Tag: Central Elementary School

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Tweet City Heights: Gloria Could Be Looking For A New Home

    By Megan Burks California Fund to Help Food Retailers in Low-Income Areas Food justice advocates were abuzz Wednesday with the White House announcement of a California program designed to bring food retailers to food deserts. California FreshWorks Fund is a $200 million loan program assembled by The California Endowment, banks and other partners that will…

  • 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.…

  • Kids Make the Next Move, and the Next, and the Next

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Emily Alpert Published April 3, 2011 on Ten-year-old Elizabeth Padilla has been the new girl over and over, at school after school around City Heights. First there was Central Elementary for kindergarten. Then Carver. Then Euclid. Then the landlord upped the rent and her mother went to find another apartment.…