Story by Linsay Rousseau Burnett
Fremont, considered the “Gateway to Silicon Valley,” may be an expensive suburb, but it is also home to a hidden homeless population.
The cost of rental properties in Fremont is higher than San Francisco; the city also has a larger number of homeless children than the national average. And the recent economic downturn has caught these homeless in a painful squeeze.

Adelaide Chen
Franklin Elementary is one of the few schools in Oakland where Asians – many born outside the United States – make up the largest racial group. Combined with the Latinos, the district considers half the school’s students as English Language Learners.

By Casey Miner  The UC Berkeley tree-sitters may have gained national notoriety for throwing feces at arborists and police, but university groundskeepers say that’s nothing new – they clean human waste from the university grounds every day.
“I would say it’s almost 20 percent of our work,” says supervisor Gary Imazumi.

Reporter Angela Kilduff talks to UC Berkeley students on Team Husky two days before they compete in the Red Bull Soap Box Race.
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