Parents in Oakland's Worst Schools Want Out, See Open Enrollment as Their Chance\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703765/parents-in-oaklands-worst-schools-want-out-see-open-enrollment-as-their-chance\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Lakisha-Young-e1541535688680-1180x938.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jackson teaches at Castlemont High School in East Oakland, the region with the most schools, and where 17 of the 24 estimated closures would take place. He’s already worried about what that would mean for his students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our students can’t go to certain areas because of gang activity and because of their safety,” Jackson said. “We’re going to be forcing students to walk through these areas that are not safe for them. A lot of our students have huge transportation issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When school started this year, Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell admitted closing schools wasn’t going to be an easy task. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one likes having to change a school. Schools are part of a community,” she said. “They're hard, difficult conversations. They're emotional conversations. They're equity-charged conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11711503 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0866-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0866-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0866-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0866-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0866-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0866-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0866.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Sunday's event, teachers said looming closures are contributing to their dissatisfaction and willingness to take a hardline stance as labor negotiations continue to falter. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/california-governor-signs-bill-that-could-yield-millions-for-oakland-and-inglewood-schools/602409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state bailout money\u003c/a> available to OUSD hinges on the district showing it’s taking steps to fix its finances. Closing schools is a key part of the district’s longterm plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like others at the community meeting, Jackson and Hutchinson argued closures will disproportionately impact kids in Oakland’s flatlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the schools closed or consolidated are expected to be elementary schools, plus a handful of middle schools and one high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is expected to provide more detail on the plan in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n her classroom at Bret Harte Middle School in Oakland, teacher Sayuri Sakamoto sits at a desk piled with papers. It’s her precious prep period, and she’s in the middle of scheduling education plan meetings for her special ed students when she remembers something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually need to follow up and go give someone an extra asthma treatment, like right now,” she says, as she stuffs her phone into her fanny pack and rushes out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the hall, Sakamoto pops her head into a classroom and pulls 7th grader Jayare Fulghal-Holloway from his class. Jayare was her student last year, and she knows if he doesn’t use his inhaler multiple times each day, his chest tightens up. He follows her down the hallway. “I feel really cough-y. You get it, coffee?” says Jayare. “But seriously it's really important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today he’s been asking to go home, but Sakamoto is hoping the extra asthma treatment will keep him at school. She walks him to a small room near the front office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's Nurse Williams' room,” Jayare says. But Nurse Williams isn’t here. “She's usually at her other schools,\" Jayare explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because nurse Natasha Williams divides her time between three schools, and a shortage of school nurses in the district means she has to pick up additional assignments, spreading her even thinner. When school started this year, 10 of Oakland Unified School District’s 30 \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nurse positions\u003c/a> weren’t filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It falls to other school staff to pick up the slack. Sakamoto does her best to keep track of when students need to take medications. She sets alarms on her phone to remind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of whatever I'm doing, I stop,” she says. “If I don't then, I will forget to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies ... first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us.'\u003ccite>April Harris-Jackson, Bret Harte principal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But those alarms go off six times per day, so things can get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have so many alarms set close to each other I'll turn one off because I think I already did that and then, 'Oh no!' It turns out that was the alarm for someone else. Sometimes schedules get way off,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20-30 percent of their time on medical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies and in first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us,” Harris-Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s attendance clerk, Carmen Argueta, spends so much time tending to students’ medical needs that Jayare thought she was another school nurse until Sakamoto told him otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 percent of students at the school receive special education services. Many of them require medical care. Harris-Jackson says she has students who regularly have seizures, others who rely on gastronomy tubes (G-tubes) and catheters, plus students with life-threatening allergies and chronic conditions that require daily medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurse Williams is in charge of assessing all those students and coming up with treatment plans. She works with their doctors and trains aides and other staff, like the attendance clerk, who provide care. She also does hearing and vision tests, makes sure kids have the medications they need at school, and follows up if kids aren’t coming to class because of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so few nurses in the district these days, she spends two days each week at Bret Harte, but does daily diabetes rounds at other schools and takes on other assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just question how it’s sustainable,” Harris-Jackson says of nurses’ workload. “How are we getting our needs met here, but also how are those other schools getting their needs met?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Nurse Williams’ office, Sakamoto is doing her best to meet Jayare’s needs. After rifling around in search of the binder where Williams logs treatments, she hands Jayare his inhaler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please do it the right way,” she says, though it’s not clear she knows what that is. “One puff, then a deep breath and hold it — or I don't know if you hold it,” she says. “Just do it slowly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Sakamoto sends Jayare back to class, Nurse Williams bursts through the door. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry! I’m so sorry,” she says. “I just rushed here from another school where I had a new student show up with G-tube feedings.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was due at Bret Harte more than two hours earlier, but she had to train the staff at another school to handle the feeding procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was supposed to see many students today here, and of all those students now I can maybe see one,” she says. “The other students will have to be rescheduled to another day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams loves her job and says it’s painful to see the workload take a toll on her relationship with students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have students telling me all the time, ‘Miss Natasha where are you? I never see you. You never get to sit with me and talk about my medication,’” she says. “I feel like if I was here every day it would make a huge difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Troubling Best-Case Scenario\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Bret Harte is in some ways the district’s best-case scenario. Because it serves so many high-needs students it gets more nursing attention than some schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 30 schools don’t have a nurse assigned to them at all. It falls to managers in the district's Health Services Department and nurses like Williams, who already have brimming caseloads, to assess students and train staff at those schools between other work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers, attendance clerks and other staff are left to manage much of students’ day-to-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in the district has school nurses turning to their union, the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Education Association\u003c/a>, for help. In May the union filed a formal grievance accusing the district of violating the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/contract/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terms of their contract\u003c/a>, which sets a nurse’s maximum caseload at 1,350 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the extra tasks thrown her way, Natasha Williams oversees nearly 1,400 students at her three schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The effects of the shortage are really, really burned out nurses. Our turnover is incredible,” says nurse Sarah Nielsen Boyd, who oversees over 2,000 students at Oakland Tech, though there are other trained staff on site. “It's a crazy job. It's very stressful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to monitoring medical services for severely disabled students and kids with medical conditions from cancer to cystic fibrosis, Nielsen Boyd has dealt with mental health issues like panic attacks and self-harm. She’s also the school’s go-to in emergencies. And with nurses so scarce she sometimes gets pulled away to help at other schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district did not respond to the nurses’ initial complaint, the union tried again. In late August the district rejected the grievance, saying it wasn’t filed in a timely manner, and deemed it null and void.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to nurses and union officials, OUSD Director of Community Schools Student Services Andrea Bustamante wrote, “Notwithstanding denial of the grievance due to untimely filing, I find the start of the 2018-2019 school year to be a great opportunity to work collaboratively to improve working conditions for our valued OUSD nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district have yet to work out a solution. In the meantime, nurses have turned to other tactics. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nurses Demand Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/player/clip/1321?view_id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Board meeting\u003c/a> in late September, they showed up alongside teachers to demand the district address the shortage. They provided board members with statements they said they’d collected from parents and pediatricians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to take this seriously,” Oakland Education Association treasurer Deirdre Snyder told the board. “You’re going to be sued by some parent! It’s a travesty. I have seen seizures in my room, all kinds of problems, more and more as the years go on. You cannot pretend this isn’t happening. You need to act now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District-wide, there are over 700 students with severe allergies, more than 350 students whose asthma requires regular medication, about 200 students with seizure disorders, 50 students with diabetes and nearly 30 students with sickle cell disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a high-needs district. We take great pride in filling the medical needs for our kids,” says OUSD spokesman John Sasaki. He points out the district has a vision clinic and dental services, along with independently run general health clinics families can access at over a dozen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki says in the past five years, several school nurses have retired while others have left for other districts or taken hospital jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20 and 30 percent of their time on medical issues. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of full-time credentialed school nurse positions in the district has dropped over time, and so have the number of unfilled positions. Last school year, the district had 32 nurse positions, six of them unfilled. In 2015, there were about 35 positions and only three were unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some nurses say the district hasn’t done enough to recruit nurses, district officials peg the unfilled positions on a shortage that stretches beyond Oakland. In fact, across the state, about ten percent of school nurse positions are unfilled, according to Sheri Coburn, president of the California School Nurses Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coburn blames the shortage in part on the fact that nurses can make more money in traditional hospital settings. School nursing also requires specialized training that takes time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing everything we can,” Sasaki says. “We're scrambling to find more nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says staff is working to expand the nurse recruitment campaign and the district is working with the union to offer additional incentives, like signing bonuses, referral bonuses and stipends for experienced nurses who support and mentor newer nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown kids who have access to school nurses \u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/6/e20160852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do better than those who don’t\u003c/a> — they’re absent less, and their teachers can dedicate more time to teaching. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a minimum of one full-time school nurse at every school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, on average, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/126/pupilsupportpersonnel-type/Table#fmt=2391&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=95&ch=276,278,280,277,279,807,1136&sortColumnId=0&sortType=asc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one school nurse for every 2,500 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because nurse Natasha Williams divides her time between three schools, and a shortage of school nurses in the district means she has to pick up additional assignments, spreading her even thinner. When school started this year, 10 of Oakland Unified School District’s 30 \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nurse positions\u003c/a> weren’t filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It falls to other school staff to pick up the slack. Sakamoto does her best to keep track of when students need to take medications. She sets alarms on her phone to remind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of whatever I'm doing, I stop,” she says. “If I don't then, I will forget to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies ... first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us.'\u003ccite>April Harris-Jackson, Bret Harte principal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But those alarms go off six times per day, so things can get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have so many alarms set close to each other I'll turn one off because I think I already did that and then, 'Oh no!' It turns out that was the alarm for someone else. Sometimes schedules get way off,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20-30 percent of their time on medical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies and in first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us,” Harris-Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s attendance clerk, Carmen Argueta, spends so much time tending to students’ medical needs that Jayare thought she was another school nurse until Sakamoto told him otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 percent of students at the school receive special education services. Many of them require medical care. Harris-Jackson says she has students who regularly have seizures, others who rely on gastronomy tubes (G-tubes) and catheters, plus students with life-threatening allergies and chronic conditions that require daily medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurse Williams is in charge of assessing all those students and coming up with treatment plans. She works with their doctors and trains aides and other staff, like the attendance clerk, who provide care. She also does hearing and vision tests, makes sure kids have the medications they need at school, and follows up if kids aren’t coming to class because of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so few nurses in the district these days, she spends two days each week at Bret Harte, but does daily diabetes rounds at other schools and takes on other assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just question how it’s sustainable,” Harris-Jackson says of nurses’ workload. “How are we getting our needs met here, but also how are those other schools getting their needs met?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Nurse Williams’ office, Sakamoto is doing her best to meet Jayare’s needs. After rifling around in search of the binder where Williams logs treatments, she hands Jayare his inhaler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please do it the right way,” she says, though it’s not clear she knows what that is. “One puff, then a deep breath and hold it — or I don't know if you hold it,” she says. “Just do it slowly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Sakamoto sends Jayare back to class, Nurse Williams bursts through the door. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry! I’m so sorry,” she says. “I just rushed here from another school where I had a new student show up with G-tube feedings.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was due at Bret Harte more than two hours earlier, but she had to train the staff at another school to handle the feeding procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was supposed to see many students today here, and of all those students now I can maybe see one,” she says. “The other students will have to be rescheduled to another day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams loves her job and says it’s painful to see the workload take a toll on her relationship with students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have students telling me all the time, ‘Miss Natasha where are you? I never see you. You never get to sit with me and talk about my medication,’” she says. “I feel like if I was here every day it would make a huge difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Troubling Best-Case Scenario\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Bret Harte is in some ways the district’s best-case scenario. Because it serves so many high-needs students it gets more nursing attention than some schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 30 schools don’t have a nurse assigned to them at all. It falls to managers in the district's Health Services Department and nurses like Williams, who already have brimming caseloads, to assess students and train staff at those schools between other work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers, attendance clerks and other staff are left to manage much of students’ day-to-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in the district has school nurses turning to their union, the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Education Association\u003c/a>, for help. In May the union filed a formal grievance accusing the district of violating the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/contract/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terms of their contract\u003c/a>, which sets a nurse’s maximum caseload at 1,350 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the extra tasks thrown her way, Natasha Williams oversees nearly 1,400 students at her three schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The effects of the shortage are really, really burned out nurses. Our turnover is incredible,” says nurse Sarah Nielsen Boyd, who oversees over 2,000 students at Oakland Tech, though there are other trained staff on site. “It's a crazy job. It's very stressful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to monitoring medical services for severely disabled students and kids with medical conditions from cancer to cystic fibrosis, Nielsen Boyd has dealt with mental health issues like panic attacks and self-harm. She’s also the school’s go-to in emergencies. And with nurses so scarce she sometimes gets pulled away to help at other schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district did not respond to the nurses’ initial complaint, the union tried again. In late August the district rejected the grievance, saying it wasn’t filed in a timely manner, and deemed it null and void.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to nurses and union officials, OUSD Director of Community Schools Student Services Andrea Bustamante wrote, “Notwithstanding denial of the grievance due to untimely filing, I find the start of the 2018-2019 school year to be a great opportunity to work collaboratively to improve working conditions for our valued OUSD nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district have yet to work out a solution. In the meantime, nurses have turned to other tactics. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nurses Demand Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/player/clip/1321?view_id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Board meeting\u003c/a> in late September, they showed up alongside teachers to demand the district address the shortage. They provided board members with statements they said they’d collected from parents and pediatricians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to take this seriously,” Oakland Education Association treasurer Deirdre Snyder told the board. “You’re going to be sued by some parent! It’s a travesty. I have seen seizures in my room, all kinds of problems, more and more as the years go on. You cannot pretend this isn’t happening. You need to act now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District-wide, there are over 700 students with severe allergies, more than 350 students whose asthma requires regular medication, about 200 students with seizure disorders, 50 students with diabetes and nearly 30 students with sickle cell disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a high-needs district. We take great pride in filling the medical needs for our kids,” says OUSD spokesman John Sasaki. He points out the district has a vision clinic and dental services, along with independently run general health clinics families can access at over a dozen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki says in the past five years, several school nurses have retired while others have left for other districts or taken hospital jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20 and 30 percent of their time on medical issues. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of full-time credentialed school nurse positions in the district has dropped over time, and so have the number of unfilled positions. Last school year, the district had 32 nurse positions, six of them unfilled. In 2015, there were about 35 positions and only three were unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some nurses say the district hasn’t done enough to recruit nurses, district officials peg the unfilled positions on a shortage that stretches beyond Oakland. In fact, across the state, about ten percent of school nurse positions are unfilled, according to Sheri Coburn, president of the California School Nurses Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coburn blames the shortage in part on the fact that nurses can make more money in traditional hospital settings. School nursing also requires specialized training that takes time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing everything we can,” Sasaki says. “We're scrambling to find more nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says staff is working to expand the nurse recruitment campaign and the district is working with the union to offer additional incentives, like signing bonuses, referral bonuses and stipends for experienced nurses who support and mentor newer nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown kids who have access to school nurses \u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/6/e20160852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do better than those who don’t\u003c/a> — they’re absent less, and their teachers can dedicate more time to teaching. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a minimum of one full-time school nurse at every school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Every five years, Oakland charters come before the school board to defend their record and ask for board approval to continue operating. This week one of the four up for renewal, Epic Middle School located in the city's Fruitvale neighborhood, received a rare \"no\" vote, in what may signal a tougher approach to charters as the district responds to state pressures to close and consolidate district schools to economize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents, teachers and students who came to support their charter renewal Wednesday night heard the Board of Education of the Oakland Unified School District drill down on how well their schools are doing with issues such as chronic absenteeism, teacher turnover and the number of special education students served, among other data points. Grounds to deny a charter include determining it is underperforming comparison schools serving a similar student body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education for Change CEO Hae-Sin Kim Thomas said Epic will appeal the board's non-renewal decision to officials at the Alameda County Board of Education. Should it be denied there, it can appeal to the state board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had some stumbles with the school, but in the last year and half we have outperformed comparison schools,\" said Thomas, who oversees a seven-school charter network. \"We have chosen not to renew a charter when we recognize it's not working. This is not the case with Epic. We are making progress. We just need more time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Epic-princial-and-student-e1541828419198.jpeg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Epic-princial-and-student-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11705510\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Epic Middle School principal Michael McCaffrey talks to parents and students after the \"no\" vote. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many believe the state's 26-year-old charter law is out of date. Outgoing state schools superintendent Tom Torlakson has appointed an action committee to recommend updates to the newly elected state superintendent. As of Friday, Marshall Tuck, backed by charter supporters, had a slim lead over Tony Thurmond, backed by teachers unions, with ballots still being counted. Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, also elected with the support of teachers unions, may bring a different approach toward charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Shanthi Gonzales predicted that if Epic appeals all the way to the state, it may find a different political welcome. \"When they go to the state board they're going to be facing a different group of people appointed by a different governor. So we'll see, we'll see what happens if they appeal all the way to the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland district is struggling to get its fiscal house in order, and has laid out a plan that includes reducing the number of schools overall in the district. Gonzales said when it comes to evaluating charters, she has a higher bar now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have embarked on a process, a very hard process, of looking at our schools. Where do we have quality and how do we expand access to that quality? And how do we divest ourselves of schools that are not providing that quality? And our charter portfolio should be subjected to that same kind of scrutiny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703765/parents-in-oaklands-worst-schools-want-out-see-open-enrollment-as-their-chance\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parent activist Lakisha Young\u003c/a> said the board should not be taking away choices for parents who are looking for ways out of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700592/black-parents-say-its-up-to-them-to-fix-unequal-oakland-schools\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">underperforming neighborhood district-run schools\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland parent Mischelle Bunton's son Tyren went to Lafayette Elementary School, in West Oakland, for several years before she found out the school had 0 percent of its students reading at grade level. She said she was stunned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, 'Oh no, I need to do something for my baby,'\" she said. \"It's not a good-quality school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bunton got involved with a parent empowerment group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/theoaklandreach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland Reach\u003c/a> and with their help she applied and got her son into a better-performing school, Glenview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Reach founder Lakisha Young takes it personally that so many of Oakland's students of color are segregated in the district's lowest-performing schools, and she wants other parents, like Bunton, to feel that same outrage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why Young marshaled 83 black and Latino parents last month to the Allendale Community Center off 35th Avenue in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was well ahead of the district's open enrollment launch for school year 2019-20, but Young is concerned parents she is trying to reach sometimes are not aware of the importance of applying early, which she says is critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was food and childcare in one room while parents gathered separately so they could focus on the message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young began by quizzing her audience about how well \u003ca href=\"http://caaspp.edsource.org/sbac/oakland-unified-01612590000000\">Oakland's black and Latino students do compared to white students\u003c/a>: \"Did you guys know that in OUSD black and brown students make up 70 percent of all students? That's a lot, right? But black and Latino students are half as likely to meet English language arts standards and one-third as likely to meet math standards. I don't know about you, but I have some feelings about that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>Changing Oakland Schools\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700592/black-parents-say-its-up-to-them-to-fix-unequal-oakland-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Parents Say It's Up to Them to Fix Unequal Oakland Schools\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Her audience nodded and called out in agreement. Young asked them to study a slide of district data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let's look at math,\" she said. \"Wow! What do we have going on in math? Eighteen percent of black and Latino students are on grade level in math, what about our white students in math?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few in the audience responded: \"Sixty-six percent!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young built to her point: \"So somebody getting some money but our kids not served well. I want to be clear, that is why we are in this room today!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young's goal is to get parents in low-performing schools to put pressure on the district to improve their schools or allow their children to attend the district's better schools. For her that means preparing her parents for open enrollment, which started Monday and ends next Feb. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Raise your hand if your dream is for your kid to go to college,\" Young said. Hands shot up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we have kids who are performing at 18 percent of grade level,\" she said. \"Is that going to work? 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And officials are touting their enrollment website \u003ca href=\"https://enrolloak.org/\">EnrollOak.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson also doubled down on Young's message: that applying in the first round is the crucial to getting into a better school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson said 68 percent of parents who apply on time to get outside of their local neighborhood school get their first or second choice. He said typically, parents who apply in the first round are a subgroup of more affluent families. Once the first enrollment application in February passes, Wilson says parents can still apply to get out of a low-performing neighborhood school, but the odds are much lower of finding a space open in the top-performing schools. Wilson adds that each year some 6,000 parents don't show up at the district until July and August, trying to get their kids enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Reach wants to change that equation. 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"content": "\u003cp>The posters up on display in a downtown club in Oakland last Saturday were startling and thought provoking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than one in eight black students in Oakland Unified School District meet state math standards. Fewer than \u003ca href=\"http://caaspp.edsource.org/sbac/oakland-unified-01612590000000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one in five\u003c/a> meet reading standards. Black students are far more likely to be chronically absent or get suspended than white students in OUSD schools. Nearly \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017HIRDReport-Oakland.2-2-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">70 percent\u003c/a> of Oakland's homeless population is black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these data points were meant as a rallying cry, not a sign of defeat. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who milled about reading them had come to an event billed as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stateofblackeducation.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of Black Education\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when tens of thousands of black residents have left the city and the gulf between black income and white is \u003ca href=\"http://urbanhabitat.org/sites/default/files/UH%20Policy%20Brief2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing\u003c/a>, the conference organizers wanted to refocus attention on longstanding educational inequities and the need for renewed community action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those years when we made up the majority of the school board, or elected successive Black mayors, they are becoming increasingly unlikely,” State of Black Education organizer and education advocate Dirk Tillotson \u003ca href=\"http://greatschoolvoices.org/2018/04/need-talk-state-black-education-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> ahead of the event. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As our political clout declines, so too does the focus on the problems of Black children and families and the will to push for solutions, or even see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-800x472.jpg\" alt=\"Posters on display at the State of Black Education event at Geoffrey's Inner Circle in downtown Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700916\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-520x307.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters on display at the State of Black Education event at Geoffrey's Inner Circle in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tillotson and fellow organizers Charles Cole, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.energyconvertors.org/who-we-are/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">runs a youth organization\u003c/a>, and Oakland Unified School Board Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jumoke Hinton-Hodge\u003c/a> worked with community members to compile research and collect input on how Oakland schools serve black students. They used that work to inform a set of policy recommendations released on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 people spent Saturday afternoon at \u003ca href=\"http://geoffreyslive.com/category/about-gic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoffrey’s Inner Circle\u003c/a> learning about their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to the SoBEO!” Cole told the crowd as the event got underway. “We are so excited to have you here. State of Black Education Oakland is an opportunity for us to take a real look at every crevice and crack of Oakland education and the things surrounding it that involve and affect black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students, parents and teachers shared their insights into Oakland schools. Students raised concerns about being unfairly tracked into less rigorous classes, about having substitutes for months on end and having few teachers of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"The State of Black Education collaborative collected input from students to inform recommendations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700939\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The State of Black Education collaborative collected input from students to inform recommendations. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also talked about how bias, both implicit and explicit, shaped their learning environment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've had several teachers who would show up ... not knowing the background of the students and make racist remarks,” said Haifa Algabri, who graduated from McClymonds High School and now attends Mills College. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our substitute teachers said 'Slavery was 100 years ago. Get over it. Stop using it as an excuse to not do work.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lakisha Young, who worked on the event and heads up a parent advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/theoaklandreach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland REACH\u003c/a>, raised concerns shared by many parents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are the mamas, the grandmammas, the aunties and uncles of the kids at the lowest performing schools,” she said of her organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young, who has three kids in Oakland schools, joined a panel of fellow REACH members in discussing their frustration with abysmal test scores, chronically absent teachers and administrators who don’t stick around. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They talked about the lengths to which they go to escape their poor-performing neighborhood schools, driving across town daily to deliver their kids to charters that promise — but don’t always deliver — better outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"A display at the State of Black Education event traced the impact of redlining and racial segregation through to contemporary outcomes for black students.\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700914\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-800x603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1020x769.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1180x889.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-960x724.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-240x181.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-375x283.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-520x392.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display at the State of Black Education event traced the impact of redlining and racial segregation through to contemporary outcomes for black students. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around the room, maps depicting the legacy of redlining policies grounded the talk of today’s inequities in the intentional discrimination of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problems with quality and black children have been happening since before many folks in this room even set foot in Oakland or were even born,” Young said, echoing a sentiment repeated throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young and her group helped develop a policy recommendation they’re calling the Opportunity Ticket. And it's pegged to Oakland Unified's latest attempt to consolidate schools in order to economize and reduce its deficit. The so-called Opportunity Ticket would allow parents whose local schools get shut down to send their kids to any school in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified may close schools to help manage its budget crisis — and advocates worry black kids will be disproportionately impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black staff and Black families will bear a disproportionate burden, in the district righting itself, while the hills schools will feel nary a thing, unless we organize,” Tillotson wrote in his blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Keta Brown supports the Opportunity Ticket policy and other ideas put forward at the event, like setting public goals for hiring and holding onto black teachers, using the school district’s unused property to help Oakland’s foster youth and homeless, and giving students a chance to participate in teacher hiring and evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland REACH member Keta Brown at the State of Black Education event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700977\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland REACH member Keta Brown at the State of Black Education event. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the black and brown community is underserved and our voices are a lot of times never heard,” Brown said. “We want to make certain that we are a part of having a seat at the table and not just sitting and hearing about it on the outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the county and district listened to the recommendations, answered questions from the community and offered comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Board of Education Trustee \u003ca href=\"https://www.acoe.org/Page/196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amber Childress\u003c/a> pointed to \u003ca href=\"http://cepa.stanford.edu/educational-opportunity-monitoring-project/achievement-gaps/race/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a> that shows black-white achievement gaps persist regardless of socioeconomic status. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The opportunity gap is about students of color,” she said. “This is a system that's doing what it was designed to do, so we have to really tear down this system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified Superintendent \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/domain/4813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyla Johnson-Trammell\u003c/a> went to Oakland schools herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've been in a state of emergency crisis since before I went into school,” she told the crowd, arguing it would take continued community involvement to turn the tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is the system's response for a school that hasn't been serving the community for generations? I wish I had an answer. But to me that’s why these conversations are important,” Johnson-Trammell said. “Because I'm very clear it's not going to be me by myself that's going to have the solutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the State of Black Education collaborative plan to formally present their Opportunity Ticket recommendation to the Oakland school board before the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The posters up on display in a downtown club in Oakland last Saturday were startling and thought provoking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than one in eight black students in Oakland Unified School District meet state math standards. Fewer than \u003ca href=\"http://caaspp.edsource.org/sbac/oakland-unified-01612590000000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one in five\u003c/a> meet reading standards. Black students are far more likely to be chronically absent or get suspended than white students in OUSD schools. Nearly \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017HIRDReport-Oakland.2-2-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">70 percent\u003c/a> of Oakland's homeless population is black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these data points were meant as a rallying cry, not a sign of defeat. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who milled about reading them had come to an event billed as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stateofblackeducation.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of Black Education\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when tens of thousands of black residents have left the city and the gulf between black income and white is \u003ca href=\"http://urbanhabitat.org/sites/default/files/UH%20Policy%20Brief2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing\u003c/a>, the conference organizers wanted to refocus attention on longstanding educational inequities and the need for renewed community action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those years when we made up the majority of the school board, or elected successive Black mayors, they are becoming increasingly unlikely,” State of Black Education organizer and education advocate Dirk Tillotson \u003ca href=\"http://greatschoolvoices.org/2018/04/need-talk-state-black-education-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> ahead of the event. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As our political clout declines, so too does the focus on the problems of Black children and families and the will to push for solutions, or even see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-800x472.jpg\" alt=\"Posters on display at the State of Black Education event at Geoffrey's Inner Circle in downtown Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700916\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/OutcomesForBlackStudents-520x307.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters on display at the State of Black Education event at Geoffrey's Inner Circle in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tillotson and fellow organizers Charles Cole, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.energyconvertors.org/who-we-are/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">runs a youth organization\u003c/a>, and Oakland Unified School Board Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jumoke Hinton-Hodge\u003c/a> worked with community members to compile research and collect input on how Oakland schools serve black students. They used that work to inform a set of policy recommendations released on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 people spent Saturday afternoon at \u003ca href=\"http://geoffreyslive.com/category/about-gic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoffrey’s Inner Circle\u003c/a> learning about their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to the SoBEO!” Cole told the crowd as the event got underway. “We are so excited to have you here. State of Black Education Oakland is an opportunity for us to take a real look at every crevice and crack of Oakland education and the things surrounding it that involve and affect black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students, parents and teachers shared their insights into Oakland schools. Students raised concerns about being unfairly tracked into less rigorous classes, about having substitutes for months on end and having few teachers of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"The State of Black Education collaborative collected input from students to inform recommendations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700939\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RealTalkPoster-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The State of Black Education collaborative collected input from students to inform recommendations. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also talked about how bias, both implicit and explicit, shaped their learning environment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've had several teachers who would show up ... not knowing the background of the students and make racist remarks,” said Haifa Algabri, who graduated from McClymonds High School and now attends Mills College. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our substitute teachers said 'Slavery was 100 years ago. Get over it. Stop using it as an excuse to not do work.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lakisha Young, who worked on the event and heads up a parent advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/theoaklandreach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland REACH\u003c/a>, raised concerns shared by many parents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are the mamas, the grandmammas, the aunties and uncles of the kids at the lowest performing schools,” she said of her organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young, who has three kids in Oakland schools, joined a panel of fellow REACH members in discussing their frustration with abysmal test scores, chronically absent teachers and administrators who don’t stick around. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They talked about the lengths to which they go to escape their poor-performing neighborhood schools, driving across town daily to deliver their kids to charters that promise — but don’t always deliver — better outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"A display at the State of Black Education event traced the impact of redlining and racial segregation through to contemporary outcomes for black students.\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700914\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-800x603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1020x769.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-1180x889.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-960x724.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-240x181.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-375x283.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LegacyOfRedliningPoster-520x392.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display at the State of Black Education event traced the impact of redlining and racial segregation through to contemporary outcomes for black students. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around the room, maps depicting the legacy of redlining policies grounded the talk of today’s inequities in the intentional discrimination of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problems with quality and black children have been happening since before many folks in this room even set foot in Oakland or were even born,” Young said, echoing a sentiment repeated throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young and her group helped develop a policy recommendation they’re calling the Opportunity Ticket. And it's pegged to Oakland Unified's latest attempt to consolidate schools in order to economize and reduce its deficit. The so-called Opportunity Ticket would allow parents whose local schools get shut down to send their kids to any school in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified may close schools to help manage its budget crisis — and advocates worry black kids will be disproportionately impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black staff and Black families will bear a disproportionate burden, in the district righting itself, while the hills schools will feel nary a thing, unless we organize,” Tillotson wrote in his blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Keta Brown supports the Opportunity Ticket policy and other ideas put forward at the event, like setting public goals for hiring and holding onto black teachers, using the school district’s unused property to help Oakland’s foster youth and homeless, and giving students a chance to participate in teacher hiring and evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland REACH member Keta Brown at the State of Black Education event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700977\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/KetaBrown-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland REACH member Keta Brown at the State of Black Education event. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the black and brown community is underserved and our voices are a lot of times never heard,” Brown said. “We want to make certain that we are a part of having a seat at the table and not just sitting and hearing about it on the outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the county and district listened to the recommendations, answered questions from the community and offered comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Board of Education Trustee \u003ca href=\"https://www.acoe.org/Page/196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amber Childress\u003c/a> pointed to \u003ca href=\"http://cepa.stanford.edu/educational-opportunity-monitoring-project/achievement-gaps/race/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a> that shows black-white achievement gaps persist regardless of socioeconomic status. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The opportunity gap is about students of color,” she said. “This is a system that's doing what it was designed to do, so we have to really tear down this system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified Superintendent \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/domain/4813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyla Johnson-Trammell\u003c/a> went to Oakland schools herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've been in a state of emergency crisis since before I went into school,” she told the crowd, arguing it would take continued community involvement to turn the tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is the system's response for a school that hasn't been serving the community for generations? I wish I had an answer. But to me that’s why these conversations are important,” Johnson-Trammell said. “Because I'm very clear it's not going to be me by myself that's going to have the solutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The meals are there for students who stay after school until 6 p.m. Sometimes the meal is a bag lunch with a cold sandwich, but Taylor says typically it's a hot dinner, such as spaghetti or a hamburger, along with a vegetable or salad and milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members approved the supper program cut in June to save the district $1.4 million, part of a broader effort to trim $5.8 million from the 2018-2019 budget before it was approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the district's new chief business officer, Marcus Battle, told board members that cuts were necessary to balance the budget and meet the state reserve requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community advocates had pushed to keep the cuts away from classrooms. So when the district's proposal to reduce school site budgets by $10 to $15 per student was rejected in June, it was seen by some advocates as a victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board went ahead and approved a $500,000 cut to the Oakland Athletic League budget and the elimination of the supper program. Some sports that were cut have been reinstated due to last-minute donations from parents and the Oakland Raiders. So far, no one has stepped forward to save the supper program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A district official says Oakland Unified is working with outside partners to try to restart the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t know how much people processed at the time,\" says Angelica Jongco, an attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.org/who-we-are/\">Public Advocates\u003c/a>, who works with parents. \"When you talk about cuts to a department, it’s not always clear what that will look like. It becomes more concrete when they land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD spokesman John Sasaki says the district's in a tough place. \"The unfortunate thing is that we have to make cuts,\" he says. \"We do supply tens of millions of breakfasts and lunches to our students every year. As a full-service community school district we would love to be able to provide our students everything that they need, but the reality is our financial circumstances don’t allow us to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents who are just learning about the cuts to the dinner program are vowing to stop them. \u003ca href=\"https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/bring-back-supper-and-sports-for-3-500-oakland-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A petition\u003c/a> to bring back the evening meals has over 300 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Martin Luther King Jr./Lafayette Elementary School, principal Roma Groves-Waters found out the program was gone just before school started. \"We were shocked,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groves-Waters says more than 200 of her students are impacted. Over 90 percent of them are socioeconomically disadvantaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understand there have to be cuts,\" she says. \"But in this particular area in West Oakland, our children and families rely on that dinner program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she's heard from many parents who are upset. \"I said there's nothing I can do -- we will give them a snack,\" Groves-Waters says. \"That's the best we can do until we raise funds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Starkisha Jones is new to the school and she learned about the cut at the after-school program orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would have helped,\" she says of the dinner program. \"My financial situation is not really good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor says she has received multiple requests for information about the program from district finance staff, but hasn't gotten any clear information about what's going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s been so hush-hush,\" Taylor added. \"It’s kind of like under the carpet. Nobody has any clarity on what we do from here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said 15 employees work for the program, cooking and serving food. They won't lose their jobs, she said, but she expects them to lose their benefits if their hours are cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of them were part-time employees before doing supper,\" she says. \"They’ll go back to part time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor does not expect to lose her own job. Instead she says it's likely she'd fill another supervisory post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include a comment from the district.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members approved the supper program cut in June to save the district $1.4 million, part of a broader effort to trim $5.8 million from the 2018-2019 budget before it was approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the district's new chief business officer, Marcus Battle, told board members that cuts were necessary to balance the budget and meet the state reserve requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community advocates had pushed to keep the cuts away from classrooms. So when the district's proposal to reduce school site budgets by $10 to $15 per student was rejected in June, it was seen by some advocates as a victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board went ahead and approved a $500,000 cut to the Oakland Athletic League budget and the elimination of the supper program. Some sports that were cut have been reinstated due to last-minute donations from parents and the Oakland Raiders. So far, no one has stepped forward to save the supper program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A district official says Oakland Unified is working with outside partners to try to restart the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t know how much people processed at the time,\" says Angelica Jongco, an attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.org/who-we-are/\">Public Advocates\u003c/a>, who works with parents. \"When you talk about cuts to a department, it’s not always clear what that will look like. It becomes more concrete when they land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD spokesman John Sasaki says the district's in a tough place. \"The unfortunate thing is that we have to make cuts,\" he says. \"We do supply tens of millions of breakfasts and lunches to our students every year. As a full-service community school district we would love to be able to provide our students everything that they need, but the reality is our financial circumstances don’t allow us to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents who are just learning about the cuts to the dinner program are vowing to stop them. \u003ca href=\"https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/bring-back-supper-and-sports-for-3-500-oakland-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A petition\u003c/a> to bring back the evening meals has over 300 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Martin Luther King Jr./Lafayette Elementary School, principal Roma Groves-Waters found out the program was gone just before school started. \"We were shocked,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groves-Waters says more than 200 of her students are impacted. Over 90 percent of them are socioeconomically disadvantaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understand there have to be cuts,\" she says. \"But in this particular area in West Oakland, our children and families rely on that dinner program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she's heard from many parents who are upset. \"I said there's nothing I can do -- we will give them a snack,\" Groves-Waters says. \"That's the best we can do until we raise funds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Starkisha Jones is new to the school and she learned about the cut at the after-school program orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would have helped,\" she says of the dinner program. \"My financial situation is not really good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor says she has received multiple requests for information about the program from district finance staff, but hasn't gotten any clear information about what's going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s been so hush-hush,\" Taylor added. \"It’s kind of like under the carpet. Nobody has any clarity on what we do from here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said 15 employees work for the program, cooking and serving food. They won't lose their jobs, she said, but she expects them to lose their benefits if their hours are cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of them were part-time employees before doing supper,\" she says. \"They’ll go back to part time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor does not expect to lose her own job. Instead she says it's likely she'd fill another supervisory post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include a comment from the district.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Raiders \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/08/28/raiders-school-district-donation-boosts-oakland-youth-sports/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced a $250,000 donation Tuesday\u003c/a> to help save Oakland high school sports programs after the district announced it would cut nearly half of them. But some parents are looking for a more permanent solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say no amount of fundraising will fix the fact that the cuts disproportionately impacted girls, and that all of this has unearthed a deeper problem. So, they’re turning to the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don't want to have to do it,” said Oakland parent Shumsha Hanif-Cruz, lamenting Oakland Unified School District's financial straits and emphasizing that she hopes to avoid a costly class action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanif-Cruz's 6th grade daughter was looking forward to playing golf at Skyline High School, just like her big sister had. So Hanif-Cruz paid attention when the district announced last week it was one of 10 sports on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's a lawyer who quickly realized the cuts, which impacted nearly twice as many girls as boys, would likely violate\u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Title IX, the federal anti-discrimination law.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it isn’t just about the recent cuts -- it’s about what she believes they expose. “This has been an ongoing issue that just has not been addressed,” Hanif-Cruz said. “It's only being addressed because there was this budget deficit, and now we're all as a community able to see what probably has been going on for decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanif-Cruz and other parents have turned to attorney Elizabeth Kristen, who is a Title IX expert at \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legal Aid at Work in San Francisco\u003c/a>, where she runs the Fair Play for Girls in Sports program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This to me is a clean and clear and blatant violation of Title IX,” Kristen says of OUSD's cuts to high school sports, “and they already had a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen points to sports participation data collected by Oakland schools which she said shows boys have more athletic opportunities than girls. \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandtech.com/staff/ot-athletics/athletics-overview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At Oakland Tech\u003c/a>, for example, 52 percent of athletes are boys, while 48 percent are girls, despite girls making up more than half of the student population. \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandtech.com/staff/blog/2018/08/oakland-athletic-league-cuts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">District-wide\u003c/a>, 54 percent of athletes were male last year, while 45 percent were female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realize they have this budget deficit,” Kristen said, “but balancing the budget on the backs of girls sends a terrible message. It tells girls they are second-class citizens,” And, she added, “It's against the law. This is a classic story of sex discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After looking at figures for last year’s participation, national Title IX expert \u003ca href=\"http://championwomen.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Hogshead-Makar\u003c/a> agrees. “Before the cuts, girls already had fewer opportunities than boys did,” she said. “It’s 2018 and to not consider the fairness of cutting more girls' programs than boys' programs when girls already weren’t getting as much as boys were is tragic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hogshead-Makar also raises questions about the coach-to-athlete ratio for girls at district schools. \"It appears boys get far more coaches-per-athlete than girl do,\" she wrote in an email. \"There are also lots of men coaching girls, and very few women coaching boys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanif-Cruz and other parents expressed frustration and sadness at the position she and other Oakland parents find themselves in. While keenly aware that legal action against the\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-unified-may-eliminate-nearly-340-positions-in-one-year-to-stay-fiscally-solvent/601091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> already cash-strapped district\u003c/a> could lead to a costly lawsuit, they’re inclined to believe that getting a lawyer involved may be the only way to ensure the district rights its course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any desire to sue Oakland Unified,” said parent Christian Schreiber, an attorney who's handled civil rights cases. “But I also don’t think that they’re above being sued. I hope it doesn’t come to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Hanif-Cruz and other parents move ahead, Kristen said the first step would be to send a demand letter to the district with the intention of spurring negotiations about how to right the alleged Title IX violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen has \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/releases/female-athletes-and-school-district-settle-title-ix-case-after-ninth-circuit-ruling/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">successfully sued districts\u003c/a> for Title IX violations in the past. She said she starts with a demand letter hoping to garner a district's cooperation, rather than end up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really makes sense to try to resolve these things quickly,\" she said. \"High school is a fleeting time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ideally, Kristen said, a demand letter leads to an enforceable settlement agreement. \"We could go to court if they don't follow what they say they’re going to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advantage of a formal legal process, Kristen said, is that it gives parents a seat at the table, allowing them to help shape the scope of any remedy, \"as opposed to letting it just play out the way it may or may not play out behind the scenes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that the district recognizes that its actions create the real threat of Title IX litigation,” Schreiber said, “and they take appropriate and immediate action to reconsider the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, the district announced three fall sports, girls tennis, girls golf and girls lacrosse are coming back, thanks to donations of close to $40,000. That allows about 150 girls to keep playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD spokesman John Sasaki said that helps balance the impact. “We’re certainly more fair than we were a couple days ago,” he said Monday at a press conference. The $250,000 donation from the Raiders will go a long way toward bringing back other sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kristen says reinstating programs temporarily through outside money does not solve the equity issue. \"The problem is the way that it has been packaged as a temporary solution and that girls' sports seem more contingent and less supported by the schools,\" she said. “They’ve sent a message to girls that they aren’t as important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen and Hogshead-Makar point out that Title IX violations are common in high school athletics. \"It's actually rare for us to find a school where they do have parity for girls in sports even though this law has been around for such a long time,\" Kristen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a longtime Oakland resident, Kristen said Oakland Unified's data is particularly frustrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a community that should be committed to equality for girls, so the fact that this has been going on under our noses for all this time is really disappointing.\" She added that in her experience, once she starts looking into a district, she \"usually finds these kinds of athletic participation gaps for girls are really the tip of the iceberg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district declined to comment on the prospect of legal action. 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It tells girls they are second-class citizens,” And, she added, “It's against the law. This is a classic story of sex discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After looking at figures for last year’s participation, national Title IX expert \u003ca href=\"http://championwomen.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Hogshead-Makar\u003c/a> agrees. “Before the cuts, girls already had fewer opportunities than boys did,” she said. “It’s 2018 and to not consider the fairness of cutting more girls' programs than boys' programs when girls already weren’t getting as much as boys were is tragic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hogshead-Makar also raises questions about the coach-to-athlete ratio for girls at district schools. \"It appears boys get far more coaches-per-athlete than girl do,\" she wrote in an email. \"There are also lots of men coaching girls, and very few women coaching boys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanif-Cruz and other parents expressed frustration and sadness at the position she and other Oakland parents find themselves in. While keenly aware that legal action against the\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-unified-may-eliminate-nearly-340-positions-in-one-year-to-stay-fiscally-solvent/601091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> already cash-strapped district\u003c/a> could lead to a costly lawsuit, they’re inclined to believe that getting a lawyer involved may be the only way to ensure the district rights its course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any desire to sue Oakland Unified,” said parent Christian Schreiber, an attorney who's handled civil rights cases. “But I also don’t think that they’re above being sued. I hope it doesn’t come to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Hanif-Cruz and other parents move ahead, Kristen said the first step would be to send a demand letter to the district with the intention of spurring negotiations about how to right the alleged Title IX violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen has \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/releases/female-athletes-and-school-district-settle-title-ix-case-after-ninth-circuit-ruling/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">successfully sued districts\u003c/a> for Title IX violations in the past. She said she starts with a demand letter hoping to garner a district's cooperation, rather than end up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really makes sense to try to resolve these things quickly,\" she said. \"High school is a fleeting time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ideally, Kristen said, a demand letter leads to an enforceable settlement agreement. \"We could go to court if they don't follow what they say they’re going to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advantage of a formal legal process, Kristen said, is that it gives parents a seat at the table, allowing them to help shape the scope of any remedy, \"as opposed to letting it just play out the way it may or may not play out behind the scenes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that the district recognizes that its actions create the real threat of Title IX litigation,” Schreiber said, “and they take appropriate and immediate action to reconsider the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, the district announced three fall sports, girls tennis, girls golf and girls lacrosse are coming back, thanks to donations of close to $40,000. That allows about 150 girls to keep playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD spokesman John Sasaki said that helps balance the impact. “We’re certainly more fair than we were a couple days ago,” he said Monday at a press conference. The $250,000 donation from the Raiders will go a long way toward bringing back other sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kristen says reinstating programs temporarily through outside money does not solve the equity issue. \"The problem is the way that it has been packaged as a temporary solution and that girls' sports seem more contingent and less supported by the schools,\" she said. “They’ve sent a message to girls that they aren’t as important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen and Hogshead-Makar point out that Title IX violations are common in high school athletics. \"It's actually rare for us to find a school where they do have parity for girls in sports even though this law has been around for such a long time,\" Kristen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a longtime Oakland resident, Kristen said Oakland Unified's data is particularly frustrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a community that should be committed to equality for girls, so the fact that this has been going on under our noses for all this time is really disappointing.\" She added that in her experience, once she starts looking into a district, she \"usually finds these kinds of athletic participation gaps for girls are really the tip of the iceberg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district declined to comment on the prospect of legal action. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent evening, Oakland high school girls trickled into a squat portable classroom in a city park to laugh, bond and work on a research project. The group, here for their after-school program run by \u003ca href=\"https://girlsinc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Girls Inc.\u003c/a>, chose a harsh topic this semester: rape culture and the over-sexualization of girls of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one that resonates with many of the young women here, because sexual harassment is a part of their lives ... at school. Chrisiana Vaughn, a sophomore at Skyline High School, steps into a quiet room to talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11666550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11666550\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30667_GirlsIncGroup-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30667_GirlsIncGroup-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30667_GirlsIncGroup-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30667_GirlsIncGroup-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30667_GirlsIncGroup-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30667_GirlsIncGroup-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30667_GirlsIncGroup-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30667_GirlsIncGroup-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30667_GirlsIncGroup-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30667_GirlsIncGroup-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30667_GirlsIncGroup-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chrisiana Vaughn is among a group of Oakland teen girls who participate in an after-school program run by Girls Inc. of Alameda County. This semester they’re researching rape culture and the over-sexualization of girls. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would be walking to class and I wouldn't want to be bothered or anything, and somebody will come up to me and hug me,” she shares. “I’d be like, ‘OK, enough is enough, like stop hugging me.' And then they keep hugging me and keep hugging me and won't let me go. Then it gets to the point, like, 'OK, I said stop. Like, stop.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrisiana is 16 with long hair and a big, warm smile. She says boys often grope and touch girls without their consent while in class. But she’s seen the girls get in trouble when they get fed up and lash out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The teacher will have to send her out,\" Chrisiana says, “instead of, like, asking the boy, ‘What are you doing?’ And sending him out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the steady stream of sexualized name calling. “Almost every corner you turn,” Chrisiana explains, “you could hear a boy calling a girl a ‘ho.’ I have never heard a teacher ever say, ‘Hey, don't call her a ‘ho.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about Chrisiana’s descriptions of harassment, Skyline High School co-principal Nancy Bloom says teachers and staff at Skyline are on the lookout, and when “we know about it, see it, witness it, we absolutely deal with it.” If teachers send girls out of class, she adds, it’s to help maintain a calm learning environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bloom agrees that sexual harassment occurs at Skyline -- and by her guess, at just about every high school in the country -- and adults have an obligation to help students “learn the right way to navigate the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrisiana’s experiences, it turns out, are fairly common districtwide, at least for some students. A few years ago, the Oakland Unified School District participated in a study to better understand the experiences of girls of color. It was conducted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.alliance4girls.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alliance for Girls\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit that brings together dozens of organizations that serve girls in the Bay Area, including the one Chrisiana belongs to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://agi.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/Alliance-docs/valuing%20girls%20voices%20-%20the%20lived%20experiences%20of%20girls%20of%20color%20in%20ousd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study was released\u003c/a> in 2016. Its most unexpected finding? Most of the girls who took part in focus groups relayed experiences with sexual harassment, according to Alliance for Girls Executive Director Emma Mayerson. And African-American girls in particular reported being punished and misunderstood when they tried to stand up for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrisiana wasn’t part of the focus groups, but she echoed the findings in just about every way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“African-American girls,” she says, “it happens to us so often, it's a part of our daily lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11666551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11666551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Mayerson, executive director of the Oakland-based Alliance for Girls, explains her organization’s work on a new Oakland Unified School District sexual harassment policy to a group of educators and advocates who interact with girls of color. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a recent training for educators and advocates throughout the Bay Area who interact with girls of color, Mayerson talked about the study’s findings, as well as the changes they spurred. In focus groups, she told the lunchtime gathering, the girls “spoke to everything from pinching and touching and slapping asses, and also feeling really betrayed by the adults in their life for not stepping in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the study proved a turning point for the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayerson said sexual harassment is endemic in schools across the country. “What’s different about Oakland Unified is they chose to face that reality, and even more so to work with us in passing a new sexual harassment policy that was deeply responsive to what young women of color were saying,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s Board of Education \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwPfsT7_SGtuVFBjcHRrcTRmeDA/view\">passed the new policy last summer\u003c/a>, with a ton of input from community groups, district officials and the girls themselves. It spells out what constitutes harassment -- from unwanted leering and name-calling, to spreading of sexual rumors and, of course, battery. Schools have to provide mental health support to accusers, and look into whether there’s a systemic problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And students who file complaints now have a right to know what’s happening throughout the process. Because under the old policy, Mayerson said, “they’d report an incident and then just not hear back, not hear back, not hear back. Nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing the culture across schools sounds challenging for a district facing a serious budget crisis. But the students are leading the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the report’s release, Oakland Unified launched an initiative called \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/domain/4434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African American Female Excellence\u003c/a> to focus on the needs of girls. (It’s a counterpart to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African American Male Achievement\u003c/a>, the district’s decade-long effort to support and nurture black boys.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African American Female Excellence is run by Nzingha Dugas, who plans to soon dispatch young women from her program into the schools. They’ll serve as peer educators or trainers to lead workshops and help craft skits about sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we can do,” Dugas said at her office at a West Oakland Middle School, “is we can create a culture of learning and understanding and support, and it makes it OK and safe for the adults to say, 'Actually this is not tolerable, but not only that, we’re gonna teach you what is the right behavior.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has already trained 95 percent of its school principals on the new policy, according to a spokesman. And Skyline’s Nancy Bloom will get trained later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when I talked to Skyline sophomore Chrisiana Vaughn, she was skeptical that much could change. Then, she let herself begin to imagine what a school free from sexual harassment might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we would be able to walk around the school, like, without our backpacks hanging down low to cover us,” Chrisiana says, “or, you know, having to be aware of who's around you all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, Chrisiana made a big decision. She left Skyline High School. She’s now attending a \u003ca href=\"http://mentor.org/emerge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continuation school for girls\u003c/a> only so she can catch up on credits with what she says are way fewer distractions. This fall, she plans to enroll in an Oakland charter school.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the steady stream of sexualized name calling. “Almost every corner you turn,” Chrisiana explains, “you could hear a boy calling a girl a ‘ho.’ I have never heard a teacher ever say, ‘Hey, don't call her a ‘ho.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about Chrisiana’s descriptions of harassment, Skyline High School co-principal Nancy Bloom says teachers and staff at Skyline are on the lookout, and when “we know about it, see it, witness it, we absolutely deal with it.” If teachers send girls out of class, she adds, it’s to help maintain a calm learning environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bloom agrees that sexual harassment occurs at Skyline -- and by her guess, at just about every high school in the country -- and adults have an obligation to help students “learn the right way to navigate the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrisiana’s experiences, it turns out, are fairly common districtwide, at least for some students. A few years ago, the Oakland Unified School District participated in a study to better understand the experiences of girls of color. It was conducted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.alliance4girls.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alliance for Girls\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit that brings together dozens of organizations that serve girls in the Bay Area, including the one Chrisiana belongs to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://agi.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/Alliance-docs/valuing%20girls%20voices%20-%20the%20lived%20experiences%20of%20girls%20of%20color%20in%20ousd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study was released\u003c/a> in 2016. Its most unexpected finding? Most of the girls who took part in focus groups relayed experiences with sexual harassment, according to Alliance for Girls Executive Director Emma Mayerson. And African-American girls in particular reported being punished and misunderstood when they tried to stand up for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrisiana wasn’t part of the focus groups, but she echoed the findings in just about every way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“African-American girls,” she says, “it happens to us so often, it's a part of our daily lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11666551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11666551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30668_Alliance4GirlsTrainingEmma-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Mayerson, executive director of the Oakland-based Alliance for Girls, explains her organization’s work on a new Oakland Unified School District sexual harassment policy to a group of educators and advocates who interact with girls of color. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a recent training for educators and advocates throughout the Bay Area who interact with girls of color, Mayerson talked about the study’s findings, as well as the changes they spurred. In focus groups, she told the lunchtime gathering, the girls “spoke to everything from pinching and touching and slapping asses, and also feeling really betrayed by the adults in their life for not stepping in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the study proved a turning point for the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayerson said sexual harassment is endemic in schools across the country. “What’s different about Oakland Unified is they chose to face that reality, and even more so to work with us in passing a new sexual harassment policy that was deeply responsive to what young women of color were saying,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s Board of Education \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwPfsT7_SGtuVFBjcHRrcTRmeDA/view\">passed the new policy last summer\u003c/a>, with a ton of input from community groups, district officials and the girls themselves. It spells out what constitutes harassment -- from unwanted leering and name-calling, to spreading of sexual rumors and, of course, battery. Schools have to provide mental health support to accusers, and look into whether there’s a systemic problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And students who file complaints now have a right to know what’s happening throughout the process. Because under the old policy, Mayerson said, “they’d report an incident and then just not hear back, not hear back, not hear back. Nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing the culture across schools sounds challenging for a district facing a serious budget crisis. But the students are leading the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the report’s release, Oakland Unified launched an initiative called \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/domain/4434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African American Female Excellence\u003c/a> to focus on the needs of girls. (It’s a counterpart to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African American Male Achievement\u003c/a>, the district’s decade-long effort to support and nurture black boys.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African American Female Excellence is run by Nzingha Dugas, who plans to soon dispatch young women from her program into the schools. They’ll serve as peer educators or trainers to lead workshops and help craft skits about sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we can do,” Dugas said at her office at a West Oakland Middle School, “is we can create a culture of learning and understanding and support, and it makes it OK and safe for the adults to say, 'Actually this is not tolerable, but not only that, we’re gonna teach you what is the right behavior.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has already trained 95 percent of its school principals on the new policy, according to a spokesman. And Skyline’s Nancy Bloom will get trained later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when I talked to Skyline sophomore Chrisiana Vaughn, she was skeptical that much could change. Then, she let herself begin to imagine what a school free from sexual harassment might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we would be able to walk around the school, like, without our backpacks hanging down low to cover us,” Chrisiana says, “or, you know, having to be aware of who's around you all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A top financial official criticized for his handling of the Oakland Unified School District’s budget is resigning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior business officer Vernon Hal leaves amid a deep deficit that led to $9 million in abrupt midyear cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell praised Hal, who himself graduated from an Oakland high school, for his many years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He worked for the District twice, starting the second time in 2008. In the years since, he helped steer the District back into local control, he helped us regain our bond rating and he helped refinance our bonds, saving Oakland taxpayers millions of dollars. For all that and much more, we are grateful,\" Johnson-Trammell wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Board of Education member Jody London says Hal's was a big job and will leave a sizable vacancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It does definitely leave a big void when someone who has that much institutional knowledge and history leaves; at the same time, these types of departures also present opportunities to rebuild and restructure,\" London says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>London stopped short of criticizing Hal for the district's current predicament, saying \"there's no one person or set of events responsible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a board meeting earlier this year, Che Phinnessee did not hesitate to point fingers at top officials, including Hal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phinnessee is a parent of a sixth-grader at Montera Middle School and a third-grader at REACH Academy. As the district grappled with millions in cuts to school administration and individual sites -- and eventually decided to go ahead with them -- she expressed frustration that Hal was absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The person in charge of OUSD finances is not even here. ... He's been a problem for so long, Vernon Hal,\" Phinnessee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trish Gorham is president of the Oakland Education Association, the union representing Oakland teachers. She says Hal had been out of sight for months, as the crisis unfolded, and that his official resignation is part of the clean sweep that the district needs in order to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Superintendent Johnson-Trammell really wants to build and rebuild trust in the district,\" says Gorham, \"then she has to build that on a foundation that is not riddled with the past mistakes of bad judgment, and Vernon Hal was a part of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An OUSD spokesman says the district hopes to hire for a new streamlined position soon.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District is chopping $9 million from its budget in a move that will hit the district's more than 36,000 students midyear. The school board approved the budget cuts Wednesday night in a 6-1 vote, in an effort to correct years of overspending and a growing deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School sites will shoulder $3.8 million in budget reductions, while the rest of the cuts will come from the district's central office as early as January. Dozens of support, management and administrative positions will be affected through reduced hours or layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the long and raucous board meeting Wednesday night, hundreds of students, parents and teachers loudly objected to the cuts, saying schools are already struggling with a lack of basic resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers regularly have to pay for classroom supplies out of their own pockets at Piedmont Elementary School, said OUSD parent Geneva Nicherie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"It breaks my heart. My child’s school is so underfunded it’s disgusting,\" said Nicherie, after witnessing the board's vote with her son, Edward, a second-grader. \"It's going to get worse for our school.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11637065 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board president James Harris addresses opponents of budget cuts as Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell looks on at La Escuelita Education Center in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified is grappling with sharp increases in retirement costs and in special education, while state funding has flattened, said Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell, a former OUSD teacher and administrator on her first year leading the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have inherited this fiscal challenge and I have a responsibility to right this ship,\" said Johnson-Trammell during a public meeting on the budget last month. \"I would like to say how deeply sorry I am for the current financial position we find ourselves in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district, with a budget of nearly $800 million, also has struggled to spend within its means. Ineffective checks and balances and internal controls remain a key problem, according to several sources, including a state team that \u003ca href=\"http://fcmat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/08/Oakland-USD-final-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analyzed OUSD's finances\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the frustration in the community, which is very well understood, is we need to do a better job of budget monitoring, budget planning, forecasting ... to address issues that have been in our district for a decade,\" said Johnson-Trammell during the Wednesday night meeting at La Escuelita Education Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified struggled with similar fiscal problems when it was taken over by the state in 2003 and administered by the California Department of Education for six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Severe financial difficulties forced the District into state receivership in exchange for a sizable state loan,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/16300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says\u003c/a> the OUSD website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified is still paying interest on the $100 million bailout loan it took out then, and is required to host a state-assigned fiscal trustee until the district repays the loan in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11637063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Gonzalez, 13, a student at Elmhurst Community Prep, leads chants of \"They say cut back, we say fight back!\" before school board directors in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents who witnessed that history are incensed the district has not resolved those problems -- even after being administered by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These cuts are absolutely ridiculous,\" said OUSD mom Che Phinnessee, adding that her kids' schools don't have enough basics, such as paper and pens. \"It's a problem of mismanagement and there needs to be a total systems change. We do not need to be under state receivership again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board member Roseann Torres, who cast the only dissenting vote on the budget cuts, said the board didn’t have a dedicated group of directors taking a \"deep dive\" on the district's finances until recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is my sense of responsibility and regret for not pushing harder,\" said Torres, who joined the board in 2013. \"But we didn’t have the structures like a budget committee that could push harder on staff and say 'What’s really going on? Why are we spending from categories inappropriately instead of spending within our means?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the district's overspending ran in the millions of dollars during the tenure of the last superintendent, Antwan Wilson, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/11/22/oakland-school-chief-resigns-to-become-d-c-schools-chief-what-now/\">left the district earlier this year\u003c/a> to run the public schools in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, during fiscal year 2015-2016, the district budgeted $20 million for professional and consulting services, but spent a whopping $29.3 million. That same year, the district spent more than $10 million over its budgeted amount in classified supervisors and administrators, but significantly less for books and supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified planned to spend $18 million on those materials, but spent only $12 million, according to district data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board signed off on those expenses, and the state trustee at the time, Carlene Naylor, had veto power over financial decisions but didn't use it, said Carmelita Reyes, a principal at Oakland International High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s plenty of blame to go around,\" said Reyes, who is planning to cut about $84,000 from her school's budget. \"Antwan Wilson was absolutely irresponsible. The state trustee was asleep on the job. The school board didn’t have enough internal resources to make sure that what staff was telling them was timely, accurate and complete. And historically we’ve haven't had the budget controls we needed as an organization. And all these things came together at once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11637062 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenna Swan, 7, is helped by her mother, Kiera, to address the school board in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. Swan and dozens of other students, parents and teachers spoke up against budget cuts to schools. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, Johnson-Trammell asked principals like Reyes to prepare for cuts of a specific amount, depending on the number of students and grade span of each school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some schools decided to abstain from filling teacher positions and other vacancies, others are making do with fewer support staff, like custodians and instructional assistants. Classrooms are already feeling those effects, said Stephanie Hironaka, a math teacher at Edna Brewer Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For us, it’s mainly canceling field trips, cutting supplies and subscriptions to some technology that we have to renew on an annual basis. Things that enhance the classroom experience are no longer going to be available,\" said Hironaka. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students at the meeting said they felt like they were paying the price for past decisions by administrators and others who were supposed to manage and oversee the district's finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like my education isn’t being valued,\" said Delaney Kreber-Mapp, 15, a student at Oakland Technical High School. \"I feel like there are so many other things that this district is putting ahead of my own education.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District is chopping $9 million from its budget in a move that will hit the district's more than 36,000 students midyear. The school board approved the budget cuts Wednesday night in a 6-1 vote, in an effort to correct years of overspending and a growing deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School sites will shoulder $3.8 million in budget reductions, while the rest of the cuts will come from the district's central office as early as January. Dozens of support, management and administrative positions will be affected through reduced hours or layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the long and raucous board meeting Wednesday night, hundreds of students, parents and teachers loudly objected to the cuts, saying schools are already struggling with a lack of basic resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers regularly have to pay for classroom supplies out of their own pockets at Piedmont Elementary School, said OUSD parent Geneva Nicherie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"It breaks my heart. My child’s school is so underfunded it’s disgusting,\" said Nicherie, after witnessing the board's vote with her son, Edward, a second-grader. \"It's going to get worse for our school.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11637065 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28562_IMG_1248-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board president James Harris addresses opponents of budget cuts as Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell looks on at La Escuelita Education Center in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified is grappling with sharp increases in retirement costs and in special education, while state funding has flattened, said Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell, a former OUSD teacher and administrator on her first year leading the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have inherited this fiscal challenge and I have a responsibility to right this ship,\" said Johnson-Trammell during a public meeting on the budget last month. \"I would like to say how deeply sorry I am for the current financial position we find ourselves in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district, with a budget of nearly $800 million, also has struggled to spend within its means. Ineffective checks and balances and internal controls remain a key problem, according to several sources, including a state team that \u003ca href=\"http://fcmat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/08/Oakland-USD-final-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analyzed OUSD's finances\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the frustration in the community, which is very well understood, is we need to do a better job of budget monitoring, budget planning, forecasting ... to address issues that have been in our district for a decade,\" said Johnson-Trammell during the Wednesday night meeting at La Escuelita Education Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified struggled with similar fiscal problems when it was taken over by the state in 2003 and administered by the California Department of Education for six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Severe financial difficulties forced the District into state receivership in exchange for a sizable state loan,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/16300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says\u003c/a> the OUSD website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified is still paying interest on the $100 million bailout loan it took out then, and is required to host a state-assigned fiscal trustee until the district repays the loan in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11637063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28561_IMG_1241-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Gonzalez, 13, a student at Elmhurst Community Prep, leads chants of \"They say cut back, we say fight back!\" before school board directors in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents who witnessed that history are incensed the district has not resolved those problems -- even after being administered by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These cuts are absolutely ridiculous,\" said OUSD mom Che Phinnessee, adding that her kids' schools don't have enough basics, such as paper and pens. \"It's a problem of mismanagement and there needs to be a total systems change. We do not need to be under state receivership again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board member Roseann Torres, who cast the only dissenting vote on the budget cuts, said the board didn’t have a dedicated group of directors taking a \"deep dive\" on the district's finances until recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is my sense of responsibility and regret for not pushing harder,\" said Torres, who joined the board in 2013. \"But we didn’t have the structures like a budget committee that could push harder on staff and say 'What’s really going on? Why are we spending from categories inappropriately instead of spending within our means?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the district's overspending ran in the millions of dollars during the tenure of the last superintendent, Antwan Wilson, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/11/22/oakland-school-chief-resigns-to-become-d-c-schools-chief-what-now/\">left the district earlier this year\u003c/a> to run the public schools in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, during fiscal year 2015-2016, the district budgeted $20 million for professional and consulting services, but spent a whopping $29.3 million. That same year, the district spent more than $10 million over its budgeted amount in classified supervisors and administrators, but significantly less for books and supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified planned to spend $18 million on those materials, but spent only $12 million, according to district data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board signed off on those expenses, and the state trustee at the time, Carlene Naylor, had veto power over financial decisions but didn't use it, said Carmelita Reyes, a principal at Oakland International High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s plenty of blame to go around,\" said Reyes, who is planning to cut about $84,000 from her school's budget. \"Antwan Wilson was absolutely irresponsible. The state trustee was asleep on the job. The school board didn’t have enough internal resources to make sure that what staff was telling them was timely, accurate and complete. And historically we’ve haven't had the budget controls we needed as an organization. And all these things came together at once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11637062 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28566_IMG_1282-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenna Swan, 7, is helped by her mother, Kiera, to address the school board in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2017. Swan and dozens of other students, parents and teachers spoke up against budget cuts to schools. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, Johnson-Trammell asked principals like Reyes to prepare for cuts of a specific amount, depending on the number of students and grade span of each school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some schools decided to abstain from filling teacher positions and other vacancies, others are making do with fewer support staff, like custodians and instructional assistants. Classrooms are already feeling those effects, said Stephanie Hironaka, a math teacher at Edna Brewer Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For us, it’s mainly canceling field trips, cutting supplies and subscriptions to some technology that we have to renew on an annual basis. Things that enhance the classroom experience are no longer going to be available,\" said Hironaka. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students at the meeting said they felt like they were paying the price for past decisions by administrators and others who were supposed to manage and oversee the district's finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District plans to lay out the specifics of a proposal to cut $9 million from the district's budget during tonight's special school board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell, a former OUSD teacher, is expected to announce that school budgets might shoulder about half of the potential cuts: $4.2 million. Those reductions could impact supplies and programs, as well as substitute teachers and staff that support offices and facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at risk are funds for books, contracts for services and jobs in the district's central office. About 70 support, clerical and management employees could be affected either with reduced hours or layoffs, according to Trammell's presentation included in the \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/DepartmentDetail.aspx?ID=3805&GUID=8F4A7423-0C38-4C3A-BB83-485A96F99772&Mode=MainBody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agenda\u003c/a> for tonight's meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trammell, who is in her first year as superintendent, says the district is grappling with the aftermath of years of mismanagement and overspending. The cuts are also needed, she says, because of rising costs for special education and state-mandated retirement. And, she notes, the district has seen enrollment drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district's Board of Education must approve any budget cut. The board will receive a presentation tonight. A vote is expected next Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing has been finalized,\" said district spokesman John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11635686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell attends a leadership event at La Escuelita Elementary School before the start of the 2017-2018 school year. She says millions of dollars in budget cuts are necessary for the district's fiscal solvency. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just last month, Johnson-Trammell proposed budget cuts totaling $15 million, with about a third -- $5.6 million -- coming directly from school sites and the rest from the central office. The district says the revised plan comes after receiving additional information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Monica Kaldani-Nasif attended a budget committee meeting Wednesday. She said district administrators and school board members have not sufficiently explored other options to generate revenue and trim unnecessary costs. Cuts directly impacting the district's nearly 37,000 students are unacceptable, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thousands and thousands of students, parents, community members should organize, should march, should email their school board representatives and say this is not acceptable either,\" said Kaldani-Nasif, whose kids attend Crocker Highlands Elementary and Edna Brewer Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11635637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sondra Aguilera, from OUSD, explains to board members on Dec. 6, 2017, how the district is calculating cuts to each school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The superintendent asked all principals to plan budget cuts of specific amounts and provided recommendations to do so. Schools were asked to consider cuts based on the amount of funding they get per student. That figure varies according to grade span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondra Aguilera, deputy chief of student services for OUSD, told board members Wednesday that this is the \"best option.\" She said a more tailored approach for cutting the budget at each school would be difficult, in part because some parent-teacher associations raise their own grants but are not required to report those funds to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We began to see this rabbit hole that we were going to go down mapping all the different sources,\" Aguilera said. \"You can’t possibly map all the different sources that school sites receive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"One of my schools in my district might be able to pick up thousands of dollars, whereas other schools in my district cannot. So it's going to be felt much more painfully.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Roseann Torres, member, Oakland Unified School Board\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>School board member Roseann Torres, whose district includes the Fruitvale neighborhood, questions whether the proposed budget cuts would disproportionately affect schools with fewer outside resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my schools in my district might be able to pick up thousands of dollars, whereas other schools in my district cannot,\" she said. \"So it's going to be felt much more painfully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11635631 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bettie Reed Smith, with SEIU-1021, represents payroll clerks, administrative assistants, library specialists and other OUSD employee whose jobs could be at risk. \"Some of our members are already sleeping under freeways because they can’t afford the rent,\" said Reed Smith. \"So if they lose their jobs they lose medical benefits, they lose everything.\" \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Student Adriana Villegas, a senior at Skyline High School, said her school has already stopped hiring instructors for the performing arts, such as for choir and piano classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since those classes have been cut because we didn’t have anyone hired and we are not going to hire anyone, that has already affected what students in my school can take,\" Villegas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to Skyline High School's principal and vice principal offices were not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District plans to lay out the specifics of a proposal to cut $9 million from the district's budget during tonight's special school board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell, a former OUSD teacher, is expected to announce that school budgets might shoulder about half of the potential cuts: $4.2 million. Those reductions could impact supplies and programs, as well as substitute teachers and staff that support offices and facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at risk are funds for books, contracts for services and jobs in the district's central office. About 70 support, clerical and management employees could be affected either with reduced hours or layoffs, according to Trammell's presentation included in the \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.legistar.com/DepartmentDetail.aspx?ID=3805&GUID=8F4A7423-0C38-4C3A-BB83-485A96F99772&Mode=MainBody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agenda\u003c/a> for tonight's meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trammell, who is in her first year as superintendent, says the district is grappling with the aftermath of years of mismanagement and overspending. The cuts are also needed, she says, because of rising costs for special education and state-mandated retirement. And, she notes, the district has seen enrollment drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district's Board of Education must approve any budget cut. The board will receive a presentation tonight. A vote is expected next Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing has been finalized,\" said district spokesman John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11635686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell attends a leadership event at La Escuelita Elementary School before the start of the 2017-2018 school year. She says millions of dollars in budget cuts are necessary for the district's fiscal solvency. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just last month, Johnson-Trammell proposed budget cuts totaling $15 million, with about a third -- $5.6 million -- coming directly from school sites and the rest from the central office. The district says the revised plan comes after receiving additional information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Monica Kaldani-Nasif attended a budget committee meeting Wednesday. She said district administrators and school board members have not sufficiently explored other options to generate revenue and trim unnecessary costs. Cuts directly impacting the district's nearly 37,000 students are unacceptable, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thousands and thousands of students, parents, community members should organize, should march, should email their school board representatives and say this is not acceptable either,\" said Kaldani-Nasif, whose kids attend Crocker Highlands Elementary and Edna Brewer Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11635637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28384_IMG_1212-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sondra Aguilera, from OUSD, explains to board members on Dec. 6, 2017, how the district is calculating cuts to each school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The superintendent asked all principals to plan budget cuts of specific amounts and provided recommendations to do so. Schools were asked to consider cuts based on the amount of funding they get per student. That figure varies according to grade span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondra Aguilera, deputy chief of student services for OUSD, told board members Wednesday that this is the \"best option.\" She said a more tailored approach for cutting the budget at each school would be difficult, in part because some parent-teacher associations raise their own grants but are not required to report those funds to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We began to see this rabbit hole that we were going to go down mapping all the different sources,\" Aguilera said. \"You can’t possibly map all the different sources that school sites receive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"One of my schools in my district might be able to pick up thousands of dollars, whereas other schools in my district cannot. So it's going to be felt much more painfully.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Roseann Torres, member, Oakland Unified School Board\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>School board member Roseann Torres, whose district includes the Fruitvale neighborhood, questions whether the proposed budget cuts would disproportionately affect schools with fewer outside resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my schools in my district might be able to pick up thousands of dollars, whereas other schools in my district cannot,\" she said. \"So it's going to be felt much more painfully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11635631 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28386_IMG_1214-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bettie Reed Smith, with SEIU-1021, represents payroll clerks, administrative assistants, library specialists and other OUSD employee whose jobs could be at risk. \"Some of our members are already sleeping under freeways because they can’t afford the rent,\" said Reed Smith. \"So if they lose their jobs they lose medical benefits, they lose everything.\" \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Student Adriana Villegas, a senior at Skyline High School, said her school has already stopped hiring instructors for the performing arts, such as for choir and piano classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since those classes have been cut because we didn’t have anyone hired and we are not going to hire anyone, that has already affected what students in my school can take,\" Villegas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to Skyline High School's principal and vice principal offices were not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you’re a public school parent in San Francisco or Oakland, your child’s education is now in the hands of a new leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyla Johnson-Trammell is the new schools chief in the Oakland Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vincent Matthews now heads up San Francisco Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While their districts are very different, these leaders have one thing in common: They attended and worked in the schools they now lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also join a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2017/oakland-is-the-latest-big-district-turning-to-insider-to-head-schools/582833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">growing list\u003c/a> of “homegrown superintendents” in California. The trend comes after years of large urban school districts bringing in outsiders who often divided school communities with their ambitious agendas and short tenures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland and San Francisco, the hope is that Johnson-Trammell and Mathews will stay longer, easily win trust among families and community members, and stabilize their districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vincent Matthews: ‘This Is My Home’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prominent African-American school administrator, Matthews led \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2015/08/25/california-bay-area-school-districts-scramble-to-hire-teachers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose Unified\u003c/a> for more than five years. Before that, he was the state-appointed administrator for Oakland Unified, helping the district get out of its financial mess in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, he was overseeing the troubled Inglewood Unified School District near Los Angeles, also as a state-appointed administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve loved every place that I’ve had the opportunity to be a part of. But San Francisco is where I was raised. This is my home,” Matthews said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in the Haight-Ashbury District in the 1970s. His mom and siblings lived in a Victorian with two other families. He attended public schools in the neighborhood, went to San Francisco State University and returned to the district as a teacher and then a principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His deep connection to San Francisco — combined with his 30 years of experience as a successful school leader — helped him land his new job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is to be the chief collaborator around getting students in this city a high-quality education,” he said. “I will scream that from the mountaintops, and I will talk to each and every person who wants to hear it. Even people who don’t want to hear it. They will hear it from me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews demonstrated his unique ability to connect with local educators at a recent meet-and-greet at one of Google’s downtown offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Your ZIP code should not determine the quality of the education you receive.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Vincent Matthews, Superintendent San Francisco Unified Schools\u003cbr>\n\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote\">\u003c/aside>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote\">\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Teachers from the city’s Bayview District were invited to attend, and Matthews told the crowd it felt like a reunion. He said that even though he went to school in the Haight, he spent a lot of time in the Bayview, where many African-American families lived. 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Before that, he was the state-appointed administrator for Oakland Unified, helping the district get out of its financial mess in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, he was overseeing the troubled Inglewood Unified School District near Los Angeles, also as a state-appointed administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve loved every place that I’ve had the opportunity to be a part of. But San Francisco is where I was raised. This is my home,” Matthews said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in the Haight-Ashbury District in the 1970s. His mom and siblings lived in a Victorian with two other families. 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He has fond memories of attending church in the neighborhood, going to choir practice and hanging out with friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Matthews said that even as a kid he noticed the educational inequities within district schools, which he believes remain today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is key for me. Your ZIP code should not determine the quality of the education you receive,” he told the roomful of teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews said to expect an even greater emphasis on making sure all schools are offering a high-quality education – especially at schools that he believes have not gotten the attention they deserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above all, when it comes to learning in a city that’s the epicenter of all things tech, Matthews said he wants district students to master the skill of creativity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It assists them in becoming much more flexible. 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Matthews spent five years promoting and running charter schools during this career and he believes they play a role in offering families more options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11611968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11611968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2877-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2877-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2877-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2877-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2877-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2877-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2877-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2877-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2877-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_2877-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyla Johnson-Trammell looks on during a leadership event at La Escuelita Elementary School before the 2017-2018 school year. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kyla Johnson-Trammell: The Insider\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyla Johnson-Trammell has spent her entire professional career — more than 18 years — in the Oakland Unified School District. 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