Category: Featured

  • Schools Offer Kids Free Summer Lunch

    By Samantha Wadley Children all over San Diego are able to enjoy fun games and free lunches this summer thanks to San Diego Unified’s Summer Fun Café program. The program, which had only six locations when it began 10 years ago, now offers 69 sites where children ages 2 to 18 can enjoy a healthy meal,…

  • San Diego Unified Bringing Back All Laid-Off Teachers

    By Will Carless Every one of the 1,372 teachers laid off earlier this year by the San Diego Unified School District will be back at school by Sept. 1, under a two-year deal agreed to by the district and the teachers union today. Negotiators for the San Diego Education Association, the local teachers union, agreed…

  • Finding Resolution Through Dance

    Dancers in City Heights’ transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project explore conflict resolution for an upcoming dance performance. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Behind a metal security gate on a busy stretch of University Avenue, teenagers gather to work out choreography for an upcoming dance performance. When the music…

  • Teens and Safety Series: Reflections on Safety

    By Brian Myers In the first video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students reflect on the word “safety.” For the teens, safety is found in numbers. Most said they feel safest when they’re surrounded by family and friends. Some were quick to note that the…

  • Tweet City Heights: Obama Grants DREAMers Deportation Relief

    By Megan Burks Executive Order Grants DREAMers Deportation Relief, Work Permits The big news this morning: President Obama announced an executive order that could spare hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation. The new policy grants temporary legal status and work permits to immigrants younger than 30 years old whom were brought to…