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In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the country, educators say students routinely send Snapchat messages in class, listen to music and shop online, among countless other examples of how smartphones distract from teaching and learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hold that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/data-privacy-regulation-facebook-instagram-social-media-798dbfa6004da3a2aa2c36031369a909\">phones have on adolescents\u003c/a> in America today is well-documented, but teachers say parents are often not aware of the extent to which students use them inside the classroom. And increasingly, educators and experts are speaking with one voice on the question of how to handle it: Ban phones during classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students used to have an understanding that you aren’t supposed to be on your phone in class. Those days are gone,” said James Granger, who requires students in his science classes at a Los Angeles-area high school to place their phones in “a cellphone cubby” with numbered slots. “The only solution that works is to physically remove the cellphone from the student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most schools already have rules regulating student phone use, but they are enforced sporadically. A growing number of leaders at the state and federal levels have begun endorsing school cellphone bans and suggesting new ways to curb access to the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"James Granger, high school science teacher\"]‘Students used to have an understanding that you aren’t supposed to be on your phone in class. Those days are gone.’[/pullquote]The latest state intervention came in Utah, where Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, last month urged all school districts and the state Board of Education to remove cellphones from classrooms. He cited studies that show learning improves, distractions are decreased and students are more likely to talk to each other if phones are taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just need a space for six or seven hours a day where kids are not tethered to these devices,” Cox told reporters this month. He said his initiative, which is not binding, is part of a legislative push to protect kids in Utah from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/senators-parents-social-media-regulation-199b50df19e0dc11f1fc9e5b33e2b8c5\">the harms of social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/social-media-florida-government-2a11f9a4e9256eae341a3d54c439c5af\">Florida\u003c/a> became the first state to crack down on phones in school. A law that took effect in July requires all Florida public schools to ban student cellphone use during class time and block access to social media on district Wi-Fi. Some districts, including Orange County Public Schools, went further and banned phones the entire school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24%20INT/SB/SB1314%20INT.PDF\">Oklahoma\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/Docs/BILLS/S-0284/S-0284%20As%20Introduced.pdf\">Vermont\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2641_00_0000.pdf\">Kansas\u003c/a> have also recently introduced what is becoming known as “phone-free schools” legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two U.S. senators — Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, and Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat — introduced legislation in December requiring a federal study on the effects of cellphone use in schools on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-crisis-schools-768fed6a4e71d694ec0694c627d8fdca\">students’ mental health\u003c/a> and academic performance. Theirs is one of several bipartisan alliances calling for stiffer rules for social media companies and greater online safety for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, 77% of U.S. schools say they prohibit cellphones at school for non-academic use, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that number is misleading. It does not mean students are following those bans or all those schools are enforcing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just ask teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is shown over a phone holder in a classroom at Delta High School, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Delta, Utah. \u003ccite>(Rick Bowmer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Cellphone use is out of control. By that, I mean that I cannot control it, even in my own classroom,” said Patrick Truman, who teaches at a Maryland high school that forbids student use of cellphones during class. It is up to each teacher to enforce the policy, so Truman bought a 36-slot caddy for storing student phones. Still, every day, students hide phones in their laps or under books as they play video games and check social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tired of being the phone police, he has come to a reluctant conclusion: “Students who are on their phones are at least quiet. They are not a behavior issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study last year from Common Sense Media found that 97% of kids use their phones during school hours and that kids say school cellphone policies vary — often from one classroom to another — and aren’t always enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a school cellphone ban to work, educators and experts say the school administration must be the one to enforce it and not leave that task to teachers. The Phone-Free Schools Movement, an advocacy group formed last year by concerned mothers, says policies that allow students to keep phones in their backpacks, as many schools do, are ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the bookbag is on the floor next to them, it’s buzzing and distracting, and they have the temptation to want to check it,” said Kim Whitman, a co-founder of the group, which advises schools to require phones to be turned off and locked away all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jared Christensen, vice principal, Delta High School in Utah\"]‘At first, it was a battle. But it has been so worth it. Students are more attentive and engaged during class time. Teachers are able to teach without competing with cellphones. And student learning has increased’[/pullquote]Some students say such policies take away their autonomy and cut off their main mode of communication with family and friends. Pushback also has come from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-health-business-education-e45811998c1b1e4046ade2dbba46fd1e\">parents who fear being cut off from their kids\u003c/a> if there is a school emergency. Whitman advises schools to make exceptions for students with special educational and medical needs and to inform parents on expert guidance that phones can be a dangerous distraction for students during an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaden Willoughey, 14, shares the concern about being out of contact with his parents if there’s a crisis. But he also sees the upsides of turning in his phone at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Delta High School in rural Utah, where Jaden is a freshman, students are required to check their phones at the door when entering every class. Each of the school’s 30 or so classrooms has a cellphone storage unit that looks like an over-the-door shoe bag with three dozen smartphone-sized slots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helps you focus on your work, and it’s easier to pay attention in class,” Jaden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A classmate, Mackenzie Stanworth, 14, said it would be hard to ignore her phone if it was within reach. It’s a relief, she said, to “take a break from the screen and the social life on your phone and actually talk to people in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a few years to tweak the cellphone policy and find a system that worked, said Jared Christensen, the school’s vice principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, it was a battle. But it has been so worth it,” he said. “Students are more attentive and engaged during class time. Teachers are able to teach without competing with cellphones. And student learning has increased,” he said, citing test scores that are at or above state averages for the first time in years. “I can’t definitively say it’s because of this policy. But I know it’s helping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next battle will be against earbuds and smartwatches, he said. Even with phones stashed in pouches, students get caught listening to music on air pods hidden under their hair or hoodies. “We haven’t included earbuds in our policy yet. But we’re almost there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP Reporter Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City, Utah, contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The scene in classrooms around the country is similar: Kids are on their phones, even when school rules forbid it. 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Should schools ban them?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Teachers, Legislators Struggle to Ban 'Out of Control' Phone Use in Schools","datePublished":"2024-02-28T15:30:59.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-27T23:27:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Jocelyn Gecker\u003cbr>The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11977206/kids-are-using-phones-in-class-even-when-its-against-the-rules-should-schools-ban-them-all-day","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the country, educators say students routinely send Snapchat messages in class, listen to music and shop online, among countless other examples of how smartphones distract from teaching and learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hold that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/data-privacy-regulation-facebook-instagram-social-media-798dbfa6004da3a2aa2c36031369a909\">phones have on adolescents\u003c/a> in America today is well-documented, but teachers say parents are often not aware of the extent to which students use them inside the classroom. And increasingly, educators and experts are speaking with one voice on the question of how to handle it: Ban phones during classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students used to have an understanding that you aren’t supposed to be on your phone in class. Those days are gone,” said James Granger, who requires students in his science classes at a Los Angeles-area high school to place their phones in “a cellphone cubby” with numbered slots. “The only solution that works is to physically remove the cellphone from the student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most schools already have rules regulating student phone use, but they are enforced sporadically. A growing number of leaders at the state and federal levels have begun endorsing school cellphone bans and suggesting new ways to curb access to the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Students used to have an understanding that you aren’t supposed to be on your phone in class. Those days are gone.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"James Granger, high school science teacher","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The latest state intervention came in Utah, where Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, last month urged all school districts and the state Board of Education to remove cellphones from classrooms. He cited studies that show learning improves, distractions are decreased and students are more likely to talk to each other if phones are taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just need a space for six or seven hours a day where kids are not tethered to these devices,” Cox told reporters this month. He said his initiative, which is not binding, is part of a legislative push to protect kids in Utah from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/senators-parents-social-media-regulation-199b50df19e0dc11f1fc9e5b33e2b8c5\">the harms of social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/social-media-florida-government-2a11f9a4e9256eae341a3d54c439c5af\">Florida\u003c/a> became the first state to crack down on phones in school. A law that took effect in July requires all Florida public schools to ban student cellphone use during class time and block access to social media on district Wi-Fi. Some districts, including Orange County Public Schools, went further and banned phones the entire school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24%20INT/SB/SB1314%20INT.PDF\">Oklahoma\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/Docs/BILLS/S-0284/S-0284%20As%20Introduced.pdf\">Vermont\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2641_00_0000.pdf\">Kansas\u003c/a> have also recently introduced what is becoming known as “phone-free schools” legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two U.S. senators — Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, and Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat — introduced legislation in December requiring a federal study on the effects of cellphone use in schools on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-crisis-schools-768fed6a4e71d694ec0694c627d8fdca\">students’ mental health\u003c/a> and academic performance. Theirs is one of several bipartisan alliances calling for stiffer rules for social media companies and greater online safety for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, 77% of U.S. schools say they prohibit cellphones at school for non-academic use, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that number is misleading. It does not mean students are following those bans or all those schools are enforcing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just ask teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is shown over a phone holder in a classroom at Delta High School, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Delta, Utah. \u003ccite>(Rick Bowmer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Cellphone use is out of control. By that, I mean that I cannot control it, even in my own classroom,” said Patrick Truman, who teaches at a Maryland high school that forbids student use of cellphones during class. It is up to each teacher to enforce the policy, so Truman bought a 36-slot caddy for storing student phones. Still, every day, students hide phones in their laps or under books as they play video games and check social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tired of being the phone police, he has come to a reluctant conclusion: “Students who are on their phones are at least quiet. They are not a behavior issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study last year from Common Sense Media found that 97% of kids use their phones during school hours and that kids say school cellphone policies vary — often from one classroom to another — and aren’t always enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a school cellphone ban to work, educators and experts say the school administration must be the one to enforce it and not leave that task to teachers. The Phone-Free Schools Movement, an advocacy group formed last year by concerned mothers, says policies that allow students to keep phones in their backpacks, as many schools do, are ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the bookbag is on the floor next to them, it’s buzzing and distracting, and they have the temptation to want to check it,” said Kim Whitman, a co-founder of the group, which advises schools to require phones to be turned off and locked away all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘At first, it was a battle. But it has been so worth it. Students are more attentive and engaged during class time. Teachers are able to teach without competing with cellphones. And student learning has increased’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jared Christensen, vice principal, Delta High School in Utah","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some students say such policies take away their autonomy and cut off their main mode of communication with family and friends. Pushback also has come from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-health-business-education-e45811998c1b1e4046ade2dbba46fd1e\">parents who fear being cut off from their kids\u003c/a> if there is a school emergency. Whitman advises schools to make exceptions for students with special educational and medical needs and to inform parents on expert guidance that phones can be a dangerous distraction for students during an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaden Willoughey, 14, shares the concern about being out of contact with his parents if there’s a crisis. But he also sees the upsides of turning in his phone at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Delta High School in rural Utah, where Jaden is a freshman, students are required to check their phones at the door when entering every class. Each of the school’s 30 or so classrooms has a cellphone storage unit that looks like an over-the-door shoe bag with three dozen smartphone-sized slots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helps you focus on your work, and it’s easier to pay attention in class,” Jaden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A classmate, Mackenzie Stanworth, 14, said it would be hard to ignore her phone if it was within reach. It’s a relief, she said, to “take a break from the screen and the social life on your phone and actually talk to people in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a few years to tweak the cellphone policy and find a system that worked, said Jared Christensen, the school’s vice principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, it was a battle. But it has been so worth it,” he said. “Students are more attentive and engaged during class time. Teachers are able to teach without competing with cellphones. And student learning has increased,” he said, citing test scores that are at or above state averages for the first time in years. “I can’t definitively say it’s because of this policy. But I know it’s helping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next battle will be against earbuds and smartwatches, he said. Even with phones stashed in pouches, students get caught listening to music on air pods hidden under their hair or hoodies. “We haven’t included earbuds in our policy yet. But we’re almost there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP Reporter Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City, Utah, contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11977206/kids-are-using-phones-in-class-even-when-its-against-the-rules-should-schools-ban-them-all-day","authors":["byline_news_11977206"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_2958","news_20013","news_27626","news_17996","news_22602","news_4950","news_3457"],"featImg":"news_11977267","label":"news"},"news_11946026":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11946026","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11946026","score":null,"sort":[1680957017000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"one-month-after-school-stabbing-santa-rosa-students-parents-and-teachers-see-different-solutions-to-safety","title":"One Month After School Stabbing, Santa Rosa Students, Parents and Teachers See Different Solutions to Safety","publishDate":1680957017,"format":"standard","headTitle":"One Month After School Stabbing, Santa Rosa Students, Parents and Teachers See Different Solutions to Safety | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Santa Rosa students, parents and teachers remain torn on solutions for making their schools safer. It has now been more than a month since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-student-16-fatally-stabbed-in-montgomery-high-school-classroom/\">fatal stabbing in an art classroom at Santa Rosa’s Montgomery High School\u003c/a>, and differing approaches to police presence and overall supervision are being heard in school board meetings, student organizing groups and a new school safety advisory group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many parents and teachers look toward reinstating safety resource officers (SROs), students are emphasizing a need for expanded mental health resources, deescalation training and increased funding for restorative justice programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs — armed officers with the Santa Rosa Police Department who patrolled high school campuses and had the power to make arrests — were removed from all campuses by the Santa Rosa City Schools District in 2020, in the wake of nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that [SROs] are the best method of creating a safer campus,” Montgomery junior Vianna Laham told KQED. “I would rather there be more therapists and campus supervisors because there already isn’t enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 1, Montgomery freshman Daniel Pulido, 15, stabbed 16-year-old junior Jayden Pienta during a classroom fight. Pulido, who has been in juvenile detention since the killing, was expected to be arraigned on charges of voluntary manslaughter on March 30, but that hearing has been postponed until May 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the school week after the incident was canceled, and the following week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942769/school-safety-talks-planned-day-after-santa-rosa-student-walkout-over-fatal-campus-stabbing\">hundreds of students participated in walkouts, marches and demands for action\u003c/a> at every major high school within the district. Hundreds of students, parents and staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-students-parents-school-staff-plead-for-stronger-response-to-s/\">also came together at an evening listening session\u003c/a>, where they pleaded with district officials to do more to safeguard schools against violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11942769 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63500__DSC4814-qut-1020x766.jpg']North Bay Organizing Project organizer Joy Ayodele has been working with students from the start to help them organize walkouts and solidify their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than investment in SROs, they were thinking that they need further investment in mental health services on campus,” said Ayodele, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/meet-18-year-old-community-organizer-joy-ayodele/\">organized her first demonstration in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, when she was just 18\u003c/a>. “Not just the typical school counselors that they have but actual mental health professionals that are able to offer them that assistance on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each high school in the district has what Superintendent Anna Trunnell calls a “multitiered system of support” counselor, a college and career counselor, one school-based therapist and one mental health counselor specifically to help with academic anxieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laham says to her knowledge there is only one permanent therapist for Montgomery High’s campus of 1,600 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I am fully in support of police on campus’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DCyxqmDueU\">board meeting March 29\u003c/a>, many parents showed their support for officers on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am fully in support of police on campus and embedded in the school setting starting in kindergarten,” said parent Sarah Jenkins during public comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montgomery High teacher Margret Buhn told the school board about how a student in one of her classes was worried they were going to get jumped by their fellow classmates two weeks after the stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buhn and the student’s family wrote emails to the administration and superintendent Trunnell, yet said they were told little could be done. On March 27, the student was attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a teacher, I want to protect my students, and I tried to do just that,” Buhn said at the board meeting. “As teachers collectively, we feel desperation to address this. I asked in my email last night if we had learned anything from the tragedy that had just happened. In light of this incident, I feel we have not learned enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m not hearing students root for SROs’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa students district-wide share a similar sentiment, and in their \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/11VOsXzwV5U-ivt1ebuWXftIXBcg7aWDc1HPs578vTXY/edit?pli=1\">list of demands\u003c/a> say their district has failed them. But Ayodele says the students aren’t asking for quick fixes or police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not hearing students root for SROs or anything along those lines. I’m hearing them present actual, you know, initiatives that they want to support,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ayodele, students at Montgomery want more funding for their restorative justice programs. She says these programs are underfunded and students are on waitlists district-wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had the power, I would add trained [administrators] to the campus who have the capability to assess a situation quickly or prevent it,” Montgomery sophomore Lyla Snyder told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of students who appear to be high school aged stand together outside with trees in the background and one visible sign on white paper with red ink, reading 'we will get jutice'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1441\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-1536x1153.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students participate in a walkout at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa on March 6, in the wake of the fatal March 1 stabbing of 16-year-old Jayden Pienta in an art classroom. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the weeks following the stabbing, Superintendent Trunnell issued a series of action items, including temporary counseling services and the introduction of a safety advisory group, which held its first meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Safety Advisory Roundtable (SART), a 30-member body made up of students, parents, teachers, school staff and community members and facilitated by Trunnell, will discuss solutions and action related to the four pillars the district lists on its website: safety and security, mental health and counseling, communication and transparency, and facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs will be a pressing item on the group’s agenda, and Trunnell said decisions made about their potential return will be up to the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not see SROs come back in the way they were previously,” Trunnell told KQED. “I believe that from this work, we will more than likely place a recommendation before the school board on a type of position more focused on safety and security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trunnell is still unsure about what that will look like, but said SART is working toward making recommendations ahead of school board meetings, with the next one on April 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new school safety advisory group will help decide whether police should return to campuses. 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It has now been more than a month since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-student-16-fatally-stabbed-in-montgomery-high-school-classroom/\">fatal stabbing in an art classroom at Santa Rosa’s Montgomery High School\u003c/a>, and differing approaches to police presence and overall supervision are being heard in school board meetings, student organizing groups and a new school safety advisory group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many parents and teachers look toward reinstating safety resource officers (SROs), students are emphasizing a need for expanded mental health resources, deescalation training and increased funding for restorative justice programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs — armed officers with the Santa Rosa Police Department who patrolled high school campuses and had the power to make arrests — were removed from all campuses by the Santa Rosa City Schools District in 2020, in the wake of nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that [SROs] are the best method of creating a safer campus,” Montgomery junior Vianna Laham told KQED. “I would rather there be more therapists and campus supervisors because there already isn’t enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 1, Montgomery freshman Daniel Pulido, 15, stabbed 16-year-old junior Jayden Pienta during a classroom fight. Pulido, who has been in juvenile detention since the killing, was expected to be arraigned on charges of voluntary manslaughter on March 30, but that hearing has been postponed until May 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the school week after the incident was canceled, and the following week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942769/school-safety-talks-planned-day-after-santa-rosa-student-walkout-over-fatal-campus-stabbing\">hundreds of students participated in walkouts, marches and demands for action\u003c/a> at every major high school within the district. Hundreds of students, parents and staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-students-parents-school-staff-plead-for-stronger-response-to-s/\">also came together at an evening listening session\u003c/a>, where they pleaded with district officials to do more to safeguard schools against violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11942769","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63500__DSC4814-qut-1020x766.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>North Bay Organizing Project organizer Joy Ayodele has been working with students from the start to help them organize walkouts and solidify their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than investment in SROs, they were thinking that they need further investment in mental health services on campus,” said Ayodele, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/meet-18-year-old-community-organizer-joy-ayodele/\">organized her first demonstration in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, when she was just 18\u003c/a>. “Not just the typical school counselors that they have but actual mental health professionals that are able to offer them that assistance on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each high school in the district has what Superintendent Anna Trunnell calls a “multitiered system of support” counselor, a college and career counselor, one school-based therapist and one mental health counselor specifically to help with academic anxieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laham says to her knowledge there is only one permanent therapist for Montgomery High’s campus of 1,600 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I am fully in support of police on campus’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DCyxqmDueU\">board meeting March 29\u003c/a>, many parents showed their support for officers on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am fully in support of police on campus and embedded in the school setting starting in kindergarten,” said parent Sarah Jenkins during public comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montgomery High teacher Margret Buhn told the school board about how a student in one of her classes was worried they were going to get jumped by their fellow classmates two weeks after the stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buhn and the student’s family wrote emails to the administration and superintendent Trunnell, yet said they were told little could be done. On March 27, the student was attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a teacher, I want to protect my students, and I tried to do just that,” Buhn said at the board meeting. “As teachers collectively, we feel desperation to address this. I asked in my email last night if we had learned anything from the tragedy that had just happened. In light of this incident, I feel we have not learned enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m not hearing students root for SROs’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa students district-wide share a similar sentiment, and in their \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/11VOsXzwV5U-ivt1ebuWXftIXBcg7aWDc1HPs578vTXY/edit?pli=1\">list of demands\u003c/a> say their district has failed them. But Ayodele says the students aren’t asking for quick fixes or police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not hearing students root for SROs or anything along those lines. I’m hearing them present actual, you know, initiatives that they want to support,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ayodele, students at Montgomery want more funding for their restorative justice programs. She says these programs are underfunded and students are on waitlists district-wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had the power, I would add trained [administrators] to the campus who have the capability to assess a situation quickly or prevent it,” Montgomery sophomore Lyla Snyder told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of students who appear to be high school aged stand together outside with trees in the background and one visible sign on white paper with red ink, reading 'we will get jutice'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1441\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-1536x1153.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students participate in a walkout at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa on March 6, in the wake of the fatal March 1 stabbing of 16-year-old Jayden Pienta in an art classroom. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the weeks following the stabbing, Superintendent Trunnell issued a series of action items, including temporary counseling services and the introduction of a safety advisory group, which held its first meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Safety Advisory Roundtable (SART), a 30-member body made up of students, parents, teachers, school staff and community members and facilitated by Trunnell, will discuss solutions and action related to the four pillars the district lists on its website: safety and security, mental health and counseling, communication and transparency, and facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs will be a pressing item on the group’s agenda, and Trunnell said decisions made about their potential return will be up to the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not see SROs come back in the way they were previously,” Trunnell told KQED. “I believe that from this work, we will more than likely place a recommendation before the school board on a type of position more focused on safety and security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trunnell is still unsure about what that will look like, but said SART is working toward making recommendations ahead of school board meetings, with the next one on April 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11946026/one-month-after-school-stabbing-santa-rosa-students-parents-and-teachers-see-different-solutions-to-safety","authors":["11880"],"categories":["news_18540","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_32471","news_20625","news_474","news_32470","news_22602"],"featImg":"news_11946063","label":"news"},"news_11929574":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11929574","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11929574","score":null,"sort":[1666293339000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"preliminary-glimpse-at-test-scores-shows-steep-declines-in-reading-math","title":"Preliminary Glimpse at Test Scores Shows Steep Declines in Reading, Math","publishDate":1666293339,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Preliminary Glimpse at Test Scores Shows Steep Declines in Reading, Math | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Recently released test scores from some of California’s largest school districts — representing more than 1 million students — offer a preview of what’s likely to be steep drops in reading and math scores statewide in the wake of COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scores, which districts released individually at the request of EdSource, show sharp declines in all grade levels from 2019, before COVID forced the closure of most campuses to in-person learning, and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education has delayed releasing the full statewide results from the 2022 Smarter Balanced assessments, which are given annually to third through eighth graders and 11th graders to measure progress in English language arts and math. Under pressure from EdSource and other media outlets, the department recently agreed to release the scores by the end of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, EdSource has collected individual results from 10 large districts, including Los Angeles Unified, San Diego Unified, Fresno Unified, Lodi Unified, Long Beach Unified, Sacramento City Unified, Sweetwater Union High School District, San Ramon Valley Unified, Bakersfield City School District and Mt. Diablo Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results show consistent declines in all categories from 2019, but some variations among districts and subgroups:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Only 13% of students in Bakersfield met the state standard for math.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reading scores in Los Angeles Unified dipped only slightly from 2019 to 2022. Still, only 41% of students in 2022 were proficient in reading.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Math scores in Fresno dropped by a third. In 2022, only 21% of students met the math standard.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reading scores in Long Beach dropped 11 points, but declines were less steep in math. Math scores fell only 4 points.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Mt. Diablo Unified, one of the few districts to break down the results by subgroup, Black, Latino, English learner, foster and unhoused students had far lower scores compared with 2019 than their white and Asian peers. For example, among English learners, 96% did not meet the math or reading standards.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>By and large, scores show little change from 2021, the first year results were released after the state suspended the 2020 tests due to COVID. The 2021 test was optional for schools to administer, so results were limited and likely not an accurate reflection of students’ progress overall. Just under 25% of students took the test in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lodi Unified saw scores in both math and reading improve from 2021, but they still lag significantly from 2019. That’s not a surprise, considering the difficulties teachers and students faced as they returned from distance learning, said Robert Sahli, assistant superintendent.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lucrecia Santibañez, associate professor of education, UCLA\"]‘COVID was tough for everyone … But these scores signal that we need to make a personalized, intensive effort to help kids catch up and recoup what they’ve lost.’[/pullquote]“Last year, even though we were back in person, it was very challenging,” he said. “Teachers and support staff were working very hard to address learning loss while also responding to the social-emotional impacts on learning and socializing at school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other districts, Lodi has hired more tutors and teachers to help students catch up, beefed up summer school and after-school academic offerings, adopted new curricula and taken other steps to bring students to proficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heather Hough, director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), said the preliminary results are actually better than she expected. Because 2022 is the first year all schools were required to give the test, she anticipated a significant drop from 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought 2022 would be a recovery year, but there was so much chaos — teacher shortages, students missing school — that it turned out to be another pandemic year,” she said. “If the scores are the same (as 2021), that’s actually encouraging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state releases the full data, Hough and her colleagues will pay close attention to differences among subgroups and statistical anomalies. If one district, for example, shows good results for students in special education, it would be worth researching what special steps that district has taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noted that some students thrived during remote learning, so she expects some good news, as well. In any case, schools and districts, as well as statewide policymakers, should use the scores to shape their allocation of resources in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we get this data, we’ll finally be able to see how California is doing, what challenges we’re facing, and how we can best help students as we move forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of the statewide release of test scores, the state last week launched a push for schools to help students regain skills they lost during COVID. The state is emphasizing accelerated learning, rather than remedial lessons, to speed up the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steps like that could be the most useful result of the Smarter Balanced scores, said Lucrecia Santibañez, associate professor of education at UCLA. Closely analyzing the data and using it to forge a path forward — specifically for certain groups of students — is more useful than assigning blame, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“COVID was tough for everyone, and it’s not worth putting blame on anyone. Everyone was trying the best they could. But these scores signal that we need to make a personalized, intensive effort to help kids catch up and recoup what they’ve lost,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the scores are disappointing, they can be an important tool to help schools pinpoint resources in the future, she said. The scores can provide a window into what exact content students have missed, where they’re lagging and which students need the most help, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Mt. Diablo Unified, Raymond Tjen-A-Looi, director of assessment, research and evaluation, told the school board that comparisons with 2021 aren’t helpful because education was still so disrupted due to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re concentrating on using 2022 as a baseline, with the expectation that everything will stay the same going forward — testing will be in person, instruction will be in person,” he said. “So moving forward, hopefully, we’ll be able to do more comparisons and see how well we are making up for what we’ve lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/preliminary-glimpse-at-test-scores-shows-steep-declines-in-reading-math/679898?amp=1\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The California Department of Education will release the 2022 Smarter Balanced assessments in full by the end of October, but preliminary results from 10 big school districts so far show that students face major challenges statewide.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1701732840,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1078},"headData":{"title":"Preliminary Glimpse at Test Scores Shows Steep Declines in Reading, Math | KQED","description":"The California Department of Education will release the 2022 Smarter Balanced assessments in full by the end of October, but preliminary results from 10 big school districts so far show that students face major challenges statewide.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Preliminary Glimpse at Test Scores Shows Steep Declines in Reading, Math","datePublished":"2022-10-20T19:15:39.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-04T23:34:00.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"EdSource","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/edsource","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/cjones\">Carolyn Jones\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/dwillis\">Daniel J. 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Under pressure from EdSource and other media outlets, the department recently agreed to release the scores by the end of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, EdSource has collected individual results from 10 large districts, including Los Angeles Unified, San Diego Unified, Fresno Unified, Lodi Unified, Long Beach Unified, Sacramento City Unified, Sweetwater Union High School District, San Ramon Valley Unified, Bakersfield City School District and Mt. Diablo Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results show consistent declines in all categories from 2019, but some variations among districts and subgroups:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Only 13% of students in Bakersfield met the state standard for math.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reading scores in Los Angeles Unified dipped only slightly from 2019 to 2022. Still, only 41% of students in 2022 were proficient in reading.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Math scores in Fresno dropped by a third. 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Just under 25% of students took the test in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lodi Unified saw scores in both math and reading improve from 2021, but they still lag significantly from 2019. 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Because 2022 is the first year all schools were required to give the test, she anticipated a significant drop from 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought 2022 would be a recovery year, but there was so much chaos — teacher shortages, students missing school — that it turned out to be another pandemic year,” she said. “If the scores are the same (as 2021), that’s actually encouraging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state releases the full data, Hough and her colleagues will pay close attention to differences among subgroups and statistical anomalies. If one district, for example, shows good results for students in special education, it would be worth researching what special steps that district has taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noted that some students thrived during remote learning, so she expects some good news, as well. In any case, schools and districts, as well as statewide policymakers, should use the scores to shape their allocation of resources in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we get this data, we’ll finally be able to see how California is doing, what challenges we’re facing, and how we can best help students as we move forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of the statewide release of test scores, the state last week launched a push for schools to help students regain skills they lost during COVID. The state is emphasizing accelerated learning, rather than remedial lessons, to speed up the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steps like that could be the most useful result of the Smarter Balanced scores, said Lucrecia Santibañez, associate professor of education at UCLA. 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A New Position at Berkeley Unified Aims to Help","publishDate":1665241235,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During her junior year at Berkeley High last fall, Ava Murakami overheard a classmate make vulgar, sexual comments about a teacher.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Murakami was disturbed, and said the student had also made derogatory and offensive comments about women and their physical appearances. She decided to file a formal complaint through Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The intention was that I would file the report on behalf of my community, be the person who stepped up and didn’t let it keep going on forever,” she said. “I thought it would be one and done. I sign the paper, it’s done with.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that’s not what happened. Instead, she said the process was drawn out and cryptic, and involved dozens of email exchanges. She said it was difficult to get answers on the status of her complaint, which she was told would be confidential. Then, months into the process, she learned that her name could be shared if students’ parents asked for that information. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was confused,” she said. “So I withdrew (the complaint), despite already feeling exposed.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, as the commissioner of Women’s Rights and Equity at Berkeley High, Murakami aims to help other students avoid that experience. She hopes a newly created role in the district, called a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1656192\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Title IX Student Support Counselor\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, could make a difference. The district is still hiring for the position, but whoever takes on the job will provide counseling and guidance for students going through the complicated and arduous process of filing Title IX complaints. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an interview with KQED, Berkeley Superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel said she could not comment on the specifics of what occurred in that case. But she said the district is committed to making sure students and staff know what their rights are, which is part of the reason this new role was created. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's not just about the investigation itself and the outcome, it's about, ‘How do I help you heal? How do I help you navigate while you're in real time experiencing the fallout?,’” Ford Morthel said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The proposal for the position was initially drafted “out of pure rage” by Genevieve Mage, a yearbook advisor at Berkeley High. Mage is the same teacher who helped uncover sexual assault allegations against Matt Bissell, a former chemistry teacher at Berkeley High. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/11/23/berkeley-high-knew-about-matthew-bissell-sexual-misconduct-allegations\">Berkeleyside investigation\u003c/a> found Berkeley High knew of allegations that he sexually harassed students before he was allowed to quietly resign in 2021. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mage said students turn to her for help because they trust her, but she is not paid to be a therapist, an investigator and a teacher at the same time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928108\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11928108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419.jpg\" alt=\"The white facade of Berkeley High School, with the name of the school written above the entrance.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The commissioner of Women's Rights and Equity at Berkeley High School hopes the newly created role of Title IX Student Support Counselor will make a difference in helping both students and staff navigate the process of reporting sexual abuse and misconduct. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also saw firsthand last school year how agonizing the Title IX process can be. She says a student had threatened to rape and kill her, and the student stayed in her class for about a week after she asked for him to be removed for her safety. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When his behavior continued outside of her class, she filed a Title IX complaint, which she also expected to be kept confidential. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I inadvertently outed students that had come to me in confidence and told me what had happened,” she said. “You also have to imagine that I have power. I have tenure. I have a union to support me legally. How do you think a 15-year-old feels?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Title IX Student Support Counselor, a role more common on college campuses but rare in high schools, would advocate for the needs and emotional well-being of students, including for those who file complaints and for people who are accused. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s also designed to address economic disadvantages where students with access to attorneys receive guidance and support, and students with fewer resources can be left on their own. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Title IX cares about government compliance. The district cares about liability and who's going to get sued. And the student is trapped between both of those adults,” Mage explained. “There is no one there that's just like, ‘Hey, what do you need? What do you want to happen?’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mage is optimistic, but also worries that the district will struggle to hire someone for the position while the school year is already underway, especially when interviewing for the job has yet to begin. The district has grappled with high turnover and low resources in the Title IX office for years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On top of the student advocate role, the district will need to hire a new investigator after the previous person in that post stepped down in September. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The federal rules governing how schools respond to Title IX complaints are also expected to change by the next school year, a move many advocates for victims and survivors are eager to see. The Biden administration is in the process of overturning Title IX regulations adopted by former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, which offered greater protections for people accused of misconduct and significantly narrowed the definition of sexual harassment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for Ava Murakami, she says a few weeks ago she met with the district’s Title IX coordinator and compliance officer, Jasmina Viteskic, who started the job in November. Viteskic holds office hours for students at Berkeley High twice a week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Murakami said Viteskic walked her through the Title IX process, providing the kind of transparency that was missing when she first sought out help. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And she explained to me, ‘This is where they did you wrong,’” Murakami said. “I just kept having this, like, ‘Oh,’ moment of just, like, ‘Oh, that’s what happened with my report.’ So I actually feel a lot better.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Murakami said Viteskic also brought up the demands fellow students had drafted when they first walked out of class to protest the school’s response to sexual misconduct back in 2020. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That was crazy cool,” Murakami said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The demands include regular training on consent for student athletes as well as a long-term and properly paid Title IX coordinator. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students like Murakami plan to continue revising the demands this year based on the school’s progress, and on what their classmates need.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The new position of Title IX Student Support Counselor at Berkeley Unified School District aims to help staff and students navigate the processes and manage the pitfalls of reporting sexual abuse and misconduct in Berkeley high schools.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1665240792,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1144},"headData":{"title":"Reporting Sexual Misconduct in High School Can Be Traumatic. 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A New Position at Berkeley Unified Aims to Help","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/df981bfd-8a4f-4ca9-a143-af18011c5599/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11928094/reporting-sexual-misconduct-in-high-school-can-be-traumatic-a-new-position-at-berkeley-unified-aims-to-help","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During her junior year at Berkeley High last fall, Ava Murakami overheard a classmate make vulgar, sexual comments about a teacher.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Murakami was disturbed, and said the student had also made derogatory and offensive comments about women and their physical appearances. She decided to file a formal complaint through Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The intention was that I would file the report on behalf of my community, be the person who stepped up and didn’t let it keep going on forever,” she said. “I thought it would be one and done. I sign the paper, it’s done with.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that’s not what happened. Instead, she said the process was drawn out and cryptic, and involved dozens of email exchanges. She said it was difficult to get answers on the status of her complaint, which she was told would be confidential. Then, months into the process, she learned that her name could be shared if students’ parents asked for that information. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was confused,” she said. “So I withdrew (the complaint), despite already feeling exposed.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, as the commissioner of Women’s Rights and Equity at Berkeley High, Murakami aims to help other students avoid that experience. She hopes a newly created role in the district, called a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1656192\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Title IX Student Support Counselor\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, could make a difference. The district is still hiring for the position, but whoever takes on the job will provide counseling and guidance for students going through the complicated and arduous process of filing Title IX complaints. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an interview with KQED, Berkeley Superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel said she could not comment on the specifics of what occurred in that case. But she said the district is committed to making sure students and staff know what their rights are, which is part of the reason this new role was created. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's not just about the investigation itself and the outcome, it's about, ‘How do I help you heal? How do I help you navigate while you're in real time experiencing the fallout?,’” Ford Morthel said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The proposal for the position was initially drafted “out of pure rage” by Genevieve Mage, a yearbook advisor at Berkeley High. Mage is the same teacher who helped uncover sexual assault allegations against Matt Bissell, a former chemistry teacher at Berkeley High. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/11/23/berkeley-high-knew-about-matthew-bissell-sexual-misconduct-allegations\">Berkeleyside investigation\u003c/a> found Berkeley High knew of allegations that he sexually harassed students before he was allowed to quietly resign in 2021. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mage said students turn to her for help because they trust her, but she is not paid to be a therapist, an investigator and a teacher at the same time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928108\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11928108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419.jpg\" alt=\"The white facade of Berkeley High School, with the name of the school written above the entrance.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The commissioner of Women's Rights and Equity at Berkeley High School hopes the newly created role of Title IX Student Support Counselor will make a difference in helping both students and staff navigate the process of reporting sexual abuse and misconduct. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also saw firsthand last school year how agonizing the Title IX process can be. She says a student had threatened to rape and kill her, and the student stayed in her class for about a week after she asked for him to be removed for her safety. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When his behavior continued outside of her class, she filed a Title IX complaint, which she also expected to be kept confidential. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I inadvertently outed students that had come to me in confidence and told me what had happened,” she said. “You also have to imagine that I have power. I have tenure. I have a union to support me legally. How do you think a 15-year-old feels?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Title IX Student Support Counselor, a role more common on college campuses but rare in high schools, would advocate for the needs and emotional well-being of students, including for those who file complaints and for people who are accused. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s also designed to address economic disadvantages where students with access to attorneys receive guidance and support, and students with fewer resources can be left on their own. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Title IX cares about government compliance. The district cares about liability and who's going to get sued. And the student is trapped between both of those adults,” Mage explained. “There is no one there that's just like, ‘Hey, what do you need? What do you want to happen?’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mage is optimistic, but also worries that the district will struggle to hire someone for the position while the school year is already underway, especially when interviewing for the job has yet to begin. The district has grappled with high turnover and low resources in the Title IX office for years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On top of the student advocate role, the district will need to hire a new investigator after the previous person in that post stepped down in September. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The federal rules governing how schools respond to Title IX complaints are also expected to change by the next school year, a move many advocates for victims and survivors are eager to see. The Biden administration is in the process of overturning Title IX regulations adopted by former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, which offered greater protections for people accused of misconduct and significantly narrowed the definition of sexual harassment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for Ava Murakami, she says a few weeks ago she met with the district’s Title IX coordinator and compliance officer, Jasmina Viteskic, who started the job in November. Viteskic holds office hours for students at Berkeley High twice a week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Murakami said Viteskic walked her through the Title IX process, providing the kind of transparency that was missing when she first sought out help. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And she explained to me, ‘This is where they did you wrong,’” Murakami said. “I just kept having this, like, ‘Oh,’ moment of just, like, ‘Oh, that’s what happened with my report.’ So I actually feel a lot better.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Murakami said Viteskic also brought up the demands fellow students had drafted when they first walked out of class to protest the school’s response to sexual misconduct back in 2020. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That was crazy cool,” Murakami said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The demands include regular training on consent for student athletes as well as a long-term and properly paid Title IX coordinator. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students like Murakami plan to continue revising the demands this year based on the school’s progress, and on what their classmates need.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11928094/reporting-sexual-misconduct-in-high-school-can-be-traumatic-a-new-position-at-berkeley-unified-aims-to-help","authors":["11635"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_31779","news_31177","news_22602","news_6215"],"featImg":"news_11928106","label":"news"},"news_11892267":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11892267","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11892267","score":null,"sort":[1634247951000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-california-parents-and-teachers-need-to-know-about-universal-transitional-kindergarten","title":"What California Parents and Teachers Need to Know About Universal Transitional Kindergarten","publishDate":1634247951,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Even as the pandemic continues to disrupt the way children learn, California is poised to make a historic investment in its early education system. Championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and many lawmakers, the new $2.7 billion \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/how-californias-new-universal-transitional-kindergarten-program-will-be-rolled-out/657818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">universal transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> program is being hailed by many experts as a game changer for families in California with almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/34/child-population-age-gender/table#fmt=141&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=110&ch=1\">3 million children under the age of 5\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In keeping with President Joe Biden’s vision of universal preschool, this expansion of the current TK program will create more equity in early education, many experts say. Increasing access to preschool may be one of the keys to closing the achievement gap, they say, since about \u003ca href=\"https://www.firstthingsfirst.org/early-childhood-matters/brain-development/#:~:text=90%25%20of%20Brain%20Growth%20Happens,full%20grown%20%E2%80%93%20by%20age%205.\">90% of brain growth happens before kindergarten\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there are myriad opinions about how universal transitional kindergarten should be rolled out. While the state’s plan is to implement universal TK through the public school system, some advocates argue the program should also be available through preschools and child care centers in a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/why-some-early-childhood-advocates-want-more-transitional-kindergarten-choices/656600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mixed delivery model\u003c/a> that would help bolster the struggling child care industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. What is transitional kindergarten, or TK, and is it mandatory?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>TK is a stepping-stone between preschool and kindergarten. Both TK and kindergarten are entirely optional. Children are only required to attend school in California once they turn 6. Until that age, it is up to parents to decide whether to enroll their children in preschool, transitional kindergarten, or other child care arrangements or keep them at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>2. Is TK free? How is it paid for?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Children can attend TK at no cost because it is part of California’s K-12 public school system. Districts receive funding for TK students based on average daily attendance, which is the average number of students in attendance over the course of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>3. Why was TK first introduced in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2017/understanding-transitional-kindergarten-a-quick-guide/585073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TK\u003c/a> came about after the Legislature approved the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1381_bill_20100930_chaptered.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kindergarten Readiness Act\u003c/a> in 2010. Until then, children who were 4 years old on Sept. 1 could still enroll in regular kindergarten as long as they turned 5 by Dec. 2 of that year. But the new law changed that. Beginning in 2012, children had to be 5 by Sept. 1 to enroll in kindergarten.[aside tag=\"education, kindergarten\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That left out about 100,000 kids who had to wait an extra year. In response, transitional kindergarten was established in 2012 to serve those 4-year-olds who would previously have been eligible for kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>4. What is the difference between the current TK program and the new universal transitional kindergarten program?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Currently, TK serves about 100,000 children, primarily those who turn 5 between Sept. 2 and Dec. 2. These are the students who narrowly miss the cutoff for regular kindergarten. The new $2.7 billion universal TK program, by contrast, will gradually be made available to every 4-year-old in California, eventually serving nearly 400,000 students. It will essentially become California’s version of a universal preschool program, available to all children regardless of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>5. How long will it take for universal transitional kindergarten to be fully rolled out?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It is expected to be rolled out beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, expanding annually until it is available to all the state’s 4-year-olds by 2025-2026. The plan is to gradually phase in younger students each year. However, some school districts are ahead of the curve, having already expanded TK to most 4-year-olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>6. How large will the class sizes be?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Small class sizes are optimal to give young kids the attention they need. Individual instruction is a pillar of quality early education, experts say. The ratios for TK are expected to start out at 12 students to 1 teacher or teaching assistant and transition to 10 students to 1 teacher by the 2025-2026 school year. That is about half the size of many current TK classes, many of which rely on parent volunteers to help teachers. Many preschool settings enjoy an even smaller ratio. Head Start, for instance, generally keeps an 8-1 ratio in its preschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>7. How will school districts pay for the new classrooms and facilities necessary to suit small children?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The state has earmarked about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB130\">$490 million in the latest budget to build new facilities and make adjustments to existing ones\u003c/a>, such as building out right-size water fountains and restrooms with pint-size potties and sinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>8. What are the challenges facing this massive expansion of TK?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Staffing is one of the biggest hurdles ahead. There is already a teacher shortage in the state. California will need an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 new teachers and 16,000 new teaching assistants as transitional kindergarten expands, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>9. What will the credential requirements for TK teachers be?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Currently, TK teachers are required to have a multiple-subject teaching credential, the same credential teachers need for all the elementary grades. By 2023, TK teachers also will need to complete an additional 24 units of early childhood education coursework or the equivalent, as deemed by their employer, or they will need to hold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/leaflets/child-development-permits-(cl-797)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">child-development permit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>10. What are the plans for recruiting and training new transitional kindergarten teachers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The state has allocated \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$100 million in competitive grants\u003c/a> to school districts for recruiting teachers and providing ongoing professional learning. The state is also looking at various options for making it easier to meet the credential requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>11. What will TK teachers get paid?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That is ultimately determined by districts, but typically, TK teachers are paid the same as kindergarten teachers. It should be noted that K-12 teachers generally earn about 38% more than preschool teachers and child care workers, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/workforce-index-2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment\u003c/a> at the University of California, Berkeley. That wage disparity helps explain why 17% of the state’s early childhood educators live in poverty, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>12. Is there a pathway for preschool teachers, a workforce that's predominately women of color, to move into TK careers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ctc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Commission on Teacher Credentialing\u003c/a> has developed a proposal that would create a pathway for preschool teacher permit holders to gain the preparation they need to teach TK without completing all the requirements for a multiple-subject teaching credential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, about 49% of early childhood teachers in child care centers have a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/early-educators-equipped-to-teach-tk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for the Study of Child Care Employment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>13. Will TK be a full-day or a half-day program?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Universal TK, like kindergarten, is a local choice of full-day or part-day. However, the state’s new \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/staffing-shortage-delays-ambitious-program-to-extend-school-day-and-year-in-california/661436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Expanded Learning Opportunities Program\u003c/a> requires that local educational agencies offer a nine-hour school day including before- and after-class services.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>14. Do children in universal TK have to meet the same vaccination requirements as in regular kindergarten?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes, the same vaccination criteria apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/universal-transitional-kindergarten-quick-guide/662318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EdSource\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Even as the pandemic continues to disrupt the way children learn, California is poised to make a historic investment in its early education system. Here's a quick guide to universal transitional kindergarten.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1634255975,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1185},"headData":{"title":"What California Parents and Teachers Need to Know About Universal Transitional Kindergarten | KQED","description":"Even as the pandemic continues to disrupt the way children learn, California is poised to make a historic investment in its early education system. Here's a quick guide to universal transitional kindergarten.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"What California Parents and Teachers Need to Know About Universal Transitional Kindergarten","datePublished":"2021-10-14T21:45:51.000Z","dateModified":"2021-10-14T23:59:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11892267 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11892267","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/10/14/what-california-parents-and-teachers-need-to-know-about-universal-transitional-kindergarten/","disqusTitle":"What California Parents and Teachers Need to Know About Universal Transitional Kindergarten","source":"EdSource","sourceUrl":"https://edsource.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/kdsouza\">Karen D'Souza\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11892267/what-california-parents-and-teachers-need-to-know-about-universal-transitional-kindergarten","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even as the pandemic continues to disrupt the way children learn, California is poised to make a historic investment in its early education system. Championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and many lawmakers, the new $2.7 billion \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/how-californias-new-universal-transitional-kindergarten-program-will-be-rolled-out/657818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">universal transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> program is being hailed by many experts as a game changer for families in California with almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/34/child-population-age-gender/table#fmt=141&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=110&ch=1\">3 million children under the age of 5\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In keeping with President Joe Biden’s vision of universal preschool, this expansion of the current TK program will create more equity in early education, many experts say. Increasing access to preschool may be one of the keys to closing the achievement gap, they say, since about \u003ca href=\"https://www.firstthingsfirst.org/early-childhood-matters/brain-development/#:~:text=90%25%20of%20Brain%20Growth%20Happens,full%20grown%20%E2%80%93%20by%20age%205.\">90% of brain growth happens before kindergarten\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there are myriad opinions about how universal transitional kindergarten should be rolled out. While the state’s plan is to implement universal TK through the public school system, some advocates argue the program should also be available through preschools and child care centers in a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/why-some-early-childhood-advocates-want-more-transitional-kindergarten-choices/656600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mixed delivery model\u003c/a> that would help bolster the struggling child care industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. What is transitional kindergarten, or TK, and is it mandatory?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>TK is a stepping-stone between preschool and kindergarten. Both TK and kindergarten are entirely optional. Children are only required to attend school in California once they turn 6. Until that age, it is up to parents to decide whether to enroll their children in preschool, transitional kindergarten, or other child care arrangements or keep them at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>2. Is TK free? How is it paid for?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Children can attend TK at no cost because it is part of California’s K-12 public school system. Districts receive funding for TK students based on average daily attendance, which is the average number of students in attendance over the course of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>3. Why was TK first introduced in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2017/understanding-transitional-kindergarten-a-quick-guide/585073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TK\u003c/a> came about after the Legislature approved the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1381_bill_20100930_chaptered.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kindergarten Readiness Act\u003c/a> in 2010. Until then, children who were 4 years old on Sept. 1 could still enroll in regular kindergarten as long as they turned 5 by Dec. 2 of that year. But the new law changed that. Beginning in 2012, children had to be 5 by Sept. 1 to enroll in kindergarten.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"education, kindergarten","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That left out about 100,000 kids who had to wait an extra year. In response, transitional kindergarten was established in 2012 to serve those 4-year-olds who would previously have been eligible for kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>4. What is the difference between the current TK program and the new universal transitional kindergarten program?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Currently, TK serves about 100,000 children, primarily those who turn 5 between Sept. 2 and Dec. 2. These are the students who narrowly miss the cutoff for regular kindergarten. The new $2.7 billion universal TK program, by contrast, will gradually be made available to every 4-year-old in California, eventually serving nearly 400,000 students. It will essentially become California’s version of a universal preschool program, available to all children regardless of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>5. How long will it take for universal transitional kindergarten to be fully rolled out?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It is expected to be rolled out beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, expanding annually until it is available to all the state’s 4-year-olds by 2025-2026. The plan is to gradually phase in younger students each year. However, some school districts are ahead of the curve, having already expanded TK to most 4-year-olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>6. How large will the class sizes be?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Small class sizes are optimal to give young kids the attention they need. Individual instruction is a pillar of quality early education, experts say. The ratios for TK are expected to start out at 12 students to 1 teacher or teaching assistant and transition to 10 students to 1 teacher by the 2025-2026 school year. That is about half the size of many current TK classes, many of which rely on parent volunteers to help teachers. Many preschool settings enjoy an even smaller ratio. Head Start, for instance, generally keeps an 8-1 ratio in its preschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>7. How will school districts pay for the new classrooms and facilities necessary to suit small children?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The state has earmarked about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB130\">$490 million in the latest budget to build new facilities and make adjustments to existing ones\u003c/a>, such as building out right-size water fountains and restrooms with pint-size potties and sinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>8. What are the challenges facing this massive expansion of TK?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Staffing is one of the biggest hurdles ahead. There is already a teacher shortage in the state. California will need an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 new teachers and 16,000 new teaching assistants as transitional kindergarten expands, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>9. What will the credential requirements for TK teachers be?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Currently, TK teachers are required to have a multiple-subject teaching credential, the same credential teachers need for all the elementary grades. By 2023, TK teachers also will need to complete an additional 24 units of early childhood education coursework or the equivalent, as deemed by their employer, or they will need to hold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/leaflets/child-development-permits-(cl-797)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">child-development permit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>10. What are the plans for recruiting and training new transitional kindergarten teachers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The state has allocated \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$100 million in competitive grants\u003c/a> to school districts for recruiting teachers and providing ongoing professional learning. The state is also looking at various options for making it easier to meet the credential requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>11. What will TK teachers get paid?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That is ultimately determined by districts, but typically, TK teachers are paid the same as kindergarten teachers. It should be noted that K-12 teachers generally earn about 38% more than preschool teachers and child care workers, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/workforce-index-2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment\u003c/a> at the University of California, Berkeley. That wage disparity helps explain why 17% of the state’s early childhood educators live in poverty, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>12. Is there a pathway for preschool teachers, a workforce that's predominately women of color, to move into TK careers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ctc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Commission on Teacher Credentialing\u003c/a> has developed a proposal that would create a pathway for preschool teacher permit holders to gain the preparation they need to teach TK without completing all the requirements for a multiple-subject teaching credential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, about 49% of early childhood teachers in child care centers have a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/early-educators-equipped-to-teach-tk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for the Study of Child Care Employment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>13. Will TK be a full-day or a half-day program?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Universal TK, like kindergarten, is a local choice of full-day or part-day. However, the state’s new \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/staffing-shortage-delays-ambitious-program-to-extend-school-day-and-year-in-california/661436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Expanded Learning Opportunities Program\u003c/a> requires that local educational agencies offer a nine-hour school day including before- and after-class services.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>14. Do children in universal TK have to meet the same vaccination requirements as in regular kindergarten?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes, the same vaccination criteria apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/universal-transitional-kindergarten-quick-guide/662318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EdSource\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11892267/what-california-parents-and-teachers-need-to-know-about-universal-transitional-kindergarten","authors":["byline_news_11892267"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_29912","news_20013","news_22350","news_30057","news_22602","news_30056","news_2252"],"featImg":"news_11892296","label":"source_news_11892267"},"news_11883324":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11883324","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11883324","score":null,"sort":[1627819202000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kids-are-heading-back-to-school-heres-how-to-keep-them-safe-as-delta-variant-spreads","title":"Kids Are Heading Back to School. Here's How to Keep Them Safe as Delta Variant Spreads","publishDate":1627819202,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California's \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/K-12-Guidance-2021-22-School-Year.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">current rules\u003c/a> for schools require all staff, students and visitors to wear masks inside school buildings when classes begin in just a few weeks. It's a big moment for kids and families as many children will be seeing the inside of a classroom for the first time in 18 months — but returning to school comes in the shadow of the delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Natalia Navarro spoke with pediatrician and UCSF associate professor Sunitha Kaiser about how to keep kids safe from COVID-19 as they head back to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED's Natalia Navarro: Do you think schools can reopen safely — and how will that work?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Professor Sunitha Kaiser:\u003c/strong> Yes, we're confident that schools can reopen safely. But each school district will be monitoring very closely for rises in COVID infections over time, and anything concerning. They'll be keeping a very close eye to continue to ensure safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know how to keep kids safe from this virus: continue to have schools tackle multiple strategies of minimizing the risks, keeping kids and adults masked, trying to promote physical distance and ventilation, and keeping folks out of school when they have symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we also know vaccines are incredibly effective. We know that most kids are actually getting COVID at home from close household contacts. The best way to boost safety is for whoever is eligible to get vaccinated — close household contacts and family members — to get vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think FDA approval for Pfizer for children under 12 is coming soon?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope so. We think that it will come by the end of this calendar year. But it does depend on the pace and findings of the trials in children, which are still ongoing. We do hope that by the end of the year, even the youngest children will be able to get vaccinated. But it already makes a tremendous difference in school settings for children 12 and older to be vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From your research during last winter's surge before vaccines, what works to prevent transmission between kids?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We studied over 50 sites around San Francisco that supported kids and coming in person to do their online learning. We studied them for four months during the highest peak in San Francisco, much higher than current levels when vaccinations were not yet widely available. We observed over 1,700 children and over 200 adults, and there was only one case of hub-based COVID transmission and adult-to-adult case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It really signified an overwhelming level of safety with the strategies they had in place, which at the time did not include vaccinations. The core principles we've learned that prevent COVID are masking, maximizing physical distance, keeping kids and adults out that have any COVID symptoms and maximizing ventilation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What questions should parents and caregivers be asking their districts going into this fall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They should be asking their districts what their COVID prevention strategies are, including the ones we've discussed, and how they're going to monitor and ensure our safety going forward. They should also ask proactively how the school is going to work in partnership with health care entities or others to ensure the availability of testing for rapid testing for any children or adults who need it, which will continue to add a layer of safety. There's much better infrastructure for that now than there has been in the past. [aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You mentioned that COVID transmission is more common between adults than between kids. If you were a teacher, would you be nervous right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best thing teachers can do to ease their anxiety is get vaccinated. That's the biggest thing we can do to decrease our own personal risk, regardless of our work situation, because we know that we have these incredibly effective vaccines. Thus far, even against delta, they show really strong protection against severe disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I would encourage them to be increasingly secure in the fact that now we have recommendations around keeping everyone masked indoors regardless of vaccination status. And we're going to have a growing portion of folks getting vaccinated which can drive down community problems and overall risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Unvaccinated Californians can go to \u003ca title=\"myturn.ca.gov\" href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">myturn.ca.gov\u003c/a> or call (833) 422-4255 to schedule their appointment or go to \u003ca title=\"myturn.ca.gov/clinic\" href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/clinic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\">myturn.ca.gov/clinic\u003c/a> to find a walk-in clinic in their county.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"KQED's Natalia Navarro interviewed pediatrician and UCSF associate professor Sunitha Kaiser to talk about how to keep kids safe from COVID-19 as schools begin to re-open.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1657153841,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":758},"headData":{"title":"Kids Are Heading Back to School. 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It's a big moment for kids and families as many children will be seeing the inside of a classroom for the first time in 18 months — but returning to school comes in the shadow of the delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Natalia Navarro spoke with pediatrician and UCSF associate professor Sunitha Kaiser about how to keep kids safe from COVID-19 as they head back to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED's Natalia Navarro: Do you think schools can reopen safely — and how will that work?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Professor Sunitha Kaiser:\u003c/strong> Yes, we're confident that schools can reopen safely. But each school district will be monitoring very closely for rises in COVID infections over time, and anything concerning. They'll be keeping a very close eye to continue to ensure safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know how to keep kids safe from this virus: continue to have schools tackle multiple strategies of minimizing the risks, keeping kids and adults masked, trying to promote physical distance and ventilation, and keeping folks out of school when they have symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we also know vaccines are incredibly effective. We know that most kids are actually getting COVID at home from close household contacts. The best way to boost safety is for whoever is eligible to get vaccinated — close household contacts and family members — to get vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think FDA approval for Pfizer for children under 12 is coming soon?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope so. We think that it will come by the end of this calendar year. But it does depend on the pace and findings of the trials in children, which are still ongoing. We do hope that by the end of the year, even the youngest children will be able to get vaccinated. But it already makes a tremendous difference in school settings for children 12 and older to be vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From your research during last winter's surge before vaccines, what works to prevent transmission between kids?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We studied over 50 sites around San Francisco that supported kids and coming in person to do their online learning. We studied them for four months during the highest peak in San Francisco, much higher than current levels when vaccinations were not yet widely available. We observed over 1,700 children and over 200 adults, and there was only one case of hub-based COVID transmission and adult-to-adult case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It really signified an overwhelming level of safety with the strategies they had in place, which at the time did not include vaccinations. The core principles we've learned that prevent COVID are masking, maximizing physical distance, keeping kids and adults out that have any COVID symptoms and maximizing ventilation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What questions should parents and caregivers be asking their districts going into this fall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They should be asking their districts what their COVID prevention strategies are, including the ones we've discussed, and how they're going to monitor and ensure our safety going forward. They should also ask proactively how the school is going to work in partnership with health care entities or others to ensure the availability of testing for rapid testing for any children or adults who need it, which will continue to add a layer of safety. There's much better infrastructure for that now than there has been in the past. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"coronavirus","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You mentioned that COVID transmission is more common between adults than between kids. If you were a teacher, would you be nervous right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best thing teachers can do to ease their anxiety is get vaccinated. That's the biggest thing we can do to decrease our own personal risk, regardless of our work situation, because we know that we have these incredibly effective vaccines. Thus far, even against delta, they show really strong protection against severe disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I would encourage them to be increasingly secure in the fact that now we have recommendations around keeping everyone masked indoors regardless of vaccination status. And we're going to have a growing portion of folks getting vaccinated which can drive down community problems and overall risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Unvaccinated Californians can go to \u003ca title=\"myturn.ca.gov\" href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">myturn.ca.gov\u003c/a> or call (833) 422-4255 to schedule their appointment or go to \u003ca title=\"myturn.ca.gov/clinic\" href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/clinic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\">myturn.ca.gov/clinic\u003c/a> to find a walk-in clinic in their county.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11883324/kids-are-heading-back-to-school-heres-how-to-keep-them-safe-as-delta-variant-spreads","authors":["11756","11626"],"categories":["news_18540","news_457","news_28250","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_27350","news_27989","news_18863","news_29644","news_20013","news_22602"],"featImg":"news_11883330","label":"news"},"news_11881642":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11881642","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11881642","score":null,"sort":[1626728870000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-launches-the-largest-free-school-lunch-program-in-the-country","title":"California Launches the Largest Free School Lunch Program in the Country","publishDate":1626728870,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>When classrooms in California reopen for the fall term, all 6.2 million public school students will have the option to eat school meals for free, regardless of their family’s income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The undertaking, made possible by an unexpected budget surplus, will be the largest free student lunch program in the country. School officials, lawmakers, anti-hunger organizations and parents are applauding it as a pioneering way to prevent the stigma of accepting free lunches and feed more hungry children.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley\"]'If you’re a hungry child, you’re not going to learn well. Why should we have to go through a bureaucratic hassle to get a kid fed, when we could just have universal meals?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is so historic. It’s beyond life-changing,” said Erin Primer, director of food services for the San Luis Coastal Unified School District on California’s central coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several U.S. cities, including New York, Boston and Chicago, already offer free school meals for all. But until recently, statewide universal meal programs were considered too costly and unrealistic. California became the first state to adopt a universal program late last month, and Maine followed shortly after with a similar plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve completely leveled the playing field when it comes to school food,” Primer said. The extra funding will also allow her to offer tastier, better-quality food such as fresh bread, produce and cheese from local producers, she said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal rules, a family of four must make less than $34,000 a year to qualify for free meals and $48,000 to qualify for reduced-price meals. The caps shift annually but are based on federal poverty measures that don’t take into account the high cost of living and taxes in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s just for the most poor families, and not even all of them because some people failed to sign up or were fearful to sign up,” said Kat Taylor, a philanthropist and major funder of the Center for Ecoliteracy and the TomKat Ranch that backed California’s plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60% of California students qualify, but experts say the number of children who need food assistance is much higher in a state with vast income inequality. Communities of color are disproportionately affected and immigrant communities in particular are fearful of applying because of detailed forms that ask intrusive questions such as their family income, Social Security number and children’s immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools reported a declining percentage of families applying for free and reduced-price meals during the Trump administration, which attempted to tighten immigration policies and public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like school officials statewide, Primer has countless tales of children who struggled to pay for school meals or were too ashamed to eat for free. There was the child whose mother called Primer, distraught because she made a few hundred dollars too much to qualify; the father who is in the country illegally and feared that filling out the free meal application could get him deported; and constant cases of high schoolers not wanting friends to know they need free food, so they skip eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the pandemic hit, it changed everything — including how school meals were served — and provided an impetus for the universal program, which had bipartisan, unanimous support. Lawmakers previously had only pursued targeted bills such as easing school lunch debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After schools shut in March 2020, many transformed their parking lots into pickup sites, and federal funding allowed schools to offer meals to anyone. There were no applications, qualifications and no questions asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive turnout showed how much families rely on the meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District, the state’s largest with 600,000 students, handed out upward of 400,000 meals a day, said spokeswoman Shannon Haber. San Luis Coastal, with 7,500 students, gave out 30,000 meals a week at the height of the pandemic, nearly triple the number before. The district includes the wealthy city of San Luis Obispo and lower-income areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was a pipe dream for a long time,” said Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, a longtime advocate for universal free meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backed by over 200 organizations in a coalition called “School Meals for All,” Skinner and other lawmakers pushed for funding in the state budget, seizing the momentum at a time when California is flush with cash. The $262 billion budget provides $54 million for the coming school year, supplementing funding from the Biden administration through June 2022. After that, California will spend $650 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a hungry child, you’re not going to learn well,” said Skinner. “Why should we have to go through a bureaucratic hassle to get a kid fed, when we could just have universal meals?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Education Committee Republicans supported the plan as a way to help families struggling with California’s high cost of living. State Sen. Brian Dahle, a Republican from a largely rural area of Northern California, said he had watched kids at his children’s school steal leftover food when cafeteria workers weren’t looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a lot of them that was their dinner and they were sneaking it or taking it off someone’s plate when they didn’t finish it,” said Dahle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools rarely turn hungry kids away. But for children who didn’t qualify and needed lunch, their parents were billed and many racked up huge debts. In recent years, some schools threatened to not let students graduate middle or high school until lunch debts were paid, or stamped the hands of students who owed money, said Jessica Bartholow, chief of staff for Skinner who previously was an anti-hunger advocate.[aside tag=\"education\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some schools would hire debt collectors to hound parents, but at the end of the year schools have to use general fund dollars to pay off lunch program debts, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Tina Self, a mother of three, avoiding the cost of $3 school lunches every day will be an enormous relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It might seem like a little bit, but it helps a lot,” said Self, who lives in San Luis Obispo where a gallon of gas can cost just shy of $5 a gallon and rent is “crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lucky for us we both have a job and we have two running cars,” she said of herself and her husband. “But we’re barely making it as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Wold, associate superintendent of the West Contra Costa Unified School District, says it’s about time lunches were free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just like you need to give students textbooks and a computer, there are certain things you need to do. And this is one of them,” Wold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"When classrooms in California reopen for the fall term, all 6.2 million public school students will have the option to eat school meals for free, regardless of their family’s income.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1626797187,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1184},"headData":{"title":"California Launches the Largest Free School Lunch Program in the Country | KQED","description":"When classrooms in California reopen for the fall term, all 6.2 million public school students will have the option to eat school meals for free, regardless of their family’s income.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Launches the Largest Free School Lunch Program in the Country","datePublished":"2021-07-19T21:07:50.000Z","dateModified":"2021-07-20T16:06:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11881642 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11881642","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/07/19/california-launches-the-largest-free-school-lunch-program-in-the-country/","disqusTitle":"California Launches the Largest Free School Lunch Program in the Country","source":"Food","sourceUrl":"/food/","nprByline":"Jocelyn Gecker \u003cbr> The Associated Press","path":"/news/11881642/california-launches-the-largest-free-school-lunch-program-in-the-country","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When classrooms in California reopen for the fall term, all 6.2 million public school students will have the option to eat school meals for free, regardless of their family’s income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The undertaking, made possible by an unexpected budget surplus, will be the largest free student lunch program in the country. School officials, lawmakers, anti-hunger organizations and parents are applauding it as a pioneering way to prevent the stigma of accepting free lunches and feed more hungry children.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If you’re a hungry child, you’re not going to learn well. Why should we have to go through a bureaucratic hassle to get a kid fed, when we could just have universal meals?’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is so historic. It’s beyond life-changing,” said Erin Primer, director of food services for the San Luis Coastal Unified School District on California’s central coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several U.S. cities, including New York, Boston and Chicago, already offer free school meals for all. But until recently, statewide universal meal programs were considered too costly and unrealistic. California became the first state to adopt a universal program late last month, and Maine followed shortly after with a similar plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve completely leveled the playing field when it comes to school food,” Primer said. The extra funding will also allow her to offer tastier, better-quality food such as fresh bread, produce and cheese from local producers, she said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal rules, a family of four must make less than $34,000 a year to qualify for free meals and $48,000 to qualify for reduced-price meals. The caps shift annually but are based on federal poverty measures that don’t take into account the high cost of living and taxes in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s just for the most poor families, and not even all of them because some people failed to sign up or were fearful to sign up,” said Kat Taylor, a philanthropist and major funder of the Center for Ecoliteracy and the TomKat Ranch that backed California’s plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60% of California students qualify, but experts say the number of children who need food assistance is much higher in a state with vast income inequality. Communities of color are disproportionately affected and immigrant communities in particular are fearful of applying because of detailed forms that ask intrusive questions such as their family income, Social Security number and children’s immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools reported a declining percentage of families applying for free and reduced-price meals during the Trump administration, which attempted to tighten immigration policies and public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like school officials statewide, Primer has countless tales of children who struggled to pay for school meals or were too ashamed to eat for free. There was the child whose mother called Primer, distraught because she made a few hundred dollars too much to qualify; the father who is in the country illegally and feared that filling out the free meal application could get him deported; and constant cases of high schoolers not wanting friends to know they need free food, so they skip eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the pandemic hit, it changed everything — including how school meals were served — and provided an impetus for the universal program, which had bipartisan, unanimous support. Lawmakers previously had only pursued targeted bills such as easing school lunch debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After schools shut in March 2020, many transformed their parking lots into pickup sites, and federal funding allowed schools to offer meals to anyone. There were no applications, qualifications and no questions asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive turnout showed how much families rely on the meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District, the state’s largest with 600,000 students, handed out upward of 400,000 meals a day, said spokeswoman Shannon Haber. San Luis Coastal, with 7,500 students, gave out 30,000 meals a week at the height of the pandemic, nearly triple the number before. The district includes the wealthy city of San Luis Obispo and lower-income areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was a pipe dream for a long time,” said Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, a longtime advocate for universal free meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backed by over 200 organizations in a coalition called “School Meals for All,” Skinner and other lawmakers pushed for funding in the state budget, seizing the momentum at a time when California is flush with cash. The $262 billion budget provides $54 million for the coming school year, supplementing funding from the Biden administration through June 2022. After that, California will spend $650 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a hungry child, you’re not going to learn well,” said Skinner. “Why should we have to go through a bureaucratic hassle to get a kid fed, when we could just have universal meals?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Education Committee Republicans supported the plan as a way to help families struggling with California’s high cost of living. State Sen. Brian Dahle, a Republican from a largely rural area of Northern California, said he had watched kids at his children’s school steal leftover food when cafeteria workers weren’t looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a lot of them that was their dinner and they were sneaking it or taking it off someone’s plate when they didn’t finish it,” said Dahle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools rarely turn hungry kids away. But for children who didn’t qualify and needed lunch, their parents were billed and many racked up huge debts. In recent years, some schools threatened to not let students graduate middle or high school until lunch debts were paid, or stamped the hands of students who owed money, said Jessica Bartholow, chief of staff for Skinner who previously was an anti-hunger advocate.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"education","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some schools would hire debt collectors to hound parents, but at the end of the year schools have to use general fund dollars to pay off lunch program debts, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Tina Self, a mother of three, avoiding the cost of $3 school lunches every day will be an enormous relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It might seem like a little bit, but it helps a lot,” said Self, who lives in San Luis Obispo where a gallon of gas can cost just shy of $5 a gallon and rent is “crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lucky for us we both have a job and we have two running cars,” she said of herself and her husband. “But we’re barely making it as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Wold, associate superintendent of the West Contra Costa Unified School District, says it’s about time lunches were free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just like you need to give students textbooks and a computer, there are certain things you need to do. And this is one of them,” Wold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11881642/california-launches-the-largest-free-school-lunch-program-in-the-country","authors":["byline_news_11881642"],"categories":["news_18540","news_24114","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_20013","news_27626","news_333","news_18543","news_29688","news_22602","news_3365"],"featImg":"news_11881646","label":"source_news_11881642"},"news_11880805":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11880805","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11880805","score":null,"sort":[1625938988000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-to-require-face-masks-at-schools-this-fall","title":"California to Require Face Masks at Schools This Fall","publishDate":1625938988,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California will require that masks be worn at schools when classrooms open this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said vaccinated teachers and students \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880730/cdc-updates-guidelines-on-k-12-schools-plus-tips-for-travel-and-family-gatherings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">don’t need to wear face coverings inside school buildings\u003c/a>. But, ahead of new school guidelines expected next week, health officials in California also said Friday that requiring face coverings will allow all schools to reopen this fall for full in-person instruction. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Mark Ghaly, California Health and Human Services Agency secretary\"]'We believe that with masking and with testing, we can get kids back to in person 100% in our schools.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said that not all schools can accommodate physical distancing of at least 3 feet or more, so the best preventive measure is wearing masks indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health said in a statement that the mask requirement “also will ensure that all kids are treated the same,” without any stigma attached to those who are vaccinated or unvaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that with masking and with testing, we can get kids back to in person 100% in our schools,” Ghaly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaly noted the CDC guidance released Friday says that when it is not possible to maintain at least 3 feet of physical distance, “it is especially important to layer multiple other prevention strategies, such as indoor masking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health department plans to release more detailed guidance for school reopening next week, said Ghaly, who joined Gov. Gavin Newsom at a Napa Valley elementary school to sign a bill that provides record funding for California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom invited a group of young students to help him sign the legislation, which directs how most of the $123.9 billion for K-12 education in the 2021-2022 fiscal year must be spent. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a broad new education spending package made possible by the state’s surprise budget surplus, the state’s two-year kindergarten program will be expanded to include all 4-year-olds for free. The program aims to phase in the expansion by 2025 at a cost of $2.7 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new plan also puts more money toward after school and summer school programs, particularly in districts that serve high-needs students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a transformational budget. This is unlike anything we have ever done in this state,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s budget also adds money to fund free school meals for all students, with $54 million allocated for this year and $650 million in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s kindergarten expansion fulfills a promise that he and Democratic legislative leaders made to foot the bill for universal 4-year-old kindergarten statewide. [aside tag=\"education, coronavirus\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there are about 91,000 4-year-olds enrolled in transitional kindergarten. The new plan would boost enrollment to about 250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill achieves many longtime priorities for Democrats in the Legislature, said Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, who joined the signing ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are changing lives,” said Aguiar-Curry. “By the signing of this today, we’re not going to leave anyone behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has said the funding aims to address many of the inequities that the coronavirus pandemic exposed, including the need for robust mental health services to address childhood depression and trauma, more teachers and lower teacher-student ratios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said that not all schools can accommodate physical distancing of at least 3 feet or more, so the best preventive measure is wearing masks indoors.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1626110884,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":591},"headData":{"title":"California to Require Face Masks at Schools This Fall | KQED","description":"California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said that not all schools can accommodate physical distancing of at least 3 feet or more, so the best preventive measure is wearing masks indoors.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California to Require Face Masks at Schools This Fall","datePublished":"2021-07-10T17:43:08.000Z","dateModified":"2021-07-12T17:28:04.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11880805 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11880805","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/07/10/california-to-require-face-masks-at-schools-this-fall/","disqusTitle":"California to Require Face Masks at Schools This Fall","nprByline":"Jocelyn Gecker \u003cbr> Associated Press","path":"/news/11880805/california-to-require-face-masks-at-schools-this-fall","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California will require that masks be worn at schools when classrooms open this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said vaccinated teachers and students \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880730/cdc-updates-guidelines-on-k-12-schools-plus-tips-for-travel-and-family-gatherings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">don’t need to wear face coverings inside school buildings\u003c/a>. But, ahead of new school guidelines expected next week, health officials in California also said Friday that requiring face coverings will allow all schools to reopen this fall for full in-person instruction. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We believe that with masking and with testing, we can get kids back to in person 100% in our schools.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dr. Mark Ghaly, California Health and Human Services Agency secretary","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said that not all schools can accommodate physical distancing of at least 3 feet or more, so the best preventive measure is wearing masks indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health said in a statement that the mask requirement “also will ensure that all kids are treated the same,” without any stigma attached to those who are vaccinated or unvaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that with masking and with testing, we can get kids back to in person 100% in our schools,” Ghaly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaly noted the CDC guidance released Friday says that when it is not possible to maintain at least 3 feet of physical distance, “it is especially important to layer multiple other prevention strategies, such as indoor masking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health department plans to release more detailed guidance for school reopening next week, said Ghaly, who joined Gov. Gavin Newsom at a Napa Valley elementary school to sign a bill that provides record funding for California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom invited a group of young students to help him sign the legislation, which directs how most of the $123.9 billion for K-12 education in the 2021-2022 fiscal year must be spent. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a broad new education spending package made possible by the state’s surprise budget surplus, the state’s two-year kindergarten program will be expanded to include all 4-year-olds for free. The program aims to phase in the expansion by 2025 at a cost of $2.7 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new plan also puts more money toward after school and summer school programs, particularly in districts that serve high-needs students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a transformational budget. This is unlike anything we have ever done in this state,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s budget also adds money to fund free school meals for all students, with $54 million allocated for this year and $650 million in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s kindergarten expansion fulfills a promise that he and Democratic legislative leaders made to foot the bill for universal 4-year-old kindergarten statewide. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"education, coronavirus","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there are about 91,000 4-year-olds enrolled in transitional kindergarten. The new plan would boost enrollment to about 250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill achieves many longtime priorities for Democrats in the Legislature, said Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, who joined the signing ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are changing lives,” said Aguiar-Curry. “By the signing of this today, we’re not going to leave anyone behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has said the funding aims to address many of the inequities that the coronavirus pandemic exposed, including the need for robust mental health services to address childhood depression and trauma, more teachers and lower teacher-student ratios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11880805/california-to-require-face-masks-at-schools-this-fall","authors":["byline_news_11880805"],"categories":["news_18540","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_27350","news_27504","news_20013","news_29660","news_29133","news_22602"],"featImg":"news_11880806","label":"news"},"news_11877661":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11877661","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11877661","score":null,"sort":[1623441194000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"low-risk-of-in-school-covid-transmission-according-to-ucsf-study","title":"Schools Can Reopen Safely If They Follow Protocols, According to UCSF Study","publishDate":1623441194,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Researchers with UCSF say a safe return to schools in-person this fall depends a lot on how well those schools stick to an array of COVID-19 mitigation measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/06/09/peds.2021-051438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a study \u003c/a>published in the journal Pediatrics on Thursday, researchers cited new evidence from looking at how staff from San Francisco’s learning hubs kept kids ages 5 to 12 safe while they were gathering inside makeshift classrooms over the winter months when the city was experiencing high rates of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Sunitha Kaiser, UCSF pediatrician\"]'The studies that have been done to date haven't really honed in on those most disadvantaged neighborhoods. And that was really the advantage that the San Francisco community has provided.'[/pullquote]“The children and families that were served by the hubs represented the highest risk that San Francisco as a city experienced,” said Dr. Sunitha Kaiser, a UCSF pediatrician and the study’s lead author. “The delightful surprise was the shockingly low level of in-hub COVID transmission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers said the study is important because many parents from parts of the Bay Area that were most devastated by the coronavirus have expressed fear over returning their unvaccinated children to school campuses this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study comes at a time when Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870787/will-california-lawmakers-allow-distance-learning-to-continue-next-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has been pushing\u003c/a> for all schools to fully reopen in-person this fall. Earlier this week, the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/06/07/california-releases-new-summer-programming-and-school-reopening-data-launches-parental-engagement-campaign/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched an initiative\u003c/a> to build confidence among parents who remain concerned about sending their unvaccinated young children back inside schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's learning hubs served students largely coming from families more at risk of contracting the virus, including children of essential workers and from low-income families, as well as students living in foster care or experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11851837 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46436_Beth-Wilmurt2-qut-1020x765.jpg']There were a total of 36 positive COVID-19 cases in the hubs during the study’s time frame, but only one of them proved to be a hub-based transmission, according to the city’s Department of Public Health. The 85 hubs served a total of 1,738 students with 295 supervising adults, and offered services from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The study focused on 54 of the hubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the hubs were established after schools shuttered last year, Kaiser saw it as an opportunity to fill a gap in the body of research on in-school transmission. Two large studies out of \u003ca href=\"https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2021/01/06/peds.2020-048090.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Carolina\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7004e3.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wisconsin\u003c/a> found low rates of in-school transmission, but neither study had focused exclusively on an urban school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The studies that have been done to date haven't really honed in on those most disadvantaged neighborhoods. And that was really the advantage that the San Francisco community has provided,” Kaiser said. “Their goal was to support those kids that were really getting left behind in the remote learning environment that just weren't showing up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s team observed how well staff were able to get children to follow protocols such as keeping 6 feet apart and keeping masks on, especially after eating together. And they noted what worked, such as staff using hula hoops to help kids understand the radius of safety or using pool noodles when children would play tag to prevent kids from touching one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers also collected data on hand washing, symptom screening and what ventilation measures were in place. What struck Kaiser about the relative lack of in-hub transmission is that this happened despite the fact that a lot of kids weren’t always wearing masks or staying properly distanced and vaccinations had yet to fully be available to adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Naomi Bardach, head of California’s Safe Schools for All\"]'It’s nerve-wracking for families to send their kids back to school when they've been so personally affected by COVID, [but] there are also some families who’ve gone through most of the year doing distance learning [and] they actually have some system that works really well.'[/pullquote]What worked, she said, is that enough of these protocols were being followed that they created a sort of layering effect; if one piece of prevention isn’t perfect, that’s OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we show is that when they are trying on all fronts,” like symptom screening, having adequate masks and hand hygiene supplies and maximizing ventilation, then in-person learning “can be done safely,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message to parents hesitating to return their young, unvaccinated children to school buildings full time this fall, Kaiser said, is that it is safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take masks for example, Kaiser said. “There's times that we're going to have to take them off for eating. But if we do it in that same stable cohort of kids, then we're not mixing multiple groups together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"distance-learning\" label=\"Related coverage\"]The study's findings are information both parents and schools can use, said Dr. Naomi Bardach, a co-author of the report. Bardach also heads the \u003ca href=\"https://schools.covid19.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California’s Safe Schools for All initiative\u003c/a>, the state’s framework to support schools’ return to in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nerve-wracking for families to send their kids back to school when they've been so personally affected by COVID,” Bardach said. But the other piece, she said, is that some families have gone through most of the year doing distance learning and “they actually have some system that works really well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/new-data-55-of-california-public-school-students-remain-in-distance-learning/653848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EdSource analysis\u003c/a> found that as of April, 55% of parents across the state were still keeping their children in distance learning. Parents and teachers have blamed some of that on the inconvenience of the hybrid schooling model, which requires caregivers to drop off and pick up children in the middle of their work day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bardach said she's working with schools to make campuses safer and keep parents informed, with hopes they’ll feel empowered to ask questions about a school’s safety plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco's learning hubs served students largely coming from families more at risk of contracting the virus. Researchers say that layering mitigation tactics — like symptom screenings on top of having adequate hygiene supplies and maximizing ventilation — helped prevent virus spread.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1623444009,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1052},"headData":{"title":"Schools Can Reopen Safely If They Follow Protocols, According to UCSF Study | KQED","description":"San Francisco's learning hubs served students largely coming from families more at risk of contracting the virus. 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And that was really the advantage that the San Francisco community has provided.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dr. Sunitha Kaiser, UCSF pediatrician","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The children and families that were served by the hubs represented the highest risk that San Francisco as a city experienced,” said Dr. Sunitha Kaiser, a UCSF pediatrician and the study’s lead author. “The delightful surprise was the shockingly low level of in-hub COVID transmission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers said the study is important because many parents from parts of the Bay Area that were most devastated by the coronavirus have expressed fear over returning their unvaccinated children to school campuses this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study comes at a time when Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870787/will-california-lawmakers-allow-distance-learning-to-continue-next-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has been pushing\u003c/a> for all schools to fully reopen in-person this fall. Earlier this week, the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/06/07/california-releases-new-summer-programming-and-school-reopening-data-launches-parental-engagement-campaign/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched an initiative\u003c/a> to build confidence among parents who remain concerned about sending their unvaccinated young children back inside schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's learning hubs served students largely coming from families more at risk of contracting the virus, including children of essential workers and from low-income families, as well as students living in foster care or experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11851837","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46436_Beth-Wilmurt2-qut-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There were a total of 36 positive COVID-19 cases in the hubs during the study’s time frame, but only one of them proved to be a hub-based transmission, according to the city’s Department of Public Health. 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But the other piece, she said, is that some families have gone through most of the year doing distance learning and “they actually have some system that works really well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/new-data-55-of-california-public-school-students-remain-in-distance-learning/653848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EdSource analysis\u003c/a> found that as of April, 55% of parents across the state were still keeping their children in distance learning. 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