Year: 2015

  • The AjA Project to Confront Migrant Debate With Airport Mural

    The AjA Project interviews and photographs a refugee woman living in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego in this undated photo. | Photo Courtesy of The AjA Project By Megan Burks With the fatal terrorist attack in San Bernardino Wednesday and the massacre in Paris earlier this month, Americans are taking a hard look…

  • How a San Diego Charter School Beat the Odds (The Answer Might Surprise You)

    Video Credit: Katie Schoolov, KPBS By Megan Burks Third-graders at America’s Finest Charter School settle in on the floor around their teacher, Cassandra Tinyo, for story time. But first, Tinyo reviews what to listen for and later replicate. They’ll soon have to write stories of their own. “So we have a hook. It gets the…

  • Employee Rights Center Surveys Paleteros On Health and Safety

    Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers Push cart food vendors crisscross the residential neighborhoods around Fairmount Avenue in City Heights. They’re known as paleteros, a Spanish term for mobile food workers, and residents can hear them coming down the block by their unmistakeable ringing bells. Paleteros serve ice cream,…

  • UCLA: As Suspensions Dropped, California Students Performed Better

    A study out this week suggests school discipline reform is helping to close the achievement gap in California. Out-of-school suspensions have dropped nearly 30 percent statewide since 2011. And researchers with UCLA’s Center for Civil Rights Remedies found many of those districts also saw gains in their Academic Performance Index scores during the same time.…

  • Coalition Wants 100% Enrollment in Safety Net Programs by 2020

    By Megan Burks San Diego labor, faith and community groups gathered Saturday at the County Administration Center to demand the county achieve 100 percent enrollment in federal social safety-net programs by 2020. The group calls itself the Invest in San Diego Families Coalition and it’s drawing on an October study that says San Diego County has failed to…