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"content": "\u003cp>Me reúno con Carlos Delrio, de 11 años, al fondo del recinto escolar de \u003ca href=\"http://oakridge.scusd.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Oak Ridge Elementary\u003c/a>, donde le deja su mamá todos los días antes de empezar las clases. Es un niño dulce, con carita graciosa y rellena. Delrio es fanático de los superhéroes, y siempre lleva un juego de tarjetas coleccionables de sus favoritos cruzados con capa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoy, nos dirigimos a su aula de sexto grado donde su maestra, Sarah Wagner, nos recibe a nosotros y a los demás estudiantes en el umbral de la puerta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Buenos días, Carlos,\" sonríe Wagner, dándole la mano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delrio es uno de unos 200 estudiantes en la escuela de Oak Ridge considerado estudiante que aprende inglés [English language learner en inglés]. Hay un total de 500 estudiantes en la escuela. Delrio habla español en casa, y le cuesta leer y escribir en inglés. También tiene una discapacidad de aprendizaje, por lo que le lleva más tiempo comprender ciertos conceptos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bajo el sistema innovador nuevo de finanzas para las escuelas del estado, las escuelas como Oak Ridge ahora reciben más dinero -- y tienen mayor control sobre cómo gastar ese dinero -- para ayudar a apoyar a los niños con altas necesidades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oak Ridge cuenta con $185.000 adicionales con los cuales operar este año.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tres veces al día, Delrio sale de su aula normal para recibir apoyo adicional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El reparto de apoyo de Oak Ridge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delrio pasa la mayor parte de su tiempo en un aula tradicional. 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Delrio recibe 40 minutos de instrucción en las matemáticas básicas en esta clase, y me doy cuenta que es claro que participa más y se siente más cómodo – bromeando con los otros muchachos y ayudando a Ramírez con la asignación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando Carlos entra a mi aula, se siente completamente relajado”, comenta Ramírez. “Le encanta aprender, y el trabajo en grupo pequeño le ayuda mucho porque le da más tiempo para enfocarse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero, admite que Delrio tiene mucho camino que recorrer en lo académico – sigue sin poder sumar o restar mentalmente. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Le encanta aprender, y el trabajo en grupo pequeño le ayuda mucho porque le da más tiempo para enfocarse.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Esto es problemático porque las normas académicas más rigorosas del estado, llamadas Common Core, requieren que los niños usen sus habilidades de criterio mental a un nivel mucho más elevado. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Un paso para adelante, otro paso para atrásk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antes de comenzar las clases hoy, me senté con la maestra tradicional de Delrio, Sarah Wagner, para conversar sobre la ayuda que recibe Delrio en la escuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagner dice que si bien agradece el personal de apoyo dedicado, quisiera que Oak Ridge gastara hasta más de los fondos estatales en otras intervenciones para los estudiantes que las necesitan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagner tiene 32 estudiantes en su clase, y explica que no le puede dar a Delrio la atención que se merece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es difícil, porque al final del día, como maestra, simplemente quieres sentir que has hecho una diferencia en sus vidas,” comenta Wagner, con inicio de lágrimas en los ojos. “Me preocupa que no hago lo suficiente por ellos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-1.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Delrio juega a las cuatro esquinas con sus compañeros durante el recreo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10927482\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-1-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Delrio juega a las cuatro esquinas con sus compañeros durante el recreo. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Después del recreo, Delrio se dirige de vuelta al aula de Wagner para la clase de inglés, y al concluir el día, está puliendo sus habilidades de lectura con otro grupo pequeño de muchachos en el Aula 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No se trata de ver dónde empiezan los estudiantes, sino ver hasta dónde han llegado,” explica Katherine Craig, maestra de recursos de lectura de Delrio en Oak Ridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En la clase tradicional de Delrio, los demás estudiantes de sexto grado leen una complicada novela de misterio. 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Delrio recibe 40 minutos de instrucción en las matemáticas básicas en esta clase, y me doy cuenta que es claro que participa más y se siente más cómodo – bromeando con los otros muchachos y ayudando a Ramírez con la asignación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando Carlos entra a mi aula, se siente completamente relajado”, comenta Ramírez. “Le encanta aprender, y el trabajo en grupo pequeño le ayuda mucho porque le da más tiempo para enfocarse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero, admite que Delrio tiene mucho camino que recorrer en lo académico – sigue sin poder sumar o restar mentalmente. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Le encanta aprender, y el trabajo en grupo pequeño le ayuda mucho porque le da más tiempo para enfocarse.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Esto es problemático porque las normas académicas más rigorosas del estado, llamadas Common Core, requieren que los niños usen sus habilidades de criterio mental a un nivel mucho más elevado. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Un paso para adelante, otro paso para atrásk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antes de comenzar las clases hoy, me senté con la maestra tradicional de Delrio, Sarah Wagner, para conversar sobre la ayuda que recibe Delrio en la escuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagner dice que si bien agradece el personal de apoyo dedicado, quisiera que Oak Ridge gastara hasta más de los fondos estatales en otras intervenciones para los estudiantes que las necesitan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagner tiene 32 estudiantes en su clase, y explica que no le puede dar a Delrio la atención que se merece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es difícil, porque al final del día, como maestra, simplemente quieres sentir que has hecho una diferencia en sus vidas,” comenta Wagner, con inicio de lágrimas en los ojos. “Me preocupa que no hago lo suficiente por ellos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-1.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Delrio juega a las cuatro esquinas con sus compañeros durante el recreo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10927482\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-1-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Delrio juega a las cuatro esquinas con sus compañeros durante el recreo. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Después del recreo, Delrio se dirige de vuelta al aula de Wagner para la clase de inglés, y al concluir el día, está puliendo sus habilidades de lectura con otro grupo pequeño de muchachos en el Aula 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No se trata de ver dónde empiezan los estudiantes, sino ver hasta dónde han llegado,” explica Katherine Craig, maestra de recursos de lectura de Delrio en Oak Ridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En la clase tradicional de Delrio, los demás estudiantes de sexto grado leen una complicada novela de misterio. Pero en el salón de Craig, el niño de 11 años opta por una obra clásica de Dr. Seuss, “¡Cómo el Grinch robó la Navidad!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En mi clase, pueden sentir la libertad de leer y disfrutar del libro que quieran,” comenta Craig. “Les ayuda mucho para ganar confianza y motivación por lo que son capaces de leer, y pueden sentir el éxito.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Delrio comenzó a recibir el apoyo de Craig, leía sólo 14 palabras por minuto, y con las justas lograba completar una frase. Ahora lee hasta 26 palabras por minuto, y es capaz de terminar pequeños párrafos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosHandRaised-1.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Delrio, de once años, participa en una discusión en grupo en su aula de sexto grado en la escuela Oak Ridge Elementary.\" width=\"800\" height=\"493\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10927510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosHandRaised-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosHandRaised-1-400x247.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Delrio, de once años, participa en una discusión en grupo en su aula de sexto grado en la escuela Oak Ridge Elementary. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Para todas estas personas él es importante, para la comunidad él es importante”, explica Craig. “A mí me parece maravilloso para Carlos ver que avanza en la lectura, pero avanza de otra forma. 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"content": "\u003cp>I meet 11-year-old Carlos Delrio at the back of campus at \u003ca href=\"http://oakridge.scusd.edu/\">Oak Ridge Elementary\u003c/a> in Sacramento, where his mom drops him off every day before school. He’s a sweet boy with a cute, pudgy face. Carlos is a superhero fanatic, always carrying around a pack of trading cards with his favorite caped crusaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, we head to his sixth-grade class where his teacher, Sarah Wagner, greets us and the other students outside her door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Good morning, Carlos,” says Wagner, with a handshake and a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos is one of about 200 students at Oak Ridge considered an \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/\">English-language learner\u003c/a>. There are 500 students in all at the school. He speaks Spanish at home, and has a hard time reading and writing in English. He also has a learning disability, so it takes him longer to understand certain concepts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/257287720\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the state’s groundbreaking \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/lcffoverview.asp\">new school finance system\u003c/a>, schools like Oak Ridge now get more money -- and more control over how to spend that money -- to help support these high-needs students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oak Ridge has an additional $185,000 to work with this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"olBwKetMk1m9vvp4M5J5xQrfu5d1Ewsc\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three times a day, Carlos leaves his regular class for extra support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oak Ridge’s Supporting Cast\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos spends most of his time in a traditional classroom. Oak Ridge, like some other public schools in California, believes students with special needs benefit when they are integrated with other kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carlos still gets special attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oak Ridge is spending its additional revenue this year to extend the hours of instructional aides so they can help him and other at-risk students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it’s time for his first support class, Carlos jumps to his feet and heads to Room 27 to see Jocelyn Ramirez, the school’s special education instructional aide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10917047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10917047\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosSpecialClass-800x493.jpg\" alt=\"Oak Ridge Elementary special instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez hands out customized assignments to Carlos Delrio (C) and four other students in her math support class.\" width=\"800\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosSpecialClass-800x493.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosSpecialClass-400x246.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosSpecialClass.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oak Ridge Elementary special instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez hands out customized assignments to Carlos Delrio (C) and four other students in her math support class. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know him a lot better,” Ramirez says. “I know what he’s able to do and not able to do. That really helps me customize what I’m teaching him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez is helping Carlos and three other students cut out shapes to learn about fractions. He receives 40 minutes of basic math instruction in this class, and I notice he is clearly more engaged and more comfortable -- joking with the other kids and helping Ramirez with the assignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Carlos comes into my room, he’s 100 percent himself,” Ramirez says. “He loves learning, and working in a small group really helps him because it gives him more time to focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she admits Carlos has a long way to go academically -- he still can’t add or subtract in his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'He loves learning, and working in a small group really helps him because it gives him more time to focus.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s troubling because the state’s more demanding academic standards, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/\">Common Core\u003c/a>, require kids to use their critical thinking skills at a much higher level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Step Forward, One Step Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the school day began today, I sat down with Carlos' regular classroom teacher, Sarah Wagner, to talk about the help he's receiving at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagner says that while she’s grateful for the school’s dedicated support staff, she wishes Oak Ridge would spend even more state funding on additional interventions for the students who need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagner has 32 kids in her class, and says she cannot give Carlos the attention he deserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard because at the end of the day, as a teacher, you just want to feel like you’ve made a difference in their lives,” says Wagner, who begins to tear up. “I worry that I’m not doing enough for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10917050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10917050\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Delrio plays four square with his classmates at recess.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Delrio plays four square with his classmates at recess. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After recess, Carlos heads back to Wagner’s class for English, and at the end of the day, he’s honing his reading skills with another small group of kids in Room 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not where the kids start. It’s seeing how far they come,” says Katherine Craig, Carlos' reading resource teacher at Oak Ridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his larger class, the other sixth-grade students are reading a complicated mystery novel. But in Craig’s room, the 11-year-old chooses a Dr. Seuss classic, “How The Grinch Stole Christmas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my class, they can feel the freedom to read and enjoy any book they choose,\" Craig says. \"It really helps them gain confidence and motivation that they can read, and that they can be successful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Carlos began receiving Craig’s support, he was reading only 14 words a minute, and could barely get through a sentence. 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Oak Ridge, like some other public schools in California, believes students with special needs benefit when they are integrated with other kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carlos still gets special attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oak Ridge is spending its additional revenue this year to extend the hours of instructional aides so they can help him and other at-risk students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it’s time for his first support class, Carlos jumps to his feet and heads to Room 27 to see Jocelyn Ramirez, the school’s special education instructional aide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10917047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10917047\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosSpecialClass-800x493.jpg\" alt=\"Oak Ridge Elementary special instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez hands out customized assignments to Carlos Delrio (C) and four other students in her math support class.\" width=\"800\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosSpecialClass-800x493.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosSpecialClass-400x246.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosSpecialClass.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oak Ridge Elementary special instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez hands out customized assignments to Carlos Delrio (C) and four other students in her math support class. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know him a lot better,” Ramirez says. “I know what he’s able to do and not able to do. That really helps me customize what I’m teaching him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez is helping Carlos and three other students cut out shapes to learn about fractions. He receives 40 minutes of basic math instruction in this class, and I notice he is clearly more engaged and more comfortable -- joking with the other kids and helping Ramirez with the assignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Carlos comes into my room, he’s 100 percent himself,” Ramirez says. “He loves learning, and working in a small group really helps him because it gives him more time to focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she admits Carlos has a long way to go academically -- he still can’t add or subtract in his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'He loves learning, and working in a small group really helps him because it gives him more time to focus.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s troubling because the state’s more demanding academic standards, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/\">Common Core\u003c/a>, require kids to use their critical thinking skills at a much higher level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Step Forward, One Step Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the school day began today, I sat down with Carlos' regular classroom teacher, Sarah Wagner, to talk about the help he's receiving at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagner says that while she’s grateful for the school’s dedicated support staff, she wishes Oak Ridge would spend even more state funding on additional interventions for the students who need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagner has 32 kids in her class, and says she cannot give Carlos the attention he deserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard because at the end of the day, as a teacher, you just want to feel like you’ve made a difference in their lives,” says Wagner, who begins to tear up. “I worry that I’m not doing enough for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10917050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10917050\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Delrio plays four square with his classmates at recess.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Carlos4Square.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Delrio plays four square with his classmates at recess. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After recess, Carlos heads back to Wagner’s class for English, and at the end of the day, he’s honing his reading skills with another small group of kids in Room 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not where the kids start. It’s seeing how far they come,” says Katherine Craig, Carlos' reading resource teacher at Oak Ridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his larger class, the other sixth-grade students are reading a complicated mystery novel. But in Craig’s room, the 11-year-old chooses a Dr. Seuss classic, “How The Grinch Stole Christmas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my class, they can feel the freedom to read and enjoy any book they choose,\" Craig says. \"It really helps them gain confidence and motivation that they can read, and that they can be successful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Carlos began receiving Craig’s support, he was reading only 14 words a minute, and could barely get through a sentence. Now he’s up to 26 words a minute and can finish small paragraphs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10917143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10917143 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosHandRaised-800x493.jpg\" alt=\"Eleven-year-old Carlos Delrio participates in a group discussion in his sixth grade classroom at Oak Ridge Elementary.\" width=\"800\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosHandRaised-800x493.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosHandRaised-400x246.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosHandRaised.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosHandRaised-1180x727.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/CarlosHandRaised-960x592.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eleven-year-old Carlos Delrio participates in a group discussion in his sixth-grade classroom at Oak Ridge Elementary. \u003ccite>(Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All these people care about him, this community cares about him.” Craig says. “I think it’s wonderful for Carlos to see he is making growth in reading, but it’s in a different way. 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"content": "\u003cp>Presidential elections receive by far the most attention, but it’s also the race where individual voters have the least direct effect. The undercard races for local offices, such as city council and board of supervisors, offer the greatest opportunity for residents to exert influence and directly engage with elected officials, yet they receive some of the least attention, engagement and votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Cannady recalls his first success influencing local government. Cannady is a high school history teacher in the Pocket neighborhood of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/252354166\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bus stop for our school site was about a mile away,” he says. “Not only did students have to walk, but there was no shelter for them. They'd go onto people's property and hide under a plum tree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he tells it, the school district told him he needed to talk to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put together a petition, got our councilman involved, too,” he says. “And sure enough, they moved the bus stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he says the accomplishment is modest, Cannady credits it with mobilizing him to become more involved with local issues in his community. He now runs neighborhood meetings and recently organized coffee with a leading mayoral candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10898177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10898177 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"A bicyclist rides along a public levee in the Pocket, Thursday, February 11, 2016. Will Cannady, who lives in the neighborhood, is pushing for the city to buy privately owned land along the Sacramento River to complete a new bike trail. \" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-1180x816.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-960x664.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides along a public levee in the Pocket, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. Will Cannady, who lives in the neighborhood, is pushing for the city to buy privately owned land along the Sacramento River to complete a new bike trail. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Day-To-Day Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mile east of the Pocket, in the Meadowview neighborhood, Darryl Lucien has a problem with a bare plot of city-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it reinforces a narrative of blight and decay in this low-income community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s full of weeds, and trash, and debris,” Lucien says. “Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city, so they can clean up their mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"qSkD5oR6sR0jNNGO2jmfqFam0qIlRHRU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucien works for a state assemblyman, but he says city and county officials often play a more direct role in our day-to-day lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, these are the people who are responsible for just your quality of life, making sure that your neighborhoods are clean, your roads are paved, police services, and making sure response times are good,” Lucien says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also influence state and federal actions, says Mike Madrid, a principal at the political consulting firm GrassrootsLab. Madrid mentions a ban on plastic bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was getting no traction in the state Legislature for eight years,” he says. “Local governments were taking policy positions that effectively forced the hand of the Legislature to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid says state marijuana, firearm and smoking laws all started at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Power Is Local\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each vote cast in a local race also has a larger statistical effect than in larger races. A vote in a district of 10,000 will play a larger role in the outcome than one in a statewide race of 40 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You, by nature, have more impact,” says Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But voters turn out for local elections at dismal rates, on average half that of national races, according to a 2003 UC San Diego study. In cities that hold races in off-years, without federal elections, turnout can reach single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10898179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10898179 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-800x600.jpg\" alt='Darryl Lucien says this undeveloped, city-owned field in Meadowview is often “full of weeds, and trash, and debris. Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city to the city, so they can clean up their mess.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darryl Lucien says this undeveloped city-owned field in Meadowview is often “full of weeds, and trash, and debris. Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city to the city, so they can clean up their mess.\" \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento City Councilman Larry Carr represents Meadowview and acknowledges the lack of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s way down-ticket,” Carr says. “Less money is spent on those campaigns, very little TV advertising because it’s just not cost-effective for the size of the districts. And so, it’s more difficult for people to get interested in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Face-To-Face Interaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local elections typically draw little interest and few votes, these elected officials are often the most directly accessible to their constituents, since they generally represent fewer people and live in the neighborhoods they represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday morning, Carr -- who is not up for election this year -- holds a public meeting at the community center in Meadowview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two dozen residents, mostly community and neighborhood association leaders, are attending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did in the first meeting was essentially ask the community, ‘What do you want me to do, now that you’ve elected me?’ ” Carr says. “We had this whole room filled with butcher paper with things you wanted me to do. We narrowed it down to a few things. And we’re going to tell you about some of those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He touted his accomplishments, and it also gave residents a forum to air their concerns. They sat at round, fold-out tables and discussed their desire for more jobs, better roads, community art and cleaner blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Coron mentions a continued need for afterschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Detroit Boulevard area, we don’t really have much there at all,” Coron says, to nods around her table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Boykins is skeptical his voice will be heard. It’s his first time attending one of these meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I think a lot of it is just show,\" Boykins says. “We talk, we do little things, but next year we’ll be here at the same time, talking about the same stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But B.J. Barrett says the community input makes a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Carr] comes and he asks,” Barrett says. “If this is something that’s high on the priority list of his constituents, he tackles it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except on the most controversial topics, only a small minority of constituents reach out to their local officials. In 2014, the \u003ca href=\"/www.n-r-c.com/\">National Research Center\u003c/a> found fewer than one in five Americans contact their local elected officials. Those who do are typically older, wealthier and have lived in the neighborhood longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these local elections, where citizens have the most opportunity to influence their elected officials -- both directly and at the ballot box -- few actually use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Will Cannady, who lives in the neighborhood, is pushing for the city to buy privately owned land along the Sacramento River to complete a new bike trail. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Day-To-Day Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mile east of the Pocket, in the Meadowview neighborhood, Darryl Lucien has a problem with a bare plot of city-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it reinforces a narrative of blight and decay in this low-income community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s full of weeds, and trash, and debris,” Lucien says. “Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city, so they can clean up their mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucien works for a state assemblyman, but he says city and county officials often play a more direct role in our day-to-day lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, these are the people who are responsible for just your quality of life, making sure that your neighborhoods are clean, your roads are paved, police services, and making sure response times are good,” Lucien says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also influence state and federal actions, says Mike Madrid, a principal at the political consulting firm GrassrootsLab. Madrid mentions a ban on plastic bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was getting no traction in the state Legislature for eight years,” he says. “Local governments were taking policy positions that effectively forced the hand of the Legislature to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid says state marijuana, firearm and smoking laws all started at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Power Is Local\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each vote cast in a local race also has a larger statistical effect than in larger races. A vote in a district of 10,000 will play a larger role in the outcome than one in a statewide race of 40 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You, by nature, have more impact,” says Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But voters turn out for local elections at dismal rates, on average half that of national races, according to a 2003 UC San Diego study. In cities that hold races in off-years, without federal elections, turnout can reach single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10898179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10898179 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-800x600.jpg\" alt='Darryl Lucien says this undeveloped, city-owned field in Meadowview is often “full of weeds, and trash, and debris. Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city to the city, so they can clean up their mess.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darryl Lucien says this undeveloped city-owned field in Meadowview is often “full of weeds, and trash, and debris. Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city to the city, so they can clean up their mess.\" \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento City Councilman Larry Carr represents Meadowview and acknowledges the lack of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s way down-ticket,” Carr says. “Less money is spent on those campaigns, very little TV advertising because it’s just not cost-effective for the size of the districts. And so, it’s more difficult for people to get interested in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Face-To-Face Interaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local elections typically draw little interest and few votes, these elected officials are often the most directly accessible to their constituents, since they generally represent fewer people and live in the neighborhoods they represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday morning, Carr -- who is not up for election this year -- holds a public meeting at the community center in Meadowview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two dozen residents, mostly community and neighborhood association leaders, are attending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did in the first meeting was essentially ask the community, ‘What do you want me to do, now that you’ve elected me?’ ” Carr says. “We had this whole room filled with butcher paper with things you wanted me to do. We narrowed it down to a few things. And we’re going to tell you about some of those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He touted his accomplishments, and it also gave residents a forum to air their concerns. They sat at round, fold-out tables and discussed their desire for more jobs, better roads, community art and cleaner blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Coron mentions a continued need for afterschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Detroit Boulevard area, we don’t really have much there at all,” Coron says, to nods around her table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Boykins is skeptical his voice will be heard. It’s his first time attending one of these meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I think a lot of it is just show,\" Boykins says. “We talk, we do little things, but next year we’ll be here at the same time, talking about the same stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But B.J. 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"content": "\u003cp>Like coffee and scotch, voting seems to be an acquired taste. Take Meadowview, a working-class neighborhood in southern Sacramento. It's mostly single-family homes, a lot of concrete and no grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eduardo Marcos leans against his car on the edge of the Home Depot parking lot on a recent afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I honestly don’t feel like it makes much of a difference,\" says Marcos. He’s 22, and doesn’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond Lewis says he feels the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the politicians are for the rich, and they’re not for the poor,” says Lewis, as he catches the bus to get to work. “And black people have been poor since we first got here, or since we were first brought here. So, me voting isn’t going to make a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/247733341\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jesse Reese, a retired sheet metal worker and head of the Meadowview Neighborhood Association, says that sentiment is common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ‘It doesn’t matter and my vote doesn’t count’— we hear a lot of that, all the time,” says Reese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10869712\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10869712 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight-800x753.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento’s Meadowview and the Pocket neighborhoods are split by Freeport Blvd and Interstate 5.\" width=\"800\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight-800x753.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight-400x376.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight-1180x1110.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight-960x903.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento’s Meadowview and The Pocket neighborhoods are split by Freeport Boulevard and Interstate 5. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He laments this lack of interest in the political system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it’s going to be there, whether you like it or not,” he says. “So, it can turn in your favor or not in your favor, depending on who you elect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reese says he’s unsure how to motivate the community. In Meadowview, a working-class neighborhood almost evenly composed of black, white, Asian and Latino residents, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election. That’s 15 percent lower than the turnout one minute west, over the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pocket is a whiter, more affluent neighborhood, hugged by the Sacramento River, noteworthy for parks and trees and monogrammed gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10869707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10869707\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10869707\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"In working-class Meadowview, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election - 15 percent lower than the turnout just over the freeway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-800x618.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-400x309.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-1180x912.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-960x742.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In working-class Meadowview, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election - 15 percent lower than the turnout just over the freeway. \u003ccite>(California Civic Engagement Project at the UC Davis Center for Regional Change)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If something happens in government and I haven’t voted, I don’t have any right to complain,” says Walter Newport, a retired professor walking out of Bel Air Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same goes for state worker Stacy Vanina-Everson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re taking a big piece of my income, I want to be damn sure that you’re going to do something good with it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dynamic in Meadowview and the Pocket is similar to two San Diego neighborhoods profiled in a previous California Counts story, Kensington and Teralta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"UXkKDSo7bSZgtOT5TmwQvnz8Z2vkjo9y\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s well-known that race, income, age and education play an important role in who votes and who doesn’t. Less understood are the reasons why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In The Pocket, Will Cannady, a high school teacher who’s active on local community issues, describes a civic peer pressure in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s contagious, especially when you put a lot of people that have the same views, same opinions,” Cannady says. “You’re going to over and over again see a lot of people who want to act on that if they see their neighbors doing the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannady is describing how voting is a social behavior, says Menlo College professor Melissa Michelson. She studies what drives people to the polls. Michelson says most people learn to engage in the political process from family, friends or in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just a lot of cognitive barriers to voting,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lists the steps involved — filling out the registration form, learning about the candidates and propositions, and showing up to the right polling place on the right day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so, if you’re not from a community where voting is the norm, if you’re not from a family where your parents took you to the polling place when you were a little kid, if you haven’t gone to college and developed those cognitive skills, then we’re really asking a lot of voters,” says Michelson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10869701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10869701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Mai Yang Vang, a Hmong community organizer, was born and grew up in Meadowview.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-960x622.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mai Yang Vang, a Hmong community organizer, was born and grew up in Meadowview. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mai Yang Vang says she understands the barriers firsthand. She’s Hmong-American, from Meadowview and the first in her family to go to college. That’s where she learned to vote. Now she’s a community organizer. She remembers trying to help an elder in the Hmong community, who was also a non-English speaker, register to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So basically she was saying, ‘I’m an elder and I don’t know how to fill out this form, and I’m dumb,’ ” says Vang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vang believes most nonvoters want to engage, even the people who say it doesn’t matter. She says it takes a different kind of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just got to make it really personal,” she says. She talks to voters about local community issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asks them questions like, “Do you live in the city? Do you notice trash in your neighborhood? 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In Meadowview, a working-class neighborhood almost evenly composed of black, white, Asian and Latino residents, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election. That’s 15 percent lower than the turnout one minute west, over the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pocket is a whiter, more affluent neighborhood, hugged by the Sacramento River, noteworthy for parks and trees and monogrammed gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10869707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10869707\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10869707\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"In working-class Meadowview, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election - 15 percent lower than the turnout just over the freeway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-800x618.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-400x309.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-1180x912.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-960x742.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In working-class Meadowview, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election - 15 percent lower than the turnout just over the freeway. \u003ccite>(California Civic Engagement Project at the UC Davis Center for Regional Change)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If something happens in government and I haven’t voted, I don’t have any right to complain,” says Walter Newport, a retired professor walking out of Bel Air Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same goes for state worker Stacy Vanina-Everson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re taking a big piece of my income, I want to be damn sure that you’re going to do something good with it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dynamic in Meadowview and the Pocket is similar to two San Diego neighborhoods profiled in a previous California Counts story, Kensington and Teralta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s well-known that race, income, age and education play an important role in who votes and who doesn’t. Less understood are the reasons why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In The Pocket, Will Cannady, a high school teacher who’s active on local community issues, describes a civic peer pressure in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s contagious, especially when you put a lot of people that have the same views, same opinions,” Cannady says. “You’re going to over and over again see a lot of people who want to act on that if they see their neighbors doing the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannady is describing how voting is a social behavior, says Menlo College professor Melissa Michelson. She studies what drives people to the polls. Michelson says most people learn to engage in the political process from family, friends or in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just a lot of cognitive barriers to voting,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lists the steps involved — filling out the registration form, learning about the candidates and propositions, and showing up to the right polling place on the right day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so, if you’re not from a community where voting is the norm, if you’re not from a family where your parents took you to the polling place when you were a little kid, if you haven’t gone to college and developed those cognitive skills, then we’re really asking a lot of voters,” says Michelson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10869701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10869701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Mai Yang Vang, a Hmong community organizer, was born and grew up in Meadowview.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-960x622.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mai Yang Vang, a Hmong community organizer, was born and grew up in Meadowview. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mai Yang Vang says she understands the barriers firsthand. She’s Hmong-American, from Meadowview and the first in her family to go to college. That’s where she learned to vote. Now she’s a community organizer. She remembers trying to help an elder in the Hmong community, who was also a non-English speaker, register to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So basically she was saying, ‘I’m an elder and I don’t know how to fill out this form, and I’m dumb,’ ” says Vang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vang believes most nonvoters want to engage, even the people who say it doesn’t matter. She says it takes a different kind of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just got to make it really personal,” she says. She talks to voters about local community issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asks them questions like, “Do you live in the city? Do you notice trash in your neighborhood? 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136595\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/worker-sacramento.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136595\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/worker-sacramento-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"A worker on Sacramento's water-meter project, which aims to install 100,000 water meters citywide over a 20-year period. (Joe Rubin/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker on Sacramento's water-meter project, which aims to install 100,000 water meters citywide over a 20-year period. (Joe Rubin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ike the rest of California, Sacramento is feeling the drought. In this city famous for its big shade trees and plush grass, more than 60 percent of all water use goes for residential irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cut down on all that watering, Sacramento has limited sprinkler use to two days a week. And that’s where Ron Carpenter comes in. He works for Sacramento’s water conservation unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I join him before dawn one morning, riding along as he scans the streets for illicit watering. It doesn’t take long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitely the sprinklers have been on,” Carpenter says, crouching down to look at water streaming into a gutter. “No doubt about this one.” And there really is no doubt — we watch as the sprinklers erupt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3,000 people have contacted the city’s call center since the no-sprinkler days were imposed to complain about water wasters. First-time violators get a warning; fines for repeat offenders quickly climb to $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Missing a Critical Conservation Tool\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest reason Sacramento needs to put so much energy into enforcing no-watering days is because it lacks a critical conservation tool: water meters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little over half the homes in Sacramento currently have meters. The city is nearly 10 years into a two-decade-long project to install about 100,000 meters, a job it doesn't expect to finish by the deadline mandated by state law, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It’s ridiculous in the 21st century for us not be measuring and monitoring and managing properly the scarce resource that is water.'\u003ccite>Peter Gleick,\u003cbr>\nPacific Institute\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So how did California’s capital city fall so far behind when it comes to water meters?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of metering water has never been an easy sell in Sacramento. In 1920, the city amended its charter to read, “No water meters shall ever be attached to residential water service pipes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as 2004, when the state Legislature was poised to mandate water meters, then-Sacramento Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg — today’s state Senate leader — opposed the law and voted against it. He lost that battle, but managed to extend the deadline for installing meters an extra 12 years, pushing it out to 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Gleick, head of the Pacific Institute, an Oakland-based water policy organization, says that delay has major consequences, especially in light of the drought. \"The truth is it’s ridiculous in the 21st century for us not be measuring and monitoring and managing properly the scarce resource that is water,\" Gleick says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that when communities adopt water meters, consumption usually drops between 20 percent and 30 percent within a couple of years. Just ask Fresno. The city, which like Sacramento had a City Charter provision essentially banning the use of water meters, was forced to install meters by 2013 as a condition of continuing to get federal water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Impact of Metering\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Andersen headed Fresno’s project to put in more than 100,000 meters and says the city has already achieved a 17 percent reduction in water use. \"We haven’t even gone to the full extent that we wish to,\" Andersen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, 60,000 homes still have no water meters. But the city says it's seeing water savings from the ones that do. At the city's water conservation office, Ryan Geach gets an alert from one of the city’s wireless meters: a house losing 150 gallons per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/150445657\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice this year, meter alerts tipped him off to toilets that were discharging 4,000 gallons a day — that would be nearly 1.5 million gallons in a year if allowed to continue, enough water for eight typical California households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It happens if it’s fully open, the flapper,\" Geach says, \"and it's just going straight to the sewer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With tens of thousands of homes still unmetered in Sacramento and more than a decade to go on its installation project, it's likely a lot of water is going down the drain. But the price the city is paying for its marathon meter project goes beyond lost water. The current official estimate for the project's cost is now $474 million, and some say that's a lot more than the city needs to or should spend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratepayers will be shouldering the cost for decades. But does it have to be this involved? A phone call to Fresno is instructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, Robert Andersen pulled off the Herculean feat of installing 105,000 meters, about the same number as Sacramento needs. But Fresno’s average cost per meter was just under $700. In Sacramento, it's about $4,700 and rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andersen says the key to getting the project done quickly and cheaply was to keep things simple. For example, in Fresno, the city put the meters in people’s front lawns. In Sacramento, the meters are being installed in sidewalks. The city auditor estimated in 2011 that the sidewalk meters are adding about $500 to the cost of each meter installation, or $50 million to the cost of the entire meter project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Big-Ticket Item\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by far the biggest-ticket item in Sacramento’s installation job is replacing backyard mains: city water pipes that run along the fence line behind homes in older neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento officials made the decision to combine the installation with a much bigger project: digging up all the backyard mains and relocating them under the streets. Because there are thousands of backyard mains, totaling 175 miles or more, replacing them is a big deal. It means street closures and disruptions to neighborhoods for months at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'You're either going to pay now or you are going to pay later.'\u003ccite>Chris Powell, Sacramento Department of Utilities\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city's rationale for relocating the backyard mains? Many are nearing the end of their useful life, the Department of Utilities officials say. So it makes sense to replace virtually all of them and avoid future maintenance and repair costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Powell, a construction supervisor for the department, compares it to a decision lots of consumers have to make: replacing an old car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At 10 years you start making that decision, 'Well, do I keep putting money into it and keep it going,' knowing that eventually you are going to have to buy a new car,\" Powell says. \"You're either going to pay now or you are going to pay later.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Auditor Jorge Oseguera challenged that thinking in a 2011 analysis of the efficiency of Department of Utilities operations, and areas where it might save money. The audit flagged the backyard mains as one source of potentially major savings, finding that \"mains are being replaced irrespective of their condition or remaining service life\" and that the department \"has not evaluated or documented the age or condition of all distribution lines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit noted the useful life of water mains depends on issues like soil conditions, pipe material and climate, and concluded the city could save a lot of money by replacing only the mains that actually needed replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/150446149\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much money? Oseguera's audit suggested that avoiding the replacement of backyard mains could cut the cost of each installation by nearly 80 percent. According to the city’s estimates, replacing all those backyard water mains will cost more than $300 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department says it sees no reason to alter its plan. But briefed on this story, City Councilman Kevin McCarty said the council should “take a hard look at the policy” of replacing backyard water mains before the hundreds of millions of dollars in bonds necessary to finish the project are issued.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The city is nearly 10 years into a two-decade-long project to install about 100,000 meters, a job it doesn't expect to finish by the deadline mandated by state law, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It’s ridiculous in the 21st century for us not be measuring and monitoring and managing properly the scarce resource that is water.'\u003ccite>Peter Gleick,\u003cbr>\nPacific Institute\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So how did California’s capital city fall so far behind when it comes to water meters?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of metering water has never been an easy sell in Sacramento. In 1920, the city amended its charter to read, “No water meters shall ever be attached to residential water service pipes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as 2004, when the state Legislature was poised to mandate water meters, then-Sacramento Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg — today’s state Senate leader — opposed the law and voted against it. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/govbrown-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-135960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/govbrown-640.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Few politicians — especially Democrats — eye an extra $2.5 billion as suspiciously as Gov. Jerry Brown. That’s the amount California revenue estimates have increased since Brown introduced his initial budget in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Brown rolled out his revised $156 billion spending plan Tuesday, he spent the bulk of the press conference pushing back against calls to further hike state spending and restore programs cut during the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, you say we ought to do more,” Brown said at one point. “Well, to do more you need to have to take it from some other program — from the courts, from the university, from roads, from something — or you have to get more taxes. There is no other way around it. And I invite everybody to scrutinize. If you can find more cookies in the jar, hallelujah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has made fiscal restraint \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/21/draft-state-of-the-state-address/\" target=\"_blank\">his main theme\u003c/a> in this election-year budget. He wants to spend $11 billion paying off debt and rewrite laws governing \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/11/125893/gov-brown-rainy-dawy-fund\" target=\"_blank\">how much money the state sets aside in a rainy day fund\u003c/a> to use during deficit years. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/governor-jerry-brown-reaches-deal-with-legislature-on-budget-reserve\" target=\"_blank\">The governor recently won support\u003c/a> from all four legislative caucuses for that plan, which will be put on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Huge Social Commitment'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One social safety-net program does see a major boost in Brown’s budget. He’s proposing a $1.2 billion increase for the state’s Medi-Cal health care program, compared with January. The money is needed, he said, because \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/12/10/will-you-qualify-for-medi-cal-under-obamacare/\" target=\"_blank\">as the health care program expands alongside the federal Affordable Care Act\u003c/a>, far more people are signing up for coverage than the state estimated. Brown said more than 11 million people will be enrolled in Medi-Cal this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thirty percent of the people of California are now getting health coverage under our Medi-Cal program,\" Brown said. \"That is a huge social commitment on the part of the taxpayers of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the federal government is picking up the tab for newly eligible Medi-Cal recipients, the state has to pay half the cost for new enrollees who would have qualified under the old guidelines. So far this year, 300,000 more people have signed up than state officials initially counted on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/149529757&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when labor, health access groups and fellow Democrats ask Brown why he isn’t more committed to restoring social services programs for the poor, this is what he points to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>This\u003c/em> is the social program. When you say we’ve got to help the least among us, this is what this program …. This is not going to the middle class. It’s not going to the rich. It’s going to those who are struggling the most,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown dismisses the idea of restoring one recession-era cut that doctors say would go a long way toward improving the growing health care system. In 2011,\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/01/09/long-fought-medi-cal-provider-rate-cuts-take-effect/\" target=\"_blank\"> lawmakers cut Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for doctors by 10 percent.\u003c/a> Those cuts went into effect earlier this year. Richard Thorp, the president of the California Medical Association, says many providers may stop seeing Medi-Cal-insured patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s overhead costs and employee costs, and just running the business costs,” Thorp said. “So when you’re getting paid significantly less than it costs to actually keep your business open, there’s a certain amount of that where you can’t just continue to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Plan for Pensions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brown has made paying off debt a top priority throughout his term, he had avoided dealing with a looming $75 billion hole in the state’s teacher retirement fund. Brown finally unveiled a specific plan Tuesday. 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But, in truth, it's more the beginning of the end for a different era ... a major one in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soon-to-end era began almost exactly 19 years ago after the elevation of only the third woman to lead the Legislature's lower house — coincidentally, with the selection of the first woman to be speaker, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Allen_(politician)\" target=\"_blank\">Doris Allen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 5, 1995, Allen became the first Republican speaker in almost a quarter century and the successor to the legendary speaker, Willie Brown. Voters approved \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Term_Limits,_Proposition_140_(1990)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 140 in 1990\u003c/a> — a system of term limits that capped service in the Assembly to six years and service in the state Senate to eight years. It was a political campaign crafted by Prop 140's proponents around the idea of booting Willie Brown from power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the wily San Francisco Democrat had one more ace up his sleeve: hand pick a Republican successor, Doris Allen, a stand-in who would allow him to retain his private power even with a new public face on Assembly leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Allen, an Orange County Republican assemblywoman, left her GOP colleagues in the dark to cut a secret deal with Brown — who was scrambling to keep some of his own power and that of his fellow Democrats after the \u003ca href=\"http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/debt/1994midtermelection.html\" target=\"_blank\">1994 GOP electoral tsunami\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By stepping aside as speaker and letting Allen take over,\" wrote journalist James Richardson in \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Willie-Brown-Biography-James-Richardson/dp/0520213157\" target=\"_blank\">a seminal biography of Willie Brown\u003c/a>, \"he prevented the Republican caucus from naming its own speaker and writing its own rules. In effect, Willie Brown was still controlling the shots.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen's speakership lasted all of 105 days, with Republicans wresting control from Brown and Democrats through much of the years 1995 and 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back to 2014: The ascension of Doris Allen was the beginning of the era of short-time Assembly speakers, one that now ends with Toni Atkins. The San Diego Democrat was first elected to the Assembly in 2010 and must leave office no later than the fall of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much turnover has there been in the last two decades? Consider this: Atkins is the eleventh speaker since that fateful June day in 1995. By contrast, in the previous 34 years, only five assemblymembers had held the title of speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so when Speaker Atkins was handed the gavel on Monday afternoon, you could almost hear the clock starting to tick. She'll have just about two years to make her mark on \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/speaker/news-room/press-releases/speaker-toni-atkins-inaugurated-in-capitol\" target=\"_blank\">issues she laid out in Monday's inaugural speech\u003c/a>, from veterans aid to affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkins knows she must prioritize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think I can go all over the place,\" Atkins said at a news conference after the swearing-in ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Atkins may have very little time before the jockeying begins for who will come next. And here's where she symbolizes a major political shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freshman class of assemblymembers elected in 2012, the largest class in more than a generation, is also the first to serve under the relaxed term limits approved by voters that June. \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_28,_Change_in_Term_Limits_(June_2012)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 28\u003c/a> allows new legislators, if re-elected by their constituents, to serve up to 12 years in a single house of the Legislature. That's double the length of service anyone has had in the Assembly for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As such, the next speaker of the Assembly will almost undoubtedly be able to serve for eight years or longer. That would be longer than the legendary \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/06/obituaries/jesse-unruh-a-california-political-power-dies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Unruh\u003c/a> held the post in the '60s, and second only in state history to Willie Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkins knows that will mean major changes in governing, changes already well underway as the 2012 class seems to be introducing fewer bills, searches for some renewed sense of bipartisanship, and is less enamored with running for vacant seats in other places (the state Senate, mainly) than their predecessors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There will be, I think, some culture shifts,\" the speaker said at Monday's news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as she was feted by colleagues with glowing floor speeches during her swearing-in ceremony, it was hard to not notice that the first person who spoke was a freshman — Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez, (D-Los Angeles), who already has had his name bandied about as — one day — possibly taking a shot at lining up the votes to become speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CORRECTION: An earlier version of this posting incorrectly identified another legislator some have seen as leadership material, Assemblymember Das Williams (D-Santa Barbara), as a freshman. 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