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A missing signature on a grant application means San Diego Unified has lost its chance to receive $750,000 in federal funding to help homeless students. Read More »
Education
Troubled San Ysidro School District hires new superintendent
The San Ysidro School District got its ninth superintendent in five years when the school board voted unanimously Thursday night to hire a Lemon Grove educator to head the district. Read More »
Once used to integrate schools, magnets may be creating divisions in Vista
In the Vista Unified School District, a civil rights era tool often used to improve diversity in schools appears to be creating new divisions along racial and ethnic lines. An analysis by KPBS and inewsource of state and federal data suggests the area’s white, more affluent families are disproportionately benefitting from a district push to have parents choose where they ... Read More »
Magnet schools and Vista Unified: How we crunched the numbers
An analysis by KPBS and inewsource of state and federal data suggests that Vista Unified's white, more affluent families are disproportionately benefitting from a district push to have parents choose where they enroll their children, instead of taking them to their nearest school. Read More »
Picking San Ysidro’s ninth superintendent since 2013
The San Ysidro School District hopes to sign on two new superintendents at its April 12 board meeting — one permanent, one interim. Read More »
Edward Velasquez named San Ysidro’s interim superintendent — again
Edward Velasquez was in Idaho when the San Ysidro School Board voted Thursday night to make him the district’s latest interim superintendent. Read More »
San Ysidro schools update — from superintendent search to fixing money problems
The troubled San Ysidro School District is putting one financial problem behind it while it also searches for its eighth superintendent since 2013. Read More »
San Diego County homeless student count reaches record high. But how real are the numbers?
New data show more than 23,800 students were homeless last year in San Diego County — a record high and a 4.7 percent increase over the previous year. But a county Office of Education official acknowledges the homeless student count could be wrong. It all depends on who does the counting and how they interpret federal guidelines for calculating who ... Read More »
Ex-San Ysidro superintendents received hefty payouts for vacation and leave days
Two former top administrators in the San Ysidro School District cashed out nearly $178,000 in vacation and leave days during the approximately two years they worked there, according to payroll records obtained by inewsource. The amount of vacation days appears to be far more than either could have earned under their contracts. Questions about district payments to Superintendent Julio Fonseca ... Read More »
Why East L.A. educators have been running the troubled San Ysidro School District
When the San Ysidro school board hired Mary Willis as its interim superintendent in November, she became the seventh person to lead the troubled district since 2013. She was also the fourth to have ties to school districts in the East Los Angeles area. Read More »