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  • SD Unified Seeks to Build Trust With School Closure Meetings

    By Kyla Calvert Communities around San Diego are learning which city schools could be closed. San Diego Unified leaders will present their proposals and get community feedback through November. San Diego Unified expects it will have to cut at least $58 million from its budget next year. The district is considering closing or consolidating up…

  • Tweet City Heights: Study Calls for End to Food Stamps Fingerprinting

    By Megan Burks Study Supports Ending Fingerprinting of Food Stamps Applicants A study by the Public Policy Institute of California gives ammunition to a bill that would end the state’s policy of fingerprinting food stamps applicants. The study confirms what lawmakers and advocates of the bill have been saying—the practice keeps people in need from…

  • Field Guide: What School District Woes Mean for City Heights

    By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX School Cluster \ˈskül\ \ˈkləs-tər\ n. A group of schools that have similar needs and feed into the same high school. Performance Improvement \pə(r)-ˈfȯr-mən(t)s\…

  • City Heights Man Hands Out Food Aid to Famine Victims in Somalia

    By Amita Sharma A San Diego man delivered aid to 250 families at refugee camps this week. San Diego Somali Youth League leader Abdimalik Buul says he distributed bags of rice, wheat and sugar to people at a camp inside the capital Mogadishu. He also passed out tarp for tents, mats and silverware. Buul says…

  • Tweet City Heights: With Poverty Rates Up, San Diegans Consider Future

    By Megan Burks What Do You Envision for San Diego? Our Greater San Diego Vision has been ramping up efforts to get San Diegans talking about their collective future. What do we want to see here in 50 years? The initiative, launched by the San Diego Foundation, included a series of workshops this week in…