Category: News

  • Math Gap Grows Between Black and White Students in San Diego Unified

    By Emily Alpert The gap between math scores for black and white students in San Diego Unified grew wider on a national exam despite growing attention to math in the school district. It’s a troubling change that school officials are still trying to understand. While 58 percent of white eighth graders scored proficient or above…

  • County Improves Health Care for the Very Poor, But Stops There

    Under a new county program, the poorest of San Diego’s residents will be able to come to health clinics like this one being built on El Cajon Boulevard for regular checkups, not just for emergency care. | Photo Courtesy of City Heights Life By Adrian Florido This year, San Diego County accepted $50 million from…

  • Tweet City Heights: Catching Up on San Diego Schools Trouble

    By Megan Burks ‘Schools on the Brink’ Special to Air Next Week Speak City Heights partner voiceofsandiego.org and NBC7 San Diego will air a weeklong special called “Schools on the Brink” starting Monday at 6 p.m. on NBC7. The series will trace the San Diego Unified School District’s financial troubles as it flirts with insolvency.…

  • Community Braces for Prison Realignment

    The Public Safety Realignment Act will transfer responsibility for 2,000 parolees to the County Probation Department. It will also keep some new offenders from going to state prison, placing them in county jail or under house arrest instead. Residents worry the shift will impact the safety of their streets. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media…

  • A Refugee’s Silent Journey, Revisited

    At a coffee shop in Mission Valley, Har Sin, a 25-year-old refugee from Burma, practices his sign language with friends. Har Sin, who is deaf, had no way to formally communicate before coming to the United States in 2008. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido The young man from Burma stepped onto the…