San Diego Union-Tribune
August 4, 2009
Schools prepare for flu's return | Closure recommended when 30 percent out sick
SAN DIEGO — The county's public health chief told school officials yesterday to close campuses when 30 percent of students are absent because of flu, a far-higher threshold than officials used in shutting down schools when the swine flu outbreak peaked here in the spring.
KPBS-FM
August 3, 2009
Health and School Officials to Discuss Flu Season
SAN DIEGO — San Diego county health officers will meet with the local school district officials today to discuss the coming flu season.
Voice of San Diego
August 3, 2009
College Student to Challenge School Board Veteran
Longtime school board veteran John de Beck has a competitor for his San Diego Unified seat: Patrick MacFarland, a 21-year-old who is finishing up his political science degree at San Diego State University.
Voice of San Diego
August 2, 2009
Dissecting Texts and Not Just Frogs
The neat rows of desks have disappeared from Carol Ann Vorce's classroom at Montgomery Middle School, replaced with clusters where students can talk. Textbooks sat idle on the shelf and worksheets were nowhere to be seen on a recent Thursday.
KPBS-FM
August 3, 2009
Are Charter Schools Separate and Unequal?
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Unified school board will consider whether a Somali charter school should be allowed to expand. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis explains why supporters of that school are facing some opposition.
San Diego Union-Tribune
August 2, 2009
Taking deep breaths, wood sculptor carves out a full life
For much of his life, especially as a kid in Los Angeles and his native World War II-ravaged Austria, Erhard Gajewski felt as if trouble rode his back like a bulging knapsack.
KNSD-TV
July 31, 2009
Teen Shares Story of Struggle: From Hire-A-Youth Program
One of hundreds of teens, who have benefited from the Hire-A-Youth Program, explains how it could change his life.
Voice of San Diego
July 31, 2009
Another School Stimulus Change -- This Time a Small One
San Diego Unified staffers are recommending that the school board tweak their ideas for spending stimulus money earmarked for disadvantaged students, potentially marking the second change to stimulus plans in the school district.
Opinion
SDNN.com
August 3, 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
August 2, 2009
Tax your parcel?
The San Diego Unified School District is paying a consultant to study the possibility of asking voters to approve a parcel tax — a flat fee per piece of property, regardless of its worth — to help fund operations threatened by budget cuts.
Give voters all the options on education
By Shelia Jackson
They must learn to do more with less
By Fred Schnaubelt
Voice of San Diego
August 3, 2009
Parent Education on Bilingual Policy
By Valentina Hernandez, City Heights
Monday, August 3, 2009 | Emily Alpert wrote an excellent article on July 26th -- Proposed Schools Says Two Languages Better than One. She quoted me in her article. I am a bilingual substitute teacher with a BCLAD teaching credential and two masters degrees (one from SDSU and the other from Harvard School of Education). Unfortunately, due to the budget cuts teachers with pink slips or those who are bumped have priority over new teachers. There are many teachers who have BCLAD credentials but have not been teaching in bilingual classes because the bilingual programs have been greatly diminished.
