San Diego Union-Tribune
September 10, 2009
Administrators look to union for backup | School officials cite change as concern
SAN DIEGO — When it comes to school labor issues in San Diego, it's the teachers union that makes headlines. But another group of educators — namely principals and vice principals — has quietly been organizing to form its own union in the San Diego Unified School District.
Navy Compass
September 10, 2009
Unique Educational Fair Increases Family Readiness in San Diego
The Navy School Liaison Program in association with the San Diego Unified School District held their first Back-2-School Resource Fair and Enrollment Event Aug. 20 at Jean Farb Middle School, located in the Murphy Canyon military housing area in San Diego.
SDNN.Com/City News Services
September 10, 2009
Houston school officials meet to formalize hiring of Terry Grier
The board of the Houston Independent School District is scheduled to meet Thursday to formalize its decision to hire San Diego Unified Superintendent Terry Grier as its schools chief. Grier was the boardÕs only choice for the superintendent job in Houston. Also covered by KNSD-TV, San Diego Union-Tribune, Voice of San Diego, Houston Chronicle.
KPBS-FM
September 10, 2009
Local Schools Prepare for Swine Flu Season
SAN DIEGO — Most of San Diego County's school children this week began an academic year that will pose the challenge of dealing with swine flu. Kids who attend San Diego's Language Academy Elementary School chattered excitedly outside the school building after the first day of classes came to an end. Parents waited to pick them up in a line of cars that slowly snaked along 64th street. One mom, Christa Carey, said she's not worried about swine flu.
Voice of San Diego
September 10, 2009
How Others Handle Online Teaching
San Diego Unified is not the only district to grapple with reconciling No Child Left Behind with online classes. Others have found ways to do it.
September 9, 2009
A New Way of Teaching Collides with Old Rules
Cesar Alcantar gave grades to more than 500 struggling high schoolers last year, yet he never met any of them. He is one of a handful of San Diego Unified employees who were listed as teachers for online classes last year, even though they seldom interacted with students and never taught lessons. Computers and tutors did the teaching for them. They checked that students' grades matched their scores on tests.
Opinion
San Diego Union-Tribune
September 10, 2009
Editorial: A mole hill | A lesson from Obama's speech to studentsIt turned out to be a tempest in a lunchbox. President Barack Obama's back-to-school message to the nation's students, which stirred up so much controversy ahead of time, amounted to little more than a feel-good, inspirational address that told students to study hard, stay in school and get serious about succeeding. See also Letters to the Editor.
Voice of San Diego
September 9, 2009
Letter: More in Favor of Decentralizing the Schools
I am the parent of three elementary school children who attend Torrey Pines Elementary School. I have also been a teacher in the SDUSD for fifteen years. I am very much in favor of decentralizing the schools in the San Diego City Schools. In this time of budget deficit, this idea makes the most sense. I have seen an incredible amount of waste in the last fifteen years and I am tired of a district that hinders the teaching and learning in the classroom. The district offices should be scaled back to a bare bones operation and employ only those people that are absolutely necessary to do paperwork, etc.
