Tag: Education

  • Tweet City Heights: Some Deportations Will Be Dropped

    By Megan Burks White House Says It Will Halt Some Deportations The White House announced yesterday it will sift through a backlog of 300,000 deportation cases to weed out “low-priority” deportations. The cases will be dropped, clearing and awarding work visas to those brought to the U.S. as children or netted for minor offenses. The…

  • City Heights Sees Higher Test Scores

    By Kyla Calvert When the results of grade level exams in English, math, science and history were released this week, San Diego Unified students outshined their counterparts across California. San Diego students scored higher on the state English test than students of any other large urban school district and their math scores came in second.…

  • Tweet City Heights: Nation’s Prison Pipeline, People Take Back Media

    By Megan Burks Giving Dropouts a Face and a Name This week, Twitter was full links to a National Public Radio series on the nation’s dropout crisis. According to NPR, 1 million students stop attending school each year, costing the nation at least $319 billion annually. The personal cost is steeper, contributing to a cycle…

  • Governor Signs Lesser of Two California Dream Acts

    By Ruxandra Guidi Gov. Brown appeared with the author of the bill, Los Angeles Assemblyman Gilbert Cedillo, at Cal State-Los Angeles. Brown spoke about the need to make higher education accessible to all students during this season of tight budgets. “We want to make sure that every child that is here can go as far…

  • Tweet City Heights: NFL Honors School Success, State Could Soon

    By Megan Burks Hoover High Teacher Compared to The Blind Side’s Sandra Bullock Former Chargers and Philidelphia Eagles player Burt Grossman was named the NFL Teacher of the Year last month for his work with at-risk teens at Hoover High School. The Union-Tribune has a story on Grossman’s journey from a tough neighborhood, to the…