Tag: San Diego Unified School District

  • San Diego Unified Bringing Back All Laid-Off Teachers

    By Will Carless Every one of the 1,372 teachers laid off earlier this year by the San Diego Unified School District will be back at school by Sept. 1, under a two-year deal agreed to by the district and the teachers union today. Negotiators for the San Diego Education Association, the local teachers union, agreed…

  • Fourth Grader: I Feel So Sad About What’s Happening

    By Will Carless As an added bonus to my coverage of the layoff crisis at San Diego Unified this week, here are five videos I shot with my iPhone at Central Elementary School. I spent three days at San Diego schools this week, trying to understand what impact the school district’s decision to lay off…

  • Where Layoffs Destroy a School’s Fabric

    Laura Barragan has known her son Nathan’s preschool teacher, Athena Gonzalez, for six years. That’s because Gonzalez also taught Barragan’s 5-year old daughter, Joanna, and her 9-year-old son, Angel. Barragan has a lot of uncertainty in her life. She doesn’t know whether her husband will keep his job as the recession continues to roll on.…

  • A School Board Candidate Scorecard

    By Will Carless We’re two weeks out from the primary elections, and you might not have paid much attention to who’s running for a seat on the San Diego Unified School District board of trustees. So, you should take a few minutes now to get schooled. With city schools facing an unprecedented financial crisis, the makeup…

  • School Board Candidates Debate How To Serve City Heights, SE San Diego

    By Kyla Calvert Candidates for the San Diego Unified’s Board of Education outlined their visions for the school district at Knox Middle School Wednesday night. Marne Foster and William Ponder are vying to replace Sheila Jackson as the board’s representative for Sub District E, which covers the southeastern region of the city, including Skyline, Paradise…