Our special series exploring San Diego Unified School District’s financial crisis, “Schools on the Brink,” is now complete. We partnered with NBC 7 San Diego to take a look at what’s at stake, how we got here and what options the district can take going forward.
We also hosted a forum on Thursday discussing possible solutions and featured readers’ ideas on how they’d fix schools; make sure to check them out on our special section.
Here are the five videos:
Part 1: What’s At Stake
The unidentified woman being interviewed in this video is Central Elementary principal Cindy Marten. The identification doesn’t show up on the web version.
Part 2: How We Got Here
The first unidenitied man being interviewed in this video is San Diego Unified Superintendent Bill Kowba. The second is Scott Himelstein, director of the Center for Education Policy and Law at University of San Diego. The identifications don’t show up on the web version.
Part 3: The Gambles
The unidentified man speaking at a podium is school board member Scott Barnett. The identification doesn’t appear on the web version.
Part 4: Solutions
The first unidenitied man being interviewed in the video is teachers union president Bill Freeman. The second is parent Paul M. Bowers. The identifications don’t appear on the web version.
Part 5: The Forum on Solutions
The unidentified speakers in the video are: San Diego Unified school board president Richard Barrera; school board member Scott Barnett; teacher Dennis Schamp; parent Paul M. Bowers; Barnett again; an audience member; Up for Ed director Teresa Drew. The identifications don’t show up on the web version.
Update: We’ve identified the speakers in the videos since the web versions don’t include their identifications.
Dagny Salas is the web editor at voiceofsandiego.org. You can contact her directly at dagny.salas@voiceofsandiego.org or 619.550.5669.
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