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  • Covered California Better Equipped to Help Foreign Language Speakers

    By Kenny Goldberg In its first year of operation in 2013, California’s health insurance exchange wasn’t well equipped to help people who speak foreign languages. But this year, Covered California’s website has information in Spanish, Arabic, and ten other foreign languages. The exchange also has operators at its call center who speak Chinese or Korean.…

  • Pilot Program in City Heights Schools Shooting for Boosted Graduation Rates

    Central Elementary principal Liz Duvall says goodbye to students as they leave school for the day. | Photo By Dustin Michelson By Mario Koran When Liz Duvall, principal of Central Elementary school, looks at a list students who are chronically late or absent from school, she notices a concerning trend: Her youngest students, kindergartners and…

  • Why San Diego Unified Is Looking to Kindergartners to Boost Graduation Rates

    Why San Diego Unified Is Looking to Kindergartners to Boost Graduation Rates

    When Liz Duvall, principal of Central Elementary school, looks at a list students who are chronically late or absent from school, she notices a concerning trend: Her youngest students, kindergartners and first graders, make up the bulk of those who miss class most often. Even with the list, however, there’s no way for Duvall to…

  • Voices: Identifying Barriers to Health Faced by City Heights Immigrants

    Overcoming Barriers to Health is a collaboration between The AjA Project and UCSD’s Center for Community Health. The young women that participated ranged from 12 to 17 years old and were first- and second-generation East African refugees and immigrants. Through photography, participants collectively identified health issues and then used their images to create a dialogue…

  • City to Expand Two-Person Fire Crews, But Could Skip Over City Heights

    Jason Hewitt and Steve Vandewalle are part of the Fire Department’s Fast Response Squad based in Encanto. | Photo By Jamie Scott Lytle By Liam Dillon Another San Diego neighborhood might soon have relief for lengthy emergency response times. Mayor Kevin Faulconer is planning to add a second two-person first-responder crew to the citywide fleet,…