Category: Featured

  • School District Offers Plan For Black Achievement

    By Emily Alpert San Diego Unified is rolling out a new plan to bolster the achievement of African-American and African students, groups that have traditionally lagged academically and are disproportionately likely to be disciplined or labeled with a disability. Its goal is to chip away at the racial achievement gap. The $3.5 million plan is…

  • Plans For New YMCA Crash and Burn With Skaters

    A $13 million, 50,000 square-foot YMCA facility is slated to open on the former Pearson Ford lot at Fairmount Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights. Its design includes a health and wellness center, gym, aquatics center and outdoor soccer arena. It won’t include affordable housing, a market with gourmet stock or retail jobs.…

  • Millions of Poor Californians Face Higher Medical Costs

    By Kenny Goldberg Millions of low-income Californians will have to cough up more money when they go to the doctor. The state’s new budget deal includes a number of cuts to the Medi-Cal program. People on Medi-Cal will face higher co-payments when they see a doctor, and they’ll be limited to seven doctor visits a…

  • Tweet City Heights: Small Classes and Massive Sodas

    By Megan Burks The New York Times Profiles Central Elementary Michael Winerip of The New York Times chose Central Elementary School in City Heights to illustrate the impact that state budget cuts could have on class sizes. Kindergarten classes there have been kept at 17 students per teacher. Test scores have climbed as a result.…

  • Welfare To Work Checks Reduced, Starting Today

    By Alison St John Beginning today, families in California’s Welfare to Work program will see an 8 percent reduction in their monthly benefit checks. It’s the result of cuts proposed in March and approved as part of the final state budget signed this week. In San Diego County 85,000 families are enrolled in Cal Works, the…