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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted in 2021. Tragedy hit Carlmont High School in San Mateo County after a 17-year-old senior named Colin Walker died of a fentanyl overdose. It left students, the community and all those who knew him shocked. But deaths like these are not uncommon. In 2021, fentanyl was behind one in five deaths among young people, ages 15 to 24 in California. So how do students process tragedies like this at their schools? And how are young people looking for solutions to the crisis of drug overdoses? Those are questions The students behind the TBH podcast from CA LW tried to answer. TBH is made by about and for teenagers and anyone who wants to hear what’s on the minds of young people. 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Today’s episode is about how fentanyl overdoses are impacting teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Unknown: \u003c/strong>It’s easy to distance ourselves from the issue, and it’s easy to believe, Oh, this could never happen to me or somebody in my family or my community, and that it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Miriam Reichenberg: \u003c/strong>California is seeing a rise in overdose deaths among young people, and that spike is driven by fentanyl, a drug 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more powerful than morphine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Excerpt from “Fentanyl High”: \u003c/strong>I don’t want to have to tell any other parents that their child has died because of fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Miriam Reichenberg: \u003c/strong>That’s from a documentary called “Fentanyl High”, directed by Kyle Santoro, a senior at Los Gatos High School. He made the film because he wanted to explore how fentanyl kills and how teens are dealing with emotional pain of Fentanyl deaths. In 2020, two students at his high school fatally overdosed on fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Kyle Santoro: \u003c/strong>Our principal held a kid dying in his arms before paramedics able to revive him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Miriam Reichenberg: \u003c/strong>In today’s episode, we’ll hear about a school community and a family doing as much as they can to prevent overdose deaths. One of our producers at TBH. Clearly, Carolina Cuadros didn’t know much about fentanyl until a classmate fatally overdosed. She recently graduated from Karma High School in Belmont, a city in San Mateo County. Here’s Carolina’s story on spreading awareness in the aftermath of tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>From my perspective, trends are the downfall of our modern society. They fade away just as fast as they emerge. I’ve seen it happen so many times at my school, Carlmont High School. This pattern can seem harmless when it comes to how we dress or what we eat. But simply moving on from one social or political cause to the next can have consequences. And so can failing to address tragedies in a meaningful way. I observed an outlier my junior year of high school when my classmates refused to move on. This was in 2021 after a high school senior named Colin Walker, lost his life after fatally overdosing on a drug laced with fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Liz Walker: \u003c/strong>But we don’t want it to be the only thing that we remember about Colin, you know…how he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>Elizabeth Walker is Colin’s mom…she goes by Liz, and says she and her family is still trying to put one foot in front of the other. Liz says Colin loved nature, going on adventures, and making everyone laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Liz Walker: \u003c/strong>Colin was just a go, go, go active, sporty, funny kid from the beginning. He was, I mean, he was huge. 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COVID, the opioid crisis, and easy access to drugs were all coming together at once…and her son was in the middle of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Liz Walker: \u003c/strong>Early on. I mean, like as if the day he died, I knew that we weren’t going to just tell people he died of a mysterious illness or passed away suddenly in his sleep. There was no doubt with me and my husband that, you know, we knew right away fentanyl was involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>One in five deaths in California among young people…ages 15 to 24… were caused by fentanyl in 2021. That’s according to analysis of data from the San Jose Mercury News. Fentanyl overdose is not limited to those who knowingly consume the drug. College students taking cocaine to study late at night. Teenagers experimenting with weed for the first time with their friends. The reality is that overdose deaths are impacting everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Liz Walker: \u003c/strong>The kids that are dying right now. Are getting like the equivalent of two grains of salt. And they’re dying and that they’re not intentionally taking it. They’re buying something on Snapchat. It’s not what they thought. And it’s killing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>Colin’s death was the first time most of the students at Carlmont high school lost a classmate. My friend, Chesney Evert, was part of the journalism program at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>I remember sitting in class and our teachers put this like statement on the board about Colin, Colin’s passing and. Like there were just such a range of emotions from both me and all of my friends. Anger one that this had happened to a person so young and a person our age who is just about to graduate high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>I was there too. I remember grieving his life with all my classmates, especially with my peers in the school’s journalism program. I also grieved the loss of innocence at our school. The mindset of “ we are untouchable!” disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>This issue was becoming so prevalent that even our bubble of the Bay Area couldn’t protect us. Grief and sadness on behalf of him and his family, who, you know, lost a really incredible person. And at the same time, I remember seeing the opportunity for this story to really change the way that we in our community thought about drug use and the dangers of drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>Every other month, tragic events occur around the world, and Scot Scoop Carlmont High School’s nationally recognized journalism publication covers them. California wildfires, the Ukraine crisis, the Turkey- Syria earthquakes. These have been the main topics of conversation for the student body – for about a week each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>The way our news cycle functions in the present day, we almost become immune to these tragedies that are so impactful and raw and real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>After that, I’d see the topic disappear from the public’s attention. We would move on, forget, and stop actively caring. This was exactly what Scot Scoop set itself to break with Colin Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>And I think I wanted to make sure that this issue was not met with that same immunity because it shouldn’t be the loss of a young person to something as prevalent and dangerous as fentanyl is something that should be highlighted and remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>And she would do just that. But it would take time. She and her classmates waited to report on this, until Colin’s family was ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>So we at Carmont Journalism had a death policy in place. I believe that we’d never had to use it or we just wrote it following his passing. 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For example, she allowed Liz to read the story before publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>So what I remember is Colin’s mom, Liz, made some she’s she’s very funny. She has a great sense of humor, and she made some quip about Panda Express or something, and we put it being Colin’s favorite food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>In one of the drafts, Liz left a note about wanting to leave out the details about Panda Express.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>When you think of “professional journalism”, those aren’t always the moments that you see highlighted in stories. But we as a team decided that, no, that was the exact, the very human, very real and relatable evidence of a mother son relationship that we really wanted to keep in this piece.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>The package, titled “They Didn’t ask for Fentanyl” was published in March of 2022. The pieces educated the school community on fentanyl lacing described who Colin was and what led to his death. The stories also explained potential solutions…like the widespread use of naloxone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Anoushka Amekerira: \u003c/strong>Users often don’t know that drugs contain fentanyl. It’s not just the Walker family that was impacted by this devastation. 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That story came from Carolina Cuadros, a recent graduate of Carlmont High School, who’s now a freshman at UC Berkeley. The story Carolina brought us is sadly not one we haven’t heard before. When a tragic death like Colin’s happens, instead of focusing on the stigma of using drugs, we should focus on preventative measures, educating our communities and processing collective grief. Just as the Carlmont Journalism program did. At Berkeley High, there have been four student deaths in the time I’ve been a student there. This is not insignificant. Each death was very sad and hit the school community hard. I know that I appreciated how my school community came together to memorialize these kids. In one such instance, my sophomore history teacher took the class to meet and talk with the student’s parents. While not a drug-related death, meeting the student’s family members was a meaningful and personal part of the grieving process for many. Thanks for listening to these stories on TBH Podcast from KALW Public Radio. This podcast relies on you to help spread the word. So, please take a minute to give us a rating or take two and give us a review. Help us get our voices to others so they can hear what we have to say. Holly J. McDede, edited and taught along with Sarah Lai Stirland. Lauren Tran-Muchowski is our production assistant. Our artwork was created by [unknown]. [Unkown] Johnson and James Rowlands are our engineers. [unknown] is our supervising editor. Ben Trefny is our executive director. This project was made possible with support from the Association for Continuing Education, the California Arts Council and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted in 2021. Tragedy hit Carlmont High School in San Mateo County after a 17-year-old senior named Colin Walker died of a fentanyl overdose. It left students, the community and all those who knew him shocked. But deaths like these are not uncommon. In 2021, fentanyl was behind one in five deaths among young people, ages 15 to 24 in California. So how do students process tragedies like this at their schools? And how are young people looking for solutions to the crisis of drug overdoses? Those are questions The students behind the TBH podcast from CA LW tried to answer. TBH is made by about and for teenagers and anyone who wants to hear what’s on the minds of young people. So today we’re going to hear them out and we’ll bring you the story of how students sought to honor Colin’s life and spread awareness about fentanyl. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Miriam Reichenberg: \u003c/strong>This is TBH. I’m Miriam Reichenberg, and I’m a junior at Berkeley High School. This podcast is made by about and for teenagers and for anybody else who wants to hear what’s on our minds. Today’s episode is about how fentanyl overdoses are impacting teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Unknown: \u003c/strong>It’s easy to distance ourselves from the issue, and it’s easy to believe, Oh, this could never happen to me or somebody in my family or my community, and that it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Miriam Reichenberg: \u003c/strong>California is seeing a rise in overdose deaths among young people, and that spike is driven by fentanyl, a drug 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more powerful than morphine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Excerpt from “Fentanyl High”: \u003c/strong>I don’t want to have to tell any other parents that their child has died because of fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Miriam Reichenberg: \u003c/strong>That’s from a documentary called “Fentanyl High”, directed by Kyle Santoro, a senior at Los Gatos High School. He made the film because he wanted to explore how fentanyl kills and how teens are dealing with emotional pain of Fentanyl deaths. In 2020, two students at his high school fatally overdosed on fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Kyle Santoro: \u003c/strong>Our principal held a kid dying in his arms before paramedics able to revive him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Miriam Reichenberg: \u003c/strong>In today’s episode, we’ll hear about a school community and a family doing as much as they can to prevent overdose deaths. One of our producers at TBH. Clearly, Carolina Cuadros didn’t know much about fentanyl until a classmate fatally overdosed. She recently graduated from Karma High School in Belmont, a city in San Mateo County. Here’s Carolina’s story on spreading awareness in the aftermath of tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>From my perspective, trends are the downfall of our modern society. They fade away just as fast as they emerge. I’ve seen it happen so many times at my school, Carlmont High School. This pattern can seem harmless when it comes to how we dress or what we eat. But simply moving on from one social or political cause to the next can have consequences. And so can failing to address tragedies in a meaningful way. I observed an outlier my junior year of high school when my classmates refused to move on. This was in 2021 after a high school senior named Colin Walker, lost his life after fatally overdosing on a drug laced with fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Liz Walker: \u003c/strong>But we don’t want it to be the only thing that we remember about Colin, you know…how he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>Elizabeth Walker is Colin’s mom…she goes by Liz, and says she and her family is still trying to put one foot in front of the other. Liz says Colin loved nature, going on adventures, and making everyone laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Liz Walker: \u003c/strong>Colin was just a go, go, go active, sporty, funny kid from the beginning. He was, I mean, he was huge. He was a good kid, seeming to go in the right direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>But she said something inside him changed during his sophomore year of high school. Colin struggled with anxiety and depression, a battle that worsened during quarantine. To cope, Liz said, he brought drugs sold on Snapchat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Liz Walker: \u003c/strong>Colin wasn’t taking the drugs because he was just this happy kid who wanted to party. He was really struggling with being alone and COVID didn’t make it easy and feeling completely just desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>The last time he bought cocaine, it was laced with fentanyl. Liz says Snapchat has made it possible to order drugs as easily as ordering pizza. COVID, the opioid crisis, and easy access to drugs were all coming together at once…and her son was in the middle of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Liz Walker: \u003c/strong>Early on. I mean, like as if the day he died, I knew that we weren’t going to just tell people he died of a mysterious illness or passed away suddenly in his sleep. There was no doubt with me and my husband that, you know, we knew right away fentanyl was involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>One in five deaths in California among young people…ages 15 to 24… were caused by fentanyl in 2021. That’s according to analysis of data from the San Jose Mercury News. Fentanyl overdose is not limited to those who knowingly consume the drug. College students taking cocaine to study late at night. Teenagers experimenting with weed for the first time with their friends. The reality is that overdose deaths are impacting everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Liz Walker: \u003c/strong>The kids that are dying right now. Are getting like the equivalent of two grains of salt. And they’re dying and that they’re not intentionally taking it. They’re buying something on Snapchat. It’s not what they thought. And it’s killing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>Colin’s death was the first time most of the students at Carlmont high school lost a classmate. My friend, Chesney Evert, was part of the journalism program at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>I remember sitting in class and our teachers put this like statement on the board about Colin, Colin’s passing and. Like there were just such a range of emotions from both me and all of my friends. Anger one that this had happened to a person so young and a person our age who is just about to graduate high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>I was there too. I remember grieving his life with all my classmates, especially with my peers in the school’s journalism program. I also grieved the loss of innocence at our school. The mindset of “ we are untouchable!” disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>This issue was becoming so prevalent that even our bubble of the Bay Area couldn’t protect us. Grief and sadness on behalf of him and his family, who, you know, lost a really incredible person. And at the same time, I remember seeing the opportunity for this story to really change the way that we in our community thought about drug use and the dangers of drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>Every other month, tragic events occur around the world, and Scot Scoop Carlmont High School’s nationally recognized journalism publication covers them. California wildfires, the Ukraine crisis, the Turkey- Syria earthquakes. These have been the main topics of conversation for the student body – for about a week each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>The way our news cycle functions in the present day, we almost become immune to these tragedies that are so impactful and raw and real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>After that, I’d see the topic disappear from the public’s attention. We would move on, forget, and stop actively caring. This was exactly what Scot Scoop set itself to break with Colin Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>And I think I wanted to make sure that this issue was not met with that same immunity because it shouldn’t be the loss of a young person to something as prevalent and dangerous as fentanyl is something that should be highlighted and remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>And she would do just that. But it would take time. She and her classmates waited to report on this, until Colin’s family was ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>So we at Carmont Journalism had a death policy in place. I believe that we’d never had to use it or we just wrote it following his passing. There was something along those lines, but we wanted to give the family and community enough time to grieve. Right. We weren’t. We don’t want to jump in on this coverage because obviously, it doesn’t serve anybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>Eventually, Colin’s family did reach out at the beginning of 2022. They wanted the school publication to report on Colin’s story and the broader issue of fentanyl lacing. And so the team got to work on what became a massive multimedia project. Chesney led a group of six journalists who worked on multiple platforms…podcast production, video production, news features, and data visuals. Chesney worked closely with the family to make sure the story was delivered accurately, and that the family was comfortable with what they planned to publish. She says writing the story actually pushed her to almost rewrite her own code of journalism ethics. For example, she allowed Liz to read the story before publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>So what I remember is Colin’s mom, Liz, made some she’s she’s very funny. She has a great sense of humor, and she made some quip about Panda Express or something, and we put it being Colin’s favorite food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>In one of the drafts, Liz left a note about wanting to leave out the details about Panda Express.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Chesney Evert: \u003c/strong>When you think of “professional journalism”, those aren’t always the moments that you see highlighted in stories. But we as a team decided that, no, that was the exact, the very human, very real and relatable evidence of a mother son relationship that we really wanted to keep in this piece.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>The package, titled “They Didn’t ask for Fentanyl” was published in March of 2022. The pieces educated the school community on fentanyl lacing described who Colin was and what led to his death. The stories also explained potential solutions…like the widespread use of naloxone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Anoushka Amekerira: \u003c/strong>Users often don’t know that drugs contain fentanyl. It’s not just the Walker family that was impacted by this devastation. The teen death epidemic from fentanyl poisoning is increasing each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>Anoushka Amekerira, my friend and co managing editor, worked on the audio aspect of the project. It featured an interview with the co-founder of songs for charlie, an organization Liz and her family worked with to raise awareness about fentanyl lacing. Anoushka says this all provided students with an education they weren’t finding anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Anoushka Amekerira: \u003c/strong>There were definitely, like students reaching out to me who I’d never talked to before, and they were like, Hey, I learned a lot from your audio package. Like, I think it was really beneficial that you put that out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>The student population was eager to learn and hear from other students about an issue that hit so close to home. The students who worked on the journalism project — were invited to participate in a discussion about the fentanyl crisis – during a presentation in the school’s auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Anoushka Amekerira: \u003c/strong>We got to hear more stories and like how our project kind of sparked more conversations in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>Colin’s mom, Liz Walker, has continued to work with the high school to spread awareness. She spoke to the freshman during an assembly this past year about fentanyl lacing. She’s planning to do the same this year to keep everyone informed, especially those who did not attend Carlmont during the time of Colin’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Liz Walker: \u003c/strong>if you’re personally going to school and someone dies in your high school from drunk driving or from a drug overdose or suicide, there is going to be more awareness. Is that, you know, is that going to prevent? All future deaths? No, but maybe some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carolina Cuadros: \u003c/strong>Looking back, I didn’t even know what the word fentanyl meant before Colin’s death. Thanks to the journalism team and his family, my peers and I learned enough about fentanyl to teach others about it…continue educating ourselves…and hopefully, prevent more deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Miriam Reichenberg: \u003c/strong>Thanks, Carolina. That story came from Carolina Cuadros, a recent graduate of Carlmont High School, who’s now a freshman at UC Berkeley. The story Carolina brought us is sadly not one we haven’t heard before. When a tragic death like Colin’s happens, instead of focusing on the stigma of using drugs, we should focus on preventative measures, educating our communities and processing collective grief. Just as the Carlmont Journalism program did. At Berkeley High, there have been four student deaths in the time I’ve been a student there. This is not insignificant. Each death was very sad and hit the school community hard. I know that I appreciated how my school community came together to memorialize these kids. In one such instance, my sophomore history teacher took the class to meet and talk with the student’s parents. While not a drug-related death, meeting the student’s family members was a meaningful and personal part of the grieving process for many. Thanks for listening to these stories on TBH Podcast from KALW Public Radio. This podcast relies on you to help spread the word. So, please take a minute to give us a rating or take two and give us a review. Help us get our voices to others so they can hear what we have to say. Holly J. McDede, edited and taught along with Sarah Lai Stirland. Lauren Tran-Muchowski is our production assistant. Our artwork was created by [unknown]. [Unkown] Johnson and James Rowlands are our engineers. [unknown] is our supervising editor. Ben Trefny is our executive director. This project was made possible with support from the Association for Continuing Education, the California Arts Council and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Next time on tbe Age will take on anxiety and action in the face of the climate apocalypse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Unknown: \u003c/strong>So I think we should do our part in day to day and do whatever we can to help the environment so that we don’t die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Miriam Reichenberg: \u003c/strong>Talk to you next time. I’m your host, Miriam Reichenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>To view the campus reports, \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/titleix/Pages/cozen-title-ix-assessment.aspx\">click this link\u003c/a>. There’s a dropdown for each campus.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Auditor found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> routinely failed to address sexual harassment allegations across some of its 23 campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2022-109/index.html#section1\">The audit\u003c/a>, released Tuesday, continues to shed light on a system in disarray and disorder. The state auditor reviewed multiple alleged cases of sexual harassment and several investigations to determine that, in some cases, universities improperly closed cases and failed to provide adequate discipline or take action against offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit arrives one day after the release of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/cal-state-fails-to-fully-address-sexual-harassment-and-discrimination-complaints/694120\">a year-long independent investigation\u003c/a> ordered by the CSU Board of Trustees to review the system’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/sex-discrimination/title-ix-education-amendments/index.html\">Title IX\u003c/a> practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/titleix/Documents/california-state-university_systemwide-report_july-17-2023.pdf\">That report (PDF)\u003c/a>, assembled by Cozen O’Connor law firm, also found that the nation’s largest public university system fails to respond adequately to sexual harassment and discrimination complaints from employees and students because of few resources and little staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state auditor reviewed 40 CSU sexual harassment cases from 2016 to 2022 that showed employees potentially engaging in sexual harassment. Twenty-one of those cases led to a formal investigation and four led to an informal resolution agreement. Out of 15 cases that were closed upon their first assessments, the audit found that campuses did not provide clear reasons for closing 11 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those cases, the campuses did not move forward with a formal investigation, even though the cases contained concerning allegations that may have warranted an investigation,” according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit gives one such example of a student who alleged that a faculty member made, “inappropriate comments about her body, consistently walked her toward her residence after class, talked about his personal and romantic life, and compared her to women he dated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student filed a written complaint, met with a campus official and made it clear she wanted to take action. But the campus, which is unnamed in the audit, declined to investigate stating that the alleged conduct was “on the border” of the campus’s purview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor found that some campuses did not contact all the complainants before closing cases or made little effort to pursue investigating allegations if the complainants chose not to participate in the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Individual, according to the audit\"]‘In those cases, the campuses did not move forward with a formal investigation, even though the cases contained concerning allegations that may have warranted an investigation.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor also found issues with the way CSU conducts investigations. Seven investigations contained “deficiencies that caused us to question the campuses’ determinations that sexual harassment had not occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another example from the audit, a contractor reported that a faculty member made “inappropriate comments to her on multiple occasions, hugged her, touched her hair, and kissed a different staff member without that person’s consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university substantiated the allegations but found the conduct “did not meet the definition of sexual harassment in CSU’s policy — an outcome we question, given the details of the case and deficiencies in the campus’ investigative analysis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In seven cases, the audit found that the university failed to implement action even when campuses determined an employee’s behavior required discipline. Three cases were closed by campuses that also referred those cases to a different university department for possible corrective action, such as having a conversation with the accused person or a letter of reprimand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another example, an unnamed campus found a male professor responsible for sexual harassment, sexual violence, and stalking in 2016 but failed to take disciplinary action for more than five years. The campus did issue a letter reprimanding the professor for his conduct, but nothing else because the campus determined it missed the statute of limitations for any other disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that letter wasn’t given to the professor until six years later in 2022 when a new report alleged he engaged in inappropriate conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This professor is also participating in a faculty early-retirement program that reduces his employment to half-time until his anticipated retirement,” according to the audit. “The personnel administrator for that campus stated that given the professor’s past behavior, the campus is making every effort to keep him away from the classroom and engaged only in projects that do not involve students.”[aside postID=news_11950873 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490480975-1020x680.jpg']The Joint Legislative Audit Committee called for the audit last summer after multiple reports showed poor responses to sexual harassment complaints from faculty, administrators and students. The committee requested access to sexual harassment complaints against employees at the chancellor’s office, San Jose State, Fresno State and Sonoma State campuses where there had been publicly reported allegations of misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found that from 2018 to 2022, the system received 1,251 sexual harassment reports against CSU employees across the 23 campuses. However, the audit cautions that the data from the chancellor’s office is unreliable and inconsistent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit also found that of the 40 cases, 24 were missing documents, making it difficult for auditors to assess if campuses handled the allegations appropriately. Those missing documents included interview notes, relevant evidence, outreach to complainants, and timeline extensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also identified two cases in which a campus’s lack of accessible documentation about the outcome of a previous case may have affected its handling of a new allegation of sexual harassment against the same” individual, according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the corrective actions were not severe enough to stop individuals from misconduct. In another example from the audit, a female student reported a male faculty member repeatedly asked her out, hugged and kissed her. When the Title IX coordinator and a personnel administrator met with the faculty member to address his behavior. But three years later, the faculty member was the subject of similar allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In four cases, campuses reached settlement agreements that contained conditions like suspension without pay, voluntary resignation, training, or a letter of reprimand in exchange for monetary awards or removal of disciplinary documents from a personnel file. Those actions could allow the employees to be hired elsewhere with no information shared on the allegations that led to the settlements.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jolene Koester, interim chancellor, California State University\"]‘We agree with and will implement the recommendations provided in the audit report … to strengthen our culture of care and compliance and advance the CSU’s core values of equity, diversity and inclusion.’[/pullquote]The chancellor’s office has partially addressed this issue by creating a new policy that doesn’t award positive letters of recommendation to any employee that has been fired or separated from the system due to sexual misconduct. But the audit found that the new policy would not cover seven cases where employees had findings of sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the professor that committed sexual harassment, violence and stalking could still receive a letter of positive recommendation because the discipline in that case didn’t lead to his firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor also found that CSU needs a way to address unprofessional behavior that isn’t sexual harassment. In one case, the audit cited an investigation that found the behavior inappropriate and recommended the individual’s supervisor address it, but there was no evidence the campus took any action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chancellor’s office also failed to collect data and analysis adequately across the 23 campuses, so “it lacks complete and accurate information about the total number of cases of alleged sexual harassment,” according to the audit. The office also doesn’t have standard practices for preventing, detecting or addressing sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the Chancellor’s Office has both the responsibility and the authority to ensure that campuses consistently and adequately address sexual harassment concerns,” according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Auditor Grant Parks, in his letter to the legislature, said: “The problems and inconsistencies we found during this audit warrant system-wide changes at CSU. In particular, the Chancellor’s Office must take a more active approach to overseeing campuses’ efforts to prevent and address sexual harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks recommends the chancellor’s office close gaps in its policies, collect and analyze critical data, and regularly review its campuses for compliance with legal requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the audit, interim Chancellor Jolene Koester said, “We agree with and will implement the recommendations provided in the audit report, as well as those identified in the Cozen assessment, to strengthen our culture of care and compliance and advance the CSU’s core values of equity, diversity and inclusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koester said that CSU will strengthen its accountability and prioritize prevention, mitigating barriers to reporting and ensuring appropriate response and support systems.[aside postID=news_11946741 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CMUndergrads01-1020x680.jpg']Mike Fong, chair of the Assembly Higher Education committee, said he would work with the university system, faculty and students to “address the identified problems and provide avenues for healing for all those involved. Our students, faculty and staff deserve a safe campus environment, and the knowledge that when they report any discrimination or misconduct, their voices will be heard, their complaints investigated, and the system will work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fong also said that while CSU was the subject of two investigations, the problem of how systems respond to allegations of sexual misconduct and discrimination isn’t isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will work to address Title IX compliance at all higher education institutions in California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State’s new chancellor-select, Mildred Garcia, following her appointment last week, said of the law firm’s report released yesterday: “There are no ifs, and, or buts, and we say that to our communities, and we demonstrate what we’re doing. It is my understanding that campuses have already started the implementation teams. It is my role to make sure that work gets implemented and that we hold people accountable to get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of sexual harassment in the CSU system blew up early last year when USA Today reported that recently appointed Chancellor Joseph I. Castro, while president of Fresno State, ignored complaints of sexual misconduct for years by his vice president of student affairs, Frank Lamas, before his actions were finally investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU has increasingly come under scrutiny from state auditors and news organizations for poor responses to sexual harassment complaints filed by faculty, administrators and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks, a retired physics teacher, started the challenge in 1993 to motivate students in science and engineering. At that time, electric cars were rare. But they have since become more efficient and affordable. With help from \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/15/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-standards-and-major-progress-for-a-made-in-america-national-network-of-electric-vehicle-chargers/\">government green energy initiatives\u003c/a>, electric vehicles are even projected to outsell gasoline-powered cars \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/10/climate/electric-vehicle-fleet-turnover.html\">by 2050\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks’ program has grown as well. The Solar Car Challenge now includes 261 teams in 39 states, in addition to Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Spain and Singapore. “We’re spinning dreams for these kids,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, he expects 200,000 people will come out to watch the high schoolers drive their solar vehicles across the southwestern U.S. — despite projected triple-digit temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955259 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"An East Indian high school student sits in the middle of a metallic frame as other students work around him.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230705-SOLAR-CAR-MHN-05-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raghav Ranga (center), a member of the Palo Alto High School team competing in the 30th Solar Car Challenge, tests out the placement of the steering wheel in the solar car in Palo Alto on July 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very serious project,” said Rupa Chaturvedi, the Palo Alto team’s program director. “It’s putting a human being in the car and, most likely, a 16-year-old on the freeway, right?”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Each car is flanked by a three-vehicle convoy, which maintains radio communication with the driver and shields the solar car from passing traffic. EMT teams and a registered nurse accompany the competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaap Nair, a 17-year-old driver for the Palo Alto team, just got his driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the adrenaline that will go through my body is definitely going to keep me, like, completely focused,” he said. “Completely focused and really immersed in what I’m really driving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California teams have been part of the Solar Car Challenge since it began, but this is the first time a Bay Area team is competing. While there are no cash prizes, awards are given for elements like distance and engineering. The Palo Alto High School team is already plotting a new design to enter in next year’s challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in Silicon Valley, and that’s where things get started,” Nair said. “Being able to be part of a group that starts something that can have a huge impact on the world — just being one of those pioneers means a lot to the whole team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>Stanford University graduate students have voted to unionize after an election conducted through the National Labor Relations Board came back with over 90% support Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Whatley, a Ph.D. student at Stanford, said the labor of grad students often goes unnoticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it be working in the lab or in the classroom or doing research, giving presentations — all of that is labor,” Whatley told KQED. “So, we use the [term] Stanford Graduate Workers because we want to highlight the fact that we are workers, not only students, and that the work that we do, the labor that we do, is vital to Stanford as an institution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the election results finalized, the union can now bargain with the university for a contract. In a statement, Stanford said it looks forward to working in good faith with the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, June 1:\u003c/strong> Graduate workers at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford-university\">Stanford University\u003c/a> voted this week on whether to form a union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the campaign succeeds, thousands of graduate students who provide teaching and research duties could represent one of the nation’s largest bargaining units among graduate workers at a private university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote comes months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891301/48000-academic-workers-strike-across-university-of-california-campuse\">academic workers at the University of California walked off the job\u003c/a> in the largest higher education strike in U.S. history, and is part of a wave of union drives among graduate workers nationwide. Graduate workers at \u003ca href=\"https://news.yale.edu/2023/01/09/yale-graduate-students-vote-form-labor-union\">Yale University\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-17/usc-graduate-student-workers-vote-yes-to-unionization\">University of Southern California\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2023/3/17/23645593/graduate-students-unionize-university-chicago-teaching-research\">University of Chicago\u003c/a> all voted to unionize this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of the election at Stanford is \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/05/18/graduate-student-union-election-scheduled/\">expected this summer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid soaring housing costs and a tumultuous academic job market, graduate workers at Stanford and elsewhere are pushing to increase wages and improve benefits. They say academic hierarchies and low pay can leave graduate workers vulnerable to harassment, bullying and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate workers see collective bargaining as a way to change that, and to create more fair, effective grievance processes when graduate employees do file complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/23/491090762/nlrb-rules-graduate-students-are-employees-with-the-right-to-unionize#:~:text=The%20National%20Labor%20Relations%20Board%20ruled%203%2D1%20Tuesday%20that,the%20right%20to%20collective%20bargaining.\">National Labor Relations Board ruled in 2016\u003c/a> that graduate students working as teaching or research assistants at private universities are employees. But graduate workers say the process for filing harassment complaints through the Title IX office — officially known as the SHARE (Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Education) Title IX Office — is not equipped to support graduate student employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A complaint process designed for students, not graduate workers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chloé Brault, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at Stanford, said graduate workers need a process that treats reports of abuse or predatory behavior like workplace safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A shot of the back of a woman's black T-shirt that reads, "Stanford works because we do."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chloé Brault, a Stanford Ph.D. candidate, shows the back of her T-shirt, which says, ‘Stanford Works Because We Do,’ near Wallenberg Hall on the Stanford campus on May 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The idea of power abuse — if you define harassment as power abuse — is very familiar to any graduate worker at Stanford,” Brault said. “This might look like bullying, it might look like retaining pay, it may look like undermining in a meeting in a professional setting, it might look like stalking. Frankly, I’ve heard it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brault said over the past six years, she’s been involved in three cases filed with the Title IX office as a witness, and she’s seen how traumatizing the process can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chloé Brault, Stanford Ph.D. candidate\"]‘The idea of power abuse — if you define harassment as power abuse — is very familiar to any graduate worker at Stanford.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulations adopted during the Trump administration narrowed the definition of sexual harassment to conduct that is “so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive” it denies a person’s access to their education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.equalrights.org/issue/the-title-ix-process/\">Title IX process can take several months or longer\u003c/a>, and focus on determining whether allegations meet that federal definition of sexual harassment rather than providing support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get told, ‘This meets the threshold, this does not, the grievance process will proceed whether you like it or not, we’ll give you options to opt in or opt out, but otherwise the investigation is happening with or without you,’” Brault said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brault added that international student workers face additional barriers to reporting, and for them taking a leave of absence can mean losing campus housing, income and visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A push for a fairer, more transparent, more effective complaint process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Through unionizing, Stanford graduate workers could bargain for an official grievance process that takes those concerns into account, and be provided with union representation in disciplinary proceedings. They’re also advocating for contingency plans for graduate workers when supervisors are accused of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A shot of a college campus from inside an arched tunnel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Stanford campus, on May 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriela Basel, a third-year Ph.D. student studying chemical engineering, said she knows too many people at Stanford who have gone through the Title IX process only to see no changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s just gut-wrenching to hear these stories of power abuse and sexual abuse from supervisors and knowing that there’s nothing that graduate employees can do, there’s nowhere we can go,” Basel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a union, she said, Stanford will have no choice but to listen and sit down with workers at the bargaining table.[aside postID=news_11950873 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490480975-1020x680.jpg']Stett Holbrook, senior director of media relations and issues management at Stanford, said in a statement that the university values the many contributions graduate students make to Stanford’s mission of teaching and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook also noted that the university is encouraging every eligible graduate student to educate themselves about what it means to become a member of a union and then to exercise their right to vote in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook said the university is committed to providing a campus that is free of sex-based discrimination, sexual harassment and all forms of sexual misconduct. He said the school’s Title IX office has been working with the Graduate Life Office to increase its visibility within the graduate student community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford graduate workers are not alone in organizing to improve protections for those who experience abuse on the job. Student workers at \u003ca href=\"http://harvardgradunion.org/times-up-committee/nocarveout/\">Harvard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/07/columbia-university-strike-ends/\">Columbia\u003c/a> both have pushed for the option of third-party arbitration for discrimination and harassment complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Labor movement meets the fight against gender-based violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Labor movements must think about sexual harassment and discrimination as a labor issue, said Erin O’Callaghan, an incoming assistant professor at Colorado State University who participated in two strikes while she was a graduate student worker at the University of Illinois at Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Callaghan co-authored a paper, ‘‘\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34661481/#full-view-affiliation-1\">Sexual Harassment in the Academy: Harnessing the Growing Labor Movement in Higher Education to Address Sexual Harassment Against Graduate Workers\u003c/a>,” that calls for structural changes in academia to address gender-based violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a study cited in that paper, \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0361684316644838\">nearly 60% of female graduate students reported experiencing sexual harassment\u003c/a> from other students, and 38% of female graduate students reported sexual harassment by faculty or staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut.jpg\" alt=\"On a college campus hundreds of students are gathered in a quad-like area surrounded by chunky buildings and green trees. It's a sea of students.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather for a union rally at Stanford on April 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Fletcher Chapin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is that because [graduate workers] are such a cheap form of labor, and there’s another one to take your place, there’s no incentive to protect people that are in that type of working environment,” O’Callaghan said. “You could have four graduate students working under you as a faculty member and their collective salary would not come close to what you are paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union organizers are aiming to address some of that power imbalance by campaigning for a living wage, affordable housing and better benefits like full dental and vision coverage and subsidized child care.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Erin O’Callaghan, assistant professor, Colorado State University\"]‘The bottom line is that because [graduate workers] are such a cheap form of labor, and there’s another one to take your place, there’s no incentive to protect people that are in that type of working environment.’[/pullquote]Working conditions can be particularly precarious for \u003ca href=\"https://facts.stanford.edu/academics/graduate/\">international students, who make up about 35% of all graduate students at Stanford\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miikka Jaarte, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate from Finland who is studying philosophy, said an estimated 45% of his annual take-home pay goes toward rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year I was in Stanford housing, I would get a little pay bump and I would get a larger rent bump,” Jaarte said. “We would just like our wages to keep up with the cost of housing and with inflation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union organizers are also pushing for better protections for international student workers, like improving legal resources and creating a grievance procedure for graduate workers who have been unjustly terminated and fear deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Workers organizing amid a bleak academic job market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Allen Nie, a fourth-year computer science Ph.D. student, unionizing is a way to acknowledge the value graduate student workers bring to the university, and their identities as workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut.jpg\" alt=\"College students in hoodies with backpacks chat on campus on a sunny day. Many students are on a quad area with trees and big tan buildings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65957_001_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6418-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Nie, a fourth-year Stanford Ph.D. student, attends a rally on campus on April 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Fletcher Chapin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even though there is some enrichment of our knowledge, we’re not just purely passively receiving that from the university,” he said. “To those of my fellow workers, I would say, ‘Take a hard look at how much you’re getting from the university and take a look at how much you’re contributing to the scientific community.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wave of graduate workers organizing appears poised to continue. According to Bloomberg Law, \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/college-university-strike-wave-continues-its-swell-into-2023\">professors, graduate teaching and research assistants and other academic workers went on strike 15 times in 2022\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/unionelections/status/1599824581325336576\">largest union election petitions last year were filed by graduate workers\u003c/a>, according to Daily Union Elections.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sarah Mason, graduate student researcher, UC Santa Cruz Center for Labor and Community\"]‘We need to be fighting now for what we need. And more than that, those fights can be the basis for truly transforming the university on our terms.’[/pullquote]Workers in higher education are responding to structural changes in academia over the last few decades, said Sarah Mason, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology and a graduate student researcher at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Labor and Community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Departments and divisions have been financially gutted, workloads have exploded and tenured faculty positions have been replaced by a precarious workforce, Mason said. She added that students are crushed by private debt and described the prospects for future employment as incredibly bleak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s an increasing sense that these problems are not going to be solved by the people who created them,” Mason said. “We need to be fighting now for what we need. And more than that, those fights can be the basis for truly transforming the university on our terms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid soaring housing costs and a tumultuous academic job market, graduate workers at Stanford and elsewhere are pushing to increase wages and improve benefits. They say academic hierarchies and low pay can leave graduate workers vulnerable to harassment, bullying and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate workers see collective bargaining as a way to change that, and to create more fair, effective grievance processes when graduate employees do file complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/23/491090762/nlrb-rules-graduate-students-are-employees-with-the-right-to-unionize#:~:text=The%20National%20Labor%20Relations%20Board%20ruled%203%2D1%20Tuesday%20that,the%20right%20to%20collective%20bargaining.\">National Labor Relations Board ruled in 2016\u003c/a> that graduate students working as teaching or research assistants at private universities are employees. But graduate workers say the process for filing harassment complaints through the Title IX office — officially known as the SHARE (Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Education) Title IX Office — is not equipped to support graduate student employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A complaint process designed for students, not graduate workers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chloé Brault, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at Stanford, said graduate workers need a process that treats reports of abuse or predatory behavior like workplace safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A shot of the back of a woman's black T-shirt that reads, "Stanford works because we do."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65954_002_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chloé Brault, a Stanford Ph.D. candidate, shows the back of her T-shirt, which says, ‘Stanford Works Because We Do,’ near Wallenberg Hall on the Stanford campus on May 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The idea of power abuse — if you define harassment as power abuse — is very familiar to any graduate worker at Stanford,” Brault said. “This might look like bullying, it might look like retaining pay, it may look like undermining in a meeting in a professional setting, it might look like stalking. Frankly, I’ve heard it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brault said over the past six years, she’s been involved in three cases filed with the Title IX office as a witness, and she’s seen how traumatizing the process can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulations adopted during the Trump administration narrowed the definition of sexual harassment to conduct that is “so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive” it denies a person’s access to their education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.equalrights.org/issue/the-title-ix-process/\">Title IX process can take several months or longer\u003c/a>, and focus on determining whether allegations meet that federal definition of sexual harassment rather than providing support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get told, ‘This meets the threshold, this does not, the grievance process will proceed whether you like it or not, we’ll give you options to opt in or opt out, but otherwise the investigation is happening with or without you,’” Brault said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brault added that international student workers face additional barriers to reporting, and for them taking a leave of absence can mean losing campus housing, income and visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A push for a fairer, more transparent, more effective complaint process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Through unionizing, Stanford graduate workers could bargain for an official grievance process that takes those concerns into account, and be provided with union representation in disciplinary proceedings. They’re also advocating for contingency plans for graduate workers when supervisors are accused of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A shot of a college campus from inside an arched tunnel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65956_005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Stanford campus, on May 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriela Basel, a third-year Ph.D. student studying chemical engineering, said she knows too many people at Stanford who have gone through the Title IX process only to see no changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s just gut-wrenching to hear these stories of power abuse and sexual abuse from supervisors and knowing that there’s nothing that graduate employees can do, there’s nowhere we can go,” Basel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a union, she said, Stanford will have no choice but to listen and sit down with workers at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Stett Holbrook, senior director of media relations and issues management at Stanford, said in a statement that the university values the many contributions graduate students make to Stanford’s mission of teaching and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook also noted that the university is encouraging every eligible graduate student to educate themselves about what it means to become a member of a union and then to exercise their right to vote in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holbrook said the university is committed to providing a campus that is free of sex-based discrimination, sexual harassment and all forms of sexual misconduct. He said the school’s Title IX office has been working with the Graduate Life Office to increase its visibility within the graduate student community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford graduate workers are not alone in organizing to improve protections for those who experience abuse on the job. Student workers at \u003ca href=\"http://harvardgradunion.org/times-up-committee/nocarveout/\">Harvard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/07/columbia-university-strike-ends/\">Columbia\u003c/a> both have pushed for the option of third-party arbitration for discrimination and harassment complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Labor movement meets the fight against gender-based violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Labor movements must think about sexual harassment and discrimination as a labor issue, said Erin O’Callaghan, an incoming assistant professor at Colorado State University who participated in two strikes while she was a graduate student worker at the University of Illinois at Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Callaghan co-authored a paper, ‘‘\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34661481/#full-view-affiliation-1\">Sexual Harassment in the Academy: Harnessing the Growing Labor Movement in Higher Education to Address Sexual Harassment Against Graduate Workers\u003c/a>,” that calls for structural changes in academia to address gender-based violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a study cited in that paper, \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0361684316644838\">nearly 60% of female graduate students reported experiencing sexual harassment\u003c/a> from other students, and 38% of female graduate students reported sexual harassment by faculty or staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11951861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11951861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut.jpg\" alt=\"On a college campus hundreds of students are gathered in a quad-like area surrounded by chunky buildings and green trees. It's a sea of students.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65958_002_StanfordUnionRally_DSC_6426-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather for a union rally at Stanford on April 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Fletcher Chapin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is that because [graduate workers] are such a cheap form of labor, and there’s another one to take your place, there’s no incentive to protect people that are in that type of working environment,” O’Callaghan said. “You could have four graduate students working under you as a faculty member and their collective salary would not come close to what you are paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union organizers are aiming to address some of that power imbalance by campaigning for a living wage, affordable housing and better benefits like full dental and vision coverage and subsidized child care.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Monday, the Oakland Education Association reached a 90% vote in favor of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949458/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district\">tentative agreement\u003c/a> with the Oakland Unified School District. In the coming weeks, the two groups will vote separately on the proposal, negotiated during a seven-day strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are major gains in some areas, and there’s other areas where we made modest gains, and some areas where we have the status quo,” said Ismael Armendariz, a special education teacher and the union’s president. “But as a package, it is amazing what they accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement includes plans for substantial changes to teachers’ salaries, improvements on classroom conditions, and “common good” proposals such as student housing assistance and programs that benefit students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also features amendments to special education, but parents and teachers say there is more work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/oaklandea/status/1660824964633878529?s=46&t=r9Q2R3VlaGIjgJa5ishJag\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made modest gains,” Armendariz repeated. “But we’re going to center special education going forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the school district serves more than 6,000 students in special education programs, accounting for roughly 17% of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Oakland’s population of students in special education programming continues to grow, the school district has struggled to find enough staff and funding to meet the needs of these students. It has consolidated programming, closing programs in some schools and moving them to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re piloting a workload model that allows us to think about how we manage our caseloads, so that we can provide all the services to our students and that we’re able to manage that in a way that doesn’t burn teachers out,” Armendariz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut.jpg\" alt='A man in a red T-shirt with dark hair speaks from a podium as large signs behind him read, \"Safe, Stable, Racially Just Schools.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Education Association president Ismael Armendariz, who is also a special education teacher, speaks at the teachers union rally held at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland on May 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, the school district decided to close seven schools due to costs, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911675/they-see-us-as-expendable-oakland-families-of-children-with-disabilities-call-school-closure-plan-discriminatory\">some families with children in special education programs called the plan discriminatory\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of this school year, the district expects to cut at least one classroom for special education students with individualized learning plans from Joaquin Miller Elementary, Manzanita Community School, Bella Vista Elementary, United for Success Academy and Montera Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of \u003cem>next\u003c/em> school year, the school board intends to close some special education programs at Joaquin Miller, Manzanita SEED and Montera Middle School. The district will add new early childhood special education classes at Montclair Elementary and Melrose Leadership Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the school district’s Community Advisory Committee are fighting these upcoming closures with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/call-on-ousd-to-stop-expelling-disabled-students-from-schools-to-close-their-programs?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=f5a168c0-e7e0-11ed-9308-716afd1259c7\">petition\u003c/a>. The group also plans to protest with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1507997136401647/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A%5b%5d%7D\">art-in at the school board meeting\u003c/a> on May 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ismael Armendariz, special education teacher, OEA president\"]‘For far too long, special education has been siloed and we have been put aside and thought of as second to all the other programming.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s tentative agreement takes a step toward meeting these needs by creating a new joint committee to oversee special education programs and by piloting a one-year program to maintain more equitable workloads for special education professionals, according to Armendariz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the most revolutionary things out of [the agreement] is that now, for the first time, a high-ranking general education administrator has to attend,” he said. “For far too long, special education has been siloed and we have been put aside and thought of as second to all the other programming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coriander Melious is a special education teacher and parent of an eighth grader who has Down syndrome. She said she’s excited that the new committee will include general education teachers and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Real inclusion comes with shifting the culture,” she said. “[It’s] how we as a community view our disabled students and the disabled community as actual members of our community and not this separate section over there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950561\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut.jpg\" alt='A little boy in a green T-shirt and a striped sweater wrapped around his wait stands next to a man with a black hoodie on with a back patch that reads, \"Strike for a fair contract.\" Both of their backs face the camera. The two are standing at a picnic bench with neat stacks of juice boxes and snacks for kids.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, teachers and high school students hand out lunch to Oakland Unified students at a ‘solidarity school’ at Dimond Park in Oakland on May 11, 2023. Solidarity schools were run by volunteers during the seven-day teachers’ strike to give parents a safe place to send their children for supervised activities. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other parents and educators think the major win is the new pilot program aiming to balance the workloads of special education professionals. It allows employees to request more support once they reach certain limits, which could include additional compensation or staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than base caseloads purely on the number of students, the program will take into account the specific needs and learning levels of each student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really been a big issue,” said Holly Adler, a member of the union’s bargaining team and a resource specialist. “Teachers haven’t been getting support with high-needs students that are now being mainstreamed.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Coriander Melious, parent and special education teacher\"]‘Real inclusion comes with shifting the culture.’[/pullquote]Not all parents are happy about the “mainstreaming,” which will place more students with special needs in general education classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Pursell is the parent of a sixth grader with autism. He said his son performs well in a general education classroom, but still needs time in a smaller, separate classroom to fully thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried that if he’s placed in a generalist setting, that he’ll lose all that progress and fall through the cracks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program to help teachers manage their caseloads conflicts with difficulties in hiring support staff. But these support staff, called paraeducators, are not included in the union and do not benefit from the salary raises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melious said that the low pay means these positions are often left empty, and students lose much-needed support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter was not able to participate in a musical performance because she was unable to learn guitar without a teacher’s aide. Melious said the position had been unfilled for over a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me so sad when I realized what was going on,” she said. “She’d just been sitting in there not doing anything, and she’s the only one.”\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label='More Stories on Education' tag='education']\u003c/span>She wants the district to raise the pay for these positions and hire more staff to support students with additional needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These students are going to be sitting in classrooms not learning,” she said. “They’re just waiting for the class to end. And that’s, like, criminal to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adler said the lack of support staff also affects teachers. In violation of the law, early childhood special education teachers were not getting a lunch break because of the demanding workload. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s tentative agreement takes a step toward meeting these needs by creating a new joint committee to oversee special education programs and by piloting a one-year program to maintain more equitable workloads for special education professionals, according to Armendariz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the most revolutionary things out of [the agreement] is that now, for the first time, a high-ranking general education administrator has to attend,” he said. “For far too long, special education has been siloed and we have been put aside and thought of as second to all the other programming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coriander Melious is a special education teacher and parent of an eighth grader who has Down syndrome. She said she’s excited that the new committee will include general education teachers and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Real inclusion comes with shifting the culture,” she said. “[It’s] how we as a community view our disabled students and the disabled community as actual members of our community and not this separate section over there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950561\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut.jpg\" alt='A little boy in a green T-shirt and a striped sweater wrapped around his wait stands next to a man with a black hoodie on with a back patch that reads, \"Strike for a fair contract.\" Both of their backs face the camera. The two are standing at a picnic bench with neat stacks of juice boxes and snacks for kids.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, teachers and high school students hand out lunch to Oakland Unified students at a ‘solidarity school’ at Dimond Park in Oakland on May 11, 2023. Solidarity schools were run by volunteers during the seven-day teachers’ strike to give parents a safe place to send their children for supervised activities. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other parents and educators think the major win is the new pilot program aiming to balance the workloads of special education professionals. It allows employees to request more support once they reach certain limits, which could include additional compensation or staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than base caseloads purely on the number of students, the program will take into account the specific needs and learning levels of each student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really been a big issue,” said Holly Adler, a member of the union’s bargaining team and a resource specialist. “Teachers haven’t been getting support with high-needs students that are now being mainstreamed.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A group of students of color at \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UC College of the Law, San Francisco,\u003c/span> allege the school downplayed multiple complaints of discriminatory behavior and racist marginalization on campus and claim administrators have done little to develop a more inclusive environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue became abundantly clear to Megan Wilhelm during her first year at the law school formerly known as UC Hastings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would cry every day,” said Wilhelm, who just finished her second year at the school. “It got to the point where I didn’t know if I was going to come back that year. ‘Draining’ is the word I would use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a legal research and writing class, Wilhelm was assigned an oral argument around workplace discrimination. The case involved an employee who called another employee the N-word, and Wilhelm was tasked with defending the perpetrator’s employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilhelm recalls being the only Black student in the room asked to participate, and said she felt alienated when a teacher’s assistant told other students they could use the N-word because it was a fact of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949830 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Students seated in a circle while in discussion, outside in a courtyard with buildings behind them and a little lawn underneath them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student organizers debrief outside UC Law SF after demonstrating against an alleged pattern of inaction from school staff regarding student concerns, on April 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After discovering that the case involved a majority-Black workplace, Wilhelm said she recalled telling the class, “You have no idea what this conversation is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was marked down on her grade for the assignment, and later broke down crying in the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she complained to her professor about the experience, the professor brought the issue to Dean of Students Grace Hum, who was also responsible for advising on issues of diversity and inclusion, as well as providing guidance on student and personal life, according to the university’s website. But the professor later informed Wilhelm that the dean did not consider it a pressing issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hum resigned last month to take a job in the executive office of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The university provided a written statement but declined requests to interview Hum or other officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We need more Black attorneys’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There was no source, no outlet to talk about it and make sure that it could change,” Wilhelm said. “Why was this even an option of cases that we should be discussing without any background or any cultural education about it?”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dominique Armstrong, student, UC Law SF\"]‘For us, it was trying to convey a message that we are tired of being treated like second-class citizens. We are paying the same tuition as white students and we aren’t getting the same treatment.’[/pullquote]Wilhelm is among a group of students of color at the school who say they are struggling from a lack of support, and have accused some professors and key administrators of largely dismissing their grievances. That, they argue, is an issue of particular concern, as they prepare to enter a field vastly overrepresented by white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also not about individual students. It’s a pattern,” Wilhem said. “I just know that if I don’t say something, more people are going to be hurt, and we need more Black attorneys, not less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, like much of the rest of the country, Wilhelm notes, there is a striking dearth of lawyers of color, with numbers that fail to reflect the diversity of the larger population. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://publications.calbar.ca.gov/2022-diversity-report-card/diversity-2022-california-licensed-attorneys\">just 3% of all licensed attorneys in California were Black, and just 6% were Latino\u003c/a>, according to data from the State Bar of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they’re going to sit here and advertise that they’re a social justice-focused school, they need to have a system that supports us and protects us from the harms that they are continuing to put us through,” Wilhem added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A quiet pattern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just over a year ago, students at UC Law SF shut down a speaking engagement featuring Ilya Shapiro, a conservative legal scholar. Shapiro, who was invited by the campus’ chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, had recently posted racist tweets denigrating the Black female judges President Biden was considering for the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/When-Black-people-refuse-to-quietly-endure-17029870.php\">The protesters successfully halted the event.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it was trying to convey a message that we are tired of being treated like second-class citizens. We are paying the same tuition as white students and we aren’t getting the same treatment,” said Dominique Armstrong, then co-president of the school’s Black Law Student Association, who helped organize the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t much acknowledgement of race, and our administration has done little to address the racism and misogyny in our coursework,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after the demonstration, the administration sent students an updated policy introducing new rules for campus protests and counterprotests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young African American woman wearing a denim jacket leans against a building while looking away from the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Armstrong, a third-year law student at UC Law SF, has been working to organize other law students at the university to enact change in the way the administration responds to student accounts of racism and ableism on campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Impermissible forms of protest are those that substantially disrupt an in-person or virtual event in a way that has the effect of silencing a speaker,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23817782-10122-event-policy-adopted-1\">the document reads\u003c/a>. “This includes but is not limited to forcing a change to the planned event format; disregarding time limits or other event guidelines to prevent speakers or other attendees from participating; preventing a person from speaking or being heard via such means as heckling, making noise, standing in the area of a room reserved for the speaker, blocking the speaker or event organizers from accessing AV equipment, blocking the views of attendees attempting to view the speaker; using or implementing technology features, such as the mute button and the camera button.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The updated policies were adopted Oct. 1, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, students involved in that organizing effort say the protest was merely a flashpoint in a much broader campus discussion about freedom of speech and how administrators should respond when students bring up their experiences of racism and sexism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until meeting other organizers at that protest, Sonja Chen, who just completed her second year as a student, didn’t realize that a traumatizing experience she had had soon after starting the school was hardly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During orientation, a fellow classmate taunted Chen over her race, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without prompting, this person immediately was like, ‘You should thank Lyndon B. Johnson and the New Deal for you being a student at this law school, because without him, Chinese people wouldn’t be allowed in this space,’” Chen, who is Chinese and white, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very much taken aback by that framing of history,” she added. “But also I wasn’t wearing a name tag or anything that was identifying me specifically as Chinese, and I thought that that was just very confronting to be called out immediately on one specific race, especially after COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman of half-white, half-Asian descent leans against a wall and looks at the camera. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Chen raised concerns about racism on the UC Law SF campus, but feels her voice went unheard when it came to taking action. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chen came to Hum, the dean of students, to report the interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first brought this to [the dean’s] attention, she focused on the individual man’s rights around free speech and basically said there’s nothing that she can do,” Chen said. “There was no option generating. There was no plan of action. And I left feeling really disheartened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, the dean later offered to change Chen’s schedule so she and the other student wouldn’t have any classes together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The second meeting, I told her this is still on my mind,” she said. “And she offered me to switch sections, which means you have to switch your section for every single class. So that’s just a very disruptive offering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Incremental changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at the university declined to comment on specific incidents, but said the administration is actively working to address its systems and culture to be more inclusive of students from all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a student would like to express a concern about racist or other bias-related issues, they have a variety of resources upon which to rely, including reporting the issue to the Provost and Academic Dean, the Dean of Students, or a variety of other administrators ready to support,” UC Law SF Chancellor and Dean David Faigman said in an email response to KQED. “Administrators and staff members often engage in informal mechanisms to help resolve differences and provide opportunities for learning and reflections for all community members, including faculty, staff, and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949840 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Three students walk down a brightly lit indoor hallway with florescent lighting and white walls.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miquela Kallenberger leads students to the office of Academic Dean Morris Ratner to demonstrate against an alleged lack of accountability from school officials, on April 18, 2023, on the UC Law SF campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school is also actively recruiting its first ombudsperson to facilitate conflict resolution, Faigman said. He pointed to a list of initiatives on campus that aim to promote diversity and inclusion, such as a program specifically for students who are the first in their families to go to law school; merit-based scholarships for students from historically Black colleges or universities (HBCUs); and about 20 affinity groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Law SF is committed to ensuring that all our law students feel a sense of belonging, so we intentionally and thoughtfully created programs and initiatives to inculcate that feeling within our community,” Faigman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the school decided to change its name, following years of pressure by advocates who underscored that Serranus Hastings, the school’s founder and a prominent politician and rancher, participated in the genocide of thousands of the Indigenous people in California. The new name went into effect on Jan. 1, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many student advocates of color say the school’s recent efforts fall short and student voices are not driving the conversations about inclusivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To hear those discussions coming from the faculty of the name change and how it would affect all these student organizations, it was totally missing the mark,” said Chen. “Y’all are out searching for Pluto and we’re looking for water on Earth right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New tactics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As classes were wrapping up for the most recent school year, students from the protest and others who had come forward to report issues with racism made one final push to elevate some of the roadblocks they’d run into when reporting discrimination on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They posted flyers asking peers to share their experiences with Hum. Within days, they received dozens of examples in which the dean and other administrators had responded dismissively to student concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949824\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two students, one male, the other female, stand on either side of a door with their backs to the camera, through the door we see a white man in a brown suit sitting behind a desk explaining something.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Academic Dean Morris Ratner talks with students about an alleged pattern of inaction from Dean Grace Hum and other school staff regarding reports of racism and ableism on campus, on April 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the last week of classes in April, a group of about 15 students attempted to hand-deliver a hard copy of the examples to Hum, only to find she was not on campus that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They instead met with Morris Ratner, the school’s academic dean, who spoke with them for nearly 30 minutes about their concerns and advised them to refer to formal complaint processes in the student handbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, students hugged with teary eyes. For some, it would be the last time they would see each other before graduating. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A group of students of color at \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UC College of the Law, San Francisco,\u003c/span> allege the school downplayed multiple complaints of discriminatory behavior and racist marginalization on campus and claim administrators have done little to develop a more inclusive environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue became abundantly clear to Megan Wilhelm during her first year at the law school formerly known as UC Hastings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would cry every day,” said Wilhelm, who just finished her second year at the school. “It got to the point where I didn’t know if I was going to come back that year. ‘Draining’ is the word I would use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a legal research and writing class, Wilhelm was assigned an oral argument around workplace discrimination. The case involved an employee who called another employee the N-word, and Wilhelm was tasked with defending the perpetrator’s employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilhelm recalls being the only Black student in the room asked to participate, and said she felt alienated when a teacher’s assistant told other students they could use the N-word because it was a fact of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949830 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Students seated in a circle while in discussion, outside in a courtyard with buildings behind them and a little lawn underneath them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student organizers debrief outside UC Law SF after demonstrating against an alleged pattern of inaction from school staff regarding student concerns, on April 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After discovering that the case involved a majority-Black workplace, Wilhelm said she recalled telling the class, “You have no idea what this conversation is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was marked down on her grade for the assignment, and later broke down crying in the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she complained to her professor about the experience, the professor brought the issue to Dean of Students Grace Hum, who was also responsible for advising on issues of diversity and inclusion, as well as providing guidance on student and personal life, according to the university’s website. But the professor later informed Wilhelm that the dean did not consider it a pressing issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hum resigned last month to take a job in the executive office of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The university provided a written statement but declined requests to interview Hum or other officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We need more Black attorneys’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There was no source, no outlet to talk about it and make sure that it could change,” Wilhelm said. “Why was this even an option of cases that we should be discussing without any background or any cultural education about it?”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wilhelm is among a group of students of color at the school who say they are struggling from a lack of support, and have accused some professors and key administrators of largely dismissing their grievances. That, they argue, is an issue of particular concern, as they prepare to enter a field vastly overrepresented by white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also not about individual students. It’s a pattern,” Wilhem said. “I just know that if I don’t say something, more people are going to be hurt, and we need more Black attorneys, not less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, like much of the rest of the country, Wilhelm notes, there is a striking dearth of lawyers of color, with numbers that fail to reflect the diversity of the larger population. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://publications.calbar.ca.gov/2022-diversity-report-card/diversity-2022-california-licensed-attorneys\">just 3% of all licensed attorneys in California were Black, and just 6% were Latino\u003c/a>, according to data from the State Bar of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they’re going to sit here and advertise that they’re a social justice-focused school, they need to have a system that supports us and protects us from the harms that they are continuing to put us through,” Wilhem added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A quiet pattern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just over a year ago, students at UC Law SF shut down a speaking engagement featuring Ilya Shapiro, a conservative legal scholar. Shapiro, who was invited by the campus’ chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, had recently posted racist tweets denigrating the Black female judges President Biden was considering for the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/When-Black-people-refuse-to-quietly-endure-17029870.php\">The protesters successfully halted the event.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it was trying to convey a message that we are tired of being treated like second-class citizens. We are paying the same tuition as white students and we aren’t getting the same treatment,” said Dominique Armstrong, then co-president of the school’s Black Law Student Association, who helped organize the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t much acknowledgement of race, and our administration has done little to address the racism and misogyny in our coursework,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after the demonstration, the administration sent students an updated policy introducing new rules for campus protests and counterprotests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young African American woman wearing a denim jacket leans against a building while looking away from the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Armstrong, a third-year law student at UC Law SF, has been working to organize other law students at the university to enact change in the way the administration responds to student accounts of racism and ableism on campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Impermissible forms of protest are those that substantially disrupt an in-person or virtual event in a way that has the effect of silencing a speaker,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23817782-10122-event-policy-adopted-1\">the document reads\u003c/a>. “This includes but is not limited to forcing a change to the planned event format; disregarding time limits or other event guidelines to prevent speakers or other attendees from participating; preventing a person from speaking or being heard via such means as heckling, making noise, standing in the area of a room reserved for the speaker, blocking the speaker or event organizers from accessing AV equipment, blocking the views of attendees attempting to view the speaker; using or implementing technology features, such as the mute button and the camera button.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The updated policies were adopted Oct. 1, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, students involved in that organizing effort say the protest was merely a flashpoint in a much broader campus discussion about freedom of speech and how administrators should respond when students bring up their experiences of racism and sexism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until meeting other organizers at that protest, Sonja Chen, who just completed her second year as a student, didn’t realize that a traumatizing experience she had had soon after starting the school was hardly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During orientation, a fellow classmate taunted Chen over her race, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without prompting, this person immediately was like, ‘You should thank Lyndon B. Johnson and the New Deal for you being a student at this law school, because without him, Chinese people wouldn’t be allowed in this space,’” Chen, who is Chinese and white, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very much taken aback by that framing of history,” she added. “But also I wasn’t wearing a name tag or anything that was identifying me specifically as Chinese, and I thought that that was just very confronting to be called out immediately on one specific race, especially after COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman of half-white, half-Asian descent leans against a wall and looks at the camera. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Chen raised concerns about racism on the UC Law SF campus, but feels her voice went unheard when it came to taking action. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chen came to Hum, the dean of students, to report the interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first brought this to [the dean’s] attention, she focused on the individual man’s rights around free speech and basically said there’s nothing that she can do,” Chen said. “There was no option generating. There was no plan of action. And I left feeling really disheartened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, the dean later offered to change Chen’s schedule so she and the other student wouldn’t have any classes together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The second meeting, I told her this is still on my mind,” she said. “And she offered me to switch sections, which means you have to switch your section for every single class. So that’s just a very disruptive offering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Incremental changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at the university declined to comment on specific incidents, but said the administration is actively working to address its systems and culture to be more inclusive of students from all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a student would like to express a concern about racist or other bias-related issues, they have a variety of resources upon which to rely, including reporting the issue to the Provost and Academic Dean, the Dean of Students, or a variety of other administrators ready to support,” UC Law SF Chancellor and Dean David Faigman said in an email response to KQED. “Administrators and staff members often engage in informal mechanisms to help resolve differences and provide opportunities for learning and reflections for all community members, including faculty, staff, and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949840 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Three students walk down a brightly lit indoor hallway with florescent lighting and white walls.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miquela Kallenberger leads students to the office of Academic Dean Morris Ratner to demonstrate against an alleged lack of accountability from school officials, on April 18, 2023, on the UC Law SF campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school is also actively recruiting its first ombudsperson to facilitate conflict resolution, Faigman said. He pointed to a list of initiatives on campus that aim to promote diversity and inclusion, such as a program specifically for students who are the first in their families to go to law school; merit-based scholarships for students from historically Black colleges or universities (HBCUs); and about 20 affinity groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Law SF is committed to ensuring that all our law students feel a sense of belonging, so we intentionally and thoughtfully created programs and initiatives to inculcate that feeling within our community,” Faigman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the school decided to change its name, following years of pressure by advocates who underscored that Serranus Hastings, the school’s founder and a prominent politician and rancher, participated in the genocide of thousands of the Indigenous people in California. The new name went into effect on Jan. 1, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many student advocates of color say the school’s recent efforts fall short and student voices are not driving the conversations about inclusivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To hear those discussions coming from the faculty of the name change and how it would affect all these student organizations, it was totally missing the mark,” said Chen. “Y’all are out searching for Pluto and we’re looking for water on Earth right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New tactics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As classes were wrapping up for the most recent school year, students from the protest and others who had come forward to report issues with racism made one final push to elevate some of the roadblocks they’d run into when reporting discrimination on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They posted flyers asking peers to share their experiences with Hum. Within days, they received dozens of examples in which the dean and other administrators had responded dismissively to student concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949824\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two students, one male, the other female, stand on either side of a door with their backs to the camera, through the door we see a white man in a brown suit sitting behind a desk explaining something.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Academic Dean Morris Ratner talks with students about an alleged pattern of inaction from Dean Grace Hum and other school staff regarding reports of racism and ableism on campus, on April 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the last week of classes in April, a group of about 15 students attempted to hand-deliver a hard copy of the examples to Hum, only to find she was not on campus that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They instead met with Morris Ratner, the school’s academic dean, who spoke with them for nearly 30 minutes about their concerns and advised them to refer to formal complaint processes in the student handbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, students hugged with teary eyes. For some, it would be the last time they would see each other before graduating. Others said they planned to continue pushing their demands next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949827\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Various students seated and standing in an office listening to somebody speak (who is not in the photo), with a sign that says 'Dean of Students, Listen to Students.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at UC Law SF stage a protest against the school’s administration, in San Francisco on April 18, 2023, alleging that concerns of racism and ableism on campus are often ignored or brushed off. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school has since started its search for a new dean of students, and several student organizers told KQED they would like to see students from different corners of campus represented in the hiring process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know why I applied to law school. 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"content": "\u003cp>The University of California on Thursday took a first step toward allowing the hiring of undocumented students for jobs across the 10-campus system, a move that follows months of pleas from those students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/may23/b2.pdf\">The action by the system’s board of regents (PDF)\u003c/a> Thursday does not immediately authorize the employment of undocumented students. Instead, UC plans to create a working group that will spend the next six months considering the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regent leaders insisted Thursday that their intention is to ultimately permit the hiring of undocumented students, but said they want time to carefully consider the issue, including legal strategies. If implemented, UC would be the first known institution to argue that a federal statute barring the hiring of undocumented immigrants doesn’t apply to state entities. Doing so could attract a legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our intention to find a way to allow employment opportunities for all our students regardless of their immigration status,” John Pérez, a regent and former chair of the board, told reporters following the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Richard Leib, chair, Board of Regents, University of California\"]‘We have a moral obligation to try to do what we can, because it is ridiculous. We are the University of California. We’re educating people. What are we educating them for? In part, to get into the workforce.’[/pullquote]First, though, the regents want to ensure they have “the best case to do that” legally, said Richard Leib, the current chair of the board who will be responsible for creating the working group, which will be made up entirely of regents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people would enjoy having a decision right away, but it would be irresponsible from our standpoint,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The working group will complete its work by Nov. 30, at which point it will direct the system’s president, Michael Drake, on how to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last fall, a coalition of undocumented students and their allies, including legal scholars at UCLA, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/university-of-californias-undocumented-students-push-for-right-to-work-campus-jobs/690413\">have called on the system to authorize the hiring of undocumented students\u003c/a> who don’t have protections offered under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA offered permission to work for tens of thousands of young people, but the Trump administration ended the program in 2017 and no new applications have been accepted since then, leaving many undocumented students in higher education ineligible to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented student leaders with the Opportunity for All Campaign, the coalition that advocated for the policy, said they consider Thursday’s vote a victory. Students had lobbied the regents with a demonstration Wednesday, the second day of the three-day regents meeting, on the campus of UCLA, where the meeting was held. The students and their allies held signs calling for UC to allow the hiring of undocumented students as they took turns speaking and then marching across the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were going for was full implementation, but I still consider this a win,” said Carlos Alarcón, who is pursuing a master’s degree in public policy at UCLA. “They’re creating a working group to come up with a plan of how the UC will implement and there’s a deadline of November. That is very important to us, so we can hold them accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alarcón said the campaign’s goal over the next several months will be to engage the regents and make sure the working group is considering the input of undocumented students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have the same opportunities our classmates are afforded,” said Carelia Maya Rios, an undocumented student who spoke during the regents meeting. “Yesterday, hundreds of students marched and rallied for victory… to let you know this is a critical and urgent need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS19451_GettyImages-143309520-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large, bronze statue of a bear showing its teeth is displayed outdoors on an university campus. Six students in UCLA hooded sweatshirts and jeans walk around the statue on their way to class. One young woman sits on a tan, chunky bench writing on a notepad.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS19451_GettyImages-143309520-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS19451_GettyImages-143309520-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS19451_GettyImages-143309520-qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS19451_GettyImages-143309520-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS19451_GettyImages-143309520-qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students sit around the Bruin Bear statue during lunchtime on the campus of UCLA on April 23, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diana Ortiz Aguilar, a student advocate and organizer for the group Opportunity4All at UC Berkeley, told KQED she’s familiar with the hardships many undocumented students face trying to find jobs on campus. She said, as an undocumented student herself, the regents’ decision directly impacts her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Education' tag='education']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been barred from multiple opportunities to continue developing my career and even [getting] financial security,” she said. “This isn’t the first time that [the regents are] deciding on undocumented rights, on my rights. Mainly, it’s fear of just continuing to live in uncertainty and living in a state where I don’t feel welcome. But I’m also just very hopeful, mainly because we’ve had such strong support from multiple UCs across the UC system. So it’s a little bit of both, happiness and just fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal theory was developed by \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/academics/centers/center-immigration-law-and-policy\">UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy\u003c/a> and is supported by legal scholars including \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/erwin-chemerinsky/\">Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Law.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950082\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS18894_GettyImages-52237594-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tall, white clock tower punctuates the middle of a college campus outdoor space. Sections of grass and chunky trees are scattered throughout. The sky is gray. Three college students walk down a brick pathway together toward the clock tower. They wear book bags and jackets.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS18894_GettyImages-52237594-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS18894_GettyImages-52237594-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS18894_GettyImages-52237594-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS18894_GettyImages-52237594-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS18894_GettyImages-52237594-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk near Sather Tower on the University of California at Berkeley campus on February 24, 2005, in Berkeley, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Historically, states have followed a 1986 federal statute, the Immigration Reform and Control Act, that bans the hiring of undocumented immigrants without legal status and have required proof of legal status for employment. But in the view of UC’s undocumented students and their allies, UC is free to hire undocumented students because the statute doesn’t apply to state entities like UC. The legal theory was developed by \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/academics/centers/center-immigration-law-and-policy\">UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the idea were to ultimately be adopted, it could impact thousands of students at UC. There are more than 4,000 undocumented students across the ten campuses. It’s not known how many are without DACA protections, but it’s at least hundreds and likely many more, according to a spokesperson for the Opportunity for All Campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the ability to work at UC, undocumented students not only have a harder time affording college, but they are also shut out of critical opportunities that further their educational experience, such as internships and research jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a moral obligation to try to do what we can, because it is ridiculous,” Leib said. “We are the University of California. We’re educating people. What are we educating them for? In part, to get into the workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If UC were to ultimately allow the hiring of undocumented students, it could have national implications, Pérez predicted. He compared it to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/in-historic-action-uc-moves-to-drop-sat-act-and-develop-a-replacement-exam-for-admissions/632174\">UC’s decision to drop the SAT and ACT as admissions requirements\u003c/a>, a policy that many other universities across the country later adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are often at the cutting edge of big national conversations. I think this will be much in the same way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt#:~:text=Brian%20Watt%20is%20KQED's%20morning,his%20work%20won%20several%20awards.\">Brian Watt\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/agonzalez\">Alexander Gonzalez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lesleymcclurg\">Lesley McClurg\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/uc-signals-support-for-hiring-of-undocumented-students-following-six-month-study/690855\">This story was originally published in EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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They wear book bags and jackets.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS18894_GettyImages-52237594-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS18894_GettyImages-52237594-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS18894_GettyImages-52237594-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS18894_GettyImages-52237594-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS18894_GettyImages-52237594-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk near Sather Tower on the University of California at Berkeley campus on February 24, 2005, in Berkeley, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Historically, states have followed a 1986 federal statute, the Immigration Reform and Control Act, that bans the hiring of undocumented immigrants without legal status and have required proof of legal status for employment. But in the view of UC’s undocumented students and their allies, UC is free to hire undocumented students because the statute doesn’t apply to state entities like UC. The legal theory was developed by \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/academics/centers/center-immigration-law-and-policy\">UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the idea were to ultimately be adopted, it could impact thousands of students at UC. There are more than 4,000 undocumented students across the ten campuses. It’s not known how many are without DACA protections, but it’s at least hundreds and likely many more, according to a spokesperson for the Opportunity for All Campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the ability to work at UC, undocumented students not only have a harder time affording college, but they are also shut out of critical opportunities that further their educational experience, such as internships and research jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a moral obligation to try to do what we can, because it is ridiculous,” Leib said. “We are the University of California. We’re educating people. What are we educating them for? In part, to get into the workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If UC were to ultimately allow the hiring of undocumented students, it could have national implications, Pérez predicted. He compared it to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/in-historic-action-uc-moves-to-drop-sat-act-and-develop-a-replacement-exam-for-admissions/632174\">UC’s decision to drop the SAT and ACT as admissions requirements\u003c/a>, a policy that many other universities across the country later adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are often at the cutting edge of big national conversations. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, as her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948465/oakland-teachers-to-go-on-strike-thursday-amid-deadlock-with-district\">teachers hit the picket lines\u003c/a> for the fifth day of a district-wide strike, 17-year-old Noemi Grascoeur arrived at the picnic area of Dimond Park to help look after a group of Oakland elementary school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re playing frisbee with them, drawing with them, teaching them how to share, which is odd because I’ve never had to do that before. I don’t have experience with kids,” said the Oakland Tech senior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What else do I have to do?” she added. “I could go to the picket line or I can come and change these kids’ lives because, ultimately, we make a huge difference for these kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1455px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9.jpg\" alt='A black sign with pink and blue writing sits on a table at a park. The sign reads, \"OEA Strike Solidarity School.\" It also reads, \"Free meals, arts and crafts, and a safe place to stand in solidarity with our teachers and staff!\" There is a single apple on the table, along with blue and white, three-ring binders. A white pastry box and a bottle of hand sanitizer are also on the table. Parents and children are blurry in the background.' width=\"1455\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9.jpg 1455w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4D019DC6-33FE-4B0F-9326-F41794B0ECB9-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1455px) 100vw, 1455px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the OEA strike solidarity school sits on a picnic table in Dimond Park on May 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pop-up child care program, known as a “solidarity school,” offers parents who don’t want to cross the picket line a safe place to drop off their kids for the day. The teachers union and parent volunteers have operated a handful of these across the city since schools emptied out last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Beliel, whose daughter is a kindergartner at Manzanita Seed Elementary in East Oakland, is running the temporary child care center at Dimond Park.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Anna Beliel, parent and solidarity school volunteer\"]‘[T]he hardest part is that I didn’t expect nearly as many kids as we ended up getting. This is all just parent-run, so one of the hardest parts … is financially trying to fund it. But, we’re making that work, too.’[/pullquote]“I think the hardest part is that I didn’t expect nearly as many kids as we ended up getting,” she said. “This is all just parent-run, so one of the hardest parts I think is financially trying to fund it. But, we’re making that work, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it opened last Thursday, on the first day of the Oakland teachers’ strike, only two students showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ever since, it’s evolved,” said Grascouer, who has come every day to volunteer. “Like now, we have over 50 kids and we just spend our days playing with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the students drop their backpacks on a wooden bench and sprint for the grass, Ruby Mechanic, a fellow Oakland Tech senior, heads to the line of picnic tables that are overflowing with backpacks, snacks and art supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8.jpg\" alt=\"A blonde, teenage girl looks over students at a park. A pop-up canopy is seen in the background, along with many parents and little kids.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified high school student Ruby Mechanic helps hand out lunch to OUSD students at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think we spend most of our time running around, getting energy out, because with this many kids and these few volunteers, it’s definitely a high ratio of energy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mechanic found out about this opportunity from her old elementary school teacher, whom she’s kept in touch with over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important that there’s a place for these kids, and that we’re here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with just over two weeks left in their high school careers, both Mechanic and Grascouer are struggling with the uncertainty of this moment, and don’t know whether they’ll actually get a chance to return to their school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1375px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB.jpg\" alt=\"A boy in an orange T-shirt and short, dark hair does a handshake with a teenage girl who is watching him at the park. The two sit at a wooden picnic table talking. Green grass and large trees are in the background, along with parents and children playing.\" width=\"1375\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB.jpg 1375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1375px) 100vw, 1375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school student Noemi Grascoeur hangs with students at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t finish my graduation project,” Grascouer said. “I feel kind of weird because I didn’t say bye to any teacher. I didn’t say bye to any friends. Like, I’m done with high school more or less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “I just think we’re kind of stuck. We don’t know if our high school experience is over or if we have to go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Mechanic was able to finish her final senior project, she’s disappointed her classmates won’t be able to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up shot of a grown-up's hand, handing a wrapped snack to a child's hand. A box of red apples and a box of tangerines, along with pallets of water bottles and juice boxes are pictured in the background placed on a park picnic table.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified students pick up lunch at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a goal of our entire high school experience that would be nice to complete and present before we go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advanced placement testing, which was scheduled for this week, has also been a challenge — it’s forced students to cross picket lines to enter their schools where the exams are administered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had to cross the picket line twice,” Grascouer said. “The teachers have been really nice about it. They’ve been supporting us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For seniors, the strike has also complicated many quintessential end-of-high school events. Senior prom, for instance, is on Friday, and students have to pick up their tickets at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4.jpg\" alt='A man wears a black jacket with a white patch with red and black print that reads,\"Strike for a fair contract.\" He stands next to a boy wearing a green T-shirt. The two are in front of a green picnic table that has many snacks and juice boxes on top of it. Many children and parents are seen in the background, along with a blue playground structure shaded by lush trees.' width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/B9D5ABF9-88DE-4A08-B2AA-756617549DF4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, teachers and high school students hand out lunch to Oakland Unified students. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mechanic said that her striking teachers are sympathetic and have tried to make it as easy as possible for their students.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label='More on Education' tag='education']\u003c/span>“I think the teachers are doing their best to make it possible for us to get those prom tickets and to finish our few tests without feeling ashamed for crossing the picket line,” she said. “They opened the entrance on the side of the school so we didn’t have to go through the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With many unknowns between now and their graduation on May 24, Grascouer and Mechanic both said working at the solidarity school is a good way to stay busy and fill an important need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the two spent the morning playing basketball with fifth graders at the park and tricking children into capturing dummy squirrels made out of wood chips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I’m talking about how I’m done with high school and I’m going on to college next year, I’m acting like a little kid today and this past week,” Grascouer said, “and I’ve absolutely loved it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think the hardest part is that I didn’t expect nearly as many kids as we ended up getting,” she said. “This is all just parent-run, so one of the hardest parts I think is financially trying to fund it. But, we’re making that work, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it opened last Thursday, on the first day of the Oakland teachers’ strike, only two students showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ever since, it’s evolved,” said Grascouer, who has come every day to volunteer. “Like now, we have over 50 kids and we just spend our days playing with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the students drop their backpacks on a wooden bench and sprint for the grass, Ruby Mechanic, a fellow Oakland Tech senior, heads to the line of picnic tables that are overflowing with backpacks, snacks and art supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8.jpg\" alt=\"A blonde, teenage girl looks over students at a park. A pop-up canopy is seen in the background, along with many parents and little kids.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8138DCC0-E68A-42EE-BC51-73B3DE2AE9B8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified high school student Ruby Mechanic helps hand out lunch to OUSD students at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think we spend most of our time running around, getting energy out, because with this many kids and these few volunteers, it’s definitely a high ratio of energy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mechanic found out about this opportunity from her old elementary school teacher, whom she’s kept in touch with over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Green grass and large trees are in the background, along with parents and children playing.\" width=\"1375\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB.jpg 1375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/4A3FD665-2737-44A9-8FE3-2554B45C63CB-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1375px) 100vw, 1375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school student Noemi Grascoeur hangs with students at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t finish my graduation project,” Grascouer said. “I feel kind of weird because I didn’t say bye to any teacher. I didn’t say bye to any friends. Like, I’m done with high school more or less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “I just think we’re kind of stuck. We don’t know if our high school experience is over or if we have to go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Mechanic was able to finish her final senior project, she’s disappointed her classmates won’t be able to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up shot of a grown-up's hand, handing a wrapped snack to a child's hand. A box of red apples and a box of tangerines, along with pallets of water bottles and juice boxes are pictured in the background placed on a park picnic table.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/9AFA50B6-E57B-4FD9-A2B7-2373A90DE8AC-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified students pick up lunch at a ‘solidarity school’ in Dimond Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a goal of our entire high school experience that would be nice to complete and present before we go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advanced placement testing, which was scheduled for this week, has also been a challenge — it’s forced students to cross picket lines to enter their schools where the exams are administered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had to cross the picket line twice,” Grascouer said. “The teachers have been really nice about it. 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"content": "\u003cp>California State University is the largest public university system in the country, so when sophomore Delilah Mays-Triplett decided that working on the San Diego State University campus as a library assistant would be the best thing for her education, she didn’t expect to be paid less than the local minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Mays-Triplett’s check came, she saw she was paid $15.50 per hour, nearly a dollar lower than the San Diego minimum wage of $16.30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reason, paired with others, is why Mays-Triplett decided to sign a union authorization card when organizers approached her. Undergraduate student assistants at the university are mounting a union-organizing campaign, calling for more work hours, paid sick time and higher wages. The campaign could potentially affect thousands of library assistants, clerical workers and other nonacademic student employees and comes at a time of heightened labor activism on university campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of things that are kind of unfair about our job,” she said. “So just being able to organize and address some of those issues would be really helpful.” Mays-Triplett added that she finds power in “just being able to have a voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.csueu.org/\">California State University Employees Union\u003c/a>, which represents non-student workers in similar roles, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/HEERA_STATEMENT_OF_INTEREST_v3-1.pdf\">filed petitions (PDF)\u003c/a> with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board in 2021 to add student assistants to its existing bargaining units, and has been working with student organizers to collect union authorization cards since last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of student assistants signed union cards. You’re almost ready to file for an election!” organizers texted student supporters April 8. Union spokesperson Khanh Weinberg declined to make leaders available for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State has disputed the union’s claim that student workers have enough in common with other university support staff to be folded into existing bargaining units. “The Student Assistants’ primary role is that of a student and not a traditional employee,” Timothy Yeung, lawyer for the university, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CSU_Statement_of_Issues.pdf\">wrote in December to the administrative law judge handling the case (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Education' tag='education']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have anything else to add on the matter,” Cal State spokesperson Mike Uhlenkamp wrote in response to an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Grace Dearborn, another San Diego State student, said she deserves the same benefits as any other employee. Dearborn said she caught COVID last semester. While her supervisor allowed her to make up the hours she missed, she felt she should have gotten the paid COVID-related leave that California at the time required businesses to give full-time workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a real job for a lot of students,” Dearborn said. “We get paid and we use that pay for bills and our personal expenses … if you’re expecting for it to be a real job, but not receive sick pay, I think that that’s really weird.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several cited the discrepancy between Cal State’s minimum wage and local minimum wages as part of their motivation. University attorney Marc Mootchnik told San Diego State’s student newspaper, The Daily Aztec, in 2016 that because Cal State is a state agency, it \u003ca href=\"https://thedailyaztec.com/80394/news/city-minimum-wage-does-not-apply-at-sdsu/\">is not required to comply\u003c/a> with local minimum wage laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emma Galloway, a commuter student at \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California State University, Northridge\u003c/span>, said receiving at least the Los Angeles minimum wage of $16.50 for her work as a student assistant in the journalism department office would help her save money to move out of her parents’ house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a very big fear of being homeless, especially with the homeless crisis in Los Angeles,” she said. “I’m really grateful to have my parents and to live under a roof, but that fear kind of lingers a little bit, and I just want to save enough to the point where I can rent a one-bedroom apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Student assistants are a backbone” for the campus departments where they work, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 11,000 Cal State teaching assistants and other academic workers already have union representation through the United Auto Workers. But the undergraduates involved in the California State University Employees Union organizing effort are doing work that’s arguably less related to their studies — such as filing office paperwork, helping with print jobs and assisting in checking out books at the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More students are organizing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They’re part of a recent wave of campus labor activism that includes the largest higher education strike in history, in which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">48,000 graduate student workers at the University of California\u003c/a> walked off the job in November, eventually winning raises, transit passes and child care benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946749\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of protesters of all ages hold blue and white picket signs as they chant on a college campus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff members during a strike among some 48,000 academic workers across all 10 University of California campuses at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on Nov. 15, 2022. The California State University Employees Union, which represents non-student workers in similar roles, filed petitions with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board in 2021 to add student assistants into its existing bargaining units, and has been working with student organizers to collect union authorization cards since fall 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Dartmouth University \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2023/02/college-swcd-reach-tentative-agreement-to-21-base-pay-proposal\">agreed to pay its student dining hall workers\u003c/a> a base wage of $21 per hour after they voted to authorize a strike — less than a year after being recognized as a union. And last month, undergraduate residential advisors at the University of Pennsylvania filed for representation with the Office and Professional Employees International Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most fundamental demand that people on college campuses are making right now is honor the principles that you say you are committed to,” said Caroline Luce, labor historian at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and a member of the university’s lecturers’ union. “You say you’re a public-serving institution — it doesn’t make sense to be paying people wages that they can’t live on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cal State undergraduates have been inspired by the gains made by graduate student organizing, Luce said, they face an uphill battle if the university continues to oppose the effort, because of the high turnover in their ranks.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Caroline Luce, labor historian, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment\"]‘You say you’re a public-serving institution — it doesn’t make sense to be paying people wages that they can’t live on.’[/pullquote]“If [Cal State officials] draw things out, they will win basically because the students who [are organizing] will go on to bigger and better things and it might fall apart,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://perb.ca.gov/\">Public Employment Relations Board\u003c/a> hearings to determine whether the California State University Employees Union can expand its bargaining units to include student assistants began in March and will resume June 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either the union or the university could appeal the judge’s decision to the full board and then to a state court of appeal. If the union prevails, it could then submit cards showing majority support and petition to represent the students, said the board’s general counsel, Felix De La Torre. It could also file to create a new bargaining unit composed of student assistants only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What makes it more unique than a typical public employee union drive is we’re dealing with individuals who straddle the line between employees and students,” said De La Torre. He cited recent controversies over whether, for example, collegiate athletes should be allowed to organize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these cases begin to develop a body of law around this class of workers,” he said. “To that extent, it could be significant if this petition goes up to the board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California State University is the largest public university system in the country, so when sophomore Delilah Mays-Triplett decided that working on the San Diego State University campus as a library assistant would be the best thing for her education, she didn’t expect to be paid less than the local minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Mays-Triplett’s check came, she saw she was paid $15.50 per hour, nearly a dollar lower than the San Diego minimum wage of $16.30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reason, paired with others, is why Mays-Triplett decided to sign a union authorization card when organizers approached her. Undergraduate student assistants at the university are mounting a union-organizing campaign, calling for more work hours, paid sick time and higher wages. The campaign could potentially affect thousands of library assistants, clerical workers and other nonacademic student employees and comes at a time of heightened labor activism on university campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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University attorney Marc Mootchnik told San Diego State’s student newspaper, The Daily Aztec, in 2016 that because Cal State is a state agency, it \u003ca href=\"https://thedailyaztec.com/80394/news/city-minimum-wage-does-not-apply-at-sdsu/\">is not required to comply\u003c/a> with local minimum wage laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emma Galloway, a commuter student at \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California State University, Northridge\u003c/span>, said receiving at least the Los Angeles minimum wage of $16.50 for her work as a student assistant in the journalism department office would help her save money to move out of her parents’ house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a very big fear of being homeless, especially with the homeless crisis in Los Angeles,” she said. “I’m really grateful to have my parents and to live under a roof, but that fear kind of lingers a little bit, and I just want to save enough to the point where I can rent a one-bedroom apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Student assistants are a backbone” for the campus departments where they work, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 11,000 Cal State teaching assistants and other academic workers already have union representation through the United Auto Workers. But the undergraduates involved in the California State University Employees Union organizing effort are doing work that’s arguably less related to their studies — such as filing office paperwork, helping with print jobs and assisting in checking out books at the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More students are organizing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They’re part of a recent wave of campus labor activism that includes the largest higher education strike in history, in which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">48,000 graduate student workers at the University of California\u003c/a> walked off the job in November, eventually winning raises, transit passes and child care benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946749\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of protesters of all ages hold blue and white picket signs as they chant on a college campus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff members during a strike among some 48,000 academic workers across all 10 University of California campuses at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on Nov. 15, 2022. The California State University Employees Union, which represents non-student workers in similar roles, filed petitions with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board in 2021 to add student assistants into its existing bargaining units, and has been working with student organizers to collect union authorization cards since fall 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Dartmouth University \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2023/02/college-swcd-reach-tentative-agreement-to-21-base-pay-proposal\">agreed to pay its student dining hall workers\u003c/a> a base wage of $21 per hour after they voted to authorize a strike — less than a year after being recognized as a union. And last month, undergraduate residential advisors at the University of Pennsylvania filed for representation with the Office and Professional Employees International Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most fundamental demand that people on college campuses are making right now is honor the principles that you say you are committed to,” said Caroline Luce, labor historian at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and a member of the university’s lecturers’ union. “You say you’re a public-serving institution — it doesn’t make sense to be paying people wages that they can’t live on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cal State undergraduates have been inspired by the gains made by graduate student organizing, Luce said, they face an uphill battle if the university continues to oppose the effort, because of the high turnover in their ranks.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of adult Californians without a high school diploma want to take college classes. Unfortunately, those classes aren’t free, and the lack of a high school diploma cuts off access to most financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is, there’s a fix. The bad news is, most students don’t know about the fix, and most college officials don’t understand the laws surrounding it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law has a special clause that allows students lacking a high school diploma to access financial aid money they would otherwise miss. Known as the Ability to Benefit, the provision opens up federal financial aid to adults without high school degrees who enroll in GED and college classes simultaneously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California community colleges also stand to benefit financially from the law because it could allow schools to boost \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/03/community-college-enrollment/\">enrollment\u003c/a> and the number of students on federal aid, both of which are tied to the state’s new college funding formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 4 million Californians lack a high school degree and roughly 340,000 of those adults were taking some form of adult education in 2021, according to the California Community College Chancellor’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least that many adults could be eligible for this federal aid, but in 2016, just shy of 58,000 students in California actually received federal grants or loans associated with it. The numbers have dropped every year since, and in 2021, just more than 30,000 California students participated, according to the U.S. Department of Education. That means as many as 90% of eligible adult students weren’t taking advantage of this aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decline is the result of a complicated balancing act. On the one hand, the federal government has noted a history of poor oversight and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-09-600.pdf\">“abuse” of Ability to Benefit (PDF)\u003c/a>, especially by for-profit colleges. On the other hand, more regulation has left community colleges feeling confused and uninformed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Bradley Custer, senior policy analyst for higher education at the Center for American Progress, said use of the aid has room to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no compelling reason why we couldn’t at least get back to 2016 and prior enrollment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/13378870/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Locked out of loans and grants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, community college tuition is free for qualifying students with lower incomes who apply, but even for those who get the fee waiver, it’s just a fraction of the many costs related to attending college. Textbooks, transportation and food add an average of roughly $12,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the federal government offers flexible aid for college students — and through Ability to Benefit, adults without high school degrees can access that money, too. A federal Pell grant, for instance, currently provides as much as $6,895 a year for qualifying students, money that can be spent on things like child care or rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Villa, 67, needs that money. He has six children from two marriages, no high school diploma and a criminal record that makes even a simple job interview challenging. But he won’t give up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While serving a 10-year sentence at High Desert State Prison in Susanville, Villa attempted to get his GED, but the program closed before he could finish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946606\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with glasses and dark hair stares out a window. The light from the sun illuminating his face. He wears a white, collared shirt and a black sweater wrapped around his shoulders.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Villa at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo on April 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Lauren Justice/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then in 2019, Villa was standing beside a prison employee when another person incarcerated there charged at the two of them. Villa intervened, saving the employee’s life. Gov. Gavin Newsom commuted Villa’s sentence, and he was released in April 2020 — just weeks after the state locked down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no employment because of COVID, and I’m thinking, perhaps this is the best time to reeducate myself and get my degree,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Villa promptly enrolled in both a GED program and a number of college classes. CalMatters found Villa through a Saddleback administrator reference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried to apply for federal student aid, but didn’t get far since he doesn’t have a high school diploma and didn’t know about the Ability to Benefit provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qualifying for the Ability to Benefit exception is not easy. A student must first enroll in a program to obtain their high school degree or equivalent and take six credits of college courses. Alternatively, they can pass a special exam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, students who want the federal dollars must receive certain kinds of counseling support and can only take a certain set of courses, as interpreted by their college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villa checks nearly every box. He is currently enrolled in both a GED class and has already taken more than six credits worth of courses at Saddleback in the hope of getting his associate degree and then transferring to a four-year university to study cinematography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as of 2020, Saddleback College no longer offers students aid through Ability to Benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fixing a ‘scam,’ facing consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s a trend, said Judy Mortrude, senior technical adviser at the National College Transition Network, which is part of World Education and a Boston-based nonprofit that helps community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, Congress put Ability to Benefit into law and slowly added regulations that explained how students could qualify, like through an exam or by taking six credits. In 2012, Congress cut the funding, only to restore it fully in 2016. Then Congress required that colleges offer counseling and career training to these students and that they restrict them to a certain set of classes and majors that align with the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas the original rule had only been about a student’s eligibility, the 2016 regulations asked colleges to perform certain services, and colleges didn’t know how to interpret it, Mortrude said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02.jpg\" alt=\"A college campus quad area with circular tables with umbrellas are scattered about. Large planters with trees growing inside shade students sitting in pairs chatting between classes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saddleback College in Mission Viejo on April 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Lauren Justice/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The chain of communication is poor,” said Naomi Castro, senior director with the Career Ladders Project, a nonprofit research group founded by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. She said that many financial aid directors at community colleges didn’t even know that Congress restarted the program in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddleback allowed students who enrolled prior to 2012 to get aid at any point, since they qualified through the old law, but the college never implemented the 2016 regulations, meaning students such as Villa have yet to benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge, said Karima Feldhus, academic administrator at Saddleback, is that the college lacks “an eligible list of careers” according to the 2016 regulations. As to why the college waited years to adopt the regulations, she said she didn’t know and referred CalMatters to the director of the financial aid office and the dean of enrollment. Neither person responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor did San José City College implement Ability to Benefit when it restarted in 2016, according to Takeo Kubo, financial aid director there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José City College spokesperson Daniel Garza said the 2016 law required “significant curriculum development efforts,” which he noted can be “quite an undertaking” at any school. He said he was not aware of what efforts the college made to consider making the necessary curriculum changes when the new regulations came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community colleges, including the four Sacramento-area ones in the Los Rios Community College District, did adapt to the new regulations. Those colleges currently have 42 students who receive aid through Ability to Benefit, out of a total 780 students in the system without a high school diploma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/13379286/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While community colleges have increasingly shied away from Ability to Benefit over the years, for-profit colleges have leaned in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, participation at public and private nonprofit colleges has dropped by more than half since 2016, while usage at private for-profit schools has risen, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education. The department did not respond to requests for recent statewide data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For-profit and nonprofit colleges use different processes, too. The department data shows that public and private nonprofit colleges generally have students qualify for Ability to Benefit by taking six credits worth of classes. At for-profit colleges, nearly every student qualifies for it through an exam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sort of a scam how they are getting bucket loads of people to hit a cut score on an exam who somehow couldn’t pass the GED test,” said Mortrude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department created many of the new regulations to clamp down on such “predatory behavior,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A third way\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While students generally qualify for Ability to Benefit through the two national pathways, federal law also allows states to develop their own processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Mortrude, Castro and other college leaders sent a proposal to the Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office on how California could set its own such process. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 4 million Californians lack a high school degree and roughly 340,000 of those adults were taking some form of adult education in 2021, according to the California Community College Chancellor’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least that many adults could be eligible for this federal aid, but in 2016, just shy of 58,000 students in California actually received federal grants or loans associated with it. The numbers have dropped every year since, and in 2021, just more than 30,000 California students participated, according to the U.S. Department of Education. That means as many as 90% of eligible adult students weren’t taking advantage of this aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decline is the result of a complicated balancing act. On the one hand, the federal government has noted a history of poor oversight and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-09-600.pdf\">“abuse” of Ability to Benefit (PDF)\u003c/a>, especially by for-profit colleges. On the other hand, more regulation has left community colleges feeling confused and uninformed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Bradley Custer, senior policy analyst for higher education at the Center for American Progress, said use of the aid has room to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no compelling reason why we couldn’t at least get back to 2016 and prior enrollment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/13378870/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Locked out of loans and grants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, community college tuition is free for qualifying students with lower incomes who apply, but even for those who get the fee waiver, it’s just a fraction of the many costs related to attending college. Textbooks, transportation and food add an average of roughly $12,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the federal government offers flexible aid for college students — and through Ability to Benefit, adults without high school degrees can access that money, too. A federal Pell grant, for instance, currently provides as much as $6,895 a year for qualifying students, money that can be spent on things like child care or rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Villa, 67, needs that money. He has six children from two marriages, no high school diploma and a criminal record that makes even a simple job interview challenging. But he won’t give up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While serving a 10-year sentence at High Desert State Prison in Susanville, Villa attempted to get his GED, but the program closed before he could finish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946606\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with glasses and dark hair stares out a window. The light from the sun illuminating his face. He wears a white, collared shirt and a black sweater wrapped around his shoulders.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Villa at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo on April 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Lauren Justice/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then in 2019, Villa was standing beside a prison employee when another person incarcerated there charged at the two of them. Villa intervened, saving the employee’s life. Gov. Gavin Newsom commuted Villa’s sentence, and he was released in April 2020 — just weeks after the state locked down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no employment because of COVID, and I’m thinking, perhaps this is the best time to reeducate myself and get my degree,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Villa promptly enrolled in both a GED program and a number of college classes. CalMatters found Villa through a Saddleback administrator reference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried to apply for federal student aid, but didn’t get far since he doesn’t have a high school diploma and didn’t know about the Ability to Benefit provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qualifying for the Ability to Benefit exception is not easy. A student must first enroll in a program to obtain their high school degree or equivalent and take six credits of college courses. Alternatively, they can pass a special exam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, students who want the federal dollars must receive certain kinds of counseling support and can only take a certain set of courses, as interpreted by their college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villa checks nearly every box. He is currently enrolled in both a GED class and has already taken more than six credits worth of courses at Saddleback in the hope of getting his associate degree and then transferring to a four-year university to study cinematography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as of 2020, Saddleback College no longer offers students aid through Ability to Benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fixing a ‘scam,’ facing consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s a trend, said Judy Mortrude, senior technical adviser at the National College Transition Network, which is part of World Education and a Boston-based nonprofit that helps community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, Congress put Ability to Benefit into law and slowly added regulations that explained how students could qualify, like through an exam or by taking six credits. In 2012, Congress cut the funding, only to restore it fully in 2016. Then Congress required that colleges offer counseling and career training to these students and that they restrict them to a certain set of classes and majors that align with the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas the original rule had only been about a student’s eligibility, the 2016 regulations asked colleges to perform certain services, and colleges didn’t know how to interpret it, Mortrude said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02.jpg\" alt=\"A college campus quad area with circular tables with umbrellas are scattered about. Large planters with trees growing inside shade students sitting in pairs chatting between classes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CalMattersStudentLoans02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saddleback College in Mission Viejo on April 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Lauren Justice/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The chain of communication is poor,” said Naomi Castro, senior director with the Career Ladders Project, a nonprofit research group founded by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. She said that many financial aid directors at community colleges didn’t even know that Congress restarted the program in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddleback allowed students who enrolled prior to 2012 to get aid at any point, since they qualified through the old law, but the college never implemented the 2016 regulations, meaning students such as Villa have yet to benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge, said Karima Feldhus, academic administrator at Saddleback, is that the college lacks “an eligible list of careers” according to the 2016 regulations. As to why the college waited years to adopt the regulations, she said she didn’t know and referred CalMatters to the director of the financial aid office and the dean of enrollment. Neither person responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor did San José City College implement Ability to Benefit when it restarted in 2016, according to Takeo Kubo, financial aid director there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José City College spokesperson Daniel Garza said the 2016 law required “significant curriculum development efforts,” which he noted can be “quite an undertaking” at any school. He said he was not aware of what efforts the college made to consider making the necessary curriculum changes when the new regulations came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community colleges, including the four Sacramento-area ones in the Los Rios Community College District, did adapt to the new regulations. 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The department did not respond to requests for recent statewide data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For-profit and nonprofit colleges use different processes, too. The department data shows that public and private nonprofit colleges generally have students qualify for Ability to Benefit by taking six credits worth of classes. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Legislature is weighing a proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom to set aside $300 million for lower-income schools, but some education advocates say it won’t do enough to improve educational outcomes for Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Akilah Weber, a Democrat from San Diego, introduced a bill last year aimed at ensuring more education money reaches \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942006/reversal-of-oakland-school-closures-renews-hope-of-reparations-for-black-students\">Black students\u003c/a>. But she pulled the bill after conversations with Newsom, citing concerns that it could violate the state or U.S. Constitution because it focused on one specific racial group, even though it didn’t specifically use the word “Black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber and other members of the Legislative Black Caucus worked with the Democratic governor to instead come up with a new approach that targets money toward schools with higher concentrations of students who qualify for free lunch under a federal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber called the proposal and guidelines to hold districts accountable for using money to improve student outcomes “game changers for closing persistent opportunity and outcome gaps in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposal is exactly what our state needs to work toward repairing the longstanding harms of inequity in education and ensuring our schools are more fair and accessible for all students,” she said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom’s proposal is racking up support from Weber and other lawmakers, some advocates who backed Weber’s bill from last year say California must come up with a more focused solution to benefit Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946479 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63819_003_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of black and white as well as colorful posters depict Black historical figures with inspirational quotes. These line the wall of a classroom where desks are neatly in rows.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63819_003_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63819_003_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63819_003_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63819_003_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63819_003_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters hang on a wall inside Tony Green’s African American studies class at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on March 22, 2023. 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