Tag: Education

  • What the School Budget Means for English Learners at Hoover – and Everywhere Else

    By Mario Koran Parents at Hoover High don’t care why the only teacher at the school assigned specifically to help English learners is going away next year. They care about the impact: They don’t want their kids to be mediocre. Hoover’s new principal, Joe Austin, had only been on the job a couple of months…

  • Traveling Stories Uses Farmers Market to Get Kids Reading

    Children read at the Traveling Stories tent at the City Heights Farmers Market. | Photo Courtesy of Traveling Stories By Maureen Cavanaugh, Patty Lane and Peggy Pico A shopping trip to a farmers market is a regular part of the week for many San Diegans. It can be a family excursion to buy produce and…

  • English-Learners Could Get Lost in the District’s Teacher Shuffle

    By Mario Koran Up against a June 30 budget deadline, Superintendent Cindy Marten made an executive decision to save money by shuffling teachers instead of hiring new ones. But now that the details are starting to shake out, it’s looking like the move will come at a cost to the district’s neediest students: English learners.…

  • From Ethiopia to Gates: One Man’s Story of Survival and Fatherhood

    By Matthew Bowler Michael Million is a proud father. He raised his two kids alone. Not one, but both of his kids are Bill and Melinda Gates Scholarship winners. That means they can go to any college where they are accepted, and they won’t have to pay a dime. For most of us, having two…

  • More Refugee Girls Are College Bound, Flipping the Cultural Script

    Refugee children participate in an after-school tutoring program at the Somali Bantu Association of America in City Heights. The Somali Bantu ethnic minority group came to the United States more recently than Somalis who traveled here in the 1990s. Because they’re still gaining their footing on U.S. soil, their children are at high risk of…