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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the Oakland Unified School District only recently processed their unauthorized absences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers had gone on strike in the effort to secure a new contract that would include better pay and more classroom support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While their union, the Oakland Education Association, had invited teachers to apply for hardship funds during the strike, the union’s president told KQED it is no longer accepting applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many teachers didn’t ask for help, including Raymond Pulliam, who teaches a third- and fourth-grade combination class at Parker Elementary School in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He estimates he lost about a third of his earnings for one pay cycle, a few thousand dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a problem, because all the efforts that were put into the situation, it seems that I really don't know who came out on top.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, 'I’m OK. I don’t need the funds.' But what it turned out to be was actually a repayment. It was a payment for the loss that was incurred during the strike,\" Pulliam said. \"I felt like me applying was taking money away from somebody who really needed it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the recent school walkouts in Oakland and Los Angeles, striking teachers and their unions took particular aim at charter schools, accusing them of stripping traditional public schools of crucial resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both cities have higher concentrations of students enrolled in charters than nearly anywhere else in California. And in the deals that ultimately ended the two labor disputes, each district agreed to consider moratoriums on new charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s school board, which hasn’t approved any new charters in several years, is expected to vote this week on whether to officially suspend the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last two decades, Oakland has been a veritable charter boomtown: There are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousdcharters.net/charters-authorized-in-oakland.html\">45 charter schools\u003c/a> attended by about 30 percent of the city’s K-12 students, up from 13 charters in 2003. Largely as a result, the district lost about 17,000 students in those 16 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first charter school in Oakland, and one of the first in the California, opened in 1993 in the Fruitvale neighborhood, just a year after the state Legislature gave charters the green light. Oakland’s public school system had long struggled academically and financially, and with residents eager for better educational options for their children, the city became fertile ground for new charters to take root.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by a large influx of outside funding from wealthy donors and a succession of charter-friendly district superintendents and city and state officials, new charter schools in Oakland proliferated, particularly in the decade after 2000, when the number of charter schools in the city more than tripled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/enrollment_-_oakland_schools-final.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11732119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/enrollment_-_oakland_schools-final.gif\" alt=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/18der2D2inCn9SpWtnc1MbGB_mLCDjIwbwATf1qtKz8E/edit\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graphic: A steady decrease in public school enrollment is matched by a similar steady increase in charter school enrollment. \u003ccite>(Elena Lacey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/9e6db336-6bf3-410c-a22b-8b125f6dc07d?src=embed\" title=\"Copy: Oakland Small Schools\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while certainly not the sole cause of Oakland Unified’s perennial budget woes, the rise of charters is a factor that has undeniably contributed to the district’s fiscal distress. Because OUSD receives per-pupil state funding, having fewer students means a lot less money for the district, even as its school building and administrative costs remain roughly the same. The Los Angeles and Oakland teachers unions frequently cite a 2018 report by the left-leaning Bay Area policy center, In The Public Interest, estimating that charter growth cost \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_LAUSDCharters_PolicyBrief_May2016.pdf\">L.A. Unified \u003c/a>\u003c/u>more than $508 million in 2014-15 and \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/report-the-cost-of-charter-schools-for-public-school-districts/\">Oakland Unified \u003c/a>\u003c/u>$57 million in 2016-17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter school advocates, though, are quick to dismiss the report as blatantly biased, noting that IPI is affiliated with the Partnership for Working Families, whose funders include organized labor. They say that charters are being unfairly scapegoated, and argue that these schools fill a dire need for educational alternatives in many underserved communities, where traditional public schools have largely failed to provide students with the quality education they deserve. Charter schools offer parents and students more choices, which they contend is an inherently good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters also argue that charters offer a more innovative, customized approach to learning for many students, particularly those in low-income communities, who might otherwise fall through the cracks in traditional public schools. Charters, they say, provide greater academic and financial autonomy and have more direct accountability to the communities they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two decades of rapid, largely unchecked growth throughout the state, charter schools are now a flashpoint in the debate over the fate of public education in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of his pledge to bring “long overdue” transparency and accountability measures to California’s charter schools, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB126\">new legislation\u003c/a> in early March, requiring them to adhere to the same conflict-of-interest and open-meeting rules as their traditional counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move marks a departure from the lighter-touch approach taken by his charter school-friendly predecessor, Gov. Jerry Brown, who twice vetoed similar legislation — and as mayor of Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/until-the-end-gov-brown-opposes-more-data-collection-and-charter-school-regulation/606684\">helped launch two charter schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 126 is just the first of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731298/common-sense-regulations-or-an-extended-middle-finger-how-far-will-california-go-on-charter-schools\">cascade of new bills\u003c/a> introduced by lawmakers that would subject the state’s more than 1,300 charter schools to an increased level of scrutiny and cap their growth statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So let’s take a step back. What exactly are charter schools? And how did they establish such a strong and controversial foothold within California’s education system?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The basic gist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Charter schools are publicly funded but privately run K-12 schools that are tuition-free. They are considered part of the public school system, although not subject to some of the rules and oversight of traditional schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of California’s roughly 1,300 charter schools has its own specific goals and operating procedures as laid out in an original proposal (“charter”) that’s been approved by the school district, or the county or state board of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many charter schools in California are run independently and got their start through grassroots community organizing efforts. A significant number, though, are overseen by large groups, known as charter management organizations, which operate multiple schools and often receive hefty funding from affluent charter boosters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the larger, more well-known of these organizations have expanded to other states, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.kipp.org/\">Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://aspirepublicschools.org/\">Aspire Public Schools\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://greendot.org/\">Green Dot Public Schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conventional public schools generally serve students who live within specific geographic zones, most charters are known as “schools of choice,” meaning that anyone can attend, regardless of home address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of charter teachers — \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2018/12/nations_first_charter_school_strike_ended.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upward of 90 percent\u003c/a> — don’t belong to a union. Teachers can technically vote to join one, and some have, including the roughly 600 teachers and counselors at Green Dot Schools, who are part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amuanimo.org/\">Asociación de Maestros Unidos\u003c/a>, a California Teachers Association/National Education Association affiliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, California’s charter schools could be run by both nonprofit and for-profit organizations, as they are in many other states around the country. That changed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under a 2018 state law\u003c/a>, which banned new for-profit charters. Prior to the law’s enactment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/09/18/california-gov-brown-signs-bill-banning-for-profit-charter-schools-will-it-really-do-that/?utm_term=.3ff28d863045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five for-profit groups operated roughly 35 schools\u003c/a> statewide. The law, which takes effect July 1, allows schools currently run or managed by for-profit companies to remain open as long as they switch to nonprofit management when their charters are up for renewal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When did charter schools start in California … and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1992 the state Legislature passed the\u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/sb_1448_bill_chaptered.pdf\"> Charter Schools Act (SB 1448)\u003c/a>, making California the second state in the nation (after Minnesota) to allow public charters. The law’s stated intent was to “provide opportunities for teachers, parents, pupils, and community members to establish and maintain schools that operate independently from the existing school district structure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial law limited the total number of charters in the state to 100, and no more than 10 per school district (except Los Angeles, which was allowed 20) — a cap soon scrapped by subsequent legislation. Funding would “follow the student” after leaving a traditional public school. In 1993, \u003ca href=\"https://scclc.net/\">San Carlos Charter Learning Center\u003c/a>, an elementary school in San Mateo County, became the first charter school in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter schools in California got a more solid footing after \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cs/as/proposition39.asp\">voters passed Proposition 39 in 2000\u003c/a>, requiring school districts to make facilities available to charter schools that serve students who live within the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, their numbers have skyrocketed, with steady, rapid growth across the state, which has only recently begun to slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"”Chart:\" aria-describedby=\"”Only\" id=\"”datawrapper-chart-WYs07″\" src=\"%E2%80%9D//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WYs07/6/%E2%80%9D\" scrolling=\"”no”\" frameborder=\"”0″\" style=\"”width:\" height=\"”332″>\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>With more than 600,000 students in the state’s roughly 1,300 charters schools – about 10 percent of all public school students statewide – California leads the nation in both the number of charters and the number of students attending them (although states like Arizona, Florida and Utah have higher percentages).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re often started in traditionally low-income school districts, as smaller, locally controlled alternatives to underperforming neighborhood schools. Los Angeles and the Bay Area, particularly Oakland, have some of the highest concentrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"”Map:\" aria-describedby=\"”The\" id=\"”datawrapper-chart-bPbYB”\" src=\"%E2%80%9D//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/bPbYB/8/%E2%80%9D\" scrolling=\"”no”\" frameborder=\"”0″\" style=\"”width:\" height=\"”400″>\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>As recently as the mid-1970s, California’s public school system was regarded as among the best in the nation, and the state, not coincidentally, also had one of the nation’s highest per-pupil spending rates. Then, largely as a result of a series of statewide tax measures — namely Proposition 13 — funding quickly slowed to a trickle, and in many districts across the state, the quality of public schools followed suit. Today, California \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/jan/17/delaine-eastin/does-california-rank-41st-student-spending-no-1-pr/\">ranks a dismal 41st nationally \u003c/a>in per-pupil public school spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who are some big supporters and opponents?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the generally friendly reception charter schools have received in California over the last two decades, particularly by key state leaders like Gov. Jerry Brown and his predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they’ve also faced strong resistance from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/\">California Teachers Association\u003c/a> and the local district-level unions it represents. The CTA has consistently lobbied lawmakers to limit their growth and require greater accountability, an effort that seems to now be bearing fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, one of the earliest boosters of the concept of charter schools was Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who \u003ca href=\"https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/64.43.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the late 1980s\u003c/a> promoted the idea of creating experimental schools that would be better equipped to accommodate students who had failed in their traditional schools. Just five years later, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charter-schools-are-leading-to-an-unhealthy-divide-in-american-education/2018/06/22/73430df8-7016-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html?utm_term=.f3de9ff27b0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he publicly renounced the idea\u003c/a>, arguing that it had been adopted by anti-union businesses seeking profits. “Vouchers, charter schools, for-profit management schemes are all quick fixes that won’t fix anything,” \u003ca title=\"books.google.com\" href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=dxsFuYUCKcoC&lpg=PA314&ots=pkEjpi111m&dq=vouchers%2C%20charter%20schools%2C%20for-profit%20management%20schemes%20are%20all%20quick%20fixes%20that%20won%E2%80%99t%20fix%20anything&pg=PA314#v=onepage&q=vouchers,%20charter%20schools,%20for-profit%20management%20schemes%20are%20all%20quick%20fixes%20that%20won%E2%80%99t%20fix%20anything&f=false\">he wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing back against stricter regulations is the\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsa.org/\"> California Charter Schools Association\u003c/a>, which represents most of the state’s charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not for a second will I apologize for the growth of charters that are meeting the needs of parents and are contributing to lifting up our brown and black kids, our disadvantaged students and providing them a lifeline of opportunity for greater success in our great state,” Myrna Castrejón, president of CCSA, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-charter-school-data-enrollment-cost-teachers-unions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CALmatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charter school sector is also commonly criticized for receiving large amounts of funding from corporate philanthropies like the Walton Family Foundation and the Gates Foundation, which have both poured millions into charter organizations across the country and strongly influenced education policy in a number of states, including California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/92dc914dd97c487a9b9aa4b006909a8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 Associated Press investigation\u003c/a> found that philanthropists and their private foundations and charities have given almost half a billion dollars to state-level charter support organizations since 2006. California’s charter industry has been a major recipient of that funding, with donors contributing more than $100 million to the CCSA alone, according to the AP, money that the group has used to start up new schools throughout the state as well as lobby for charter-friendly legislation and push pro-charter candidates in local and statewide elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do charters have to follow the same rules as traditional schools, and how do they line up academically?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Charters are largely unbeholden to school boards and school districts and most don’t have to a negotiate with teachers unions. They also generally have a lot more flexibility in terms of hiring, fundraising and allocating resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they still do have to follow some of the same state and federal academic requirements. Students in charters, for instance, have to take the same \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cs/re/qandasec6mar04.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statewide standardized tests\u003c/a> as those in traditional public schools based on Common Core State Standards. And similar to traditional California public schools, charters are required to be nonpartisan in all aspects of their operations, including academic programming, admissions and employment. They can’t charge tuition or discriminate against any student on the basis of gender, ethnicity, country of origin or disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter critics, however, argue that oversight is often lax in many charter schools, and some deliberately attract higher-performing students. That position was supported by \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/2rKinzE\">a 2017 study\u003c/a> of charter schools in Oakland, which found that charters there tend to enroll students who are more academically prepared than students who attend district-run schools, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2017/oakland-charters-more-likely-to-enroll-higher-performing-students-than-district-schools/583582\">giving those schools an edge\u003c/a> when compared academically. The study also found that while charters in Oakland receive less public funding than do district schools, they serve a much lower percentage of students with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, there’s little evidence suggesting that charter schools, on average, have higher academic performance rates than traditional public schools. Much depends on the individual school and district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do you start a charter?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anyone — a parent, teacher, student, educational organization, etc. — can create and circulate a charter petition to start a new charter school or convert a traditional school. As detailed in\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=EDC&division=4.&title=2.&part=26.8.&chapter=2.&article=\"> California’s Education Code\u003c/a>, the petition must include a description of the school’s structure and student performance expectations, as well as an outline of the operational and management procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition needs to be signed by either the equivalent of half the number of teachers expected to work at the school during its first year or by the parents or guardians of half the number of students expected to enroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School boards are expected to approve charters in their district unless it can be clearly demonstrated that the plan is educationally unsound. The fiscal impact of the charter can’t be considered in the decision — one of the rules that some legislators are now trying to upend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a local district denies a charter, petitioners can appeal to the county board of education and eventually to the State Board of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter schools are approved for up to five years, with subsequent five-year renewals. Charters can be revoked if financial mismanagement occurs, or if the school fails to adhere to the terms of the original charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that students in California charter schools have to take the California High School Exit Exam and that charters are ranked based on the statewide Academic Performance Index. Both of those measures have since been phased out for all schools in California. Charter school and traditional public school students must now participate in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smarter Balanced Assessment System\u003c/a> based on Common Core State Standards.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the recent school walkouts in Oakland and Los Angeles, striking teachers and their unions took particular aim at charter schools, accusing them of stripping traditional public schools of crucial resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both cities have higher concentrations of students enrolled in charters than nearly anywhere else in California. And in the deals that ultimately ended the two labor disputes, each district agreed to consider moratoriums on new charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s school board, which hasn’t approved any new charters in several years, is expected to vote this week on whether to officially suspend the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last two decades, Oakland has been a veritable charter boomtown: There are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousdcharters.net/charters-authorized-in-oakland.html\">45 charter schools\u003c/a> attended by about 30 percent of the city’s K-12 students, up from 13 charters in 2003. Largely as a result, the district lost about 17,000 students in those 16 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first charter school in Oakland, and one of the first in the California, opened in 1993 in the Fruitvale neighborhood, just a year after the state Legislature gave charters the green light. Oakland’s public school system had long struggled academically and financially, and with residents eager for better educational options for their children, the city became fertile ground for new charters to take root.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by a large influx of outside funding from wealthy donors and a succession of charter-friendly district superintendents and city and state officials, new charter schools in Oakland proliferated, particularly in the decade after 2000, when the number of charter schools in the city more than tripled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/enrollment_-_oakland_schools-final.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11732119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/enrollment_-_oakland_schools-final.gif\" alt=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/18der2D2inCn9SpWtnc1MbGB_mLCDjIwbwATf1qtKz8E/edit\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graphic: A steady decrease in public school enrollment is matched by a similar steady increase in charter school enrollment. \u003ccite>(Elena Lacey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/9e6db336-6bf3-410c-a22b-8b125f6dc07d?src=embed\" title=\"Copy: Oakland Small Schools\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while certainly not the sole cause of Oakland Unified’s perennial budget woes, the rise of charters is a factor that has undeniably contributed to the district’s fiscal distress. Because OUSD receives per-pupil state funding, having fewer students means a lot less money for the district, even as its school building and administrative costs remain roughly the same. The Los Angeles and Oakland teachers unions frequently cite a 2018 report by the left-leaning Bay Area policy center, In The Public Interest, estimating that charter growth cost \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_LAUSDCharters_PolicyBrief_May2016.pdf\">L.A. Unified \u003c/a>\u003c/u>more than $508 million in 2014-15 and \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/report-the-cost-of-charter-schools-for-public-school-districts/\">Oakland Unified \u003c/a>\u003c/u>$57 million in 2016-17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter school advocates, though, are quick to dismiss the report as blatantly biased, noting that IPI is affiliated with the Partnership for Working Families, whose funders include organized labor. They say that charters are being unfairly scapegoated, and argue that these schools fill a dire need for educational alternatives in many underserved communities, where traditional public schools have largely failed to provide students with the quality education they deserve. Charter schools offer parents and students more choices, which they contend is an inherently good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters also argue that charters offer a more innovative, customized approach to learning for many students, particularly those in low-income communities, who might otherwise fall through the cracks in traditional public schools. Charters, they say, provide greater academic and financial autonomy and have more direct accountability to the communities they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two decades of rapid, largely unchecked growth throughout the state, charter schools are now a flashpoint in the debate over the fate of public education in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of his pledge to bring “long overdue” transparency and accountability measures to California’s charter schools, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB126\">new legislation\u003c/a> in early March, requiring them to adhere to the same conflict-of-interest and open-meeting rules as their traditional counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move marks a departure from the lighter-touch approach taken by his charter school-friendly predecessor, Gov. Jerry Brown, who twice vetoed similar legislation — and as mayor of Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/until-the-end-gov-brown-opposes-more-data-collection-and-charter-school-regulation/606684\">helped launch two charter schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 126 is just the first of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731298/common-sense-regulations-or-an-extended-middle-finger-how-far-will-california-go-on-charter-schools\">cascade of new bills\u003c/a> introduced by lawmakers that would subject the state’s more than 1,300 charter schools to an increased level of scrutiny and cap their growth statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So let’s take a step back. What exactly are charter schools? And how did they establish such a strong and controversial foothold within California’s education system?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The basic gist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Charter schools are publicly funded but privately run K-12 schools that are tuition-free. They are considered part of the public school system, although not subject to some of the rules and oversight of traditional schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of California’s roughly 1,300 charter schools has its own specific goals and operating procedures as laid out in an original proposal (“charter”) that’s been approved by the school district, or the county or state board of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many charter schools in California are run independently and got their start through grassroots community organizing efforts. A significant number, though, are overseen by large groups, known as charter management organizations, which operate multiple schools and often receive hefty funding from affluent charter boosters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the larger, more well-known of these organizations have expanded to other states, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.kipp.org/\">Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://aspirepublicschools.org/\">Aspire Public Schools\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://greendot.org/\">Green Dot Public Schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conventional public schools generally serve students who live within specific geographic zones, most charters are known as “schools of choice,” meaning that anyone can attend, regardless of home address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of charter teachers — \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2018/12/nations_first_charter_school_strike_ended.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upward of 90 percent\u003c/a> — don’t belong to a union. Teachers can technically vote to join one, and some have, including the roughly 600 teachers and counselors at Green Dot Schools, who are part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amuanimo.org/\">Asociación de Maestros Unidos\u003c/a>, a California Teachers Association/National Education Association affiliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, California’s charter schools could be run by both nonprofit and for-profit organizations, as they are in many other states around the country. That changed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under a 2018 state law\u003c/a>, which banned new for-profit charters. Prior to the law’s enactment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/09/18/california-gov-brown-signs-bill-banning-for-profit-charter-schools-will-it-really-do-that/?utm_term=.3ff28d863045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five for-profit groups operated roughly 35 schools\u003c/a> statewide. The law, which takes effect July 1, allows schools currently run or managed by for-profit companies to remain open as long as they switch to nonprofit management when their charters are up for renewal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When did charter schools start in California … and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1992 the state Legislature passed the\u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/sb_1448_bill_chaptered.pdf\"> Charter Schools Act (SB 1448)\u003c/a>, making California the second state in the nation (after Minnesota) to allow public charters. The law’s stated intent was to “provide opportunities for teachers, parents, pupils, and community members to establish and maintain schools that operate independently from the existing school district structure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial law limited the total number of charters in the state to 100, and no more than 10 per school district (except Los Angeles, which was allowed 20) — a cap soon scrapped by subsequent legislation. Funding would “follow the student” after leaving a traditional public school. In 1993, \u003ca href=\"https://scclc.net/\">San Carlos Charter Learning Center\u003c/a>, an elementary school in San Mateo County, became the first charter school in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter schools in California got a more solid footing after \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cs/as/proposition39.asp\">voters passed Proposition 39 in 2000\u003c/a>, requiring school districts to make facilities available to charter schools that serve students who live within the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, their numbers have skyrocketed, with steady, rapid growth across the state, which has only recently begun to slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"”Chart:\" aria-describedby=\"”Only\" id=\"”datawrapper-chart-WYs07″\" src=\"%E2%80%9D//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WYs07/6/%E2%80%9D\" scrolling=\"”no”\" frameborder=\"”0″\" style=\"”width:\" height=\"”332″>\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>With more than 600,000 students in the state’s roughly 1,300 charters schools – about 10 percent of all public school students statewide – California leads the nation in both the number of charters and the number of students attending them (although states like Arizona, Florida and Utah have higher percentages).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re often started in traditionally low-income school districts, as smaller, locally controlled alternatives to underperforming neighborhood schools. Los Angeles and the Bay Area, particularly Oakland, have some of the highest concentrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"”Map:\" aria-describedby=\"”The\" id=\"”datawrapper-chart-bPbYB”\" src=\"%E2%80%9D//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/bPbYB/8/%E2%80%9D\" scrolling=\"”no”\" frameborder=\"”0″\" style=\"”width:\" height=\"”400″>\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>As recently as the mid-1970s, California’s public school system was regarded as among the best in the nation, and the state, not coincidentally, also had one of the nation’s highest per-pupil spending rates. Then, largely as a result of a series of statewide tax measures — namely Proposition 13 — funding quickly slowed to a trickle, and in many districts across the state, the quality of public schools followed suit. Today, California \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/jan/17/delaine-eastin/does-california-rank-41st-student-spending-no-1-pr/\">ranks a dismal 41st nationally \u003c/a>in per-pupil public school spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who are some big supporters and opponents?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the generally friendly reception charter schools have received in California over the last two decades, particularly by key state leaders like Gov. Jerry Brown and his predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they’ve also faced strong resistance from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/\">California Teachers Association\u003c/a> and the local district-level unions it represents. The CTA has consistently lobbied lawmakers to limit their growth and require greater accountability, an effort that seems to now be bearing fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, one of the earliest boosters of the concept of charter schools was Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who \u003ca href=\"https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/64.43.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the late 1980s\u003c/a> promoted the idea of creating experimental schools that would be better equipped to accommodate students who had failed in their traditional schools. Just five years later, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charter-schools-are-leading-to-an-unhealthy-divide-in-american-education/2018/06/22/73430df8-7016-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html?utm_term=.f3de9ff27b0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he publicly renounced the idea\u003c/a>, arguing that it had been adopted by anti-union businesses seeking profits. “Vouchers, charter schools, for-profit management schemes are all quick fixes that won’t fix anything,” \u003ca title=\"books.google.com\" href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=dxsFuYUCKcoC&lpg=PA314&ots=pkEjpi111m&dq=vouchers%2C%20charter%20schools%2C%20for-profit%20management%20schemes%20are%20all%20quick%20fixes%20that%20won%E2%80%99t%20fix%20anything&pg=PA314#v=onepage&q=vouchers,%20charter%20schools,%20for-profit%20management%20schemes%20are%20all%20quick%20fixes%20that%20won%E2%80%99t%20fix%20anything&f=false\">he wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing back against stricter regulations is the\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsa.org/\"> California Charter Schools Association\u003c/a>, which represents most of the state’s charters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not for a second will I apologize for the growth of charters that are meeting the needs of parents and are contributing to lifting up our brown and black kids, our disadvantaged students and providing them a lifeline of opportunity for greater success in our great state,” Myrna Castrejón, president of CCSA, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-charter-school-data-enrollment-cost-teachers-unions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CALmatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charter school sector is also commonly criticized for receiving large amounts of funding from corporate philanthropies like the Walton Family Foundation and the Gates Foundation, which have both poured millions into charter organizations across the country and strongly influenced education policy in a number of states, including California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/92dc914dd97c487a9b9aa4b006909a8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 Associated Press investigation\u003c/a> found that philanthropists and their private foundations and charities have given almost half a billion dollars to state-level charter support organizations since 2006. California’s charter industry has been a major recipient of that funding, with donors contributing more than $100 million to the CCSA alone, according to the AP, money that the group has used to start up new schools throughout the state as well as lobby for charter-friendly legislation and push pro-charter candidates in local and statewide elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do charters have to follow the same rules as traditional schools, and how do they line up academically?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Charters are largely unbeholden to school boards and school districts and most don’t have to a negotiate with teachers unions. They also generally have a lot more flexibility in terms of hiring, fundraising and allocating resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they still do have to follow some of the same state and federal academic requirements. Students in charters, for instance, have to take the same \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cs/re/qandasec6mar04.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statewide standardized tests\u003c/a> as those in traditional public schools based on Common Core State Standards. And similar to traditional California public schools, charters are required to be nonpartisan in all aspects of their operations, including academic programming, admissions and employment. They can’t charge tuition or discriminate against any student on the basis of gender, ethnicity, country of origin or disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter critics, however, argue that oversight is often lax in many charter schools, and some deliberately attract higher-performing students. That position was supported by \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/2rKinzE\">a 2017 study\u003c/a> of charter schools in Oakland, which found that charters there tend to enroll students who are more academically prepared than students who attend district-run schools, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2017/oakland-charters-more-likely-to-enroll-higher-performing-students-than-district-schools/583582\">giving those schools an edge\u003c/a> when compared academically. The study also found that while charters in Oakland receive less public funding than do district schools, they serve a much lower percentage of students with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, there’s little evidence suggesting that charter schools, on average, have higher academic performance rates than traditional public schools. Much depends on the individual school and district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do you start a charter?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anyone — a parent, teacher, student, educational organization, etc. — can create and circulate a charter petition to start a new charter school or convert a traditional school. As detailed in\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=EDC&division=4.&title=2.&part=26.8.&chapter=2.&article=\"> California’s Education Code\u003c/a>, the petition must include a description of the school’s structure and student performance expectations, as well as an outline of the operational and management procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition needs to be signed by either the equivalent of half the number of teachers expected to work at the school during its first year or by the parents or guardians of half the number of students expected to enroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School boards are expected to approve charters in their district unless it can be clearly demonstrated that the plan is educationally unsound. The fiscal impact of the charter can’t be considered in the decision — one of the rules that some legislators are now trying to upend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a local district denies a charter, petitioners can appeal to the county board of education and eventually to the State Board of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter schools are approved for up to five years, with subsequent five-year renewals. Charters can be revoked if financial mismanagement occurs, or if the school fails to adhere to the terms of the original charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland teachers on Sunday approved a new contract, ending a seven-day districtwide strike that all but shut down schools throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while union officials jubilantly declared the hard-fought agreement \"a win in every major proposal,\" many teachers were far from satisfied and felt that a number of their demands had been largely overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1200x900.jpg\" label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Follow our coverage of the strikes, closures and more.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The portion of \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EG7toaf_W09lbYsy62JMDoTMqdWClCvR/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the contract\u003c/a> that addressed phased-in raises and modest class-size reductions was ratified by just 58 percent of the roughly 2,000 teachers and other union members who cast ballots on Sunday. In contrast, striking Los Angeles teachers approved their new contract in January by a margin of 81 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of disappointment,\" said Kathleen Bailey, who teaches English and U.S. government at Oakland Technical High School. \"It looks like we just got a raise, and one that doesn't even really keep up with inflation at that, when what we really wanted was schools that would offer better supports.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following two graphics, by KQED's Elena Lacey, illustrate what teachers were demanding when they went on strike and what they eventually got as part of their new contract. The first graphic shows how the average Oakland teacher salary of $63,000 will change over the term of the approved contract, as compared to what teachers had asked for. Unlike the 12 percent increase over three years — retroactive to the 2017-18 school year — that teachers had pushed for, the new contract includes an 11 percent raise starting in 2019 through the 2021-22 school year, and a one-time 3 percent bonus. 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An official with the Oakland Education Association said they made the change due to a \"logistical and capacity issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on the End of the Strike\" postID=\"news_11730085, link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11730085/oakland-teachers-reach-tentative-deal-with-district-to-end-strike,Oakland Teachers Reach Tentative Deal With District to End Strike\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11730382/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-but-not-everyone-is-happy,Oakland Teachers Strike Ends, But Not Everyone Is Happy\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35214_OUSD_MOORE_025-qut.jpg\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11730085/oakland-teachers-reach-tentative-deal-with-district-to-end-strike\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have achieved so much in the seven days of our historic strike in Oakland,\" said union President Keith Brown at a press conference on Friday. \"Our power in the streets prevailed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone was happy with the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurses at OUSD said they felt stretched thin and that the deal on the table doesn't address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are furious and we feel like we've been completely thrown under the bus,\" said Sarah Boyd, union representative and nurse at Oakland Technical High School. \"Our biggest ask was a caseload reduction, and in the tentative agreement we get a caseload increase.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, teachers were feeling pressured to reach an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're really annoyed that they're sending out notices saying that the strike is over,\" said Oakland Tech teacher Johanna Langill. \"We haven't even voted yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/11tyt-8pKxCaIudZGHgvVDmrds092rm_cDbwTotyMfh0/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open letter\u003c/a>, some teachers said the proposed agreement did not adequately address the workload for nurses and counselors and does \"nothing concrete to address school closures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, tensions rose between teachers and board members of Oakland Unified. \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnewsnow.com/index.php/2019/03/02/ousd-boards-jumoke-hinton-hodge-chokes-oakland-teacher-in-skirmish/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A video appeared to show\u003c/a> OUSD board member Jumoke Hinton Hodge choking Oakland teacher Darnisha Wright during an altercation at the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this is just another example of a lack of love and respect of teachers by our school board,\" Wright said. \"It's a concrete example of a loss of ability to be rational and treat us with the respect and dignity that we deserve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright said, at this point, she does not plan to press charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Hodge said she'd inadvertently pushed up against Wright's neck during a chaotic exchange where protestors chained the door of the board room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I offer my sincerest apology to Ms. Wright. 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As part of the deal, the union said, the school board will also vote on a charter school moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a product of the Oakland schools, I just feel so much pride that we have the opportunity to greatly improve education outcomes for our students,\" said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, which represents some 3,000 teachers, counselors and nurses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a news conference on Friday afternoon, Brown called the strike “historic” and hard fought, and said the deal marked a major win for teachers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Through the power of the strike, the people of Oakland have said our students are a priority,” he said. “They wanted real investments in our children.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, which receives per-pupil funding from the state, said it has lost roughly $1 million for each day of the strike. It estimated that only 6 percent of all students attended school over the last seven days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This seven day long strike was difficult for the entire community as it threw much of the city into uncertain waters and disrupted many lives,” the district stated in a press release. “But it also showed our teachers how appreciated they are by our students, families and all of Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement was reached after several days of closed-door negotiations mediated by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and state Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has been the longest teachers strike in Oakland in more than 20 years, and follows a string of other teacher walkouts across the country in the past year, including a districtwide Los Angeles strike in January that lasted six days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oakland teachers, who are among the lowest paid educators in the region, with some of the highest turnover rates, the deal marks an improvement over the district's initial offer of a 5 percent increase, but still falls notably short of what teachers have been asking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/vanessarancano/status/1101605908457480193\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains unclear how the cash-strapped district will pay for the sizable increases in teachers’ pay, new counselors, new psychologists and bonuses for nurses. School board members had planned to vote by Friday's deadline on whether to approve more than $21 million in proposed cuts for the following school year as part of a state mandate to significantly reduce its mounting deficit. The board’s initial attempt to vote was thwarted on Wednesday when throngs of striking teachers and their supporters shut down the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us are really exhausted and ready to have the strike be over with,” said Yael Friedman, a second-grade teacher at Howard Elementary, noting that she was cautiously optimistic about the agreement. “I can’t wait to take a look at it because we’ve fought for seven days now and it’s been really difficult, and we really want to make sure the agreement is what we wanted and in our best interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she added, “I’m feeling really relieved, and I can’t wait to see my students. I really miss being in the classroom and I miss my students, and I can’t wait to not be on strike.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>All graphics by KQED's Elena Lacey\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers, who are heading into the seventh day of a strike on Friday, haven’t had a contract — or a raise — since their \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/OEA-Contract-2014-2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last one\u003c/a> expired in July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the teachers union is demanding that any new contract be retroactive to cover the 2017-2018 school year. The union is asking for a 12 percent total raise over three years, starting in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, which had initially offered a 5 percent increase over three years, announced its latest offer on Wednesday: an 8 percent increase over three years starting January 2019, plus a one-time 2 percent bonus (up from the 7 percent increase and 1.5 percent bonus it had offered the week before).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that each year’s increase is compounded, which means that the percentage increase is based on whatever the salary was the previous year (not the original salary). Also, remember that a school year is usually August through June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The math begins to get confusing pretty fast, though, once you start adding up percentages. So we’re going to lay out, side by side, the three proposals that have been floated so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HkAC8UZBHNgx_LYJlLnhG_l0t2_dRVSI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teachers union’s proposal\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2017-2018: 3% increase\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2018-2019: 4% increase\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019-2020: 5% increase\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So ... let’s say Mr. Jones, a high school math teacher with 10 years under his belt, currently makes the average Oakland Unified School District teaching salary of about $63,000 per year. Under this proposal, here’s what his salary increase per year would look like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2017-2018 (retroactively): $63,000 + (3% of $63,000) = $64,890\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2018-2019: $103 + (4% of $64,890) = $67,485\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019-2020: $107.12 + (5% of $107.12) = $70,859\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-1-copy-100.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11729934 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-1-copy-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-1-copy-100.jpg 556w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-1-copy-100-160x271.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union says this is a fair rate of increase, given the comparatively low salaries Oakland teachers make and the very high cost of living in the Bay Area. (Average rent in Oakland is $2,624, while the median home value is $735,100, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RentCafe\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/oakland-ca/home-values/\">Zillow\u003c/a>, respectively.) Pay increases, the union argues, should meet or exceed the yearly change in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/data/consumerpriceindex_sanfrancisco_table.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consumer price index\u003c/a>, a measure of price changes associated with the cost of living, which in the Bay Area, one of the most expensive places to live in the country, averaged 3.2 percent in 2017 and 3.9 percent in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1200x900.jpg\" label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Follow our coverage of the strikes, closures and more.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district, which is trying to cut next year’s budget by more than $20 million, says it can’t swing that big a pay bump for its 3,000 teachers, nurses and counselors. Initially, the district offered teachers a 5 percent raise over three years, less than half of what they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The week before teachers went on strike, a neutral fact-finder \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSHkn3IwBmO-zewwFcfFhdvvc_RjKVyZ/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weighed in\u003c/a>. He agreed that the financially strained district couldn’t afford the 12 percent increase over three years that teachers were asking for, but he also noted that the 5 percent bump the district had initially offered would fail to keep pace with inflation. The fact-finder suggested a compromise of a 6 percent pay increase over just two years (not three), beginning in July 2017. The third year would be left open to reconsideration, with the hope that additional state funding would become available to continue the same rate of increase. That proposal looks like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2017-2018: 3% increase\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2018-2019: 3% increase\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019-2020: Reconsider increased rate\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So, under this proposal, here’s how Mr. Jones’ salary would increase:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2017-2018: $63,000 + (3% of $63,000) = $64,890\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2018-2019: $103 + (3% of $64,890) = $66,837\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019-2020: Reconsider\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-5-100.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11729932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-5-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-5-100.jpg 547w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-5-100-160x275.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The teachers union said the fact-finder's proposal, while better than the district’s initial proposal of 5 percent over three years, still didn’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In last-minute negotiations with the union on the day before the strike started, the district made a counteroffer to increase teachers' pay by 7 percent over three years, starting in January 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Feb. 20 \u003ca href=\"https://t.e2ma.net/message/hkowib/dt0wsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a>, the district said: “Overall, OUSD’s proposal either meets or exceeds the recommendations provided by the fact-finder’s report. For example, the report recommends a 6 percent on-going raise while the district’s proposal is a 7 percent on-going increase and a 1.5 percent bonus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that claim is highly debatable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, it's a tricky apples-to-apples comparison to make, because the district's proposed schedule of increases is different from that proposed by the union and the fact-finder. Here’s how it would break down:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2017-2018: 1.5% bonus (that means a one-time deal, not part of the pay schedule).\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2019: 3%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2020: 2%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2021 - June 2021: 1%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting July 1, 2021: 1%\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So for Mr. Jones, that would look like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2017-2018: $945 + $63,000 = $63,945\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2019: $63,000 + (3% of $63,000)= $64,890\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2020: $64,890 + (2% of $64,890) = $66,188\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2021 - June 2021: $105.06 + (1% of $105.06) = $66,850\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting July 1, 2021: $106.11 + (1% of $106.11) = $67,518\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The latest district offer, announced Wednesday, ups the ante to 8 percent over three years and a 2 percent bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The graph below shows both offers (using a hypothetical increase schedule for the latter one, because the specifics of it have not yet been announced).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-6-100.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11729931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-6-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-6-100.jpg 845w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-6-100-160x204.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-6-100-800x1018.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It depends on how you look at it,” said OUSD spokesman John Sasaki, when asked how the district’s proposal compared with the fact-finder's recommendation. “They had 6 percent for two years. We had 7 percent over three, guaranteed, plus the bonus. Straight numbers guaranteed, it’s more. [But] admittedly over a longer time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna Langill, a ninth-grade math teacher at Oakland Technical High School, is still not pleased with the district’s latest offer. She said they tried to make it sound much better than it really is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sneaky,” she said, while standing on the picket line in front of her school. “We are asking for literally the minimum to stay even with inflation, and they're still not close. So I think it’s pretty insulting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “Really what they’re trying to do is lock us into a below-inflation rate of increase for the first year of our next contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Langill said she feels a responsibility as a math teacher to clearly break it down, and is excited to teach a lesson on it to her students — whenever the strike ends.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>All graphics by KQED's Elena Lacey\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teachers, who are heading into the seventh day of a strike on Friday, haven’t had a contract — or a raise — since their \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/OEA-Contract-2014-2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last one\u003c/a> expired in July 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the teachers union is demanding that any new contract be retroactive to cover the 2017-2018 school year. The union is asking for a 12 percent total raise over three years, starting in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, which had initially offered a 5 percent increase over three years, announced its latest offer on Wednesday: an 8 percent increase over three years starting January 2019, plus a one-time 2 percent bonus (up from the 7 percent increase and 1.5 percent bonus it had offered the week before).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that each year’s increase is compounded, which means that the percentage increase is based on whatever the salary was the previous year (not the original salary). Also, remember that a school year is usually August through June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The math begins to get confusing pretty fast, though, once you start adding up percentages. So we’re going to lay out, side by side, the three proposals that have been floated so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HkAC8UZBHNgx_LYJlLnhG_l0t2_dRVSI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teachers union’s proposal\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2017-2018: 3% increase\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2018-2019: 4% increase\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019-2020: 5% increase\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So ... let’s say Mr. Jones, a high school math teacher with 10 years under his belt, currently makes the average Oakland Unified School District teaching salary of about $63,000 per year. Under this proposal, here’s what his salary increase per year would look like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2017-2018 (retroactively): $63,000 + (3% of $63,000) = $64,890\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2018-2019: $103 + (4% of $64,890) = $67,485\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019-2020: $107.12 + (5% of $107.12) = $70,859\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-1-copy-100.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11729934 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-1-copy-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-1-copy-100.jpg 556w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-1-copy-100-160x271.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union says this is a fair rate of increase, given the comparatively low salaries Oakland teachers make and the very high cost of living in the Bay Area. (Average rent in Oakland is $2,624, while the median home value is $735,100, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RentCafe\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/oakland-ca/home-values/\">Zillow\u003c/a>, respectively.) Pay increases, the union argues, should meet or exceed the yearly change in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/data/consumerpriceindex_sanfrancisco_table.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consumer price index\u003c/a>, a measure of price changes associated with the cost of living, which in the Bay Area, one of the most expensive places to live in the country, averaged 3.2 percent in 2017 and 3.9 percent in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district, which is trying to cut next year’s budget by more than $20 million, says it can’t swing that big a pay bump for its 3,000 teachers, nurses and counselors. Initially, the district offered teachers a 5 percent raise over three years, less than half of what they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The week before teachers went on strike, a neutral fact-finder \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSHkn3IwBmO-zewwFcfFhdvvc_RjKVyZ/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weighed in\u003c/a>. He agreed that the financially strained district couldn’t afford the 12 percent increase over three years that teachers were asking for, but he also noted that the 5 percent bump the district had initially offered would fail to keep pace with inflation. The fact-finder suggested a compromise of a 6 percent pay increase over just two years (not three), beginning in July 2017. The third year would be left open to reconsideration, with the hope that additional state funding would become available to continue the same rate of increase. That proposal looks like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2017-2018: 3% increase\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2018-2019: 3% increase\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019-2020: Reconsider increased rate\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So, under this proposal, here’s how Mr. Jones’ salary would increase:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2017-2018: $63,000 + (3% of $63,000) = $64,890\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2018-2019: $103 + (3% of $64,890) = $66,837\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019-2020: Reconsider\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-5-100.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11729932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-5-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-5-100.jpg 547w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-5-100-160x275.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The teachers union said the fact-finder's proposal, while better than the district’s initial proposal of 5 percent over three years, still didn’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In last-minute negotiations with the union on the day before the strike started, the district made a counteroffer to increase teachers' pay by 7 percent over three years, starting in January 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Feb. 20 \u003ca href=\"https://t.e2ma.net/message/hkowib/dt0wsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a>, the district said: “Overall, OUSD’s proposal either meets or exceeds the recommendations provided by the fact-finder’s report. For example, the report recommends a 6 percent on-going raise while the district’s proposal is a 7 percent on-going increase and a 1.5 percent bonus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that claim is highly debatable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, it's a tricky apples-to-apples comparison to make, because the district's proposed schedule of increases is different from that proposed by the union and the fact-finder. Here’s how it would break down:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2017-2018: 1.5% bonus (that means a one-time deal, not part of the pay schedule).\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2019: 3%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2020: 2%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2021 - June 2021: 1%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting July 1, 2021: 1%\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So for Mr. Jones, that would look like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2017-2018: $945 + $63,000 = $63,945\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2019: $63,000 + (3% of $63,000)= $64,890\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2020: $64,890 + (2% of $64,890) = $66,188\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 2021 - June 2021: $105.06 + (1% of $105.06) = $66,850\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting July 1, 2021: $106.11 + (1% of $106.11) = $67,518\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The latest district offer, announced Wednesday, ups the ante to 8 percent over three years and a 2 percent bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The graph below shows both offers (using a hypothetical increase schedule for the latter one, because the specifics of it have not yet been announced).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-6-100.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11729931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-6-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-6-100.jpg 845w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-6-100-160x204.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Artboard-6-100-800x1018.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It depends on how you look at it,” said OUSD spokesman John Sasaki, when asked how the district’s proposal compared with the fact-finder's recommendation. “They had 6 percent for two years. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EdSource\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District is losing about $1 million for each day teachers are on strike and students are not in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's according to both the district and independent estimates provided to EdSource by \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.sscal.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Services of California\u003c/a>, a Sacramento-based consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the districtwide teachers strike enters its fifth day, its costs are eroding some of the funds that the financially struggling district could have used to meet teachers demands for higher salaries, smaller class sizes and more extensive support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district receives the bulk of its funding from the state based on what is called “\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/ec/currentexpense.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average daily attendance\u003c/a>,” or ADA. 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Jerry Brown and approved by the state Legislature in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only about 6 percent of the district’s approximately 35,000 students have shown up at school during the strike, which means the district will not receive those state funds for the vast majority of its students who have not come to school, according to district officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1200x900.jpg\" label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Follow our coverage of the strikes, closures, and more.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our numbers show the impact that the student absences are having on the district in support of our teachers,” Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said Tuesday. “It lends greater urgency to the need to settle our contract negotiations with the Oakland Education Association.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OEA, union representing teachers, says even fewer students — by its estimates 3 percent — have been in school during the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials acknowledged that the loss of funds to the district could lead to more budget cuts, which they hope will not impact students in the classroom. Negotiations continued late into the evening Tuesday with Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, acting as a mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the district didn’t want to incur these costs, they shouldn’t have dragged out negotiations for two years and slow-walked talks since the strike began,” said Ismael Armendariz, the first vice president of the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://oaklandea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Education Association\u003c/a>, which represents some 3,000 teachers, nurses and counselors. “The ultimate settlement will probably now require deeper cuts in central office personnel and outside consultants, since the goal of the union and the community is to get more resources into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has not provided estimates of how much it thinks could be saved by cutting consultant contracts and central office staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The loss of ADA is significant, but there are also offsetting factors, such as the money not being spent on teacher salaries during the strike,” said Karen Monroe, Alameda County superintendent of schools, who must by law sign off on the district’s annual budget. “Regardless, the district must make cuts and those cuts need to be focused on Oakland’s budget shortfall and their deficit spending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland school board is set to vote \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ousd.org/domain/67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday\u003c/a> night on about $20.2 million in cuts to the district’s 2019-20 budget , along with $1.6 million in cost-savings and revenue generation, reductions that are intended to help fund teacher raises, class size reductions and other student supports. The district says it’s unclear how the loss of funding due to the strike will affect the overall budget, but it hopes to resolve the strike soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified typically receives just over $2 million a day in state funds based on student attendance. That also includes funds it receives from the state lottery, as well as “\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/ca/mandatebgfaq.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mandated block grant\u003c/a>” funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because striking teachers are not getting paid, the district's losses are being offset to some degree by wage cost savings, which amounts to about $1 million per day, SSC estimates. The estimate, however, does not take include the savings the district may have realized from other non-management, non-teaching staff known as “certificated staff,” such as nurses, counselors or librarians, who are also out on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/oaklandstrikenew-768x658.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-11729372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/oaklandstrikenew-768x658.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/oaklandstrikenew-768x658.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/oaklandstrikenew-768x658-160x137.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accounting for that, the district's net loss during the strike is just over $1 million a day, based on SSC's rough estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These losses do not include the considerable cost of hiring substitute teachers for the duration of the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has so far offered teachers a 7 percent raise over the time period of January 2019 through 2021, and a retroactive one-time 1.5 percent bonus, along with modest class size reductions and other supports. Teachers are asking for a 12 percent raise over three years, covering 2017 through 2020, along with significant reductions in class sizes and increases in counselors and nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe said the district cannot approve any agreement that would jeopardize its fiscal solvency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not say no, unequivocally, to the proposed 12 percent increase, but I would not be able to approve any agreement that puts the district in further fiscal peril,” Monroe said, adding that an acceptable agreement is dependent on a number of factors that include the cuts the district is willing to make, along with whether what the district agrees to represents an ongoing financial commitment or just a one-time expenditure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a position supported by Chris Learned, the state trustee, who said recently that he would veto any budget he considered to be fiscally irresponsible, including one that gives teachers the 12 percent raise they're asking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci> \u003ca href=\"https://www.edsource.org\">EdSource\u003c/a> is tracking developments this year in the Oakland Unified and West Contra Costa Unified School Districts as a way to illustrate some of the most urgent challenges facing many urban districts in California. West Contra Costa Unified includes Richmond, El Cerrito and several other East Bay communities.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Negotiations continued late into the evening Tuesday with Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, acting as a mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the district didn’t want to incur these costs, they shouldn’t have dragged out negotiations for two years and slow-walked talks since the strike began,” said Ismael Armendariz, the first vice president of the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://oaklandea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Education Association\u003c/a>, which represents some 3,000 teachers, nurses and counselors. “The ultimate settlement will probably now require deeper cuts in central office personnel and outside consultants, since the goal of the union and the community is to get more resources into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has not provided estimates of how much it thinks could be saved by cutting consultant contracts and central office staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The loss of ADA is significant, but there are also offsetting factors, such as the money not being spent on teacher salaries during the strike,” said Karen Monroe, Alameda County superintendent of schools, who must by law sign off on the district’s annual budget. “Regardless, the district must make cuts and those cuts need to be focused on Oakland’s budget shortfall and their deficit spending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland school board is set to vote \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ousd.org/domain/67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday\u003c/a> night on about $20.2 million in cuts to the district’s 2019-20 budget , along with $1.6 million in cost-savings and revenue generation, reductions that are intended to help fund teacher raises, class size reductions and other student supports. The district says it’s unclear how the loss of funding due to the strike will affect the overall budget, but it hopes to resolve the strike soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified typically receives just over $2 million a day in state funds based on student attendance. That also includes funds it receives from the state lottery, as well as “\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/ca/mandatebgfaq.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mandated block grant\u003c/a>” funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because striking teachers are not getting paid, the district's losses are being offset to some degree by wage cost savings, which amounts to about $1 million per day, SSC estimates. The estimate, however, does not take include the savings the district may have realized from other non-management, non-teaching staff known as “certificated staff,” such as nurses, counselors or librarians, who are also out on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/oaklandstrikenew-768x658.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-11729372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/oaklandstrikenew-768x658.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/oaklandstrikenew-768x658.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/oaklandstrikenew-768x658-160x137.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accounting for that, the district's net loss during the strike is just over $1 million a day, based on SSC's rough estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These losses do not include the considerable cost of hiring substitute teachers for the duration of the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has so far offered teachers a 7 percent raise over the time period of January 2019 through 2021, and a retroactive one-time 1.5 percent bonus, along with modest class size reductions and other supports. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's a sentiment heard loudly and clearly on the picket lines of striking teachers throughout Oakland and in the organizing playbook of their union: charter schools are bad news for Oakland's teachers and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35361_image3-qut-1200x900.jpg\" label=\"Oakland Schools: Put to the Test\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/oaklandschools,Follow our coverage of the strikes, closures, and more.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the school district really can’t afford to keep the lights on in its own buildings, why has our board been complicit in rampant charter school growth ... and also awarding them sweetheart leases on formerly public buildings?\" wrote Oakland Education Association president Keith Brown in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Why-Oakland-teachers-are-going-to-strike-13629050.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent San Francisco Chronicle opinion article\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, as Oakland's districtwide teachers strike stretches into its fifth day, with no end in sight, a number of charter school teachers, who are not on strike, are joining the picket lines in solidarity and making the case that they face many of the same problems and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is Nicole Solis, a teacher at an East Oakland charter school, who asked that her school not be named because of ongoing labor negotiations. She and five other colleagues have called in sick for multiple days to join teachers on the picket lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solis says her school was founded by a group of parents in the community — not by outside millionaires, as the union often claims — who wanted to create a decent educational option for their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of 20 teachers in her charter's union and says that, much like district teachers, they are also overworked and underpaid, and pushing for raises and more classroom resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The things that OUSD teachers are fighting for are things that we're also fighting for within the charter school community,\" Solis said, who has joined district teachers for every day of their strike, so far. \"And I really think the only way we're going to solve this is by coming together as teachers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charter schools have exploded in Oakland in the last two decades. There were less than 10 of them in the city 20 years ago, attended by just over 1,000 students. Last year, more than 16,000 students \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousdcharters.net/charters-authorized-in-oakland.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attended 34 charter schools\u003c/a>, one of the highest rates of any school district in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that same time period, enrollment in district-run schools dropped sharply, by \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showShareOptions=true&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no&:render=false#7\">a whopping 45 percent\u003c/a>. The roughly 17,000 students that left the district took with them critical per-pupil funding, greatly exacerbating the district's already tenuous financial situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/report-the-cost-of-charter-schools-for-public-school-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One 2018 analysis by the policy group In the Public Interest \u003c/a>found that charter schools diverted more than $57 million per year from Oakland Unified, amounting to roughly $1,500 less in funding for each student in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These criticisms were echoed repeatedly during last Friday's teachers rally in DeFremery Park in West Oakland, when one speaker after another railed against Oakland's charter schools and the corporate outside interests they say are behind them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the rally, teachers marched down Adeline Street to demonstrate in front of the offices of \u003ca href=\"https://gopublicschools.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go Public Schools\u003c/a>, an organization that has been supportive of charter school growth and school choice in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many families in some of Oakland's most underserved communities say charters are sometimes the only viable alternatives to the low-performing district schools their children would otherwise have to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And charter school teachers, like Solis, say it's unfair and misguided to single them out. 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