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Sheriff’s Department: Yes, We Called Border Patrol on Undocumented Couple;...
As their son and immigration attorney tell the story, Carlos Nieblas-Ortiz and his wife Martha Valenzuela-Luna were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The couple had headed down to Mission...
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District Admits Pushing Struggling Students Toward Charters
This post has been updated. Students who began as part of San Diego Unified’s class of 2016 but who left district high schools and transferred to a charter school had a combined grade point average of...
View ArticleOn Rare Occasions, the Sheriff Has to Sue to Keep Problem Deputies off the Job
San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore occasionally has to sue to keep fired deputies from returning to the job. In some cases, even that doesn’t work. In June, Gore filed a lawsuit against the county’s...
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Border Patrol Says it Doesn’t Use Race as a Factor for Stops, But Won’t Say...
San Diego’s Border Patrol chief says his agents don’t use race or ethnicity as the basis for their immigration enforcement – but he also won’t say what his agents do look for to determine whether...
View ArticleBorder Report: Dreamers in Limbo
In recent months, young undocumented immigrants have received a series of ambiguous, contradictory messages from President Donald Trump. He said to rest easy, plan to leave the country because the...
View Article‘It’s a New Generation of Smugglers': Behind the Business of Illegal Border...
People attempting to illegally cross from Mexico into any state along the U.S. border don’t face great odds: They’re unsuccessful 55 to 85 percent the time, according to a report released last week by...
View ArticleQuick and Easy Guide to School Choice in San Diego Unified
Update: This post originally ran Oct. 6, 2016 and has been updated with current information. San Diego Unified School District’s choice program provides students with the opportunity to attend a school...
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Documents Reveal How San Diego Unified Urges Struggling Students to Find New...
Genesees Romero knew she was struggling at Patrick Henry High, even before the guidance counselor called her into the office. With nearly 2,400 students, the school was just too big, Romero said. She...
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Border Report: No One Wall to Solve it All
The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s plan to make America great again begins in San Diego – 13 miles east of the Pacific Ocean, to be exact. That’s where six companies from across the country...
View ArticleWhen Border Patrol Can Pull You Over
Patrolling the area closest to the U.S.-Mexico border may be what first comes to mind when you think of Border Patrol, but it’s only one piece of their enforcement efforts. Agents also set up...
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San Diego Unified Principals Are Bearing the Brunt of Budget Cuts
Mission Bay High School principal Ernest Remillard helps students release butterflies during a 2015 dedication ceremony for the school’s athletic fields. / Photo By Dustin Michelson Early last year,...
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The Learning Curve: A Tool to Combat ‘the Informational Dead Zone of Parenting’
Two Westview preschoolers count seeds as part of a class exercise. / Photo by Sam Hodgson Four years ago this month, my wife and I jammed every belonging we could carry into a small SUV, buckled our...
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The Border’s Impact on Your Life Depends on Which Side You’re on
Andrew Bracken shot scenes near the border wall while filming “Facing North.” / Photo courtesy of Andrei Booriakin, AB Squared Creative Group Over the past month, construction of the border wall...
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San Diego Unified Sends Parents Who Can’t Pay for School Bus Rides to a...
A San Diego Unified school bus / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle This post has been updated from its original text. San Diego Unified sends parents to a collections agency if they don’t pay their child’s...
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The Learning Curve: ‘Latino Students Continue to Languish on the Sidelines in...
Students raise their hands in Veronica Gonzalez’s kindergarten classroom at Sherman Elementary. / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle Latinos in California are at a turning point. In 2014, Latinos surpassed...
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San Diego Unified Has Slashed Its Busing Program
A line of San Diego Unified school buses. / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle Buses no longer run from Michelle Huffaker’s neighborhood in University City to the magnet school her daughter attends, more than...
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Want Schools to Start Later? Add More School Buses
Image via Shutterstock This year, parents in San Diego Unified have amped up their calls to let children sleep. Parents told the school board in October that schools’ early start times have led to...
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Despite School Bus Cutbacks, Transit Passes for Students Are a Nonstarter
Thomas Poston, 17, rides the trolley from San Diego High School to his home in Encanto. / Photo by Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego School buses don’t come cheap for parents or for San Diego...
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The Learning Curve: Imagining a World With No School Choice
Mission Bay High School / Photo by Dustin Michelson Earlier this week, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher floated an interesting idea on Twitter: What would happen if we ended school choice in San...
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The Learning Curve: Eight of the State’s Most Segregated Schools Are in San...
San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten attends a 2013 meeting at Burbank Elementary. Burbank is among the most segregated schools in California, according to an analysis of school data by KPCC....
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