Tag: Education

  • 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…

  • Marten Goes All In on the Achievement Gap

    By Mario Koran At a recent San Diego Unified school board meeting, Superintendent Cindy Marten stepped forward and unceremoniously dropped a bomb: The district has broken the promises of equity it made to schools and children, she said. To make it right, San Diego needs a three-pronged approach to closing the achievement gap. In its…

  • City Heights Schools Look to Share Attendance Success

    Edison Elementary School has higher attendance rates and outperforms other City Heights Schools. Efforts to help parents get their children to school on time could be one reason. | Video Credit: Katie Schoolov, KPBS By Kyla Calvert When a student came to Principal Derek Murichson’s office at Edison Elementary in City Heights and handed him…

  • Community Meetings On Best Use of New School Funds Begin

    By Kyla Calvert For the first time in years, budget planning for San Diego Unified School District could include adding programs and services instead of cutting them. When Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled his proposal for next year’s budget, it included using unexpected revenues to pay back the state’s $6.1 billion debt to public schools. It…

  • Why Cindy Marten Doesn’t Believe in Hero Superintendents

    Superintendent Cindy Marten delivers the state of the school district address at Kearny High School. | Photo Credit: Jamie Scott Lytle for Voice of San Diego By Mario Koran Spoiler alert, San Diegans: Cindy Marten isn’t a hero who has swooped in to save your children. If that sounds a little bristly, consider this: She…