Leaders at the Chula Vista Elementary School District once had an adversarial relationship with the teachers union. That’s changed in the years since Francisco Tamayo, a former union leader in the Sweetwater Union High School District, joined the Chula Vista school board.
With Tamayo on the Chula Vista Elementary District Board, our Jim Hinch reports, the district’s teachers union has gotten pay raises five of the last eight years and won concessions from district leaders – even as the district faces a $15 million budget deficit this year.
Tamayo’s partnership with union president Rosi Martinez has made those gains possible.
Martinez and Tamayo both say their relationship is professional. But their close ties have provoked questions about accountability.
The Battle of the South Bay Mayors
Two mayors are heading for a brutal fight for a seat on the Board of Supervisors.
Chula Vista Mayor John McCann and Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre remained the top to vote-getters as of Thursday.
Our South County Reporter Jim Hinch published in-depth interviews with the two candidates about their priorities and what’s at stake in this race.
Can Students Save Their Paper?
By the end of today, student journalists at The Guardian, UC San Diego’s student newspaper, will know whether their paper will live to see another day.
The student paper has been dealing with financial issues because of advertising revenue decline and university budget cuts. In a last ditch effort, members of the paper are asking fellow students to support a quarterly $3.50 fee to fund The Guardian.
Election results will drop later today. The Union-Tribune spoke to the student newspaper’s editor about the cuts.
Related: On Wednesday, UC San Diego students and activists protested the federal government’s decision to revoke the visas of five students. According to a notice sent out by Chancellor Pradeep Khosla, another student was detained at the border and deported. (KPBS, The Guardian) Four students at San Diego State University also had their Visas revoked, President Adela de la Torre announced in a statement.
In Other News
- Tijuana shelters bracing for a potential surge if there are mass deportations are now scrambling to find funding to replace lost U.S. Agency for International Aid support. (KPBS)
- The Del Mar Fairgrounds has kicked off the process to set a master plan for its 324-acre property. (Union-Tribune)
- The county Registrar of Voters expects to spend $6.6 million on the District 1 elections triggered by former supervisor Nora Vargas’ abrupt resignation. (10 News)
- Following a series of cuts, students working at UC San Diego’s student newspaper are hoping fellow students support a funding proposal that would save their financially strapped publication. (Union-Tribune)
- A new analysis found that the median cost of a single-family home in San Diego County has more than quadrupled over the last 25 years – and costs are expected to continue to rise. (CBS 8)
- A new survey from the California Civil Rights Department and UCLA reveals just how many Californians have experienced a hate act from 2022-2023. The new survey looked at all hate acts, not just those that were criminal. Here are the findings.
- The Oceanside City Council narrowly advanced new tenant protections, including caps on rent increases, earlier this week. (Union-Tribune)
The Morning Report was written by Lisa Halverstadt and Andrea Lopez-Villafaña. It was edited by Andrea Lopez-Villafaña