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Letters to the Editor
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Aguirre shows them who's boss.
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The school board agrees that billions are needed to fix San Diego schools. But the details have proved sticky.
Three months after San Diego Unified started talking about a parcel tax, the idea has fizzled -- a casualty of rushed timing and the gulf between the teachers union and the school district.
Five years ago, San Diego Unified offered bonuses to push highly paid employees out the door. More than a dozen returned and earned a total of more than $1.8 million on top of their bonuses.
The Gates Foundation poured millions into converting three big San Diego high schools into 14 small ones. As the outside money evaporates, San Diego Unified is left to decide whether going small worked.
Long skeptical of developers' push for a school downtown to attract families, San Diego Unified now talks about squirreling away funds from a proposed facilities bond to build it.
Based on a Chula Vista pilot program, educators believe early screenings could reduce the tendency to unnecessarily identify children for special education.
The new superintendent transferred a bilingual principal-to-be from Sherman Heights to Scripps Ranch over the objections of both neighborhoods.
Complaints that nearly derailed San Diego Unified's budget last year have dwindled even though delays have persisted.
A proposal aims to eliminate the overdue repairs that worry some potential supporters of the billion-dollar-plus facilities bond for San Diego Unified.
Under the direction of a new superintendent, San Diego Unified puts its vice principals and top administrators through a new wringer.
Hundreds of California middle schools get slapped with a label for falling short of No Child Left Behind standards. San Diego's Keiller Leadership Academy is one of only two middle schools in the state that recovered and left the label behind. The split is one expression of the awkward and still unclear relationship between San Diego Unified and its charter schools.
School districts across San Diego County are cancelling many threatened layoffs, but the process has already cost schools time, money and morale.
Luis Acle, who once aspired to rise to City Council and even Congress, again fails to qualify for reelection for lack of signatures.
The new superintendent talks of replacing low-enrollment schools with other popular programs such as magnet schools.
A parcel tax would cost most homeowners less and pay for a wider range of school needs than a facilities bond. Yet its political prospects on the November ballot are considered dimmer.
San Diego Unified has resisted pressure to dip into its emergency fund as budgets drop, but the superintendent signals a willingness to tap some reserve funds.
Unsure of what it will finance, supporters of a new bond measure for city schools have raised campaign funds and prepared for questions about what happened to the last flood of facilities loans.
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The school board agrees that billions are needed to fix San Diego schools. But the details have proved sticky.
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