Tag: San Diego Unified
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Closing San Diego Unified’s Student-Teacher Diversity Gap
By Marissa Cabrera, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico White students barely make up 25 percent of the student population in the San Diego Unified School District, but two-thirds of the teachers and counselors in the district are white. That lack of diversity among the district’s teaching staff and management is a concern to the school…
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Marten Goes All In on the Achievement Gap
By Mario Koran At a recent San Diego Unified school board meeting, Superintendent Cindy Marten stepped forward and unceremoniously dropped a bomb: The district has broken the promises of equity it made to schools and children, she said. To make it right, San Diego needs a three-pronged approach to closing the achievement gap. In its…
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Why Cindy Marten Doesn’t Believe in Hero Superintendents
Superintendent Cindy Marten delivers the state of the school district address at Kearny High School. | Photo Credit: Jamie Scott Lytle for Voice of San Diego By Mario Koran Spoiler alert, San Diegans: Cindy Marten isn’t a hero who has swooped in to save your children. If that sounds a little bristly, consider this: She…
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SD Unified Scores Go Up On National Exams, But Racial Gap Remains
By Kyla Calvert San Diego city students are generally out performing their peers on national math and reading tests, known as the National Assessments of Educational Progress, or NAEP, according to results released Wednesday. But a wide achievement gap in the district persists. Every two years, results on national tests of fourth- and eighth-grade math…
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Cindy Marten On Common Core, Testing, New Funding Formula
By Marissa Cabrera, Maureen Cavanaugh, and Peggy Pico San Diego’s new school superintendent is not just overseeing her first year running the county’s largest school district. She is also overseeing San Diego Unified School District’s transition to the new Common Core education standards. Plus, new guidelines will change how school testing is done. This school…