Tag: Education
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How Reality Changers Won Big by Betting on Longshots
Eduardo Corona is a Reality Changers success story. Once a gang member, he’s now attending college and leading a Reality Changers program. | Photo Courtesy of Quiet Pictures By Mario Koran Here in this corner of City Heights, busted childhoods are rewritten. The stories are reframed, polished and packaged as college entrance essays, winning tickets…
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San Diego Unified’s Discipline Plan Exists – On a Shelf
By Mario Koran The San Diego Unified School District disciplines black and Latino students more often and more harshly than other students, and “has been diligently working on addressing disproportionate suspensions rates” for years, said R. Vernon Moore, the district’s executive director of student services. Moore emailed me in response to this story highlighting racial…
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SD Unified’s Lopsided Suspensions Ratio
By Mario Koran When Daniel Noriega was in the elementary school he cussed at teachers, he refused to do his work and he was sent home. Again and again. Between the sixth and eighth grades, Noriega, who’s now a sophomore at E3 Civic High, was suspended about two dozen times by his count. One teacher…
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California Parents In the Dark About New School-Funding System
By Kyla Calvert More than half of California’s public school parents — 57 percent — said they know nothing at all about the state’s new school-funding system, according to a survey released Thursday by California nonprofit EdSource. That new system gives school districts more spending flexibility. But it also requires them to get input from…
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On School Curriculum: ‘You’re Asking Students to Hate Who They Are’
By Mario Koran Alberto Ochoa remembers how, as a freshman at a Los Angeles public high school, the vice principal told his class that half of the students wouldn’t graduate. Turns out, Ochoa said, “that’s exactly what happened.” Many of his classmates dropped out, some “survived public education” and made it out with a diploma,…