Tag: Budget
-
Mayor’s Revised Budget Calls for Spending on Streetlights
By Liam Dillon San Diego Mayor Bob Filner answered the most persistent criticisms of his first budget with a $6.2 million boost in proposed spending for fixing streets, storm drains, facilities and other crumbling city infrastructure as part of his May budget revision released Tuesday. The planned funding increase will not stop streets, storm drains…
-
How Budget Cuts Have Forced SD’s Hand on Gang Policing
Gang suppression officers arrest documented gang members during a March 2010 curfew sweep. San Diego police haven’t choked off the flow of new gang recruits, documenting more than 400 new gang members since 2007. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Megan Burks San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne’s comments to City Council Monday painted a…
-
Youth Speak Out on How Budget Cuts Hurt Their Chances for Success
Joni Halpern, the director of the Supportive Parents Information Network, and Mark Dillon, the vice-chair of the San Diego Human Relations Commission, talk to KPBS. By Megan Burke, Peggy Pico and Alison St John Click here to hear Joni Halpern, director of Supportive Parents Information Network, and Mark Dillon, vice-chair of the San Diego Human Relations Commission, on KPBS…
-
City Schools Still Face Big Deficit
Ron Little, chief financial officer of the San Diego Unified School District | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Will Carless When the news came in yesterday that Gov. Jerry Brown would be making far smaller cuts to state education funding than previously expected, there were grins all round at a school board workshop at the San Diego…
-
Tweet City Heights: Small Classes and Massive Sodas
By Megan Burks The New York Times Profiles Central Elementary Michael Winerip of The New York Times chose Central Elementary School in City Heights to illustrate the impact that state budget cuts could have on class sizes. Kindergarten classes there have been kept at 17 students per teacher. Test scores have climbed as a result.…