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Sweetwater Classroom Shakeups Affecting Students This Year and Next

Bonita Vista High School / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Sweetwater Union High School District students will experience new hits to the classroom starting as early as this school year. Principals have also...

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California Needs to Step Up Education Funding in a Big Way

A classroom inside Hoover High / Photo by Dustin Michelson The year 2020 is going to be crucial for public schools in California. Schools have been in crisis from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Arizona,...

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Nine Years After Notorious Deal, Poway Wants Voters to OK Another School Bond

Poway High School could receive security and technology upgrades, as well as building renovations if 55 percent of voters approve a new $448 million bond measure in March. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz...

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Fact Check: Poway Unified Gets $1,500 Less Per Kid From the State Than San...

Poway Unified is highlighting broken rain gutters at Rancho Bernardo High in its bid for a new $448 million bond measure in March 2020. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Statement: “Our school district, Poway...

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The Learning Curve: Fraud Allegations and Fractured Trust in Southeastern San...

Lincoln High School / Photo by Adriana Heldiz On Monday, just after the sun set and a full moon started to rise, some 45 people gathered in the auditorium of Walter J. Porter Elementary School for a...

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Sweetwater Considers More Than 200 Layoffs and Closing Learning Centers

Sweetwater Union High School District Superintendent Karen Janney / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Amid its ongoing budget crisis, Sweetwater Union High School District is considering laying off more than 200...

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Residents Sue Poway Unified Over State Bond Money

The Design39 campus / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Two residents from 4S Ranch are suing the Poway Unified School District over $27.7 million in Prop. 51 state grant money the district received last year as...

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The Learning Curve: The Looming School Budget Crisis

San Diego Unified hands out free food and meals to families outside Clark Middle School after announcing school closures amid the coronavirus pandemic. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz On Wednesday, I polled...

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Districts Couldn’t Stop Raising Employee Pay – Now Kids Will Pay the Price

A student from the Oceanside Unified School District takes a moment to rest after walking a two-mile route to protest the district’s decision to cut school buses. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Even before...

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Teacher Pay Is the Smartest Investment Schools Can Make

Tabatha Footman-Robertson is a fifth grade teacher at Edison Elementary. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz As a teacher, I had a strong reaction to “Districts Couldn’t Stop Raising Employee Pay – Now Kids Will...

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The Learning Curve: School Funding Accountability Bill Is Dead for the Year

Assemblywoman Shirley Weber announces two bills aimed at reforming school funding. / Photo courtesy of the California Assembly The biggest news in California education this week is the state’s newly...

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The Learning Curve: Can Schools Just Stay Closed? Only if the State Allows it

A Poway High School faculty member hands a laptop to a student. School districts across the state have moved to online learning amid the coronavirus pandemic. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Six of...

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Audit Finds Sweetwater Officials Deliberately Manipulated Finances

Sweetwater Union High School Superintendent Karen Janney / Photo by Adriana Heldiz A newly released audit casts wide blame on the top managers of Sweetwater Union High School District and says they may...

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New State Budget Will Do Irreparable Harm to Schools

Inside a classroom at Montgomery Elementary School in Chula Vista. / Photo by Megan Wood Faced with a national movement calling to defund police, California’s Legislature has decided to defund schools...

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Coronavirus Aid Obscures San Diego Unified’s Budget Deficit

San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten announces school closures amid the coronavirus pandemic. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz “One-time monies from (the) CARES Act make this budget...

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Accusations Flew, Then National School District Official Got Paid to Resign

National School District / Photo by Adriana Heldiz National School District Superintendent Leighangela Brady is facing the coming school year and the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic...

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‘One More Hugely Disruptive Thing’: Teachers to Leave Mid-Year Under...

Desks inside a Perkins Elementary School classroom / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Their classes will not be over, but their teachers will be gone. That may be the situation thousands of students will face...

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Local School Districts Suddenly Have Unprecedented Cash

Classrooms at Lafayette Elementary School include sanitizing stations to prevent the spread of coronavirus. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Between the various state and federal coronavirus aid packages...

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5 Takeaways on Schools’ Coronavirus Aid Spending

Third grade students at Encanto Elementary watch a video during class. San Diego Unified School District reopened classrooms in April 2021 to students whose families have opted to return to in-person...

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The Learning Curve: More Cash for Schools Means More Transparency Concerns

Sweetwater Union High School faculty rally against a district proposal to lay off more than 200 employees and shut down learning centers dedicated to struggling students. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz...

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