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It was just a really, really amazing opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara, who moved to Oakland from the Philippines in middle school, is one of seven OUSD students who started at Northeastern’s Bay Area campus this fall through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program. They are the first class to enroll in the scholarship program since Northeastern University opened on the former site of Mills College in 2022 after the two merged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara applied to many schools, but she was considering going to a community college for two years to lessen the financial burden on her parents, who are already putting her two sisters — all of them first-generation college students — through school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program, she will be able to graduate without debt or straining her parents’ finances. Students — who must qualify for a Pell Grant, which is awarded to students with \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/grants/pell\">great financial need\u003c/a> — receive free tuition, room and board for four years of education, which comes out to more than $340,000 each, according to OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The campus of Northeastern University, formerly Mills College, on Oct. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program is an extension of a similar one on Northeastern University’s Boston campus. Officials hope to expand the Oakland program from seven to 10 students in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seemed natural when we came to Oakland to bring that kind of program here, where we’re equally invested in growing and supporting the greater Oakland community,” Northeastern Oakland Dean Daniel Sachs told KQED. “One of those ways, of course, is by supporting the youth and the students in the public school system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland public schools have had more than their share of problems. 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That’s far below the 72% of Bay Area graduates who went to college that year, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011731 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1382772776.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s figures showed improvement, with about 35% of OUSD’s graduating seniors enrolling in four-year universities and 20% more in two-year programs, but Oakland is still behind the curve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scholarship model like the Oakland Opportunity program, though, helps students not only get into college but earn a degree, said Tolani Britton, a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what the research tells us is that it’s not simply that students need more information to get to and through college. They need wraparound services,” she said. “Students are actually guaranteed housing, food, tuition and fees so that they can put their energies in many ways towards succeeding in that environment as opposed to trying to figure out how they stay there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scholarship students applied through the general Northeastern application and selected the Oakland campus as their top choice for their first year. Most were nominated by a counselor or another staff member at their high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the OUSD students complete their first year in Oakland, they can choose to stay in the Bay Area or transfer to any of Northeastern’s 13 campuses in three countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If more local students attend college close to home and potentially join the workforce there after they graduate, it benefits the whole community economically, Britton said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara, who moved to Oakland from the Philippines in middle school, is one of seven OUSD students who started at Northeastern’s Bay Area campus this fall through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program. They are the first class to enroll in the scholarship program since Northeastern University opened on the former site of Mills College in 2022 after the two merged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara applied to many schools, but she was considering going to a community college for two years to lessen the financial burden on her parents, who are already putting her two sisters — all of them first-generation college students — through school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program, she will be able to graduate without debt or straining her parents’ finances. Students — who must qualify for a Pell Grant, which is awarded to students with \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/grants/pell\">great financial need\u003c/a> — receive free tuition, room and board for four years of education, which comes out to more than $340,000 each, according to OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The campus of Northeastern University, formerly Mills College, on Oct. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program is an extension of a similar one on Northeastern University’s Boston campus. Officials hope to expand the Oakland program from seven to 10 students in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seemed natural when we came to Oakland to bring that kind of program here, where we’re equally invested in growing and supporting the greater Oakland community,” Northeastern Oakland Dean Daniel Sachs told KQED. “One of those ways, of course, is by supporting the youth and the students in the public school system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland public schools have had more than their share of problems. Amid steadily declining enrollment, the district faces a huge budget deficit that could lead to a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011731/oakland-school-closures-are-back-on-the-table-less-than-2-years-after-plan-was-axed\">shutter some campuses\u003c/a>, and a persistent lead contamination issue plaguing many of its schools is likely to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007326/lead-problems-in-oakland-schools-drinking-water-could-cost-over-50-million-to-fix\">cost tens of millions of dollars to fix\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students who come up through the embattled Oakland school district don’t end up in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, only about 44% of OUSD graduates enrolled in a four-year university or community college. That’s far below the 72% of Bay Area graduates who went to college that year, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s figures showed improvement, with about 35% of OUSD’s graduating seniors enrolling in four-year universities and 20% more in two-year programs, but Oakland is still behind the curve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scholarship model like the Oakland Opportunity program, though, helps students not only get into college but earn a degree, said Tolani Britton, a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what the research tells us is that it’s not simply that students need more information to get to and through college. They need wraparound services,” she said. “Students are actually guaranteed housing, food, tuition and fees so that they can put their energies in many ways towards succeeding in that environment as opposed to trying to figure out how they stay there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scholarship students applied through the general Northeastern application and selected the Oakland campus as their top choice for their first year. Most were nominated by a counselor or another staff member at their high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the OUSD students complete their first year in Oakland, they can choose to stay in the Bay Area or transfer to any of Northeastern’s 13 campuses in three countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If more local students attend college close to home and potentially join the workforce there after they graduate, it benefits the whole community economically, Britton said. But whether they stay in the area or not, it can also affect future generations of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to the resources you’re bringing after you graduate to your family, there’s also, I absolutely believe, a role model factor, particularly if you’re still local,” Britton said. “You may have that younger cousin who didn’t necessarily see four-year college as a possibility. That younger cousin then sees you graduate and the opportunity that you had. It means something about what is possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011587\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Vergara is one of seven OUSD students who started at Northeastern’s Bay Area campus this fall through the Oakland Opportunity Scholarship Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vergara, who is studying politics, philosophy and economics, plans to transfer to Boston next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m definitely making the most out of my opportunity,” she said. “My plan is [that] after this year, I’m going to transition to Boston and then hopefully London and as many campuses as I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s most excited about the opportunity to do one of Northeastern’s cooperative education programs, which connect students with semester-long, full-time work experiences. Vergara isn’t 100% sure what she wants to pursue after graduation, but she said she hopes to explore law during her co-op semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The campus is in the heart of Boston, which opens you up to so many opportunities,” she said. “There’s lots of law firms there that [Northeastern] has connections with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she’s in Oakland, though, she’s already taking full advantage of the school’s resources. She’s a part of the campus’ Trailblazer Program, which connects first-generation students before they begin their first year and provides them with additional advising and monthly meetings to learn about campus resources.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Director Mike Hutchinson said he was confident that Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell would not bring forward a plan this year that includes school consolidations, apart from the possible mergers of five pairs of schools that already share campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything beyond that should not be coming forward,” he told KQED. “We have not done the work as a district yet to produce any plans further than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki said district staffers plan to bring several cost reduction options to the board in November, which will likely include plans to decrease the number of school sites. The specifics are still being decided, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost 85% of our funds go to pay teachers, school staff, and all support staff across the district,” Sasaki said via email. “Because so much of the budget is dedicated to people, there are limited other options for closing the gap, which is one reason this situation is so challenging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility of closing schools isn’t new for Oakland Unified. In 2021, a plan to close 11 campuses \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">spurred a hunger strike\u003c/a> and led to outrage from many parents and educators, who believed it would have disproportionately affected low-income and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942006/reversal-of-oakland-school-closures-renews-hope-of-reparations-for-black-students\">underrepresented student\u003c/a>s. The plan was approved in February 2022 but overturned by a newly elected school board — led by then-President Hutchinson — in January 2023. Davis and Board Director Clifford Thompson voted against rescinding the closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district ended up closing two schools, merging one and eliminating middle-school grades at another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD’s budget challenges are also ongoing. The district was taken over by the state in 2003, though it is expected to regain full local control in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials have said it needs to “reduce its footprint” because it has far fewer students than it used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrollment has been declining in Oakland schools since 2002 when the district had more than 50,000 students. It now has just over 34,000, and earlier this month, the district projected it could lose 20% of its students between 2022 and 2032.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007326 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-OUSD-LEAD-FOLO-MD-03-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the board approved a budget-balancing resolution, which called for the development of possible cuts as well as “restructuring schools” in alignment with a new state law that requires districts facing financial challenges to perform an equity impact analysis before proposing any possible closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said this analysis was requested by the board in June and is still underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very first time it was on our agenda was actually my first meeting as president [at the start of the year],” he told KQED. “It’s been something we’ve been talking about all year long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district currently has 77 school sites. 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Is that what should be allowed to happen? Does that show care for our students? No, it does not,” said Stuart Loebl, a teacher at Frick United Academy of Language — the campus with the highest lead levels — who urged the district to reprioritize the available funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators also emphasized the potentially devastating health effects that can come from consuming elevated amounts of lead — such as brain and kidney damage, myalgia and other severe consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure Y was initially intended for construction, demolition and renovation projects within the district, including major renovations to Skyline High School and Elmhurst Middle School and the demolition of the district’s abandoned headquarters near Lake Merritt. 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They led a community rally outside the meeting to call on the district to meet a list of demands, including stricter parts-per-billion lead standards and better communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re looking for is not only accountability for why there was this complete sort of failure in communication, but also we’re looking for a comprehensive analysis of where the contamination points are at any given school site and how those will be addressed,” Landry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the longer term, the district plans to analyze how extensive the remediation will need to be, but how it will pay for the work it identifies is unclear. Thomas said further testing would help OUSD determine where repairing the fixtures got rid of lead or where larger systems, like the pipes, might be the root of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are ongoing in testing every day as we speak right now, and then we will circle back to those schools at the end of this school year to do a second round of testing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the district has installed 50 of 60 new FloWater bottle-filling systems, which routinely test extremely low for lead, Thomas said at the meeting. All of the fixtures where lead was initially detected have been repaired and are awaiting retesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD also has plans to install 88 more FloWater stations by the end of the year, aiming to have one water fountain per every 200 students on a school site. Installing the additional Flowater systems will cost an estimated $1.5 million, plus more than half a million to maintain annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The larger cost of remediation comes as Oakland and its school district are both dealing with budget deficits. School board Vice President Mike Hutchinson said there isn’t much money left unaccounted for in the budget set aside for facilities through recent bond measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District leaders at Monday’s meeting asked about using funds from a settlement initiated in 2019 between 10 cities and counties in California, including Oakland, and companies whose lead paint “poisons tens of thousands of children across California each year,” according to a press release, but Selia Warren, a deputy attorney at the Oakland city attorney’s office, said that money is required to be used for remediation efforts related to lead paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb suggested a city staffer help the district with outreach to state and local agencies and applications for grants that have funding available for lead-related remediation. 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In one case, the concentration was as high as 900 parts per billion. The Oakland school board’s maximum allowable level is 5 parts per billion, while the state and federal standard is 15 parts per billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testing took place at 49 sites and found a total of 186 needed repairs, according to Johnson-Trammell’s presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Aug. 16, 66 have been addressed and are waiting for retesting. The district plans to complete the remediation process within three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some teachers and parents criticized what they called a lag in communication after tests were completed, as early as April at certain schools. Stuart Loebl, a sixth-grade teacher at Frick United Academy of Language, where the highest detected lead level was 51 parts per billion, said he doesn’t feel the district’s response has been adequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They let students continue to drink from that fountain for months, both during the rest of the school year and [when] we had 80 students at our site during summer school. To call the problem an issue of communication is very damaging to the trust that I can put in the districts to solve this issue,” Loebl said. “I haven’t seen any kind of explanation as to why that failure happened, in which all these water fountains were not immediately shut down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD officials did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday, but spokesperson John Sasaki told KQED earlier this month that district officials were “aggressive about the testing but were not as efficient at communicating in the ways we should have been. That’s something we are working on as an organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frick staff found out on Aug. 12, the first day of school, that six fixtures on campus tested over the district limit in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loebl said that made for a hectic start to the school year as everybody was directed to use only the campus’ single FloWater filtered water bottle filling station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When 400 people, 370 students plus staff, are trying to use that one FloWater station, it very quickly started to break down and go out of service because the way that these work is they need a certain amount of time for them to filter the water,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_12000525 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/016_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration added a second FloWater station last week and brought in Gatorade jugs to supplement the amount of water available. But Loebl teaches on the second floor of the two-story campus, while the FloWater stations are located on the first floor and in the cafeteria — “It’s, the way that students walk, a five to 10-minute round trip to get water,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassandra Lizardi Morales, who teaches sixth grade English at Frick, said it’s been “hit and miss” trying to meet the demand for water in her classroom, especially on hot days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district began expedited testing of all campuses more than 50 years old that were not tested earlier this year on Aug. 17. Reports from that testing showed that more than 95% of the fixtures were below OUSD’s permissible lead level and six fixtures were identified for repair, according to the superintendent’s presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the fall, OUSD plans to conduct testing at its other sites, working from the oldest campuses to the newest and prioritizing early education centers that were not tested recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comprehensive testing schedule will also be announced within 30 days, the presentation says, and OUSD will ask the facilities committee to install more water bottle filling stations on campuses. By January, the district plans to launch a testing dashboard on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But teachers say that the efforts to test and repair fixtures where lead is found might just be “kicking the can down the road.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s soldering in the lead pipes, and you can do short-term filters, but if you’re not regularly maintaining the filters, the lead will come back into the water,” Loebl said. “There needs to be a long-term plan to replace the pipes so that there is no longer lead seeping into our water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizardi Morales added that she feels the district will need to rebuild trust in schools’ water sources after their retesting is complete. 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"content": "\u003cp>Across the Oakland Unified School District, the mantra for school staff is to call city police only as a last resort. If a disturbance occurs, they should rely first on in-house staff who don’t carry guns and can’t arrest anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since voting in \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/oakland-school-board-unanimously-agrees-to-eliminate-its-police-force/634544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 2020\u003c/a> to disband its police department, Oakland has pursued one goal — to defuse conflict and avoid bringing in police and exposing students to the possibility of arrest. Oakland’s preference is for restorative justice, which emphasizes circle-of-trust interactions to improve how students treat one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, it’s just having conversations with them (students),” said Eddie Franklin, a former security guard who is now part of the district’s new police-free staffing. “Let them authentically be themselves, and the goal becomes to chip away at the rough edges they might have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a strategy credited by the district with drastically reducing the 911 calls to city police from 2,128 during the 2019-20 school year, the last year the Oakland district had its own police department, to 200 in 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an EdSource analysis of data from the police shows a higher number of calls from just eight of the district’s 18 middle and high schools in half a year. The period from January to June 2023 shows those schools \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/database?district=Oakland%20Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made 225 calls\u003c/a>, with 105 considered “serious” for reasons including assault with a deadly weapon, suicide attempts, battery and terrorist/criminal threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland data was part of a statewide investigation of school policing across California. EdSource gathered nearly \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">46,000 police logs of calls \u003c/a>from and about 852 schools. The data collection was designed as a representative sample of California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police track all calls from and about eight of the district’s 18 middle and high schools, while the district’s data captures calls made to police from all 106 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misha Karigaca, Oakland Unified’s director of student support and safety, could not fully reconcile the differences between the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/database?district=Oakland%20Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police call logs\u003c/a> and the district’s record of internal calls to police for the same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a 911 call comes from a cell phone and the call doesn’t get reported to my department, we will not have information about the call, which can also account for significant discrepancies,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11989248,forum_2010101905485,news_11987651\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Karigaca and Board President Sam Davis acknowledged that while staff are trained when not to call 911 and to report any calls that they make, it doesn’t always happen. “We don’t capture every call in our data as (school) sites are required to notify us if law enforcement comes on campus; but we know of times when this hasn’t always happened,” Karigaca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said it’s also possible other staff are calling 911 for nonemergent reasons because “a lot of people reach the end of their rope for all sorts of reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland schools included in EdSource’s data are McClymonds, Castlemont, Fremont, Oakland, Skyline high schools and Montera, West Oakland and Westlake middle schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in a place where we can have completely police-free schools. That is our goal and what we’re working towards, but unfortunately, there are times when we do need police support,” Karigaca said. “It was our conditioning, whatever we needed they (police) would respond. It’s almost similar to our communities and our society — there’s not many other options. Anything that revolves around safety, we’re conditioned to call police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In place for two school years, the new police-free plan is being evaluated locally and nationally on whether it is achieving what it set out to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, in describing its study, put Oakland on the “leading edge of an emerging violence-reduction practice” happening in schools across the country, according to Jesse Jannetta, a senior policy fellow at the institute. Study results are expected in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone supports the decision to disband the district’s police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Clifford Thompson said it was wrong for Oakland to disband its police department. “There’s little benefit to not having police at schools,” he said. “Totally eliminating the force without having a backup for those who need that type of force, it might not have been the best thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting to police-free\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://blackorganizingproject.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Black Organizing \u003c/a>Project, a Bay Area community organization focused on racial, social and economic justice, has been advocating for the end of the police department since 2011. It finally happened in June 2020 with a unanimous vote of the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has had a fraught and violent history of racism and police abuse of Black people for nearly 80 years, which factored greatly into the final push to disband the department following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Black population increased dramatically during World War II when slave descendants migrated west from Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. Police officers from those states were quickly recruited and stationed in Black neighborhoods. In 1950, a civil rights leader told the state Assembly that Black people lived “in daily and nightly terror” of Oakland police, according to a 1950 State Assembly report. The police department in Oakland Unified was born in 1957.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 60 years of having an embedded police department in Oakland schools, educators, city officials and community partners are working to untangle the decades of policing culture and running its own police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no contract or memorandum of understanding with the Oakland Police Department, but the district shares what staff are taught about when to call 911 and how to interact with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/departments/violence-prevention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Violence Prevention\u003c/a> recently reported to a joint council-district committee on the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/OUSD-Education-Committee-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plan’s progress\u003c/a>. The city of Oakland invested $2.4 million in the 2022-23 school year to address violence in schools by creating a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/school-violence-intervention-and-intervention-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School Violence Intervention and Prevention Program\u003c/a> and hiring life coaches, violence interrupters and gender-based violence specialists to four comprehensive high schools and three continuation high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender-based violence specialists are unique to Oakland, Jannetta said. The specialists have workshops about dating violence, stalking, sexual harassment, sexual assault and commercial sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through surveys, officials found these extra staffers have more relatability to students, can focus on individual needs, and alleviate some of this work from teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too early to evaluate whether it is working, but the district is going in a positive direction, said Jessica Black, director of administration for the Black Organizing Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting to a police-free school environment also faces challenges. City and school officials say violence, especially among 14 to 18-year-olds in the city, bleeds into the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2022-23 school year, there were more than 600 high school suspensions and two shootings at OUSD high schools, according to the report. One of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/two-arrested-after-shooting-at-oakland-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last year’s shootings\u003c/a> was at Skyline High School, and just last month, another shooting occurred during the high school’s graduation that injured three people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s analysis of school violence puts some of the blame on the heightened crime in the city. According to the report, there’s been an increase in violence on campuses “that is related to community conflicts as well as an increase in instances of non-students showing up at school campuses with weapons to fight students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the challenges, the school board has not considered reinstating the district’s police department, Davis confirmed. Oakland Unified Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell declined to comment through a district spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When to call police\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the Black Organizing Project’s goals was to “uproot the security structure,” said Jasmine Williams, development director. With community support, the project pushed to restructure campus police, including getting rid of badges or anything that emulates the police and installing new titles, training, and redesigning the shirts they wear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district is not coming up with this stuff on their own,” the project’s Jessica Black said. “We’re literally pushing the district to think differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland administrators can call for “nonviolent de-escalation support” from staff known as culture and climate ambassadors when there are fights, a student is causing harm to themselves or others, or unwelcome visitors are on campuses, according to the School Administrator Guidance to Police Free Response. There’s a nonemergency line administrators can call to dispose of firearms or illegal drugs, when there’s suspicion of a crime, or during lockdowns. For mental health crises, administrators also have different people to reach out to depending on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can still be disciplined, including suspended, but that’s rarely the first option, Karigaca said. Most of the time, interventions take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s offering a conduit of other opportunities, such as a restorative session, once both parties are in a place to have a restorative session,” Karigaca said. “Sometimes it’s going to take a walk or going to a different office; sometimes it’s calling parents or connecting with a community resource.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District police-free guidelines give a variety of reasons when calling 911 is appropriate: active shooters, fire, medical emergencies, a person with a gun or explosive, bomb threats, serious injuries, hostage situations, abduction or kidnapping, violent crimes, death at a school site, emergency evacuations, or any situation posing danger to health or safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can be arrested for some of these incidents, Karigaca said, but usually, students aren’t arrested as a result of staff calling 911. There are about four to five arrests every school year, and it’s typically because police are arresting students for something they did outside of school, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district partners with organizations for alternative support, but sometimes they can’t immediately respond, Karigaca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we call CPS (Child Protective Services) or any other mental health crisis response folks, a lot of times their staff is also under-resourced, and they aren’t able to respond,” Karigaca said. “Even they will tell us, ‘Call law enforcement.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New titles for security guards\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Eddie Franklin walked down the hallway of Bret Harte Middle School, it was as if every student knew who he was. Most would fist-pump him or shake his hand, and he knew every student’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2792px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02%E2%80%AFPM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989642\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A young Black boy wearing a grey shirt and backpack gives a special handshake to a Black man wearing a black jacket with a logo on the side in a school building.\" width=\"2792\" height=\"1606\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM.png 2792w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-800x460.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-1020x587.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-160x92.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-1536x884.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-2048x1178.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-1920x1104.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2792px) 100vw, 2792px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Franklin, the culture and climate ambassador for Oakland Unified, shakes a student’s hand while walking down the hallway. \u003ccite>( Andrew Reed / EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Franklin has been at OUSD for seven years and used to be a security guard who worked with police and used handcuffs for detaining students. He became a culture keeper four years ago. Now, he’s what’s called a culture and climate ambassador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin said he brings “an unbiased approach” to every situation, even if the student is acting negatively. “Your goal is to actually make them (students) see and critically think about what’s in the best interest of both sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security guards were replaced with culture keepers and culture and climate ambassador who have leadership roles and assist culture keepers when needed, Karigaca said. The main priorities for all roles are to de-escalate violence and create positive relationships with students and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 63 culture keepers are spread around the district: up to three in middle schools; up to six in most high schools. Five elementary schools also have culture keepers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Franklin was a culture keeper, he said his day-to-day work evolved into understanding the different personalities on campus to get a better understanding of student behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you don’t overreact when they do some of the things they do,” Franklin said. “But also try to give them an idea of what they can do differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a culture and climate ambassador, Franklin is deployed to different schools when extra support is needed, Karigaca said. Most of the time, they roam around different schools, building relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin said he oversees 13 middle schools and does check-ins with staff to talk about what kind of support they need. A big part is building trust, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Franklin goes to a school, he said his goal is “to act like a parent, a positive parent, let them know I actually care about you and support you in whatever you do, and I’m not going to be over the top if I react to something that you did negative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To other districts looking at Oakland as an example, Williams, of the Black Organizing Project, said she doesn’t want the message to be “all you have to do is implement a policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took us 10 years of fighting to get here, and we are still fighting within the district,” Williams said. “It takes community to have even this much progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>EdSource reporters Thomas Peele; Daniel J. Willis and Andrew Reed contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-block_c8d99355f6b067ad9abc6a90072f701f\" class=\"block-related-articles alignright\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Across the Oakland Unified School District, the mantra for school staff is to call city police only as a last resort. If a disturbance occurs, they should rely first on in-house staff who don’t carry guns and can’t arrest anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since voting in \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/oakland-school-board-unanimously-agrees-to-eliminate-its-police-force/634544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 2020\u003c/a> to disband its police department, Oakland has pursued one goal — to defuse conflict and avoid bringing in police and exposing students to the possibility of arrest. Oakland’s preference is for restorative justice, which emphasizes circle-of-trust interactions to improve how students treat one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, it’s just having conversations with them (students),” said Eddie Franklin, a former security guard who is now part of the district’s new police-free staffing. “Let them authentically be themselves, and the goal becomes to chip away at the rough edges they might have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a strategy credited by the district with drastically reducing the 911 calls to city police from 2,128 during the 2019-20 school year, the last year the Oakland district had its own police department, to 200 in 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an EdSource analysis of data from the police shows a higher number of calls from just eight of the district’s 18 middle and high schools in half a year. The period from January to June 2023 shows those schools \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/database?district=Oakland%20Unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made 225 calls\u003c/a>, with 105 considered “serious” for reasons including assault with a deadly weapon, suicide attempts, battery and terrorist/criminal threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Karigaca and Board President Sam Davis acknowledged that while staff are trained when not to call 911 and to report any calls that they make, it doesn’t always happen. “We don’t capture every call in our data as (school) sites are required to notify us if law enforcement comes on campus; but we know of times when this hasn’t always happened,” Karigaca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said it’s also possible other staff are calling 911 for nonemergent reasons because “a lot of people reach the end of their rope for all sorts of reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland schools included in EdSource’s data are McClymonds, Castlemont, Fremont, Oakland, Skyline high schools and Montera, West Oakland and Westlake middle schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in a place where we can have completely police-free schools. That is our goal and what we’re working towards, but unfortunately, there are times when we do need police support,” Karigaca said. “It was our conditioning, whatever we needed they (police) would respond. It’s almost similar to our communities and our society — there’s not many other options. Anything that revolves around safety, we’re conditioned to call police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In place for two school years, the new police-free plan is being evaluated locally and nationally on whether it is achieving what it set out to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, in describing its study, put Oakland on the “leading edge of an emerging violence-reduction practice” happening in schools across the country, according to Jesse Jannetta, a senior policy fellow at the institute. Study results are expected in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone supports the decision to disband the district’s police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Clifford Thompson said it was wrong for Oakland to disband its police department. “There’s little benefit to not having police at schools,” he said. “Totally eliminating the force without having a backup for those who need that type of force, it might not have been the best thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting to police-free\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://blackorganizingproject.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Black Organizing \u003c/a>Project, a Bay Area community organization focused on racial, social and economic justice, has been advocating for the end of the police department since 2011. It finally happened in June 2020 with a unanimous vote of the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has had a fraught and violent history of racism and police abuse of Black people for nearly 80 years, which factored greatly into the final push to disband the department following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Black population increased dramatically during World War II when slave descendants migrated west from Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. Police officers from those states were quickly recruited and stationed in Black neighborhoods. In 1950, a civil rights leader told the state Assembly that Black people lived “in daily and nightly terror” of Oakland police, according to a 1950 State Assembly report. The police department in Oakland Unified was born in 1957.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 60 years of having an embedded police department in Oakland schools, educators, city officials and community partners are working to untangle the decades of policing culture and running its own police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no contract or memorandum of understanding with the Oakland Police Department, but the district shares what staff are taught about when to call 911 and how to interact with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/departments/violence-prevention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Violence Prevention\u003c/a> recently reported to a joint council-district committee on the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/OUSD-Education-Committee-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plan’s progress\u003c/a>. The city of Oakland invested $2.4 million in the 2022-23 school year to address violence in schools by creating a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/school-violence-intervention-and-intervention-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School Violence Intervention and Prevention Program\u003c/a> and hiring life coaches, violence interrupters and gender-based violence specialists to four comprehensive high schools and three continuation high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender-based violence specialists are unique to Oakland, Jannetta said. The specialists have workshops about dating violence, stalking, sexual harassment, sexual assault and commercial sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through surveys, officials found these extra staffers have more relatability to students, can focus on individual needs, and alleviate some of this work from teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too early to evaluate whether it is working, but the district is going in a positive direction, said Jessica Black, director of administration for the Black Organizing Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting to a police-free school environment also faces challenges. City and school officials say violence, especially among 14 to 18-year-olds in the city, bleeds into the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2022-23 school year, there were more than 600 high school suspensions and two shootings at OUSD high schools, according to the report. One of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/two-arrested-after-shooting-at-oakland-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last year’s shootings\u003c/a> was at Skyline High School, and just last month, another shooting occurred during the high school’s graduation that injured three people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s analysis of school violence puts some of the blame on the heightened crime in the city. According to the report, there’s been an increase in violence on campuses “that is related to community conflicts as well as an increase in instances of non-students showing up at school campuses with weapons to fight students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the challenges, the school board has not considered reinstating the district’s police department, Davis confirmed. Oakland Unified Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell declined to comment through a district spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When to call police\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the Black Organizing Project’s goals was to “uproot the security structure,” said Jasmine Williams, development director. With community support, the project pushed to restructure campus police, including getting rid of badges or anything that emulates the police and installing new titles, training, and redesigning the shirts they wear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district is not coming up with this stuff on their own,” the project’s Jessica Black said. “We’re literally pushing the district to think differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland administrators can call for “nonviolent de-escalation support” from staff known as culture and climate ambassadors when there are fights, a student is causing harm to themselves or others, or unwelcome visitors are on campuses, according to the School Administrator Guidance to Police Free Response. There’s a nonemergency line administrators can call to dispose of firearms or illegal drugs, when there’s suspicion of a crime, or during lockdowns. For mental health crises, administrators also have different people to reach out to depending on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can still be disciplined, including suspended, but that’s rarely the first option, Karigaca said. Most of the time, interventions take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s offering a conduit of other opportunities, such as a restorative session, once both parties are in a place to have a restorative session,” Karigaca said. “Sometimes it’s going to take a walk or going to a different office; sometimes it’s calling parents or connecting with a community resource.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District police-free guidelines give a variety of reasons when calling 911 is appropriate: active shooters, fire, medical emergencies, a person with a gun or explosive, bomb threats, serious injuries, hostage situations, abduction or kidnapping, violent crimes, death at a school site, emergency evacuations, or any situation posing danger to health or safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can be arrested for some of these incidents, Karigaca said, but usually, students aren’t arrested as a result of staff calling 911. There are about four to five arrests every school year, and it’s typically because police are arresting students for something they did outside of school, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district partners with organizations for alternative support, but sometimes they can’t immediately respond, Karigaca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we call CPS (Child Protective Services) or any other mental health crisis response folks, a lot of times their staff is also under-resourced, and they aren’t able to respond,” Karigaca said. “Even they will tell us, ‘Call law enforcement.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New titles for security guards\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Eddie Franklin walked down the hallway of Bret Harte Middle School, it was as if every student knew who he was. Most would fist-pump him or shake his hand, and he knew every student’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2792px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02%E2%80%AFPM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989642\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A young Black boy wearing a grey shirt and backpack gives a special handshake to a Black man wearing a black jacket with a logo on the side in a school building.\" width=\"2792\" height=\"1606\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM.png 2792w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-800x460.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-1020x587.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-160x92.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-1536x884.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-2048x1178.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-12.58.02 PM-1920x1104.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2792px) 100vw, 2792px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Franklin, the culture and climate ambassador for Oakland Unified, shakes a student’s hand while walking down the hallway. \u003ccite>( Andrew Reed / EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Franklin has been at OUSD for seven years and used to be a security guard who worked with police and used handcuffs for detaining students. He became a culture keeper four years ago. Now, he’s what’s called a culture and climate ambassador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin said he brings “an unbiased approach” to every situation, even if the student is acting negatively. “Your goal is to actually make them (students) see and critically think about what’s in the best interest of both sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security guards were replaced with culture keepers and culture and climate ambassador who have leadership roles and assist culture keepers when needed, Karigaca said. The main priorities for all roles are to de-escalate violence and create positive relationships with students and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 63 culture keepers are spread around the district: up to three in middle schools; up to six in most high schools. Five elementary schools also have culture keepers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Franklin was a culture keeper, he said his day-to-day work evolved into understanding the different personalities on campus to get a better understanding of student behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you don’t overreact when they do some of the things they do,” Franklin said. “But also try to give them an idea of what they can do differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a culture and climate ambassador, Franklin is deployed to different schools when extra support is needed, Karigaca said. Most of the time, they roam around different schools, building relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin said he oversees 13 middle schools and does check-ins with staff to talk about what kind of support they need. A big part is building trust, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Franklin goes to a school, he said his goal is “to act like a parent, a positive parent, let them know I actually care about you and support you in whatever you do, and I’m not going to be over the top if I react to something that you did negative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To other districts looking at Oakland as an example, Williams, of the Black Organizing Project, said she doesn’t want the message to be “all you have to do is implement a policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took us 10 years of fighting to get here, and we are still fighting within the district,” Williams said. “It takes community to have even this much progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: This is the first in a continuing investigation into school policing in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Middle schooler allegedly attacks classmate twice, choking him severely. Police recommend attempted murder charges to district attorney.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>School staff calls police to report squirrel with injured leg in school courtyard.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Unknown man in swimsuit briefs adorned with Australian flag trespassing at high school pool. Lifeguard sees a man follow boys 9 and 12, into the locker room. Man strips, pulls back the shower curtain to see the boy and asks: “Does this make you uncomfortable?” Man flees. Police list indecent exposure and lewd acts as possible offenses.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Officer dispatched to investigate ringing school alarm. Burnt English muffin found in teachers’ lounge. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Crescent City, Weed and Alturas in the far north to Calexico and El Cajon nearly 800 miles south, all along the Pacific Coast, across the sprawling Central Valley and up into the High Sierra and down into the Mojave Desert, police are dispatched to California schools thousands of times on any given day classes are in session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reasons are myriad: Students bringing guns and knives — and even a spear and a bow and arrow — to school, sexual assaults and “perversion reports” and fights. Then there are lost keys, malfunctioning alarms, and dogs — even cattle — loose on school grounds. Once, police were called for help with a swarm of bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cops rush to reports of students attempting suicide and overdosing on drugs, bullying, sexual assault and unwanted touching. They surveil high schoolers leaving campuses for lunch. They break up fights between parents over spots in elementary school pickup queues. They haul drunken adults from the stands at school sporting events. They once investigated a teacher’s claim that someone stole $10,000 from her classroom desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly the call logs capture the anguish of youngsters with mental health challenges, victims whose nude photos are showing up on social media for all to see and parents turning to school administrators to deal with it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such details emerged from \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly 46,000 police call logs and dispatch records EdSource obtained\u003c/a> from 164 law enforcement agencies in 57 of California’s 58 counties as part of a sweeping statewide investigation into school policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data offered a raw, first-blush look at why school staff summon cops, reasons that sometimes lead to juvenile and adult arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101905485,news_11987651\" label=\"Related Stories\"]All incidents included in the police logs largely remain out of public view due to state laws that shield juveniles and allow police to withhold information on investigations. As a result, the data collected as a representative sample of the state is also clearly an undercount of what routinely occurs in California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An EdSource analysis found that nearly a third of all calls for police were for incidents deemed serious. After consulting police experts, EdSource tagged the data with a definition for serious incidents as those that reasonably required a police presence. Included among serious incidents are those tagged as violent, which include anything involving a violent act, including self-harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The share of serious incidents increases to 4 out of 10 when police patrols are set aside. They make up about a third of all records, but most have little detail on what police were doing at or near the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also showed that high school students in districts with their own police departments are policed at a higher rate than in districts that rely on municipal police and sheriffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School police calls across California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Four years after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, igniting a national revolt and the defund-the-police movement, only about 20 of California’s 977 public school districts made significant changes to school policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most that acted ended contracts with municipal police departments to post cops — commonly called school resource officers — in schools. And three districts that made changes reversed course and brought police back after short hiatuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EdSource’s investigation sampled records showing calls from and about schools to city and school district police departments and county sheriffs. In some cases, officers stationed in schools dispatch themselves to a problem by radioing their dispatcher. Schools without campus police often call 911. Typically, police record their activity as “patrol” or “school check,” vague descriptions that raise questions about the use of public resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever a school resource officer ran along a corridor, one hand on a radio microphone, or a sheriff’s deputy raced along a country road with lights and sirens on to reach a distant rural school, they contributed to what data showed is a vast, continuing police presence in California’s pre-K to 12 public education, EdSource found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records resurfaced a debate lingering years after Floyd’s killing about how much policing schools need and if deploying armed officers does more harm than good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly to police debates at the municipal level, school policing can be polarizing. Across California, the issue emerges as a political divide, with some seeing the police as necessary to ensure safety and others seeing them as agents of racial injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the ACLU of Southern California issued a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/no_police_in_schools_-_report_-_aclu_-_082421.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scathing report\u003c/a> that recommended an end to school policing in the Golden State, calling it “discriminatory, costly, and counterproductive.” In schools with regularly assigned cops, students across “all groups” were more likely to be arrested or referred to law enforcement, researchers found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2020 University of Maryland study published in the journal Criminology and Public Policy, found school districts that increased policing through federal grants “did not increase school safety.” Researchers recommended improving safety through “the many alternatives” to police in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, school policing is “a structure. It’s part of the budgets, it’s part of the vocabulary of the schools. It’s part of what the expectation is from the parents and the students,” said Southwestern Law School professor Jyoti Nandam, who has researched school policing for 25 years and calls it “completely unnecessary,” adding, America is the lone civilized country where it is practiced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In rural California, school policing is seen as routine, allowing students to become “comfortable interacting with someone in a uniform, wearing a badge, and carrying a gun, so that as they grew older, they see those people as a friendly face, a resource that they could go to as opposed to someone that they should be afraid of,” Tulare County School Superintendent Tim Hire told EdSource. The practice is spreading in Tulare, where three small districts recently agreed to share a resource officer to travel among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such decisions are often couched as safety matters, a vigilant effort to prevent the next school shooting and avoid the failure of Uvalde, Texas police to stop the gunman who slaughtered 19 students and two teachers in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When state Assemblymember Bill Essayli (R-Riverside) introduced legislation in February to require an armed police officer in each public school with more than 50 students, he described the need in base terms: “We need good guys and girls with guns, ready to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli’s idea is “a step backward,” Assembly Education Committee member Mia Bonta (D-Alameda) said at a hearing where the bill died in April. “We know it to be true that there’s a disproportionate impact on Black and brown students when police officers are in schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A matter of local control\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Education offers no guidance or best practices, calling policing a local matter, a spokesperson said. There’s little consistency statewide in whether police are deployed in schools. Nineteen school districts have their own police departments, including Los Angeles United, which refused to release its police call data, some with only a handful of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified cut its police department’s budget by 35% in 2020 and banned officers from being posted in schools. Following reports of escalating violence, the district recently reinstated police to two schools through mid-June. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho had informed the school board that he was planning to return police to 20 schools, but he got community and trustee backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified disbanded its police department in favor of non-police staffers to keep peace in schools and respond to emergencies. Principals were trained on when to call city police only as a last resort. Still, data shows eight of the district’s 18 traditional middle and high schools combined to call city police 225 times, with nearly half of them serious, between Jan. 15 and June 30, 2023. Reasons include assault with a deadly weapon, suicide attempts, battery and terrorist/criminal threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired Long Beach and San Diego school Superintendent Carl Cohn, who served on the California State Board of Education from 2011 to 2018, said Oakland’s model of deploying people to talk students through peaceful resolutions of disputes can work. In the early 1990s, he ran the Long Beach schools anti-gang task force, hiring people with “street cred,” including former gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They “could stop instantly what was going on on a campus by their mere presence,” Cohn said. “Their credibility with youngsters that might be on the verge of gang affiliation was really powerful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Cohn’s “not on board with this notion of ‘let’s abandon the school police altogether.’ It’s the type of thing where ultimately there’s enough bad things from time to time happening that the safety of children has to be front and center.” Police must be well-trained, and school officials must cooperate with them, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shutting down the Oakland Unified police department of 11 officers and changing its policing culture is tough and ongoing, said a leader of a racial justice group that pushed for the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s still the ideology of policing that exists on campus and is embedded in the infrastructure of schools that we’re also up against,” said Jessica Black, a Black Organizing Project activist. “The criminalization of young people, implicit bias, and anti-Black racist practices” still need to be confronted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after Floyd’s murder that Dr. Tony Moos, a physician, learned that her four children, who had each attended high school in the affluent Santa Clara County city of Los Altos, had “negative interactions” with school resources officers “that they’d kept to themselves,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moos was motivated to act and got the city to examine school police practices and make changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearings that included a Black high school teacher saying a resource officer had once pushed her to the ground, the city pulled police from the high school. The city also replaced its police chief in 2022. The new hire, a Black woman, came with much-needed experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Out of public view\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California law grants police-wide powers to withhold documents, including investigatory records, requested under the Public Records Act without revealing how many such records are being withheld. Many departments withheld from EdSource some — or even all — of the school calls they received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same is true about what information police can reveal in news releases or public statements about individual school incidents, especially involving juveniles. The public is often then not informed about police activity in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that the serious incidents — weapons, death threats, rapes, assaults, fights, drugs — that police are responding to in 3 out of 10 calls often remain confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police in Crescent City, Del Norte County, for example, didn’t release information about the attempted murder of a student at Crescent Elk Middle School by a classmate who allegedly repeatedly choked him on Jan. 23, 2023, until EdSource asked about the incident more than a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When EdSource asked police in Avenal, Kings County to elaborate on a call record of a late-night report of “shots fired” at the city’s high school, a lawyer responded claiming the information was exempt from disclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is that (the exemptions) apply to virtually everything law enforcement does. They never expire. So, every police report is potentially covered by the investigatory records exemption,” said David Loy, legal director of the First Amendment Coalition, an open government group. The lack of disclosure of police activity in schools makes it all the harder to determine what the correct level of policing should be, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the importance of the issue, the lack of information is troubling, Loy said. The debate over school policing “should be held on the basis of full and complete data and not driven by anecdote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A day of policing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The one-day record of police responding to a school for serious incidents was 10, the data sample shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was May 17, 2023, at \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/school/15737421531367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burroughs High School\u003c/a> in the Sierra Sands Unified School District in Ridgecrest, a desert city of 28,000 in eastern Kern County near Death Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first occurred at 8:38 a.m. when a school resource officer arrested a student for battery and released him to his parents. District Assistant Superintendent Brian Auld, who’s in charge of security, told EdSource the student “didn’t even go to the police station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was followed at 9:09 a.m. by reports of two students who appeared to be under the influence of drugs. They were evaluated and returned to class. Another report of two students apparently under the influence came in at 10:26 a.m. One student was impaired and released to their parents, Auld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than 10 minutes later, the resource officer responded to a student in “mental distress” who was taken for a psychological evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 1:23 p.m., police were alerted to a terrorist threat that ended up involving a student threatening to beat up someone, Auld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 minutes later, two girls began fighting in art class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One grabbed what Auld called “an art project” — apparently a ceramic object — and allegedly swung it at the other girl’s head. Police called it assault with a deadly weapon, arresting the aggressor. “Deadly weapon sounds like a knife or a gun. The officer made the decision that (the object) could have done serious bodily harm,” Auld said. “I’m not downplaying it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 3:14 p.m. a report of disturbing the peace came in. No details were provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 10:26 p.m., a vandalism report to the police turned out to be benign — police found that soon-to-graduate seniors had decorated the school with toilet paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ridgecrest is “a unique, isolated community” near a military base. The school district considers its relationship with the police as a successful partnership, Auld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials “have some, or even total, discretion regarding whether or not an arrest is made,” he added. The district has 15 counselors, mental health therapists and a registered behavioral therapist, Auld said. It’s also implementing restorative practices and social-emotional learning to “change behaviors before they result in suspensions, expulsions and arrests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Kings of calls\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most total call and dispatch records in the data for one school that relies on calling 911 was \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/school/16639821635606\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lemoore High School\u003c/a>, in Lemoore, a city of 26,600 in Kings County with 471 calls over a nearly six-month period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemoore police, which refers to school police as youth development officers, provided scant detail on the reasons for the calls, listing hundreds in records as premises checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Lt. Alvaro Santos, who supervises Lemoore’s school policing, attributed the numbers to the department’s practice of having all available officers “drop what they’re doing” during the times students arrive at school and leave for lunch and later go home, basically surrounding the buildings, some on side streets out of view of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re around the school. They could be either parked on a side street or they could be driving by looking for vehicle code violations or anything that would pose a danger to the students,” Santos said. He said the schools are near a main road through the city and that there are concerns about drunk drivers in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More serious calls\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sampled data shows that middle schools have a higher rate of serious incidents reported to police than high schools. At \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/school/41689990136093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cesar Chavez Middle School\u003c/a>, in East Palo Alto, 41% of calls to police reported violent incidents, threats and sexual misconduct, data shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of two calls that East Palo Alto police labeled “perversion report,” a student allegedly used a phone to make “a TikTok” of another girl using the restroom, according to a recording of a heavily redacted 911 call to police from a school official. Police refused to release any details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/school/10621660129338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaston Middle School\u003c/a> is in a neighborhood plagued by violence, gangs and drugs, all of which follow students through the school doors, both police and Fresno Unified Superintendent Bob Nelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2528px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55%E2%80%AFPM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989267\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A police vehicle is parked on dirt with children playing basketball in the background.\" width=\"2528\" height=\"1604\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM.png 2528w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-800x508.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-1020x647.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-1536x975.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-2048x1299.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-1920x1218.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2528px) 100vw, 2528px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Encore High School play basketball as a San Bernardino County Sheriff deputy parks outside of the school Sept. 22, 2016 in Hesperia. \u003ccite>(James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would love for there to be no acts of any physical harm on another person, but that’s impossible,” Sgt. Anthony Alvarado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno Unified has been debating what level of policing to have in its schools for several years. In 2020 police were pulled from the district’s middle schools but remained in high schools. After several violent incidents, police were returned to some middle schools in 2022 and the rest in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School “feels like a prison”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The daily presence of Kern High School District police at Mira Monte High in Bakersfield “feels ghetto,” sophomore Jose Delgado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school “feels like a prison. It’s like they don’t trust us at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Delgado said, he understands the need for police, noting a lot of fights at the school. “It’s for the best, but it makes us feel ghetto.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/school/15635290116400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data shows 163 police call records at Delgado’s school\u003c/a> for the five-and-a-half-month period. They describe incidents including assault with a deadly weapon, an irate parent, out-of-control juveniles and resisting a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delgado’s sense of school as a prison and not being trusted are among the reasons why the negatives of school policing “completely outweigh the positives,” Nandam, the Southwestern Law School professor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students who police typically interact with “are not the children that are doing well in school,” Nandam said. “Part of why there isn’t an outrage, a global outrage, is because it’s not impacting the people that are in power, the people who have agency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children seeing police in schools can be akin to going to an airport and encountering armed officers at a security checkpoint, said University of Florida education professor Chris Curran, who has studied school policing extensively. “It’s natural to wonder what’s wrong, why are there people with guns?” he said. “You find yourself saying, ‘What do I not know about? What’s this danger that has necessitated assault rifles?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No state guidance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When he was a state Assembly member in 2020, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Assemblymember Mia Bonta’s spouse, clearly came down on the side of removing police from schools when he spoke at a forum after Floyd’s murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just really important to call out this incredible moment,” he said, lauding districts, including Oakland, that ended policing. “There’s a general dehumanization of children of color, a belief that they need to be surveilled and monitored and watched and policed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2594px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40%E2%80%AFPM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A Black man wearing a suit gestures with his hands in front of a microphone.\" width=\"2594\" height=\"1594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM.png 2594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-800x492.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-1020x627.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-160x98.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-1536x944.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-2048x1258.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-1920x1180.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2594px) 100vw, 2594px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The outcomes don’t make our students safer,” he said. School policing is “not achieving what we’re seeking,” \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAEducation/videos/288417659174199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a video of the forum\u003c/a> shows. It was hosted by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked recently if Bonta’s position on school policing as the state’s top law enforcement officer mirrors what he said in 2020, his press secretary replied “no” via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who’s expected to enter the 2026 governor’s race, “has always believed that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for school safety and that schools need to work towards data-driven policies that fit their community,” Alexandra Duquet wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School resource officers can be an important component of ensuring students and school personnel safety,” Duquet wrote. “Their primary focus should be ensuring the safety of all on-campus — not discipline — and they be given tools such as implicit bias training that ensure the equitable treatment of all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-tony-thurmond-education-schools-e31cbf14dbec595f962b615bb8704915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a declared 2026 gubernatorial candidate\u003c/a>, took no position on school policing during the forum. He recently told EdSource that he favors “well-trained school resource officers to handle serious situations.” He also called for “more training of school staff so they’re not calling police for something that’s a student discipline matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond also said that during his time as a member of the West Contra Costa Unified School District board from 2008–12, he saw police officers help students, calling them “some of the best social workers I’ve worked with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) who during Thurmond’s forum praised Oakland’s shuttering of its school police department, said in an interview that school districts should consider alternatives to police the way some cities have started using trained civilians to respond to 911 mental-health-crisis calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2388px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48%E2%80%AFPM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A white woman wearing glasses and a white jacket holds a piece of paper and speaks into a microphone in a room.\" width=\"2388\" height=\"1608\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM.png 2388w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-1536x1034.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-2048x1379.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-1920x1293.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2388px) 100vw, 2388px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/The Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Kids are emotional. Kids don’t have impulse control the way adults should, and to bring an officer in, especially since all of our officers are armed, can, rather than defuse the situation, make it worse,” Skinner said. Kids can act out what they experience at home or on the street, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner, the author of several major police accountability bills, also said she saw value in the data EdSource obtained and published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police logs can help officials decide if civilian staff should deal with more school incidents at a time when California’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/09/even-at-112000-starting-pay-fewer-people-want-to-be-cops/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffering a police shortage\u003c/a>, she said. That could leave sworn officers available for “real public safety needs. We never want to prevent a school from calling 911 if that’s needed. However, there might be some appropriate guidelines or boundaries that cities and schools could work out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stopping a police chase\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The executive director of the Alabama-based National Association of School Resource Officers, Mo Candy, a retired cop, said districts would be mistaken to remove resource officers from campuses. Police will always be needed to respond to schools, and “we need for students and faculty to be able to feel like this officer is more than just a law enforcement officer, that they really are another trusted adult in that school environment.” A trained and well-known officer, “may be the person who comes into a situation with the coolest head,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Whitson, executive director of the California School Counselors Association, has seen what can happen when police approach a student situation lacking the cool-headedness Candy described.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a school counselor in the Monrovia Unified School District in Los Angeles County, she once worked with a child who ran away from school multiple times. Finally, an exacerbated principal called the police, who chased after the student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The principal didn’t stop them. I felt as (officers) went on in their rant this kid is getting more damaged. So, I said, ‘Stop, stop,”’ Whitson said. “We already had a very damaged kid, and this wasn’t helping.” The student was later found to need special education services, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Nolan, a retired Boston police lieutenant turned sociologist who’s taught at several universities and studied school policing, said when law enforcement officers are called into a school situation, “they become the shot callers,” deciding what to do whether it is in the child’s best interest or not. Too often, principals are calling them for minor problems like lost keys and disciplinary matters, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The research is unequivocal in demonstrating that the police coming into schools, or police being assigned to schools, is almost always a bad idea. It has bad outcomes for children. It has bad outcomes for school safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nolan said police are not school counselors and shouldn’t play that role. “That’s something that’s a very specific skill set that is attained through years of graduate level study by mental health practitioners and clinicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Police Chiefs Association declined to make anyone from its leadership available for an interview. In an email, its executive director described school policing as a matter best discussed at local levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Marvel, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, a powerful federation of police unions, wasn’t available for an interview, a spokesperson said. In a statement, Marvel, a San Diego police officer, said cops assigned to schools “play an important role in” schools. They act as “educators, emergency/crisis managers, first responders, informal counselors, mentors, and model the kind of behavior that builds trust and respect between law enforcement and the communities they serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data shows that sometimes, regardless of who might be available to counsel or advise a student, one may just do something dumb, like putting a death threat in writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 15, 2023, James Morris, the county administrator who also acts as Inglewood Unified superintendent, received a death threat via email, police call records show. Morris, a veteran administrator, was brought on to lift Inglewood out of years of state receivership because of fiscal woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can just say, generally, it was a student,” Morris said when asked about the threat. Police took a report, but Morris said he didn’t want charges filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been doing this for 44 years. It takes a lot to rattle me,” he said. “It was a young person who just needed help.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>All incidents included in the police logs largely remain out of public view due to state laws that shield juveniles and allow police to withhold information on investigations. As a result, the data collected as a representative sample of the state is also clearly an undercount of what routinely occurs in California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An EdSource analysis found that nearly a third of all calls for police were for incidents deemed serious. After consulting police experts, EdSource tagged the data with a definition for serious incidents as those that reasonably required a police presence. Included among serious incidents are those tagged as violent, which include anything involving a violent act, including self-harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The share of serious incidents increases to 4 out of 10 when police patrols are set aside. They make up about a third of all records, but most have little detail on what police were doing at or near the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also showed that high school students in districts with their own police departments are policed at a higher rate than in districts that rely on municipal police and sheriffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School police calls across California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Four years after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, igniting a national revolt and the defund-the-police movement, only about 20 of California’s 977 public school districts made significant changes to school policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most that acted ended contracts with municipal police departments to post cops — commonly called school resource officers — in schools. And three districts that made changes reversed course and brought police back after short hiatuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EdSource’s investigation sampled records showing calls from and about schools to city and school district police departments and county sheriffs. In some cases, officers stationed in schools dispatch themselves to a problem by radioing their dispatcher. Schools without campus police often call 911. Typically, police record their activity as “patrol” or “school check,” vague descriptions that raise questions about the use of public resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever a school resource officer ran along a corridor, one hand on a radio microphone, or a sheriff’s deputy raced along a country road with lights and sirens on to reach a distant rural school, they contributed to what data showed is a vast, continuing police presence in California’s pre-K to 12 public education, EdSource found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records resurfaced a debate lingering years after Floyd’s killing about how much policing schools need and if deploying armed officers does more harm than good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly to police debates at the municipal level, school policing can be polarizing. Across California, the issue emerges as a political divide, with some seeing the police as necessary to ensure safety and others seeing them as agents of racial injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the ACLU of Southern California issued a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/no_police_in_schools_-_report_-_aclu_-_082421.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scathing report\u003c/a> that recommended an end to school policing in the Golden State, calling it “discriminatory, costly, and counterproductive.” In schools with regularly assigned cops, students across “all groups” were more likely to be arrested or referred to law enforcement, researchers found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2020 University of Maryland study published in the journal Criminology and Public Policy, found school districts that increased policing through federal grants “did not increase school safety.” Researchers recommended improving safety through “the many alternatives” to police in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, school policing is “a structure. It’s part of the budgets, it’s part of the vocabulary of the schools. It’s part of what the expectation is from the parents and the students,” said Southwestern Law School professor Jyoti Nandam, who has researched school policing for 25 years and calls it “completely unnecessary,” adding, America is the lone civilized country where it is practiced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In rural California, school policing is seen as routine, allowing students to become “comfortable interacting with someone in a uniform, wearing a badge, and carrying a gun, so that as they grew older, they see those people as a friendly face, a resource that they could go to as opposed to someone that they should be afraid of,” Tulare County School Superintendent Tim Hire told EdSource. The practice is spreading in Tulare, where three small districts recently agreed to share a resource officer to travel among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such decisions are often couched as safety matters, a vigilant effort to prevent the next school shooting and avoid the failure of Uvalde, Texas police to stop the gunman who slaughtered 19 students and two teachers in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When state Assemblymember Bill Essayli (R-Riverside) introduced legislation in February to require an armed police officer in each public school with more than 50 students, he described the need in base terms: “We need good guys and girls with guns, ready to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli’s idea is “a step backward,” Assembly Education Committee member Mia Bonta (D-Alameda) said at a hearing where the bill died in April. “We know it to be true that there’s a disproportionate impact on Black and brown students when police officers are in schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A matter of local control\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Education offers no guidance or best practices, calling policing a local matter, a spokesperson said. There’s little consistency statewide in whether police are deployed in schools. Nineteen school districts have their own police departments, including Los Angeles United, which refused to release its police call data, some with only a handful of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified cut its police department’s budget by 35% in 2020 and banned officers from being posted in schools. Following reports of escalating violence, the district recently reinstated police to two schools through mid-June. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho had informed the school board that he was planning to return police to 20 schools, but he got community and trustee backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified disbanded its police department in favor of non-police staffers to keep peace in schools and respond to emergencies. Principals were trained on when to call city police only as a last resort. Still, data shows eight of the district’s 18 traditional middle and high schools combined to call city police 225 times, with nearly half of them serious, between Jan. 15 and June 30, 2023. Reasons include assault with a deadly weapon, suicide attempts, battery and terrorist/criminal threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired Long Beach and San Diego school Superintendent Carl Cohn, who served on the California State Board of Education from 2011 to 2018, said Oakland’s model of deploying people to talk students through peaceful resolutions of disputes can work. In the early 1990s, he ran the Long Beach schools anti-gang task force, hiring people with “street cred,” including former gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They “could stop instantly what was going on on a campus by their mere presence,” Cohn said. “Their credibility with youngsters that might be on the verge of gang affiliation was really powerful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Cohn’s “not on board with this notion of ‘let’s abandon the school police altogether.’ It’s the type of thing where ultimately there’s enough bad things from time to time happening that the safety of children has to be front and center.” Police must be well-trained, and school officials must cooperate with them, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shutting down the Oakland Unified police department of 11 officers and changing its policing culture is tough and ongoing, said a leader of a racial justice group that pushed for the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s still the ideology of policing that exists on campus and is embedded in the infrastructure of schools that we’re also up against,” said Jessica Black, a Black Organizing Project activist. “The criminalization of young people, implicit bias, and anti-Black racist practices” still need to be confronted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after Floyd’s murder that Dr. Tony Moos, a physician, learned that her four children, who had each attended high school in the affluent Santa Clara County city of Los Altos, had “negative interactions” with school resources officers “that they’d kept to themselves,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moos was motivated to act and got the city to examine school police practices and make changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearings that included a Black high school teacher saying a resource officer had once pushed her to the ground, the city pulled police from the high school. The city also replaced its police chief in 2022. The new hire, a Black woman, came with much-needed experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Out of public view\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California law grants police-wide powers to withhold documents, including investigatory records, requested under the Public Records Act without revealing how many such records are being withheld. Many departments withheld from EdSource some — or even all — of the school calls they received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same is true about what information police can reveal in news releases or public statements about individual school incidents, especially involving juveniles. The public is often then not informed about police activity in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that the serious incidents — weapons, death threats, rapes, assaults, fights, drugs — that police are responding to in 3 out of 10 calls often remain confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police in Crescent City, Del Norte County, for example, didn’t release information about the attempted murder of a student at Crescent Elk Middle School by a classmate who allegedly repeatedly choked him on Jan. 23, 2023, until EdSource asked about the incident more than a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When EdSource asked police in Avenal, Kings County to elaborate on a call record of a late-night report of “shots fired” at the city’s high school, a lawyer responded claiming the information was exempt from disclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is that (the exemptions) apply to virtually everything law enforcement does. They never expire. So, every police report is potentially covered by the investigatory records exemption,” said David Loy, legal director of the First Amendment Coalition, an open government group. The lack of disclosure of police activity in schools makes it all the harder to determine what the correct level of policing should be, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the importance of the issue, the lack of information is troubling, Loy said. The debate over school policing “should be held on the basis of full and complete data and not driven by anecdote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A day of policing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The one-day record of police responding to a school for serious incidents was 10, the data sample shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was May 17, 2023, at \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/school/15737421531367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burroughs High School\u003c/a> in the Sierra Sands Unified School District in Ridgecrest, a desert city of 28,000 in eastern Kern County near Death Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first occurred at 8:38 a.m. when a school resource officer arrested a student for battery and released him to his parents. District Assistant Superintendent Brian Auld, who’s in charge of security, told EdSource the student “didn’t even go to the police station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was followed at 9:09 a.m. by reports of two students who appeared to be under the influence of drugs. They were evaluated and returned to class. Another report of two students apparently under the influence came in at 10:26 a.m. One student was impaired and released to their parents, Auld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than 10 minutes later, the resource officer responded to a student in “mental distress” who was taken for a psychological evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 1:23 p.m., police were alerted to a terrorist threat that ended up involving a student threatening to beat up someone, Auld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 minutes later, two girls began fighting in art class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One grabbed what Auld called “an art project” — apparently a ceramic object — and allegedly swung it at the other girl’s head. Police called it assault with a deadly weapon, arresting the aggressor. “Deadly weapon sounds like a knife or a gun. The officer made the decision that (the object) could have done serious bodily harm,” Auld said. “I’m not downplaying it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 3:14 p.m. a report of disturbing the peace came in. No details were provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 10:26 p.m., a vandalism report to the police turned out to be benign — police found that soon-to-graduate seniors had decorated the school with toilet paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ridgecrest is “a unique, isolated community” near a military base. The school district considers its relationship with the police as a successful partnership, Auld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials “have some, or even total, discretion regarding whether or not an arrest is made,” he added. The district has 15 counselors, mental health therapists and a registered behavioral therapist, Auld said. It’s also implementing restorative practices and social-emotional learning to “change behaviors before they result in suspensions, expulsions and arrests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Kings of calls\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most total call and dispatch records in the data for one school that relies on calling 911 was \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/school/16639821635606\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lemoore High School\u003c/a>, in Lemoore, a city of 26,600 in Kings County with 471 calls over a nearly six-month period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemoore police, which refers to school police as youth development officers, provided scant detail on the reasons for the calls, listing hundreds in records as premises checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Lt. Alvaro Santos, who supervises Lemoore’s school policing, attributed the numbers to the department’s practice of having all available officers “drop what they’re doing” during the times students arrive at school and leave for lunch and later go home, basically surrounding the buildings, some on side streets out of view of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re around the school. They could be either parked on a side street or they could be driving by looking for vehicle code violations or anything that would pose a danger to the students,” Santos said. He said the schools are near a main road through the city and that there are concerns about drunk drivers in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More serious calls\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sampled data shows that middle schools have a higher rate of serious incidents reported to police than high schools. At \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/school/41689990136093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cesar Chavez Middle School\u003c/a>, in East Palo Alto, 41% of calls to police reported violent incidents, threats and sexual misconduct, data shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of two calls that East Palo Alto police labeled “perversion report,” a student allegedly used a phone to make “a TikTok” of another girl using the restroom, according to a recording of a heavily redacted 911 call to police from a school official. Police refused to release any details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/school/10621660129338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaston Middle School\u003c/a> is in a neighborhood plagued by violence, gangs and drugs, all of which follow students through the school doors, both police and Fresno Unified Superintendent Bob Nelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2528px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55%E2%80%AFPM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989267\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A police vehicle is parked on dirt with children playing basketball in the background.\" width=\"2528\" height=\"1604\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM.png 2528w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-800x508.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-1020x647.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-1536x975.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-2048x1299.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.05.55 PM-1920x1218.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2528px) 100vw, 2528px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Encore High School play basketball as a San Bernardino County Sheriff deputy parks outside of the school Sept. 22, 2016 in Hesperia. \u003ccite>(James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would love for there to be no acts of any physical harm on another person, but that’s impossible,” Sgt. Anthony Alvarado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno Unified has been debating what level of policing to have in its schools for several years. In 2020 police were pulled from the district’s middle schools but remained in high schools. After several violent incidents, police were returned to some middle schools in 2022 and the rest in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School “feels like a prison”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The daily presence of Kern High School District police at Mira Monte High in Bakersfield “feels ghetto,” sophomore Jose Delgado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school “feels like a prison. It’s like they don’t trust us at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Delgado said, he understands the need for police, noting a lot of fights at the school. “It’s for the best, but it makes us feel ghetto.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://callingthecops.edsource.org/school/15635290116400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data shows 163 police call records at Delgado’s school\u003c/a> for the five-and-a-half-month period. They describe incidents including assault with a deadly weapon, an irate parent, out-of-control juveniles and resisting a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delgado’s sense of school as a prison and not being trusted are among the reasons why the negatives of school policing “completely outweigh the positives,” Nandam, the Southwestern Law School professor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students who police typically interact with “are not the children that are doing well in school,” Nandam said. “Part of why there isn’t an outrage, a global outrage, is because it’s not impacting the people that are in power, the people who have agency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children seeing police in schools can be akin to going to an airport and encountering armed officers at a security checkpoint, said University of Florida education professor Chris Curran, who has studied school policing extensively. “It’s natural to wonder what’s wrong, why are there people with guns?” he said. “You find yourself saying, ‘What do I not know about? What’s this danger that has necessitated assault rifles?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No state guidance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When he was a state Assembly member in 2020, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Assemblymember Mia Bonta’s spouse, clearly came down on the side of removing police from schools when he spoke at a forum after Floyd’s murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just really important to call out this incredible moment,” he said, lauding districts, including Oakland, that ended policing. “There’s a general dehumanization of children of color, a belief that they need to be surveilled and monitored and watched and policed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2594px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40%E2%80%AFPM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A Black man wearing a suit gestures with his hands in front of a microphone.\" width=\"2594\" height=\"1594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM.png 2594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-800x492.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-1020x627.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-160x98.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-1536x944.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-2048x1258.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.40 PM-1920x1180.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2594px) 100vw, 2594px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The outcomes don’t make our students safer,” he said. School policing is “not achieving what we’re seeking,” \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAEducation/videos/288417659174199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a video of the forum\u003c/a> shows. It was hosted by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked recently if Bonta’s position on school policing as the state’s top law enforcement officer mirrors what he said in 2020, his press secretary replied “no” via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who’s expected to enter the 2026 governor’s race, “has always believed that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for school safety and that schools need to work towards data-driven policies that fit their community,” Alexandra Duquet wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School resource officers can be an important component of ensuring students and school personnel safety,” Duquet wrote. “Their primary focus should be ensuring the safety of all on-campus — not discipline — and they be given tools such as implicit bias training that ensure the equitable treatment of all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-tony-thurmond-education-schools-e31cbf14dbec595f962b615bb8704915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a declared 2026 gubernatorial candidate\u003c/a>, took no position on school policing during the forum. He recently told EdSource that he favors “well-trained school resource officers to handle serious situations.” He also called for “more training of school staff so they’re not calling police for something that’s a student discipline matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond also said that during his time as a member of the West Contra Costa Unified School District board from 2008–12, he saw police officers help students, calling them “some of the best social workers I’ve worked with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) who during Thurmond’s forum praised Oakland’s shuttering of its school police department, said in an interview that school districts should consider alternatives to police the way some cities have started using trained civilians to respond to 911 mental-health-crisis calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2388px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48%E2%80%AFPM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A white woman wearing glasses and a white jacket holds a piece of paper and speaks into a microphone in a room.\" width=\"2388\" height=\"1608\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM.png 2388w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-1536x1034.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-2048x1379.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-06-at-12.06.48 PM-1920x1293.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2388px) 100vw, 2388px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/The Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Kids are emotional. Kids don’t have impulse control the way adults should, and to bring an officer in, especially since all of our officers are armed, can, rather than defuse the situation, make it worse,” Skinner said. Kids can act out what they experience at home or on the street, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner, the author of several major police accountability bills, also said she saw value in the data EdSource obtained and published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police logs can help officials decide if civilian staff should deal with more school incidents at a time when California’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/09/even-at-112000-starting-pay-fewer-people-want-to-be-cops/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffering a police shortage\u003c/a>, she said. That could leave sworn officers available for “real public safety needs. We never want to prevent a school from calling 911 if that’s needed. However, there might be some appropriate guidelines or boundaries that cities and schools could work out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stopping a police chase\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The executive director of the Alabama-based National Association of School Resource Officers, Mo Candy, a retired cop, said districts would be mistaken to remove resource officers from campuses. Police will always be needed to respond to schools, and “we need for students and faculty to be able to feel like this officer is more than just a law enforcement officer, that they really are another trusted adult in that school environment.” A trained and well-known officer, “may be the person who comes into a situation with the coolest head,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Whitson, executive director of the California School Counselors Association, has seen what can happen when police approach a student situation lacking the cool-headedness Candy described.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a school counselor in the Monrovia Unified School District in Los Angeles County, she once worked with a child who ran away from school multiple times. Finally, an exacerbated principal called the police, who chased after the student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The principal didn’t stop them. I felt as (officers) went on in their rant this kid is getting more damaged. So, I said, ‘Stop, stop,”’ Whitson said. “We already had a very damaged kid, and this wasn’t helping.” The student was later found to need special education services, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Nolan, a retired Boston police lieutenant turned sociologist who’s taught at several universities and studied school policing, said when law enforcement officers are called into a school situation, “they become the shot callers,” deciding what to do whether it is in the child’s best interest or not. Too often, principals are calling them for minor problems like lost keys and disciplinary matters, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The research is unequivocal in demonstrating that the police coming into schools, or police being assigned to schools, is almost always a bad idea. It has bad outcomes for children. It has bad outcomes for school safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nolan said police are not school counselors and shouldn’t play that role. “That’s something that’s a very specific skill set that is attained through years of graduate level study by mental health practitioners and clinicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Police Chiefs Association declined to make anyone from its leadership available for an interview. In an email, its executive director described school policing as a matter best discussed at local levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Marvel, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, a powerful federation of police unions, wasn’t available for an interview, a spokesperson said. In a statement, Marvel, a San Diego police officer, said cops assigned to schools “play an important role in” schools. They act as “educators, emergency/crisis managers, first responders, informal counselors, mentors, and model the kind of behavior that builds trust and respect between law enforcement and the communities they serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data shows that sometimes, regardless of who might be available to counsel or advise a student, one may just do something dumb, like putting a death threat in writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 15, 2023, James Morris, the county administrator who also acts as Inglewood Unified superintendent, received a death threat via email, police call records show. Morris, a veteran administrator, was brought on to lift Inglewood out of years of state receivership because of fiscal woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can just say, generally, it was a student,” Morris said when asked about the threat. Police took a report, but Morris said he didn’t want charges filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Unlike some other Bay Area districts, OUSD does not offer busing for most of its students.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ousdnews/posts/pfbid0KE5MdV5nv4LbQ993mYiZ7ZttedxMoJXF72n4LgaSx3ocPsneydKqp973nRiyHbwfl\">a Facebook post last month\u003c/a>, the district announced its new partnership with school transportation company Zum (pronounced ZOOM), based in Redwood City, which is providing and managing the 74-bus fleet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ridezum.com/blog/zum-launches-nations-first-100-electrified-bidirectional-v2g-school-bus-fleet-in-oakland-ca/\">Zum estimates\u003c/a> the buses will prevent about 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases from entering the environment each year — the amount it said that 74 diesel buses would likely produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicles are all equipped with bidirectional chargers that replenish the buses overnight but can also enable them to serve as power sources when needed. Zum said its AI technology monitors the buses’ energy use and determines the best times to return power back to the grid while calculating the most efficient bus routes based on traffic patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families will also be able to use an app to track the buses their children are riding on and receive updates about delays, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its initial five-year contract, OUSD will pay Zum $11.2 million a year to run the buses, according to Kimberly Raney, OUSD’s transportation director. About half of the district’s total costs for the service will be covered by federal, state and private grants, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a true partnership of how we do what’s right for the kids,” Raney said. “Oakland is really the perfect place for this. 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