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Low pay drives
WCCUSD disaster
West Contra Costa Unified College District is in disaster. WCCUSD has 130 instructing openings. At Kennedy Excessive College, college students are doing math and science lessons with solely their Chromebooks.
Superintendent Kenneth Hurst and the WCCUSD College Board should entice extra academics to our district by utilizing the multimillions of {dollars} in unprecedented schooling federal and state funding, for elevating trainer pay like college districts round us. We’re dropping academics to surrounding districts.
WCCUSD has the cash. The state common of cash spent on wage is 37% of the funds, however WCCUSD solely spends 29%, though the No. 1 variable in scholar achievement is trainer high quality.
Academics will strike. We are going to strike to get the college board and superintendent to be higher stewards for our youngsters and lift pay to wages similar to our surrounding districts. Please contact all WCCUSD College Board members, and Superintendent Hurst to assist.
Sarah Creeley
Hercules
Federal motion wanted
after current storms
I admire that President Biden has ordered expanded federal assist to the California counties hardest hit by the current atmospheric river storms (“Biden surveys storm harm, vows to assist,” Web page A1, Jan. 20). The cash will assist residents within the area get again on their ft. To be able to assist at a deeper stage, President Biden wants to handle the basis reason for local weather change.
I name on President Biden to comply with by way of on his promise of fifty% decrease emissions by 2030. He can do it by enacting a federal carbon payment. A value on carbon dioxide from fossil fuels that rises yearly will ship a powerful sign to all sectors of the financial system to modify to vitality sources and manufacturing processes that received’t add to the local weather disaster. And if all of the charges collected are returned to the general public, we are able to compound the impact by making climate-smart decisions in our non-public lives as properly.
Sandra Liu
Berkeley
Biogas only one strategy to
make local weather distinction
Re. “Biogas: Amenities flip methane to into energy,” Web page B1, Dec. 5:
I’m heartened to learn in regards to the efforts of wastewater remedy vegetation to show methane into biogas. That stated, an oz. of prevention is value a pound of remedy, and I’d like to attract consideration to EPA’s proposed rule to cut back methane air pollution.
This rule units tips for slicing methane emissions in new and present oil and gasoline wells and is estimated to cut back emissions to 74% beneath baseline by 2030. EPA is requesting public feedback on this rule earlier than making its determination.
I’d wish to encourage readers to examine this rule and to put in writing to the EPA (remark interval closes Feb. 13).
All of us in California just lately skilled catastrophic flooding, with 19 lives claimed, following years of wildfires. The results of local weather change will turn out to be more and more pronounced, and we are able to do our components to fight it — by bringing our collective voices to affect policy-making.
Nadia Anggraini
Berkeley
Observe what op-ed
preaches: kindness
What a superbly uplifting commentary (“By no means underestimate your skill to affect lives of others,” Web page A6, Dec. 20) penned by San Mateo County’s new sheriff, Christina Corpus.
When the information is filled with hate crimes and the mistreatment of our fellow people, it was refreshing to learn her reminder that acts of kindness and respect can construct up each other for the nice of self and group. She is so proper in stating that we have now the ability to “alter somebody’s life by way of caring and compassion,” and that we should always “by no means surrender on folks.”
There’s a lot brokenness in our world. Let’s comply with her instance. San Mateo County is lucky and blessed to have a sheriff in Christina Corpus.
Jody Wallem
Pleasanton
There’s no substitute
for a father’s love
U.S. youngsters are the almost definitely to have a single guardian on the planet; america is tied for second relating to despair charges.
