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Santa Cruz VOTERLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTYSeptember 2019In this IssueMeet the Judge ---------------------1Voter Service Report---------------2Membership Report----------------2President’s Message----------------2November Program Meeting------2Cabrillo College Update ----------3CalendarTuesday, September 10, 201910 a.m.–noonLWVSCC Board MeetingSanta Cruz County Bank75 River StreetSanta Cruz, CASaturday, September 21, 201910 a.m.–noonMeet Judge Rebecca ConnollyCapitola City HallCouncil Chambers420 Capitola AvenueCapitola, CA 95010Free and open to the publicTuesday, October 8, 201910 a.m.–noonLWVSCC Board MeetingSanta Cruz County Bank75 River StreetSanta Cruz, CASaturday, November 2, 201910 a.m.–noonState of our SchoolsCounty Superintendent of SchoolsFaris SabbahCapitola City HallCommunity Room420 Capitola AvenueCapitola, CA 95010Free and open to the publicIn August, LWVUS launched the 100thAnniversary She is Me social mediacampaign with the tagline “Progressis in our DNA.” Designed forFacebook, Twitter, and Instagram,this campaign features biographiesand photos and offers opportunitiesfor viewers to gain more information,to join, and to donate.Volume 54, Number 02MEET THE JUDGEFeaturingThe Honorable Rebecca ConnollySuperior Court JudgeImproving Outcomes for Youth and FamiliesSaturdaySeptember 21, 201910 a.m.–noonCapitola City HallCouncil Chambers420 Capitola AvenueCapitola, CA 95010Free and open to the publicSuperior Court Judge Rebecca Connolly, an elected countyofficial, will talk about why she became a lawyer, how she became ajudge, her experiences on the bench, and her role as presiding judgeof juvenile court in the County from 2017-2019 on Saturday,September 21, 10 a.m. to noon in Capitola.This event will offer an opportunity to meet Judge Connolly andhear about her important work implementing the Continuum of CareReform, which strives to reduce group home placements for fosteryouth and provide alternatives to detention for youth involved in thecriminal justice system with the goal of improving outcomes throughengaging youth and families.Connolly received a Juris Doctor degree from the University ofCalifornia Davis School of Law in 1989, and began her legal careeras a law clerk at the US District Court for the Central District ofCalifornia. She then clerked for the Chief US Magistrate Judge forthe US district Court in northern California. As a staff attorney forCalifornia Rural Legal Assistance, she represented impoverishedfieldworkers. She has also been a partner in a local law firm and hasserved as an assistant district attorney for the county. She was electedto the bench in 2010.This free event is open to the public and will take place at theCapitola City Hall Council Chambers, 420 Capitola Avenue,Capitola, CA 95010 (metered parking is available in city hall parkinglot next door). Light refreshments will be served.
Voter Service ReportVolunteers wanted!President’s MessageNational Voter Registration Day isa national holiday celebrating ourdemocracy, and has been growing inpopularity ever since its inception in2012. Held on Tuesday, September 24,2019, the focus will again be on makingsure everyone has the opportunity tovote. On that day, volunteers from theLeague and other organizations will beregistering voters at many locationsthroughout Santa Cruz County. Wecoordinate our efforts with the countyclerk's office, making sure that all areasof the county are covered. If you areable to volunteer your time onTuesday, September 24, please contactSue Becker(suebecker108@sbcglobal.net) orDottie Fry (fryfrydl@comcast.net). Wewill contact you to set up a time framethat suits your schedule.I look forward to getting to knowour members better and doing moreoutreach in our community during thisvery special year as we celebrate thecentennial of the League of WomenVoters. As you know, the League ofWomen Voters was founded bysuffragists who fought for andachieved voting rights for women. Forthe past 100 years, the League hasbeen highly effective in providingvaluable information for voters andinfluencing public policy.One of the areas of great concern for the League ofWomen Voters of California is criminal justice reform. Ourcurrent position on criminal justice was adopted byconcurrence with unanimous support from the delegates at thestate convention in June. On Saturday September 21, ourlocal program, featuring Judge Rebecca Connolly, will give usa chance to meet informally, exchange ideas, and learn moreabout criminal justice in Santa Cruz County. I encourage allour members to come and join us at this year’s openingprogram.— Sue Becker, Voter Service Chair—Barbara Lewis, President LWVSCCMeeting the Public Education ChallengeMembership ReportDid you renew? Dues are just 65for an individual membership. Youhave until September 30 to send yourmembership renewal to:LWV Membership RenewalPO Box 1745Capitola, CA 95010Or, submit your payment byPayPal at lwvscc.org.At the League’s November meeting, newly-electedCounty Superintendent of Schools Faris Sabbah will discussthe status of public education in Santa Cruz County, includingthe impact of charter schools and his plans to confront themany challenges facing our education system. Runningunopposed, Sabbah was elected in June, 2018 and sworn in inJanuary, 2019; he replaced retired superintendent MichaelWatkins.The event will take place in Capitola on Saturday,November 2 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Capitola City HallCommunity Room, 420 Capitola Avenue (metered parking isavailable in the city lots next door). For more information,call Stephanie Harlan at 475-7184 or emailleague@lwvscc.org.—Lydia Nogales ParkerMembership ChairSeptember 2019League of Women Voters of Santa Cruz County, CaliforniaPage 2
Cabrillo College:Changes and ChallengesAt the LWVSCC annual meeting in June,Cabrillo College president Matthew Wetsteinspoke about his first year-and-a-half in charge.Founded in 1959, Cabrillo College, located inAptos, serves as the county’s public communitycollege offering associate degrees and certificates inmore than seventy fields of study.Wetstein gave an overview of the student body.Cabrillo College serves about 17 thousand studentsa year, with about ten thousand full-time students;about 45 percent of Cabrillo’s students areHispanic. The largest feeder schools are fromWatsonville, Harbor High, and Aptos High; about70 percent of their graduating students enroll atCabrillo. Students from Scotts Valley and the SanLorenzo Valley, which are further away, send 45to 55 percent of their students to Cabrillo. “Mostpeople don't realize how much of the studentpopulation that's coming out of high school isactually enrolling at Cabrillo first before they go onfor a transfer degree at a four-year university, sowe're quite proud of that data,” Wetstein said.Another point of pride for Wetstein is thatCabrillo students who transfer to the CaliforniaState University and the University of Californiasystem outperform students who go directly to theuniversities in terms of grade point average.Wetstein noted the “off-the-charts” communitysupport; last year the Cabrillo Foundation gavefour million dollars in contributions. Half went tosupport the school’s operations and for studentscholarships. The other half goes to supportprograms that faculty apply for to purchaseequipment.In 2019, Cabrillo had the largest graduatingclass ever in the history of the college by 25percent, with 1476 students receiving associate’sdegrees. They also had a record number of transferstudents accepted into University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz, where the largest admitted class cameout of Cabrillo.Other notable accomplishments includeopening a makerspace on campus with 3D printingtechnology for art and engineering. Westein calledattention to a student who worked with a localSeptember 2019company to develop a process that uses discardedshrimp shells to make food packaging. Therobotics engineering team made it to the nationalquarterfinals and lost on a tie-breaker in the NASA“Swarmathon”. The Women’s beach volleyballteam became the first northern California team towin the state championship. The “Ethics Bowl”team beat Stanford University to finish seventhoverall in the national championship of theIntercollegiate Ethics Bowl.Cabrillo President Matt Wetstein addressesLWVSCC at annual meeting.This spring Cabrillo launched an ag-techprogram designed to train students for careers inagriculture around the tech sector; students train toknow how to operate software increasingly beingused in the agricultural sector. Using funds from afederal grant, they built a new greenhouse for theag-tech program for their sustainable agriculturedegree program. Students finishing this programcan go right into the workforce or transfer to afour-year school.League of Women Voters of Santa Cruz County, CaliforniaPage 3
A key new initiative has introduced a change inhow students are assessed for placement into mathand English classes. Previously, placementdepended solely on how they did on assessmenttests, and often students would not do well on testsand were required to take remedial courses beforebeing able to take college-level courses. Now usinga “multiple methods” approach to placement, theycan also look at the student’s high school grades inthose courses; students entering Cabrillo can takecollege-level courses if they do well with eithermethod. With this new method, they are admitting75 percent of students directly into college-levelEnglish, up from 25 percent. They almost doubledthe number of students who completed collegelevel English in one semester. In math, the numberof students completing the courses went up, butthe pass rate went down, partly, says Wetstein,due to not having enough math professionaldevelopment going in, however they expect to getbetter at this going forward.school class. The California State Universitieswere supposed to admit the top thirty percent andthe University of California schools the top 10percent.Other changes at Cabrillo include a streamlinedgraduation process and an expansion of dualenrollment classes for high school students.The Cabrillo strategic plan for the next fewyears looks at the metrics for the college’s success:completion and transfer to four-year institutions;preparation for the labor market for good jobs thatcan sustain a family; offering relevant courses; andmaking sure students have equitable access tocourses and are equitably graduating. To get betterat those metrics, Cabrillo is working to implementpolicies and practices to improve transfer andcompletion; offer good professional developmentfor staff and faculty; communicate and engagewith the community; and acquire the technical andphysical resources for students. In implementingthis on a day-to-day basis, Wetstein will ask staffand faculty to ask forresources to fit this matrix.The message from the topis: “If it's not fitting thismatrix, it's not going to getfunded.”One of the challengesahead for Cabrillo lies inthe major reform offunding for communitycolleges passed by theCalifornia legislature lastyear. The old systemassigned funds based onPresident Wetstein draws smiles from members at the meeting.how many students wereenrolled. The new modelThe second initiative highlighted by Wetstein isradically alters that formula; now only 70 percentthat, for all full-time students coming to Cabrilloof Cabrillo’s funding is based on the number offrom high school who maintain a 2.0 grade pointfull-time students enrolled. Ten percent of itsaverage, tuition is free for the first full year, andfunding is tied to how well they do on completionthat will soon be extended to a second year. Heand transfer. Twenty percent is based on metricsgives credit to the governor and the Californiaassociated with how many poor students Cabrillolegislature for “being very forward-thinking inserves. Because of its demographics, Cabrillo, likefreeing up the dollars during this economic growthmany other coastal community colleges, enrolls acycle to say, this is worth funding.” Wetstein sayshigher percentage of students over the age of fifty.we are moving back to the old model of theThose students, typically retirees, are notCalifornia education master plan from the 1960s,intentionally looking to finish a degree or transferwhere community college was always designed toto a four-year school; they want to take two orbe free for 100 percent of every graduating highSeptember 2019League of Women Voters of Santa Cruz County, CaliforniaPage 4
Membership in the League of Women Votersis open to men and women of voting agewho are U.S. citizens. Others are welcome tojoin the League as associate members.Send your check payable to League ofWomen Voters of Santa Cruz County orLWVSCC with this form to LWVSCC, Box1745, Capitola, CA 95010-1745. 65.00 Individual annual membership 100.00 Two members in a household 10.00 Student membershipContribution Checks made out to LWVSCC are not taxdeductible.To make a tax-deductible donation, write aseparate check to LWVC Education Fund.NameAddressCity State ZIPTelephone:EmailLeague of Women Votersof Santa Cruz CountyPO Box 1745, Capitola, CA 95010(831) 325-4140Editor: Pam NewburyPresident: Barbara LewisMembership: Lydia Nogales Parkerleague@lwvscc.org lwvscc.orgThe League of Women Voters, a nonpartisanpolitical organization, encourages informedand active participation in government, worksto increase understanding of major publicpolicy issues, and influences public policythrough education and advocacy.To watch a video of Wetstein'spresentation online, visit ourwebsite at lwvscc.org.three courses for life or cultural enrichment. So, the fundingformula harms districts where there are large concentrationsof retirees. Some districts got forty and thirty percent increasesin their first year under the new formula, while other colleges,such as Cabrillo, are only getting small cost-of-livingadjustments.Because of the serious disparities in funding triggered bythis system, it’s under debate in the California legislature.They are considering capping the amount that a district cangrow in any one year under the new formula at 10 percent,which would circulate some of the funding to other colleges.The other challenge students face is dealing with the cost ofliving: a recent survey about housing concerns showed that 22percent of Cabrillo students said they had been homeless atone point in the last 12 months, and 50 percent said they hadexperienced some form of food insecurity. Pell grants forcommunity colleges do not cover costs beyond tuition as theyare for those attending a four-year school.To those who question why we should subsidize students withtaxpayer money, Wetstein responds that they are correct, andasks them to consider that, “every dollar that you're talkingabout is our dollars that are spent in our community. They'respent at our college, they're spent at your restaurants or locallyat our gas stations, at our grocery stores. Those dollarscirculate through our economy and, let's be frank, those aredollars that are helping the most economically marginal folksin our society right now. Those are good dollars spent, in mymind.”Looking forward, Cabrillo is considering floating a newbond measure for 270 million dollars. One project funded bythe bond would move STEM (science, technology,engineering and math) education out of the 1960s and build anew science center to provide twenty-first century classrooms,labs, materials, and equipment so that students can prepare fortwenty-first century STEM careers. Another would convertthe library to include more collaborative learning spaceswhere groups of students can work on project-based learning.A third project would create a consolidated student servicesbuilding that would be a one-stop-shop for finding counseling,advising help, and financial aid. The bond would also includea public safety training center (possibly off-campus), amodernized culinary arts space, and a few other renovationprojects. Wetstein wants Cabrillo students to experience thebest quality equipment so they can be prepared for today’sworkforce: “We’ve got to do some explaining for it, and we’regoing to need support for it.”—Pam Newbury, VOTER EditorSeptember 2019League of Women Voters of Santa Cruz County, CaliforniaPage 5
Founded in 1959, Cabrillo College, located in Aptos, serves as the county’s public community college offering associate degrees and certificates in more than seventy fields of study. Wetstein gave an overview of the student body. Cabrillo College serves about 17 thousand stu
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