Category: News
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Latino Enrollment Lagging On Covered California
By Kenny Goldberg Nearly 80,000 people have signed up for health insurance on Covered California since Oct. 1, but Latino enrollment at the online health exchange has been dismal. Latinos make up nearly half of California’s 7 million uninsured population. Under Obamacare, many of them are eligible for federal subsidies, or Medi-Cal, which doesn’t charge…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About the Achievement Gap
By Mario Koran San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten has a dream. A dream where one day all students will have equitable access to educational opportunities, no matter the color of their skin. Where they will be judged not by the score of their tests, but by what they can contribute to society. But for…
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Students to Begin Citywide Sidewalk Survey Next Month
3400 block of Marlborough Avenue in the city of San Diego. | Photo Credit: Joe Austin, courtesy of The Stumblr. By Liam Dillon By the middle of next month, the city of San Diego will unleash two dozen local college students onto its sidewalks. They’re part of a $1 million study to document San Diego’s…
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Second Opinion: What Does Obamacare Mean for My Paycheck?
Jeff Schoellerman, a San Diego neuroscientist, is curious if the Affordable Care Act will eventually have an effect on what we pay toward Medicare and disability out of our paychecks. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego. By Megan Burks Second Opinion is a weekly Q-and-A series that answers questions from San…
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Monroe Clark Middle Goes Green With Campus Garden
A new community garden at Monroe Clark already is bearing fruit…er, vegetables.| Photo Credit: Christina Chomut By Julia Richardson Haga clic aquí para leerlo en Español At first glance, photography and gardening may not appear to have much in common. But at Monroe Clark Middle School in City Heights, an effort aimed at having students…