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Lau Elementary School in San Francisco's Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Chinatown Community Development Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Free meals will continue to be served to students going to school in person at Gordon J. Lau Elementary, but many families are hesitant to return to in-person learning, SFUSD data shows. Out of the families 741 students, only 18% of respondents said they felt comfortable returning for in-person instruction in a December SFUSD survey. Aoieong said that number hasn't changed much, and that only about 60 families have said they'd return for in-person instruction at the school, a number SFUSD did not confirm in time for publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families not returning for in-person instruction still need access to food. But they won't be getting it in Chinatown, at least not from SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why transfer all these people to a different community when we could have them in our own community?\" Aoieong asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email chain obtained by KQED, SFUSD Commissioner Alison Collins – who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">recently drew public condemnation\u003c/a> for tweets about the Asian community she wrote in 2016 – wrote to district staff calling the grab-and-go meals location shift concerning due to hate crimes against Asian families, who are \"fearful of walking long distances to get food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orla O'Keefe, chief of policy and operations at SFUSD, wrote in response to Collins' email that district Student Nutrition Services staff have done an \"incredible job\" serving 6.1 million meals during the pandemic, and that their \"number one priority right now\" is a successful return to in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she recognizes the needs of the community, O'Keefe said her team is \"at maximum bandwidth\" and \"near breaking point\" working to launch meals in 80 schools across the city, while keeping 10 grab-and-go sites open, and coordinating some home food deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a difficult logistical feat, O'Keefe said, and the reopening has put a strain on the entire district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='chinatown']In a statement to KQED, SFUSD spokesperson Laura Dudnick wrote, \"To ensure we have enough staff to support all schools offering in-person learning, Grab and Go sites at elementary schools are closing. Grab and Go will continue at ~ 10 locations across the City,\" adding that district nutrition staff \"are deeply committed to providing as much access to meals as possible with the constraints of all available resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudnick said schools may be reevaluated to reopen on-site grab-and-go locations in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Aaron Peskin's office was also copied on the email thread and was working to coordinate restoring grab-and-go food access to the Chinatown community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A food pantry run by the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank will also soon shift from Gordon J. Lau Elementary to Woh Hei Yuen Park in Chinatown. While access to the pantry will remain in Chinatown, easy access to the pre-prepared grab-and-go meals from SFUSD is especially important for SRO residents who fear using communal kitchens due to COVID risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restoring that food access would mean much to Tan and his family, who live in an SRO hotel. 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"content": "\u003cp>In San Francisco on Monday, a long-forgotten sound will finally ring out — bouncing off concrete, soaring over grass and echoing between the city’s Victorian homes to the ears of parents and children across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School bells and buzzers will sound off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a year of pandemic closures, in-person classes are back in session for some students in pre-K through second grade, with a staggered schedule of which schools will welcome kids inside beginning April 12. More students from those grades will start on April 19, which will also mark the (also staggered) return of third through fifth graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trapped inside a three-bedroom apartment with four kids for a year, it does feel like a light at the end of the tunnel,” said San Francisco parent Andy Martone, who spoke to KQED on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 42-year-old software engineer and his wife live in the Mission District, and their 6-year-old twin daughters are set to return to school this week. Martone remembers when he told his twins the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of them said, ‘I can’t wait to do more math equations!’ I was like, ‘Oh really?’ The other one said, ‘I can’t wait to see my teacher in person,’ ” Martone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, not all the city’s students will find themselves in classrooms this week. Or even this semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco lags behind other California cities in reopening, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866954/the-day-has-finally-arrived-berkeleys-youngest-students-return-to-classrooms-for-first-time-in-a-very-long-year\">with some Berkeley and Oakland students filling classrooms weeks ago\u003c/a>. And there are still many lingering questions — for instance, when will teenagers be back in San Francisco Unified School District classrooms?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Education voted last week to put all kids back in classrooms this fall, but those plans are so far just written in classroom chalk, not stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQED/status/1379965974246531076\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The San Francisco Board of Education has put itself on record as wanting kids back in classrooms in the fall, as seen in KQED’s coverage, above.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reopening efforts have been clouded by clashes between city politicians, some vocal parent groups and the school board. The city of San Francisco sued the school district to speed up its reopening process, a school commissioner caused community furor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867918/no-one-was-asking-what-we-thought-san-francisco-students-weigh-in-on-school-district-controversies\">over her tweets, which some have called racist\u003c/a>, and the board recently put on hold its controversial decision to rename 44 high schools related to historical figures with pasts ostensibly tied to racism. Nearly all of these tussles prompted acrimony on all sides even as many students’ ability to learn via hours of screen time instruction plummeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge still facing the district is that not all families yet feel safe or otherwise able to return to in-person learning. About 67% of kindergarten through second grade families and 70% of third through fifth grade families surveyed wish to return for in-person learning, according to an SFUSD survey released in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jun Chang Tan is a custodian who lives with his family in a single room occupancy hotel in Chinatown. His 15-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter both attend San Francisco schools, but he’s not ready to let either return to classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since all four live in a room together, he said even a remote chance of catching COVID-19 is still too dangerous for them — they lack the space to quarantine themselves from each other, should the worst happen. SRO’s are congregate settings where people living in rooms share kitchens and bathrooms with others on their floors, another worry for those trying to quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tara Ramos, SFUSD teacher-librarian\"]’Most of our families live in the Mission neighborhood, and we know that they have been more impacted by COVID.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There won’t be any space for quarantine,” he said in Cantonese, which was translated by KQED. “That’s one room for four of us.” When his kids are home, he feels he can help them stay safe. But they take Muni to get to school, where he fears he has “no control over” who they’d have contact with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With some students in school, and some still at home, teachers are finding themselves split in their duties. Andrew Patel is one of those teachers juggling multiple cohorts — in person and online — at Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School on Cesar Chavez Street, a stone’s throw from Precita Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patel said it’s important not to forget why distance learning started in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went to distance learning because of COVID-19 and we’re still, as a community, experiencing a lot of loss and a lot of hardship. And we have to think about what we’re going to do as a school to bring joy and healing and feel good once we return while also staying safe in our classrooms,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will be no easy task. Like other schools where demand has been high to return to physical classrooms, when Patel’s school reopens he will divide up his class, welcoming eight students who are his “cohort A” kids into his physical classroom while signing on to Zoom with eight other children, who will be in class from home. There is not enough space to accommodate them safely in his classroom, he said, hence the split. But cohort A and B students will each spend some time in class, and some time on Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patel must also plan to continue the distance learning curriculum for two more students who are in “cohort C,” whose parents have opted to keep them in distance learning the entire time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every teacher feels safe returning yet. SFUSD staffers can request accommodations to work remotely should they belong to a group of increased risk, with a substitute teacher assigned to buttress in-person learning. So far, 584 SFUSD staffers requested accommodations, and 290 have met the criteria for approval, according to SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district will still need educators present to meet student demand. At a recent Board of Education meeting, SFUSD staff said only 91 new substitute teacher applications have been received, prompting a warning from staff that “current substitute teacher availability does not meet anticipated need.” The district is exploring “additional options” to deploy other staff as needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFUnified/status/1380626572445577218\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the tweet above, SFUSD seeks new hires to help meet the demand of students. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for those who are returning, teachers have even another layer of complexity to worry about when returning to in-person learning — their own children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez Elementary School teacher-librarian Tara Ramos will spend Monday performing an intake of kids at her school, helping to supervise all the new rules and procedures kids and staff must follow for safety, from distancing to hand-washing. As she juggles that challenge, her own 8-year-old daughter will be attending an in-person school hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos said she feels lucky that her husband can start work a little later to drop her daughter off at school, “but that’s not everybody’s situation.” There’s a “void of child care for teachers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11858457\" label=\"Equity issues arise in SF school reopening battle\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, despite the challenges, Ramos said her school worked carefully with families in the Mission District, many of whom are Latino and especially impacted by the pandemic, to find ways to educate their children in the safest ways possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of our families live in the Mission neighborhood, and we know what they have been more impacted by COVID,” Ramos said. “I feel proud of us that we are being so careful with their health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the flip side of that is schools may be hyperfocused on safety for the foreseeable future, Ramos said, which may hurt their ability to concentrate on learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can we still make school fun? How can we still have engaging activities for kids?” Ramos said. “I just think that’s the part maybe people aren’t necessarily considering, like how much this undertaking is really about safety and not so much about learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Vanessa Rancaño, Julia McEvoy and Julia Chan contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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During the palpably tense meeting, attended by around 1,000 people, only a few students offered comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them was Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Just Encouraging People Not to Be Nasty’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I’m not offering a statement, I’m offering really a project that me and my friends were able to create amidst everything that’s happening,” Hines-Foster said during the meeting, introducing an analysis she produced with two other students, titled “A Balanced Analysis of Commissioner Collins’ Tweets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really just encouraging people not to be nasty,” she told attendees. “A lot of students have stayed away from this because a lot of you are nasty, very nasty in how you engage in this conversation and bring in this topic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hines-Foster, a member of Lowell’s Black Student Union, has been shouted down by adults during a board meeting when calling out racism at her own school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So a lot of us feel like it isn’t our place to be engaged, because we don’t want to be swept over or taken in or attacked as a casualty,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11866865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497.jpeg 2547w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-800x587.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-1020x748.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-160x117.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-1536x1127.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-2048x1502.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-1920x1408.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vishal Krishnaiah, a junior at Lowell High School, said he understood the message Alison Collins was getting at in her 2016 tweets, “but the way she said it is atrocious.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Vishal Krishnaiah)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lowell High School junior Vishal Krishnaiah, who also worked on the presentation, says that while Collins had drawn attention to a serious issue, the tweets she wrote crossed the line — and were grounds for her resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the message she was trying to get to. Just you know, anti-Blackness in the Asian community,” he said. “I think it’s a very real thing. I understand the message, but the way she said it is atrocious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Washington High School senior Madeline Cho, the third student working on the project, offered a different perspective, arguing that the media coverage of the tweets has only shown one side of the issue. In reading Collins’ tweets, Cho says, she saw a mother pleading for people to come together to dismantle racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To really engage in a constructive conversation, she said, people need to listen to the voices of those most hurt by racism and discrimination in San Francisco schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"sfusd\"]“There needs to be just an open mindedness and a setting down of ego and pride, especially by a lot of politicians and particularly parents, who seem the most hesitant to just calm down and just listen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho also said the context around the posts is important. When Collins made the tweets in 2016, there were a lot of conversations in the community about people of color who were supportive of policies being espoused by Donald Trump and those of other conservative politicians, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho, who doesn’t think Collins should resign, also says the tweets never would have resurfaced if some alumni and parents weren’t so upset about the board’s recent vote to change Lowell’s admissions policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins championed ending the elite school’s merit-based admissions policy, one that she argued perpetuated segregation and exclusion. Less than 2% of the school’s students are Black, while more than half are Asian American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, also in a 5-2 vote, the school board voted to strip Lowell of that admissions system, one that has been in place for decades. In their presentation, the three students pointed out that the tweets were dug up by Lowell alum Diane Yap, someone who they say deserves some scrutiny for her own previous social media posts. Yap is also vice president of the Friends of Lowell Foundation, a recently formed group looking to reinstate the school’s grade-based admissions policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Drowned Out’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cho said she’s sickened by the idea that someone was purposefully digging up dirt on Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks before the tweets resurfaced, Cho said, she had been feeling deeply troubled and scared by the ongoing attacks against the AAPI community, particularly the ones targeting elders. But she said the conversation about Collins has been reduced to something it isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m particularly upset, and rather disgusted I think, at a lot of people’s use of Asian American pain right now as a political wedge, and a way to push the political agenda,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho said she too is worried about being attacked for expressing her views, particularly after a controversy she experienced a few years ago at her own school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11867980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/1920_1080_Cho-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Madeline Cho, a senior at George Washington High School,\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/1920_1080_Cho-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/1920_1080_Cho-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/1920_1080_Cho.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madeline Cho, a senior at George Washington High School, is calling for a serious dialogue on race in San Francisco schools. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Madeline Cho)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in 2019, before Lowell dominated headlines, George Washington High School became a political flashpoint, when the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/arts/san-francisco-murals-george-washington.html\">school board voted\u003c/a> to paint over Depression-era murals that depict Washington as a slave owner. After a furious backlash, the board ultimately moved to simply cover them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very saddening to see,” Cho said. “I think the adult voices really, really, really just totally drowned out the student voices. Nobody really was asking us what we thought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Equity Issue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The admissions changes at Lowell that Collins spearheaded seem to have already had an impact. The preliminary data show the share of Hispanic students accepted into Lowell for the next school year grew by 10 percentage points, while the share of Black students grew by nearly 3 percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the share of incoming white and Asian students at the school — who still make up the vast majority — fell slightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students like Cho and Krishnaiah both agree that changing who gets into Lowell won’t solve the bigger systemic issues they care about, like making education more equitable for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s the dialogue they want their city leaders to have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was echoed by Amy Chang, a senior at Lowell, who said that her school and the district as a whole have been used as fodder to push partisan issues while many students continue to struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fifth grade, she says, she was among only four students in her class of almost 30 who could read at grade level. The education offered at Lowell is the baseline that should be provided to all students, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the lives of actual students,” she said. “These are actual students that are coming into school … that are not getting the education they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Less than 2% of the school’s students are Black, while more than half are Asian American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, also in a 5-2 vote, the school board voted to strip Lowell of that admissions system, one that has been in place for decades. In their presentation, the three students pointed out that the tweets were dug up by Lowell alum Diane Yap, someone who they say deserves some scrutiny for her own previous social media posts. Yap is also vice president of the Friends of Lowell Foundation, a recently formed group looking to reinstate the school’s grade-based admissions policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Drowned Out’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cho said she’s sickened by the idea that someone was purposefully digging up dirt on Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks before the tweets resurfaced, Cho said, she had been feeling deeply troubled and scared by the ongoing attacks against the AAPI community, particularly the ones targeting elders. 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The preliminary data show the share of Hispanic students accepted into Lowell for the next school year grew by 10 percentage points, while the share of Black students grew by nearly 3 percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the share of incoming white and Asian students at the school — who still make up the vast majority — fell slightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students like Cho and Krishnaiah both agree that changing who gets into Lowell won’t solve the bigger systemic issues they care about, like making education more equitable for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s the dialogue they want their city leaders to have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was echoed by Amy Chang, a senior at Lowell, who said that her school and the district as a whole have been used as fodder to push partisan issues while many students continue to struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fifth grade, she says, she was among only four students in her class of almost 30 who could read at grade level. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been a couple of days since the San Francisco Unified School District \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-preparing-offer-person-learning-some-schools-beginning-april-12\">announced a tentative agreement\u003c/a> with the teachers union to start reopening some schools for in-person learning on April 12 — but teachers and parents still say they don’t know the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Quelx lives in the Mission District and has eight children. Four of them are in elementary school. On Saturday, she wasn’t aware that some schools would reopen and that SFUSD had presented a timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like for someone to let me know, for someone to tell me or my kids because I had no idea,” she said. Quelx doesn't use a computer or speak English so she has a hard time keeping up to date with every school development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Maureen Sullivan, teacher-librarian at Dolores Huerta Elementary School\"]'How will we be teaching distance learning students as well as in-person learning students at the same time?'[/pullquote]While the \u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/\">United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a> announced on Friday they’ve reached an agreement that outlines how hybrid learning will work, some teachers still don’t have the details, said Maureen Sullivan, a bilingual teacher-librarian at Dolores Huerta Elementary School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How will we be teaching distance learning students as well as in-person learning students at the same time?” Sullivan asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF plans to hold a meeting on Monday to give teachers more information. The union expects to roll out in-person learning in phases and is initially focusing on students in prekindergarten to second grade. The agreement still needs to be approved by union membership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took a lot of hard work and a lot of time and compromise and back-and-forth,” said UESF President Susan Solomon. “The focus is on pre-K to second grade first and then expanding to fifth grade and then all students in special education programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are expected to vote on the tentative agreement this week. It allows students to remain with the teacher they had for remote learning, and class sizes will continue to be 22 students in the primary grades. The deal also requires that face masks, hand sanitizer and personal protective equipment be available to all educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863674\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1208px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1208\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout.jpg 1208w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from the SFUSD presentation 'Return to In-Person Learning Update,' published on Feb. 9, 2021, which shows what a typical classroom layout could look like in schools that are allowed to reopen. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFUSD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school district also plans to install plexiglass partitions on each teacher’s desk. Additionally, each student will be offered a box with school supplies to avoid sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union hasn’t committed to providing in-person learning to students at the middle and high school level before the end of the semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel pretty unlikely,” Solomon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union believes that these protections — in addition to increased ventilation, frequent testing of students and vaccinations for on-site staff — will keep teachers safe, said Solomon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD said on Twitter it’s “on track to offer in-person learning options at a select number of schools for the District’s youngest students starting on April 12, 2021.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are pleased to let you know that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/SFUSD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SFUSD\u003c/a> is on track to offer in-person learning options at a select number of schools for our youngest students starting on April 12, 2021. Additional students will be offered in-person options before the end of April.\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/J8c56yGP0R\">https://t.co/J8c56yGP0R\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/TVMknb4XGL\">pic.twitter.com/TVMknb4XGL\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— SF public schools (@SFUnified) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFUnified/status/1368065384650309632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On its website, the district stated not all elementary schools will open. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/services/health-wellness/covid-19-coronavirus-resources-families-students/august-2020-fall-semester-learning-plans/phase-2-hybrid-model/phase-2a-small-cohortgroup-return/wave-1-schools\">six elementary schools are currently ready\u003c/a> to welcome back students: Alvarado, Cobb, Glen Park, Lawton, Muir and Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district is allowing families to choose whether to send their children back to their classrooms or continue with distance learning. They plan to offer every eligible student up to five days of in-person instruction per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Unclear Daily Logistics\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the union, teachers at the selected schools will have two weeks to prepare their classrooms and lesson plans before they’re asked to return. Sullivan, the teacher-librarian at Dolores Huerta Elementary School, is relieved the union has reached a deal with the district, but still has a lot of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still don’t have a clear understanding of what recess will be like and how lunchtime will work. And what the day-to-day schedule looks like,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='education']Sullivan has two children — ages 9 and 13 — and her partner works as a nurse at San Francisco General Hospital. She wants the union and the district to explain what resources the agreement provides for teachers who have children that are still learning remotely. One solution she’d like is for the district to open its small in-person learning hubs to the children of teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel comfortable leaving [my daughter] at home by herself all day,” Sullivan said. “I’d like to know what the plan is and if educators will have the chance to get their kids into learning hubs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan's school, Dolores Huerta Elementary, is on the border of Noe Valley and Bernal Heights. SFUSD has assigned it to reopen in the next wave of in-person learning. No official date has been given as to when that will begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 parents, teachers and community members from Dolores Huerta Elementary \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SkF6GLVsoCCU_LEXv0FWb7owPIopJmuXn2GePcJtc_0/edit?fbclid=IwAR2xP9ExZKxn9ydZadaxbdjXICCbcytCbItT4zM5gVASLzppPim7SVmU2aI\">signed a letter\u003c/a> addressed to San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors asking that officials provide clearer information on issues like access to public transportation for parents when the school opens up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A Sense of Urgency\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Parents like Quelx, who lives in the Mission, say the school district hasn’t done a good job communicating with parents who don’t speak English or don't have easy access to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Quelx fears that schools may be reopening too quickly, she believes that the best place for her kids to learn is inside a classroom. She says it's been difficult for her them to participate in online learning at the same time. There are bandwidth issues, and also the noise. Her children wear headphones during their lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11863208\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47516_GettyImages-1229643858-qut-1020x571.jpg\"]And while she is trying to support them, Quelx says she can’t keep up with the various challenges, which range from the Wi-Fi dropping out, to keeping on top of her kids’ schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re still little, so it’s been hard for me,” she explained. “I really want my kids to go back to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quelx is worried about their health. A few months ago, she and some of her children got very sick with COVID-19. She doesn’t want to go through that again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quelx said her decision will be based on getting information about the protections the school district committed to putting in place. 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"content": "\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Fremont Unified School District Board of Education, Superintendent CJ Cammack presented the results of a self-selecting survey of parents, asking their feelings about continuing remote learning across the district’s 42 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey results should have provided a level of comfort for the elected board to stay the course: 63% of the nearly 11,000 parents who responded said they preferred to have their child remain in distance learning for the rest of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the public comment period began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly an hour, parents called in to levy their frustrations at the board, urging its members to produce a plan to reopen classrooms in the Bay Area’s third largest school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about the 36% of the district? Are they not important?” asked Irene Shen, a district parent. “Not every parent will come here to speak but everyone will vote with their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The status of public schools in California has remained largely static in the year since the pandemic began: Most \u003ca href=\"https://maps.schools.covid19.ca.gov/public.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remain shuttered, \u003c/a>and large Bay Area districts like San Francisco, Oakland and Fremont have been in distance learning throughout the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the political landscape is shifting rapidly as local and state officials attempt to chart the course for a potential return to class. Finding a consensus among parents on such an emotionally charged issue is proving impossible, with surveys and polling providing limited guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, increasingly organized groups of parents advocating for an immediate return to class are emerging as a potent political counterweight to teachers unions that have so far resisted those calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">until members are vaccinated\u003c/a>. In San Francisco and the East Bay suburb of San Ramon, parent groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Effort-launched-to-recall-three-S-F-school-board-15968429.php\">have vowed to derail the political careers of board members\u003c/a> standing in the way of reopening. [aside postID=\"news_11860986\" label=\"More on the state legislature and schools\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only sure thing in the debate over reopening schools, Cammack said, is that, “Any return to on-campus learning will not be fast enough for some, and far too soon for others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Politically Fragile’ Issue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That’s no solace to policymakers who prefer to operate with more well-defined levels of public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local districts looking for guidance from the state Legislature have so far found gridlock, as Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860986/democratic-state-legislators-split-with-newsom-on-school-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have yet to agree\u003c/a> on a plan to return students to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proposal unveiled last week by Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly would send billions of dollars to local districts to bring back grades K-6 by April 15 — if coronavirus case rates drop below 7 cases per 100,000 residents (the state’s “red” tier) and teachers are offered vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has argued that guidance from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/operation-strategy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> makes it clear that schools can reopen immediately with the proper mitigation measures, and that teacher vaccinations are not a necessary prerequisite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing the pressure of a potential recall election, Newsom has grown bolder in his pronouncements that union intransigence could leave students out of classrooms until the fall. Labor leaders, who heavily supported Newsom in his 2018 run for governor, have responded by \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/tKm7Iry5brA?t=999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">singling him out for criticism\u003c/a> and launching their own ad campaign to promote a reopening strategy that includes vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s an easy solution to any of this,” said former state Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, who chaired the Assembly Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GuyMarzorati/status/1364288846213443587\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchanan said education policy has always been a politically fragile issue. During her days in the state Legislature, she said, few lawmakers showed interest in sitting on education committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wanted to serve on the Education Committee unless that was your passion, because it had more bills than any other committee and the meetings were longer,” Buchanan remembered. “And the reason they were longer is because it’s a very emotional issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But finding a statewide consensus among parents about what is best for kids has been futile. And public polling has offered lawmakers little counsel, with conflicting results that indicate support for in-person learning but little agreement on what a safe return to it looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is difficult to identify the signal in the noise of all of the polling data,” said Martin West, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “Exactly what question you pose to parents matters a huge deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What the Data Says, and Doesn’t\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Education Next, a research journal run by West, \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/pandemic-parent-survey-finds-perverse-pattern-students-more-likely-to-be-attending-school-in-person-where-covid-is-spreading-more-rapidly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed parents around the country\u003c/a> toward the end of 2020 and found that parents of 60% of students believe their kids are learning less during the pandemic. But parents of 74% of students still expressed satisfaction with the instruction and activities provided at their child’s school, and views of teachers unions remained at pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teachers-unions-schools-reopen-covid_n_60218ee6c5b6173dd2f89ceb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February poll from HuffPost/YouGov\u003c/a> found Americans strongly support the bargaining position of teachers unions, but just 41% believe the risk of reopening schools outweighs the consequence of keeping them closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without hard data on their constituent’s views, state lawmakers, including Newsom, have drawn on their own experiences as parents to empathize with public frustration.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Padma Gopalakrishnan, Fremont parent\"]“Equity requires meeting the needs of the most marginalized students. Distanced learning has widened the opportunity and performance gap.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Monday hearing on a reopening bill, legislators representing predominately Black and Latino communities shared stories of residents for whom a reopening of schools would come with a new set of anxieties and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a [former] teacher, and all my friends are teachers, they’re ready to go back to the classroom, they know the importance of that,” said Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens. “But they are afraid when they see the rates of infection in Bell Gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, California’s state government has largely kicked school reopening decisions to the local level. Both Newsom and legislative Democrats have language in their latest proposals that would require a collective bargaining agreement between local districts and unions on reopening safety protocols — essentially ensuring that political battle over reopening will play out one by one in the hundreds of districts across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the local level, piecing together a consensus from surveys, interest group lobbying and parental outrage — while identifying which voices are missing from the conversation — has been just as difficult, particularly for elected board members promising to keep equity at the center of the reopening debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD Board of Education President Gabriela López speaking during a rally at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021, is facing a recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Oakland Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/2020FallFamilySurvey/Intro?%3Aembed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fall 2020 survey found\u003c/a> 41% of parents planned to send their child back to school if classrooms reopened, compared to 27% who said they would not, and 31% who were “unsure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among Black parents, the split was 35% to 33% against returning, with Latino parents responding with a similar 36% to 32% divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey of \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgRX68QeYT7C01jyfNfEXeIloxJgtZAd/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> parents found that 57% of respondents planned to return their children to in-person learning — with wide gaps between white (80%), Black (57%), Latino (61%) and Asian (36%) respondents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Equity Emerges as a Fault Line\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many supporters of reopening classrooms have rallied around the call of equity, with some trumpeting the disproportionate effects of distance learning that have left low-income, Black and Latino children \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/who-is-losing-ground-with-distance-learning-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less access to live instruction and internet-connected\u003c/a> learning. But there is no agreed-upon definition of equity, and it’s not always members of the Black and Latino communities making those calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Equity requires meeting the needs of the most marginalized students. Distanced learning has widened the opportunity and performance gap,” said Padma Gopalakrishnan, a parent who weighed in at the Fremont Unified board meeting. “The survey did not identify these students. We need to help them … so we need to open our schools.”[aside postID=\"news_11858457\" label=\"More on equity in school reopening\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Fong, a former state assemblyman who until recently led the faculty union at the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District, said he wouldn’t give added weight to vocal parents “just because they’re squeaking louder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really feel for the school board members right now because they’re the ones that are on the front lines of this, getting the heat from the community,” Fong added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the white-hot light of the school reopening debate has exposed the political naivete of many officials serving on local school boards — positions long considered a first step toward higher office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, the entire Oakley Union Elementary School District Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/19/entire-oakley-school-board-resigns-over-embarrassing-hot-mic-moment-during-public-meeting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned last week\u003c/a> after making derogatory comments on a live video stream about parents who had pushed to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, board members made national headlines for embarking on a quixotic mission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates\">to rename dozens of (still empty) public schools\u003c/a>, in some cases relying on flawed research to render judgment on whether a name was connected to enslavement, oppression or racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861638\" 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“Please Reopen Our Schools” at a park across from Clarendon Elementary School in San Francisco on Feb. 18, 2021, where students and parents rallied in support of reopening schools. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, groups of irate parents have progressed from survey responses and public comment periods to a more menacing form of political feedback: a vow to recall or challenge school board members who don’t reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political action committee called The Campaign for Better Public Schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11861151/new-pac-targets-san-francisco-school-board-over-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched in San Francisco last week\u003c/a>, backed by parents with the goal of shaking up a board that they believe has been incompetent and recalcitrant, with little to show for months of discussion and millions in federal and state relief dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee may pursue a direct recall of sitting board members, challenge them in future elections or work to change how members are selected — either by breaking the board into districts or handing appointment power to the mayor, said Seeyew Mo, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole point of my organization is to give voices to those who are not represented, so we welcome everyone and we will continue to work to make sure that diverse voices are represented,” Mo said. “And I don’t think there is any commissioner on the board or any of the organizations out there that can claim that they represent everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short of actually recalling commissioners, supporters of the San Francisco campaign don’t have to look far for examples of payoff: The San Ramon Valley Unified School District welcomed back elementary school students in early February, weeks after three board members were targeted with a recall campaign in response to their decision to postpone an earlier reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of “Parent Power” in San Ramon \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/10/san-ramon-unified-opens-some-schools-for-in-person-learning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the Mercury News\u003c/a> that they plan to continue gathering signatures to force a recall election for the three board members in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parent Groups a ‘Major Force,’ but for Whom?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For school board officials, the organization of parents railing against school closures offers a rare political counterweight to the clout of local teachers unions, said former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sad part about the school board elections is that there is only one dominant, overwhelming power, and that is the teachers union,” said Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others view the reopening advocates, with their finely written press releases announcing camera-friendly protests in front of shuttered schools, as just the latest example of wealthy constituents finding a way to elevate their own concerns — not those of the broader community.[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joan Buchanan, former state assemblywoman\"]“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks who are the most persistent in communicating with [elected] offices are almost always the more affluent, connected people in the district,” said Jim Stearns, a San Francisco political consultant, who is currently advising the United Educators of San Francisco teachers union. “They almost always have an outsized voice in issues like this, and I do think that’s the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question for local and state politicians is how high the heat from the reopening debate will rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the 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Maybe the local recall campaigns will turn more nakedly partisan, potentially turning off liberals who support teachers unions and don’t have an immediate stake in the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the potential for local school issues to escalate politically should not be underestimated. In the early 1970s, San Francisco lawyer Quentin Kopp launched a decades-long political career with his opposition to the city’s school desegregation plan — channeling the anger that white and Chinese parents held towards busing into a successful run for supervisor in 1971. Kopp’s career would take him to the state senate and a superior court judgeship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, parent activist Bobbi Fiedler organized tens of thousands of parents in the San Fernando Valley against desegregation busing, and, in 1977, she toppled the president of the Los Angeles school board. Three years later, Fiedler was in Congress, after riding the same issue to knock off 10-term U.S. Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Fremont Unified School District Board of Education, Superintendent CJ Cammack presented the results of a self-selecting survey of parents, asking their feelings about continuing remote learning across the district’s 42 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey results should have provided a level of comfort for the elected board to stay the course: 63% of the nearly 11,000 parents who responded said they preferred to have their child remain in distance learning for the rest of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the public comment period began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly an hour, parents called in to levy their frustrations at the board, urging its members to produce a plan to reopen classrooms in the Bay Area’s third largest school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about the 36% of the district? Are they not important?” asked Irene Shen, a district parent. “Not every parent will come here to speak but everyone will vote with their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Buchanan said education policy has always been a politically fragile issue. During her days in the state Legislature, she said, few lawmakers showed interest in sitting on education committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wanted to serve on the Education Committee unless that was your passion, because it had more bills than any other committee and the meetings were longer,” Buchanan remembered. “And the reason they were longer is because it’s a very emotional issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But finding a statewide consensus among parents about what is best for kids has been futile. And public polling has offered lawmakers little counsel, with conflicting results that indicate support for in-person learning but little agreement on what a safe return to it looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is difficult to identify the signal in the noise of all of the polling data,” said Martin West, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “Exactly what question you pose to parents matters a huge deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What the Data Says, and Doesn’t\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Education Next, a research journal run by West, \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/pandemic-parent-survey-finds-perverse-pattern-students-more-likely-to-be-attending-school-in-person-where-covid-is-spreading-more-rapidly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed parents around the country\u003c/a> toward the end of 2020 and found that parents of 60% of students believe their kids are learning less during the pandemic. But parents of 74% of students still expressed satisfaction with the instruction and activities provided at their child’s school, and views of teachers unions remained at pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teachers-unions-schools-reopen-covid_n_60218ee6c5b6173dd2f89ceb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February poll from HuffPost/YouGov\u003c/a> found Americans strongly support the bargaining position of teachers unions, but just 41% believe the risk of reopening schools outweighs the consequence of keeping them closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without hard data on their constituent’s views, state lawmakers, including Newsom, have drawn on their own experiences as parents to empathize with public frustration.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Fong, a former state assemblyman who until recently led the faculty union at the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District, said he wouldn’t give added weight to vocal parents “just because they’re squeaking louder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really feel for the school board members right now because they’re the ones that are on the front lines of this, getting the heat from the community,” Fong added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the white-hot light of the school reopening debate has exposed the political naivete of many officials serving on local school boards — positions long considered a first step toward higher office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, the entire Oakley Union Elementary School District Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/19/entire-oakley-school-board-resigns-over-embarrassing-hot-mic-moment-during-public-meeting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned last week\u003c/a> after making derogatory comments on a live video stream about parents who had pushed to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, board members made national headlines for embarking on a quixotic mission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates\">to rename dozens of (still empty) public schools\u003c/a>, in some cases relying on flawed research to render judgment on whether a name was connected to enslavement, oppression or racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" 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\u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, groups of irate parents have progressed from survey responses and public comment periods to a more menacing form of political feedback: a vow to recall or challenge school board members who don’t reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political action committee called The Campaign for Better Public Schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11861151/new-pac-targets-san-francisco-school-board-over-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched in San Francisco last week\u003c/a>, backed by parents with the goal of shaking up a board that they believe has been incompetent and recalcitrant, with little to show for months of discussion and millions in federal and state relief dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee may pursue a direct recall of sitting board members, challenge them in future elections or work to change how members are selected — either by breaking the board into districts or handing appointment power to the mayor, said Seeyew Mo, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole point of my organization is to give voices to those who are not represented, so we welcome everyone and we will continue to work to make sure that diverse voices are represented,” Mo said. “And I don’t think there is any commissioner on the board or any of the organizations out there that can claim that they represent everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short of actually recalling commissioners, supporters of the San Francisco campaign don’t have to look far for examples of payoff: The San Ramon Valley Unified School District welcomed back elementary school students in early February, weeks after three board members were targeted with a recall campaign in response to their decision to postpone an earlier reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of “Parent Power” in San Ramon \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/10/san-ramon-unified-opens-some-schools-for-in-person-learning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the Mercury News\u003c/a> that they plan to continue gathering signatures to force a recall election for the three board members in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parent Groups a ‘Major Force,’ but for Whom?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For school board officials, the organization of parents railing against school closures offers a rare political counterweight to the clout of local teachers unions, said former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sad part about the school board elections is that there is only one dominant, overwhelming power, and that is the teachers union,” said Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others view the reopening advocates, with their finely written press releases announcing camera-friendly protests in front of shuttered schools, as just the latest example of wealthy constituents finding a way to 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks who are the most persistent in communicating with [elected] offices are almost always the more affluent, connected people in the district,” said Jim Stearns, a San Francisco political consultant, who is currently advising the United Educators of San Francisco teachers union. “They almost always have an outsized voice in issues like this, and I do think that’s the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question for local and state politicians is how high the heat from the reopening debate will rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the state’s improving COVID-19 outlook will result in the reopening of classrooms and a cooling of tensions. Maybe the local recall campaigns will turn more nakedly partisan, potentially turning off liberals who support teachers unions and don’t have an immediate stake in the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the potential for local school issues to escalate politically should not be underestimated. In the early 1970s, San Francisco lawyer Quentin Kopp launched a decades-long political career with his opposition to the city’s school desegregation plan — channeling the anger that white and Chinese parents held towards busing into a successful run for supervisor in 1971. Kopp’s career would take him to the state senate and a superior court judgeship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, parent activist Bobbi Fiedler organized tens of thousands of parents in the San Fernando Valley against desegregation busing, and, in 1977, she toppled the president of the Los Angeles school board. Three years later, Fiedler was in Congress, after riding the same issue to knock off 10-term U.S. Rep. James Corman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, national Republicans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/openourschools-gop-targets-teachers-unions-bid-retake-suburbs-n1257899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eyeing the school reopening debate\u003c/a> as a political winner to gain back ground in suburban House districts in 2022. And many California families may already be “voting with their feet” and leaving public schools — although the data on the state’s record pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/01/california-schools-record-enrollment-drop/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enrollment drop is still noisy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the movement’s breakout potential might be limited by time and the region’s liberal leanings, Agnos says parent groups are just in their “embryonic stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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