tonight schools announce plans to streopen with going digital. our congresswoman joins us on what schools need to mauc edion work for all students this fall. plus bait area foodie superstar alice waters joins us to discuss racial injustice in the business industry and how the coronavirus is shaping her business and gardens. could the coronavirus be making the dating experience better? the experts from the podcast datable tell us about dating in the bay area during the pandemic . welcome to kqed newsroom. it is hard to believe but we are just a few weeks away from n schools reg for the fall semester. today gov. gavin newsom announced all

children in third grade and up must wear a mask to ishool. itthe first order of its kind in the nation. also schools are only permitted to physically eiopen if county has been off the watch list for at least two weeks. this week the two largest ic school dis in the state, los angeles and san diego, announced they would only provide online education when they reopened. in the bay area school districts are mixed to. several will open for distance learning only. others are planning for some in person education and if you have not decided. our first guest today the congresswoman from santa clara who wrote opinion article this week calling for more government funding for education. she joins us from washington dc. thank you for being on. >> you have kids and i have kids, this is a situatioop impacting whether they have children or not because

there are parents who are caregivers that will need to worry about how they take tre ir children if they are not physically at the school and many are fearing healthif they do go to school. this is a difficult situation for everyone in our country and definitely in our state as e we going through this. we have news today from gov. gavin newsom about how we will be handling the situation here in california. deral money to meet this need, where exactly do you see that money goin >> first of all any money for ppe, they need moneto have facilities adjusted to be safe if they are going to open. most important a lot of teachers are going to have to be remote and a lot learning will have to be remote. that is something that requires investment. it requires investment in alaining, in the matethat people may need, so the federal government has to provide this funding. >> we are literally weeks out from school opening, are you ol suggesting, scneed to reopen and go ahead and move

forward the best you can and were the federal government will provide this funding hopefully in the future? >> there are two different issues, one is should they mi physically reopen in you know school should physically reopen unless it is absolutely safe, for the students and safe for the teachers anfamilies. we ought to cautious erefore before rushing open schools because i don't want to put anyone's health at risk. the second issue is schools opening to provide promote learning which by law they have to do. i wish we hagotten the money to schools earlier but we have not so the to get that money as part of this next stimulus and get it as soon, as possib schools will probably have to start without it. after they get those resources they can always supplement arline learning they doing. >> and additionally there are about 15% of all families with school-aged children that don't have high-speed internet and

this disproportionately impacts minority families in the community. the state superintendent of schools asked urgently is week for technology donations oo to s. how are you leveraging the wealth of e knowleof resources of your district and santa clara to have citizens help witthis response? >> it is a big challenge. we need a national solution. we need high-speed internet, need broadband and we have a bill on that. we have seen companies like zoom that have stepped up and did a partnership recently. we need more companies to step up to provide laptops tosc ols, to provide technology to schools. the biggest challenge is the ck f asgh-speed internet you pointed out. that is not something technology companies can solve. >> it was not easy making the switch to digital learning partway through the olscyear in march when that happened.

it doesn't look to be an easy start this year. at are you expecting school dist cts, parents, and students to h >> i understand how difficult as it ia father. it's hard to get kids to focus, you are concerned about mereen is yo kid on a screen the whole ti? it is not ideal. i don't think anyone will y remote learning is ideal. i think what we have to do is pick around what our age- ecific tools, how long that learng should be? how can we get people to do projects awafrom being on a laptop or phone? what are the most effective techniquesfor learning? we have technology and it is a challenge also for working families where people don't have the e same childcand may have to have much more flexible schedules. this is why i said we have to provide $2000 per month to every american while this

crisis is going on. we have to recognize people aren't being able to goback to work in their full schedules. what we should do is not rush to reopen. >> in this year you and two other people of cor are going to be the cochairs for the n california delegat the democratic national convention. this is sptypically a that goes to the governor. what are you planning to do with the opportunity? >> i am atreally honored so many progressives around the state mobilized and wanted r progressive leadership e delegation. i will be pushing to have medicare for all and if we don't understand now that you yo shouldn't lose healthcare when you lose your job i don't millions of people of lost their jobs and it is uncertain of constle there losing thei healthcare. we need to extend medicare to cover everyone. i will be pushing for $15

minimum wad collective bargaining rights. i will be pushing to make sure we arencreasing the military budget and we are investing in clean tech jobs instead. delegation in the country and we ought to be pushing for both progressive agendas. >> your star ses be onthe rise. you're the national cochair of bernie sders campaign and now you will be co-leing this delegation and it has been seen as a platform for future presidential candidate. what do you think? would you consider running for president in the future? now i have ung kids and i am just starting out in my second term in congress. i will tell you spending more timekiwith my and family we have been fortunate and i have really just i've been fortunate personally that my family is in good health. my parents are in good health and my wife's parents are in good health and i have been so empathetic. i have hearstories of people i know that lost their parents

to coronavirus. people have lost their es busine, this is a time really and most people in politics feel this way, it is is what we are dealing with and when you remember congress and you are getting hundreds ofe le losing businesses and losing a loved one, chasing unemployment, you really feel inadequate. you feel like you can't do enough to hea people in time of need. it has been a very difficult time to serve. i have been impressed with the resilience of r community. >> if you were president right now how would you balance the need to limit the spread of coronavirus infections with the need to reopen the economy before it stagnates much further? >> the first thing i would advise the president to do is wear a mask. he should have been wearing a mask from day one. that wouve really mitigated the issue allowing businesses to reopen.

i was the first member of congress to call for a national and i called for that march 24. imagine if we had done that we had many members of congress signed a letter lethat said s shelter in place and make sure we are increasing in the meantime with supplies by thident didn't take those prntact tracing. actions in march. he didn't wear a mask in march so now ng are sethis is unfortately to the point where we are having difficult decisions with our schools. it is still salvageable. at i wish the president every day would tell everyone to wear a mask. i wish he wod say close the bars, close indoor places. california opened watoo early. what was the need to be reopening some of the bars in some of those areas? what we need to do is have common sense. ss open central busi and wear mask and listen to the scientists. >> thank you so much. >>this week san francisco's se

beloved lorestaurant continuous operation. 83 years the california restaurant association estimates a third of all restaurants shuttered th pandemic will likely never reopen. some people are learning for the first time how to plant their own gardens and regularly staurants have pivoted to ral take out foods and produce joining me now byskype is e founder alice waters. al is sucha pleasure. >> thank you so much. >> you were an early advocate of the local sustainable blue foods movement which has ma major strides over the past decades. there is now an organic garden in the white ho e and an explosion of farmers markets and general recognition of the value of your principles. argue content as you sueythe landscape of your legacy? extraordinary what has happened in the past 50 years.

we are in a place where are recognizing that it is so important where our food comes from. o are taking care of the land and thinking about the future. this is whatis movement is all about. >> you are also responsible for planting the edible schoolyard and that is a program in berkeley but it also has affiliates throughout the world. how has the virus impacted these schoolyard programs? are they just leon their own? >> we are very lucky we have a big garden that is classroom for the students to learn all of their academic subjects and it is very healthy garden so we are able to harvest all of those fruits and vegetables and give them to families connected

to the schools who really need it at this moment time. >> how has covid-19 impacted the food supply chain in america? >> it has impacted it very seriously. because these farmers depend on markets, they need to be t them selling to the little organic stores and they are endangered. even though we have seen the other side itof of the industrial food system at how shocking it isthat they are not taking care of their employees and that they are wasting food, it is something

that hopefully will open our minds. >> youare a fairly optimistic person, are you seeing a silver lining when it comes to cothe navirus in terms of how people relate to food? >> the virus is really waking us up. waking us upto nature and to where food comes from. a silining because we have be not paid attention. maybe this is really for climate change but we need to focus onthe local organic food system, and we have an opportunity to support those people taking care of the la. >> you started your restaurant in 1971 in a muuous era

with protesting against the vietnam war and women's rights, does this time period feel famili to you in anway? >> it feels very familiar to me. i was at berkeley in the 60s. i started in 1964 so i was there at the beginning of the free speech movement. whme it did for is it empowered me and i think that's why i felt so able to start shea pennies because i felt like if i had a passion for something and i did it right the people would come. >> it seems like you are seriously looking at questions of rial injustice. just a month ago posted an instagram message about the lack of diversity in your in kitchen whicuded the following statement, this moment has required us to carefully reflect on the ways we as a restaurant have been complacent in systemic

oppression and on how we can better support our community. i am curious, what hard truths have you come to of reflection? w have you and ur restaurant been complacent in oppression and how are you changing? >> one thing we really wanted to do was understand who was growing our foodand who are we supporting and how we could support people ofcolor. how we could seek people out. it that was very important for us tdo this. i have many friends in the farming around the world but i took a good look at the grou of people we get fruit from,

and that was one big wake-up call for me. >> and are there enough black owned or nority owned food start acquiring the pryou n need? >> we are just beginning to plan at out. i have called the people around the country to see who they know, who needs help, we are really thinking there needs to be some ve big buyer ke the ole university of california that could activate young people going into farming ol around the state. if we work at the university level that we wanted to pport small farmers, in all fields and of all backgrounds, it

would be incredible. we coul be onfire with that kind of equality. i am very hopeful something like that could happen because i am starting an institute for edib education at the university of california at davis. that will be something that is at the top of our agenda. >> i would like toask yo briefly before we go, is there a comfort food you find yourself craving right now? >> of course there are things like sugar and bread, but i love fruit just ripe and we are just getting thatfruit now. this is the first speech peach

and when i taste it it reminds me of this moment in time at chez panisse. that is what comforts me. is that i feel connected to the reaurant and to the season and to nature and to the farmer. that gives me great comfort. >> alice waters thfounder of chez panisse, thank you so much for joining us . >> thank you so much. of finding love in the time of covid-19 preevent presents new challenges. while fewer people are meeting in person dating apps have including video chat. joining us usnow to dithe practicalities and pitfalls of dating during the pandemic are the host of the datable podcast. they are both joining us by skype in san francisco. thanks for joining us. datable is a one hour podcast you have beenhosting for ur

years. tell us what the dating scene is typically like in the bay area pre-pandem. >> it is tech epicenter and i think just doing online dating is in our dna here in the bay area. aside from that there is also is counterculture in san francisco where i think there lo is a of nontraditional relationships that pop up and they are widely accepted. lith holly and marie open relationships, unicorns, any other kind of configuration for a relationship exists here. >> just like startups i think people think they can hack their love lives that we have lened we can design the relationships we always wanted by taking the traditions that service and ditching the ones that don'tso you have tracked several changes in the past few tell us what you are singing. >> i think the biggest trend we are seeing which is wh

excited about is the hook up culture is dying. and if it'snot dyinit is dead. i find this interesting because i think pre-tran i called this everyone is the oprah of kissg. you stay out to make out. you haare just ing out kisses and everyone gets a kiss. now because of safety precautions everyone is being more mindful of who they show eir affections especial physical to. ve and nt is something we champion which is hashtag sober first kiss which ismindful without any intoxication and you are able to gauge more chemistry that way. >> are you even able to have that first kiss right now? a wh people experiencing as they try to date? you are not meeting strangers the way you did before. >> people are still g kissbut they ask all of the right questions. it is almost like a wellness check before you haveyour lips meet. >> and also as a result of this

i think people are just faster to define the relationship. pre-tran06 we were all playing chicken where we we half in half out. now there is this mentality similar to the startup world where we have ditched the smalltalk or date talk and wew are doing much deeper conversations about our values and social issues with things like black live matter. we are deciding faster if it is a match or not. >> dating apps have been assiwiing that. they have noticed this change and some have even offered badges or icons to indicate you are political or spiritual beliefs. >> absolutely. okcupid has a black live matter badge and you put that on your bio to show these are nonnegotiable's. if you are noon on board with this i don't want to meet you. i think it is really ironic fr becaus covid-19 technology was the thing that

singles were complaining about. they felt technology was really hindering their connectionbut now it is the very thing they are relying on again. everyone is on dating apps and r ng virtual dating and video dating. technology is in again. >> can you deta how online dating has been expanding? >> yes we have seen a lot of peop that were resisted to trying these apps for the first time, especially because it is real life as much as it was before. we have also noticed people are active in other ways that people have met each other that are not traditional dang apps t still digital. >> we have seen also that people are much more safe out their dating practices than from their social practices. we heard of someone going on a 16 mile hike in one week just so she could go on dates. photosof them at social posting

gatherings. i don't think it is e dating attributing, it is the social gatherings. >> what kind of precautions are people taking before they go a out on date and what questions are they asking? >> people are just a lot more direct. people are asking questions like how many people have you been seeing? have you been socially distancing? do you wear a mask or even have you beentested. i thina lot of times they stick with the video dating at first until thve built up that comfort in that rappor >> what does that look like? what is a socially distanced date? >> there is the basic level like hiking, picnic in the park, there is walking, but then you get to thnext leve of creativity. we have seen a lot of very interestindates where people go on miles long white rides and th are just getting active and going rollerblading.

they are doing lks around their neighborhood. i think virtual dating is where they really take it up a notch where we have seen really creative ways of doing virtual each other. top chefwith doin a cooking competition with each other or a virtual museum tour here everyone is imexing their inary muscles right now. >> on the other side of this young people and single people since the ndemic started have ig reportedr rates of loneliness. are you seeing threflected in the community? >> yes i think there is a difference about being alone and feeling lonely. i have been quarantined alone and at first it was scary but i feel like now it is empowering, especially as i am hearing more of these love stories as ndpeop relationships during this time. i think also we can't have nesia that datingwas perfect before and this is giving us an opportunity to redefinedathe ng culture we once complained about. >> in what ways is it being

redefined? your mentioning you are having more serious talking eay on and sober first ki. anything else? >> i think people are just way more mindful about what is it that they want. of dating me first. to ou we recently had an episode with a guest who found herself to be single right before shelter in place and she chose this time to date herself first. she did a lot of personal developmenand also just to figure out what is it that i want in sha relati. another one was called relationships, do i even want one? the point is activitid have stopt your personal development and emotional haven't paused. you can still progress inthose areas. >> some people are also worried they could be losing precious time here by putting dati on

hold if they are hoping to get married, have children, have you heard this and what do you i say? think in the beginning everyone was panicking. my goodness my precious time, but i k thnow a few months and we are singing the opposite. people are feeling more empowered and they are feeling more liberated. they are feeling like this is the time they needed to on hibernate and also recalibrate to figure out what is it that i looking for in my love life. >> thank you so much for to lemore and catch up on their episodes visit > datable. also want to celebrate with you two special moments of love in the time of covid-19 among our and productionteam . in march our makeup artist married her longtime partner and in may our stage manager married s longtime sweetheart in a special zoom ceremony

bringing togr family and friends. congratulations to you both. you can find more of our coverage at kqed.org . you can reach me on twitter, facebook or instagram. from all of us here at kqed thanks for watching.

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