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The Learning Curve: Bilingual Programs Can Outperform English-Only Classrooms
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View ArticleLincoln High’s Revolving Door Claims Another Leader
The revolving door of leadership at Lincoln High continues to spin. At a school board meeting last week, Superintendent Cindy Marten announced that John Ross, who was appointed to lead Lincoln in 2014,...
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A Guide to the Latest Charter School Showdown
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The Learning Curve: Finding Common Ground on Common Core
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View ArticleDistrict Banking on $20M Charter School Building Paying Off in the Long Run
This week, the San Diego Unified school board approved $20 million in bond money so Innovations Academy, a charter school in Scripps Ranch, can build a new school. You could say that San Diego Unified...
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It Is Ridiculously Hard to Qualify – and Stay Qualified – for Free Preschool
One local preschool provider remembers the time he had to tell a mother her child could no longer attend his publicly funded preschool because a 10-cent-an-hour raise she received suddenly pushed her...
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What Common Core Means for English-Learners
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Another Principal Problem, Another ‘Special Assignment’ at San Diego Unified
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View ArticleSchool Bond Money for Charters Is Already Gone
In 2012, when voters approved a $2.8 billion construction bond, charter schools in San Diego Unified rejoiced – they’d finally have their own pot of money from which to draw if they wanted to build new...
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Preschool for All … Who Can Afford it
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Student to High School: Let’s Talk About Sex. Please?
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View ArticleSan Diego Unified Closes Some Full-Day Preschools Amid Preschool for All Push
Janneth Rosales thought she had her child ready for the school year. Leading up to opening day, Rosales had her son enrolled in preschool at a child development center near her home in Normal Heights –...
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The Learning Curve: A Group Effort on Bilingual Ed
Bilingual students may be San Diego’s greatest natural resource. More than one in five students in San Diego County speaks another language at home. This group, 80 percent of them native Spanish...
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The Learning Curve: Deciphering the Bilingual Ed Ballot Measure
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A Quick and Easy Guide to School Choice in San Diego
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Almost 10 Years Since Massive Rebuild, Lincoln High Is Crippled by Chaos,...
In the nearly 10 years since Lincoln High underwent a $129 million rebuild, instability and insecurity on campus has become the norm. The school has been restructured and rebranded multiple times, with...
View ArticleWhat Lincoln High Needs in a New Leader
Despite the many challenges facing Lincoln High School – yet another leadership change, problems with its Middle College program and more – school officials have never sounded so upbeat about the...
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The Learning Curve: The Annual Teacher Churn Is Going Strong
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‘California Needs to Join the Rest of the World’
Bilingual education is on the cusp of a comeback in California. In 1998, voters passed a state law that mandated students in California be taught “overwhelmingly in English.” Proposition 227, as the...
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San Diego Unified’s Highly Touted Grad Rate Excluded Thousands of Students
Last May, San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten announced that 92 percent of the class of 2016 was on track to graduate. Trustees and supporters hailed it as a colossal success for Marten’s...
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