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What Layoffs Do to a City Heights Classroom
I visited Central Elementary School in City Heights on Tuesday morning as part of a three-day reporting project to see the impact of San Diego Unified’s layoff crisis at the school level. With one in five teachers at city schools currently being laid off, I wanted to see how the financial mess is affecting teachers,…
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City Heights Imaging Clinic Opens to Find Cancer, Osteoporosis
By Peggy Pico A new state-of-the-art imaging clinic officially opened Friday in City Heights. The center uses high-tech digital scans to detect cancer and osteoporosis. Since its unofficial opening in February, the Imaging Center at the La Maestra community health clinic has screened 500 patients and found six breast cancer cases. John Lethin, the director…
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Tweet City Heights: Students Raise Thousands for Cancer Research
By Megan Burks Latinos Worse Off Than African Americans When It Comes to Health Coverage A recent poll by National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health found Latinos are most likely to go without health insurance or grapple with patchy coverage plans. The study results debunk a…
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[Video] Curfew Sweeps Explained
By Keegan Kyle As San Diego police have cut staffing and eliminated specialized units in recent years, they’ve funneled more resources toward enforcing the city’s 10 p.m. curfew on kids. Today, police regularly swarm inner-city neighborhoods, arrest minors out past curfew and connect families with social services. These operations, conducted in the City Heights,…
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City Heights Elementary School Could Lose All But Two Teachers
By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh, Joanne Faryon and Claire Trageser At Fay Elementary School, 27 out of 29 teachers received layoff notices this year. This means the elementary school in the City Heights neighborhood could start the year with almost all new teachers. Eileen Moreno, principal of the school, said more schools in San Diego’s low-income…