Year: 2013

  • A Food Bank’s New Year’s Resolution

    An increasing need for long-term help has Feeding America thinking less about filling bellies and more about nutrition. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego. By Megan Burks Forklifts scurry through Feeding America San Diego’s Sorrento Valley warehouse, shifting crates of donated food around like Tetris blocks. Volunteers break down towering boxes…

  • Survey Finds Muslim Students in California Are Subject to Bullying

    By Erik Anderson A new survey by the California branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations found that half of the Muslim American students who responded are subject to some form of bullying or bias at school. The survey was distributed by the group to California mosques, and tried to pinpoint incidents of bias-based bullying…

  • Meet San Diego’s New Neighborhoods Chief

    By Liam Dillon In October, the city of San Diego’s top managers made a startling admission. The city had become, “a reactive organization lacking proper oversight to ensure that taxpayer dollars were being appropriately and effectively managed,” a report to the City Council said. To remedy that, the Council approved a dramatic City Hall reorganization…

  • Covered California Officials Admit They Need to Do More to Attract Latinos

    By Kenny Goldberg In California, people who primarily speak Spanish make up 29 percent of the population. But so far, that group makes up only 5 percent of those who’ve signed up for health insurance through Covered California. Officials say statewide in October and November, fewer than 4,500 primarily Spanish-speakers enrolled in a plan. California…

  • SD Unified Scores Go Up On National Exams, But Racial Gap Remains

    By Kyla Calvert San Diego city students are generally out performing their peers on national math and reading tests, known as the National Assessments of Educational Progress, or NAEP, according to results released Wednesday. But a wide achievement gap in the district persists. Every two years, results on national tests of fourth- and eighth-grade math…