Tag: Diversity
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City Heights High Schoolers Are Prepping To Become Your Next Doctor
An initiative provides on-the-job training to students from disadvantaged communities in the hopes of boosting their wellness and leading them toward a career in health care.
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Mid-City YMCA Triathlon Welcomes All
People in the Mid-City area are busy, but they still made time to participate in the Price-Copely YMCA’s 2018 Halloweeen Triathlon. Now on its third year, the growing triathlon incorporates family-friendly activities for all ages. Staff, board members and community members alike participate in triathlon activities onsite. Alicia Branam, Associate Assistant Director at the Price-Copley…
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San Diego Police Academy Class Sees Increased Diversity
By Claire Trageser The next San Diego Police Department Academy class will be 65 percent minorities and women, making it more diverse than the last six academy classes in 2014 and 2015. One of the recommendations a federal audit in March handed down to the police department was toboost its diversity to better serve residents.…
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Closing San Diego Unified’s Student-Teacher Diversity Gap
By Marissa Cabrera, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico White students barely make up 25 percent of the student population in the San Diego Unified School District, but two-thirds of the teachers and counselors in the district are white. That lack of diversity among the district’s teaching staff and management is a concern to the school…
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SongStream Project Brings the Joy of Lullabies to City Heights Families
Singer-songwriter and SongStream Project co-founder Talia Morales performs a song at The Landscape of Lullabies event at the City Heights Library. This particular song is one her mother used to sing to Morales and her brother. | Photo Credit: Michelle Josey By Famo Musa Famo Musa is a high school student and member of The…