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A\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/attend/student-services/casper/Pages/statement-of-intent-to-register.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> host of other Cal State campuses\u003c/a> extended it further to June 1 because of the delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Harder hit than other states\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California, in particular, has been hard hit in the FAFSA debacle because of the large number of “mixed-status” families, or U.S. citizens who have at least one parent without a Social Security number. Many of those students have been\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/california-to-expand-alternative-financial-aid-application-to-students-from-mixed-status-families\"> unable to submit a FAFSA\u003c/a>. Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California Student Aid Commission and the UC and Cal State systems agreed that students could \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/california-to-expand-alternative-financial-aid-application-to-students-from-mixed-status-families\">submit a California Dream Act \u003c/a>application in place of the FAFSA so they could at least receive priority access to state financial aid. The Dream Act is typically only available to undocumented students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11979367,news_11979072,news_11957693\"]“We do hope to get offers out (soon). It still feels like there is an equity issue between being able to send out financial aid offers that have zero problems to not being able to provide financial aid offers to students that fit in these other scenarios,” said Becki Sanchez, director of financial aid at UC Irvine. “In a sense, it makes us feel very uneasy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation doesn’t seem to be improving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been very scary, to say the least, trying to keep up with all of these changes and errors and resolutions that don’t make sense from the feds,” said Sonia Jethani, director of financial aid and scholarships at California State University, East Bay.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“We’re hanging in there. We have to make sure that we’re on top of it in order to answer the students and provide support to them as much as possible. But I’ve never seen this before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial aid and admissions officers say that in the nearly 40 years that the FAFSA has existed, this year’s problems have been unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, as has been the process for decades, high school seniors and community college transfer students would begin completing the FAFSA in October to meet California’s March priority deadline for access to state aid like the Cal Grant. During that period, those students would submit applications to the colleges and universities they’re seeking admission to so they would have their offer letters by early spring. The traditional timing allowed financial aid offices to send details about grants, loans and scholarships to students around March and April, in time for them to decide on the college they plan to attend in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year’s repeated FAFSA disruptions mean colleges haven’t been able to send out aid awards, either because students have had trouble applying, the department has miscalculated some students’ aid, or colleges haven’t received any aid information from the department. Each award letter sent by colleges to their admitted students who complete a financial aid application is customized with a combination of federal, state and institutional, grants, loans and scholarships.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">California extended deadline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the National College Attainment Network’s FAFSA tracker, California is among the states that dropped the most in FAFSA completions compared to last year before the form was revised. As of April 5, completions were down 43.4%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California extended its priority FAFSA application deadline to May 2.\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/17523318/embed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have had our financial aid packages ready by now,” Jethani said. “We probably won’t be ready to send out aid notifications until the second half of this month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial aid officers at Cal Poly Pomona anticipate they will start sending award letters to students this week. The campus added workshops, including on Saturdays, to host informational sessions and help students complete the FAFSA. Jeanette Phillips, executive director of financial aid and scholarships for the campus, said they would also do some extra tracking and target their communications to ensure their admitted students completed the FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many schools, we’re a little short-staffed, but we are doing our very best,” Phillips said, adding that the delays have added work to their normal spring duties like processing summer financial aid, which “is a significantly manual process. … We still have to work with our current students. We have a number of appeals that students have submitted for financial review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips said the financial aid officers would normally have plenty of time to focus and prioritize, “but now we have to double up, triple up our energy and efforts to try to handle” everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the Pomona campus is fielding more questions and concerns from families this year, Phillips said financial aid officers are spending about an extra 15% of their time meeting with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal department’s mistakes also have financial aid officers adding unique disclosures to the information they give their potential students. The department notified colleges last week that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-fafsa-troubles-continue\">they made mistakes on tax information\u003c/a> submitted by students, amounting to about 30% to 40% of unusable files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel like the Department of Education has basically put it on the universities to figure this out for our students,” Sanchez said. “It’s really disappointing, their response to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said the Irvine campus has about 30% of financial aid offers it can’t send because they need to be reprocessed by the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jethani said the East Bay financial aid officers are providing disclosures to students within their financial aid packages that the information they receive is based on information that could change because of the various errors and mistakes from the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the mistakes are due to the new formula the department is using to determine aid. In the past, the FAFSA used “expected family contribution” to calculate students’ aid, but the new form uses the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/fafsa-changes-what-is-the-student-aid-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“student aid index formula\u003c/a>.” In March, the department announced a miscalculation of the student aid index, which led to further delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU East Bay and some other campuses have partnered with third-party vendors to help with their FAFSA “backend processing,” like verifying information because they are short on staff. The East Bay campus anticipates it will also be “triaging” and fielding various questions from students even after the fall term begins, Jethani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a hearing on the FAFSA debacle on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Justin Draeger, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, gave the department an F grade for its rollout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really adds up to a crisis of credibility for the Department of Education,” he said. “If there was a financial aid director or even a college president that delayed financial aid on their campus for up to six months, the professional price that would be paid for that would be pretty steep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for those mixed-status students who are now encouraged to fill out the Dream Act application, Sanchez said her office will still try to encourage them to complete the FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are U.S. citizens, and they are entitled to federal student aid such as the Pell Grant and student loans, federal work-study, and all those things that they are not eligible for under the (Dream Act application),” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Impact on enrollments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ripple effect of this year’s FAFSA delays is expected to significantly affect campuses’ enrollments, especially those that have faced challenges encouraging students to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Becki Sanchez, director of financial aid, UC Irvine\"]‘We feel like the Department of Education has basically put it on the universities to figure this out for our students. It’s really disappointing, their response to this.’[/pullquote]“Universities nationwide are likely seeing enrollment downturns just like East Bay right now,” Jethani said. “We are low in enrollment, and we are low in applications, and we are low on decisions because all of these students are waiting on their financial aid to be able to decide on whether they can afford to come. This is a pretty scary time for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The universities are facing pressure to maintain or raise their enrollments, but Phillips said California has an additional competitor for students to contend with an increase in the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision that some students are making out of high school is, do I go get that $20-an-hour job, or do I go to school?” Phillips said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 70% of Cal Poly Pomona’s students receive some form of financial aid, which means that the delays have made it difficult for the campus to project what the fall enrollment will look like, said Jessica Wagoner, senior associate vice president of enrollment management and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC system, on the other hand, saw \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/uc-sees-increase-in-applications-due-to-more-transfers\">record applications this year\u003c/a> because of an increase in students who want to transfer, and there are expectations that enrollment will continue to increase across its campuses. However, there is still concern that the FAFSA problems will particularly affect low-income and first-generation students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a very popular campus, so I’m not worried about us making our big numbers,” said Dale Leaman, executive director of undergraduate admissions for UC Irvine. “The thing that concerns me the most is the students who just get so frustrated with the situation that they just give up … especially our first-generation families, where parents have not gone through this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said families have lost a lot of trust in the department because of the poor FAFSA rollout, so the responsibility will fall on universities to rebuild that trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is to make this successful in spite of things going bad,” she said. “My plan is if the Department of Education isn’t going to pull it together, we are certainly going to make sure that our students are OK, that they’re not harmed, that they start classes on time, that they don’t have to worry about these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Student Journalism Corps member Ashley Bolter contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/californias-universities-navigate-unprecedented-fafsa-mistakes-and-delays/709889\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource and was updated on April 16 to include the latest information on California’s drop in completed FAFSA applications.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California college and university aid and admissions officers have been trying to get students the correct information as FAFSA delays and mistakes wreak havoc on the higher education system.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713391846,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/17523318/embed"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":2022},"headData":{"title":"Amid FAFSA Mistakes and Delays, Universities Struggle to Help Students | KQED","description":"California college and university aid and admissions officers have been trying to get students the correct information as FAFSA delays and mistakes wreak havoc on the higher education system.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"EdSource","sourceUrl":"https://edsource.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/asmith\">Ashley A. Smith\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11983257/amid-fafsa-mistakes-and-delays-universities-struggle-to-help-students","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Unprecedented difficulties in students applying for federal financial aid have wreaked havoc among financial aid and admissions officers across California’s colleges and universities, who are facing longer hours and more stress, sometimes while short on staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its initial delay last year from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, the U.S. Department of Education’s rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form has been challenging and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/fafsa-delays-are-leaving-students-in-limbo-california-campuses-dont-expect-help/705350\">frustrating for students, their families\u003c/a> and the college campuses they seek to attend. For many students, financial aid plays a significant role in deciding where and if they will go to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the resulting delays have pushed back students’ decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamila Juarez, a senior at Grace Davis High in Modesto, has been accepted to all the universities she’s applied to, including Cal Poly SLO, UC Davis, UCLA and UC San Diego, but she hasn’t decided where she will go because financial aid is the biggest influence on her decision. And Juarez hasn’t heard anything yet about how much she will receive, which has created a frustrating situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of stressful,” she said, adding that if money were not an option, her first choice would be Cal Poly, followed by UCLA. “When I do know how much I get, I know I’ll have to decide pretty fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both UC and CSU systems extended the deadline for Intent to Register for fall 2024 to no earlier than May 15. A\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/attend/student-services/casper/Pages/statement-of-intent-to-register.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> host of other Cal State campuses\u003c/a> extended it further to June 1 because of the delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Harder hit than other states\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California, in particular, has been hard hit in the FAFSA debacle because of the large number of “mixed-status” families, or U.S. citizens who have at least one parent without a Social Security number. Many of those students have been\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/california-to-expand-alternative-financial-aid-application-to-students-from-mixed-status-families\"> unable to submit a FAFSA\u003c/a>. Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California Student Aid Commission and the UC and Cal State systems agreed that students could \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/california-to-expand-alternative-financial-aid-application-to-students-from-mixed-status-families\">submit a California Dream Act \u003c/a>application in place of the FAFSA so they could at least receive priority access to state financial aid. The Dream Act is typically only available to undocumented students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11979367,news_11979072,news_11957693"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We do hope to get offers out (soon). It still feels like there is an equity issue between being able to send out financial aid offers that have zero problems to not being able to provide financial aid offers to students that fit in these other scenarios,” said Becki Sanchez, director of financial aid at UC Irvine. “In a sense, it makes us feel very uneasy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation doesn’t seem to be improving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been very scary, to say the least, trying to keep up with all of these changes and errors and resolutions that don’t make sense from the feds,” said Sonia Jethani, director of financial aid and scholarships at California State University, East Bay.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“We’re hanging in there. We have to make sure that we’re on top of it in order to answer the students and provide support to them as much as possible. But I’ve never seen this before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial aid and admissions officers say that in the nearly 40 years that the FAFSA has existed, this year’s problems have been unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, as has been the process for decades, high school seniors and community college transfer students would begin completing the FAFSA in October to meet California’s March priority deadline for access to state aid like the Cal Grant. During that period, those students would submit applications to the colleges and universities they’re seeking admission to so they would have their offer letters by early spring. The traditional timing allowed financial aid offices to send details about grants, loans and scholarships to students around March and April, in time for them to decide on the college they plan to attend in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year’s repeated FAFSA disruptions mean colleges haven’t been able to send out aid awards, either because students have had trouble applying, the department has miscalculated some students’ aid, or colleges haven’t received any aid information from the department. Each award letter sent by colleges to their admitted students who complete a financial aid application is customized with a combination of federal, state and institutional, grants, loans and scholarships.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">California extended deadline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the National College Attainment Network’s FAFSA tracker, California is among the states that dropped the most in FAFSA completions compared to last year before the form was revised. As of April 5, completions were down 43.4%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California extended its priority FAFSA application deadline to May 2.\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/17523318/embed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have had our financial aid packages ready by now,” Jethani said. “We probably won’t be ready to send out aid notifications until the second half of this month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial aid officers at Cal Poly Pomona anticipate they will start sending award letters to students this week. The campus added workshops, including on Saturdays, to host informational sessions and help students complete the FAFSA. Jeanette Phillips, executive director of financial aid and scholarships for the campus, said they would also do some extra tracking and target their communications to ensure their admitted students completed the FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many schools, we’re a little short-staffed, but we are doing our very best,” Phillips said, adding that the delays have added work to their normal spring duties like processing summer financial aid, which “is a significantly manual process. … We still have to work with our current students. We have a number of appeals that students have submitted for financial review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips said the financial aid officers would normally have plenty of time to focus and prioritize, “but now we have to double up, triple up our energy and efforts to try to handle” everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the Pomona campus is fielding more questions and concerns from families this year, Phillips said financial aid officers are spending about an extra 15% of their time meeting with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal department’s mistakes also have financial aid officers adding unique disclosures to the information they give their potential students. The department notified colleges last week that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-fafsa-troubles-continue\">they made mistakes on tax information\u003c/a> submitted by students, amounting to about 30% to 40% of unusable files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel like the Department of Education has basically put it on the universities to figure this out for our students,” Sanchez said. “It’s really disappointing, their response to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said the Irvine campus has about 30% of financial aid offers it can’t send because they need to be reprocessed by the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jethani said the East Bay financial aid officers are providing disclosures to students within their financial aid packages that the information they receive is based on information that could change because of the various errors and mistakes from the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the mistakes are due to the new formula the department is using to determine aid. In the past, the FAFSA used “expected family contribution” to calculate students’ aid, but the new form uses the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/fafsa-changes-what-is-the-student-aid-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“student aid index formula\u003c/a>.” In March, the department announced a miscalculation of the student aid index, which led to further delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU East Bay and some other campuses have partnered with third-party vendors to help with their FAFSA “backend processing,” like verifying information because they are short on staff. The East Bay campus anticipates it will also be “triaging” and fielding various questions from students even after the fall term begins, Jethani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a hearing on the FAFSA debacle on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Justin Draeger, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, gave the department an F grade for its rollout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really adds up to a crisis of credibility for the Department of Education,” he said. “If there was a financial aid director or even a college president that delayed financial aid on their campus for up to six months, the professional price that would be paid for that would be pretty steep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for those mixed-status students who are now encouraged to fill out the Dream Act application, Sanchez said her office will still try to encourage them to complete the FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are U.S. citizens, and they are entitled to federal student aid such as the Pell Grant and student loans, federal work-study, and all those things that they are not eligible for under the (Dream Act application),” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Impact on enrollments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ripple effect of this year’s FAFSA delays is expected to significantly affect campuses’ enrollments, especially those that have faced challenges encouraging students to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We feel like the Department of Education has basically put it on the universities to figure this out for our students. It’s really disappointing, their response to this.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Becki Sanchez, director of financial aid, UC Irvine","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Universities nationwide are likely seeing enrollment downturns just like East Bay right now,” Jethani said. “We are low in enrollment, and we are low in applications, and we are low on decisions because all of these students are waiting on their financial aid to be able to decide on whether they can afford to come. This is a pretty scary time for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The universities are facing pressure to maintain or raise their enrollments, but Phillips said California has an additional competitor for students to contend with an increase in the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision that some students are making out of high school is, do I go get that $20-an-hour job, or do I go to school?” Phillips said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 70% of Cal Poly Pomona’s students receive some form of financial aid, which means that the delays have made it difficult for the campus to project what the fall enrollment will look like, said Jessica Wagoner, senior associate vice president of enrollment management and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC system, on the other hand, saw \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/uc-sees-increase-in-applications-due-to-more-transfers\">record applications this year\u003c/a> because of an increase in students who want to transfer, and there are expectations that enrollment will continue to increase across its campuses. However, there is still concern that the FAFSA problems will particularly affect low-income and first-generation students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a very popular campus, so I’m not worried about us making our big numbers,” said Dale Leaman, executive director of undergraduate admissions for UC Irvine. “The thing that concerns me the most is the students who just get so frustrated with the situation that they just give up … especially our first-generation families, where parents have not gone through this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said families have lost a lot of trust in the department because of the poor FAFSA rollout, so the responsibility will fall on universities to rebuild that trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is to make this successful in spite of things going bad,” she said. “My plan is if the Department of Education isn’t going to pull it together, we are certainly going to make sure that our students are OK, that they’re not harmed, that they start classes on time, that they don’t have to worry about these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Student Journalism Corps member Ashley Bolter contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/californias-universities-navigate-unprecedented-fafsa-mistakes-and-delays/709889\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource and was updated on April 16 to include the latest information on California’s drop in completed FAFSA applications.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983257/amid-fafsa-mistakes-and-delays-universities-struggle-to-help-students","authors":["byline_news_11983257"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_33638","news_20013","news_31715","news_3457"],"featImg":"news_11983266","label":"source_news_11983257"},"news_11977206":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11977206","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11977206","score":null,"sort":[1709134259000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kids-are-using-phones-in-class-even-when-its-against-the-rules-should-schools-ban-them-all-day","title":"Teachers, Legislators Struggle to Ban 'Out of Control' Phone Use in Schools","publishDate":1709134259,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Teachers, Legislators Struggle to Ban ‘Out of Control’ Phone Use in Schools | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the country, educators say students routinely send Snapchat messages in class, listen to music and shop online, among countless other examples of how smartphones distract from teaching and learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hold that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/data-privacy-regulation-facebook-instagram-social-media-798dbfa6004da3a2aa2c36031369a909\">phones have on adolescents\u003c/a> in America today is well-documented, but teachers say parents are often not aware of the extent to which students use them inside the classroom. And increasingly, educators and experts are speaking with one voice on the question of how to handle it: Ban phones during classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students used to have an understanding that you aren’t supposed to be on your phone in class. Those days are gone,” said James Granger, who requires students in his science classes at a Los Angeles-area high school to place their phones in “a cellphone cubby” with numbered slots. “The only solution that works is to physically remove the cellphone from the student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most schools already have rules regulating student phone use, but they are enforced sporadically. A growing number of leaders at the state and federal levels have begun endorsing school cellphone bans and suggesting new ways to curb access to the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"James Granger, high school science teacher\"]‘Students used to have an understanding that you aren’t supposed to be on your phone in class. Those days are gone.’[/pullquote]The latest state intervention came in Utah, where Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, last month urged all school districts and the state Board of Education to remove cellphones from classrooms. He cited studies that show learning improves, distractions are decreased and students are more likely to talk to each other if phones are taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just need a space for six or seven hours a day where kids are not tethered to these devices,” Cox told reporters this month. He said his initiative, which is not binding, is part of a legislative push to protect kids in Utah from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/senators-parents-social-media-regulation-199b50df19e0dc11f1fc9e5b33e2b8c5\">the harms of social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/social-media-florida-government-2a11f9a4e9256eae341a3d54c439c5af\">Florida\u003c/a> became the first state to crack down on phones in school. A law that took effect in July requires all Florida public schools to ban student cellphone use during class time and block access to social media on district Wi-Fi. Some districts, including Orange County Public Schools, went further and banned phones the entire school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24%20INT/SB/SB1314%20INT.PDF\">Oklahoma\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/Docs/BILLS/S-0284/S-0284%20As%20Introduced.pdf\">Vermont\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2641_00_0000.pdf\">Kansas\u003c/a> have also recently introduced what is becoming known as “phone-free schools” legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two U.S. senators — Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, and Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat — introduced legislation in December requiring a federal study on the effects of cellphone use in schools on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-crisis-schools-768fed6a4e71d694ec0694c627d8fdca\">students’ mental health\u003c/a> and academic performance. Theirs is one of several bipartisan alliances calling for stiffer rules for social media companies and greater online safety for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, 77% of U.S. schools say they prohibit cellphones at school for non-academic use, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that number is misleading. It does not mean students are following those bans or all those schools are enforcing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just ask teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is shown over a phone holder in a classroom at Delta High School, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Delta, Utah. \u003ccite>(Rick Bowmer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Cellphone use is out of control. By that, I mean that I cannot control it, even in my own classroom,” said Patrick Truman, who teaches at a Maryland high school that forbids student use of cellphones during class. It is up to each teacher to enforce the policy, so Truman bought a 36-slot caddy for storing student phones. Still, every day, students hide phones in their laps or under books as they play video games and check social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tired of being the phone police, he has come to a reluctant conclusion: “Students who are on their phones are at least quiet. They are not a behavior issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study last year from Common Sense Media found that 97% of kids use their phones during school hours and that kids say school cellphone policies vary — often from one classroom to another — and aren’t always enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a school cellphone ban to work, educators and experts say the school administration must be the one to enforce it and not leave that task to teachers. The Phone-Free Schools Movement, an advocacy group formed last year by concerned mothers, says policies that allow students to keep phones in their backpacks, as many schools do, are ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the bookbag is on the floor next to them, it’s buzzing and distracting, and they have the temptation to want to check it,” said Kim Whitman, a co-founder of the group, which advises schools to require phones to be turned off and locked away all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jared Christensen, vice principal, Delta High School in Utah\"]‘At first, it was a battle. But it has been so worth it. Students are more attentive and engaged during class time. Teachers are able to teach without competing with cellphones. And student learning has increased’[/pullquote]Some students say such policies take away their autonomy and cut off their main mode of communication with family and friends. Pushback also has come from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-health-business-education-e45811998c1b1e4046ade2dbba46fd1e\">parents who fear being cut off from their kids\u003c/a> if there is a school emergency. Whitman advises schools to make exceptions for students with special educational and medical needs and to inform parents on expert guidance that phones can be a dangerous distraction for students during an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaden Willoughey, 14, shares the concern about being out of contact with his parents if there’s a crisis. But he also sees the upsides of turning in his phone at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Delta High School in rural Utah, where Jaden is a freshman, students are required to check their phones at the door when entering every class. Each of the school’s 30 or so classrooms has a cellphone storage unit that looks like an over-the-door shoe bag with three dozen smartphone-sized slots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helps you focus on your work, and it’s easier to pay attention in class,” Jaden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A classmate, Mackenzie Stanworth, 14, said it would be hard to ignore her phone if it was within reach. It’s a relief, she said, to “take a break from the screen and the social life on your phone and actually talk to people in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a few years to tweak the cellphone policy and find a system that worked, said Jared Christensen, the school’s vice principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, it was a battle. But it has been so worth it,” he said. “Students are more attentive and engaged during class time. Teachers are able to teach without competing with cellphones. And student learning has increased,” he said, citing test scores that are at or above state averages for the first time in years. “I can’t definitively say it’s because of this policy. But I know it’s helping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next battle will be against earbuds and smartwatches, he said. Even with phones stashed in pouches, students get caught listening to music on air pods hidden under their hair or hoodies. “We haven’t included earbuds in our policy yet. But we’re almost there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP Reporter Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City, Utah, contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The scene in classrooms around the country is similar: Kids are on their phones, even when school rules forbid it. Should schools ban them?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709076432,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1325},"headData":{"title":"Teachers, Legislators Struggle to Ban 'Out of Control' Phone Use in Schools | KQED","description":"The scene in classrooms around the country is similar: Kids are on their phones, even when school rules forbid it. 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In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the country, educators say students routinely send Snapchat messages in class, listen to music and shop online, among countless other examples of how smartphones distract from teaching and learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hold that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/data-privacy-regulation-facebook-instagram-social-media-798dbfa6004da3a2aa2c36031369a909\">phones have on adolescents\u003c/a> in America today is well-documented, but teachers say parents are often not aware of the extent to which students use them inside the classroom. And increasingly, educators and experts are speaking with one voice on the question of how to handle it: Ban phones during classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students used to have an understanding that you aren’t supposed to be on your phone in class. Those days are gone,” said James Granger, who requires students in his science classes at a Los Angeles-area high school to place their phones in “a cellphone cubby” with numbered slots. “The only solution that works is to physically remove the cellphone from the student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most schools already have rules regulating student phone use, but they are enforced sporadically. A growing number of leaders at the state and federal levels have begun endorsing school cellphone bans and suggesting new ways to curb access to the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Students used to have an understanding that you aren’t supposed to be on your phone in class. Those days are gone.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"James Granger, high school science teacher","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The latest state intervention came in Utah, where Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, last month urged all school districts and the state Board of Education to remove cellphones from classrooms. He cited studies that show learning improves, distractions are decreased and students are more likely to talk to each other if phones are taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just need a space for six or seven hours a day where kids are not tethered to these devices,” Cox told reporters this month. He said his initiative, which is not binding, is part of a legislative push to protect kids in Utah from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/senators-parents-social-media-regulation-199b50df19e0dc11f1fc9e5b33e2b8c5\">the harms of social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/social-media-florida-government-2a11f9a4e9256eae341a3d54c439c5af\">Florida\u003c/a> became the first state to crack down on phones in school. A law that took effect in July requires all Florida public schools to ban student cellphone use during class time and block access to social media on district Wi-Fi. Some districts, including Orange County Public Schools, went further and banned phones the entire school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24%20INT/SB/SB1314%20INT.PDF\">Oklahoma\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/Docs/BILLS/S-0284/S-0284%20As%20Introduced.pdf\">Vermont\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2641_00_0000.pdf\">Kansas\u003c/a> have also recently introduced what is becoming known as “phone-free schools” legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two U.S. senators — Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, and Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat — introduced legislation in December requiring a federal study on the effects of cellphone use in schools on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-crisis-schools-768fed6a4e71d694ec0694c627d8fdca\">students’ mental health\u003c/a> and academic performance. Theirs is one of several bipartisan alliances calling for stiffer rules for social media companies and greater online safety for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, 77% of U.S. schools say they prohibit cellphones at school for non-academic use, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that number is misleading. It does not mean students are following those bans or all those schools are enforcing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just ask teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24058033487838-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is shown over a phone holder in a classroom at Delta High School, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Delta, Utah. \u003ccite>(Rick Bowmer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Cellphone use is out of control. By that, I mean that I cannot control it, even in my own classroom,” said Patrick Truman, who teaches at a Maryland high school that forbids student use of cellphones during class. It is up to each teacher to enforce the policy, so Truman bought a 36-slot caddy for storing student phones. Still, every day, students hide phones in their laps or under books as they play video games and check social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tired of being the phone police, he has come to a reluctant conclusion: “Students who are on their phones are at least quiet. They are not a behavior issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study last year from Common Sense Media found that 97% of kids use their phones during school hours and that kids say school cellphone policies vary — often from one classroom to another — and aren’t always enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a school cellphone ban to work, educators and experts say the school administration must be the one to enforce it and not leave that task to teachers. The Phone-Free Schools Movement, an advocacy group formed last year by concerned mothers, says policies that allow students to keep phones in their backpacks, as many schools do, are ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the bookbag is on the floor next to them, it’s buzzing and distracting, and they have the temptation to want to check it,” said Kim Whitman, a co-founder of the group, which advises schools to require phones to be turned off and locked away all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘At first, it was a battle. But it has been so worth it. Students are more attentive and engaged during class time. Teachers are able to teach without competing with cellphones. And student learning has increased’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jared Christensen, vice principal, Delta High School in Utah","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some students say such policies take away their autonomy and cut off their main mode of communication with family and friends. Pushback also has come from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-health-business-education-e45811998c1b1e4046ade2dbba46fd1e\">parents who fear being cut off from their kids\u003c/a> if there is a school emergency. Whitman advises schools to make exceptions for students with special educational and medical needs and to inform parents on expert guidance that phones can be a dangerous distraction for students during an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaden Willoughey, 14, shares the concern about being out of contact with his parents if there’s a crisis. But he also sees the upsides of turning in his phone at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Delta High School in rural Utah, where Jaden is a freshman, students are required to check their phones at the door when entering every class. Each of the school’s 30 or so classrooms has a cellphone storage unit that looks like an over-the-door shoe bag with three dozen smartphone-sized slots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helps you focus on your work, and it’s easier to pay attention in class,” Jaden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A classmate, Mackenzie Stanworth, 14, said it would be hard to ignore her phone if it was within reach. It’s a relief, she said, to “take a break from the screen and the social life on your phone and actually talk to people in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a few years to tweak the cellphone policy and find a system that worked, said Jared Christensen, the school’s vice principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, it was a battle. But it has been so worth it,” he said. “Students are more attentive and engaged during class time. Teachers are able to teach without competing with cellphones. And student learning has increased,” he said, citing test scores that are at or above state averages for the first time in years. “I can’t definitively say it’s because of this policy. But I know it’s helping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next battle will be against earbuds and smartwatches, he said. Even with phones stashed in pouches, students get caught listening to music on air pods hidden under their hair or hoodies. “We haven’t included earbuds in our policy yet. But we’re almost there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP Reporter Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City, Utah, contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11977206/kids-are-using-phones-in-class-even-when-its-against-the-rules-should-schools-ban-them-all-day","authors":["byline_news_11977206"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_2958","news_20013","news_27626","news_17996","news_22602","news_4950","news_3457"],"featImg":"news_11977267","label":"news"},"news_11972683":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11972683","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11972683","score":null,"sort":[1705431656000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-assembly-faces-deadline-to-decide-fate-of-youth-tackle-football-ban","title":"California Assembly Faces Deadline to Decide Fate of Youth Tackle Football Ban","publishDate":1705431656,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Assembly Faces Deadline to Decide Fate of Youth Tackle Football Ban | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Anaheim Assemblymember Avelino Valencia is a former tight end for Cal State San José who tried out for the NFL. Before entering politics, he was a community college football coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The benefit that football has had in particular to my life, I cannot put a monetary amount on it,” he told his colleagues on the Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism Committee.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Anaheim Assemblymember Avelino Valencia\"]‘It’s because it is a very dangerous and violent sport. There’s no ifs, ands or buts about that.’[/pullquote]So it was painful for Valencia to throw his support behind \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB734\">a bill\u003c/a> headed for the Assembly floor that would make California the first state to set a minimum age for tackle football — banning the sport for children under 12. But he said the evidence that the repeated brain trauma football players endure game after game is too clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s because it is a very dangerous and violent sport,” he said, his broad shoulders filling his suit jacket like a set of football pads. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee’s 5–2 party-line vote from Valencia and his fellow Democrats last week to advance the bill set in motion what’s likely to be one of the more emotionally charged issues California lawmakers will consider in 2024 as they wade into yet another contentious debate over parental rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, instead of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-vaccine-requirement/\">vaccine requirements\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/12/transgender-students-california-deadnaming/\">LGBTQ policies\u003c/a> at public schools, they’re debating the future of the country’s most popular sport, one that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-football-raises-risk-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy\">a documented history\u003c/a> of its players getting debilitating brain disease from repeated blows to the head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several high-profile examples of former players — most notably \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2013-jan-10-la-sp-sn-junior-seau-brain-20130110-story.html\">the suicide of legendary NFL linebacker Junior Seau, \u003c/a>who suffered from a degenerative brain disease — have prompted the NFL down to youth leagues to try to make tackling safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say tackle football is still dangerous despite the changes to the game. For instance, Boston University published \u003ca href=\"https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/study-tackle-football-at-young-age-raises-risk-for-brain-decline-later/\">research last yea\u003c/a>r finding that players who’ve spent more than 11 years in the sport have an increased likelihood of brain trauma, leading to poor impulse control and thinking problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s no guarantee Sacramento Democratic Assemblymember Kevin McCarty’s bill will advance beyond the Assembly, even in a Legislature that’s not shy about citing medical research to make decisions that outrage parental-rights groups and become “nanny state” fodder for national conservative media.[aside label='More Stories on California Law' tag='california-law']\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB734\">Assembly Bill 734\u003c/a> would phase in a ban, first prohibiting children under 6 from playing tackle football starting in 2025 and working up to bar those younger than 12 by 2029. It must pass on the Assembly floor by the end of the month if it will eventually make its way through the state Senate to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Newsom hasn’t indicated whether he’d sign the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/01/10/california-tackle-football-ban/\">other state legislatures\u003c/a> have debated similar youth tackle football bans. None have passed. A similar version of the bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2108\">in 2018\u003c/a> failed in California to even get out of committee. The bill still has a long way to go in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of young athletes and their parents lined up in football jerseys to oppose the bill at a hearing last Wednesday. Groups, including the California Coalition of Save Youth Football, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/saveyouthfootballcalifornia/\">whose private Facebook group has nearly 7,000 members\u003c/a>, have promised to keep up the pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Sheriff and former State Assemblymember, Jim Cooper, testified in opposition to the bill and pointed out that the sport keeps kids off the street, out of gangs and offers immeasurable life lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some adolescents, youth tackle football serves as their sole source of structure, offering positive role models and guiding them toward a positive and productive path,” Cooper said. “… I understand the pivotal role youth activities play in keeping children away from the streets and from gangs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the issue has taken on a partisan tone. A representative for Moms for Liberty, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-2024-election-republican-candidates-f46500e0e17761a7e6a3c02b61a3d229\">an influential group among conservatives\u003c/a> known for seeking to ban textbooks that reference gender identity and academic discussions about systemic racism, was among those who testified in opposition last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Huddle up California. Protect your parental rights. Stand up to Big Government,” the California Youth Football Alliance \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cayfalliance/posts/pfbid032xkjjzxSKCKaisrDnbyc2sak9bVVNm9h5YFaaQxFCUWZTiCfFWL83ejqT3XHACfEl\">wrote on its Facebook page earlier this month\u003c/a>, urging followers to contact McCarty’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Youth tackle football fans cite race, community ties\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But youth tackle football is different from other parental rights debates that are more easily framed as a Republican-Democrat dichotomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they weigh the bill, liberal lawmakers will consider more arguments from the likes of Sheriff Cooper, a Black former Democratic Assemblymember from Elk Grove, who worries that banning youth tackle football would take away an outlet for young children in Black communities who might otherwise find their way into trouble.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Tom Lackey\"]‘If we ban this sport, we take away the opportunity and many opportunities from children to grow – not only as an athlete — but as a self-actualized adult who knows when they have the capabilities to overcome an obstacle and achieve success further.’[/pullquote]“Notably, Black male children engage in youth tackle football at higher rates than any other race,” Cooper told the committee last week in his sheriff’s uniform. “To my knowledge, there’s been no pressure to limit participation in lacrosse, soccer or ice hockey, which all have concussion rates similar to youth tackle football but are prevalent in more affluent and exclusive communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers, he said, have already passed legislation \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/01/california-law-to-limit-youth-football-practices/\">he authored in 2019 \u003c/a>that limited full-contact youth football practices to no more than 30 minutes per day, two days a week. That bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.cayfa.org/blog\">had support from the California Youth Football Alliance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also will have to weigh their own experiences with the sport. Assemblymember Tom Lackey, one of the Republicans on the sports and tourism committee, told his colleagues last week that he’s “participated in flag football and … participated in tackle football. They’re different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we ban this sport, we take away the opportunity and many opportunities from children to grow – not only as an athlete — but as a self-actualized adult who knows when they have the capabilities to overcome an obstacle and achieve success further,” said Lackey, a former California Highway Patrol sergeant from Palmdale. “We take away a lifelong passion for the love of the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Experts warn of dangers of tackling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>McCarty, the bill’s author and a former Pop Warner youth football player himself said wanting to restrict young kids from tackling each other won’t negate their love for football, a sport that he said has been part of his family for as long as he can remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not anti-football. I love football,” McCarty said. “Two things can be true. You can love football and love our kids and try to protect our kids at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experts McCarty brought in to testify in support of his bill included pediatric neurologist Dr. Stella Legarda, president of the California Neurology Society, which sponsored the bill. The group spent $17,983 on lobbying last year on this bill and others, \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1354175&view=activity\">according to the latest reports filed with the California Secretary of State.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that the NFL has been having its players shed their pads and helmets to play flag football in its signature exhibition game, the Pro Bowl. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Kevin McCarty\"]‘I’m not anti-football. I love football. Two things can be true. You can love football and love our kids and try to protect our kids at the same time.’[/pullquote]“When the NFL takes measures to protect its players by playing flag football in the Pro Bowl, it is not just safeguarding its multimillion investments,” Legarda told the committee. “It delivers the clear message that impact injuries and cumulative head trauma are perilous and should be minimized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Valencia, the former football player, told CalMatters in an interview that the bill and the concerns about the health of California’s youth football players were very much on his mind last year as he stood on the sidelines of his alma mater, San José State, during its game with its rival, Cal State Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was struck by “how violent and damaging” the sport he played is. He couldn’t imagine taking those sorts of hits at the speeds the players were moving, now, as a 35-year-old man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said young kids can play flag football and still learn the skills they’ll need to play tackle football when they’re older — without risking brain damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drills, becoming more athletic, agility, speed, that makes you a better football player,” he said. “But tackling? That comes secondhand. You can figure that out in a very short period of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adembosky\">April Dembosky\u003c/a> contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Assembly has until the end of January to decide whether to set a minimum age for tackle football — banning the sport for children under 12 to protect them from brain trauma.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705440534,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1620},"headData":{"title":"California Assembly Faces Deadline to Decide Fate of Youth Tackle Football Ban | KQED","description":"The Assembly has until the end of January to decide whether to set a minimum age for tackle football — banning the sport for children under 12 to protect them from brain trauma.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/ryan-sabalow/\">Ryan Sabalow\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11972683/california-assembly-faces-deadline-to-decide-fate-of-youth-tackle-football-ban","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Anaheim Assemblymember Avelino Valencia is a former tight end for Cal State San José who tried out for the NFL. Before entering politics, he was a community college football coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The benefit that football has had in particular to my life, I cannot put a monetary amount on it,” he told his colleagues on the Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism Committee.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s because it is a very dangerous and violent sport. There’s no ifs, ands or buts about that.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Anaheim Assemblymember Avelino Valencia","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So it was painful for Valencia to throw his support behind \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB734\">a bill\u003c/a> headed for the Assembly floor that would make California the first state to set a minimum age for tackle football — banning the sport for children under 12. But he said the evidence that the repeated brain trauma football players endure game after game is too clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s because it is a very dangerous and violent sport,” he said, his broad shoulders filling his suit jacket like a set of football pads. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee’s 5–2 party-line vote from Valencia and his fellow Democrats last week to advance the bill set in motion what’s likely to be one of the more emotionally charged issues California lawmakers will consider in 2024 as they wade into yet another contentious debate over parental rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, instead of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-vaccine-requirement/\">vaccine requirements\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/12/transgender-students-california-deadnaming/\">LGBTQ policies\u003c/a> at public schools, they’re debating the future of the country’s most popular sport, one that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-football-raises-risk-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy\">a documented history\u003c/a> of its players getting debilitating brain disease from repeated blows to the head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several high-profile examples of former players — most notably \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2013-jan-10-la-sp-sn-junior-seau-brain-20130110-story.html\">the suicide of legendary NFL linebacker Junior Seau, \u003c/a>who suffered from a degenerative brain disease — have prompted the NFL down to youth leagues to try to make tackling safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say tackle football is still dangerous despite the changes to the game. For instance, Boston University published \u003ca href=\"https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/study-tackle-football-at-young-age-raises-risk-for-brain-decline-later/\">research last yea\u003c/a>r finding that players who’ve spent more than 11 years in the sport have an increased likelihood of brain trauma, leading to poor impulse control and thinking problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s no guarantee Sacramento Democratic Assemblymember Kevin McCarty’s bill will advance beyond the Assembly, even in a Legislature that’s not shy about citing medical research to make decisions that outrage parental-rights groups and become “nanny state” fodder for national conservative media.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on California Law ","tag":"california-law"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB734\">Assembly Bill 734\u003c/a> would phase in a ban, first prohibiting children under 6 from playing tackle football starting in 2025 and working up to bar those younger than 12 by 2029. It must pass on the Assembly floor by the end of the month if it will eventually make its way through the state Senate to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Newsom hasn’t indicated whether he’d sign the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/01/10/california-tackle-football-ban/\">other state legislatures\u003c/a> have debated similar youth tackle football bans. None have passed. A similar version of the bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2108\">in 2018\u003c/a> failed in California to even get out of committee. The bill still has a long way to go in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of young athletes and their parents lined up in football jerseys to oppose the bill at a hearing last Wednesday. Groups, including the California Coalition of Save Youth Football, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/saveyouthfootballcalifornia/\">whose private Facebook group has nearly 7,000 members\u003c/a>, have promised to keep up the pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Sheriff and former State Assemblymember, Jim Cooper, testified in opposition to the bill and pointed out that the sport keeps kids off the street, out of gangs and offers immeasurable life lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some adolescents, youth tackle football serves as their sole source of structure, offering positive role models and guiding them toward a positive and productive path,” Cooper said. “… I understand the pivotal role youth activities play in keeping children away from the streets and from gangs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the issue has taken on a partisan tone. A representative for Moms for Liberty, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-2024-election-republican-candidates-f46500e0e17761a7e6a3c02b61a3d229\">an influential group among conservatives\u003c/a> known for seeking to ban textbooks that reference gender identity and academic discussions about systemic racism, was among those who testified in opposition last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Huddle up California. Protect your parental rights. Stand up to Big Government,” the California Youth Football Alliance \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cayfalliance/posts/pfbid032xkjjzxSKCKaisrDnbyc2sak9bVVNm9h5YFaaQxFCUWZTiCfFWL83ejqT3XHACfEl\">wrote on its Facebook page earlier this month\u003c/a>, urging followers to contact McCarty’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Youth tackle football fans cite race, community ties\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But youth tackle football is different from other parental rights debates that are more easily framed as a Republican-Democrat dichotomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they weigh the bill, liberal lawmakers will consider more arguments from the likes of Sheriff Cooper, a Black former Democratic Assemblymember from Elk Grove, who worries that banning youth tackle football would take away an outlet for young children in Black communities who might otherwise find their way into trouble.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If we ban this sport, we take away the opportunity and many opportunities from children to grow – not only as an athlete — but as a self-actualized adult who knows when they have the capabilities to overcome an obstacle and achieve success further.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember Tom Lackey","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Notably, Black male children engage in youth tackle football at higher rates than any other race,” Cooper told the committee last week in his sheriff’s uniform. “To my knowledge, there’s been no pressure to limit participation in lacrosse, soccer or ice hockey, which all have concussion rates similar to youth tackle football but are prevalent in more affluent and exclusive communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers, he said, have already passed legislation \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/01/california-law-to-limit-youth-football-practices/\">he authored in 2019 \u003c/a>that limited full-contact youth football practices to no more than 30 minutes per day, two days a week. That bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.cayfa.org/blog\">had support from the California Youth Football Alliance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also will have to weigh their own experiences with the sport. Assemblymember Tom Lackey, one of the Republicans on the sports and tourism committee, told his colleagues last week that he’s “participated in flag football and … participated in tackle football. They’re different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we ban this sport, we take away the opportunity and many opportunities from children to grow – not only as an athlete — but as a self-actualized adult who knows when they have the capabilities to overcome an obstacle and achieve success further,” said Lackey, a former California Highway Patrol sergeant from Palmdale. “We take away a lifelong passion for the love of the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Experts warn of dangers of tackling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>McCarty, the bill’s author and a former Pop Warner youth football player himself said wanting to restrict young kids from tackling each other won’t negate their love for football, a sport that he said has been part of his family for as long as he can remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not anti-football. I love football,” McCarty said. “Two things can be true. You can love football and love our kids and try to protect our kids at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experts McCarty brought in to testify in support of his bill included pediatric neurologist Dr. Stella Legarda, president of the California Neurology Society, which sponsored the bill. The group spent $17,983 on lobbying last year on this bill and others, \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1354175&view=activity\">according to the latest reports filed with the California Secretary of State.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that the NFL has been having its players shed their pads and helmets to play flag football in its signature exhibition game, the Pro Bowl. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I’m not anti-football. I love football. Two things can be true. You can love football and love our kids and try to protect our kids at the same time.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember Kevin McCarty","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When the NFL takes measures to protect its players by playing flag football in the Pro Bowl, it is not just safeguarding its multimillion investments,” Legarda told the committee. “It delivers the clear message that impact injuries and cumulative head trauma are perilous and should be minimized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Valencia, the former football player, told CalMatters in an interview that the bill and the concerns about the health of California’s youth football players were very much on his mind last year as he stood on the sidelines of his alma mater, San José State, during its game with its rival, Cal State Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was struck by “how violent and damaging” the sport he played is. He couldn’t imagine taking those sorts of hits at the speeds the players were moving, now, as a 35-year-old man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said young kids can play flag football and still learn the skills they’ll need to play tackle football when they’re older — without risking brain damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drills, becoming more athletic, agility, speed, that makes you a better football player,” he said. “But tackling? That comes secondhand. You can figure that out in a very short period of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adembosky\">April Dembosky\u003c/a> contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11972683/california-assembly-faces-deadline-to-decide-fate-of-youth-tackle-football-ban","authors":["byline_news_11972683"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_356","news_10"],"tags":["news_27626","news_28199","news_2231","news_17762","news_29184","news_3187","news_111","news_6773","news_3457","news_98"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11972687","label":"source_news_11972683"},"news_11950545":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11950545","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11950545","score":null,"sort":[1684965319000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"special-education-gets-modest-gains-in-latest-talks-with-district-says-oakland-teachers-union","title":"Special Education Gets 'Modest Gains' in Latest Talks With District, Says Oakland Teachers Union","publishDate":1684965319,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Special Education Gets ‘Modest Gains’ in Latest Talks With District, Says Oakland Teachers Union | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(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. Like Melious, she said higher salaries for support staff would help resolve the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armendariz said the bargaining team will hold the district accountable for lunch breaks moving forward. While he is proud of what the team accomplished overall, he wants to focus on special education more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For far too long, our students and our faculty have been ignored by this district and put as an afterthought. And that’s not going to happen anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Oakland Education Association reached a 90% vote in favor of its tentative agreement with the Oakland Unified School District. It features much-needed amendments to special education, but parents and teachers say there is more work to do.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1684965319,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1275},"headData":{"title":"Special Education Gets 'Modest Gains' in Latest Talks With District, Says Oakland Teachers Union | KQED","description":"The Oakland Education Association reached a 90% vote in favor of its tentative agreement with the Oakland Unified School District. 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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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1660824964633878529"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65043_DSC06574-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘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.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Ismael Armendariz, special education teacher, OEA president","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65519_013_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(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>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Real inclusion comes with shifting the culture.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Coriander Melious, parent and special education teacher","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Education ","tag":"education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. Like Melious, she said higher salaries for support staff would help resolve the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armendariz said the bargaining team will hold the district accountable for lunch breaks moving forward. While he is proud of what the team accomplished overall, he wants to focus on special education more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For far too long, our students and our faculty have been ignored by this district and put as an afterthought. And that’s not going to happen anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11950545/special-education-gets-modest-gains-in-latest-talks-with-district-says-oakland-teachers-union","authors":["byline_news_11950545"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_26850","news_31933","news_32200","news_20272","news_31369","news_24851","news_31016","news_32412","news_4449","news_5558","news_3457"],"featImg":"news_11950544","label":"news"},"news_11949802":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11949802","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11949802","score":null,"sort":[1684788720000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uc-law-sf-students-say-complaints-of-racism-and-discrimination-on-campus-were-dismissed","title":"UC Law SF Students Say Complaints of Racism and Discrimination Were Dismissed","publishDate":1684788720,"format":"standard","headTitle":"UC Law SF Students Say Complaints of Racism and Discrimination Were Dismissed | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"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. 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. It was to change a systemic issue of oppression. It was to address racism in our country. It was to call people out for hurting others and making spaces feel like they aren’t meant for people like me,” Wilhelm said. “That was in my admissions essay. But they’re surprised now that I’m saying something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A group of students of color say they have felt repeatedly marginalized and that the school’s administration has done little to address their concerns.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1684867634,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":2160},"headData":{"title":"UC Law SF Students Say Complaints of Racism and Discrimination Were Dismissed | KQED","description":"A group of students of color say they have felt repeatedly marginalized and that the school’s administration has done little to address their concerns.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11949802/uc-law-sf-students-say-complaints-of-racism-and-discrimination-on-campus-were-dismissed","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","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>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘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.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Dominique Armstrong, student, UC Law SF","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","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>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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. It was to change a systemic issue of oppression. It was to address racism in our country. It was to call people out for hurting others and making spaces feel like they aren’t meant for people like me,” Wilhelm said. “That was in my admissions essay. But they’re surprised now that I’m saying something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11949802/uc-law-sf-students-say-complaints-of-racism-and-discrimination-on-campus-were-dismissed","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_18540","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_32745","news_3457","news_32744","news_32743"],"featImg":"news_11949815","label":"news"},"news_11946741":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11946741","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11946741","score":null,"sort":[1681505180000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cal-state-undergrad-workers-pursue-union-representation-for-higher-wages-paid-sick-time","title":"Cal State Undergrad Workers Pursue Union Representation for Higher Wages, Paid Sick Time","publishDate":1681505180,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Cal State Undergrad Workers Pursue Union Representation for Higher Wages, Paid Sick Time | KQED","labelTerm":{},"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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(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","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California State University undergraduate student assistants are mounting a union-organizing campaign that could affect thousands of library assistants, clerical workers and other nonacademic student employees.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1681505180,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1353},"headData":{"title":"Cal State Undergrad Workers Pursue Union Representation for Higher Wages, Paid Sick Time | KQED","description":"California State University undergraduate student assistants are mounting a union-organizing campaign that could affect thousands of library assistants, clerical workers and other nonacademic student employees.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/rocky-walker/\">Rocky Walker\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11946741/cal-state-undergrad-workers-pursue-union-representation-for-higher-wages-paid-sick-time","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","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>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Education ","tag":"education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(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>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘You say you’re a public-serving institution — it doesn’t make sense to be paying people wages that they can’t live on.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Caroline Luce, labor historian, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11946741/cal-state-undergrad-workers-pursue-union-representation-for-higher-wages-paid-sick-time","authors":["byline_news_11946741"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_2776","news_28520","news_18538","news_31933","news_32150","news_31128","news_32200","news_18085","news_21180","news_21749","news_3457","news_30511"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11946744","label":"source_news_11946741"},"news_11917138":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11917138","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11917138","score":null,"sort":[1655312731000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"self-love-and-inner-work-help-oakland-students-make-it-to-graduation","title":"Self-Love and Inner Work Help Oakland Students Make It to Graduation","publishDate":1655312731,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nside a borrowed studio apartment in a two-story courtyard building in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, Nya Owens is preparing for her afternoon client, a woman named Yummy Jones who has driven all the way from Richmond, despite heavy traffic and the high cost of gas these days, just to see her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens, who just turned 18, goes over styles as they watch TikTok videos of different looks. Then Owens asks Yummy to part her hair, and the work begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braiding is Owens' business, and it's why she was so focused on graduating this year. She sees that high school diploma as the ticket to college and a degree in business administration, all part of her plan to start her own fashion company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve loved fashion since I was a little kid. I’ve had experience with customer service, I’m a people person and I used to model,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her future plan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Phase one would be to go to pop-up shops and sell clothes, promote on social media,\" she says. \"Phase two would be to grow my online store out of state, do raffles and also gain more and more ambassador events.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands over another woman doing her hair.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nya Owens at work in her salon space at a friend's apartment with client Yummy Jones. Owens wants to get a degree in business administration, but this year she had to focus first on showing up to finish high school. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But just last January, Owens saw those plans evaporating. Her school, McClymonds High in West Oakland, told her that unless she started showing up for school on time, she wouldn't get to graduate. “I was falling behind because I was too busy trying to make my money and also trying to focus on school,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens was also behind because of a series of academic setbacks junior year: Pandemic-related distance learning had been impossible for her.[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Nya Owens, participant, Oakland Natives Give Back\"]'COVID really took me away from school, where I got the majority of my help from. Like, I'm the type of person that needs hands on.'[/pullquote]\"COVID really took me away from school, where I got the majority of my help from. Like, I'm the type of person that needs hands on. I got to be hands on. I cannot do it on my own,\" she says. \"I used to fall asleep during class.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there was a devastating personal blow: Owens' 25-year-old brother was shot and killed in East Oakland. At that point, with her mother grieving, Owens says she ended up living with different relatives. Getting to school at all was a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she kept going, and she says her late brother has played a big part in that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like my brother has been pushing me,\" Owens says. \"Since he's gone, he's been pushing me on. I've been catching a whole lot of angel numbers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also pushing her was the team from Oakland Natives Give Back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1180px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917102\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56633_IMG_5832-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands in a school hallway next to graduation balloons. She is holding up a diploma and is smiling at someone off-camera.\" width=\"1180\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56633_IMG_5832-qut.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56633_IMG_5832-qut-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56633_IMG_5832-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56633_IMG_5832-qut-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1180px) 100vw, 1180px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nya Owens poses for a portrait during graduation. Owens was a participant with Oakland Natives Give Back and says the program helped her achieve her goal of getting a high school diploma. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nya Owens)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization launched a pilot program at McClymonds in January involving 10 students who were chronically absent but also were considered \"influencers\" — students others took their cues from. The goal was not only to get the 10 to graduate, but to get them to send a larger message to the student body that attendance matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chronic absenteeism among Black students like Owens is a critical problem for the district. District statistics through May show that 58% of OUSD’s Black students missed at least 18 school days during this past school year; nearly half of those students were absent 36 days or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids not getting to school could cost OUSD millions of dollars a year in state funding, which is allotted on the basis of the district's average daily attendance. And more important, chronic absences are devastating for the growth and progress of students like Owens.[aside label=\"More Education Stories\" tag=\"education\"]The pilot program that Oakland Natives Give Back deployed at McClymonds this year was designed to provide intensive wraparound support for the 10 students who were invited to participate and see them through to graduation. The pilot also aimed to help each student plan for the future and teach them the skills they'd need to turn that plan into reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not here to chastise you. We're here to support you. You know — even with love, with a different angle,\" says Brian McGee, McClymonds' head of programs, who helped bring in Oakland Natives Give Back. \"Yes, your attendance is bad, but we don't think you're bad people. You're here because we want to correct some things and get you ready for the real world. And the way we're going to do that is to give you some skill sets for a toolbox that you can take with you along your journey.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stefon Dent, an achievement coordinator with Oakland Natives Give Back, was part of a two-person team that worked with the 10 McClymonds students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students would participate in a 90-minute class once a week to learn skills they could use both in and outside of school: a lot of focus on accountability and what it means to show up on time. In return, they would be paid a monthly stipend of $500, paid for by Oakland Natives Give Back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dent says the classes were anchored in deep, emotional work that Dent says is key to Black students surviving and thriving in a systemically racist society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You really have to have a strong foundation within yourself and love yourself in order for you to manifest your desires,\" Dent says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917084 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\" Stefon Dent sports a beard and wears his Proud Oakland Native shirt as he stars into the distance on a street in downtown Oakland. Behind him is a yellow wall with artist's tags in black paint on it.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stefon Dent, achievement coordinator with Oakland Natives Give Back, poses for a portrait in downtown Oakland on June 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Education itself needs to implement teachings for individuals to learn themselves. We don't have that in school,\" he says. \"All we're teaching them is science, math, accounting. The school system was designed to teach people to work for other people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day Owens meets Yummy Jones to braid her hair shows the importance of this emotional dimension of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens says the day had been a stressful one. It was finals week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Finals actually had me crying at school, crying,\" she says, explaining that she got into a disagreement with a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was supposed to present, but I didn’t know,\" she says. \"I didn’t get the email. And I almost punched a wall. I was very upset. Grabbing at my hair and everything.\"[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Stefon Dent, achievement coordinator, Oakland Natives Give Back\"]'Education itself needs to implement teachings for individuals to learn themselves. We don't have that in school.'[/pullquote]Dent calls this kind of reaction getting emotionally hijacked, saying of Owens, \"She fell victim to her own negative programming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dent says in that split second, Owens had a choice: to act on impulse or to be her higher self. He says he works on this himself every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're driving and somebody cuts you off, you have the option to get around them, flip them off, curse them out or whatever,\" he says. \"Or you have the choice to be like, 'OK, well, maybe they need to get to someplace. So I'm going to allow them to, you know, have that.' Then I send them love and light. You know, 'I hope you make it to your destination safely.' And those are some of the tools I teach my clients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dent calls this operating on a higher frequency. And he shares this wisdom in his classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of professionals have trouble relating to students because all they have is book smarts. And that can only lead you so far, especially going into the belly of the beast,\" Dent says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dent says his own experience in public schools forced him onto his path of self-discovery. In third grade, he says, a teacher placed him in special education — where he remained until 12th grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She asked me to play quietly, but what 6-year-old, you know, plays quietly?\" he says. \"So she influenced my mom to keep me in these classes due to my mom being on drugs at the time, saying, like, 'If your child is on SSI, you have an extra income.' So saying that to a person that's hooked on something — that's volumes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dent is adamant he stopped growing psychologically at 6 when this teacher imprinted that negative view on him. He graduated 12th grade reading at a third-grade level \"because all we did was sing songs and [eat] snacks and color.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today he has a master's degree in behavioral psychology from Cal State East Bay. But first he had to go to Laney College for seven years to catch up on all the learning he missed in his earlier years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So it's possible for you to accomplish anything,\" Dent says. As he likes to tell the students, \"The only thing in the way of you, is you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Owens became frustrated with her teacher during finals week, instead of just walking out of school and not returning — as she says she normally would have done — she took steps to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just kept having to breathe, and breathe, and breathe as much as I can. Anger like that, you really have to be careful,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that moment, a McClymonds staffer who works closely with Dent also helped her with some advice: \"Go ahead, cry yourself out of it. Do as much crying as you gotta do and then we gotta get right back to this essay.\"[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Nya Owens, participant, Oakland Natives Give Back\"]'This program has actually helped me with getting to work on time. I get to clients on time.'[/pullquote]At the end of the year, when Owens learned one of her teachers had flunked her, she immediately signed up for adult school to take the class again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took me a while, but I built myself up. I listen to gospel music and I listen to old school music, 'Good Morning Beautiful.' And then that type of music gives me some motivation into myself: 'OK, Nya, you got this. You’re pretty. You’re beautiful.' I tell myself that every day, every morning, every time I wake up, every time I go to sleep and wake back up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens didn’t graduate with her class at McClymonds in May. But she redid the course online and graduated with an adult school class this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the accountability lessons from her internship at McClymonds are grounding her for her next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This program has actually helped me with getting to work on time,\" she says. \"I get to clients on time. I used to be at least 10 to 15 minutes behind. Now, I leave early. If you're not going to be on time, you're just not going to be knowing what's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens' graduation, albeit slightly delayed, meant that all 10 of the McClymonds seniors who were part of the Oakland Natives Give Back pilot project got their diplomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization is hoping to expand to seven other Oakland high schools this fall to reach as many as 100 students in the coming academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A pilot project run by community group Oakland Natives Give Back tackles chronic absenteeism in Oakland high schools.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1655343122,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":1975},"headData":{"title":"Self-Love and Inner Work Help Oakland Students Make It to Graduation | KQED","description":"A pilot project run by community group Oakland Natives Give Back tackles chronic absenteeism in Oakland high schools.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11917138 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11917138","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/06/15/self-love-and-inner-work-help-oakland-students-make-it-to-graduation/","disqusTitle":"Self-Love and Inner Work Help Oakland Students Make It to Graduation","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/5fded7d3-90a7-4c4c-bee3-aea20110bda9/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11917138/self-love-and-inner-work-help-oakland-students-make-it-to-graduation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>nside a borrowed studio apartment in a two-story courtyard building in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, Nya Owens is preparing for her afternoon client, a woman named Yummy Jones who has driven all the way from Richmond, despite heavy traffic and the high cost of gas these days, just to see her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens, who just turned 18, goes over styles as they watch TikTok videos of different looks. Then Owens asks Yummy to part her hair, and the work begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braiding is Owens' business, and it's why she was so focused on graduating this year. She sees that high school diploma as the ticket to college and a degree in business administration, all part of her plan to start her own fashion company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve loved fashion since I was a little kid. I’ve had experience with customer service, I’m a people person and I used to model,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her future plan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Phase one would be to go to pop-up shops and sell clothes, promote on social media,\" she says. \"Phase two would be to grow my online store out of state, do raffles and also gain more and more ambassador events.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands over another woman doing her hair.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56635_IMG_7762-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nya Owens at work in her salon space at a friend's apartment with client Yummy Jones. Owens wants to get a degree in business administration, but this year she had to focus first on showing up to finish high school. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But just last January, Owens saw those plans evaporating. Her school, McClymonds High in West Oakland, told her that unless she started showing up for school on time, she wouldn't get to graduate. “I was falling behind because I was too busy trying to make my money and also trying to focus on school,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens was also behind because of a series of academic setbacks junior year: Pandemic-related distance learning had been impossible for her.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'COVID really took me away from school, where I got the majority of my help from. Like, I'm the type of person that needs hands on.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Nya Owens, participant, Oakland Natives Give Back","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"COVID really took me away from school, where I got the majority of my help from. Like, I'm the type of person that needs hands on. I got to be hands on. I cannot do it on my own,\" she says. \"I used to fall asleep during class.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there was a devastating personal blow: Owens' 25-year-old brother was shot and killed in East Oakland. At that point, with her mother grieving, Owens says she ended up living with different relatives. Getting to school at all was a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she kept going, and she says her late brother has played a big part in that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like my brother has been pushing me,\" Owens says. \"Since he's gone, he's been pushing me on. I've been catching a whole lot of angel numbers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also pushing her was the team from Oakland Natives Give Back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1180px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917102\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56633_IMG_5832-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands in a school hallway next to graduation balloons. She is holding up a diploma and is smiling at someone off-camera.\" width=\"1180\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56633_IMG_5832-qut.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56633_IMG_5832-qut-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56633_IMG_5832-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56633_IMG_5832-qut-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1180px) 100vw, 1180px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nya Owens poses for a portrait during graduation. Owens was a participant with Oakland Natives Give Back and says the program helped her achieve her goal of getting a high school diploma. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nya Owens)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization launched a pilot program at McClymonds in January involving 10 students who were chronically absent but also were considered \"influencers\" — students others took their cues from. The goal was not only to get the 10 to graduate, but to get them to send a larger message to the student body that attendance matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chronic absenteeism among Black students like Owens is a critical problem for the district. District statistics through May show that 58% of OUSD’s Black students missed at least 18 school days during this past school year; nearly half of those students were absent 36 days or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids not getting to school could cost OUSD millions of dollars a year in state funding, which is allotted on the basis of the district's average daily attendance. And more important, chronic absences are devastating for the growth and progress of students like Owens.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Education Stories ","tag":"education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The pilot program that Oakland Natives Give Back deployed at McClymonds this year was designed to provide intensive wraparound support for the 10 students who were invited to participate and see them through to graduation. The pilot also aimed to help each student plan for the future and teach them the skills they'd need to turn that plan into reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not here to chastise you. We're here to support you. You know — even with love, with a different angle,\" says Brian McGee, McClymonds' head of programs, who helped bring in Oakland Natives Give Back. \"Yes, your attendance is bad, but we don't think you're bad people. You're here because we want to correct some things and get you ready for the real world. And the way we're going to do that is to give you some skill sets for a toolbox that you can take with you along your journey.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stefon Dent, an achievement coordinator with Oakland Natives Give Back, was part of a two-person team that worked with the 10 McClymonds students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students would participate in a 90-minute class once a week to learn skills they could use both in and outside of school: a lot of focus on accountability and what it means to show up on time. In return, they would be paid a monthly stipend of $500, paid for by Oakland Natives Give Back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dent says the classes were anchored in deep, emotional work that Dent says is key to Black students surviving and thriving in a systemically racist society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You really have to have a strong foundation within yourself and love yourself in order for you to manifest your desires,\" Dent says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917084 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\" Stefon Dent sports a beard and wears his Proud Oakland Native shirt as he stars into the distance on a street in downtown Oakland. Behind him is a yellow wall with artist's tags in black paint on it.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56551_004_KQED_StefonDentOaklandGivesBack_06062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stefon Dent, achievement coordinator with Oakland Natives Give Back, poses for a portrait in downtown Oakland on June 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Education itself needs to implement teachings for individuals to learn themselves. We don't have that in school,\" he says. \"All we're teaching them is science, math, accounting. The school system was designed to teach people to work for other people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day Owens meets Yummy Jones to braid her hair shows the importance of this emotional dimension of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens says the day had been a stressful one. It was finals week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Finals actually had me crying at school, crying,\" she says, explaining that she got into a disagreement with a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was supposed to present, but I didn’t know,\" she says. \"I didn’t get the email. And I almost punched a wall. I was very upset. Grabbing at my hair and everything.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Education itself needs to implement teachings for individuals to learn themselves. We don't have that in school.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Stefon Dent, achievement coordinator, Oakland Natives Give Back","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dent calls this kind of reaction getting emotionally hijacked, saying of Owens, \"She fell victim to her own negative programming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dent says in that split second, Owens had a choice: to act on impulse or to be her higher self. He says he works on this himself every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're driving and somebody cuts you off, you have the option to get around them, flip them off, curse them out or whatever,\" he says. \"Or you have the choice to be like, 'OK, well, maybe they need to get to someplace. So I'm going to allow them to, you know, have that.' Then I send them love and light. You know, 'I hope you make it to your destination safely.' And those are some of the tools I teach my clients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dent calls this operating on a higher frequency. And he shares this wisdom in his classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of professionals have trouble relating to students because all they have is book smarts. And that can only lead you so far, especially going into the belly of the beast,\" Dent says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dent says his own experience in public schools forced him onto his path of self-discovery. In third grade, he says, a teacher placed him in special education — where he remained until 12th grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She asked me to play quietly, but what 6-year-old, you know, plays quietly?\" he says. \"So she influenced my mom to keep me in these classes due to my mom being on drugs at the time, saying, like, 'If your child is on SSI, you have an extra income.' So saying that to a person that's hooked on something — that's volumes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dent is adamant he stopped growing psychologically at 6 when this teacher imprinted that negative view on him. He graduated 12th grade reading at a third-grade level \"because all we did was sing songs and [eat] snacks and color.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today he has a master's degree in behavioral psychology from Cal State East Bay. But first he had to go to Laney College for seven years to catch up on all the learning he missed in his earlier years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So it's possible for you to accomplish anything,\" Dent says. As he likes to tell the students, \"The only thing in the way of you, is you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Owens became frustrated with her teacher during finals week, instead of just walking out of school and not returning — as she says she normally would have done — she took steps to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just kept having to breathe, and breathe, and breathe as much as I can. Anger like that, you really have to be careful,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that moment, a McClymonds staffer who works closely with Dent also helped her with some advice: \"Go ahead, cry yourself out of it. Do as much crying as you gotta do and then we gotta get right back to this essay.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This program has actually helped me with getting to work on time. I get to clients on time.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Nya Owens, participant, Oakland Natives Give Back","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At the end of the year, when Owens learned one of her teachers had flunked her, she immediately signed up for adult school to take the class again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took me a while, but I built myself up. I listen to gospel music and I listen to old school music, 'Good Morning Beautiful.' And then that type of music gives me some motivation into myself: 'OK, Nya, you got this. You’re pretty. You’re beautiful.' I tell myself that every day, every morning, every time I wake up, every time I go to sleep and wake back up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens didn’t graduate with her class at McClymonds in May. But she redid the course online and graduated with an adult school class this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the accountability lessons from her internship at McClymonds are grounding her for her next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This program has actually helped me with getting to work on time,\" she says. \"I get to clients on time. I used to be at least 10 to 15 minutes behind. Now, I leave early. If you're not going to be on time, you're just not going to be knowing what's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens' graduation, albeit slightly delayed, meant that all 10 of the McClymonds seniors who were part of the Oakland Natives Give Back pilot project got their diplomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization is hoping to expand to seven other Oakland high schools this fall to reach as many as 100 students in the coming academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11917138/self-love-and-inner-work-help-oakland-students-make-it-to-graduation","authors":["231"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_26850","news_31231","news_20013","news_18","news_31230","news_1826","news_3366","news_3457"],"featImg":"news_11917083","label":"news"},"news_11907567":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11907567","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11907567","score":null,"sort":[1646823654000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"students-growth-and-housing-at-uc-berkeley","title":"Students, Growth, and Housing at UC Berkeley","publishDate":1646823654,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Students, Growth, and Housing at UC Berkeley | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A group of homeowners sued over UC Berkeley’s plans to increase enrollment, claiming that the university has not adequately studied the environmental impacts of a higher student population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This legal battle has been going on for years, but in the last few weeks it’s gotten national attention. That’s because the courts recently ruled against the university, which is now required to cap enrollment levels. It’s set off arguments in Berkeley and across the state about growth, housing, and more. And it may even lead to legislative changes as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guest: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/frannydink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frances Dinkelspiel\u003c/a>, reporter and co-founder of Berkeleyside and The Oaklandside\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/37c7wEd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Episode Transcript \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1530878699&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>‘\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>The Racist Roots of Single-Family Zoning\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong>‘ \u003cem>SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America, \u003c/em>Oct. 5, 2020.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864507/a-big-first-step-bay-area-cities-are-rethinking-single-family-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>A Big First Step: Bay Area Cities Are Rethinking Single-Family Zoning,’\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em>, Mar. 15, 2021.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/03/04/uc-berkeley-enrollment-freeze-impacts-400-applicants-not-5100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>UC Berkeley finds a workaround to mandatory enrollment freeze\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>,’ \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Berkeleyside\u003c/em>, Mar. 4, 2022.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700690753,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":167},"headData":{"title":"Students, Growth, and Housing at UC Berkeley | KQED","description":"A group of homeowners sued over UC Berkeley's plans to increase enrollment, claiming that the university has not adequately studied the environmental impacts of a higher student population. 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That’s because the courts recently ruled against the university, which is now required to cap enrollment levels. It’s set off arguments in Berkeley and across the state about growth, housing, and more. And it may even lead to legislative changes as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guest: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/frannydink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frances Dinkelspiel\u003c/a>, reporter and co-founder of Berkeleyside and The Oaklandside\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/37c7wEd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Episode Transcript \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1530878699&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>‘\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>The Racist Roots of Single-Family Zoning\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong>‘ \u003cem>SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America, \u003c/em>Oct. 5, 2020.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864507/a-big-first-step-bay-area-cities-are-rethinking-single-family-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>A Big First Step: Bay Area Cities Are Rethinking Single-Family Zoning,’\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em>, Mar. 15, 2021.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/03/04/uc-berkeley-enrollment-freeze-impacts-400-applicants-not-5100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>UC Berkeley finds a workaround to mandatory enrollment freeze\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>,’ \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Berkeleyside\u003c/em>, Mar. 4, 2022.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11907567/students-growth-and-housing-at-uc-berkeley","authors":["8654","11802","11649"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_1775","news_3457","news_22598","news_17597"],"featImg":"news_11847722","label":"source_news_11907567"},"news_11896078":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11896078","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11896078","score":null,"sort":[1639527262000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"student-cartoons-from-kqeds-youth-media-challenge","title":"Student Cartoons from KQED's Youth Media Challenge","publishDate":1639527262,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Let me start by saying how glad I am that I don't have to pick a winner from any of these cartoons that students submitted as part of KQED's \u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/teachers/political-cartooning\">\"Political Cartooning With Mark Fiore\" Youth Media Challenge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This challenge invites students in grades 6-12 to submit an original one-panel editorial cartoon about any issue that matters to them. (All submissions are published on \u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/\">KQED’s Youth Media Challenge Showcase\u003c/a>, and I’ll try to feature as many as I can throughout the school year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is so much talent here it would be a shame to have to pick just one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mark-fiore-drawn-to-the-bay\">a long-time cartoonist\u003c/a> who remembers my earliest cartoons, I can see potential magic — that may not be immediately apparent to some — in many of these works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here (in no particular order of preference) are some of the standouts among the roughly 250 submissions we've received from students living everywhere from here in the Bay Area to Billings, Montana, and Jefferson, Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/teachers/political-cartooning\">The Youth Media Challenge is accepting submissions until June 2022\u003c/a>, so you can still send in your cartoons if you haven't already done so.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Student debt\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aidan N.\u003c/strong> does a great job of encapsulating the massive problem of student debt, and I know exactly what the cartoon is trying to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/01student_debt_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/01student_debt_fin.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon showing a student with a ball and chain labeled \"student debt\" as they are reaching for a house and the American Dream.' width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/01student_debt_fin.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/01student_debt_fin-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/01student_debt_fin-160x120.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing I noticed about \u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjE2NTkwMTVkNzg0MjIxZTkzOGZmZTk4\">Aidan's cartoon\u003c/a> that takes me back to some of my earlier cartoons: the visual metaphor of the ball and chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple submissions we received featured a ball and chain, and that's OK — but try thinking outside the box and push yourself to make your cartoon even more unique. If you want your cartoons to stand out, it's important that they be wholly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is there another way to represent a challenging or difficult situation? Remember, you can draw \u003cem>anything\u003c/em> — maybe next time it could be an alligator latched onto a leg or a bear trap!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rosie the Riveter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Khushi C.\u003c/strong> tapped into the classic Rosie the Riveter poster for \u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjBhZmYwOTBjMmE1MmQ1YmM5NWY3YTg2\">this pro-vaccination cartoon\u003c/a>, one that could also easily be made into a poster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896102\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon showing a masked woman in the \"Rosie the Riveter\" pose as she gets her vaccine shot. Atop the cartoon is lettering that reads, \"you should do it too.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin-1536x1536.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love how the syringe doesn't look intimidating or scary — an illustration challenge that can be difficult to pull off!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing to keep in mind \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/Article/1791664/rosie-the-riveter-inspired-women-to-serve-in-world-war-ii/\">when using historical images as a basis for a cartoon\u003c/a>: Remember there is oftentimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889493/east-bay-middle-school-renamed-for-pioneering-park-ranger-betty-reid-soskin-on-her-100th-birthday\">more to the story of the image than what most history books imparted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some experts, like Betty Reid Soskin, a 100-year-old park ranger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889493/east-bay-middle-school-renamed-for-pioneering-park-ranger-betty-reid-soskin-on-her-100th-birthday\">who still leads tours\u003c/a> at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, \"\u003ca href=\"https://theriveter.co/voice/betty-reid-siskin-original-rosie-the-riveter/\">the story of Rosie the Riveter is a white woman’s story\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is another reason I like how Khushi has changed up the imagery.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The arc of oppression in America\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I know I said this roundup isn't about awards, but \u003cstrong>John M.\u003c/strong> gets my vote for \"Most Ambitious Single-Panel Cartoon About the Arc of Oppression in America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjA4YzY3MjBkMGVkZGM0NWI1NmI4OTAx\">He's trying to say a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> in this cartoon\u003c/a> and actually pulls it off!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might take a while for the reader to absorb it all, but it works, right down to the disturbing and salient portrayal of the Native Americans at the bottom rung of the cartoon's visual hierarchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/03hierarchyofoppression_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/03hierarchyofoppression_fin.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon titled \"The Hierarchy of Oppression\" showing a white Trump supporter sitting atop minorities in various states of oppression. At the bottom of the pyramid are dead Native Americans.' width=\"993\" height=\"1324\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/03hierarchyofoppression_fin.png 993w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/03hierarchyofoppression_fin-800x1067.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/03hierarchyofoppression_fin-160x213.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Social media and mental health\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjA5MGNiNmVkNjU1N2I3MDRmYzBlY2Rm\">\u003cstrong>Jaidene M.\u003c/strong> created one of my absolute favorite cartoons\u003c/a> among all the submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The simplicity and beauty of this drawing — particularly the wilting flower — is incredibly moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon showing a sun labeled \"positivity\" that is obscured by a cloud labeled \"hate\" that rains down \"social media\" on a wilting flower labeled \"mental health.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin-800x1067.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin-1020x1360.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin-160x213.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin-1152x1536.png 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin-1536x2048.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the challenges a cartoonist always faces is how to clearly convey what the different elements in an illustration represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labeling is one of the simplest ways to do this, but is there another way to \u003cem>show\u003c/em> rather than \u003cem>tell\u003c/em> what this cartoon is about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe the clouds can \u003cem>look\u003c/em> hateful and mean rather than being labeled \"hate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Conspiracy storm\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjA5NTY3ODYyODZmMWUwMWRiZjFjMzRm\">\u003cstrong>Jasper S.\u003c/strong> has drawn one of the most traditional \"political cartoons\"\u003c/a> among this collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/02conspiracystorm_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/02conspiracystorm_fin.png\" alt=\"A "Youth Media Challenge" cartoon titled "The Conspiracy Storm" that shows a tornado heading for the White House labeled "Democracy." The tornado includes conspiracy terms like "fake news," "government control" and "it's a cover."\" width=\"799\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/02conspiracystorm_fin.png 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/02conspiracystorm_fin-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tornado definitely looks like trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, you can let your labels and lettering show emotion and movement, too. If I were letters in that storm, I might be a little skewed or curved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.ralphsteadman.com/\">Ralph Steadman, a master illustrator\u003c/a> who pours so much emotion into his drawings and lettering.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>High gas prices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjBhZDBiNWY0NTk4OGI0MGFmZjgwYWQ1\">\u003cstrong>Justin C.\u003c/strong> goes after President Biden for high gas prices\u003c/a>, and though I may not agree with the message, I really like how he uses the gambling metaphor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon that is mostly text with a caricature of Joe Biden in the center. The top reads \"King Gasoline\" and below says \"Biden Bucks\" and \"$6 per gallon.\" The bottom reads \"lose jobs.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline-800x1067.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline-1020x1360.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline-160x213.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline-1152x1536.png 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline-1536x2048.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a side note, the fact that we can see a kitchen counter behind Justin's drawing takes me back to my earliest cartoons, which I drew on the lid of a clothes hamper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, if you love drawing cartoons, you don't need any fancy equipment or a drafting table!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Social media problems\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjE3NmUwZjZkYTEyN2Y3NzBkMDk1ZWVj\">\u003cstrong>Madison K.\u003c/strong> tackles some very difficult issues in this cartoon about social media\u003c/a>, and is on the right track by making it a multipanel illustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896105\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon showing a multi-panel strip that shows kids \"spread rumors,\" \"depression,\" \"bullying\" and \"not getting enough sleep.\" A main caption at the bottom reads, \"social media problems.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin-1020x765.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin-1536x1152.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes a cartoon can be much more effective if you lead the audience through your thought process and what you're trying to say, which can sometimes be better accomplished through a comic book-style format.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Thank you!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Thanks so much to all of you who have submitted cartoons and participated in this challenge. We'll feature more here in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/teachers/political-cartooning\">Send along your cartoons\u003c/a>, and most importantly, keep cartooning!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"KQED's resident cartoonist reviews a selection of student cartoons recently submitted as part of our \"Political Cartooning with Mark Fiore\" Youth Media Challenge.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1639539874,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":905},"headData":{"title":"Student Cartoons from KQED's Youth Media Challenge | KQED","description":"KQED's resident cartoonist reviews a selection of student cartoons recently submitted as part of our "Political Cartooning with Mark Fiore" Youth Media Challenge.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11896078 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11896078","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/12/14/student-cartoons-from-kqeds-youth-media-challenge/","disqusTitle":"Student Cartoons from KQED's Youth Media Challenge","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11896078/student-cartoons-from-kqeds-youth-media-challenge","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Let me start by saying how glad I am that I don't have to pick a winner from any of these cartoons that students submitted as part of KQED's \u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/teachers/political-cartooning\">\"Political Cartooning With Mark Fiore\" Youth Media Challenge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This challenge invites students in grades 6-12 to submit an original one-panel editorial cartoon about any issue that matters to them. (All submissions are published on \u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/\">KQED’s Youth Media Challenge Showcase\u003c/a>, and I’ll try to feature as many as I can throughout the school year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is so much talent here it would be a shame to have to pick just one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mark-fiore-drawn-to-the-bay\">a long-time cartoonist\u003c/a> who remembers my earliest cartoons, I can see potential magic — that may not be immediately apparent to some — in many of these works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here (in no particular order of preference) are some of the standouts among the roughly 250 submissions we've received from students living everywhere from here in the Bay Area to Billings, Montana, and Jefferson, Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/teachers/political-cartooning\">The Youth Media Challenge is accepting submissions until June 2022\u003c/a>, so you can still send in your cartoons if you haven't already done so.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Student debt\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aidan N.\u003c/strong> does a great job of encapsulating the massive problem of student debt, and I know exactly what the cartoon is trying to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/01student_debt_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/01student_debt_fin.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon showing a student with a ball and chain labeled \"student debt\" as they are reaching for a house and the American Dream.' width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/01student_debt_fin.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/01student_debt_fin-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/01student_debt_fin-160x120.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing I noticed about \u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjE2NTkwMTVkNzg0MjIxZTkzOGZmZTk4\">Aidan's cartoon\u003c/a> that takes me back to some of my earlier cartoons: the visual metaphor of the ball and chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple submissions we received featured a ball and chain, and that's OK — but try thinking outside the box and push yourself to make your cartoon even more unique. If you want your cartoons to stand out, it's important that they be wholly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is there another way to represent a challenging or difficult situation? Remember, you can draw \u003cem>anything\u003c/em> — maybe next time it could be an alligator latched onto a leg or a bear trap!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rosie the Riveter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Khushi C.\u003c/strong> tapped into the classic Rosie the Riveter poster for \u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjBhZmYwOTBjMmE1MmQ1YmM5NWY3YTg2\">this pro-vaccination cartoon\u003c/a>, one that could also easily be made into a poster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896102\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon showing a masked woman in the \"Rosie the Riveter\" pose as she gets her vaccine shot. Atop the cartoon is lettering that reads, \"you should do it too.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/04youshoulddoit_fin-1536x1536.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love how the syringe doesn't look intimidating or scary — an illustration challenge that can be difficult to pull off!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing to keep in mind \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/Article/1791664/rosie-the-riveter-inspired-women-to-serve-in-world-war-ii/\">when using historical images as a basis for a cartoon\u003c/a>: Remember there is oftentimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889493/east-bay-middle-school-renamed-for-pioneering-park-ranger-betty-reid-soskin-on-her-100th-birthday\">more to the story of the image than what most history books imparted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some experts, like Betty Reid Soskin, a 100-year-old park ranger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889493/east-bay-middle-school-renamed-for-pioneering-park-ranger-betty-reid-soskin-on-her-100th-birthday\">who still leads tours\u003c/a> at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, \"\u003ca href=\"https://theriveter.co/voice/betty-reid-siskin-original-rosie-the-riveter/\">the story of Rosie the Riveter is a white woman’s story\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is another reason I like how Khushi has changed up the imagery.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The arc of oppression in America\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I know I said this roundup isn't about awards, but \u003cstrong>John M.\u003c/strong> gets my vote for \"Most Ambitious Single-Panel Cartoon About the Arc of Oppression in America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjA4YzY3MjBkMGVkZGM0NWI1NmI4OTAx\">He's trying to say a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> in this cartoon\u003c/a> and actually pulls it off!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might take a while for the reader to absorb it all, but it works, right down to the disturbing and salient portrayal of the Native Americans at the bottom rung of the cartoon's visual hierarchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/03hierarchyofoppression_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/03hierarchyofoppression_fin.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon titled \"The Hierarchy of Oppression\" showing a white Trump supporter sitting atop minorities in various states of oppression. At the bottom of the pyramid are dead Native Americans.' width=\"993\" height=\"1324\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/03hierarchyofoppression_fin.png 993w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/03hierarchyofoppression_fin-800x1067.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/03hierarchyofoppression_fin-160x213.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Social media and mental health\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjA5MGNiNmVkNjU1N2I3MDRmYzBlY2Rm\">\u003cstrong>Jaidene M.\u003c/strong> created one of my absolute favorite cartoons\u003c/a> among all the submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The simplicity and beauty of this drawing — particularly the wilting flower — is incredibly moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon showing a sun labeled \"positivity\" that is obscured by a cloud labeled \"hate\" that rains down \"social media\" on a wilting flower labeled \"mental health.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin-800x1067.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin-1020x1360.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin-160x213.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin-1152x1536.png 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/05socialmedia_fin-1536x2048.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the challenges a cartoonist always faces is how to clearly convey what the different elements in an illustration represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labeling is one of the simplest ways to do this, but is there another way to \u003cem>show\u003c/em> rather than \u003cem>tell\u003c/em> what this cartoon is about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe the clouds can \u003cem>look\u003c/em> hateful and mean rather than being labeled \"hate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Conspiracy storm\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjA5NTY3ODYyODZmMWUwMWRiZjFjMzRm\">\u003cstrong>Jasper S.\u003c/strong> has drawn one of the most traditional \"political cartoons\"\u003c/a> among this collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/02conspiracystorm_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/02conspiracystorm_fin.png\" alt=\"A "Youth Media Challenge" cartoon titled "The Conspiracy Storm" that shows a tornado heading for the White House labeled "Democracy." The tornado includes conspiracy terms like "fake news," "government control" and "it's a cover."\" width=\"799\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/02conspiracystorm_fin.png 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/02conspiracystorm_fin-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tornado definitely looks like trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, you can let your labels and lettering show emotion and movement, too. If I were letters in that storm, I might be a little skewed or curved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.ralphsteadman.com/\">Ralph Steadman, a master illustrator\u003c/a> who pours so much emotion into his drawings and lettering.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>High gas prices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjBhZDBiNWY0NTk4OGI0MGFmZjgwYWQ1\">\u003cstrong>Justin C.\u003c/strong> goes after President Biden for high gas prices\u003c/a>, and though I may not agree with the message, I really like how he uses the gambling metaphor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon that is mostly text with a caricature of Joe Biden in the center. The top reads \"King Gasoline\" and below says \"Biden Bucks\" and \"$6 per gallon.\" The bottom reads \"lose jobs.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline-800x1067.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline-1020x1360.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline-160x213.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline-1152x1536.png 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/06kinggasoline-1536x2048.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a side note, the fact that we can see a kitchen counter behind Justin's drawing takes me back to my earliest cartoons, which I drew on the lid of a clothes hamper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, if you love drawing cartoons, you don't need any fancy equipment or a drafting table!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Social media problems\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/submission/NjE3NmUwZjZkYTEyN2Y3NzBkMDk1ZWVj\">\u003cstrong>Madison K.\u003c/strong> tackles some very difficult issues in this cartoon about social media\u003c/a>, and is on the right track by making it a multipanel illustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896105\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin.png\" alt='A \"Youth Media Challenge\" cartoon showing a multi-panel strip that shows kids \"spread rumors,\" \"depression,\" \"bullying\" and \"not getting enough sleep.\" A main caption at the bottom reads, \"social media problems.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin-1020x765.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/07socialmediadepression_fin-1536x1152.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes a cartoon can be much more effective if you lead the audience through your thought process and what you're trying to say, which can sometimes be better accomplished through a comic book-style format.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Thank you!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Thanks so much to all of you who have submitted cartoons and participated in this challenge. We'll feature more here in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/teachers/political-cartooning\">Send along your cartoons\u003c/a>, and most importantly, keep cartooning!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11896078/student-cartoons-from-kqeds-youth-media-challenge","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_20013","news_20949","news_30238","news_3457","news_30237"],"featImg":"news_11899128","label":"news_18515"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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