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  • Despite Overall Budget Increases, Principals Seeing Less Instructional Funding

    Central Elementary School teacher Cindy Robinson, pictured in 2009, works with students in her kindergarten class. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Lisa Halverstadt Cutbacks are now the norm at San Diego Unified School District but unless you’re a parent or teacher at a school, it can be difficult to gauge the true impact of…

  • AjA’s PhotoCity Class Wraps Up a Successful Year at Crawford

    By Jena Olson It’s the end of the school year and that also means the end of The AjA Project’s PhotoCity program at Crawford High School. Our students have not only created some fantastic pieces about their school and community, but they have also mastered new photography techniques and developed new skills they can use…

  • Sequestration Hits San Diego Refugee Resettlement Agencies

    Habibo, a Somali refugee, writes: “The first day I came to U.S.A. was hard for me. Leave my sister in Kenya. My friends. Airplane. Leaving them forever. Excited We came in San Diego and I was scared. The first day school was scary because I did not see white people before.” | Photo Credit: Habibo,…

  • San Diego Marks World Refugee Day

    A line of Syrian refugee women, some carrying children, cross into Jordan from southern Syria. The outflow this year has been staggering. | Photo Courtesy of the UN Refugee Agency By Susan Murphy People around the world are marking a somber World Refugee Day on Saturday as 45 million people globally are displaced from their…

  • SD Unified Hopes to Feed 600,000 With Summer Meal Program

    By Erik Anderson San Diego officials hope to feed more than 600,000 kids with their free summer lunch program this year. San Diego Unified is a partner in the Summer Fun Café program, which hands out free lunches to students who would otherwise not be able to afford them during the summer. Gary Petill, food…