Tag: Education

  • School District Offers Plan For Black Achievement

    By Emily Alpert San Diego Unified is rolling out a new plan to bolster the achievement of African-American and African students, groups that have traditionally lagged academically and are disproportionately likely to be disciplined or labeled with a disability. Its goal is to chip away at the racial achievement gap. The $3.5 million plan is…

  • Tweet City Heights: Small Classes and Massive Sodas

    By Megan Burks The New York Times Profiles Central Elementary Michael Winerip of The New York Times chose Central Elementary School in City Heights to illustrate the impact that state budget cuts could have on class sizes. Kindergarten classes there have been kept at 17 students per teacher. Test scores have climbed as a result.…

  • Chronically Absent Students Cost City Heights Schools More Than 3 Million

    Photo Credit: KPBS News By Joanne Faryon and Kevin Crowe Student 114 is a sophomore at Lincoln High in Southeast San Diego. What makes her exceptional is the number of school days she missed last year – 87, or nearly half the 10th grade. She cost her school $2,464.71. A KPBS-Watchdog Institute investigation found there…

  • A Long, Unlikely Road to Stanford

    Photo Credit: Kyla Calvert By Kyla Calvert On the last Friday of the school year, seniors at Crawford Invention and Design Educational Academy in City Heights are lined up for a barbecue. Later in the afternoon they’ll rehearse for graduation. Like most high school grads, they’ll hear from their valedictorian, Idris Ahmed, whose speech is…

  • A Tale of Two Schools Thinking Deeper

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Emily Alpert Published May 4, 2011 on “The Rainbow Fish” is a beautiful tale: A shimmering fish gives away its glittery scales one by one to befriend others. It’s often seen as a parable about sharing and selfishness. But one kid at Torrey Pines Elementary pointed out in an essay…