Category: News

  • San Diego Unified’s Discipline Plan Exists – On a Shelf

    By Mario Koran The San Diego Unified School District disciplines black and Latino students more often and more harshly than other students, and “has been diligently working on addressing disproportionate suspensions rates” for years, said R. Vernon Moore, the district’s executive director of student services. Moore emailed me in response to this story highlighting racial…

  • San Diego’s Sidewalk Problems, By the Numbers

    3400 block of Marlborough Avenue in the city of San Diego. | Photo Credit: Joe Austin, courtesy of The Stumblr. By Liam Dillon Monday’s long-awaited discussion on San Diego’s illogical sidewalk rules ended with a promise for another long wait. Council members on the city’s infrastructure committee pledged to deal with the policy once a…

  • SD Unified’s Lopsided Suspensions Ratio

    By Mario Koran When Daniel Noriega was in the elementary school he cussed at teachers, he refused to do his work and he was sent home. Again and again. Between the sixth and eighth grades, Noriega, who’s now a sophomore at E3 Civic High, was suspended about two dozen times by his count. One teacher…

  • Second Opinion: Will Obamacare Streamline Care for Disabled People?

    Christina Mitchell is a graduate student at the University of San Diego. She’s working with families who care for disabled dependents to document the challenges of coordinating care for their loved ones through a tangled web of doctors, insurance providers and community resources. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan…

  • What’s Behind San Diego’s Gang Problem?

    By Megan Burks Local street gangs are growing and getting harder to police, according to officials from nine out of 11 law enforcement agencies who spoke to SANDAG for a study released this week. A possible reason, they said, is the state’s prison realignment effort, which shortens sentences for low-level offenders and relies more heavily on local jails…