Tag: San Diego

  • 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.…

  • Minority Groups Speak Out Against County’s Redistricting Plan

    By Alison St John The redistricting map proposed by the county redistricting committee lumps City Heights in with La Jolla. The ACLU says it fails to create a district with a Latino majority.   The map created by the ACLU and Latino and Africa American groups has City Heights with Lemon Grove and Spring Valley.…

  • New Roadblock for Reviving Refugee Farm

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido A year ago, Ourn Lun, a grandmotherly 60-year-old, was evicted from a piece of city-owned land where she and a group of fellow Cambodian refugees had grown crops like bitter melon, red peppers and green beans in peaceful obscurity for nearly three decades. The refugees, all of them…

  • 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…

  • Photo Feature: Your Neighbor, the Refugee, Celebrated

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Sam Hodgson I had the honor of presenting a photo essay at the Museum of Photographic Arts to help commemorate World Refugee Day Sunday. I presented images from the project we completed last year about Har Sin, a refugee from Burma who is deaf and learning formal communication for the…