- Also covered by Voice of San Diego, KPBS-FM, SDNN.com
Voice of San Diego
June 11, 2009
Teachers Union Joins Labor Council
The union that represents teachers in San Diego Unified, the San Diego Education Association, voted yesterday to join the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, signifying a tighter relationship between unionized teachers and other organized labor across the region.
June 10, 2009
June 10, 2009 (web)
Two University High students arrested in dry-ice blast
Two University City High School students accused of causing a minor blast with dry ice on the campus Wednesday have been arrested on suspicion of setting off a destructive device, a felony, authorities said. San Diego Unified School District police released the boys, both 14, to their parents and they will later have to appear in court, said Sgt. Alfonso Contreras.
School Board Delays Vote On '09-'10 Budget
SAN DIEGO -- Just a week after making cuts to balance the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education learned Tuesday that the district will face an $84 million shortfall the following fiscal year.
Voice of San Diego
June 8, 2009
Federal Money for Disadvantaged Kids Used to Pay for Venison, Lobbying
While schools froze their spending to survive a bruising budget crisis, San Diego Unified spent more than $2,000 in federal money for disadvantaged students to send Superintendent Terry Grier to a conference in Washington, D.C., including more than $550 for meals for Grier and other school district staff and trustees.
SDNN.com
June 8, 2009
University City High runner leaves San Diego legacy
Lauded athlete Mac Fleet finishes high school career on strong note, makes plans for Oregon next year.
June 7, 2009
A Slow Start for the Virtual High School
Fifteen-year-old Kevin Groarke does not have to deal with homeroom or the obnoxious clanging of bells, urging him from class to class. He wakes up on his own schedule. He takes breaks when he wants to. And he likes it. Class begins and ends when he logs in or out of his computer, which delivers lessons from iHigh Virtual Academy -- the new online school in San Diego Unified.
KUSI-TV
June 5, 2009
Kumeyaay Elementary Students Donate Hair for Cancer Patients
A large group of female students from Kumeyaay Elementary School, and one traffic reporter from KUSI, lined up this morning to donate their hair to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program.
Teacher Spotlight is Serra's Ericka Senegar Mitchell
Her dream is to take her $2,500 prize and buy a bus. Well, a big van.
"One of the obstacles for me to take these students out in the (biotech) industry is transportation," said Ericka Senegar-Mitchell, a science teacher at Serra High School. "There's a lot of companies that say, 'If you can get here, you're welcome to come play with us.'" Read more from the San Diego Union-Tribune.
June 4, 2009
Teen chefs cook up a competitive feast | Mira Mesa, Scripps Ranch students show culinary skills
Move over Bobby Flay.
The celebrity chef from the Food Network's popular "Iron Chef America" has nothing on a group of culinary students from Scripps Ranch and Mira Mesa high schools
La Jolla Village News
June 4, 2009
Young athletes on mark to show Olympic skills
Students from nine La Jolla elementary schools — both public and private — will gather at La Jolla High’s athletic field Sunday, June 7 to win bragging rights for themselves and their schools.
June 3, 2009
District budget saves many school programs | After 11-hour hearing, board praises decisions on funding
SAN DIEGO — The smallest elementary schools will not be sacrificed to balance the San Diego Unified School District budget.
Beach & Bay Press via SDNN.com
June 3, 2009
Teenager’s prayer garden invites neighbors to rest | Garden honors churchgoer's late husband, and parents
For the past year, Willie Calabrese has spent countless weekends across the street from his house on Loring Street transforming a dirt lot at the Pacific Beach Christian Church into a community prayer garden.
SDSU Daily Aztec
June 1, 2009
Program puts youths to work
Though not yet graduated, 100 high school students will be joining the San Diego State community through a new program aimed at putting students to work.
Opinion
San Diego Union-Tribune
June 11, 2009
A third way on public school funding
By John Lee Evans
As we face our worst budget crisis ever, the San Diego Unified School District board has not succumbed to the false dichotomy of teacher layoffs versus program cuts. Unlike many other districts around the state, San Diego chose to not issue layoff notices this spring. Instead, the newly elected board chose to build a budget around what children need in the classroom.
SDNN.com
June 1, 2009
John de Beck: Answers to your questions
San Diego Unified board member John de Beck asked our SDNN readers if they had questions about the education system - and they did. Here are answers to some of the questions sent in.
San Diego Union-Tribune
June 3, 2009
In California, schools or health care?
By Dan Walters, SACRAMENTO BEE
By happenstance, shortly after voters passed Proposition 98 – a constitutional guarantee of public school financing – in 1988, California's economy plummeted into a severe recession, creating a huge deficit in the state budget.
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San Diego Unified School District
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