Tag: Small Schools

  • Back Together Again: Crawford Students Adjust to Consolidated Campus

    By Kyla Calvert Back Together Again, Aired March 12, 2013 on KPBS Radio [audio:http://speakcityheights.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CRAWFORD.mp3] Ideas about improving public education come and go. Few people know that better than students and staff at Crawford High School in City Heights, which has been reorganized twice in the last eight years. In 2003 San Diego Unified got an…

  • Meet Crawford’s New (and Only) Principal

    Crawford High School student and Media Arts Center San Diego teen producer Jose Uribe interviews his school’s new principal, Ana Maria Alvarez. Alvarez was brought on board to oversee Crawford’s transition from four small schools to a single, comprehensive high school. By Megan Burks Crawford High School students went back to their same campus yesterday,…

  • Crawford Students Unite to Stay Divided

    Crawford High School students and teachers are protesting a district proposal that could reverse school reform they say has improved student achievement and behavior. Many gathered in front of the school board meeting Nov. 29 to voice their concerns through chants and a mobile PA system. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San…

  • School Closures Off the Table, But Crawford Consolidation Stays

    Paradise Hills students Joeffry Garcia and Allan Andrada Jr. were first in line for the meeting where trustees were set to discuss the districts financial woes and the possibility or school closures. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson, voiceofsandiego.org By Kyla Calvert   Under a plan approved unanimously by board of education members Tuesday night, San…

  • Crawford Could Lose Small Schools

    By Kyla Calvert More than a dozen schools would be closed, relocated or consolidated next year under a plan being recommended by a San Diego Unified School District committee. The plan calls for Crawford High School to break up its four small academies and revert to traditional comprehensive school status. The recommendation from the district’s…