Voice of the Year: Enrique Morones
Enrique Morones is the founder of Border Angels. / Photo by Kinsee Morlan The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s plan to make America great again – starting with construction of new border wall...
View ArticleThe Year San Diego Unified Established Itself as the Agency Most Hostile to...
San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle In school board meetings and public statements, San Diego Unified School District leaders speak often of their commitment to...
View ArticleThe Learning Curve: San Diego Unified Democrats Kill Election Reforms — for Now
A meeting of the San Diego Unified school board / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle On Wednesday, the San Diego City Council’s rules committee shot down four separate ballot proposals to reform San Diego...
View ArticleThe Voice of Border Patrol Agents Tries to Keep His Head Straight as the...
United States Border Patrol agent, Chris Harris, stands on a hilltop overlooking the U.S.-Mexico border fence, right, on November 14, 2017, in San Diego, California.Harris is the Director of...
View ArticleAudit Reveals Inaccuracies and Lack of Oversight in California’s Graduation...
Superintendent Cindy Marten delivers her State of the School District address. / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle California’s high school graduation rate rose steadily between 2011 and 2016, but a new...
View ArticleSan Diego Unified’s Mysterious Budget Thermometer, Explained
John Lee Evans speaking at the 2014 State of The District. / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle Last year was a brutal one for budget cuts at San Diego Unified. The district had to carve $124 million from its...
View ArticleThe Learning Curve: Getting into Public Schools? It’s Not Always Easy
Students take part in a science class at Vista High School. / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle For subsisting on taxpayer dollars, public schools are surprisingly difficult to get into. That’s true for the...
View ArticleTraffic Stop Reveals Keeping Immigration Enforcement Separate From Police May...
Sheriff Bill Gore / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies this summer pulled over an undocumented married couple and contacted Border Patrol, who took them into custody. Now,...
View ArticleKing-Chavez Community High School Faces Another Year of Mass Teacher Turnover
King-Chavez High School / Photo by Adriana Heldiz With four months left in the school year, five teachers at King-Chavez Community High School have resigned and two have been terminated. King-Chavez...
View ArticleThe Learning Curve: San Diego Unified Reverses Course, Stops Sending Parents...
A school bus drives through Barrio Logan. / Photo by Sam Hodgson San Diego Unified will no longer send debt collectors after parents who are late to pay their children’s school bus fees. Parents who...
View ArticleThe Learning Curve: San Diego Unified’s Disappearing Child Development Centers
Preschoolers. / Image via Shutterstock Two years after San Diego Unified School District kicked off its highly touted Preschool for All program, district leaders plan to close four more of the child...
View ArticleTormented by a Student’s Sexual Assault, a Teacher Falls
Eileen Sofa at home with her son. Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle Warning: This piece contains graphic descriptions of a sexual assault. On the morning of Aug. 3, 2016, with summer school classes in...
View ArticleThe Learning Curve: School Choice Is Becoming Increasingly Polarized Under Trump
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. / Image via Shutterstock In 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump set the table for a partisan battle over school choice. Having...
View ArticleDiscipline Policies Complicate Response to Violent Episodes at Lincoln High
Nicole Stewart, a former Lincoln High vice principal, said she believes students receive inconsistent consequences for violent behavior. / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle The afternoon of Jan. 23, near the...
View ArticleThe Learning Curve: ‘Restorative Justice’ Can Make Schools More Violent If...
Image via Shutterstock In 2014, a team of Harvard researchers visited San Diego Unified and produced a report that convinced school district administrators their punitive, zero-tolerance policies...
View ArticleTwo Lincoln High Critics Talked School Discipline With Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos
Nicole Stewart is a former Lincoln High vice principal. / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle Two San Diegans with ties to Lincoln High School met on Wednesday with U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to...
View ArticleNew Contract in Hand, Teachers Question District Spending Priorities
School board trustee Mike McQuary speaks at a town hall at Ocean Beach Elementary School. / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle Protesting low pay, underfunded schools and concerned about a looming Supreme...
View ArticleThere’s Virtually No Such Thing as Voluntary Sex Work, Says DA
Summer Stephan / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle The way District Attorney Summer Stephan describes it, prostitution, as a legal term, is all but vanishing in California. Virtually any woman who engages in...
View ArticleThe Learning Curve: The School Board Is Studying — But Doesn’t Have to Accept...
San Diego Unified board members discuss special education. / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle Frustrated with a school board election process they felt disenfranchised voters, citizens in January brought to...
View ArticleFive Years in, Cindy Marten Has Notched Some Successes at San Diego Unified...
San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Superintendent Cindy Marten stepped into Kearny High’s auditorium in October 2013, ready to deliver her first state of the...
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