Year: 2012
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Tweet City Heights: Community Groups Want More Say in City Budget
By Megan Burks Community Groups Want More Say in City Budget KPBS reported Monday some community groups are upset neighborhood councils and residents have been shut out of the preliminary phases of the city’s budget process. Each spring, the mayor releases a budget draft after consulting with city departments and staff. His office then presents…
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School Board Candidates Debate How To Serve City Heights, SE San Diego
By Kyla Calvert Candidates for the San Diego Unified’s Board of Education outlined their visions for the school district at Knox Middle School Wednesday night. Marne Foster and William Ponder are vying to replace Sheila Jackson as the board’s representative for Sub District E, which covers the southeastern region of the city, including Skyline, Paradise…
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Police Gathering Curfew Stats, But Not the Key Ones
The San Diego Police Department has begun compiling thousands of documents in an effort to better understand its curfew sweeps, a major initiative aimed at cutting crime among kids younger than 18. But this new effort still won’t an answer a major question about the program’s overall effectiveness. Police won’t know whether the sweeps have…
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The City’s Emerging Bike Power
Sam Ollinger is a leader in a group that seems to be growing in influence around San Diego — the bike lobby. She’s managed to accumulate her clout the new-fashioned way. She hadn’t donated a dime, but she pestered the mayoral candidates on Twitter to come up with plans for making San Diego more bike-friendly,…
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City Heights Schools Ahead of the Curve on Teacher Evaluations
This data revolution is a departure from those semiannual classroom visits by the principal. Reformers say such limited observations and subsequent evaluations have done nothing to boost student achievement. But they’re measures San Diego Unified is holding fast to, according to reporter Will Carless. Its leadership says “value-added metrics” are too risky to employ across…