Tag: Price Charities

  • Tweet City Heights: KPBS Snags Former Voice of San Diego Reporter

    By Megan Burks KPBS Snags Former Voice of San Diego Reporter Adrian Florido announced yesterday he’s joining the news staff at KPBS. He’ll report for Fronteras: The Changing America Desk, which collects stories from public radio stations about immigration and life in border cities. Florido was laid off last week from voiceofsandiego.org, a Speak City…

  • Tweet City Heights: District Could Cut Small Schools, But Are Savings Worth It?

    By Megan Burks Budget Ax Could Fall on Small Schools, But Are the Savings Worth It? This morning Speak City Heights partner KPBS reported the committee looking into closing some San Diego schools to save money has put Crawford Educational Complex’s small schools on the chopping block. The group’s plan, which the school board is…

  • Field Guide: What School District Woes Mean for City Heights

    By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX School Cluster \ˈskül\ \ˈkləs-tər\ n. A group of schools that have similar needs and feed into the same high school. Performance Improvement \pə(r)-ˈfȯr-mən(t)s\…

  • Coastal Cleanup Starts Six Miles Inland

    By Brian Myers Coastal cleanup often begins six miles inland in the canyons of City Heights. There, San Diego Canyonlands and local residents clear debris that pose problems for the region’s network of waterways and, ultimately, its beaches. “We really want to bring it back to what it was maybe a couple hundred years ago,” said John…

  • Weingart Library Adds Hours With Price Charities Donation

    Photo Credit: Megan Burks By Megan Burks The computers at Health Sciences High School and Middle College on University Avenue in City Heights are only open to students until the bell rings each afternoon. That’s when Lorena Amador, 16, often puts down her homework for the evening. Amador doesn’t have a computer at home. She…