Tag: San Diego Unified

  • Despite Overall Budget Increases, Principals Seeing Less Instructional Funding

    Central Elementary School teacher Cindy Robinson, pictured in 2009, works with students in her kindergarten class. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Lisa Halverstadt Cutbacks are now the norm at San Diego Unified School District but unless you’re a parent or teacher at a school, it can be difficult to gauge the true impact of…

  • SD Unified Narrows Racial Gap on AP Tests

    By Kyla Calvert San Diego Unified was one of just six large urban school districts across the country to make progress in narrowing the gap between black and white students who take and pass Advanced Placement exams, according to a report from The Broad Foundation that was released Tuesday. The number of students of taking…

  • More Than ‘A Feeling’: Cindy Marten on What Makes a Good School

    By Will Carless Some community members were unnerved by the San Diego Unified school board’s sudden and unilateral pick of Cindy Marten as superintendent — including, apparently, Marten herself, she revealed at Tuesday night’s One Voice at a Time event. “Because the community was skipped, and it was done overnight, I’m not skipping the community…

  • USDA Official Stops in City Heights to Promote Summer Lunch Program

    Fay Elementary student Jamir, 10, tastes a kumquat from Sahu Subtropicals farm in Pauma Valley. He says it’s sour and won’t be eating another one. But thanks to a federal summer lunch program, he can eat other fresh fruit and vegetables when his school cafeteria is closed. | Photo Credit: Megan Burks By Megan Burks…

  • Marten’s Biggest Task: Defining ‘Quality’ Schools

    By Will Carless Incoming San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten believes taxpayers have the right to know how their schools are doing. She thinks everyone should have access to fair and wide-ranging assessments of local schools, so the public can know that their money is being well-spent, and so parents can make well-informed decisions about…