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City Heights High School Helps Refugees Become Graduates
By Matthew Bowler Shmoh Lah was 14 years old when he came to San Diego from a Taiwanese refugee camp. Now, he’s getting ready to graduate from Crawford High School. Lah’s journey has been long. “When I was in the Thailand refugee camp every day, my parents would wake me up at 3 a.m.,” Lah…
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San Diego to Loosen Tobacco Restrictions, Add E-Cigarette Rules
By Megan Burks The city of San Diego’s Public Safety Committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a new tobacco ordinance. It would lift a 1,000-foot buffer zone around schools, playgrounds and other youth-oriented facilities that prohibits retailers from selling tobacco products. It would also strike advertising regulations within the buffer zone and a requirement…
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“We Were Strangers Once, Too”: The Current State of Immigration Reform for Youth in San Diego
By Kiran Mehta, Beto Soto, Famo Musa, Binti Musa and Karla Flores The YAC Youth Media Team has worked to understand and share the voices and stories of undocumented and unaccompanied minors in the region, as well as to identify resources and stakeholders who are currently working to assist and advocate for this population. What…
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A Circus Has Youth Flipping – and Exercising – at Mid City Gym
Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers An after school program in City Heights gets youth juggling, flipping and sitting on invisible chairs. Fern Street Circus started in 1990 around the Golden Hill neighborhood of San Diego. The professional circus performed in local parks and taught clowning and acrobatics at…
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School Discipline Changes Yield Big Drop in Expulsions
By Megan Burks Expulsions at San Diego Unified schools are down nearly 60 percent. This time last year, school administrators had heard nearly 400 expulsion cases and handed down 134 of them. Students are recommended for expulsions and get a hearing before it’s made final. As of May 29, administrators had considered 178 expulsions and…