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  • Tweet City Heights: Obama Grants DREAMers Deportation Relief

    By Megan Burks Executive Order Grants DREAMers Deportation Relief, Work Permits The big news this morning: President Obama announced an executive order that could spare hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation. The new policy grants temporary legal status and work permits to immigrants younger than 30 years old whom were brought to…

  • Fourth Grader: I Feel So Sad About What’s Happening

    By Will Carless As an added bonus to my coverage of the layoff crisis at San Diego Unified this week, here are five videos I shot with my iPhone at Central Elementary School. I spent three days at San Diego schools this week, trying to understand what impact the school district’s decision to lay off…

  • Where Layoffs Destroy a School’s Fabric

    Laura Barragan has known her son Nathan’s preschool teacher, Athena Gonzalez, for six years. That’s because Gonzalez also taught Barragan’s 5-year old daughter, Joanna, and her 9-year-old son, Angel. Barragan has a lot of uncertainty in her life. She doesn’t know whether her husband will keep his job as the recession continues to roll on.…

  • City Heights Students Learn by Running Their Own Micro City

    Haga click aquí para leerlo la en Español It’s a typical Wednesday afternoon for Veronica Lias’ fifth graders at Joyner Elementary School in City Heights. She’s reviewing everything the students have learned about the respiratory system before the test they’ll take the next day. “You breathe air in through your . . .” she prompts.…

  • A Park Mural Goes Up Without the Park

    [oqeygallery id=11] The AjA Project collected photos from City Heights residents and baked them onto tiles for a large-scale mosaic at 43rd Street and University Avenue. | Photos Courtesy of The AjA Project By Tom Fudge It’s an artwork impressive in scope: A tile mosaic of 1,000 photographs of the City Heights neighborhood that were…