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When she started rolling out policies aimed at reducing incarceration, she largely did so one at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last four years, Foxx has faced her share of opposition from tough-on-crime supporters — but says she benefited from one other thing: timing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think when I came in 2016, it was a novelty almost to have someone coming in and talking about criminal justice reform as a prosecutor,” she said. “And then you saw momentum building across the country. … And there was a deliberate effort, I believe, on the right to kind of villainize what this work looks like, to villainize the progressive prosecutor being, you know, antithetical to law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, Foxx is far from the only so-called “progressive prosecutor” running a large, urban DA’s office — voters in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston and a number of other large cities have also embraced the promise of reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, that change also came to Los Angeles County, which boasts the largest local prosecutor’s office in the nation, a massive bureaucracy that covers 4,000 square miles and includes 1,000 lawyers and 38 courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Gascón, a former San Francisco police chief and district attorney, survived a bruising battle with his tough-on-crime predecessor to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-06/george-gascon-la-district-attorney-race-jackie-lacey-concede\">win his position\u003c/a> running the massive LA office — and unlike Foxx, he moved to make changes at warp speed: He’d barely been sworn in last December when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944396495/george-gascon-implements-sweeping-changes-to-los-angeles-district-attorneys-offi\">he issued a set of directives\u003c/a> aimed at reducing prison sentences and focusing more on rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those directives barred prosecutors in Los Angeles from seeking the death penalty, trying juveniles as adults and filing most sentencing enhancements, including those sanctioned under the state’s three strike laws. The changes also eliminated cash bail in the massive county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said there was no time to waste and that he was simply instituting the changes he campaigned on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"george-gascon\"]“I developed the opinion that trying to do a gradual rollout would probably create more confusion. And it would be harder than just simply putting it all out there and working from there,” he said. “And that was the reason for the rollout from day one. It was really a combination of my commitment to the voters and doing what I said that I was going to do and ensuring that we put it all [out there] and worked through it at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resistance from anti-reform prosecutors was swift as well — both in and outside Gascón’s office. They joined forces to challenge some of those new policies, and in February, a judge agreed to put some of the changes on hold. Gascón said he is appealing; it’s a case widely expected to reach the state’s Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago’s Foxx said the swift pushback is a far cry from what she faced as a newly elected DA — and shows how the past four years have given those opposed to reform time to regroup, and come out swinging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very surprised about how forceful the opposition is,” Foxx said of Gascón’s experience. “He gets sworn in on a Monday. Monday night, he’s got his deputies on television saying that they’re not going to do what he says.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors in Gascón office said their opposition wasn’t just about the policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those were kind of given to his deputies without any type of consultation, without any type of warning, without any type of introduction,” said Eric Siddall, vice president of the union representing deputy district attorneys in Los Angeles. “It was not done in that collaborative process. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders have agreed on a deal to resume in-person education for some California public school students, providing incentives — but not a mandate — for thousands of schools to open their doors by the end of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, announced Monday, comes after weeks of high-stakes negotiations between Newsom and top Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly. The two sides were tasked with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">balancing the demands\u003c/a> of parents eager for their children to return to class and the hesitancy of powerful teachers unions who are demanding heightened COVID-19 protection measures for their members, including vaccination of teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all are united around coming back safely into the schools and helping with the social and emotional supports that our kids so desperately need,\" Newsom said at a press conference announcing the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has faced daily questions about the progress of reopening talks, as his political opponents have made the school debate a centerpiece of their effort to recall him from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement, the state is dangling $2 billion in incentives for school districts to open classrooms — without many of the hurdles contained in previous proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Governor and Legislature clearly understood the obstacles to reopening expressed by local school leaders and their communities,\" said Alameda County Superintendent L. 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The bill does not require school staff to be vaccinated or offered vaccines, but it does codify Newsom's promise that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11862207/california-to-dedicate-75000-doses-per-week-for-teachers-education-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10% of the state's doses\u003c/a> will be reserved for education workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today’s proposed agreement includes the multi-tiered safety measures educators have been calling for,\" said California Teachers Association President E. Toby Boyd, in a statement. \"It recognizes community transmission rates and the importance of prioritizing educators for the COVID-19 vaccine before reopening for in-person instruction. We commend the governor and the Legislature for recognizing those concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal also comes with a stricter timeline than those floated since December, when Newsom first unveiled a framework to resume in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the deal is enacted, districts have three weeks to post a reopening plan. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gone, too, are previous proposed requirements for districts to send the state a ratified collective bargaining plan with local teachers unions before reopening — though those unions will still have a powerful voice in local decision making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in an effort to placate the unions, the legislation addresses their most controversial demand: that teachers receive vaccines before returning to class. The bill does not require school staff to be vaccinated or offered vaccines, but it does codify Newsom's promise that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11862207/california-to-dedicate-75000-doses-per-week-for-teachers-education-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10% of the state's doses\u003c/a> will be reserved for education workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today’s proposed agreement includes the multi-tiered safety measures educators have been calling for,\" said California Teachers Association President E. Toby Boyd, in a statement. \"It recognizes community transmission rates and the importance of prioritizing educators for the COVID-19 vaccine before reopening for in-person instruction. We commend the governor and the Legislature for recognizing those concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal also comes with a stricter timeline than those floated since December, when Newsom first unveiled a framework to resume in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the deal is enacted, districts have three weeks to post a reopening plan. Then, starting April 1, each district's portion of the $2 billion will drop by 1% for each day that in-person instruction is not offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts that fail to open classrooms by May 15 will forfeit their share of the $2 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains to be seen if the incentives will move the needle for districts that have so far eschewed a return to classroom instruction, as the plan places no direct requirement on districts to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Unified School District is currently negotiating a return of grades K-2, but if the county moves into the state's red tier, they will be required to bring back older children or risk losing state funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Based on what they've currently agreed to, they don't meet the reopening guidelines,\" said Assemblyman Budget Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. \"I'm hoping that this [deal] will spur them to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents advocating for more widespread school openings were disappointed in the plan's narrow focus on elementary school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's particularly disturbing to this mom of a middle schooler and a high schooler is it completely leaves those kids out,\" said Pat Reilly, a Democratic consultant and parent advocate for the group OpenSchoolsCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reilly added, \"We are nearly two weeks away from being locked out of our schools for nearly a year, more than any other place in the United States and kids are suffering and parents are suffering, particularly women and moms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and state lawmakers are betting that the windfall of cash available to schools (a reflection of how wealthy California taxpayers thrived during the pandemic) will loosen the schoolhouse doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent of the reopening grants, more than $4.5 billion will be available to districts across the state. That money will be apportioned based on enrollment and the state's local control funding formula, but 85% must be spent on in-person learning, potentially on initiatives like summer school to make up for learning loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cannot turn the clock back and make up the time that our kids, our young people have lost,\" said Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego. \"So we’re going to have to make up for that in a different way and that’s part of what some of this funding can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Adam Clark of the Mount Diablo Unified School District applauded the funding for summer instruction that could help kids catch up after so many months out of the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To be able to do widespread summer school for students and provide interventions and to provide enrichment and counseling services, that is a plus, and that will do nothing but help our students,\" Clark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At the end of 2020, California had lost a record 1.6 million jobs during the pandemic. Nearly a half-million people stopped even trying to look for work. Business properties saw their value plummet more than 30%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California’s bank account is overflowing. As of January, the state’s tax collections were $10.5 billion ahead of projections. By the end of the fiscal year on July 1, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature could have a $19 billion surplus to spend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s so much money that, for just the second time ever, the state is projected to trigger a state law requiring the government to send refunds to taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11861698\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42583_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_Businesses_04072020-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Economic downturns usually put state governments in a bind, forcing them to cut services at a time when people need them most. That’s what happened a decade ago during the Great Recession when the housing market collapsed and the stock market tanked, creating a cascade of losses from the wealthy on down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time, with the pandemic forcing the closure of bars, restaurants, theme parks, sporting events and small businesses, lower-wage workers bore the brunt of the losses while the wealthier worked from home. The economic losses started at the bottom of the income ladder and so far they haven’t made their way up to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s put states like California, with a tax code that relies heavily on the rich, in a strange place. A year ago, state lawmakers thought this downturn would behave like other downturns. They cut spending, raised taxes on some businesses, borrowed money and pulled from the state’s savings account — all to prepare for having less money.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nBut the state’s revenues went up. And billions of dollars from the federal government, which paid for things like hotel rooms for the homeless and home-delivered meals for seniors, also softened the blow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a recession that was driven by economic failures, this is a recession driven by a global pandemic,” said Chris Hoene, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/\">California Budget and Policy Center\u003c/a>. “It just has different structural elements to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most states, California taxes capital gains — mostly money made from investments and stocks — the same as money made from wages and salaries. The result is 1% of the population accounts for nearly half of the state’s income tax collections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"David Kline, spokesman for the California Taxpayers Association\"]‘It does point to an overreliance of a very small population of taxpayers. … In general, you want a broad base of taxpayers at the lowest rate possible.’[/pullquote]That 1% had a pretty good year in 2020, financially speaking. The stock market is 16% above its pre-pandemic high in February 2020. A slew of California tech companies, led by Airbnb and DoorDash, debuted on the stock market last year, adding to the state’s population of millionaires and billionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration projects Californians will earn $185 billion from capital gains — the most ever — resulting in $18.5 billion in tax revenue for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does point to an overreliance of a very small population of taxpayers,” said David Kline, spokesman for the California Taxpayers Association, which favors limited taxation. “In general, you want a broad base of taxpayers at the lowest rate possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California’s windfall means it can increase spending at a time when many people can’t. Last week, Newsom signed off on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861667/gov-newsom-signs-7-6-billion-stimulus-package\">$7.6 billion in new spending\u003c/a>, including more than $2 billion in grants for struggling small businesses and $3.6 billion to send \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/02/23/newsom-signs-coronavirus-relief-package-with-aid-for-small-businesses-low-income-residents/\">$600 one-time payments\u003c/a> to nearly 5.7 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislative leaders say they plan to pass another $2.3 billion in tax breaks for businesses in the coming weeks, bringing the state’s aid package to nearly $10 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California has more money, the pandemic has brought more expenses. Schools need more money to reopen after months of distance learning, a thorny subject that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860986/democratic-state-legislators-split-with-newsom-on-school-reopening\">has split Newsom\u003c/a> from the Democrat-controlled Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While employment has increased slightly in California for people who earn $60,000 a year or more, employment has dropped nearly 30% for people earning less than $27,000 per year, according to Opportunity Insights, an economic tracker based at Harvard University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s economy has been buoyed by unemployment benefits, which Congress has expanded and extended multiple times. As of December, nearly 90% of people either unemployed or underemployed were receiving jobless benefits in California, according to new research from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/\">California Policy Lab\u003c/a>. That’s an increase from earlier in the pandemic, when only about half such people were getting benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rather recent spurt in revenue growth that we’ve seen should in no way be taken to mean that California’s economy overall has recovered from the COVID-19 recession,” said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the California Department of Finance. “Unfortunately, we’ve got a long way to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='california']Other states are also seeing revenue increases. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis shows state and local government revenue increased slightly in the third quarter of 2020 compared to the same time period in 2019. In addition to California, leaders in Maryland, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and North Carolina have either approved or are considering state-level coronavirus aid packages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans in Congress have used those numbers to argue against sending more aid to state and local governments. While states are doing better than expected, they still have less money overall than they would have had without the pandemic, according to Brian Sigritz, director of state and fiscal studies at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasbo.org/home\">National Association of State Budget\u003c/a> Officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen states still have negative impacts on their revenues, but not to the extent that was predicted,” he said. “States aren’t out of the woods yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Fremont Unified School District Board of Education, Superintendent CJ Cammack presented the results of a self-selecting survey of parents, asking their feelings about continuing remote learning across the district’s 42 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey results should have provided a level of comfort for the elected board to stay the course: 63% of the nearly 11,000 parents who responded said they preferred to have their child remain in distance learning for the rest of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the public comment period began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly an hour, parents called in to levy their frustrations at the board, urging its members to produce a plan to reopen classrooms in the Bay Area’s third largest school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about the 36% of the district? Are they not important?” asked Irene Shen, a district parent. “Not every parent will come here to speak but everyone will vote with their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The status of public schools in California has remained largely static in the year since the pandemic began: Most \u003ca href=\"https://maps.schools.covid19.ca.gov/public.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remain shuttered, \u003c/a>and large Bay Area districts like San Francisco, Oakland and Fremont have been in distance learning throughout the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the political landscape is shifting rapidly as local and state officials attempt to chart the course for a potential return to class. Finding a consensus among parents on such an emotionally charged issue is proving impossible, with surveys and polling providing limited guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, increasingly organized groups of parents advocating for an immediate return to class are emerging as a potent political counterweight to teachers unions that have so far resisted those calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">until members are vaccinated\u003c/a>. In San Francisco and the East Bay suburb of San Ramon, parent groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Effort-launched-to-recall-three-S-F-school-board-15968429.php\">have vowed to derail the political careers of board members\u003c/a> standing in the way of reopening. [aside postID=\"news_11860986\" label=\"More on the state legislature and schools\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only sure thing in the debate over reopening schools, Cammack said, is that, “Any return to on-campus learning will not be fast enough for some, and far too soon for others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Politically Fragile’ Issue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That’s no solace to policymakers who prefer to operate with more well-defined levels of public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local districts looking for guidance from the state Legislature have so far found gridlock, as Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860986/democratic-state-legislators-split-with-newsom-on-school-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have yet to agree\u003c/a> on a plan to return students to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proposal unveiled last week by Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly would send billions of dollars to local districts to bring back grades K-6 by April 15 — if coronavirus case rates drop below 7 cases per 100,000 residents (the state’s “red” tier) and teachers are offered vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has argued that guidance from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/operation-strategy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> makes it clear that schools can reopen immediately with the proper mitigation measures, and that teacher vaccinations are not a necessary prerequisite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing the pressure of a potential recall election, Newsom has grown bolder in his pronouncements that union intransigence could leave students out of classrooms until the fall. Labor leaders, who heavily supported Newsom in his 2018 run for governor, have responded by \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/tKm7Iry5brA?t=999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">singling him out for criticism\u003c/a> and launching their own ad campaign to promote a reopening strategy that includes vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s an easy solution to any of this,” said former state Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, who chaired the Assembly Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GuyMarzorati/status/1364288846213443587\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchanan said education policy has always been a politically fragile issue. During her days in the state Legislature, she said, few lawmakers showed interest in sitting on education committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wanted to serve on the Education Committee unless that was your passion, because it had more bills than any other committee and the meetings were longer,” Buchanan remembered. “And the reason they were longer is because it’s a very emotional issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But finding a statewide consensus among parents about what is best for kids has been futile. And public polling has offered lawmakers little counsel, with conflicting results that indicate support for in-person learning but little agreement on what a safe return to it looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is difficult to identify the signal in the noise of all of the polling data,” said Martin West, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “Exactly what question you pose to parents matters a huge deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What the Data Says, and Doesn’t\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Education Next, a research journal run by West, \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/pandemic-parent-survey-finds-perverse-pattern-students-more-likely-to-be-attending-school-in-person-where-covid-is-spreading-more-rapidly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed parents around the country\u003c/a> toward the end of 2020 and found that parents of 60% of students believe their kids are learning less during the pandemic. But parents of 74% of students still expressed satisfaction with the instruction and activities provided at their child’s school, and views of teachers unions remained at pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teachers-unions-schools-reopen-covid_n_60218ee6c5b6173dd2f89ceb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February poll from HuffPost/YouGov\u003c/a> found Americans strongly support the bargaining position of teachers unions, but just 41% believe the risk of reopening schools outweighs the consequence of keeping them closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without hard data on their constituent’s views, state lawmakers, including Newsom, have drawn on their own experiences as parents to empathize with public frustration.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Padma Gopalakrishnan, Fremont parent\"]“Equity requires meeting the needs of the most marginalized students. Distanced learning has widened the opportunity and performance gap.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Monday hearing on a reopening bill, legislators representing predominately Black and Latino communities shared stories of residents for whom a reopening of schools would come with a new set of anxieties and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a [former] teacher, and all my friends are teachers, they’re ready to go back to the classroom, they know the importance of that,” said Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens. “But they are afraid when they see the rates of infection in Bell Gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, California’s state government has largely kicked school reopening decisions to the local level. Both Newsom and legislative Democrats have language in their latest proposals that would require a collective bargaining agreement between local districts and unions on reopening safety protocols — essentially ensuring that political battle over reopening will play out one by one in the hundreds of districts across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the local level, piecing together a consensus from surveys, interest group lobbying and parental outrage — while identifying which voices are missing from the conversation — has been just as difficult, particularly for elected board members promising to keep equity at the center of the reopening debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD Board of Education President Gabriela López speaking during a rally at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021, is facing a recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Oakland Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/2020FallFamilySurvey/Intro?%3Aembed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fall 2020 survey found\u003c/a> 41% of parents planned to send their child back to school if classrooms reopened, compared to 27% who said they would not, and 31% who were “unsure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among Black parents, the split was 35% to 33% against returning, with Latino parents responding with a similar 36% to 32% divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey of \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgRX68QeYT7C01jyfNfEXeIloxJgtZAd/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> parents found that 57% of respondents planned to return their children to in-person learning — with wide gaps between white (80%), Black (57%), Latino (61%) and Asian (36%) respondents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Equity Emerges as a Fault Line\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many supporters of reopening classrooms have rallied around the call of equity, with some trumpeting the disproportionate effects of distance learning that have left low-income, Black and Latino children \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/who-is-losing-ground-with-distance-learning-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less access to live instruction and internet-connected\u003c/a> learning. But there is no agreed-upon definition of equity, and it’s not always members of the Black and Latino communities making those calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Equity requires meeting the needs of the most marginalized students. Distanced learning has widened the opportunity and performance gap,” said Padma Gopalakrishnan, a parent who weighed in at the Fremont Unified board meeting. “The survey did not identify these students. We need to help them … so we need to open our schools.”[aside postID=\"news_11858457\" label=\"More on equity in school reopening\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Fong, a former state assemblyman who until recently led the faculty union at the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District, said he wouldn’t give added weight to vocal parents “just because they’re squeaking louder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really feel for the school board members right now because they’re the ones that are on the front lines of this, getting the heat from the community,” Fong added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the white-hot light of the school reopening debate has exposed the political naivete of many officials serving on local school boards — positions long considered a first step toward higher office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, the entire Oakley Union Elementary School District Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/19/entire-oakley-school-board-resigns-over-embarrassing-hot-mic-moment-during-public-meeting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned last week\u003c/a> after making derogatory comments on a live video stream about parents who had pushed to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, board members made national headlines for embarking on a quixotic mission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates\">to rename dozens of (still empty) public schools\u003c/a>, in some cases relying on flawed research to render judgment on whether a name was connected to enslavement, oppression or racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says “Please Reopen Our Schools” at a park across from Clarendon Elementary School in San Francisco on Feb. 18, 2021, where students and parents rallied in support of reopening schools. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, groups of irate parents have progressed from survey responses and public comment periods to a more menacing form of political feedback: a vow to recall or challenge school board members who don’t reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political action committee called The Campaign for Better Public Schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11861151/new-pac-targets-san-francisco-school-board-over-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched in San Francisco last week\u003c/a>, backed by parents with the goal of shaking up a board that they believe has been incompetent and recalcitrant, with little to show for months of discussion and millions in federal and state relief dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee may pursue a direct recall of sitting board members, challenge them in future elections or work to change how members are selected — either by breaking the board into districts or handing appointment power to the mayor, said Seeyew Mo, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole point of my organization is to give voices to those who are not represented, so we welcome everyone and we will continue to work to make sure that diverse voices are represented,” Mo said. “And I don’t think there is any commissioner on the board or any of the organizations out there that can claim that they represent everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short of actually recalling commissioners, supporters of the San Francisco campaign don’t have to look far for examples of payoff: The San Ramon Valley Unified School District welcomed back elementary school students in early February, weeks after three board members were targeted with a recall campaign in response to their decision to postpone an earlier reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of “Parent Power” in San Ramon \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/10/san-ramon-unified-opens-some-schools-for-in-person-learning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the Mercury News\u003c/a> that they plan to continue gathering signatures to force a recall election for the three board members in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parent Groups a ‘Major Force,’ but for Whom?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For school board officials, the organization of parents railing against school closures offers a rare political counterweight to the clout of local teachers unions, said former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sad part about the school board elections is that there is only one dominant, overwhelming power, and that is the teachers union,” said Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others view the reopening advocates, with their finely written press releases announcing camera-friendly protests in front of shuttered schools, as just the latest example of wealthy constituents finding a way to elevate their own concerns — not those of the broader community.[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joan Buchanan, former state assemblywoman\"]“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks who are the most persistent in communicating with [elected] offices are almost always the more affluent, connected people in the district,” said Jim Stearns, a San Francisco political consultant, who is currently advising the United Educators of San Francisco teachers union. “They almost always have an outsized voice in issues like this, and I do think that’s the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question for local and state politicians is how high the heat from the reopening debate will rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the state’s improving COVID-19 outlook will result in the reopening of classrooms and a cooling of tensions. Maybe the local recall campaigns will turn more nakedly partisan, potentially turning off liberals who support teachers unions and don’t have an immediate stake in the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the potential for local school issues to escalate politically should not be underestimated. In the early 1970s, San Francisco lawyer Quentin Kopp launched a decades-long political career with his opposition to the city’s school desegregation plan — channeling the anger that white and Chinese parents held towards busing into a successful run for supervisor in 1971. Kopp’s career would take him to the state senate and a superior court judgeship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, parent activist Bobbi Fiedler organized tens of thousands of parents in the San Fernando Valley against desegregation busing, and, in 1977, she toppled the president of the Los Angeles school board. Three years later, Fiedler was in Congress, after riding the same issue to knock off 10-term U.S. Rep. James Corman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, national Republicans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/openourschools-gop-targets-teachers-unions-bid-retake-suburbs-n1257899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eyeing the school reopening debate\u003c/a> as a political winner to gain back ground in suburban House districts in 2022. And many California families may already be “voting with their feet” and leaving public schools — although the data on the state’s record pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/01/california-schools-record-enrollment-drop/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enrollment drop is still noisy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the movement’s breakout potential might be limited by time and the region’s liberal leanings, Agnos says parent groups are just in their “embryonic stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is no balanced response from the school district in general and the school board in particular, I think this movement could grow into a major force,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Buchanan said education policy has always been a politically fragile issue. During her days in the state Legislature, she said, few lawmakers showed interest in sitting on education committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wanted to serve on the Education Committee unless that was your passion, because it had more bills than any other committee and the meetings were longer,” Buchanan remembered. “And the reason they were longer is because it’s a very emotional issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But finding a statewide consensus among parents about what is best for kids has been futile. And public polling has offered lawmakers little counsel, with conflicting results that indicate support for in-person learning but little agreement on what a safe return to it looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is difficult to identify the signal in the noise of all of the polling data,” said Martin West, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “Exactly what question you pose to parents matters a huge deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What the Data Says, and Doesn’t\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Education Next, a research journal run by West, \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/pandemic-parent-survey-finds-perverse-pattern-students-more-likely-to-be-attending-school-in-person-where-covid-is-spreading-more-rapidly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed parents around the country\u003c/a> toward the end of 2020 and found that parents of 60% of students believe their kids are learning less during the pandemic. But parents of 74% of students still expressed satisfaction with the instruction and activities provided at their child’s school, and views of teachers unions remained at pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teachers-unions-schools-reopen-covid_n_60218ee6c5b6173dd2f89ceb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February poll from HuffPost/YouGov\u003c/a> found Americans strongly support the bargaining position of teachers unions, but just 41% believe the risk of reopening schools outweighs the consequence of keeping them closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without hard data on their constituent’s views, state lawmakers, including Newsom, have drawn on their own experiences as parents to empathize with public frustration.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Fong, a former state assemblyman who until recently led the faculty union at the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District, said he wouldn’t give added weight to vocal parents “just because they’re squeaking louder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really feel for the school board members right now because they’re the ones that are on the front lines of this, getting the heat from the community,” Fong added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the white-hot light of the school reopening debate has exposed the political naivete of many officials serving on local school boards — positions long considered a first step toward higher office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, the entire Oakley Union Elementary School District Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/19/entire-oakley-school-board-resigns-over-embarrassing-hot-mic-moment-during-public-meeting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned 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